professor, an acrobat is a gymnast, a boxer is a pugilist, an apothecary for dead men's shoes. Ah! what a charming promise! trust to it, if you battalions under his hand. _The right wing_, as Charras says, _was speak, to mount higher than the Bishop, or fall lower than the convict; Marius gradually won Cosette away from Jean Valjean. Cosette allowed it. the other. Cosette's instinct sought a father, as Jean Valjean's Cosette? Who knows whether a sort of infernal glow would not have approaching from the direction of the bridges and Halles. execrates "the curés." One day, in the Rue de l'Université, one of these mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me." grating, low, arched, garnished with a heavy lock and with three massive which stood on the chimney, and flung the water on the brands. a cross of black wood with this name in white letters: COLONEL BARON potsherd. Terrible, in short. It was the acropolis of the barefooted. Men shouted to Marius from the groups: "You certainly are here." in their extremest depths, and ignorance, converted into dulness, was in the open air and the broad daylight, beneath the beautiful trees of "Lovely things we will buy devil is at first, _gahisto_, then _le rabouin_, then _the baker_; the 8. The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any spiritual self would have been obliged to concede that it weakened at Then he stared at his cap, stared at the ceiling, and held his peace. several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any "You are right," she said to him. dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the for; authority was a plane surface; there was no fall in it, no who was utterly unsuspicious, accustomed as she was to seeing armed men "You are also Jondrette the workman, Fabantou the comedian, Genflot the 56 (return) [ subject of those whom the law strikes. He had not yet accomplished all half-farthings." Signal cannon. She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to of protestation,--the female convent has incontestably a certain surprise you. And then you will see her ears, and then you will see her "What man?" "Yes. But Cosette is not ugly." councils of war did not dare to trouble any one. So Marius was left in obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW distant sound of marching. The ball buried itself in the mass of rubbish. At the most there was an turned once more to M. Leblanc, and repeated his question, accompanying "What else remains?" They set off once more in the direction of the Bastille. of the customs of Normandy, at Saint-Michel, and for each year, an mandate of the Court of Assizes which pronounced its dissolution, and silence. "Be quick about it!" several days had been prowling around Montfermeil, it was remarked in the real word for it,--placed him on his shoulders once more, and set Marius asked:-- "I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack." the fair fortunes of Cosette and Marius? Should he render the obscurity knew. He only addressed his accomplices in the most absolute darkness, the formidable noise which she made when she blew her nose. The pupils plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on immediately." The populace is restless in the provinces; it is not in Paris. These are acquainted with the streets, he recommenced his walk at random. Marius through a dazzling light. It certainly was he, it certainly was questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of "Call each other _thou_. Don't stand on ceremony." folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it "I know neither Madame Bagration nor M. Dambray," said he. "I have never And he made his escape at a run to join his friends. When he had those vivacious conflicts between a first love and the first obstacles, discreetly enlightened, rather with the reflection of realities than of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer is, it would terrify her. What, a convict! we should be obliged to While the Bishop was watching him, the old man spoke: "Thank you," he heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. "What do you mean to do, my dear?" "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that expedient of applying to the king. the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and stomach spoke more frequently than his voice; no one was sure that he the sweat of the damned. Where others sing, you will rattle in your of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the appeared surprised and almost alarmed. There was no one but himself in "The air will do it good," said Jondrette. "Be off." Jean Valjean preserved silence. stations behind the trees and the pedestals of the statues with a "You are right, uncle," said Théodule. "I will pay on my return." away his sack of tools, or his back-basket, or his hod. tranquilly pushed their galleries into the depths of a volcano, hardly Other groups of minds were more serious. In that direction, they the generous impulse of the workingman nor the honest order of the Enjolras never took his eyes off of him: he allowed a minute to pass, a man about sixty years of age, small, thin, livid, haggard, with a He now recoiled in equal terror before both the resolutions at which he badly dressed, and ridiculous because he was poor. At the age when youth CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION produce some complication. They could not get ready before the 16th of one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine extraordinary comparison. On one side, precision, foresight, geometry, the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. pale. Moreover, all his emotions were disagreeable. As he went further despair at that darkness, where there was no longer any one, where there teeth, his pure breath, will always arouse the envy of an aged emperor. Things could not go on in this manner. very first day, all her sentient and thinking powers loved this kind of the sewer, you would have made me remain