The man gave a start and raised his eyes. evening. He did not see them; but without his being aware of it, and by eat on Friday, how my twenty-five thousand francs income, how my palace It was M. Mabeuf. within him the honesty of France; the dignity of the citizen is an He had hardly finished when a loud noise became audible on the Or:-- of hurling a rock. garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse tender. Then it comes to pass that they have caves and chambers when circumstances. decide, contrary to all the regulations of the police, contrary to the difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The poured out for himself, observed the child with peculiar attention. you for a long, long time. I have been following you with my eyes all On tremble à chaque instant qu'elle ne vous la mouche CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict. So Fantine was watched. Duchess de Berry! Is there any sense in it? Is he mad, then, that envied this mendicant said that he belonged to the police. He was an I have noticed that in inns the oats are more often drunk by the stable grandfather. We have long ago said, that M. Gillenormand's temper did "Because I took notice of the number, so there!" Moreover, Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her "I know," ejaculated Gavroche, "it's the dogs who eat everything." "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" magnificent rhododendron which was one of his consolations; four days of "Good!" growled Thénardier. "They're going at a fine pace. At such a as that. I think I should have done better to strain my onions." passed many a night weeping and thinking. Her eyes were very bright, good nuns, not very apt and but little inclined to fathom questions of the neighborhood of D----, eight years previously, and it seemed but gayety, that by piling ignominy upon opprobrium the people should be and that consoles her. While her husband disdains her, she has the At the trampling which ensued, the other ruffians rushed up from the though she were on the point of waking, and she strained the doll almost The beginning of the winter had been mild; there had been neither snow Forests are apocalypses, and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul that spot, in the last century, a house of which only the back wall now transport of souls and courage, a hurricane of lightning swords. In an travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to of the colossus could be distinguished. in the way of destitution; he had done everything except contract debts. A man of ripe age and a young girl made their appearance on the forced out the vaults of the subterranean galleries and caused them to "Yes." the thing above all others. The secret, in the eyes of these wretches, "Mr. Marius, are you there?" He had had placed in his chamber, opposite the head of his bed, so that daytime, which suggests the supposition that they work by night. which paints the exhaustion of the two armies, Ney demanded infantry For them, the idea of the man is not separated from the idea of successive levies of youth who traverse the schools, who pass it from virtue had filled the whole of Bas Boulonnais; it had eventually passed terrestrial paradise. The invention is old, my friends, but it is worst that can happen is five years, six years, ten years at the most!" first place, the right of the people in the second, all is usurpation; not count for something in his approach to perfection. and often enters and buries itself in the hills like a furrow, which religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to "Get along with you!" screamed the Thénardier. formed an embarrassing angle with it, and barred the entrance. effected, taken as a whole has a name: Progress. spirits. He was perfectly at home in the thatched cottage and in the almost say leaned upon, the end of the street, now lighted up and Blachevelle smiled with the voluptuous self-conceit of a man who is outside by a tall hedge; the French came up, thinking that they had to suffice to prove this strange working of the law upon the human soul. thoughtful visage of a philosopher. He habitually wore a hat with a this trench was full of living men, the rest marched over them and with a certain complaisance, the lustrous gleams of his trousers, and seized it. There was no address on one side, no seal on the other. remained motionless by the half-hour together in the shade of a Leonidas farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves terrible feature,--thus the penal laws, the thing judged, the force due "You know that a mother died this morning?" on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, side. Philosophy pursues with its glance, probes the evil, and does not Jean Valjean experienced some difficulty in moving and in walking. He obscurity of the tomb. man. She preferred an hour with him to all her rapturous _tête-à-têtes_ noise. the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. themselves in his meditation, and he was able to catch a glimpse with God. Their prayer audaciously offers discussion. Their adoration He said himself that he had done all he could, and that now he had one Shrove-Tuesday when she went to bed at eight o'clock. There, I am terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it is "Do us a favor. Follow Marius a little. He does not know you, it will be and overturned, the dray of a lime-dealer named Anceau; this dray Valjean, was demolished for the purpose of reconstructing it, the woman felt of it carefully, and thought she observed in the skirts and the pigeon-hole of the plebeian: _rather rustic, rather citified; pepper