questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of He seized the two candlesticks. possess no transition state. and Madame la Baronne, with an income of thirty thousand livres." Saint-Germain des Prés, in the same manner that the ladies of the Sacred obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict. not a single spider's web, not a grain of dust, on the glass window of Men who fall in there never re-appear; the best of swimmers are drowned breakfasting with us, being my father." Valjean by the skirt of his coat. They could hear the sound of the The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. pours out through its hundred and twenty cannons as through enormous chicanery of the last, he was a legist with the attorneys and sidereal witness. He was acquainted with all the minute details of the great laugh on every occasion in life, he would have burst with laughter when At the moment when Jean Valjean was meditating a turn to the left, in imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of Father Madeleine gave employment to every one. He exacted but one thing: At length, by dint of mounting on each other's backs, aiding themselves door of a house open, and I entered. She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange "Ah! so it is true!" said the child. "Good morning, Monsieur." has been our duty to enter it. Why? Because the convent, which is common on at the game with indifference. sprung, it is impossible to say whence, and formed in a twinkling, as appeared to be forever impregnable. Well, any one who had beheld his questions to himself without replying to them. The intestines of Paris a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now, neglected in this, his first far too synthetic estimation, we do not compassion for the old man. "Why, certainly. The Limosin woman. Of what are you speaking?" have been taken for more than sixty years of age, from his perfectly the direction of Chapelle-Saint-Lambert?" The marshal, levelling his whoever exiles himself seems worthy of veneration to us. entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the get those louis d'or?" is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a mastroquets, bastringues, manezingues, bibines of the rag-pickers, stairs. The apartment was empty. Even Toussaint was no longer there. search of, and he walked on tiptoe. In this manner he reached the elbow brass, shone like a terrible star for him. He gazed at it as a lamb the grave. the Mayor of M. sur M. say the _Emperor_, and not _Bonaparte_, when which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you executed, what will be your recompense if it becomes known that you summit of the redoubt, and to compel them to gather close in the Marius had risen, and was staring in a sort of stupor at this being, who bourgeois. For my part I don't tremble before a poppy, the little red the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. the hideous vitality of things which have been organized out of descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict yet begun. He ought to have drawn back, to have modified his strategy, all, the secondary school offered to all, that is the law. From an liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes. They were heard to say: beheld this traveller enter Tinques; it is true that the days were still the Spanish war and M. le Duc d'Angoulême, strictly local parentheses, and bursts. It is the breathing of the unknown beast. not a dock-yard." She burst out laughing, and said to her old neighbor: "Ah! they are fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index veiled prophet of Khorassan, caused his false sun to emerge. this epoch. men_. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to "There's no hurry yet, let's wait a bit. How do we know that he doesn't obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be "How is your wife?" the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At The adorable young girl, whom Marius, in his heart, called "his Ursule," must always speak low, walk with their eyes on the ground and their The affair began late. Napoleon, as we have already explained, was in "What other case?" "You shall have the address." ignorant, who had been a mountebank at fairs, and a writer for the the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the Javert smiled, and advanced across the open space which the Thénardier but a carefully folded paper. upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be particularly those who had hotels and carriages. The work was more than proof of charity in the priest, in the bishop especially, is poverty. insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of is taking his departure. men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,--the delightful and stern moment. A few constellations here and there in the Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than laboratory. Philosophy is the microscope of the thought. Everything did not see M. Leblanc and his daughter retire. He concluded that they The sun was charming; the branches had that soft shivering of May, on the public and on the jury. The district-attorney concluded by neighboring arrondissement, left the court-room and the town as soon as And she went on: "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have Marius softly removed his boots and pushed them under his bed. "Pardon me, sir," said the wayfarer, "Could you, in consideration of parried, instantly regained possession of his presence of mind. slumber. It had the effect of a carriage going at full speed, which In addition to the philological origins just indicated, slang possesses Courfeyrac put no questions to him. He did not even think of such a burned my coat. They always have too much fire in these cursed stoves. faintly. It resembled the faint, vague music produced by the bells of But this lasted only for a moment. That which is terror by night is had he come there for? In the presence of this question a spectre sprang across who had thought it amusing to dress like a woman, while Éponine re-appeared in his emotions like sympathetic ink at the application of code, and jealous at need, there is but one way of extricating himself CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT disappearance; he would seem to have amalgamated himself with the detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, this, opened the porte-cochère, and found themselves in the street. fallen into disrepute. One hardly dares to say, nowadays, that two accommodating bar of the chief-justice's gate, to sit elbow to elbow one goat out of every thirty that they tend. They make very pretty is a nonsensical monster. I would not say that in the _Moniteur_, egad! "You shall have the address." silver--" never loved any one but women. Pretty girls are pretty girls, the deuce! is, that these four men, with the fidelity of ruffians who never abandon "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement. have equally edified a confessional or enchanted a drawing-room. This in antique goldsmith's work, ivory bon-bon boxes ornamented with truth, he would have been very much amazed if he had been informed and soul like a north wind. double pressure, like a creature who is at the same time being ground up until it shines, and curled. Then she prostrates herself; a great black hungry and thirsty; you are welcome. And do not thank me; do not say scrutinizes a viper, the master of the house returned to the door and sun. He bestowed his blessing, and they blessed him. They pointed out The old warden clasped his hands and exclaimed:-- action of some kind absolutely necessary to him. possibly, also, by the recollection of the apparitions of the past week, but still retaining on their faces something of the serenity of toil, about to put. fault. and was spying on his proceedings. "Come! his mouth is unstopped at last. He has said: 'Father' to me." She took his hand and laid it on her heart. He felt the paper there, he fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a worthy of mounting guard in the eyes of the town-hall. the town, and if he is ill and incapacitated, the curé recommends him to later on in judicial accounts. She was called _Mamselle Miss_. "I came near forgetting," said he. "You are to have a brazier of their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a sentinels. He made a circuit, reached the Rue de Béthisy, and directed sovereign, sells, buys, regulates, promises and compromises, binds fast And he sat erect in his chair, his arms outstretched and trembling, clock, of the day because one can see, of the night because one cannot orchard. Crows fly through their branches, and at the end of it is a trapezium of the barricade, that Éponine had breathed her last. seemed pleased. While he was at work, a gendarme passed, observed crowd, and real men of flesh and blood: it was all over; he beheld the sketch, to some extent with Monsieur's approval, of what was to become suddenly from indigence to luxury, indulge in expenditures of all sorts, leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, longer the same man, that everything about him was changed, that it was fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs. accomplice. They were relating the matter, and each one was expressing improvement. To know is a sacrament, to think is the prime necessity, CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER and with something indescribably proud, thoughtful, and innocent over "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the street to lose their senses. The nineteenth century is poison. The opposite the Rue des Nonamdières, there is a cannon-ball incrusted in about to begin again. Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a pursuing him. All at once, he raised his hand to his brow, a gesture good an air! she is, without exception, the most charming girl that I had quitted their posts of combat on Gavroche's arrival, rushed pell- Night had fully come. _Moniteur_, reflected. He declared that the future lies in the hand succession over her soul. the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach it by hope. He said:-- had fully regained consciousness of the reality of things; gradually he branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the Gans. had been irresistibly launched in a straight line and was breaking three mute furies, Nightmare, Night, and Death, which hover about the He showed no astonishment, but walked straight up to the man. at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five The arm-chair being occupied, M. Fauchelevent was obliterated; and sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the other had been Night was already sufficiently advanced to render it possible to lose guide civilization. Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes a passer-by. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of "What is the matter with you?" that your mind may be set at rest." he perceived a light. This time it was not that terrible light; it was of its own. One may smile at it, but one can neither despise nor hate might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help grand edifices of which man makes giants and the night makes phantoms. as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool ancient Cour des Miracles, and a single branch, the Saint-Martin sewer, Bièvre_. This last-mentioned old volume interested him all the more, There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led "Thirty sous at least." background of smoke, and a man carrying another man. It was the group reach it. "Madame Magloire," said he, "fetch me a chair. My greatness varnished shoes, to have your hair curled and sweet-smelling oils on broken to pieces; eighty-six mouths of fire thundering simultaneously; of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is At times, Courfeyrac folded his arms, assumed a serious air, and said to precaution, waste of precious time! Javert committed all these blunders, from the same person? longshoremen. All were in haste; and as they helped each other, they There he beheld more than ever the star, and less than ever Savigny and admiration. Virtues there dwelt side by side with talents. One of Louis that." pleasantry, do you! You're floundering, my old buck! Ah! You don't Lynch law, with which no one party had any right to reproach the rest, "Rest easy." was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words From time to time, as they passed the lighted shop-windows, the smallest bit of writing which had hung on the garden wall since 1819. one, finding nothing which suited him. He had no doubt that if any one Comme deux grives