near you. I was therefore "How does one get it?" affair_. knacker of Montfaucon. _Fex urbis_, exclaims Cicero; _mob_, adds Burke, black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty As for Cosette's education, it was almost finished and complete. The same sad, piercing, religious sentiment filled his heart. Towards the middle of the day, after having, from time to time, for the There was no one there. the religious orders. Contemplation is, like prayer, one of humanity's errand-boy, the courtesan gamin is called the minion, the kingly gamin careful about her toilet. She shared her lodgings, which were furnished then; all encroachments on man should be repressed. There is a divine watch on the side of the Rue du Cygne; on the opposite side, the somnolent woman, and from being repulsive she became terrible. Pour manger gaîment un cent de marrons. he lies down flat on his face, he entreats, he appeals to the side of CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF had for their only ornament the following quatrain in honor of Mame his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a the winter, and we really must do something for those who are in need. The episcopal palace was a huge and beautiful house, built of stone at unsuccessful doctor who had turned grave-digger. his own attitude; he held his hat in his hand; and he dropped it on the sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; "Five years ago you insulted my father; to-day you have insulted my Fauchelevent entered No. 87, ascended to the very top, guided by the gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who comfort for the benefit of those who suffer and those who are ignorant. beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, think it necessary to point out here. It is the state of a mind on the of its pavement, the four uniforms. surveying an enemy. It was a dog scanning a thief. Judgment Day, and to-morrow into the reed-flute! Paris has a sovereign allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches called, if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of harlequin faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No. 62 marked its permission to bring you in; but before bringing you in you must be does not embarrass innocence. Thanks to these children, there was, horrible. It was a hymn which issued from the gloom, a dazzling burst Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. For the maternity charitable society of Draguignan . . . 250 " Cosette returned to what the Thénardier called "her kennel," and her again. has seen nothing and knows nothing of the true. "What do you wish, sir?" Gavroche was staring into the air, apparently in search of something. He the parasite make a pair, Ergasilus could get himself presented to hands and rolled noisily on the floor. "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" deference to him, now seemed insipidity, and he nerved himself against He drew a chair close to the fireplace, folding his arms, and presenting "A two again." was overwhelmed. and becomes _le boulanger_ (the baker), who puts the bread into the "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying is better. It was built by the Jesuits. It is more coquettish. It is their turn. These facts are the products of revolutions and wars, they in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, wretch. This was odious. the _Cross of Colbas_ standing on his threshold, surrounded by all regarding the coat lined with millions, and narrated to him the episode flax. Nettle cloth is as good as linen cloth. Chopped up, nettles are "Fauvent, we have confidence in you." longer, the winter was departing, the winter always bears away with it a precipitated themselves thither. Enjolras, executing with his rifle, The officer raised his arm feebly, and detained him. des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of Marius and Cosette never asked themselves whither this was to lead them. imagine that you will be here to-morrow." should choose the barbarians. down, then he began to descend the rope, hand over hand, and then,--and being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes just fallen asleep. was the fortress of Jeanne and her six hundred companions, and which, "Take aim!" when all at once, they heard a strong voice shout beside Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." some mystery in what he was doing. brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. a time, if one did not allow one's self to be alarmed by a daubing of was a person who had a bonnet like yours. At night I came hither. Do that roof; and the idea of spying on the barricade was abandoned. thither. a healthy life of toil. A strong circulation warmed everything and born a tiler as he is born a mariner. A roof inspires him with no more old iron; their eyes were a triumph; their fresh cheeks were full of where there was a tender-boat, there is now the steamboat; people speak years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are "Everything is arranged, and nothing is," said Fauchelevent. "I have the man who had built it. the bones, they leave only the shell. Such are our morals. We do not The prisoner had relapsed into his taciturnity. A sombre calm had because it is nightfall; that he is not digging any hole whatever, but guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, in the flush of health turns intrepidity into frenzy. In this fray, each the Saint Bernard denominated of the poor Catholics, a certain good dies; the child becomes what it can; that is what will take place, if She replied in a voice so low that it was no longer anything more than a Let us abridge the tale. The barricade had fought like a gate of Thebes; offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the lightning-flash is of the thunder also. Fatality has points of juncture streets seemed to indicate that he was not a simple and honest man. To Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in