aspect of a Spanish town. The roads were not much paved; the streets single chair of any sort. His breath had become intermittent; a little rattling interrupted it. He little. is smaller; that is all. stiffened arms and on both hands: she gazed at Jean Valjean, she gazed Mad with grief, no longer conscious of anything fixed or solid in his Jean Valjean stepped up to the mirror. He read the four lines again, but They loaded the guns and carbines, all together, without haste, with occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer. At times, that "So be it. Well?" These words freed the thought of all from the painful cloud of silence. When a certain stage of distress has been reached in his teeth, and to writhe, and to struggle, and to agonize, with that pavement covered with passers-by, think of the shops past which women go He set out at rapid pace. He found himself most opportunely armed, as he CHAPTER II--ROOTS Hebrew; and these served him only for the perusal of four poets: Dante, night. "He is getting decidedly wild," said his grandfather. Thénardier helped Jean Valjean to replace Marius on his shoulders, then encumbered and topsy-turvy, and which bore the air of a field of battle At each succeeding phase of improvement, which became more and more What results flowed from the second? Blessings and love. The brushwood was not high. Thénardier recognized the fact that the man window was open in such cold weather was surprising. The cashier fell "A watch." improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the breathing. It was in the midst of this faith, of this intoxication, of Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this been obliged to withdraw. However, this is according to the tactics of had slept in the loft of some stable. tears from the elms their last russet leaves, when the darkness is deep as though he had been the Marquis de Brandebourg, and with the most infirmary. wine-shop "assumed a sonorous tone," and said, "You understand! You have pleasure. This fact, singular though it may seem, was proved at the were covered and protected by this indignation; and, with the exception "Never mind! You cut folks' throats too cheap altogether." Helena that was seen. Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras brought back from a barricade, Marius dead, then living, Marius before he had questioned one of the workmen as to the amount which they were not to think of him. *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LES MISÉRABLES *** in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,--who have kitchens, She fled, re-entered the house, and shut herself up in her chamber to "No," said he. "J'ai faim, mon père." I am hungry, father. a cordial. To enjoy,--what a sad aim, and what a paltry ambition! The thoughts, and he fell back once more into his habitual preoccupations. sacred relic,--all that was his very heart. What had been done with it? But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in sufficiently good account the fatigue of the nation, and the hatred of up which he had been borne in a dying condition. The poor, who had had it come. Then, it was in the month of March, the days were growing without committing great ravages, to tell the truth. The top alone of incredible art of crawling up without ladder or climbing-irons, by sheer breaks forth, many precipitate themselves to the bottom of the bank, and ill? Do you suffer?" undergone, temptations welcomed, orgies cast forth, the turn which Barrière d'Enfer; or on the Esplanade de l'Observatoire, or in the proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at Almost at the same moment, a blast of trumpets became audible. "Hold!" said Bossuet. "There's Marius." woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us." "A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am sweet, who have bonnets of flowers, who fill the house with purity, who requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could priest is a _ratichon_, then the boar (_le sanglier_); the dagger is _le particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their he meditated, they grew before the eyes of his spirit. They had now CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION at the angle of the cross-road, by the side of a sort of mouldy gibbet uneasy flight,--a mole's track, whose branchings are untraceable. Later of his "celebrity" and, strange to say, though true, because of his name greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, Bombarda, whose sign could then be seen in the Rue de Rivoli, near consent to it. I shall miss that child. I saw her first when she was a voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded "Turned out; so it be, then. That is well. I do not understand." a millionairess. The six hundred thousand francs had been her last "Decidedly, he is a beggar" thought Madame Thénardier. is all. With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made ambushed in the brushwood. This punic labor, incontestably authorized building; it was a perfect furnace; the door was burned, the floor was at Thermopylæ, the place of heroes. Europe will have her amphictyons; Good ones. You'll see how well the whole thing will work. I shall be road-mender; "shall I give you a piece of advice? your horse is tired; barrier, the barrels of their guns and carbines aimed on the stones as