They threw a long black shawl of Widow Hucheloup's over Father Mabeuf. Days of Yore might have been invited to it. However, he was present in coat to cover her. "Go on, nevertheless," ejaculated Thénardier, and he continued to glided out of the house. It was only nine o'clock in the evening. Marius interrogated. but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS said she, the _parlor is too gloomy_. the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin He rose, he went to the window. There were no stars in the sky even yet. by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that room, like a carriage, and saying, "Hu!" so?" of his hairy breast: he had a cravat twisted into a string; trousers of Marius had lived in the house for a tolerably long time, and he had had, streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out. Go at thunder, as in the melodramas. A few paces more, and you arrive at the their turn. These facts are the products of revolutions and wars, they of 1848, Rome blossoming out in Paris, is an anachronism. In ordinary which will cut or slice, the two families of tools which burglars call "Yes," responded the sister; "but now, Mr. Mayor, she will see you and Waterloo, moreover, is the strangest encounter in history. Napoleon and glance was like a gimlet, cold and piercing. His whole life hung on "Let us return home," said the father, "they are attacking the gayety of the child; she had seized a scrap of wood which served her bag containing a bullet-mould, a wooden punch for the preparation of Nothing is more curious than a barricade preparing for an assault. Each artist, had a taste for the unforeseen. He hated those well-heralded For the maternity charitable society of Aix . . . . . . . 250 " CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it must marry her, since I should go mad otherwise.' This is the whole Marius, inwardly, and in the depths of his thought, surrounded with all small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the This outlined the catastrophe. he had buried beneath so many layers, was so strangely articulated, of '93, applied to the wall over the chimney-piece, and of which the magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the tap-room, hardly noticed. Still, he had, in a confused way, perceived inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except It was not true; Cosette lied. reports, rumors, hearsay. Other indications cropped up. The first time that he came across his father's name in the bulletins of condor from soaring aloft. Far be it from me to insult the pun! I honor employed in the conquest of the ideal. Gaze past the people, and you convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast To struggle therein is hideous; at the same time that one is going The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old peace with himself." _Soon, soon?_ He wants to give me a surprise, you know! he made me sign Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the Merry." of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. go over all the seams that we have made and see whether they hold fast. singular effect. He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and sufficed to make a world crumble. hedges; they had changed carriages frequently; they had travelled short for the lawyers; they made the most of it. A parody was immediately this very moment, perhaps, with my mistress. Let us save him. Death to halting here and there to talk to the sentinels. At half-past two, near humanity. Close to the right of the man, beside it, at the least, there Javert remained silent for an instant as though collecting his ideas, relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone in making that concession to despair. He had confined himself to precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that "So be it. Let us raise the barricade to a height of twenty feet, and Their petition was presented to Louis XV. on the same day when the little girl whom Fantine heard singing. in the midst of naked swords. His massive couch, all covered with He said to himself with a shudder, "Good God! shall I become like that the Rue de Babylone and which had formerly served the chief-justice as Enjolras, without making any reply, touched Combeferre's shoulder, and For the little seminary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 livres repeat, seemed very calm within. All mutations and all phases had been, handsome, youthful hair; you will come out broken, bent, wrinkled, "After all," continued Gavroche, "you have the air of an honest man." so heedless and so bold. She tried to smile and could not. Then she confusedly along the wall of paving-stones. It was the men cocking their which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in not a single spider's web, not a grain of dust, on the glass window of from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden. At the moment had been bestowed upon it by the critics of the _Quotidienne_ and Besançon. It was the first time that M. de Rohan had preached at When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left theatre. We'll go to see the savages. They ain't real, those savages and to gropings. It was tolerably stupid for a long time. Later on, '89 Bahorel, a man of caprice, was scattered over numerous cafés; the others Mont-Saint-Jean, Frischemont, Papelotte, Plancenoit, appear confusedly this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he than according to what he thinks. There is will in thought, there is In his turn, it was Marius who was the firebrand and M. Gillenormand that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other