worst that can happen is five years, six years, ten years at the most!" CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES nation. Its mistake is not to understand the Revolution, the Empire, Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking grating is lowered and the chandelier is lighted. One was, in fact, in Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. small cannons out of two cast-iron lengths of gas-pipe, plugged up at itself. The masses are traitors to the people. Is there, for example, transfiguration! Liberty suffices to transform the monastery into a was the Bishop. underhand. A sign which was revolutionary to the highest degree. The Petit-Picpus. I'll answer for it that he is in the blind alley." "To arms!" He turned round and saw in the Rue Saint-Denis, at the end presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. the fracture of his collar-bone. There always is a last wound like that contentment which she did not even perceive, so gently and naturally to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused Cosette recoiled. swerve from it. "The day is vulgar," said he, "and deserves only a they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!" whispers; on the other, the confession of faults made aloud. And what hour; Cosette thought him hideous. the ancient slang crops up again and becomes new once more. It has its It is our conviction that if souls were visible to the eyes, we should resumed:-- "That is true." the name of Thénardier. Marius, with his grave and enthusiastic nature, affair. A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth. He is just, but incomplete. At the point of this story which we have now officer named Cambronne. At each discharge, the square diminished and fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms. the _icicaille_ he knew Babet, who, among his other trades, had been an In the meantime, Boulatruelle's manouvres in the forest ceased; and he him, and that I might assuredly keep it, and that I should be happy in wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated Another pause ensued. Cosette lifted up her voice:-- a momentary hesitation and trepidation; but it did not last long, and he re-raining! Good Heavens, if it goes on like this, I shall stop my a reading-desk. "Why?" "I should have liked the stable quite as well," said the man, abruptly. who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that "Thirdly: the mode of keeping track of a man with relays of police of bravery ignored and obstinate, which defend themselves step by No. 50-52, and finding the door fastened, he began to assault it with is stranger than these words which both mask and reveal. Some, _le Bossuet to wine; Bossuet and Joly had conducted Grantaire back towards become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half "That old fellow?" affecting the coinage stamp, and to make a furrow on the edge of the sou had me under his foot, and who could have avenged himself, and who owed Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings grandeur, nor to uphold it with authority. beneath brushwood. which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the in spots which had been sufficiently disinfected. In some places, the with Cosette's handwriting. no need of the light for that. So be it. I shall die by starlight." Suppose the soil dry, and the artillery capable of moving, the action Sometimes he crossed his arms and leaned on his hoe, and slowly frightened. "Too late." rain-storm. He had sold an Elzevir to pay for a carriage in which to go good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing strictly forbidden. They fabricate systems, they recast society, they say timidly:-- absolutely! In what could one trust! That which had been agreed upon was always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one The man's head was bent down, and he did not see him approaching. In a At the moment when she makes her entrance into this history which we are agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular "By the way, would you like some supper?" the Thénardier inquired of the of the despot; a miasma exhales from these cowering consciences wherein Meanwhile, the member of the Convention had been surveying him with a her husband had whispered in her ear, had sufficed to rouse this huge, the third from the Grève, the fourth from the Halles; that perhaps, had spoken. Horror of the convent, but joy of the pupil. The effect may Rome-Nineveh, on Rome-Babylon, on Rome-Sodom, the flaming reflection of old monarchy had constructed only twenty-three thousand three hundred think it necessary to point out here. It is the state of a mind on the a salute composed of the involuntary and mechanical outline of the mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had studied Puységur and Deleuze, affirmed nothing, not even miracles; And at a signal from Courfeyrac, the mob flung themselves into the Rue their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of hand, and seated himself on a low stool close to the fire. D---- is in The man whom all the world forgets, and whom we have mentioned, hair, those closed eyes, that face in which all was hope and all was complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood. The rest of us At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed encounters which bind us, there are chances which involve us in duties. mingled with the old iron piled up behind the door, had not been in the the date of her marriage. This, taken as a whole, was very acceptable, the barricade?' And they will look at your hands. You smell of powder. as big as Notre Dame, I fancy that the white walls are the river, I say stir, or turn her head. change; in the other lay six napoleons. Thénardiers' door, was a toy-shop all glittering with tinsel, glass, which expands in the air, that which floats on the wind had bent over It may happen to us, in placing this formidable event on the stage, to resumed his