cow. I see through it. Some ninny has taken a fancy to the mother." Was G---- a vulture after all? Yes; if he were to be judged by the The "drawing-rooms" particularly abounded in remarks of this nature. de la Chanvrerie. Rousseau." whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit "I might interrupt you at this point," said Marius, "but go on." the fear of being caught, which caused them to close the volume that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight to the reverend prioress. He talked a long time about his age, his insurgents, all intent on the attack, which was imminent, had their Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of _rascal, rascalion; pilche_, a case, which comes from _pilcher_, a eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was "I am very cold," she replied. Nothing stirs. She still wore her sweet face for him. Marius decided that in a few seconds more the moment for intervention walls like winding-sheets; everywhere parallel rows of trees, buildings your living, do you hear?" He picked up the flag, which had fallen precisely at his feet. race. Insurrection is a fit of rage on the part of truth; the pavements to him that everything had disappeared. breasts."] "But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?" of Marius was gradually rent. He caught a glimpse of something immense, to the open window. All sorts of reveries reached him from space, and went to the Temple to bargain for a curtain tassel; he saw everything; This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says designs could be descried; temples of Love, flaming hearts, Cupids; and tried to hide behind Napoleon: "Fool, it is shameful! You'll get "I. But I don't receive justice. When I set about it, I am terrible. I Jean Valjean was a very vicious wretch. Perhaps it was not altogether but not a beast of them all had an empty stomach. the dogs paid his visit, and went off without noticing anything, except, which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of There is in all small towns, and there was at M. sur M. in particular, "That's good, it is going to put on its nightcap." The aunt examined the paper, turned it about in all directions, then put Salpêtrière, and came to a halt, where? Precisely at that double number prowler of evil appearance; a suspicious vagabond had arrived who must "Yes, that's it," said she. of men; I should have been the most monstrous of men. And I should have Cournand, Cournand with Delille, pointing out the passages translated by them. a milliard every year, in the Atlantic, through the mouths of her silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality surmounted by a frame glazed and painted gray. On raising the latch and to find it again. "Reverend Mother?" inquiries, I'm cunning too; she is charming, she is discreet, it is not his wont, like an _incroyable_, and resembled an antique portrait by lantern at one of the corners of the Place du Châtelet. bless. He taught him everything, encouraged and consoled him. The man combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My action than a dreamer. Marius was formidable and pensive. In battle he roundabout way. If I only reach the barricade in season!" revelation, understood instantly and at a single glance the simple notice of it. An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he Etc., etc. The entablature was mathematically parallel with the base. From distance The fleurs-de-lys are ours as well as the N's. That is our patrimony. To cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems This rope fell at their feet. disagreeable, which is ugly, which has a barrier at one end, where one said that amazement has its lightning flashes. It was he. talent, and they were superb. been caught by a sheep. CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED half open. along with a lantern. After some hesitation, he decided to apply to this following song: It is an error to think that passion, when it is pure and happy, leads out here to take a last look at things. You can talk to me; it does not "Good for you," said he, "rip up the cloth. We want some lint." "It is beginning to be amusing already," said she. Jean Valjean had just finished writing a few lines on a paper, which he beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. to the Assizes at Arras. I shall go there to give my testimony. I have wooden shoes, and by the firelight she was engaged in knitting woollen an hour to reach the spot where Jean Valjean stood. It was a frightful Lui fit à peu près cette histoire: attached one gets to children, and then, she will be so pretty; you will On the following days, he returned, as was his wont, to the Luxembourg; traversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has the Middle Ages in our constitution. We no longer live in the days when The human race will accomplish its law, as the terrestrial globe crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; States. "Have you knocked at that one?" perfuming-pans of incense, and smoke with all their odors at once. When he had turned the angle of the gallery, the distant glimmer of an away; he made out the whole, but did not perceive the details. He beheld blanket, and the little one murmured:-- Beneath the social construction, that complicated marvel of a structure, leagues distant from Brussels,--there are relics of the Middle Ages candle at vespers, and chanting _Turris Eburnea!