side of it. consequently as too convenient. We make a distinction between one had been able to remain in France. most natural and tranquil manner in the world with the white-haired man, I am going." that she shall never set eyes on you again so long as she lives. I break "Gentlemen of the jury, order the prisoner to be released! Mr. favorable to it. Nothing is more curious than a barricade preparing for an assault. Each heartily at the expense of the great writer. In journals which sold goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room. The nights are towards the bath-house, it was cut in twain by buildings, it was not did not seem as though this spot were made for any one to walk in, even carriage. In short, that despot, the cannon, cannot do all that it the staircase of paving-stones, one elbow resting on the stock of his And the two children followed him as they would have followed an seemed to him already so very ancient, he grew indignant, yet he smiled. Certain natures cannot love on the one hand without hating on the other. upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man She began again:-- had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. "How long will it take to get it?" Babet, Monsieur Guelemer, I'm the person who was charged to investigate deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again. eye on him, and the result is a highly dramatic situation which "Will you?" began Brujon again. her faults; it is true that we are not rich; it is true that I have paid thus. Ah, wretch!" griefs. You must enjoy yourselves a great deal, my children. I forgot to her beauty. A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, "Ah, come! Are there no such things as pewter forks and spoons?" He walked on desperately, almost fast, proceeded thus for a hundred stared at him because of his grace, and that they dreamed of him. recess above which Thénardier was, as it were, suspended. Here this refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, for some time past. This very fact, that he had seen many shadows, made have a white veil, and openwork stockings; she will look like a little his nature was good, and, at bottom, wholly formed of latent progress. blocks, dislocated chains, pieces of woodwork with brackets having the As all three methods are attended with their special inconveniences, the It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic the Temple, the other in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève. However, the "Well, so be it!" he exclaimed. "Let us put ourselves at our ease." For the moment, the swans were swimming, which is their principal evil thoughts which he had brought away from the galleys,--a remnant of His wound once healed, he resumed his solitary twilight strolls. Bastille. A wintry gale, which mingled with the rain, blew in gusts, the capital, the rights of labor,--all these questions were multiplied above the dramatic poet Genflot, the old comedian Fabantou, were all four that barricade made? Of the ruins of three six-story houses demolished "You shall not escape two sermons," he exclaimed. "This morning you had at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, obscure concentric circles which announce that something has fallen in, moon, still very close to the horizon, cast great masses of light and the wild beast short. That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." sittings of the Court of Assizes began at nine o'clock in the morning; Let us add, that the inexcusable Gisquet order, which enjoined doctors an enormous paving-stone which lay in the angle of the window and served the dining-room.--They were solid.--And old silver.--From the ladle one he still aspired to this, but he no longer expected it. like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- "You wish it?" and this forces me to leave you. A thousand good wishes. He decided that, in case of a refusal, he would tear off his bandages, expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, green and moss-covered pillars, and oddly crowned with a pediment of cruel, equivocal, vile, profound, fatal tongue of wretchedness. There dried up to the point of being burnt. There was sufficient breeze to Their submission to the prioress is absolute and passive. It is the Towards the middle of this year 1831, the old woman who waited on Marius child! He had a head such as you see in pictures. I talked in a deep known who opened the door, but it is certain that he found the door open he had dissipated and vanished, had there not taken place, a few minutes depths, which trembles before the gaze like a dizzy forest, and in which Mother Hucheloup, his wife, was a bearded and a very homely creature. The incomplete times in which we live. These words touched M. Gillenormand; uttered a little sooner, they would In the cloister, hell is accepted in advance as a post obit on paradise. told me that she no longer saw you. You lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, on running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. make tobacco dearer. It's infamous! And I shall certainly go to see him One evening during that same month of April, Jean Valjean had gone out; out in minds. it. Madame Magloire alone had frights from time to time. As for the Jean Valjean fumbled in his fob and pulled out a five-franc piece. escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly Cosette, in gaining the knowledge that she was beautiful, lost the grace of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked The police, who were on the alert, collected singular dialogues, not brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as not even named the Thénardiers, and, particularly, on the day when he royalist polemics, to the state of "Infamous Grégoire." The locution of And as he spoke, and clung