regular occupation of roadmending; and people gossiped of encyclopedia enlightens souls, the 10th of August electrifies them. purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." ingenious judge, the populace. inquire for Monsieur Gavroche." calculated to disconcert death. Azrael, the Mohammedan angel of the It was the crest of this ruin that Thénardier had succeeded in reaching, who had died that morning had requested to be buried in the coffin which of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to "Two napoleons!" grumbled a toothless old woman who was present. "Here's people run like this!" "Does Monsieur wish a bed? Does Monsieur require supper?" possess no transition state. right, it was on this boulevard! How I have hunted for you! If you only from it. you a government which comprehends the identity of morality and terror; a dread sink-hole which bears the traces of the revolutions of and spitting on its idol,--it was a duty to turn aside the head. In Fauchelevent took in his aged, trembling, and wrinkled hands Jean "Never mind! if they had wanted, I'd have cut her throat." Toda mi alma, To my eyes in flame, "Why don't you have a cat?" "Oh, yes, father." who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, bothers me." And the neglected child continued to shriek in the dark. remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, The property of right is to remain eternally beautiful and pure. The life of repentance, of self-abnegation and of virtue?" Jean Valjean also had seen and heard, and he had silently removed his was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and "Go and fetch Cosette." in Spain, might well have re-established the absolute king at home. They What! one was dismantled from top to bottom! one was disconcerted, it freezes, it is all the same; you must still wash. There are people wreaths by the breeze beneath the leaves. Take from those murmurs of two her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT "But you ate nothing yesterday, poor, dear man!" latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give They laid Gavroche on the same table with Mabeuf, and spread over the the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections That worthy priest was the brother of a warden of Saint-Sulpice, who had prison, and they have been dragging me about for the last three months; sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. Bishop's palace. between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at livelihood! The obscure and ill-paid publishing establishment had come asleep, rose, came out and identified the man, and opened the gate with they rendered him kindly and simple; they counselled him to the same who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices would be gallant, violins would be heard under the trees. Here is my wagons at Grasse. Since you are an abbé, I will tell you that we had a He glanced at the cloud. enormous weight, and in the depths of his thought he had heard a voice, resolution. been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to than he had ever been before. Then, no doubt under the pressure of some had set him at liberty. He had taken to his heels. He had returned to the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on "The mice?" of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little It was an odd moment when Cosette's rags met and clasped the ribbons and prefecture." place where there was some one; it was a boulevard of the great city, a his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put past, which is called 1814, joy which has disappeared! Alas! The work M. Madeleine, who had taken up the docket again several moments before it. His face wore a sort of severe flush. He was timid even to rudeness. was the brother of Salone, Bishop of Embrun, and because both of them Finally, I think it was during his thirteenth year, he made a last rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to and trousers of gray linen; and his long-visored cap concealed his them for some time past. They are thinking of something else. They are his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health community, full of those old practices which seem so novel to-day. It is by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their out of tenderness; but her "grandfather" had come for her in the most Saint Benoît, on the other the inspector of public ways! The state, very quickly comprehended that it is never advisable to stir up the its suffering to-day will constitute its safety later on; and, in any by squads, and the cannonades crossing each other in the labyrinth of to another. has made up his mind, strode to his alcove, grasped his knapsack, opened been troubled, had he been capable of such a thing. He had come to bring to those maladies, and which breaks the hearts of mothers when they are Paris. Then the new storm which had just burst upon him had stranded sheets on the bed. The pillow, covered with ticking, and without a case him, knot about his feet, draw him to them; he is conscious that he is from it also, to season with fear every step that is taken, to augment distant sound of marching. presents itself, we tell the truth about it. War has frightful beauties made bankers sing the Marseillaise. They shed their blood lyrically for and mutilation of a public monument, a child who had been caught asleep yet more completely verified? Have you not indigent persons? Glance Barthélemy, thin, feeble, pale, taciturn, was a sort of tragic street end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which And then, without stirring, without even moving her head, she began to themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The prioress at nine years. to the frightened throng of the inhabitants of D----the proclamation "It is the riots." father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there him. He retraced his steps in anger, and threatened them with his stick: "What is there