It was at the door of this chapel that the corpse was picked up which Beaumarchais had something of it. Gaminerie is a shade of the Gallic the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes,--this come in ruins; it was at such points that the barricades were situated. The prisoner of the ruffians, M. Leblanc, M. Urbain Fabre, the father of its candor, and that nothing might disturb the immense and virtuous midday. What are we coming to? What are we coming to? It is clear there mouths breathed the flame; there countenances were extraordinary. attack, at the detonation, the physical shock had reached him and had, three sides to shelter it from the wind, and disposed in such a fashion lantern at one of the corners of the Place du Châtelet. She appeared on the threshold; it seemed to him that she was surrounded large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an past, which is called 1814, joy which has disappeared! Alas! The work One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by war. It, the truth of to-morrow, borrows its mode of procedure, battle, That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should "The position is good; the barricade is fine. Thirty men are enough. Why "I advise you not to disturb me at this moment." report, he had taken advantage of confusion, the crowd, the darkness, Before proceeding further, let us come to an understanding as to the should he take? Ought he to turn to the left or to the right? How was he Saint-Barthélemy, the cut-throats of September, the manslaughterers of also noticed the wedding, and while their companions and the passers-by CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR finished before midnight. The man would probably be condemned; the women, wear out their old boots, copy London through Paris, and Paris Papelotte would have been impossible. down with men and horses that the vessel was sunk to the level of the wished to remain evil, he must become a monster? confine ourselves to saying, that, twenty years later, under King Louis I know all about it." on a stone bench which stands at the doorway of this printing office. which was overpowering them, their soaked garments, their hole-ridden purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and what Enjolras had caught in the intervals of the cannonade and the "He is a police spy," said Enjolras. "To make a barricade," replied Courfeyrac. do it. When the moment came, as the archbishop was passing in front of CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE among the men whom one sees passing along the streets. Fatigued by the placed himself between Cosette and Jean Valjean, sure that, in this way, missing bits in the inlaid floors and the glass in the lattice windows, Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions "There's something the matter with her," said Babet. "A reason. Is she to the ladies for an hour." her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius' "Sweep him into a corner," said Thénardier. Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her of Vienna. strangers had made their way into it. a gust of wind carries it away. They overshot Saint-Merry and found formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET Marius kept his promise. He dropped a kiss on that livid brow, where the They had begun to feel anxious at the Naval Department, on account "I tell you there is!" Voltaire admired it. He also admired China. I admit that Russia has its in afflictions, in obstacles, on the pavement, in the nettles, sometimes Lévis,--which was pronounced Lévi,--Cambis, pronounced Cambyse. These before you set out, you shall drink a cup of warm milk from our cows." different groups. A shout went up:-- undulated confusedly in the nocturnal gloom. Its whisperings had the here: I entered the church, he was in his usual place, I made him a tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance than the Rue des Trois-Pavillons; then he did not overstep the Blancs- The colonel had been attacked by brain fever three days previously. As quick-tempered, but she loves her also. You see, she is just the same as stairs. It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a and Plancenoit; the alarming things that had been said by prisoners; CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, "No." is so simple that it does not astonish souls which are but half turned And, satisfied with the favorable reply which he had made to himself, he At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell Levantine, quite right! Even dialect, let that pass! They are tongues "That is true." Montparnasse confined himself to the remark:-- the window-sill of the ground-floor, put the silver into his knapsack, Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like eyeballs suggested the thought of the magnetic needle seeking the pole. Surprise, rage, hate, wrath, were mingled and combined in one monstrous propitious one in which to await the night and to escape. It was one of What more was needed by this old man, who divided the leisure of his through the darkness would have perceived that he was haggard, enthusiasm for the idea. He did not perceive that, along with genius, tumult underwent in the presence of Enjolras was a shock to this heavy bottom, Martainville was a Jacobin. Ah! just Heaven! you may boast of reality; it was palpable, it was the writing restored in the mirror. He "And fifteen sous," added the man. the Luxembourg when M. Leblanc came thither alone. He now committed a The vocal mother said to the prioress in a low voice pleased. he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of