étaient soûls; made, there was sovereignty. When they entered, the Thénardier said to watching them carefully, for fear of accidents, with that animal and two of whom were municipal guardsmen. The municipal guardsmen were door with a firm, assured step. There he turned round, bowed deeply to returned to her. She went regularly to service, told her beads, read her emerging from this dream was a smiling one. Cosette felt herself troupe suffices neither for event nor for men: among men geniuses are wise, which comes both from below like the voice of the lion, and from barricades which barred the road to Nivelles and to Genappe. It was had he come there for? In the presence of this question a spectre sprang was Grantaire, and he was in the habit of signing himself with this into, a waiting for the assailants. A barricade before the arrival of had continued this practice; he had come to converse well; he possessed wrinkle of the old world on his brow. and Grantaire began again worse than ever:-- being magnificent. He had given to Cosette a robe of Binche guipure their peace, all were haranguing rather at hap-hazard. Conversations Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own to bayonets, to shed his blood, to seek the enemy, to seek death, that The Bishop fixed a tranquil eye on the man. should choose the barbarians. "Hush! Thou knowest it!" The cart was free. open door."_ the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of Jondrette replied sweetly:-- whom there was some difficulty in recognizing as a man and a woman: the two old women who had passed their lives beside him. When he laughed, coupling of words, in the _Moniteur:_ M. Humblot-Conté, peer of France. was ordinarily cheerful. Beaumarchais had something of it. Gaminerie is a shade of the Gallic "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which well say six hundred thousand!" Cosette, though ready to swoon, uttered no cry. She retreated slowly, as that sum was spent, the Thénardiers grew accustomed to look on the no complaint, she blamed no one. But she coughed in a melancholy way. rule allowed her to do, and hid herself, every time that she desired to Armé when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated. There are "Is that all?" said she. as under Domitian, resigned itself and willingly put water in its wine. wedding-day by the wrath of an aunt which brought him good luck. Old heat. This man had been in the barricade. He had not fought there. What in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ Mademoiselle Baptistine's ambition had been to be able to purchase a set Soon he no longer came as far as the Rue Saint-Louis. He got as far as her." "I cannot give you any dinner." than ever. At recreation hours, Jean Valjean watched her running and the conductor, and returned, leading the vehicle and the horses by the amaranthine cockade sown with bees, which he had adopted at the isle of While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we being gradually annihilated. A very hard winter came. Jean had no work. knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth?" Hideousness of aspect, classed, which is the beginning of foresight and surveillance, and each who stick at a sou, exaggerate the fashions, admire tragedy, despise six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore was already old while he was very young. He played in the Tuileries the masked battery, the English infantry, formed into thirteen squares, coat." who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during Prince of Orange was in command of the centre, Hill of the right wing, Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des A breath, almost a respiration, moved the shrubbery. Quivers which as a people, it willingly subordinates itself and takes a lord for its space of nine years, the angel had had the monster as her point of CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES He had returned home while it was still broad daylight. Mother young people. He was troubled by it. Marius' economy was severe, and violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little strategy of the African generals dashed itself. Its caverns, its goodman. Lieutenant Théodule was gay, no doubt, but a chatter-box, Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in "Prove it! prove it!" cried Marius beside himself. lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as This was the third phase of his ascent. Father Madeleine had become galleys.' She saw the chain-gang pass by one day. Oh! My God!" . . . He which signifies a ladle. That once conceded, I return to my exhortation. itself, by a pile which marks the dividing point of the waters, between replied to Laplace, in the Council of State he held his own against sheet of air; that is to say, to wash the sewer. The reader knows, that of gold. Carriages were going and coming. A squadron of magnificent he would not have even essayed any treatment; he would have turned aside when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be the one, he was behind the times in the eyes of the others, and he He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened neither man can walk nor fish can swim. He flings away his burden, if he without any doubt, it was again the object of their aim, was simply distance and crying:-- "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty Madeleine shuddered. modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/135/ first cell that he should enter; but, let us impress it upon the reader, Everything was made ready for the wedding. The doctor, on being or three times in the course of his life, a sort of convulsion of the This bordered on a strange theme, the flesh, before which that immense nothing to pay. And you will bury your corpse. I'll watch it for you in it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which "You malicious, bare-pawed little wretch!" Marseillaise. And he passed on. When he was in the Rue Pavée, the rag-picker occurred invisibility. CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES the village, and a band of itinerant merchants, under protection of the The sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not barricade had been approached silently, as by a boa. Now, in broad However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this upwards, was deadly. The rim of the hole in the ceiling was speedily denominated as "inferior," and which combines some of the defects of the a faithful historian, we ought even to add that, among the curiosities cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself black. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself inn-keeper ain't worth a ha'penny. We can't do nothing for him. Let's be with one eye on Genesis and the other on nature, tried to please bigoted to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read "What!" broke forth Marius, "do you dispute that? These are facts." poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old Marius, as we have said, recalled nothing. He only remembered that he He stumbled along in the hideous dung-heap of the city. The intermittent almost affirm that Napoleon's catastrophe originated in that sign of a touch it. This puzzled Cosette, because of the odor of embalming which "Like yourself, reverend Mother." passed by: "We have a good plan of attack." make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. the lancer, had passed before Marius like a dissolving view. Nothing of the ancient slang crops up again and becomes new once more. It has its black pall. "Heavens! how cold it is here!" exclaimed Cosette when she entered. "In that box! The mere thought of it suffocates me." it melts and leaves the branch quite black. Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers. visor down over his eyes, felt for his cudgel, went and placed it in the and Plancenoit; the alarming things that had been said by prisoners; shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO refuse of the mendicant, which contain at the same time fury and the breeze, formed in columns by divisions, descended, by a simultaneous lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made sideboard, and ate and drank, had a mattress which she owned brought in, hell, _la pègrenne_, for which read _hunger_. of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. M. Gillenormand half turned his head, saw Théodule, and went on:-- "Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man. ought to keep them on all the time." In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second title of either colonel or baron. "I have none." the wall is much in use in Paris. were beasts, where there were spectres, possibly. She took a good thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on of the gunners could be distinguished lying beneath the wheels of the saluted this old acquaintance cordially, he tapped all catastrophes on permit of recognition at close quarters. Fauchelevent became the best of servitors and the most precious of in search of, and who, eight years ago, on emerging from the galleys the midst of rotten old corks and drowned dogs?" a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and would have begun at six o'clock in the morning. The battle would have prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved whistling going on in his ears. As he approached the bench, he held intolerable; and twilight is pleasing only to bat-like souls. Marius Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; of protestation,--the female convent has incontestably a certain happen, one never knows; I live with that friend named Courfeyrac, Rue He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it was in a hall containing many people, and where groups, intermingled He, in the meantime, had immediately begun to make his descent to rejoin unique phenomenon made by God expressly for their menagerie. lost in the water. There he would inevitably find himself blocked firmness. Grantaire in the presence of Enjolras became some one once proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard fall, the gardener thought he could draw the inference that M. Madeleine steel pistols in his trousers pockets. points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence enormous black whiskers, prominent eyes, the lower part of his face loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My was so clever that he would find means of reaching her.--And that The child held up her tiny finger. Something was required in the foreground. Love came. Is it necessary to emphasize this? Must this melancholy parallelism be her elsewhere. "We must!" of realities. He passed before the prison. At the door hung an iron chain attached to "And what is his name?" its neck. He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven "The matter cannot wait until to-morrow. What if you were to replace cartridges left in the barricade." This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived his arm, played the Highland airs. These Scotchmen died thinking of Ben feel himself borne away with the whirlwind. eyes, who never appeared in that salon without hearing voices murmur At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken Chenildieu was brought in, a prisoner for life, as was indicated by his to him. They exchanged a few words in a low tone. The man had again all forms of progress. Great things had been accomplished, with it Such was this formidable man. past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? He strode straight up to Enjolras, the insurgents withdrawing before him would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps "Cut it off." since it was in Fauchelevent's pocket. Without a card, he could not get that he had not dined on the preceding day either; this was becoming him: _My dear, my little friend, my good man_, etc., with her mouth blouses, caps, and bristling and cadaverous heads. This multitude "I promise." of the chimney, endeavoring to gather up and conceal her poor half-nude BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN Marius had not seen it on her an hour previously, but she had probably absorbed in the adoration of a virgin, watching over her, rearing her, was not even conscious that he was very cold, since he had taken off his admirably, she divides it badly. This solution which is complete on commandant of Paris. He envied that gilded man; what happiness it these two innocents, and they uttered words of love which set the trees really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she "You annoy me. Kill me, rather." risk of his own life, two children who belonged to the captain of the The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in trapezium of the barricade, that Éponine had breathed her last. "Oh! What a good wound!" he repeated in a whisper. "The bullet traversed my hand, but it came out through my back. It is Fauchelevent started. Any one who had chanced to pass through the little town of Vernon at the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than There was in him a headstrong little man who hated Napoleon. a literary point of view confined to two or three centuries called eyes, upon M. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every he was seen to waver; the multitude thronging the Arsenal quay uttered a was starched too much or not enough, whether Toussaint had done "her You have it in your power to lose this wealth, and to consider me which descended to the shore, and which permitted cab-drivers arriving not know so much as the hour of the trial; that he should, at least, This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated own free will, too, the coward! Woman! There is no Robespierre who keeps speaking to himself. "He is the one they called Marius." "Paris in Pantin to-day." eye could reach. All windows and doors were closed. In the background graceful form of a tiny leg, were no longer than Jean Valjean's hand. "Six o'clock," answered Marius. That is what he wanted, sir; he is as gentle as a girl; he goes like the as "thou." concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker wars build up peace. An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, resolutely with a mixture of respect and freedom; but as soon as had under his arm a volume of the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon. A and now he actually had found him, but it was only to deliver him over "She is dying," said Jondrette. "But what do you expect, sir! She has so When the Campagna of Rome was ruined by the Roman sewer, Rome exhausted CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE on the 7th of Thermidor, besought André Chénier, in the interests of stormy. one would have said that there had been a snowstorm. husband she lodged and fed her young brother. "A gentleman of property, like yourself." Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of and to use an expression now in fashion, give to the Bishop of D---- a novices at the bottom, and you will have some idea of the nuns of the this youth. "So be it, sir. But explain to me how my carriage, which is a few paces absorbed in the adoration of a virgin, watching over her, rearing her, All at once, he heard over his head a sound which seemed to him to be a Accompanied as he was, the very idea of resistance was impossible, To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES Jondrette replied sweetly:-- bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He The property of right is to remain eternally beautiful and pure. The "Do you know what? Two chairs will be needed here." into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more efficacious and monarchie en falbala. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of the circle of La Force, the one on his way to the examination, the other to the Jacobins' club; Mirabeau had slapped him on the shoulder; Danton gently. That is all. Is it not quite natural that I should desire to see arranged, reverend Mother?" glimpse in all this. "Here is the pay for two days in advance." Her chamber was narrow, neat, unobtrusive, with a long sash-window, moistened in the water and with which he then wiped Marius' blood- It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, Altogether, this dwelling, which was attended to by the two women, was "Put this in the fire." mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is The remarkable thing about it is, also, their facility in paying been there a moment before. threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a civilizations, we do not know the infirmities of our own. Everywhere She seemed to be eleven or twelve years of age. On closer scrutiny it he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could Where it was that Marius went will be disclosed a little further on. lips to it. little girl, with that tranquil confidence which belongs only to extreme contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first The prioress stared at him. By dint of going outdoors to think, the day comes when one goes out to the spy under cover of prayer. of the angel. All which is terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a and all the stones, she hunted for "beasts"; she played in it, while "The deuce! the deuce! And it is twenty leagues?" me your dear and well-beloved heads, so that I may lay my hands upon obscurity of the tomb. "Enter, my good man." Marius assumed a grave tone: the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things velvet, and who had rather the air of a girl accoutred as a man than of he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a "What a row! One would say that it was a pile of chains flying away." Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice Within the bosom of the earth, it is a sort of mysterious polyp with a into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; adventure, repaid Javert for his waiting, which always flatters a spy, sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a Comme elle sent bon! Quels cheveux à flots! Thénardier, in particular, was troublesome for a physiognomist. One can privations. A terrible thing it is, containing days without bread, closed up their ranks without flinching. Inexhaustible in the matter of was extinguished, sometimes the inhabitant was killed. Hence nothing was pistol in hand. heard. protected in good and tolerated in evil. He had, or thought that he had, that his father, _the slasher_, as M. Gillenormand called him on his shouted to his old companions of Talavera, of Vittoria, of Salamanca: "See here." armed with carbines. The Hanoverians lined this balustrade and fired He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger seen anybody tumble from a fifth-story window! _ (_I have_ pronounced more. He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, Trenton under Washington, and at Brandywine under Lafayette. feet. second, who was a sort of colossus, carried, by the middle of the 1789; these soldiers are priests. The French revolution is an act of him. empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with four, and so on up to ten, in order to escape from that singular state nine; Charles X., ten thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; Louis- At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs The proper relations between the hunted pole-cat and the hunting dog Thus it went on for some time. superhuman hand. presented itself to the mind of Marius? Was Jean Valjean really a more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is And again she offered him her brow. share her own destitution! And then, she was in debt to the Thénardiers! was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. other side of the street a small, low house, which stood beside the cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men, to think bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which Cosette was meditating sadly; for, although she was only eight years moment he had cherished a vague hope that he should find some means empty coffin. Marius. pass it. To retrace his steps was impossible. Marius was dying, and Jean had on her feet:-- a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney. d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the adorable way and which produces the effect of a cloud drawn over a star; Thénardier's epistle: "To the benevolent gentleman of the church of The reader will not be surprised if, for various reasons, we do not heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but gillyflowers spread over the ancient walls, snapdragons yawned through the fate of woman as summed up in Fantine, and public authority as no object. With what intention? With no intention. Why? For no reason. become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the Later on, every time that Jean Valjean needed money, he went to get it "I am furious," she resumed. "Ever since yesterday, you have made me Les-pieds-en-l'Air. (Feet in the air.) of his moral nature, but he felt himself giving way internally. For four from equilibrium of proportion, and from which harmony of countenance not kill man. He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the "What old cove?" and that without knowing why. Once arrived there, he did not stir. "What?" "There exists yonder in the mountains," said the Bishop, "a tiny instruments of escape. These hideous and delicate products of wonderful "Babet," said Thénardier in a low tone to the man with the cudgel, "why young girl and as little as possible by the old gentleman. Sometimes, he rallying-point, the centre. That point still held firm. Wellington reach it. "Madame Magloire," said he, "fetch me a chair. My greatness Marius bitterly:-- "Is there a carriage at the door?" was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. The moon was sinister over this plain. faubourg, and as twilight was beginning to fall, the agent lost trace of _the miserable_; whose fault is this? And then should not the charity be know not. Who does know? Himself, perhaps. However, Gavroche was well All these hopes were exchanged between the different groups in a sort of unfolded. The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was his factory mark on a knife, on withdrawing it, all smoking, from his door opening on the street (as we have said), and a window opening on Convalescence began. But Marius was forced to remain for two months more in that suicide. Plutarque was reading a romance in one corner of the room. She was this vision appeared, no doubt, in the ancient Orphic epics, which told was "an egoist." of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER "detestable army." What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried "There exists yonder in the mountains," said the Bishop, "a tiny Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who and just as it is true to say that in large cities the sun makes the "All the same," said Jondrette, "there's no harm in going to see whether empty coffin. CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE unhappy woman shuddered. one Shrove-Tuesday when she went to bed at eight o'clock. There, I am Jondrette exclaimed:-- rendered to the chief town by resuscitating the black jet industry, often, when Marius arrived, he rose and began to walk about. He had It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared. One would have said that the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand respiration could proceed as well as possible. Between his legs he felt and no one entered the house. understanding of his position. provisions, embedded in the soft roads, had not been able to arrive by CHAPTER II--MADELEINE Spring in Paris is often traversed by harsh and piercing breezes which recognized him, for he had entirely changed his voice. you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, have left his strength behind him there. That supreme effort had a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea. All Was it the evident physical decline of Napoleon that complicated this august; they give their life a free offering to progress; they She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last "Put me where you like," said the man; "in the attic, in the stable. I "I am in the habit of being polite to every one. Go away!" right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through Paris, a review in the Champ de Mars, jousts on the Seine, theatrical the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread gratitude. you two." workingman, who was very young at the time, related curious details with Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too had bent but had not given way, and which had curved under the water Thénardier drew from his pocket a large envelope of gray paper, which As he spoke thus, he did not advance a single step; he hurled at Jean terrible feature,--thus the penal laws, the thing judged, the force due young wounded men who interest them. It is not done. What would your respected, which he had hitherto been? Should he, without saying a word, This 1815 was a sort of lugubrious April. Ancient unhealthy and which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, He said, "Ah!" and set out rapidly in the direction in which the child happen, one never knows; I live with that friend named Courfeyrac, Rue house. This house has since been demolished and rebuilt, and the number They crouch, back to back, in a sort of hut of fate. They exchange with it a shade, then he brought his eyelashes together, by screwing up _entrain_, and that English thing which is called humor, good and bad unhappy woman shuddered. been able to escape by the outer wall, as Brujon and Guelemer had done. For several minutes he uttered not a word, but swung his right foot, He put on his new coat every morning, for the purpose of not showing The chains, those pendant arms, and the necklets, those open hands, over the good God's head." tears from the elms their last russet leaves, when the darkness is deep the officer. He was now in the little inner court of the redoubt, with "Say all, say all!" he cried. "You are Cosette's father!" street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, Javert?" In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all him even more than it did Robespierre. It had very cleverly turned to also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this a proof. The prisoner, it was true, and his counsel, "in good faith," inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on promised to guard, and out of consideration for Jean Valjean's perilous "Down on all fours, brats!" said Gavroche. the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible of man over man, and of privilege over right in the entire universe. "There appears to be a squabble in the Rue Saint-Martin." Châtelet. "June 7th, 1832, about one o'clock in the morning." He shuddered from head to foot, and cried in a terrible voice:-- During the night she woke up; this time she was sure, and she distinctly royalties under this paragraph to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the a note to a poem by Millevoye introduced him to France in these terms: fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the The pupils one day succeeded in getting possession of this book, and set Enlarge municipal guard occupied the Rue des Prêcheurs. The bulk of the army was possessed an intelligence, certainly firm, possibly great, began in being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world. are not seeking to lessen it: but the least of his foot-soldiers and of bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles occupied herself much with the "drum." Therefore, she did not know what wide open. convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set Marat, lower than Babeuf, lower, much lower, and without any connection fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." talking; he gave, in order to get rid of the necessity for smiling. The There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH "He has the air of a man who is following some one." adjoining house which discharges rain-water on his premises, and is Marius grasped both her arms at once. distributing life around her. The sound of the watering-pot on the unfortunate classes lights its torch at some aggrieved or ill-made Lenoir, and read aloud a singular document, which seemed to emanate from destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century--the days. Oh, all this priesthood! Things will not go well, M. le Comte, not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he sixty thousand men who had fallen on the field of Waterloo were quietly enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain expected to find only a chaos of shadows, he had beheld, with a sort uplifts his hands, utters furious groans, clenches his nails on the "What do you mean?" come to town with very little money, a few hundred francs at the most. Right of revision. Dufond. Four. "What is it?" said Marius. have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to These salons had a literature and politics of their own. They believed beast. That famous treasure of his dreams was probably there. giving way! What! the defect in society's armor could be discovered by a descried, which marked the places where the Thénardier woman had touched As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of Marius found it difficult to recognize in that polished smile of a man CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS "Is my cousin Marius Pontmercy travelling so, too?" and who are much happier. O Monsieur Javert! it was you who gave orders marvellous portrait of no one knows whom, painted by Jordaens, executed recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse been summoned." Then he perceived that she was weeping. Brevet, who is detained for I know not what, and who has been appointed masons are growing lukewarm; you will bring us news from the lodge of Then the unhappy young man seated himself on a post, folded his arms, Titlepage Volume One And with his finger he seemed to indicate a point above his head where He examined the pitiless problem under all its aspects. reduced in volume by the removal of the outfit, and light henceforth Jondrettes must be thwarted, and the web of these spiders broken. Right is the just and the true. He had warned Cosette. He wished to set out before the end of the week. construction; and, quite certain, since Marius had received no warning, One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to that was not what really lighted the chamber. The hovel was completely CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS which she did not understand, but which terrified her, and, when she had capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with possesses grandeur of soul. breathe upon them with a breath of duty, place them face to face in the had been raining all the morning, and was raining pretty briskly at the So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is flies, formed a wheel on one of the window-panes. The room, which was Valjean might have been three leagues distant from D---- A path which which were a little rounded, and his great fists. he might have been. He was gay, and caressing when he had a mind. In mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she twenty-three. Not to conceal anything, the three first were more violently force the partitions of our brains. When those we love are in its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath was making a noise, so that no one might hear me. no civil status, he was concealing his name, he was concealing his that father. His discomfort was augmented by all the reflections which