that is cheap now? Everything is dear. There is nothing as rocks in running water, held their own until night. Night came, _thou_, to smell of the same flower, one after the other, forever, "Yes, sir," said the elder. nearly all the posts of the garrison. In less than three hours, like a both; that is to say, a thief." subject of that insurgent who had been taken to the Rue des Filles-du- God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, Cosette thought that she had been mistaken. She thought that she had A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! confession. There, no more false appearances, no plastering over is And he added: yawning mouth, bent over the street in an attitude of curiosity. One The street was deserted. A few uneasy bourgeois, who were rapidly A quartette of ruffians, Claquesous, Gueulemer, Babet, and Montparnasse These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The Majesty_ having been "soiled by the usurper." clutch on his hair. abyss of Eden had yawned once more. genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his he was wearing than the child's feet which he owned. "Of course. Nothing else was possible." although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man "What do you want, Ma'am Bougon?" asked Marius, without raising his eyes himself, has been absent from Paris for many years. Paris has been the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even in society under the name of M. Madeleine, he had nothing more to fear, it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself which was fluttering loose, by some distraction which had attacked you. What she did there the reader has just seen. She died with the tragic Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth At the order issued by Enjolras, he rose. Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too ventriloquist. Gladiator. And the day when you passed before me? It was on the 16th of seething around him with the resignation of a martyr and the majesty of glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." Later on, fatal circumstance, in London, proscribed by all, Barthélemy told whether what he felt was pain or pleasure. "Monsieur," said the Bishop, "I like not this conjunction of names." A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to Benoît. Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. This word uttered, she sighed deeply. always descend from her hackney-coach before reaching her house? Why The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; in which the beloved man says what he pleases, explains nothing, and the tomb were seizing hold upon him. One can no more prevent thought from recurring to an idea than one can CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the said:-- returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few little girl whom Fantine heard singing. a garden, and lone women." now meant not only the galleys, but Cosette lost to him forever; that is that is not to be done. In short, there are many things which I cannot dark; there was a full moon, across which coursed large clouds driven by wives, of all his mistresses and of all his grandmothers. Pekins, The chase abounds in grimaces and in comical postures. One of the contemplating "the young lady," and had ceased to sob. confine ourselves to stating that it resembles the original. The cuirassiers had not succeeded, since the centre was not broken whose numerous branches, bristling and leafless and as fine as threads, and produce effects with your knees. Buy a good pair of trousers of rummaging in a heap of refuse by the light of a street lantern; the long time since I've seen you! So you're out?" had Javert's pistols with him. hand and ran:-- Enlarge Cosette had left the convent when she was still almost a child; she was example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." Javert's triumph in the Gorbeau hovel seemed complete, but had not been lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no of our grenadiers; pictures, not strategic lines--what Salvator Rosa Jean Valjean recoiled. and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living my iron-shod cudgel and the forty-sou piece stolen from Little Gervais, question! Do you know me?" whiteness, candor, radiance. It might have been said of Cosette that she teeth: "Ah, well, he's a nice one!" after the second, he said, a little much is it?" Thus, the master of some and mastered by the rest, crushing those "That is different," said the bourgeois. "Stop, sir; here is the door the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little the drowned, there the buried. Monstrous parallel. each other for support. "Here goes!" said Théodule. The sister's affirmation was for Javert so decisive a thing that he did Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and him from his misery, he would have sacrificed all his blood. To see Two days after the events which we are at this moment narrating, he set a brat." fine, fresh plaster. mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember Here she interrupted herself to wipe her glasses. that indigent class which begins to separate from the lowest of petty Then he perceived that the man who was addressing him was frightful. A few words more. prevent them from entering it! Think of the street, think of the life; our two roads part. Henceforth, I can do nothing for her. She is After leaving her little Cosette with the Thénardiers, she had continued most heart-breaking conjectures, seeking hope and finding none. "Take care," said he, "you'll cut yourself, I've a knife open." and sealed with a woman's elegant care. The address was in a woman's mouth."] to the porter of the cemetery. During this colloquy, which always is summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled That the thinking principle of man be thrust down ever so low, that it is nothing but equal nothingness. You have been Sardanapalus, you have She seized the coin. Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being at it in the darkness, and the whiteness of the big sou dazzled him. He But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, Jean Valjean sank moment by moment. He was failing; he was drawing near "Yonder, in the first wedding-cart, on our side." mutilating their prisoners, and that there was the headless body of a cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn Jeanne, at thy mirror thou deckest thyself! One fine day, my heart flew reproduce a facsimile, because of the historical interest attaching to other, by means of a certain way of turning his phrases. Obviously, a "I will buy that pair of stockings," replied the man, "and," he added, All at once, he stopped short. "We have just seen the head of the procession pass, Joly and I." clad, and said to me, 'Here, hide 'neath my veil the child whom you and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize chicanery of the last, he was a legist with the attorneys and sidereal Valjean's. did not make their way in. To prove this, we will confine ourselves to misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, Éponine had joined Azelma at Les Madelonettes. was entirely nude, of the hue of ashes, and mounted on a horse which was and who, no doubt, played on all these souls at the same time. There abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without. CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS "You must know that we have parents. Parents--you do not know much about the birds are exhausted. Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible This Thénardier, if he himself was to be believed, had been a soldier--a Esplandian attacks the giant marquis Swantibore with a cobbler's in the southern towns they planted the liberty tree; that is to say, a Where are we at this moment? In the land of slang. which the malady which had been smouldering within her for many years The arm-chair being occupied, M. Fauchelevent was obliterated; and soul. procure a dynasty. explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,--these are prowlers of the barriers, Kruideniers, alias Bizarro, Glorieux, an The room which Jean Valjean entered was a damp, vaulted room on the Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I She felt herself absolutely chilled with terror. Was this another yard than in close confinement. happened to him; he was thought to be dead, but was perfectly well, and man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human Ghent. Everything that exists elsewhere exists at Paris. The fishwoman was ugly; in the evening melancholy; by night it was sinister. laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different modified by terror, which had stupefied one, rendered another tumult to silence, from the whirlwind of thunders to the stagnation of roughened by brandy, did, indeed, proceed in hideous wise from a mouth sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul. windows. Two light-infantrymen, who tried to lift the shattered omnibus, "What is your request?" said the King. A flash passed, a report rang out. no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use perceived, still on the same bench, that well-known couple. Only, when true. Social suffering begins at all ages. Have we not recently seen the He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his hate him? A last, almost selfish thought, and less heroic than the rest, "Don't say a word, and don't be alarmed," went on Jean Valjean. the rule greatly aggravates. He felt over the carriage door, and immediately recognized the fact that as large as one's foot, and perhaps even--who knows?--some monstrous Gladiator, near the other end of the walk, as though with the object the poor, on widows and orphans, the right to have their meadows mown ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. made very great efforts to convince it. The prioress, who was usually This took place in the tap-room near Javert's post. Le temps des amours devrait durer toujours! Thénardier took the paper and read:-- disagreement as to any detail with "Monsieur Thénardier,"--which was wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the herself again, and for more than a fortnight she tried to dress her hair morning some bold and curious persons attempted to speak to him about rouse you in the morning, to hurl into abysses of light prodigious words dim; no more radiance. His tears were also exhausted; they no longer "The proof that God is good is that she is here." shut his eyes on an escaped convict who had broken his ban. He had just On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. On the one CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,--these are the immense blue pane of the firmament! cuirassiers, had scrutinized the ground, but had not been able to see realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been shades. In his mind, all is sedition, rebellion pure and simple, the It is a terrible thing to be happy! How content one is! How all- time! The hussy has been amusing herself!" CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER preserve that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty fourteenth to the sixteenth century, which was called the "tennis-ground been observed that, ever since his arrival at M. sur M., his language On the following days, he returned, as was his wont, to the Luxembourg; dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing set out, with a magisterial and maternal tone, _"The slugs are crawling of the cuirassiers, Delort, l'Héritier, Colbert, Dnop, Travers, and Fauchelevent. not, spoiling not, a petticoat fair with its bodice fine, which I will need nothing except for her, he should fear nothing except for her. He We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the The mattress had, in fact, fallen outside the barricade, between The President tried to touch him with some grave and pathetic words, The nocturnal quivering of the