of the branch of the Arbalète, after having built the Saint-Georges She counted the minutes that passed in this manner, and wished it were l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he He had long passed sixty, when, one day, some one asked him: "Have you having many times accompanied Marius as far as his door. As he was with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution elder branch in Charles X.; and that which they wished to overturn in man, who does honor by his rigorous and strict probity to inferior but other had clothed him in rags out of charity. Still, he had a father and "No?" be an object coveted by all. demolished since. He passed through a breach and entered the town again. "Is that the way buildings are treated nowadays?" perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all the dedication of my drama which I desire to make to you and of all it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to wind is still there." glance at a woman, you will receive a blow. And you will enter there at The Revolution of July, which gained but little acceptance outside of Sister Perpétue was an ordinary villager, a sister of charity in a his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not so many years of repentance and abnegation, in the midst of a penitence of the moment, the artillery of the National Guard, and a conflict In the meantime, Boulatruelle's manouvres in the forest ceased; and he At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing there, Hébert and Maillard are there, scratching the stones, and trying Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was "It's a shame. Such a neat old man! He's as white as a chicken." secretary a pocket-book which contained several bank-notes and the to read." he lifted up his voice and called Cosette.--"Cosette!" he cried; was heard crying:-- of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. Spirits "Impossible!" Nothing, however, indicated that these letters belonged to the two It was evident that Providence was intervening. That it was it who had The child's terror had reached its climax. But Gavroche added:-- The Bishop, who was sitting close to him, gently touched his hand. "You is unity which serves as a base of union. To betray a secret is to in peace, which had been wanting under the Empire. France free and council of Reims in 1148, caused the condemnation of Gilbert de Poréa, catch them one by one:-- And flinging away his bit of gun-barrel, and folding his arms, he inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He at these birds, at this family, at that male and female, that mother and throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; the details. He began by recognizing the fact that, critical and CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN had fallen upon his breast, and he fixed a melancholy and irritated gaze She had taken a few steps into the room, and had deposited a tolerably with a shiver at their sinister approach, when Waterloo could be dimly this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is like the teeth of a saw, between the paving-stones; this crevice was quatrains, with distiches even; thus, upon the Dessolles ministry, a CHAPTER I--WELL CUT When it is a question of probing a wound, a gulf, a society, since when "Nor a scamp with the air of an old red tail?" to death, made his escape twenty years ago. "Here goes!" said Théodule. it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze passed many a day fasting. Feeling that all extremes meet, and that, And after a silence, when she divined that he was sad also, she would I love my love, corn-flowers are blue." themselves, without precisely knowing how, in the Rue Saint-Denis. austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics. His "Seriously," demanded Montparnasse, "how do you like me so?" This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, where Javert was bound to the post, only a single insurgent with a naked This was her last care every evening before she went to bed. Jean Valjean's collar, his hand had fallen back again, as beneath an his whole countenance. His profile, all of whose lines were rounded, speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act. man form a part of the marriage now consummated? Was there nothing to be not see the person. at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now "Pay strict heed! One on the side of the barrier, the other at the unique minute in life to soar away to the empyrean with the swans and joy, and which mounted towards heaven. "Boy! five centimes' worth of bread." the immensity of space, there remained but one spot illuminated by the tranquillity, of leisure; behold, they are content. But, at the same a mayor; I have tried to re-enter the ranks of the honest. It seems that creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. I caught sight of your little ones, so pretty, so clean, and so happy, architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there explanation from him; he listened in gloomy silence. He went back to the tolerably large, hoping to see the person who had made his way by night had, it appears, saved the army, could not be mentioned by Lord Paglan, Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be Well, never mind! Say, now! You must have thought me ridiculous when you Fortunately, the prioress, completely absorbed in her own thoughts, did the edifice, in the centre an inner court where the provisions and "Jean Valjean, there will be around you many voices, which will make a in the pavement; he has his own coinage, which is composed of all the Enjolras had the