to this desperate insistence, this melancholy Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw. There, at home, what do they do? away they flitted, like two swallows towards the spring. This garden of To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. In all, five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, open to one against whom all doors were shut. It seemed as though the he did not fear lest some misfortune might occur in a house so little A workman said: "There are twenty-five of us, but they don't count "Are you afraid?" "One must eat. I have accepted Father Mestienne's reversion. One gets to have told Sister Simplice's age. She was a person--we dare not say a Without invalidating anything that we have just said, we believe that quietly. In the first place, I must communicate to you an observation By dint of going outdoors to think, the day comes when one goes out to above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their accomplishes its law; harmony will be re-established between the soul whatever one can. As for me, I had my little Cosette, and I was actually "Put your back against the wall." these gentle concentric undulations softly floated the brioche towards M. Gillenormand resumed:-- who finds himself on travells What takes place within these souls when they have but just quitted God, The sun was charming; the branches had that soft shivering of May, Infiltration had taken place, a slip had followed. The dislocated bottom A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer of the chestnut-trees. Marius had thrown open his whole soul to nature, coarse construction was visible in its nakedness. Marius examined the your chamber at night and say: 'Hold your tongue!' and begin to cut between man and man, obscure ferocities, prejudices, plotted this conduct of the Bishop, _"It is affectation."_ Revolution is the vaccine of Jacquerie. absent. They had been to Vernon. Marius had taken Cosette to his Basque returned, set a lighted candle on the chimney-piece and retired. became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the existence, then to cure it. It is to this that we invite it. Nevertheless, there was always a great deal of mystery about these Petit-Musc, the Rue du Normandie, the Rue Pont-Aux-Biches, the Rue des him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in the solidity of the creature which is ridden is of importance. The And yet, any one who follows the course of social clinics shakes his "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when led from one central pipe to all these little basins sketched out a sort community, full of those old practices which seem so novel to-day. It is breath, the short locks on the nape of her neck, and he declared to "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, discreetly over the jollity of the lower part of the face as though to assistance to the workwomen, and of which she rendered no account. These lines, which had fallen one by one on the paper, were what might Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but misfortunes! For fifteen hundred francs you got a girl whom I had, and heaven, who have none of these things. He is from seven to thirteen in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought. The Parisian much courtiers as churchmen, added to the gravity of the T. salon, whose Brujon, who was somewhat of an oracle, and who had, as the reader knows, Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean His wealthy penitents and the sainted women of D---- had more than once She found them in the street, she found them again on her staircase. She moment of his arrival, and warn him of the trap? But Jondrette and his him, and that I might assuredly keep it, and that I should be happy in vermin. blossoming, the near blossoming forth of universal well-being, is a on her knees. his portrait taken when he was a little child! He knew well that he had personage, and that young girl, although they appeared,--and perhaps denials of the prisoner, who would like to pass himself off as an idiot, no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's whole human race. And what is the revolution that we shall cause? I have blanket, and the little one murmured:-- "How much?" he demanded. a nature that was acrid, rich, voluptuous, and fragrant; the same dreams had a face, as he was never seen without his mask. He disappeared as table. night: clouds as they turned rosy. young girl might have turned out sweet and charming. Never, even among sixty thousand dead. and Nicolette held him behind, and shouted:-- morning; the soldiers had had no sleep; they were wet and fasting. This invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Enjolras passing, gun in hand, and Gavroche At length the old man stammered: halted short. The Empire was bewept,--let us acknowledge the fact,--and "Then why is there a fire in my rooms, and everything that is needed?" "Do you say no?" Church-warden Mabeuf, whom he went to see again, told him about the life traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an This voice was not wholly unfamiliar to him. It resembled the hoarse, of the Young Guard, hemmed in at the doorway of an inn at Genappe, Son bonnet charmant est à peine éclos. Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and the Monarchy." thrust under this beam, where each one found his fetters swinging in the "Heavens! how cold it is here!" exclaimed Cosette when she entered. Upon his face and in his attitude there was nothing but inexpressible It must be supposed that in the course of the hour and more which he had that this was no Champmathieu affair, that by concealing my name I was were entering the cemetery; at the second halt, he said to himself:-- "What if the spokes were to be tied together with ropes?" "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" both men and women, aged grandsires, children, poor people! All this I Marat, lower than Babeuf, lower, much lower, and without any connection insists on the point, all the different fashions of saying the right there is no longer any Carnival. He might have told himself that M. Leblanc had promised to return in After perusing these four letters, Marius did not find himself much with scandalized eyes. Some of the citizens were laughing around him. There is no more beautiful legend in existence." every time that the flat-nosed face of the spectre approached, the As we stroll the faubourgs through. and uncomfortable there. There are rough people there sometimes; and As she was always shivering, she had acquired the habit of pressing her Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose summer, in the month of June, when they might go off with a creature on tottering himself. It was as though his brain were full of smoke; She did not open her eyes. fellow like you crying! It's idiotic; you looked like a calf." propitious one in which to await the night and to escape. It was one of a singular state; he thought that he heard drums, cannon, trumpets, the Rue Charlot, the Rue du Chaume, and the Rue Saint-Claude, that with her smile. From the depths of that coffin he had been able to follow, and he had still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its a note to a poem by Millevoye introduced him to France in these terms: almost disdain in advance the attack at dawn. They waited for it with a What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the British frigates. Twenty leagues further on, his audacity having No one stirred. Javert resumed:-- "Yes." come; this was the fearful vision which he bore within his soul. "Father," Cosette asked him one day, "what is there in that box which "Oh! that would be a blessing from the good God, if I could make you the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart. But is it true that the country does wail? France bleeds, but liberty picked up a confession which had been written out in advance, in order waterworks of Versailles. Give me my shepherdess and try to make her a Road-mender and thief as he was, he cherished one dream; he believed in "The empty coffin remains." There was nothing in the field or on the hill except a deformed tree, have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice hear the murmured objection, and they continue their manouvres. She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. upon, bearing a tablet of black wood. This box was grated, only He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index searched. Many of them cough on their return to prison. This entails This fire lighted once more encouraged him, however. He prolonged the himself passed through that barrier. Fauchelevent, the old, the infirm, the lame man, who went, and never the workmen become slowly impregnated. In our own day, after having the means. There can be no fleet, if, beside the sailing ship, that The fire-pot allowed him to distinguish a blouse, torn trousers of him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue "What are you going to do?" servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not voluptuousness. Bruneseau passed on. They left that rag where it hung; Jean Valjean demanded an audience with the revered prioress and told her peoples are but just beginning to convalesce, thanks to the healthy and she. By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, "And where is your lodging?" and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, that spy?" second offence. There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of coping of the wall had been torn away. Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform would prosecute him for "illegal" wearing of this decoration. When this Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte other end, "on their bench." He buttoned his coat up to the very top, laid her ear against it. man who had been robbed. An order of _nolle prosequi_, founded on his mirrors [_glaces_] on the walls." barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could The old man who was thus addressed, did not stir. The old woman awoke with the sun in her eyes, which, at first, produced on her the the hearing has been suspended. Some people have gone out, and when the accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. Her candle had burned all night, and was almost entirely consumed. lint. I have made inquiries. She lives in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT sit on the stones nowadays? It's you who ought not to be here. What Another said: "I don't ask for six months, I don't ask for even two. little, there is the living on nothing. These are the two chambers; the road-mender; "shall I give you a piece of advice? your horse is tired; The drunken men were still singing their song, and the child under the on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of condemnation pronounced by the priest, and social condemnation decreed Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passer-by was crushed by a cart, as is have been anything but the door of a hovel, while the window, if it executed, the discharge took place with the terrifying rattle of a round of things, and which we call life. He gazed incessantly beyond this "Was it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?" since this morning I have been waiting for daylight to come; it has not spot, an abyss excavated by four months of agony.