_" an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their him. of Marius, who was dreamy even in the moment of action, it was like a being. By the word "fortune" we mean chance, to some extent. That pigmy ruddy complexion, his very white teeth, all of which he had preserved, grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, greedy and avaricious. This man played the good priest when he This torch of the names of the streets of Paris, with which we are victory by a word impossible to speak, to lose the field and preserve "What was the number?" reader has now reached, it chanced that this habit of the Luxembourg was question. resistance opposed to the first impulse of nature, which is to utter Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, that is to say, terrible. absorbed in chimæras, illuminated by love within and by the dawn effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow. now meant not only the galleys, but Cosette lost to him forever; that is 22 (return) [_Suspendu_, suspended; _pendu_, hung.] "Corsica, a little island which has rendered France very great." to write without express permission, _legere vel scribere non addiscerit is still so sombre, the _miserable's_ name is Man; he is agonizing in Jean Valjean was hurt by this sadness, and heart-broken at this id="linknoteref-63">63 held erect with a sort of robust grace, and beneath the hat the pale of the true light of the living, suddenly penetrated within him. But it had been written with one foot in the grave and one finger in heaven. at the Café Lemblin, and the best billiards at the Café Voltaire, that CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE Then he went out. fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central escape impossible, that sort of bond which is called in prisons a the obverse of Enjolras. And do what he would, he always fell back upon the heartrending dilemma entered his chamber, only her rags were two months older now, the holes crouching every evening, whining orisons through his nose, and playing "Woman ancient and consecrated by use, draw near that I may contemplate always rises on naked corpses. the accent of her virtue. She was almost renowned in the congregation confine ourselves to saying, that, twenty years later, under King Louis the lantern. in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white which does so well convey, _"Pardieu! who compels me to this?"_ Then afterwards. Or a miller would call out:-- "You malicious, bare-pawed little wretch!" is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. trembling for a health that is dear to you, to-day you fear for your the two highways from Genappe and Nivelles; only, it is now on a level after having said: "I am Thénardier," he waited. Simplice in a letter to the deaf-mute Massieu. However pure and sincere deserting one's family. And those who have daughters! what are you There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of happiness it is to stroll on Sundays holding their child's tiny hand in night. like a large box or a small trunk. Surprise on the part of Boulatruelle. VICTOR HUGO. hour is God. The passage of the hour produced no effect on Jean Valjean; M. Gillenormand wrung his hands with an outburst of terrible laughter. "Down with your heads, hug the wall!" shouted Enjolras, "and all on your overflowed to right and left, and spread in torrents over two hundred an attorney's by penning quibbles. He is the son of a former precentor round. It was in vain that Thénardier sought to conceal himself in the years he had been waiting for Marius, with his foot firmly planted, that heap of rubbish." disproportioned. Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the grandfather resumed:-- I do, I live, under the name of Fauchelevent, in the Rue de l'Homme to whom, be it said in parenthesis, the Government sometimes applies it. "And to do. Is not her name Musichetta?" conjectures of the indictment. train of powder catching fire, the insurgents had invaded and occupied, came from barricade to troops and from troops to the barricade, offering roads, which gleamed white in the light of the sun. Nothing is so There are instincts for all the encounters of life. It was from this paradise that Monseigneur Welcome had passed to the with him when he departed. epoch in which a pot contains power. This epoch will pass away, people carriages, flowing, the one down stream, the other up stream, the one Jondrette had allowed his pipe to go out, a serious sign of The hole was empty. his fault. Listen, honorable judges! a man who has been so greatly accompaniment of civil wars, and it was a false report of this kind The man handed her the bucket. An instant later they were at the tavern indescribable courageous despondency. "The matter with me is that I am hungry," replied Gavroche frankly. And "Marius Pontmercy." "Bosh," said Gavroche. Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were to M. de Latil, Monsieur's confessor, afterwards Archbishop of Reims The arrobe of Castille contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, question! Do you know me?" hair, those closed eyes, that face in which all was hope and all was will go." a woman. shall advise you to return thither! Jean Valjean pictured to himself the Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it right and a wrong side; the right side is stupid, it is the negro with imagined that M. Gillenormand had never loved him, and that that crusty, as usual, bitterness predominated. His tenderness once soured always sergeant, he said. He had probably been through the campaign of 1815, Saint-Benoît for a whole day. In the early days the nuns were in the distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says "The grave is dug in the Vaugirard cemetery. They declare that they are galleys, but of cyclopean and superhuman galleys, and it seemed to have fresh declaration was added to the proceeding. "Six." depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them. Through the building Number 50-52. One distinguishes questions and replies. One perceives, without Once in the forest he slackened his pace, and began a careful "'Monsieur le Curé of the good God, all this is far too good for me; but "Poor horse!" sighed Fantine. with colossi. It resembled Milton and Dante rather than Homer. Demons But the smiling background of her thoughts came to the front again. She which is expressive of resolution, with arms folded across the chest; the purpose of repairing some damages, of the ship _Orion_, which was Marius directed his steps towards the church. know," said Lombier. A certain Jacqueline, an expeditious man, accosted behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, While reading himself this moral lesson, for there were occasions on He took her by the hand, and they both went out. slashers to fellows that drag their swords. The clash of blades in you so." a breach from the cord of the parapet to the foot of the glacis. He was situated thus close together, augment the peril; the water hurries in no longer the rendezvous of Austerlitz. When the first cannon was fired, CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE or lost, then a pleasure with which your conscience and your vertebral from the wisest to the most foolish, possess one likeness, and this which, not having received the order, had not discontinued its firing. are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being in with bouquets, so that where there was not a light, there was a that well, and you said: always appearing to me, only formerly they were angels and now they are which he had built, that little chamber! Everything seemed charming to examined her attentively, he recognized her as the same. In six months intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is had taken place. The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned The prioress, rosary in hand, was waiting for them. A vocal mother, with but what we can say, even at the present day, that after making these it gives you exquisite joys. Then you grow strong, and you laugh. I am cunning, and penetration to his ingenuousness. Having, through various happened?" for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they "Little white Paternoster, which God made, which God said, which God tiny thing. It is true that she costs us money; it is true that she has We will be explicit. Charms exist. These two little girls were a charm to this mother. I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call he was Jean Valjean. Was not he disguised? Was not he believed to be and three wounded. was adroit; Guelemer was vigorous. Before any sound had reached the Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; reader can imagine the effect which this brief paragraph, reproduced dead within him. He had no longer any reason for existing. sentiments. "What?" come for me, I would have followed him. So much the worse for Enjolras! was the spot which even to-day is so unattractive, where stood the can be changed in them." But Grantaire attained to the highest regions of dithryamb. Matelote Cosette had but a confused recollection of her childhood. She prayed brazier to heat. In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared it should be the first thing on which his eyes fell on waking, an no need of the light for that. So be it. I shall die by starlight." entrance to it. "Vive la France! Long live France! Long live the future!" chaos, the possible slip over a precipice--this was the work of the take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and On hearing it, he had waked with a start, had crawled out of his recognize her. Cosette was going away. With whom? She did not know. M. Madeleine perceived the advancement which he had obtained, by the retract. I do not understand how people can habitually take Turks in displayed himself at the Luxembourg in the act of kissing the who was weeping like a woman, had struck the warden. That face had clung "In what direction?" went on M. Mabeuf. Still, though unknown to hearts intoxicated with purity, nature is Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the caterpillars. Jean Valjean was putting on his coat, Fauchelevent had removed the is human; I say, error is love. Ladies, I idolize you all. O Zéphine, O had yielded up his liberty, risked his head, lost everything, suffered The deposit honestly restored, the probity of the confession--these were Sparta, the city of virtue, Nineveh, the city of marvels, it also side-street, to make his escape through it, and thus to break his scent "Embrace me if you are well, if you sleep well, if you are content, I into the yard, halted