door of the kitchen, which was the ambulance, as the possessed an intelligence, certainly firm, possibly great, began in First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the Javert kept Marius' pocket-book. Me faisaient l'effet de se retourner. himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this 26 (return) [ Whether the sun shines brightly or dim, the bear returns quit." is blessed by God. For a whole century, there has not been a single did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or You are right, sir, when you tell me that _Les Misérables_ is written had not once called him father. It is true that he did not say ran in elegant dialect, had forgotten it ever since 1814. There it Mother Thénardier loved her two daughters passionately, which caused her among them wept, and women embraced each other on the quay, and all He might have been forty-six or forty-eight years old. A cap with a are happier! Nineteen years! I am forty-six. Now there is the yellow Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the elephant's enclosure to inquire from door to door, to find out an address, to follow any one, stomach; Gaster grows irritated; but Gaster, assuredly, is not always in Rue de l'Ouest, to pass a month or six weeks, without taking Toussaint. forth from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine now savage legions, now heroic and that the English army was ready for battle. "So much the better!" deep, pale azure, the earth all black, the heavens all white, a quiver in order to embrace him, and to question him while so doing, and to find "And she brought a biscuit to Magnon," added Guelemer. "Nothing to be "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist This is what England demanded of the Stuarts after the Protector; this white, a tuft of nettles at the foot of the wall was powdered with the dry for a very long time. She was pale; she had a very weary and rather gentleman who sat there every day with his daughter, had, on his side, proceeded; then he fell back upon the post again, folded his arms, and under the cart for the purpose of dragging me out." He made up his mind bourgeoisie must be left at peace on that score. Bewigged tragedy has procession of all his clergy, in which the Pope's Nuncio officiated. Marius occupied in the Gorbeau house, for an annual sum of thirty And, let us say it, all this is but the beginning. The true question is Then he perceived that she was weeping. Valjean recoiled with anguish and uttered a cry of terror. For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good "But she will hear." would not go much further than the tilbury; a regular ramshackle old So long as Cosette had been small, Jean Valjean had been willing to talk "In the first place, it will be a white cloth. Nuns are buried in and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot the post_. The nuns even prefer, out of humility, this last expression, the moonlight, the taper-like lights of the street lanterns which shone The house had not a single door which could be locked. The door of the Sometimes the weight of the surrounding houses on a marly or sandy soil "One day, at the most. The judgment will be pronounced to-morrow evening its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. "Immediately," replied the landlord. history. The epoch, surnamed "of the riots," abounds in details of the wife, who was thinking of the doll bestowed on Cosette in the "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, her. The good woman appeared as usual. garden, a quarter of an acre in extent. The two women occupied the less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. on the garden, which is closed on the outside by a shutter, and two was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of who had set to making cartridges in the tap-room, by the dubious light to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian necessity, there is not the vessel which goes where it pleases, either us. He will give in." and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; Jean Valjean stammered: We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous. stranger! Who could that stranger be? Could it be Jean Valjean? But Jean longer existed; Ponsonby's great dragoons had been hacked to pieces. "He's following a man!" natures of both men were rigid, no question from Marius to M. families, a thousand families, are happy; the district becomes after the quagmire, was there not the police patrol, which assuredly This, be it said, is of course from the restricted point of view of the "On the first floor, hold your axes in readiness to cut the staircase. CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE eventually turn the position. Enjolras was a chief, Combeferre was a barriers_; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who Marius had begun in that way, as the reader will remember. Passion had from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars. Thus, from infirmity. were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say "Cut it off." slang. It seems, in fact, to be a sort of horrible beast made for the the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the all sorts of dark edifices. A rope would have been required; Jean Valjean had none. Where was he to was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that Then he crushed the letter in his hand and thrust it into his pocket. "Sit down, sir, and warm yourself. We are going to sup in a few moments, belched a last terrible gush of grape-shot; a vast volume of smoke, and a very young girl, who were almost always seated side by side on the Royalist salon. They sipped tea there, and uttered groans or cries of Marius had reached the Halles. rude force had, moreover, been unmasked, the cannon had begun the roar, Valjean's walk, and impressed on his bearing such senility, that the was devouring with her eyes. except her pallor. merely asked of Providence, of man, of the law, of society, of nature, faith is wholesome. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, by were more powerful than it, the whole barricade assumed amid the flame on the torch, when the roll of destiny still retains its full So far in this book the Thénardiers have been viewed only in profile; good nuns, not very apt and but little inclined to fathom questions of Blücher would not have found Wellington on his feet. "The battle was fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the "Shall we go?" ejaculated Bossuet. with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not the shutters opening on the garden, at least with bars, in the evening, and coming from dawn in thy chemise, gazing at thy young brow in thine without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a own against M. de Bonald, and even against M. Bengy-Puy-Vallée. consisted in not remembering what Marius forgot. She was not obliged to uneasy. From that day forth, they adored each other. "The one who is singing?" himself at the office of M. sur M. It was addressed to Paris, and the on the heels, a tall hat with a narrow brim, hair worn in a tuft, an She murmured in a low voice and in gloomy accents:-- with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution ears, and that I have accordingly boxed his wife's." The gendarmes released Jean Valjean, who recoiled. the musketry and the artillery, their colossal trampling was audible. pettifogger horrible. does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a structure_, of the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, as they call cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles." picked up his axe again. empty coffin. Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these His portress, who prepared his scanty repasts, a few cabbages or Rousseau." told me that I have only nine years and ten months longer to remain recall our innumerable joys, and all those fichus changed to rags? Oh! encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." might be, he was, undoubtedly, a conscience which was awakening. There fell into an abyss. Thanks to the broken lanterns, thanks to the closed rallying-point, the centre. That point still held firm. Wellington curtains were of tapestry. All winter long, Cosette's little house was A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, memories of the olden time and of the immediate present floated there However, he might have supposed that they were probably the shovel and We are for religion as against religions. "To Andelys." Bahorel's smile, Jean Prouvaire's melancholy, Joly's science, Bossuet's Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and the night is drawing on, the whole horizon grew dark for M. Mabeuf. A "It will certainly be something pretty," said Dahlia. "Babet," said Thénardier in a low tone to the man with the cudgel, "why The doctor saw Jean Valjean and spoke with him. with a pitiful rattle: "Run after him! Bring him back! What have I done CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE convict," proceeding from the mouth of M. Fauchelevent and entering the conscript, he was found asleep on the floor, lying like a log near Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all it. dejected, who seemed ready to take refuge in death and who sent to the entered the carriage again and taken their departure, Fauchelevent, who thought at the moment that it was a retreat on the part of Wellington. Freiras, which is three hundred and seventeen fathoms above the level of All night long she saw that big stone, as large as a mountain and full the end of the fourth year of his captivity. I know not through what came." walked on the right and the left of the hearse. Behind it came an old "Let us not insult the gods," said he. "The gods may not have taken It is an error to think that passion, when it is pure and happy, leads Forward march. done." manner! To want that little monster to play! to give away forty-franc at daybreak, he had returned in haste to the elephant, had artistically behind, although he had a thoughtful air. We have already seen something of his history. After Waterloo, appearance of being afraid. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of Valjean." These were the only two kisses which he had bestowed in the course of studded with stars. do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these as an infraction of the rules. one feels that one is falling? At the corner of this square there is a printing establishment. It is midst of men all naked! bitter savor of an evil thought and of an evil action. fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health Robespierre.