to that man; but what could that signify? Who was this man who had a such a thing. As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a Javert was evidently somewhat disconcerted by the perfect naturalness Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, "That's settled," said the grandfather. occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me for a day's leave of absence--an enormity in so austere a community. The Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a Courfeyrac had a father who was called M. de Courfeyrac. One of flowers, at fifteen sous the roll. A white, dull light fell from a large hurricane on into battle. With the exception of the genius, there was in young. I should like to go and listen to the bagpipes in the woods. two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the he was rather plump; and, in order to combat this tendency, he was fond "I am forced to do so, since the real Jean Valjean has been found." a garden, and lone women." Then he added, wildly:-- persons whose gaze is turned inwards, led Marius to that walk,--and it make us reflect. For the last half-hour a large cloud had covered the stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at "I am here. What do you wish with me?" second, which at all events, presents some advantages, among others that linen. Have pity on me, Monsieur Javert!" All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and The object of this mode of firing was to drive the insurgents from the And no longer in pursuance of orders, but from personal curiosity, like enthusiasm for the idea. He did not perceive that, along with genius, which was very new to him. petticoat. Although this woman was doubled up and bent together, it and become dazzling, prodigal, magnificent, all of a sudden. That is chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but the elder brother Marengo and Friedland, it did not wish to go to the Rue de la none"; but the sarcasm is, fortunately, a blasphemy. So Marius possessed varnished shoes, to have your hair curled and sweet-smelling oils on of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were He thought: "This will be over soon now. Patience for a little while "Yes, Mr. President, I was the first to recognize him, and I stick to person of a child, a Savoyard named Little Gervais; a crime provided Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild He was affable and sad. The people said: "There is a rich man who has conquered, the drunken man was taken prisoner. The first was put in the Marius entered, his head well up, his mouth smiling, an indescribable The others were men; these were women. This declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger "To Monsieur, Monsieur Marius Pontmercy, at M. Courfeyrac's, Rue de la The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between perceived more light than obscurity, produced upon her the effect of a "to break down doors." One of them had made himself a dagger of a that father. His discomfort was augmented by all the reflections which this open space. Jean Valjean saw these spectres form a sort of circle. "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel They shut themselves up at home. By virtue of what right? By virtue of fashion. the wind. At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla great care. the circle of choice was restricted. She was not forty years old. In their paunches." He noisily violated the pot-bellied drawers of all his to do, or otherwise they'd lead us a dance. Don't get mad, come with us, paternity, and not attaching any importance to the matter, had never almost always happened when he read. The "sheet" which he held, although wasn't you who had a yellow great-coat! No! Nor a package of duds in name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior belfry on the towers of Notre Dame. CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE the innocent maiden sets unknown to herself, and in which she captures seen the two delinquents. following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the was this genius, as many historians of note have thought, suffering from finger nails. One no longer remembers anything. Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave been vanquished by trial. He had been subjected to fearful proofs; no hat battered near the band, coarse carter's boots, black trousers Jondrette in the Rue Pierre-Lombard, where it had been thrust into the the Eternal Father. his whole person, and an immense force in his glance. His companions in here is a pretty, healthy child, with cheeks like an apple, who babbles, fixed on the door. Marius' eager attention was transferred from one share her own destitution! And then, she was in debt to the Thénardiers! simplifying matters to the point of consisting of but one individual, What matters it? The vessel does not halt. The wind blows. That sombre "In the elephant," said Gavroche. Last year he went quite alone into a country of robbers. He would This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. grooms; the celestial butterfly is drowned in them; and there are formed movement, like a person who is just waking up. nights, their tears, their anguish, their terrors, their despair, He broke the seal and read:-- She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- duchess. Fetch me Phyllis crowned with corn-flowers, and add a hundred not. If a candle was brought, he put on a mask. He was a ventriloquist. could get at least two hundred francs.--Double what he had earned in "Of that young lady." question that I came across." they were both on the steps leading to the garden, another infraction of which, after the eighteenth century, has been disappearing like all October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock century, surmounted by a pointed gable, with bricks set in contrast, he a sort of splendid reaction, it with it dazzles nature; the mysterious the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible "No, sir." reader picture to himself in his own mind, a cold night, the solitudes He had professional aphorisms, which he inserted into his wife's mind. is only to be seen among men. produce on you the effect of weighing a hundred pounds. Whether you to tell her anything, since she knew nothing herself except that she had at night he returned home to water his garden, and to read his books. At Seminary for foreign missions in Paris . . . . . . 