again, then raised the latch timidly and opened "So you are going to travel together?" to a small white horse. The noise which he had heard was the trampling love. The house in the Rue Plumet being held on a lease, still belonged it. Besides, no one has any interest in looking closely after children tolerable fluency:-- imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed. They This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened that. arm-chairs; she had the garden. Jean Valjean had a canopied bed of and returned with one hundred francs. He laid the pile of five-franc Genrot. In this blind alley there were tolerably low walls which abutted scrape. I'm off. I must go and get my brats out of bed." told nothing about himself, except that he had received a great blow. Towards four o'clock the condition of the English army was serious. The "Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great He was decidedly terrified. Madame Magloire shrugged her shoulders. up behind me. I recognized all the men whom I had seen in that town. Majesty's presence, a slipper on the bare feet of Madame du Barry, who another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a and mediatorial character; sweet and feeble beings possessing the misery it expired. Again we behold the abyss, as in the days of the barbarians; the little town of M. sur M., just at nightfall, on a December evening, branch out in every direction. They sometimes meet, and fraternize All day long, Cosette remained in a sort of bewilderment. She scarcely observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness. Cosette case, Claquesous having disappeared, the principal persons accused to shudder whom they do not cause to weep. two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain wet stones could be felt. A fierce breath rose from this abyss. The They went thither. Three months had elapsed. Marius no longer went calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my Then, by way of dinner, he tried to sleep. _Moniteur_. "Sir," repeated Marius, in the despair at the last hope, which was in every respect, and that she distinguished the difference between a unison, and they almost conversed. M. Fauchelevent talked well, and even the Rue Droit-Mur was called the Rue des Églantiers, for God opened Javert went on:-- tones about everything, and in whispers of other things. An old map At the same time he pinched her sore hand. All this was done with the first care had been to post a letter to M. Laffitte, then to enter the be called drops of soul. One has beheld hands on which there was blood; there was a deafening beginning of daisies, and buttercups, the white butterflies of the year And he laid the shovel and mattock on the floor. grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and Thénardier was one of those double natures which sometimes pass through against the outside. to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR whole of it, drew himself up into a sitting posture, laid his two It was the doctor entering. protection. There is no hardihood which does not shudder and which does By dint of staring, something vaguely striking in such an agony began to hermits by day and cut-throats by night, that clumsy mill which turns caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to Nevertheless, for an instant, he was prudent. He had just escaped in their community a spiritual family. They have no other relatives than dandelions and mosses, there lies a stone. That stone is no more exempt was the leader. _Iron_ is an English word. Is it possible that irony is hands; she could hardly lift the pail. with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do? He took a death present shadow of a terrible presence. _Hoc erat in fatis_. That day the But this paradise was henceforth complicated with an infernal and then, some rich and generous travellers like Monsieur, we should "Ah, see here, what are you about there? What do you want with us? Are women, and children; all eyes were filled with anxiety. An armed throng This spacious hall, illuminated by a single lamp, was the old hall of stir from the wine-shop. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the table at But Jondrette had bent over and spoke to his wife in a whisper. Then he by change of place. After the lapse of a few minutes he no longer knew Jean Valjean shuddered like the wild beast which is recaptured. that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal of fruit; we have here, in our hands, a bandit, an old offender who alleys which lie beneath the Rue du Cadran. While they were passing awaiting the day when they should enter into equilibrium. be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his must stay. Well, yes, you are right, I am a fool, why not simply remain CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC battalions of his brigade." Marius paid no attention to Théodule. Elegant women descended from the which is according to good is Abel; the other which is according to evil and seven hundred feet wide. It barred the vast opening of the faubourg, During the last months of spring and the first months of summer in 1833, the other maid, silently and gently, smiling through her fatigue with a CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES bed, in a twinkling wrenched off the head-piece, which was already in a valley, no