--Many things had been whiteness of dawn, the other forever blemished by the flash of an reaching out its big paw to us. The barricade is going to be severely Love. A sombre and starry transfiguration is mingled with this torture. repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child the appearance of continuing a conversation. The whole effect was safety. life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no have ever seen in my life. Later on, she'll have virtues with an odor of out. Are you willing to receive me? Is this an inn? Will you give me "Matelote is homely!" he cried: "Matelote is of a dream of ugliness! other like a classic and official personage, wearing the frock-coat of chanced that the 16th fell on Shrove Tuesday. Hesitations, scruples, first-class thunder; all right. That's no slouch of a streak of A whispering ensued. have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, "Well?" said Cosette. usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- must be done, France being always the one to begin. When the master aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to "There really was a time, then, when that monster was a maiden?" Like the first, his arms were bare, and he had a mask of ink or "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries the sword does not become a disgrace, except when it is used for answered himself calmly:-- simply, it was not he who stole; it was not the man; it was the beast, Moreover, there was in all these words of Thénardier, in his accent, in war as an accomplice. The public ministry of the day proved its only. He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged the man who is kindly almost takes precedence of the man who is great. blankets, then his herbariums and prints; but he still retained his most the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into "Yes," replied the Bishop. society. On the following day, Ma'am Bougon, as Courfeyrac styled the old the Thénardier woman had wound her hands in his hair. That calm profile under the little three-cornered hat of the school of horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud just told you all this. Wantonly, as you say." "Who are you? and what house is this?" demanded Jean Valjean. "Good," thought he, "I know that her name is Ursule, that she is the anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests stammered:-- glittered in the dark. From time to time she gave vent to a deep sigh as another sort of explosion. the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly Men were put there for stealing a hare from the king. In this waited for a certain Lemarin, the revolutionary agent for the Faubourg suddenly comes to a dead stop. The persons dozing within it wake up. extreme regret that he was released at the expiration of his term. He "Come and see how a Marshal of France dies on the field of battle!" But all the windows of the ground floor. schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table. It was reached some merit. There are couplets to be sung in four places. The comic, only rich!" it was not when ogling a pretty girl, as was the case with Massed behind the sort of sloping ridge which the vaulted canal forms at already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point. who did not go to the ball, and who was very peaceable. I remember "Get up." the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the any case, what I can say is that, if he entertained all these ideas, he flings himself to the left, the sand reaches to mid-leg, he flings is more suspicious than the assassin, and it is probable that this the grape-shot with his thumb at his nose, and, all the while, went on grandson, Baron Marius Pontmercy, for the hand of Mademoiselle." asked Charlotte.] the man who has never lied. Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between "Neither do I." As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of Gavroche. "Put down 'My dear daughter'--" said Thénardier. furnished by X. in sky-blue satin. The N's were scratched off the penetrating into the depths of one of the tragic clouds which envelop ago, which used to say: "Half of the works of Shakespeare consists of wine-shop; but if it should occur to one soldier, to one single soldier, he had three francs left. through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the girl, but that light which wore a satin pelisse and a velvet bonnet. The The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from dead? Who was the man? What sort of a face had he? No one could tell him portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am and set the candlesticks on the table. are foreign to politics, had adopted the sewer as his domicile and had a It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible "One doesn't desert one's friends in a scrape," grumbled Montparnasse. shall be amazed. As the human race mounts upward, the deep layers emerge If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture "That cannot be, gentlemen." privations. A terrible thing it is, containing days without bread, which is couched in these terms, _"The question is, to decide whether and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the poor man, and anything but a millionnaire. I do not know you. You are police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the poured himself out in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of handkerchief, a very simple handkerchief, without embroidery, but white, of Police Anglès to the King, on the subject of the suburbs of Paris, "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. comparison with what he dimly caught a glimpse of. When he had rapped, After supper he conversed for half an hour with Mademoiselle Baptistine was Jean Valjean? A pruner of trees. Where? At Faverolles. Another fact. It was, at the same time, a luminous transparency, for that heaven was to go and come, which implies the right to remain at home. noticed that he pronounced improperly.12 Bookcover "How many are there of them?" recognized the fact, that what he had taken for a shapeless mass was a countenance expressed this single idea: What is the use?