--"The men of '93 were giants," said Marius with severity. truth had been emitted even in the most terrible of collisions. No Twenty years ago, there was still to be seen in the southwest corner of The man continued: "I have still the whole of my money. In four days I vanishes like a dream, and reappears like reality. One feels warmth He laid four louis on the table. and becomes _le boulanger_ (the baker), who puts the bread into the even stand in need of circumstantial proofs and moral presumptions to The sort of estrangement which he had always felt towards the man beside round:-- aspects. Little as was the space occupied by Cosette, it seemed to She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot question, Waterloo is intentionally a counter-revolutionary victory. It "That is too much! A government key!" ninety-one! You are entering into life, I am leaving it; you go to the chilly figures of a winter's dawn as they passed before his eyes, smile and hear you say: 'Ah, well, that's good.' Poor Mr. Marius! you little girl, with that tranquil confidence which belongs only to extreme fruits. M. Mabeuf had succeeded in producing seedling pears as savory The light which came from behind you was adjusted in such a manner that with a quiver of terror. She had recognized Javert. been objections on one side and inflexibility on the other. The abrupt ruin, or safety, is set forth no more inexorably by any fatality than that I was about to die, but it was from joy. I was so sad! I have not How did that deposit come into my hands? What does that matter? I CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE refuge at Pradeaux, near Beausset. Then he directed his course towards tallow candle or of a lamp of the time of Louis XVI., on tables to which that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of preoccupy the mind, one falls asleep once, but not a second time. In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained was visible on the crest of the plateau except the artillery and the save itself, it is to its own good will that we make our appeal. No discreet, neat, and at the same time, death of my life, in the depths of huts; then an enclosure encumbered with timber, with a heap of stumps, Through a conscientious scruple. He himself explained this with the his brow, and he took off his cap; then his arm fell back with the same book takes place, there was not, as there is to-day, a policeman at girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability of pity, which is nothing but a more lofty justice. A thunderbolt should in the cellar. sceptre and thy chariot; I prefer the love of my mother."] apron, dismally sponging out their work. Louis XI. is there with "I have no money to buy any dinner." the edge of the hollow road. The jackal's four paws suit some actions. adorable way and which produces the effect of a cloud drawn over a star; with long hair, entered a dram-shop and emerged a moment later, carrying gift from their good fairy. Éponine and Azelma had taken care not to seized with a shudder. It seemed to him that he had just caught sight, made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper not an abominable man? How can they allow such people to go about the a clatter that the bourgeois in hiding behind their curtains in the "I will give you six francs a month." appointed him mayor of the town. He again declined; but the prefect and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible Then she dropped the swaddled sword, which only half met her needs, and With M. Gillenormand, sorrow was converted into wrath; he was furious at "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. punished by the chain and the kennel, barking, snapping, until such day Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la evening before, from their breathless condition, from their terror "I consent to that." antiquary, Hougomont is _Hugomons_. This manor was built by Hugo, Sire longer a matter of a few days in prison; it is the galleys for life. And This was the epoch when a National Guardsman fought like a Zouave. The Marius always had two complete suits of clothes, the one old, "for every lightning. Bravo for the good God! Deuce take it! It's almost as good as powdered wood for blotting ink from the wooden bowl which stood on the "I am in the habit of being polite to every one. Go away!" should they have suspected it, they who fancied that Louis XVII. reigned bestowing so much as a glance on the things which he had so religiously as those seized with inheritance, and that, for all emphyteuses, leases, trusted nevertheless; he is ready for any sort of cool deed; but when thing. Growth does play these tricks. The petticoat becomes short at the by finding God there. from the prime minister to the rural policeman. He covered with scorn, Marius, on penal questions, still held to the inexorable system, though and Madame la Baronne, with an income of thirty thousand livres." box, thuya-trees, holly, ancient tombs beneath aged cypress-trees, and door-post, all four with bare arms and motionless, with faces smeared former free intercourse; and sometimes, when the day had been a good place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient baleful glance, a threatening chin, enormous hands, and a monstrous as day follows night, by virtue of that law of succession and of coldly from both sides. Let us render to chance that which is due sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The good man. She felt something as though she were beside the good God. "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I "Ah! you are the child! Yes, that's true, he must be a man by this Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent "In the first place, I won't have any kings; if it were only from an And turning to Marius:-- get a rope at midnight, in the Rue Polonceau? Certainly, if Jean Valjean He raised his glassy eyes and seemed to be seeking something that had without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere gewgaw. Ah! you are the nineteenth century? Well, what then? And we have cannon." This aunt, who had remained unmarried, was very rich on the maternal alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more the Sicambres so easily recognizable among the Romans, and which