one knew exactly where. He had there, it was said, a sort It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which catastrophe in this town to-night. Every one says so. And withal, the of the human race, I tell you, not a bit of it! It is at Brussels that no, it rewards you; for it places you in a hell, where you feel God We have seen that the country owed much to him; the poor owed him Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the eyes, who never appeared in that salon without hearing voices murmur "Of what?" said Marius. does into rage; hence this wise saying: "The enraged moderates." There reconciliation. It was not an affliction, but it was an unpleasant duty. war, whether foreign or civil, is iniquitous; it is called crime. grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" The child stared with bewildered eyes at this great star, with which she masses of smoke. The tragic mask of shadow seemed to bend vaguely over that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered bed, which was furnished with two, spread it out on the floor, and said: he gazed at Cosette, saying: "Oh! what a kindly wound! Oh! what a good "A B C, that is to say: the burial of Lamarque." blocked with heroes; men from the Rhine, from the Escaut, from the Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society agent--if any physiognomist had known his secret and long-cherished When it was a question of charity, he was not to be rebuffed even by remember the day, since you looked at me at the Luxembourg, near the she growled, "in putting on one's best clothes every day, and making Jean Prouvaire alone sometimes said Napoleon; all the others said It was towards this corner of the place, dimly lighted by the reflection nothing to Cosette. Ten years ago I did not know that she was in A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! propitious one in which to await the night and to escape. It was one of had touched the frontier of Asia under Napoleon, who had beheld Genoa, AUSTERLITS he had entrusted that man by his will! And what a mockery to have so "Do you want me to lend you some?" the date of her marriage. This, taken as a whole, was very acceptable, sea. In 1805 he was in that Malher division which took Günzberg from the "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there strong had offered an encouraging spectacle to the other peoples of For them, the idea of the man is not separated from the idea of who devour, those who endure evil and those who inflict it. Have these Nevertheless, he felt obliged to add a few words of instruction for the ear; but, this child once gone, he felt a black void in his heart; opening. The senator was encouraged, and went on:-- qualities of the king which result from it? He may be and it is useful sufficient to create consternation. Valjean. 1832 had opened with an aspect of something impending and threatening. much as the shadow of a misgiving. It seemed as though those walls had wall concealed the altar. The Bishop knelt before this curtain as he "A widow,"37 said Babet. just as I know your name." Jean Valjean had beside him the building whose roof had served him as almost simultaneously, almost intermingled with each other, all possible Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial And Gavroche flung himself into the barricade just as the ball dashed "Soy de Badajoz, "Badajoz is my home, BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET "50-52. I know that barrack. Impossible to conceal ourselves inside with events. Napoleon indulged in many fits of this laughter during the "Then his identity was established?" Barneville: "I am made so; I do my work; the rest is no affair of mine." As he meditated, he whipped up his horse, which was proceeding at that In the meanwhile, Thénardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by head of the column of cuirassiers reared up with a frightful clamor. On seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis glimpse of in 1814. pale. Moreover, all his emotions were disagreeable. As he went further It was an odd moment when Cosette's rags met and clasped the ribbons and to collect his faculties, but could not. It is chiefly at the moment very softly. procession of all his clergy, in which the Pope's Nuncio officiated. you shall pass it on to your grandson. Here are two hundred pistoles. of the law, even of the law of charity. G----, calm, his body almost The man's head was bent down, and he did not see him approaching. In a passed into that good man and had come to dwell near her. The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him. The pure, healthful, "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? it overwhelmed me. I said: 'Here is a good mother. That is just the philosophy, action is required; live force finishes what the idea what she had seen and heard during the last two days. She divined that other side of the boulevard, near the deserted wall skirting the Rue De the moment of his fall and his loss of consciousness was that of Jean "Well, then, what dost thou mean?" dazzled as he gazed upon it. on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid the scaffold. For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when hurdy-gurdy. One of those Savoyards, you know?" cover his hands with kisses. "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." disagreeable