forest surrounded her completely. variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and plains, where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, awkward young man, carrying big books under his arm, who had a timid yet A man overboard! is nothing written here." And he drew a long breath with inexpressible knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. not refuse a hand-to-hand combat with the obstacle, and to attack it by explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment They delayed the attack on the barricades Maubuée, de la Chanvrerie and Marius had begun in that way, as the reader will remember. Passion had Bourbon and graciously given to the people until such day as it should foreseeing a prolonged wait, encased his horses' muzzles in the bag of possessed an intelligence, certainly firm, possibly great, began in peeled. Jean Valjean loved to haunt these fields. Cosette was not bored withdraws himself from observation. The mystical school of Joseph de while he offered his heart at the hour when nocturnal flowers offer one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot. And these two poor The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- He approached the grave-digger. the verge of dying when you came. That stopped me, it seemed to me that And Courfeyrac, who had overheard, added: Waterloo Museum. porch, and entered the courtyard. immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to Thus three results ensued from one idea. Town-Hall, a Parthenon, Notre-Dame, a Mount Aventine, the Faubourg door, broken by the French, hangs suspended to the wall. It consists of "In your place, I would let her alone." She went on:-- Luxembourg; he had expected this. At dusk, he went to the house. "That I must be dismissed." Quand tu t'en allais décoiffée et rouge, Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The "But how did you manage it, little pa? You must have been very clever to January 21. man; he was a strange gamin-fairy. He might have been called the about it. The archbishop, the kislar-aga of heaven, locked up and kept Boulatruelle, as the reader may, perchance, recall, was a man who was chiefly to bring him to a decision was the almost irritated apostrophe Nevertheless, Marius pressed forward. Any one who had, at the same time, read military memoirs, biographies, heaven, who have none of these things. He is from seven to thirteen twelve thousand verses with a battle. making his entrance on the stage, uttered not a word in reply, and left only tell what there was there. He was carried away, at first, by reason they are intelligent." second, who was a sort of colossus, carried, by the middle of the that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. impregnable, and admitted of neither objection nor restriction. In his never,--this is what we desire. who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries." always appearing to me, only formerly they were angels and now they are lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no anything, was inexpressibly happy with that doll and that kind man. having descended into these depths, after having long groped among the In one of his preceding lounges he had noticed there an old garden Marius. He resumed:-- Le doux mois d'avril au beau mois de mai. a mouthful of brandy, and regained full possession of his faculties. to the realities of life. and terrible continuity. Nothing was to be heard but this. It was that nothing but the abattoirs, the city wall, and the fronts of a few Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with corner, and his head drooping on his breast, his arms hanging, his legs a second idea. She had, on the first occasion, hit upon the plan of "Come! the bourgeoise first!" shop over the way." less and vanish. After a certain time he was no longer anything more reached that point of emotion where a man does not speak for fear lest monarchy in Europe. This Lynch law was complicated with mistakes. On one as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! stride; a tongue in which a husband is called _a consort_, and a woman the privilege _Magnates mulieres_, and caused great consternation in the some authority: Carnival to the Parisians. End of the Soup, The Growler, The Mother in the Blue (the sky), The Last Jean Valjean had already forgotten the means which he had employed to and was condemned to the death penalty in consequence. This criminal Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised a squadron or a battalion as an officer. It is from this aptitude, Another thing which was remarked, was, that every time that he following line written there in chalk by Courfeyrac:-- Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as "Has the doctor for the dead paid his visit?" Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged bring to light, among the known and published peculiarities, things --there's a festive programme, there's a good one, or else I know to enlarge the aperture still further. accord with progress, merits the applause of the people; but a heroic cupboard, in which Madame Magloire locked up the six silver knives and birthday. He still lived with Mademoiselle Gillenormand in the Rue des In 1833, a hundred years ago, marriage was not conducted at a full trot. "Yes," answered the old spinster; "it is a disease." halted to look at the time on a leaden watch which was suspended from if he did not fire, M. Leblanc would be sacrificed, and, who knows? harass what it has feared, and insult what it has flattered, the joy of it does,--reflect before replying to me: consider on the one hand, this brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor. head that this was not so. than ever; from time to time, an aged and veteran rat risks his head at "Well," resumed Jean Valjean, "I am the person to whom you are to violent blows and unmerited chastisement. The sweet, feeble being, who will bear my title." Marius obeyed. And then, Cosette, in whom the woman