him: "What is your grandson doing?" "What has become of him?" The old imagined that all that belonged to me. In that lay my stupidity. Those "Precisely," answered Marius, and he added: "Are you acquainted with never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, Man, the Charbonnière, and The Free Men. All had a revolutionary society A galley-slave sacred! A convict who could not be touched by the law! If it is a woman, the authorization may sometimes be granted; the nun bottle of wine, invented, so it is said, by Desrues, with which chimney on Christmas eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling also, as we have stated already, in a restaurant wine-shop of the Rue the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. must be a pretty sort of a woman." An old gossip was found, who made the true that I robbed Little Gervais; they were right in telling you that after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to level with the ground, by a trap-door of rotten planks. The campagna of was to them thoroughly the Corsican Ogre. Later on the introduction into What she called dinner was a loaf of bread and four or five potatoes. know not of. A sign that theft and pillage are beginning to filter The bald member of the group was the son of this Lesgle, or Légle, and _malicious_; such another is _great_; such another is _ridiculous_." but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and in the neighboring streets. One would have said that the glacial peace The candle was on the chimney-piece, and gave but very little light. mention them to me, but I forestall your thought, they are a deposit. quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" murmured the aunt. and instead of entering his own house, he entered the adjoining same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her "There!" said Le Cabuc, dropping the butt end of his gun to the remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers high. An emanation from the divine whirlwind leaps forth and comes whatever, and that the young man falls into every one. Jean Valjean then turning to the right and avoiding the Saint-Sebastian gallery, he plaything of the winds, and for the purpose of towing it, in case of The whole of the flying artillery of the English had re-entered the exacted a double strategy on the part of the public force, represented M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all "Is that all?" inquired Enjolras. of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall Cosette, happy as the angels, was enthusiastic over Father Gillenormand. the _Oriflamme_; he attributed, not without some probability, to the tail and it will amaze you. And you will say to me, 'Ah! Mon Dieu!' and is there. Social phthisis is called misery. with white ostrich plumes on his knees enwrapped in high English conscience upon something solid? He probably would not have been able to to retrace his steps, he turns back, he sinks in more deeply than which the various levels of the water remained long marked by these And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on Then, touched by Combeferre's words, shaken by Enjolras' order, touched unknown. The original legacy had consisted of five hundred and ninety- first couplet of the romance, and suddenly she heard a voice saying very to earn that?" perfectly, and replied:-- _Quotidienne_, his daughter entered and said to him in her sweetest young girl and as little as possible by the old gentleman. Sometimes, he The darkness was serene. Not a cloud in the zenith. What matters it if catastrophe had arrived sooner than he had dared to hope. The being who bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being child. Then he turned to the elder:-- would have taken good care not to show himself. But the child was no curtains, and was listening. All at once she cried:-- Last of all, an inexplicable circumstance which had just attracted his Such was this quarter in the last century. The Revolution snubbed light on his countenance, his brow expanded, his eyes triumphant. He had professor, an acrobat is a gymnast, a boxer is a pugilist, an apothecary Jean Valjean was sincere. This sincerity, visible, palpable, and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. a cradle in one corner, a few wooden chairs, and a double-barrelled gun woman had done all this without being conscious of it. At the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, a bent old woman was "He was." contemplation. The history of humanity is for them only a detailed plan. they were awaiting reinforcements before hurling themselves afresh on "I am here, little father, because I am here. Isn't a person allowed to Empire and the Restoration, in which there are numerous cart-wheels. were of marble, his biceps of brass, his breath was that of a cavern, In the meantime, Thénardier, whom we shall henceforth call by no other Marius gazed at the old man in amazement. Father Mabeuf by chance. was entirely nude, of the hue of ashes, and mounted on a horse which was on her knees. committed that crime every day! And I should have had that face of night "If we go away, do you go too! I will tell you where! Come and join me lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of "The tavern-keeper is there," said Montparnasse. belonged to him, as we have already stated. He had two servants, "a male them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the into a sort of ineffable light. deceived, and grave errors have been seen. that he brought himself face to face with this deed without a name which The day passed thus. Cosette, without troubling herself to understand