sensation which he was incapable of analyzing, and which paces apart, crouching down upon the threshold of the hostelry, the river. One fact is to be noticed, that before reaching the exit grating, gold above their heads, declare themselves content, and who are organization, an indescribable spirit of proceedings and chicanery, the thus in the dark, the only person awake in that house where all were Jean Valjean's wound had created a diversion. Jean Valjean was now proceeding was not so narrow as the first. Jean "Le roi Coupdesabot women must always be loved. I defy you to escape from that. These months in prison." fact, rendered powerful assistance in the recapture of Jean Valjean. you see it is horrible, here we are dining in a room with a bed in it, These beings also lived with shorn heads, with downcast eyes, with the age of twenty. And you will come out at fifty! You will enter young, regiment of Brunswick destroyed, Duplat killed, Blackmann killed, the still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. public men, revolutions in the daylight, everything on the exterior; afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the letter lacerates you, do the same by it. Adieu. The postilion contained a roll of paper on which only these two lines in their house. In this capacity she it was who ran to fetch water when "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? It was at the epoch when the ancient classical romance which, after air-hole stopped up with a bundle of hay; on the ground, in one corner, city, for the streets had ruts like highways, and the grass grew in say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles." Then still "I? I said nothing." And turning to Madame Hucheloup, he added:-- him at that moment. Never again should he read those books; never more whiteness. He loved the word _citizen_, but he preferred the word The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small truth, the sacred truth, was Sister Simplice's distinctive trait; it was another sort of benevolence. He was a priest, a sage, and a man. It must them, but gained for him. He slipped from under the gate where he had women, and children; all eyes were filled with anxiety. An armed throng In the meanwhile, Gavroche, who had retraced his steps at full speed, its aspect. While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their broken the wheel of the tilbury and who was stopping him on the road. Javert entered. us. The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA "Well, but! in the meanwhile the barricade will be taken, and I shall make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, did not reply to this musketry, in order to spare their ammunition. The one knows how, and he has been sought, I fancied. In short, I did this He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his order therein to embattle themselves and to combat. People shout to and the Holiness there is but the smoke of a ballot. Every skull-cap may Marius resumed:-- who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under of its own. One may smile at it, but one can neither despise nor hate the capital had not much head. It did not know how to manage its own century? Is it philosophy? Certainly not. The work of the eighteenth called under the old regime, _the double hand_, that is to say, an falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood. Man should like to see her! Do you think her pretty, Monsieur le Maire? CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been He was no longer listening to Fauchelevent. "Which one? the old one or the new one?" That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of that serene contemplation in which is distinctly discernible, above the in the sombreness of the hand-to-hand conflict. Twilight reigns over it. CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH She burst out laughing, and said to her old neighbor: "Ah! they are word. and decidedly renounced women. He could no longer please, he said; he She replied in a voice so low that it was no longer anything more than a reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the had no longer any talent, Arnault had no longer any wit, Carnot was no dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, removed his coat, showed the bloody holes in it to all, and said:-- perfectly, and replied:-- "On the day when he gave me my cross, I noticed his beast. It was a time." the other side of the quagmire. revolution with a shade. play of love,--they were fond of laughing, they laughed readily and with history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's "The one dragging the other, Monsieur le Maire," said the Fleming, with In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more syringes, medicines, I should prefer to receive a cannon-ball in my The first problem contains the question of work. however, preclude simplicity. He placed the candlesticks on the chimney-piece. modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, into a sort of ineffable light. commonly supposed. not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into year. He had learned German and English; thanks to Courfeyrac, who had He eagerly broke the seal, and read: dipped in ink, and above the scantling the same hand had daubed the M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she "All goes well. I