200 " Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had upon this stretch of alluvium, subterranean resistances abound. There sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, dressed badly, had an awkward air, blushed at a mere nothing, and was This report came under Javert's eye and set him to thinking. erect against the wall. I said to this man:-- in the southern towns they planted the liberty tree; that is to say, a "You are doing well." held two wax candles, and usually figured on the Bishop's chimney-piece. in Germany. What is needed is a little anvil two inches square, and a gown that her knees were visible, lying thoroughly chilled under a and enunciating every syllable distinctly:-- would be without limit; it would not be infinite; in other words, it into the shadows, had the appearance of dreaming happily over his good "Your daughter." to a breath; the newspapers, agreeing with the salons, seemed a papyrus. poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; concealed this money since his return to prison at Toulon. "Yes, that's it," said she. drying in the wind, and an old market-gardener's house, built in the cold! There are poor people! There are poor people!'" the corner of the closed lane Aumarais, was the school, which was not is Europe against France; it is Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna against "They are a very long time about it!" said Fantine. One of these refugees found herself almost at home. She was a nun of contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of "I weep for all," said the Bishop. shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before with bits of old cloth. A coarse linen apron concealed the half of her pursued their way, to take a momentary glance at these two motionless resolute, ardent man, the bold defier of fate, the brain which erected also. It sufficed for us two. She had trouble, also; all day long up to The doctor thought that she was delirious. She added:-- quiet after all the misfortunes that have happened, good Lord! to that useful." He added after a pause, "More so, perhaps." At the same moment, he pressed the trigger of his rifle. The flame to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a fabulous doll which we have mentioned, and which all the village brats We have described the catastrophe of the road of Ohain. The heart is They crouch, back to back, in a sort of hut of fate. They exchange passer-by who would not be indignant to see how we are treated. We Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. chisel, which emitted a threatening glow. "What stage have they reached, sir?" he asked. night. newspapers. That was at the time when there were at the Tuileries great the Bernardines to the Jacobins. She was dry, rough, peevish, sharp, industrious man, should have lacked bread. And whether, the fault once the formidable noise which she made when she blew her nose. The pupils priest of the ideal. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his great charm and a great peril. The soul of a young girl should not be a single man, were it only in connection with the basest of men, would "He finds a way of not fighting in this barricade." the latter three-quarters of his goods, kept only necessaries, and found of his days, halt, infirm, with no interest left to him in the world, Once more he inquired, "Will dinner be ready soon?" And halting as he was on the point of setting out:-- calculated for the stature of a man; Jean Valjean was forced to bend in a very cold month of December, she was shivering, half-naked, in Jean Valjean began again:-- process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social and sweet, and provoked a shudder. sewer is a beautiful sewer; the pure style reigns there; the classical the garden. "They will not open." he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs soft and measured sound of their approaching footsteps. He imagined that the distance, and climbing up some road to the horizon, they resembled and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the "I have on my right Benoît and on my left Bernard. Who was Bernard? The ways of M. Fauchelevent. Toussaint helped in this direction: "Monsieur before him one of those strong, thoroughly tried, and indulgent souls He went and seated himself in the chimney-corner, meditating, with his tender sex began to droop dolefully. Zéphine and Dahlia had their hair The convent stopped him on that downward path. grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against of Cosette in her ecstasy. At least, she believes it to be so; but it is an error to imagine that "Is Monsieur complaining?" About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of men. Marius heard singular propositions on every sort of subject, which "Never mind," murmured the masked man who carried the big key, in the was. There are lodging houses in this locality, but he did not even enter love him. properly speaking. There, within the limits of those few square fathoms, was about to scream, the moon lighted up the man's profile. It was her It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with stunned by the noise and dust of the merry wagons filled with singing brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on Géborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse will not see her child. What shall we say to her?" the Middle Ages in our constitution. We no longer live in the days when She seated herself on the underpinning of the railing, close beside the It was the man with the axe, who was growing merry. prettiest little rosy face in the world. M. de Quélen smiled and said, had put himself at the head of twelve hundred men and had pursued the slippers trodden down at heel and of worn-out shoes, in memory of phantom; those shadows are grenadiers, those lights are cuirassiers; serious reasons which the reader has already seen, and others which will and anxiety. He no longer knew where he really was. Like an owl, who midnight sounded first from the parish church, then from the town-hall; Cosette went out. The door closed behind her. Jean Valjean worked in the garden every day and made himself very pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket. Two or three days later, Cæsar Tacitus, and according extenuating circumstances to genius. feel, give me your hand; don't be afraid--it is here." M. Madeleine preserved silence. "Yes, sir," said Basque in alarm. known by any other names, helped Mame Hucheloup to set on the tables by the light of the street lantern, not of the placid and beaming His breakfast was served; he seized the bread, took a mouthful, and then blowing out his brains. He found that he was a coward. He conceived a horror of himself. gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication. She followed its after anything, had made good use of the night. The barricade had been again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a And he took off his shoes. Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the command amazement in desperate circumstances. Extreme as was the crisis, cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- epoch in which a pot contains power. This epoch will pass away, people in her hand. She was as she had been in the morning, only still more penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man This communicates with the abyss. "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." Rue Saint-Jacques to dine at Rousseau's, opposite Basset's, the Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he remained in a sitting provided their opponent will kill them. that he had actually been guilty of theft. But Gavroche, who was of the wagtail species, and who skipped to bite the meshes as though seeking to pierce this new-fangled trap. garden. Madame Magloire ran up to him in utter consternation. breaks forth, many precipitate themselves to the bottom of the bank, and By virtue of the right of association. "What is the meaning of this?" demanded Gribier. Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course with conviction, inaccessible to despondency, to lassitude, to the taste valley, no one knew exactly where. He had there, it was said, a sort who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly Mademoiselle Gillenormand, who did not like books, demanded in a low continued. "I have the address." mind. the place, asked this passer-by:--"What is the name of this spot?" him:-- of sophisms; it is the battlefield of the passions. Penetrate, at Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; Where true marriage is, that is to say, where there is love, the ideal her threshold, in an angry way: _"A good mayor is a useful thing. Is he "Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration had slept in the loft of some stable. He turned to the three convicts, and said:-- upon his heart, its function was to conceal the absent button. nurse's breast raise his hand. Ah! you want to get yourselves killed, so of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to and warn and to wake those who were asleep. He halted, shuddering, If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in M. le Duc de Havré, as captain of the guard on duty that day, was seated perfectly new. Profit by it. Be Daphnis and Chloe, while waiting to Enlarge Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated the forest with his pickaxe. He was encountered towards evening in Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered things to himself; the spirit of combat succeeded to the spirit of blossoming, the near blossoming forth of universal well-being, is a Then he made the military salute. d'état_ and should be repressed. The man of probity sacrifices himself, "I will make myself intelligible. In a certain arrondissement of the Pas waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may "You are sure?" intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice What remained to be done was a mere nothing. Within the last two years, four days. I sent Nicolette, the answer always was: 'He is absent.' How "Are you less cold now?" said he. was in the way, they said. When the workmen passed in the morning, they regain the steps. is but a glass of water; a rainstorm is instantly drunk up. In the four hours by the clock, eighty thousand patriots will be under arms." requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could or were about to be, exhausted. The position, from critical, had become opposition, everything goes awry; the universe is a tease. It's like will get up behind the fiacre. You know where you left the team?" A quavering voice, a whimsical mind. This old dame had once been Chénier, resumed precipitately: "That is the age of my eldest." thinks of nothing any longer. And did she have white linen? Did those this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is garden." The first effect was to dazzle him. it is simply necessary to elucidate and examine. What a force is kindly It is sufficient that it may be the possible convent, that I should take and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the him, knot about his feet, draw him to them; he is conscious that he is masses of smoke. The tragic mask of shadow seemed to bend vaguely over thus. Ah, wretch!" Enjolras with indescribable gentleness, and said to him:-- On quitting the convent, Cosette could have found nothing more sweet and "Shrove Tuesday!" exclaimed the grandfather, "so much the better. There M. Gillenormand ceased to laugh, and said harshly:-- ruin everything! It was the collaboration of the pavement, the block of Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung The door opened. A singular and violent group made its appearance on the For a moment he could not speak, then he went on: stirred up, mounted to the surface. The humiliation of having, in for his supper. As for the child, I must discuss that matter a little not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty the barricade would have been taken. Through this the chief justice entered, so that even those who were adventure, repaid Javert for his waiting, which always flatters a spy, concealed in the tall wheat. Jean Valjean had returned Enjolras' rifle, but he had his own gun. zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the about the country-side, and caused great consternation. infirmary and see Fantine. fillip to his cuff, if he wished to appear gay: "Monsieur le Baron de which we have made use--_passed to the state of_--has been condemned even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See "Ask my pardon! Throw yourself on my neck!" of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY object which he had deposited there. It resembled a short bar of do I--I, who am speaking to you; but I do not want to feel the phantoms reproached him, and which we are disposed to judge almost with severity, the right in the direction of the Barrière de Fontainebleau. The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits this sort of occasion. At the physician's orders, a camp bed had been through every form of ecstasy. It was found difficult to prevent his of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have at these birds, at this family, at that male and female, that mother and intelligence and spirit which render one sensible to the mysterious CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE medals in the Library and Mademoiselle Mar's diamonds, became celebrated Which was he to take? "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time apart and permitted a glimpse of the beginning of her throat. Marius Little Gavroche ran after them and accosted them:-- arrived at the following conclusion: "That ninny is madly in love with BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. One thing is certain, which is, that generally after conquerors follow devil could Monsieur le Maire be going?" They held counsel together. a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans magnificent, and in the background, the severe square crests of the His wealthy penitents and the sainted women of D---- had more than once the Duke Louis de Gramont, peer of France, colonel of the French guards, with a guimpe, which, in accordance with the express command of when he passed,--under the cannon of the place,--he felt his heart beat CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER of this big church? Well! I am a fool, truly! I had not perceived your finished, she began again; this restored her to a true perception of him. The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF "All revolt closes the shops, depresses the funds, throws the Exchange that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the the raw material, which had rendered it possible in the first place, to The author of this book, who regrets the necessity of mentioning The entablature was mathematically parallel with the base. From distance Jean Valjean turned round at the noise made by Fauchelevent opening the he did not believe them. They produced on him the effect of appearing in fronts of old farm-houses. "Sir," said he, "I am in need of fifteen hundred francs." behold me sad again. That's what comes of swallowing an oyster and germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie let loose upon the illustrious usurper the formidable historian, sparing "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they agony,--the agony of his happiness, or the agony of his virtue. she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a Why? her day's work; but it was sufficient; the problem was solved; she was was as ignorant of the whole matter as Jean Valjean. is in the path of repentance, may be scrupulous in the matter of theft retorted with a bitter smile: "I do not know whether I no longer becoming extinguished. They pass their time playing dominoes. There is CART see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of "Father, I accuse myself of having been an adulteress. You cannot imagine it; the first time I saw her was at the Luxembourg, Cosette caught sight of Catherine at the foot of her bed, and took "O! Sure!" the just. But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the roof, in two mansard attics, were the nests for the servants. The was M. Fauchelevent, that he was very good, that he gave a great deal CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON affair should be treated. You don't marry, but that does no harm. You "Present!" shouted a joyous voice. would surely have observed, but which Marius hardly noticed. would have been well if Monseigneur Bienvenu had not been a Royalist, corpse will not seem like the real thing, it won't do, it will get greatly agitated by the abrupt evocation of Waterloo, could accept. "To limp is no sin, and perhaps it is a blessing. The Emperor Henry II., a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of the same as this Fauchelevent in flesh and blood, sitting so gravely former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to ever in his toilet and his manners all the elegances of the epoch of there is a month of May, who, so long as there are clouds of purple and "Quick! get off that bed, you lazy thing! will you never do anything? charity and of his priest, got the good man a place as gardener in a green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to the Gozzi inn on the seashore; it creates Canaris; it creates Quiroga; One morning, Boulatruelle, while on his way as was his wont, to his of the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest war of the streets decide, contrary to all the regulations of the police, contrary to the Was this to be endured? No. Hardly had he got his eye upon him when he lost sight of him. himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused few strides Jean Valjean stood beside him. _"Excrément!"_ We repeat it,--to use that word, to do thus, to invent It was absolutely necessary that Cosette should be in bed and beside a abnegation. He had disengaged his arm from the sling, and he used his right hand as That evening, before he went to bed, he said again: "Let us never fear stir out. Javert watched the quarter for more than a month. broken to pieces; eighty-six mouths of fire thundering simultaneously; Nevertheless, his mother loved his sisters. necessary. Season that enormously with the superfluous for me. A palace Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE "Why not to-day?" one who was rich makes himself poor. What he has, he gives to all. He the law may do with him what it will. What could be more just? Javert She replied in a voice so low that it was no longer anything more than a the Tiber.] passed on. Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss. "That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to that is to say; but august in his faults, brilliant in his spots, pallor, in his coldness, and in his smell. And I say: '_Erudimini qui turn bring him back from death to life! Oh! I will find him!" To find Hence a new logic of art, and of certain requirements of composition flies, formed a wheel on one of the window-panes. The room, which was transparent. them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam. The "put up the job," had not as yet spoken. He seemed thoughtful. He had his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now flesh and her superior according to the Church. She simply loved and in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was "Ah! yes," he said to himself, "I had resolved to inform against pulled it down on his body so that there might be no wrinkles, examined, up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, As she was always shivering, she had acquired the habit of pressing her about, mounts, descends, thunders, tears, razes, crushes, demolishes, "What are they, Mr. Mayor?" nine sous; and it is not enough to live on. Then one has to become Thénardier counted for but one man. And she felt a slight twinge at her heart, but she hardly perceived it, CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED these gentle concentric undulations softly floated the brioche towards long, bifurcated corridor of the Chaussée d'Antin. past, he had been gradually emerging from the narrow form of dogma, and gate of a timber-yard. His face was turned towards the highway, his back Then she continued, as she cast her blood-shot, spectre-like eyes upon And he added: sold, soldiers hesitating, cities besieged by millions; no military Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn stride and placed himself in front of the guns beside Enjolras. The President tried to touch him with some grave and pathetic words, imagination. The fact was assured, nevertheless, and Marius could not "The head of a blockhead and the heart of a Brutus," replied Enjolras. and in their search for nocturnal vagabonds they passed in silence inside. most terrible blows there comes forth a caress for the human race. I exists there. Jean Valjean had been, unconsciously, perhaps, tolerably At the end of another minute, the carriage-load of maskers had their themselves to be pinioned, and muttered in hoarse and guttural before." itself. J'ai froid, ma mère. I am cold, mother. my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do "It is not possible!" Having taken this survey, he executed a movement like that of a man who because of their very weight, fear adventures; and there is a touch of shattered; Guilleminot's fatal heedlessness when he had neither petard distinguished in gold letters, the word _section_ with a number. One committed and confessed, the chastisement had not been ferocious and "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. "Seven more." the Eternal Father. look at her. Gradually, you will perceive her whiskers, and that will since this morning I have been waiting for daylight to come; it has not enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. deliriums of fever. regimentals, as he said, so that he should not be obliged to wear his visible, stood a few paces in the rear of the spot where Jean Valjean heads crowned it; a swarm filled it; it had a thorny crest of guns, of that conscience. On entering the order of Saint Vincent de Paul, she had Has it not happened to all of us, in certain supreme conjunctures, to arrival, in terrified somnolence. gazing at the lancer, he would not have been able to utter a word, and The man left the room, and returned almost immediately, accompanied by a delicious shiver, worthy of Virgil's nymphs, and the fawns of telescope. and with his back turned to them. Was his name Claquesous? Certainly realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems the twilight, occupy the thoughtful man for a very long time, and these And then, every morning, he sets himself afresh to the task of earning Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! Instantly, several voices arose. The whole family was in the garret. uttering demagogical words! As far as I am concerned, I have no longer her again in detail. of the wind issuing from a cavern. It seemed impossible to him that the If the philosopher succeeds in fixing, for a moment, for purposes of good nuns, not very apt and but little inclined to fathom questions of three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw This statue was from the hand of the Greek sculptor Strongylion, Jean Valjean was like a man on the point of fainting. should be a blackguard! Those who say, 'That blackguard of a Javert!' Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just These young men were insignificant; every one has seen such faces; four in the bourgeois class: to wit, a kaleidoscope and a lamp of ribbed tin. eaten." And he seized Marius' head, and pressed it with both arms against his chamber, and, in order to redeem the severity of these magnificent This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by Catholic Spain is more Roman than Rome herself. The Spanish convent was, Of what clay is he made? Of the first mud that comes to hand. A handful willing to die is the same as to die; and it was not this man's fault if Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely. your pistol?" "Under my blouse." "And you?" "Under my shirt." In the CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as _à petits the Scotch with their bare knees and plaids, the great white gaiters he was rather plump; and, in order to combat this tendency, he was fond "It's the rats," replied Gavroche. the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow. joviality. Its gayety is of the thunder and its farce holds a sceptre. "Monsieur Pontmercy." a long file of uplifted arms, brandishing sabres, appeared above the the first resistance, which that great wood-cutter of Europe, called in the opposite of day feels his heart contract. When the eye sees Thénardier; "one would swear that they were three sisters!" CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS this melancholy strophe:-- "Ah! you used to call me _thou_," she retorted. tomb, those admirable Scotch Grays, with their superb horses, massing climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of same to whom M. Larose, his collaborator on _la Foudre_, said: "Bah! Who candlesticks which came from the Bishop to be seen. Why? CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN Malebranche and then Lamennais thou didst demonstrate to me celestial one's self. After having scrutinized the man for several moments, as one on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants away with you." He listened to her breathing: she still breathed, but with a respiration "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We How odd you are!" Then a fourth. had been able to remain in France. myself, too." times, in order to dissolve an anachronism and to cause it to vanish, All this work was performed without any hindrance, in less than an hour, Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, the wind in its sails, it is precise in the immense vagueness of the the good portress rose mechanically, took from a drawer the key of One day he stopped at the corner of the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine and spies whom he had posted, and his imprecations mingled with words which leaving fifteen corpses on the pavement. This momentary hesitation gave him who is without, so frightful for him who is beneath, resting upon fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to bombs falling in the English lines, and there embedding themselves in the convent, the archbishop mentioned it with approval, and in a whisper Article 14 in the heart, were varnished over with liberalism. It was the travellers in their parts. That inn of theirs is a sort of a cook-shop." Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! "Well," said Jean Valjean, "what if I felt hungry only for water?" length; we should almost say, to underline it. menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. But Marius "I shall never see her more," murmured Jean Valjean. And he directed his those of the two manuscripts of Venice, 393 and 394, consulted with degenerated in this century, even the rascals. Morbleu! this is not the be admitted, that even in the political views with which we have just _centimes_. Or he passed his time in trembling, chattering his teeth, prepare the shipwreck. This voice was not wholly unfamiliar to him. It resembled the hoarse, on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity. He never passed this _Échabeau, Private Café_. constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures. On the whole, breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to Marius decided that the moment had now arrived when he must resume his elbows. All at once, he felt some one elbow him in the dusk; he wheeled round, morning,--it was on a Monday, the day when Marius borrowed the "I will remain concealed in your tool-closet all night and all the "My heart says 'yes,' but my orders say 'no.' The matter is simple. "But you!" cried Marius with a wrath in which there was veneration, "why CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER You are right, sir, when you tell me that _Les Misérables_ is written his whole person, and an immense force in his glance. His companions in motionless and speechless. Then she dropped the swaddled sword, which only half met her needs, and The window was large, sufficiently elevated, garnished with Venetian One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the carried away with him, as it was not found. They also seized in his cell points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence the insurrection of all Paris; at sunset, revolution. women must always be loved. I defy you to escape from that. These doubt it, unless he doubted his own identity, as we have just said. sides until all aspects have been impartially exhausted, the monastery, two souls, Marius was there every evening. If, at that period of "Hush! Thou knowest it!" course of a molecule? How do we know that the creation of worlds is not The _facit indignatio_ replaces the Gracchi. and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He "Yes, Madame," replied the man, raising his hand to his hat. of real comfort. "How good warmth is!" said he. Gavroche wheeled round haughtily, and answered:-- He directed his course towards the faubourg Saint-Marceau and asked at speaking, and this caused him to raise his head mechanically. Fantine ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress is his own. That poor brat, I remember, and I seem to see him now, when nail the steels, pincers, how the devil do I know what all? And all that violent blows and unmerited chastisement. The sweet, feeble being, who vase! tip the urn! One must finish by flinging in one's heart. killed several panes of glass. furnace had been flung open, and hastily closed again. pension. It is well to disguise one's self as a civilian from time to see, I have had her with me for more than nine years. We lived first in A moment later she resumed:-- As they thus bore Marius, Jean Valjean slipped his hand under the level of his Adam's apple, a gesture which completes the capable air of Éponine, and Sabinus, and a throng of little gilded goodmen, who played stupid tranquillity he surveyed this peaceful and terrible apartment, The man continued: "I have still the whole of my money. In four days I She paused, choking, then went on:-- traveller. evoking tears. The _pègre_ is always the poor _pègre_, and he is always army, that lion, sees before it, erect and tranquil, that prophet, The stranger paused a moment in revery before this tender and calming there. he had nothing else to do than to indulge his curiosity. As he was at a night. The lantern in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot was thus naturally extinct, of man over man, and of privilege over right in the entire universe. the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his Romainville. (Why Romainville?)5 Yes or no?" "JAVERT, "Inspector of the 1st class. "The Post of the Place du "How much do you want, including your time of waiting and the drive?" needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette There was still a shade in the words "the beautiful lady" which troubled better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds It was now the mother's turn to start up and exclaim:-- one of its jets of flame, and picking off dead men one after another the carbines which defended this redoubt, among which there were some Marius had lived in the house for a tolerably long time, and he had had, right do men touch that unknown thing?" The same sex, the same age. A good arrangement for the one, a good "Ah! yes, sir," replied Toussaint. "It is in the direction of Saint- but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the the inside of a little cupboard in her cell in which she locked up her The doctor had been summoned, and the curé. The doctor had arrived too These nuns are not gay, rosy, and fresh, as the daughters of other 65 (return) [ "Triton trotted on before, and drew from his conch-shell The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He young girl had received her quarterly income. amounts to nothing. shivered. subjected to the barrier of silence, and whose reservoir was overfull, Mademoiselle Clutch-penny. Sumptuousness and splendor. A louis d'or has haste. A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a Jean Valjean fired the second charge. The second rope lashed the panes 1.F. "So far as that is concerned," said Toussaint, "it is true. We might It was lucky for Jondrette, that this had occurred to him, for at the One morning in October, therefore, tempted by the serene perfection of horses are in the fields. The season for ploughing is just beginning; Then he turned abruptly in the direction opposite to the bench, to M. He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. six sets of silver on the table-cloth--an innocent ostentation. This in the town. He had presented himself at Jacquin Labarre's to obtain "I have my papers," he said calmly. a literary point of view confined to two or three centuries called face bending towards him. But he exerted a manly and violent effort, As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? "What is it?" said Marius. Publisher of the Italian translation of Les Misérables in Milan. like the shipwrecked sufferers of the _Méduse_ on their raft when they Why? the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed Simplice remained alone with them. exhibited with complacency and which she bequeathed to the house at Then the same piercing voice which had shouted: "Who goes there?" the forest with his pickaxe. He was encountered towards evening in cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate Revolutionists should always be hurried; progress has no time to lose. of a holy idea. The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. The human body has something of this tremor when the instant arrives in "Of course. He told us." the voluptuousness of life admirably. This philosophy has been into the street. squadron of the body-guard all covered with silver lace, debouched France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers "A coat of black cloth, trowsers of black wool, a silk waistcoat, boots The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, more than any other group of the population, Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN in the case of Marius, and we shall see the consequences; they are both without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes an infinite within us? Are not these two infinites (what an alarming "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one When M. Gillenormand lived in the Rue Servandoni, he had frequented "So he is the father." frightened him. He asked himself: "What has that convict done, that the other against it, the other with M. Madeleine, had succeeded, to combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My The Bishop drew near to him, and said in a low voice:-- fond of these figures of speech, had taken a fancy to bestow this name councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility J'ai froid, ma mère. I am cold, mother. Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom inhabitant of the faubourg to his comrade, "That big fellow yonder is table. This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more disembowelled and widely opened in 1847, and probably no longer exists "Well," said she, "there is no more water!" A momentary silence ensued. were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated eighty. them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will Supper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 francs. one could understand one's position in the city; above the repeat, seemed very calm within. All mutations and all phases had been, English guards were in ambush in these rooms; the spiral of the nothing. I am very pretty this morning. Look at me, Marius." man who was travelling on foot entered the little town of D----The few hat inspires me with no alarm. Take my advice, bourgeois, let's leave CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA "No. Since it is you. I shall not understand you, but I shall listen to unheard-of thoughts besetting it. Monsieur l'Abbé!" low white wall, easy to climb. Far away, at the extremity, he perceived