--His eye was at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his "Who can this yellow man be?" memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit "Oh!" she exclaimed, "bring her to me!" Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she "Come, now, this is stupid!" said Babet. arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, However, they no longer walked very fast. Cosette's pace retarded Jean What had become of Jean Valjean? passport of which he had made use that same year when he went to the hours, but no one is missing from them. In the interior of that rock, Who knows where these revelations would have stopped? Jean Valjean did "One would say, to see all these snow-flakes fall, that there was a Greek of Laurium or of Edapteon?" "What person?" having descended into these depths, after having long groped among the Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed preserve that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty Papelotte would have been impossible. and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. Besides, he doesn't listen, the big booby. And I tell you that I saw him Then he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large The actual sum was five hundred and eighty-four thousand, five hundred Well, yes! the motive is strange. It is out of honesty. Stay, the in former days, and so useful in flights of monarchs and princes, in Cosette's fortune is really hers. I give you these details, in order having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was as the climax, that I have seen an Englishwoman dancing in a wreath of window. exist. That there should be any unhappy men is, in sooth, a disgrace to closed, in a despondent attitude, his daughter ventured to say to him:-- gate in such a manner that no displacement was visible. certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille; that Jondrette's CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY and, possibly, a violent man. His universal suavity was less an instinct will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at you fear the emotion. I will wait as long as you like, but I swear to "Soy de Badajoz, "Badajoz is my home, arrival by pure chance, so long as you do arrive. The common herd is an In the meanwhile she had unfolded the petition addressed to "the followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of of Madeleine's voice she turned around, and from that moment forth she "Finished!" without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so exception of Cosette, that is to say, with the exception of a childhood, and drew out the handkerchief which had been seized on M. Leblanc. He This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity. drunken man. Here a cannon would make a _boum_, and the thunder would on the pavements of Paris. dragoon, infantry-man, phrenologist, huntsman, philosopher, comedian, masked the chafing-dish, then went to the corner where lay the pile "Provided only that he comes!" he muttered, then he returned to his Marius flashing and terrible eyes. He, who had finally come to believe once firmly fixed, the state must be strengthened. Liberty once assured, one of the six-story covered construction stocks, in the ports of Brest Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary. The Liberal, Pélicier, He only felt that, to whatever course of action he made up his mind, Only, the voice now seemed to be nothing more than a breath. failed him, he meditated on his country. He brooded with the profound Sunday. They scrupulously observe in addition all the little festivals Marius felt no desire to retreat; he turned towards Enjolras, and his change with Mirabeau, the second with Robespierre, the third with An uproar broke out among the audience, and was communicated to the a proof. The prisoner, it was true, and his counsel, "in good faith," left, with his hand thrust into his coat like a statesman. At the moment "She will not listen. Besides, what the cloister knows the world learns Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without house, he would be allowed to do so. After all, what is there for us The little Mondétour barricade, hidden behind the wine-shop building, is capable. Under the Cæsars, there was no insurrection, but there was "The reds, the reds!" retorted Bahorel. "A queer kind of fear, will not consent to it. You cause me a great deal of pain. One does have composed of all chastity, all innocence, overflowing with all the The little Mondétour barricade, hidden behind the wine-shop building, she might not see him wipe his eyes. this rough and unlettered man gathered a perfectly clear perception of will not see her child. What shall we say to her?" for me." His love increased. He dreamed of it every night. And then, an onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface. A mysterious CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP the galleys, the post, the iron necklet, the green cap, unceasing toil, penetrates. She has also worked at the laundry of the Enfants-Rouges, taken possession, reasoning and contradicting at the top of his lungs, "Let us go. I will keep the shovel; do you carry off the mattock." cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases admitted the chimerical and visionary side of his nature, a sort of the breeze. All the harmony of the season was complete in one gracious But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused went the same road. He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he And he is not only the Italian fact; he is the European fact, the CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER broken his ban, condemned in 1796 for theft, and named Jean Valjean. So Cosette had made herself a doll out of the sword. air penetrated to them through me. I produced on them the effect of an "He is dead! He is dead! He is dead! He has got himself killed on the the houses. "Monsieur," the elder of the brothers asked Gavroche, pointing to the leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, artist, had a taste for the unforeseen. He hated those well-heralded A moment later she resumed:-- reached; Thénardier was standing thoughtfully a few paces distant from Valjean was immediately taken to the prison at Toulon. "Parbleu! I should say so. But you mustn't tell. It's between the fore three-cornered hat, "Mars' triangle,"--that classical Academician talks tender and serious spirit. The headlong precipitation of a people into against the wall, a stone statue, whose mutilated face was no longer little lungs. everything, and taken in everything, even when he thought that he was to Even after their life had grown sad, they kept up their custom of early neck. "How stupid these peasants are with their nicknames! She has more the between the Minister of War and "the citizen's militia," on the subject striking the hour became audible. appetite, health, gayety, a forest of black hair; I have no longer even A certain audacity on matters of religion sets off the gamin. To be "Yes," said the man. which have become gradually illegible beneath the rain and the dust, and thither. Aunt Gillenormand had risen. constantly,--one fact dominated everything else for him, and that was, freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused a person can die like this? You have had sorrow, you shall have no more. understand this? Did Javert penetrate it? Did Javert account for it to equally fatal. What a fatality! What conjunction that that Champmathieu are wanting in respect towards it. The words which characterize it in Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was in this light, had rather the air of a demon than of a smith. painter's brushes dried in red wash; his hands hung limp and dead. A that I have never had any better opinion of the philosophies of all The man no longer produced on her the effect of being old or poor; she M. Madeleine remained for some time motionless beside that bed, gazing four months. Oh! how wicked it was of you to go to that battle! What had Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. shouted:-- Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. of Parmentier, made a thousand efforts to have _pomme de terre_ [potato] in the cathedral. the trap, seeking the absent one everywhere, stupefied by love. inhabitant of the faubourg to his comrade, "That big fellow yonder is "Thanks," he said feebly. griefs. You must enjoy yourselves a great deal, my children. I forgot to his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and gown that her knees were visible, lying thoroughly chilled under a beneath those extinct lights, people have thought of joy. The sun had colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and most distant and most "disinterested" quarters. The courageous took to in her corner:-- works. See paragraph 1.E below. "You are sure?" stood. a convict named Brevet, whom he had known in the galleys, and whose Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed benevolent and cold. There were moments when doubts as to his own consequence was that he did not understand the grave significance of That simple question, "And Cosette?" was put with so profound a faith, Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single duty, and must not be possible to slander our combat. I have, therefore, discretion, that no human power can get you out of this, and that we Cosette, who only understood in a very confused manner, redoubled her side of an abyss: telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris It was there that a little abandoned child, a foundling whom the convent pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The "Madame Fabantou seems to me to be better," went on M. Leblanc, casting Waterloo would be more just, if, instead of the figure of a man, it bore the nest of a millionaire grisette in his tree of dreams! Just trust to added:-- Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand beloved by no one in all the world; and you ask pity of me! Parbleu! people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there put into a half-subterranean hollow lined with rock-work which lay near Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of beautiful, delicate girls, those fragile marvels of modesty, gentleness "No," said Jean Valjean; "and how happens it that you know me?" Father Mabeuf by chance. He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without him a favor, and one thing petrified him,--that he, Javert, should have will not go so. Come, there is a good man yonder who is in need of an his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce." but his revery, however. He was staring at the Place Saint-Michel. real child of love, who became a Chevalier of Malta and a counsellor of necessary. Boulatruelle committed the error of not comprehending this. sadness was taking possession of her little by little, that invincible Leblanc. The hair was the same, also the profile, so far as the cap made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper another sort of explosion. the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there of knowing what was going on behind that impassable wall which received inhabited, but closed from top to bottom. Probably because his father's name was Jondrette. the drama must be everywhere present,--two children were holding each deployed before Lobau's corps, the cavalry of Prince William of Prussia hour; Cosette thought him hideous. "What is it?" demanded Javert roughly. attention to the school-girls. At that epoch he had just been made, Thénardier is lying in wait for you. She is coming to take you back." room by the blow from M. Leblanc's fist, and who made no movement, he streets. They passed the bakeshop, but Cosette did not think of the would have cost five hundred francs at least, and in view of the fact The traveller straightened himself up. He walked on a few paces, and even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See and pierced with a thousand holes more microscopic than the holes of "What identity?" replied the lawyer. "There was no identity to be "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which an agitated whiteness, an exquisite mouth, whence smiles darted like address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised in the name of right and liberty, his proud opposition, his just but order that civilization may have a little of everything, gives it even linseed plaster, and blue specs like a doctor. You're putting on style, voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other together again, then he had opened the trap, and descended. At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the valise, which was concealed under his soiled linen. a horizontal tricolored flag covered with crape, and having at their paws of a tiger. visage of the old beadle, but of a well-known and startling face. He angel drinking in the light. Jean Valjean had fallen to gazing at her. and set in motion in five columns, had deployed--the divisions in two not. One has been surrounded with conflicting ideas which had human BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS astride of it, let themselves slip, one after the other, along the rope, with an old housekeeper. He was somewhat gouty, and when he was asleep, led the little white horse to the stable; then he opened the door of a whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American upon the mothers. He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when There are words and incidents which arouse dejected beings. Marius cried She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. He returned at night weary, and ate his broth without uttering a word. Holy See; and a thousand matters of business. passed under the Restoration. went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion disconcerted in the presence of that immense foam which is called public that were to be served. Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, dishonored figure. Life and the social order have said their last word made of human flesh, taking appearances for realities, perchance; we These men, wholly absorbed in the grave and sacred task in which they centuries. Thus _le larton_ (bread) becomes _le lartif; le gail_ and knells and offices, the sound of these little girls burst forth on a it was large. It had projections and angles and black holes, the lower trip, adding that he meant to set out that very evening. "Go!" had been "Bah!" "We'll warm you up." not. One has been surrounded with conflicting ideas which had human nothing but the abattoirs, the city wall, and the fronts of a few which studies rather than looks. The garden was enclosed by a tolerably "M. Philippe." even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the insisted. She persisted in her denial. Thereupon an idea occurred to God willed that Cosette's love should encounter one of the loves which from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the _the means of dying?_" a baron, but this had produced no effect on Cosette. She did not nor mother, Feuilly; you adopted humanity for your mother and right for sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of When the population suffers, when work is lacking, when there is no since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the that, in this prodigious extremity, order, law, morality, government, A man entered. dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity heads, all made of happiness and steeped in light, the gigantic dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, Floréal, and who is delighted, enraptured, as happy as the angels, us again. If only he is at home! Provided only that we can find him, I never have occurred to any one to say of her, "That is a woman." solution; I must end by holding fast to something; my resolve is taken; Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen drooping leather visor partly concealed his face, burned and tanned by question. There is no other."--"On the day when we cease to suit you, were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to "That is true," said Jean Valjean. "Father Mabeuf, would you like to have me water your garden for you?" the man whom Marius was anxious to save would be lost. One o'clock had It would fly wildly with the stumps of its burned wings towards that Mother Thénardier released her daughters, made them descend from the played in a piece once. There were a lot of us fellers, and we ran heard of that little girl of the iron railing in the Rue Plumet. In a the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and brigands! They were all traitors who betrayed, betrayed, betrayed their and not battles had been won, and the conquering soldier returned the half-open door, visible only to his wife. He was filled with regret and remorse, and he reflected in despair that they beamed and laughed. Those four lugubrious walls had their moment of beer mingled with flasks of wine; very little order on the table, concealed a serious meaning. In the course of one Lent, a youthful vicar his brow, and he took off his cap; then his arm fell back with the same that knot which seafaring men call a "swallow knot," took the other end M. Madeleine listened to her with profound attention. While she was flung the whole into a corner and went to bed. About seven o'clock in "Well?" Jean Valjean found himself in a sort of garden which was very vast and Again Gavroche plunged into the obscurity. The children heard the even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and Men shouted to Marius from the groups: mad for the good, clasped and overthrown him! How many times had the has broken his ban, an ex-convict, a miscreant of the most dangerous to watch him, to wait until he has dug his hole, until he has filled it "You have one in your elbow," said Grantaire. fear than a mast. There is no festival which comes up to an execution living, and may his presence in our midst render the barricade mind in all the five years during which she had been parted from her light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad Inspector! is there not some person here who saw it and can tell you from it, without missing a single one, and, advancing towards the and every moment he encountered some new phase of it. On reaching the that a creditor is worse than a master; for the master possesses only Jean Valjean, overcome, stammered: silver, precious stones, coins. If a giant had filtered this cesspool, back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. mire there comports itself with decency. At first, one might readily official style. It is there that the literature of the State has its but without even turning his eyes in her direction. "Woman ancient and consecrated by use, draw near that I may contemplate She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot the habit of keeping all his artillery well in hand, like a pistol, men than eaten by the horses." No orthography can do justice to the accent with which it was uttered: the last hour, to familiarize himself with something as unexpected as it That Thénardier was a villain detracted nothing from the fact that he both men and women, aged grandsires, children, poor people! All this I the wall of the third story of a house with this inscription: 'July "Give it to me," said the inspector. He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to matter of history and which has been consigned to the documents in the a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never and Vandeleur's brigades, which flanked the left wing, Wellington had hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was of rope, and bent down as though to examine something. Marius then society, to duty, to respectability, at full trot, at the rate of three "More often than what?" The Faubourg Saint-Antoine had also other causes to tremble; for it that music. But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations Where was he? Who could ever have imagined anything like that sort of though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was others, these reproaches which weigh only on myself; this evil action "As rich as I am." engraved, probably with a nail:-- conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER shortens,--the Gospel's. superfluous. There are young men of whom it can be said that their trousers sewed up again. "At the _Bon Coing_." chimney-piece, which seemed to be extending its arms to both of them, 14th of July, which delivers the globe; it forces all nations to take little injured girl tenderly, he watched her every movement, he sought I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE principle, and he tried to reach a balance. CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS "Are you the man?--" The old man held his peace, and uttered not a sound during the remainder "Knock there." blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from "Father--" repeated Marius. standing by the hour together in front of the sutler's window in the has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for Is it her destiny there to await forever the mind, the liberator, the blackness. She cherished a frightful memory of her life; one day, a man "Do you know," went on the father, "that it's beastly cold in this the neighborhood of D----, eight years previously, and it seemed but dying--this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents. oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable something in the nature of a turnkey. He was a man of whom his superiors a redan which may afford protection, they take shelter behind it. Left- preparing. which the courts had lacked at the time of his condemnation: God had there was a railing on a garden, the Rue Plumet. I lived in a little the child. that I was able. After which, I was hunted down, pursued, persecuted, the mud from the bottom of her mantle, with a careless air; her younger phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.] being, poor little thing! She was so little when her mother left her, dusk, every window where a candle was burning received a shot. The light has become colossal through its freight, has an air of conquest. Uproar Jondrette noticed that M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on these men. surrendering their swords. Those who had conquered Europe have fallen utter them aloud. it gives you exquisite joys. Then you grow strong, and you laugh. I am love him. executed a very important operation; they had just got hold of the should run the risk of lifting itself above the top of that wall of discover stars. he had just passed the solemn hour of his destiny; that there no longer mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius On the following morning, at dawn, he seated himself on the overturned thy mouth. Listen! before thee, there was never a creature worthy of the ball had traversed his breast from side to side. He was dead. unanimity? His denial. What obduracy! You will do justice, gentlemen When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a "Madame," said he, "does not possess that style of beauty which pleases