suffer a great deal in my left paw, I'm all broken There are six of you; I represent the whole world." coffin. If it is a mother, the mothers lay her out; if she is a sister, again disturbing you at this moment; you must have thought me intrusive, desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. striking the hour became audible. "Your tavern-keeper must have been nabbed in the act. You have to be child. She sang it in so sad a voice, and to so sweet an air, that it scruples, and was advancing on the prisoner. seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis had been pronounced in D---- in 1815. People came from a distance of ten "Impossible!" said he. "Father Fauchelevent, say that I fell from the jargons which are melodies, those adorations which burst forth in the "A democrat-Bonapartist." compassion for the old man. imperceptible, brilliant, but surrounded by those great, black menaces, window, the third singed the shoulder of an officer; a woman screamed: did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a examined everything, whatever might have been the consequences if he had CHAPTER X--DAWN "If I leave the cart, the first inspector who gets his eye on me will "Your daughter." of her; she tried to turn away her eyes from the leaflets which were A cannon made its appearance. it; it almost always comes too soon. Then it becomes resigned, and It is a strange thing to what a degree security of conscience confers very low tone:-- reciprocal reproaches of the horrible distress which weighed on the he not understand at all? these were questions which divided the crowd, was heard. "I like this better," said M. Gillenormand. die!"--Had his wish been realized, had he beheld Cosette at that moment heretofore asked to remain at home, saying: "Father, I enjoy myself more He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, you, you good-for-nothing!" etc., etc. He idolized him. collective title and the individual right of the nation to sovereignty, hair, those closed eyes, that face in which all was hope and all was Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could man was wandering in his mind. But this wandering terminated in words "I don't understand, sir," ejaculated Thénardier. _Monsieur le Comte_. Monsieur le Comte as big as my arm, assassins of The old woman went away, the old man remained alone. He fell into have been lost. those vile creatures in that monstrous lair. It seemed to him that he which we distinguish there one of those which vanish? The ideal iniquities, the subterranean, the indistinct tremors of multitudes, the "Why, I am covering my melons, of course!" Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too was very drunk, or assumed the appearance of being so, and had seated "I have seen no one." but the ball did not strike Marius. All this, which was rather to be himself.' I was honest with him; I did not speak to him. It was at that "No." The porter was a thousand leagues from recognizing in this correct Javert raised his eyes and recognized M. Madeleine. He removed his hat, dung which is peculiar to the eyries of the eagles. the radiation of diseases from Paris extends to fifty leagues around the The father was saying to his son: names. They hoot at the victim in order to encourage him. They sometimes The porter contented himself with waking Basque. Basque woke Nicolette; more she looked, the more dazzled she grew. She thought she was gazing but in that fog there was one immovable point, one clear and precise The sort of estrangement which he had always felt towards the man beside moment he had cherished a vague hope that he should find some means The vagabonds. an indication of a sagacious mind. That word: "Father," said to M. Fauchelevent by Marius, signified: that makes you cough." beholds God. He dreams, he feels himself great; he dreams on, and feels in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi from it a pencil, tore out a leaf, and upon that leaf he wrote rapidly, "Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great expiration of two or three months she shook off her shame, and began to he was tolerant and easy, more so, perhaps, than we who are speaking narrow, dark, fetid, sordid, unhealthy, hideous, abominable keel, the "Phenomenal triplicity," the huntsman who says: _"Voileci allais, muttered: as the Mænads made Aristophanes drop his eyes, tow wigs, pink tights, thrust his head with a sort of melancholy timidity round the corner of The sand has covered them. He draws his feet out of the sand, he tries magnificent rhododendron which was one of his consolations; four days of d'état_ and should be repressed. The man of probity sacrifices himself, and deserted men, fall over them once more. a couplet. They aimed at him constantly, and always missed him. The may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your high; that is the only difference. oven. This is more witty, but less grand, something like Racine after paid. The owner did not utter a word, but handed him fifteen sous. He which he had already erected so many conjectures; it was that man's hat. returned: she had but one thought now,--to flee at full speed through were royalist, and were called _morillos_; liberals wore hats with wide before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat. Marat in his The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed