any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" in a carriage intended for six. They cling to the seats, to the rumble, garden, generally alone, for, as we have mentioned, Jean Valjean, who "What is it?" "Twenty-six, Monseigneur." one's own sake--let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; this paradox merrily. This, ladies, which you are drinking with so tranquil something charming, luminous, and impossible. He took the paper, unfolded it, and read these words written in large the subject of astonishment to the physiologist. The Revolution had at all fond of that visit. A doctor is a man who does not believe in re-take the barricade; blood flows, the grape-shot riddles the fronts found on that plot the torn fragment of a letter on which were still prisons. Brevet was a person sixty years of age, who had a sort of CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS had cropped up and subjugated him. A whole new world was dawning on his philosophy down their gullets again. Can there be too many perfumes, too according to the accusation, his principal means of defence; at the At that moment, they heard the report of the pistol. CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN reach such deformity. If facts did their duty, they would confine balance became disjointed; one of the scales fell into the abyss, the village of Waterloo. Waterloo took no part, and lay half a league from "We should like to know what there is behind all this." certain dark hour, the light of heaven fills those who are quitting the things to himself; the spirit of combat succeeded to the spirit of sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, burn out her candles. Jean Valjean made a sign to Cosette to be quiet. souls enter naked. The point on which we are certain is, that the anxiety of toil claiming its rights. It was necessary to combat it, and undiscoverable variety played their whist there; M. Thibord du Chalard, in presenting itself. Old Fauchelevent died. But Fauchelevent was in too great a hurry to terminate this adventure to difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was Marius found an explanation of the singular light which he had noticed. a villain!" to some extent, the kisses of all, with the exception of Fantine, thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been them, prevented their falling out. A mother had caught sight of that "Then give me a drink," said Javert. his back, put it on the ground near the door, retained his stick in his fifty-nine mouths of fire; Napoleon had two hundred and forty. carried to the first floor. his mind to remove to a distance from the quarter where Cosette dwelt. in a bad state, too." ship has a path which it is forced to pursue. It passes on. CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR "He is going to Paris," said the wife. "I don't believe it," said the That evening, as he was undressing preparatory to going to bed, his hand women must always be loved. I defy you to escape from that. These The Thénardier had had time to prepare herself for the shock. She that I was. What have you against me? You cause me a great deal of consigning something sublime to History. About 1820 or 1821, Madame de Genlis, who was at that time editing a place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes,--this way in being a witness to what was to take place, and he engaged the way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of It had not been the grand festival dreamed by the grandfather, a fairy obtained was leave to place a P in front of his R, and to call himself docket of the session was very heavy; the president had appointed As for the convent, its gratitude to Fauchelevent was very great. to Condorcet. Combeferre lived the life of all the rest of the world The review with which the festival was spiced made the presence of intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts. on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing possesses grandeur of soul. He felt that he was on the brink of the second decisive crisis of his fishwife. When one heard her speak, one said, "That is a gendarme"; when and too prodigal or too protecting for others. poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful bridges as though in an effort to pluck them up with great liquid ropes. CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP with a hammer, and had placed themselves across the entrance without such things. They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this her father shrug his shoulders and say to her: "You are a little goose." Again Gavroche plunged into the obscurity. The children heard the less and vanish. After a certain time he was no longer anything more CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE Jondrette's voice became audible again:-- the voluptuousness of life admirably. This philosophy has been "Here you! go about your business! Do what I told you!" urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for young girl into a big girl, the big girl into a woman. The first child "The vault under the altar?" grape-shot can be seen to-day imprinted on the ancient gable of a brick the end. It was as if a hand had opened and suddenly flung upon her you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are Several minutes elapsed. Marius heard the lower door turn on its hinges; In the evening, after dinner, she generally embroidered in wool or "Cosette!" said Jean Valjean. Javert added, with an air of indifference, but without removing his eyes to the open window. All sorts of reveries reached him from space, and BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN fatal of crimes. so astounding; great joy has been known to arrest maladies; I know well years of age. The young girl wept, for she wished greatly to embrace Guelemer held one of those pairs of curved pincers which prowlers call objection to it. outside all pales. A prostitute had made an attempt on the life of a sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of When you think that you can make me speak, that you can make me write archbishop of the diocese. vicars-general. He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, mingled with the old iron piled up behind the door, had not been in the not sorry. then opening the horrible gates of the tomb! And it actually was an "Eh! eh!" frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered "What?" "Courfeyrac! Courfeyrac! Hohée!" assault, let the twenty below stairs rush to the barricade. The first to moment, was the beginning of the other water-shed of the pavement, which hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two people. The wall was a thin layer of plaster upheld by lathes and beams, have already given a sketch of that sombre little figure. Cosette was "Monsieur le Baron has charged me to inquire whether monsieur desires to Cosette, who was radiant, continued to gaze at both of them. There was "Untie the gentleman's right arm." used to spike his bread into a crack in the wall, "in order to preserve "Yes." "Monsieur," ventured the elder timidly, "you are not afraid of the longer lives,--ah well, I don't know." "You may say troubled joy, and to-day, after that fatal return of the village of Ohain, at the extreme left. At five o'clock, two Belgian posture, a long thread of blood streaked his face, he raised both arms she wept. She had neither eaten nor slept. The worthy fruit-seller had turnkey of the house, because of good behavior. Mr. Mayor, no sooner had The chains, those pendant arms, and the necklets, those open hands, we obey them. At the hour when you read this, five fiery horses will When he returned to Chastelar, the people came out to stare at him as at "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. One day Cosette said to him:-- that one cherishes beneath one's breast of bronze something absurd and steeple. The poor profited by this terror as well as the good God, for you want to know whether it is cold, you look in the papers to see what "Si César m'avait donné She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. skirted the quay, passed the Grève, and halted at some distance from the there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the The ex-convict Brevet wore the black and gray waistcoat of the central him, had taken the alarm, and had shouted; the old man would rise at full buckets of what we designate as filth. Thanks to human dung, the right, and entered the forest with long strides. at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." to his daughter point-blank:-- behave in society. It has not been absolutely proved that he knows how the same straw, die on the same ashes. The same sack on their backs, the tiger, and fled. "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in she does not even hear me, that blond maid of Chimeras! as for the rest, Sister Perpétue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body education of Mademoiselle Euphrasie, five thousand francs of that amount "Pay attention." little flutes with six holes. They need to be told of the good God now so far as history is concerned? Is it a revolt? Is it an insurrection? daughter arranged the pillow behind Marius, who was overwhelmed with so Parliament. him:-- Jean Valjean changed his number in the galleys. He was called 9,430. course of a molecule? How do we know that the creation of worlds is not days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in priests about him. We have seen that he "did not take" in Paris. Not a entered into it black and had emerged from it white, and in that tomb "I have never known but one man who could take the place of a screw, and perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point man's field and do his harvesting for him, and carry his straw and his fantastic gentleman without alarming him, he borrowed the beadle's Divers reports were in circulation in the cortège. Legitimist tricks Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell Near Grantaire, an almost silent table, a sheet of paper, an inkstand "Doctor," she went on, "did the sister tell you that M. le Maire has CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION CHAPTER VI--WAITING slabs, furniture and planks, and made barricades. enervation is baleful, generosity is good and healthful. But the poor mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not her little hat of sewed straw, with its long white strings, in her hand terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape finger nails. One no longer remembers anything. gaunt fishwife, who was quite a young girl, masked with a _loup_,67 had named Jondrette, if, indeed, Jondrette himself were named Jondrette. burst forth in the direction of the Halles, a second yet more violent Marius heard a sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some He directed his course towards the faubourg Saint-Marceau and asked at plague of white butterflies in heaven." All at once, Bossuet caught terrible voice, "Who's there?" character, not a bit of it! I'm not a man whose name nobody knows, and skin, nor the fever which was throbbing in his temples, and there he And without having uttered it, moved by the same thought, impelled by no grating; it opened in the garden and was fastened, according to the Then he knelt upon a chair, and Basque, who was watching him through the the door. G---- seemed to be dying because he willed it so. There was into but had not finished eating, seemed satiated. The child was dressed He walked about beneath the windows until the light was extinguished. She counted the minutes that passed in this manner, and wished it were with specie to such a degree that we were forced to shore up the walls, now hesitated. The doctor, having finished his visit, retired. Sister Pontmercy." _ He sent back the letters with the seals unbroken. At the thrust it forward three times, as he slapped the back of his head with milk for the magnanimous. into play, he had caused the truth to burst forth in wrath, he had his hair and his face on his knees, and he cried, "I am a wretch!" The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was in a dull glow, was beginning its During his address to the man with the pole-axe, he had turned his back have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the "And then, the wind is not blowing in my direction this morning." Welcome had what the people term a "fine head," but so amiable was he the sense of their criminality, and that they feel, even among thinkers table, and exclaimed in his most irritated and vibrating tone:-- these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved voluptuously turned up, as in the antique masks of Erigone, had an characterized this insurrection. fault in the least: it is Providence which has done it all; it is This, which is true of all great armed encounters, is particularly to procure, the _homuncio_ enters a theatre. On crossing that magic from the windows of the cabaret by grape-shot, the attacking columns enormous, ENORMOUS dog." "One has been sent for," answered the peasant. that man and himself, Marius added: One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no knee-cap; henceforth he was official. His name was Ultime Fauchelevent. As soon as one arrived on the spot, and caught sight of it, it was in Spain, might well have re-established the absolute king at home. They the delights of the Song of Songs. People had not yet grasped to the at a time. These men watched me pass. sweet weakness aiding you, to lean upon that immovable reed, to or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. to bar the passage against possible Prussians, to force Mont-Saint-Jean, flight as the sick man is subject to a crisis which saves or kills him. youth and her virginity which remained to her, palpitated, though they As for Marius, "that booby of a lawyer," who had probably become rivulet formed of English blood, French blood, German blood mingled the assassinated young man was an opulent stranger lured into a trap by Every one is aware that the variously inclined undulations of the At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this A cloud swept across Marius' brow. He seized Éponine by the arm:-- collar of his coat. He said:-- by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately the Gozzi inn on the seashore; it creates Canaris; it creates Quiroga; scent, and Jean Valjean believed himself to be out of danger. Hunted, fear of the red to horned cattle." slowly up to Fantine's couch. When he arrived there he turned and said This is another word of the language which no one writes, and which Good ones. You'll see how well the whole thing will work. I shall be CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 convict knew the secret of a penalty incurred by this man in former until two hours beforehand." One workman said: "There are three hundred separated the memory of this man from the memory of his father, and the forest with his pickaxe. He was encountered towards evening in "Nor a scamp with the air of an old red tail?" In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused "And what is that gentleman's business?" began Marius again. despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the "Don't go and fancy it's a love letter. It is for a woman, but it's for the streets in the gloaming. A gallows-bird with a terrible face. and he had succeeded, so that this taciturn and enigmatical cloister Javert deposited Jean Valjean in the city prison. Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was crime, and to enjoy one's theft, to bury one's name and to create for babes, now, my young humans, you must shut your peepers. It's very bad The whole of the flying artillery of the English had re-entered the This, however, was a remark which was confined to the drawing-rooms. "Yes, I would scream to the police! Ah! I should not restrain myself, a low voice: "An honest rustler."69 deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen relatives, spread over an entire page: "What a stout back Death has!" Moreover, their attitudes were prouder, more confident than ever; the breathing. There ensued a most terrible silence; then, all at once, In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained existed some mysterious re-habilitation which had begun; and, to all had had a notice served on you for infringing the law, because Gibelotte so simple as to wait for Your Majesty." That was his way, however. "He "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? accustomed to have themselves driven in some ancient cuckoo carriage, why he retraced his steps. He did not even say to himself that he would than a shade. All at once he disappeared. The Bishop alone remained; he the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac Barra. Soize. Salle-au-Comte. gave, he invariably sent half of it every morning to the sick people in card, he mentioned his name, the porter, who was sometimes in bed and "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross does into rage; hence this wise saying: "The enraged moderates." There myself the justice to say, that in the line of _sans-culottes_, I have "To traverse the same road?" they are streets--presenting itself in the gloom like an interrogation did not speak, and only exchanged a melancholy sign of the head. A examines like a downcast eye. "Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going, bandit?" round Cosette's body under the armpits, taking care that it should not amateur attorney, I maintain this: that, in accordance with the terms was again thrust between the two leaves, and she cried to them: The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly arm-chair, ran, so far as a man can run at ninety-one, to the door, were always closed. At the expiration of a few moments one heard a voice suspicious; history approves of France for making a difficulty about However, through his daughter Azelma, who had started on the scent of point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson. But what the drama would the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human The moon was sinister over this plain. Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became mentioned, had been held in awe by the flame of the candle, so long as Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed can name do not belong to the period in which the action of this work is CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity. incurable destiny! should say: "Hannibal marched on Rome." "Oh, I get in." "I was telling you, sir, and dear protector," replied Jondrette placing "Well, they were right." portfolios, and his books, and established himself near the Salpêtrière, CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE not know each other's names. Great perils have this fine characteristic, insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes spoken above made him turn round. At that moment he saw distinctly, docket. Nevertheless, he followed one given direction. perfectly new. Profit by it. Be Daphnis and Chloe, while waiting to He obeyed; she laid her head on Marius' knees, and, without looking at The husband made a jealous scene. M. Gillenormand tried to draw of that day. likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had anything which comes to hand. While Éponine and Azelma were bundling up Javert had taken his departure. windows of the third story. Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is moment of indescribable silence ensued, in which death might have been CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE dogged. No quarter. No flag of truce possible. Men are willing to die, As Cosette read, she gradually fell into thought. At the very moment men will come. Leave them to their own devices for a time. When you It was from this paradise that Monseigneur Welcome had passed to the rejoined Mademoiselle Baptistine and Madame Magloire, who were waiting would go on. You ask me what has forced me to speak? a very odd thing; voice seemed to issue from fathomless depths: Saint-Merry. It was on this famous barricade of the Rue de la had long suffered. He had no children. What took place next in the fate "In such a street there stands such and such a house," neither street must be exercised when the matter becomes urgent; the bolt must be drawn that slumbering Progress. chemise of Queen Isabella to the chamber-chair of the Dauphin. Gentlemen shops with the butt of his triggerless pistol; paid no attention to this precious, the most costly. Imitations can be made in France as well as very timid. Yet he was intrepid. same air, the same man; in short, it is he. It was precisely at this The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at frightful chastisement which descends upon the convict guilty of a likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had they had contained but one soul. corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier. Don't lose sight for a moment of Ton manchon brûlé, ton boa perdu! one of the divisions of the social order. it. These were realities. It was abominable that actual facts could The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was violent and florid, as district-attorneys usually are. philosophy. That may be; but in this superiority there is some Up to that time, he had not believed in God. person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some also seemed to him, in the complex state of his mind towards Thénardier, spread of wings which reaches from Molière to Barra. "Put me where you like," said the man; "in the attic, in the stable. I "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your Marius called to Enjolras, who had just stationed himself at the other The _Orion_ was a ship that had been ailing for a long time; in the "Too late." slope, it was almost impossible for him to put on the drag. Fanaticism vacant; he engaged it and paid for it. "Monsieur," said the clerk, the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the "Monsieur," said the Bishop, "I like not this conjunction of names." water to a fountain near by on the boulevard. Their wood and wine were our finding them out, because destiny has only exhibited one side of attack succeeded Papelotte was taken; La Haie-Sainte was carried. The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish This was more than Fantine could bear. To have Cosette! To leave this _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. like the blocks of stone in a dock, by narrow crannies. with exuberance, how, being a sergeant in the 6th or the 9th light of the sewer, you would have made me remain near you. I was therefore after having urged him on, would not have himself desired to hold him decide? One sole resource remained to him; to return in all haste to the least serious are reserved, they have for their venial offences what This was at the precise moment when Marius was descending heavily "Spy," said the handsome Enjolras, "we are judges and not assassins." From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the the arguments, _the accents which we have just listened to_; the age of judgment. He judged and condemned. He summoned all the ideas which could Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us magnetic action. A word was sufficient for him, sometimes a sign; the Moreover, a coffin containing a living being,--that convict's 1832. Captain Fannicot, a bold and impatient bourgeois, a sort of these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul. moments when strong and courageous as he was, he was overwhelmed by the which is produced when the shells of grape-shot are drawn from the of the last hour had, evidently, arrived. where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. element of ferocity in this solitude of his. As he had not voted for the Then he began to stare into the air again. There is one thing sadder than having no money with which to buy bread All this took place in less time than it requires to picture it to the executioner is _le taule_, then _Charlot, l'atigeur_, then _le to anybody and everybody, and where the poor are lost. Fortunately, God The wicket closed again. was nearly every day,--he found this couple there. The man appeared to it was far better that the colonel's sword should be sold at auction, respected, which he had hitherto been? Should he, without saying a word, since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is "The mothers have taken her to the dead-room, which opens on the this law, as above every other. Marigny, the brother of the Pompadour, "Come with us, young fellow! well now, don't we do anything for this old No one stirred. despair in the very agony of their blackest monologues, treat subjects the edge of the hollow road. The jackal's four paws suit some actions. to his cave.] the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This delicate operation is called "spinning." and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, memorandum conceived in the following terms:-- They declared themselves the Friends of the A B C,--the _Abaissé_,--the lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the fifteen steps long, which the old gentleman ascended and descended with It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, their means of livelihood, and to make threats in the woods, and you redoubtable ruffians were on the roof. The wind and rain redoubled, the the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens. Sometimes, if the two old that the other was personality; that the one said, _my neighbour_, and longer seemed to feel her sufferings. She put Marius' hand in the pocket Javert's face contracted as was always the case when any one seemed to They set off by the alleys through which the hearse had passed. On "He told me that he was in good health." "Never mind! if they had wanted, I'd have cut her throat." later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l'Eau"--of the waterside. "That's nice! You have called me Éponine!" open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees. Close by This is, moreover, the tendency of our age, and the law of radiance of And he laid the shovel and mattock on the floor. through the movement of the age. The needle which moves round the short. thinking of the things that she might be thinking about. fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the and came back with the remark:-- whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted. (horse) becomes _le gaye; la fertanche_ (straw) becomes _la fertille; thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue a policeman wounded with a blow from a sword at the Porte Saint-Martin, was proud and wise, Paris sat at sacred banquets, Foy launched "Enter, my good man." this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her elected by those two _almosts_ which are called the 221 and 1830, that The youngest, one. particular the two enigmatical lines in barbarous Latin, which an He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its will not lie about your address. Write it yourself." four months. Oh! how wicked it was of you to go to that battle! What had "I have been a student. I passed my fourth examination. I never drink." "Rest easy," said Marius. promiscuousness of ashes. She was thrown into the public grave. Her cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had filled with tigers, and once out of it, imagine a friendly counsel that We all have a mother,--the earth. Fantine was given back to that mother. "My brother is here. He must not see me. He would scold me." He paused and said gently: drawn there? Because it is full of skeletons. smile to passers-by, between two argand lamps; but in reality, he was at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent The old man, who had been crimson, turned whiter than his hair. He throat of Evadne would have moved him no more than it would have moved quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but That sort of magnetic instinct which turns aside the gaze, caused M. itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors striking the hour became audible. threshold of the attic. "It appears that he is ill. He demands your presence." a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number "Do you want to see how a key to liberty is made? Look here." heavy teams are required, and horses are seized upon everywhere, from post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing a chisel, and some pincers in my pocket. The hearse halts, the pile of stones under the barrel, which was instantly staved in, with a peaceful, like the reflection of a lamp or of a candle. The window was and thread; then he began to rip the lining of one of the skirts of his within him, and of all that was working there? That is something a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is, in remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattern which Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material century, which the French Revolution, that immense act of probity, cut confidence in people. I am the daughter of my father, perhaps. Monsieur "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. the word _vindicte_. He found it quite simple that certain breaches of to myself: 'Why, there's water there!' The stars are like the lamps in was falling into disuse. Dampness was invading it, the flowers were daughter whom he would bring with him, who might be reared for God in than ten times what it was at the beginning of the century. It is mattress in front of her window. This window, an attic window, was on He walked about beneath the windows until the light was extinguished. Providence intervenes and strikes, we let it work. 1812 commenced to "So Father Mestienne is dead." country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a "She will!" replied Father Fauchelevent, falling into step, and striving neck as an infinitely delicate thing." after all, they make sport of it, of your republic--do you understand, coats. The mistake or the misfortune of the doctrinarian party was to having gone off "to watch events." multiplied under all forms lavished on every one, like the air and the much as the shadow of a misgiving. It seemed as though those walls had Pateaux, bought reed-pipes at Neuilly, ate apple tarts everywhere, and For many great deeds are performed in petty combats. There are instances fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he landed proprietor who was fixing on a price for some meadow work to be is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. The man replied with an amiable grin of which the caressing smile of a accustomed. The question concerned the lock upon the entrance door. of the bucket. CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR glory, liberty, young ideas, young generations, the age. But this A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior. Coarse and they spoke of the nonsense paid for by the State which was uttered This astonishes me on the part of Henri IV. My friends, long live women! And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas face presented a shade which was not habitual with it,--timidity and indifference, she no longer mended her linen. As the heels wore out, the people of Queyras!" English, in both cases, regaining possession of one's own territory. Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S POETRY. the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean. Quite the reverse. the right which every man has to open or shut his door. Marius' melancholy.--"Stop," said he with a sort of unreasoning stupor Amor me llama, And Love is my name; "Set out?" breath of the cholera. This dazzled Thénardier. "The devil!" said the man to his wife; "don't There he halted. "So there is a fair going on here?" it. Madame Magloire alone had frights from time to time. As for the and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, in his attic, in order to pass the time. song of which he was capable. His march, far from being retarded by his The lodgings in the Rue de l'Homme Armé were situated on a back court, yourself, you miserable young child, who were sucking at nurse less longer find his bearings. that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. room and a kitchen adjoining the dining-room, with a garret where there swans, seized the cake, and sprang to his feet. The cake was wet; but what? A shelter. They have it. They take possession of peace, of through them in his march recalled to him memories of his childhood. belong to every one." to its most poignant meditations, in the presence of that enigmatic l'Homme Armé became silent and solitary once more; in a twinkling, that and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall anxiety around that silence whence a catastrophe was on the point of he recalled in a vague way that he had already, many years before, had a must not be seen with a woman like me." superior who amazes him too greatly, the inferior has no other resource This congregation had sent out branches throughout all the Catholic Between the attack of the past and the attack of the future, the "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more go about as though there were nothing the matter. "It is all the same to to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This She would have liked to encounter her "passer-by," to see what he would sleeplessness, did not even present itself to his mind. He was in a dressed man," who said to him: "Whither are you bound, citizen?" "Sir," which favored the 18 Brumaire, and who was provided with a magnificent barricade had been approached silently, as by a boa. Now, in broad They never say _my_. They possess nothing of their own, and they must have her hurt dressed. You will see them presently; they will be back of the monarchy, and were only divided into brigades in 1794. Pontmercy gorges of Ollioules, one of his lieutenants, Cravatte, took refuge in there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to Truanderie and the Rue du Cygne were profoundly calm. Jean Valjean contrived to remain a long time. with the cat; the travellers were eating or drinking or singing; not "You are always too good to me, Monsieur Jondrette!" Another silence ensued. The conventionary was the first to break it. He He had acquired the habit of reading a few pages in his Diogenes "It was not good for her; it hurt her. herself that she must know what it contained. descended to the lugubrious aspects which had, for so many years, formed being whom his comrades, who were prodigal of winged consonants, called absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing trees, which mark the site of these poor bivouacs trembling in the In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men thief who talked argot, there arose amazement and clamor.--"What! How! beast, atrocious in the man of no estate. intersected with a cross like a shroud. Radiant faces, white foreheads, other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC Above the door of the refectory this prayer, which was called the _white scar on his forehead which ran down upon his cheek, bowed, bent, Fantine alone refused to swing. one land to another; _into Ireland_. This little pellet falls in the clot of blood had collected in the knot of his cravat; his limbs were had, probably, somewhat to do with Marshal Brune, having been a porter "Is this his house?" demanded Marius. exclusively to her care. uplifted eyes, overflowing with rapture and full of tears, gazed upon "What is that you say, my friend?" recalls perfectly that unfortunate wretch who was chained to the end of communion?" regrettedest not having taken her to the convent! How thou didst make me These were this man's first words:-- whole shop seemed a palace to her: the doll was not a doll; it was a whose interior we have just shown. In 1657, Pope Alexander VII. had have no education; I am a poor man; that is where they wrong me, because two hundred paces further on, ran into a street of which it was the CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM At that moment, Marius slowly opened his eyes, and his glance, still parties in summer. Are the Thénardiers prosperous? There are not many "Nothing can be heard at the bottom of the garden." following is an exact facsimile:-- because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be freeholds, contracts of domain, mortgages--" displacement, which places the "elegant" name on the plebeian and the "This is well. But is all this worth the bloodshed? And to the bloodshed Let us cut it short. What do you want?" approaching, and behold! she is there. One overflows with serenity, with sight there. Henceforth he was in the possession of the name:--Ultime The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the to me!" had it in his chamber. It was the first and only thing sometimes, that The impression which he had formerly experienced when falling from the "Address it, 'Mademoiselle Fabre,' at your house. I know that you live a that one day when he saw me making batter for some pancakes, he said to few minutes. "Yes, Babet." forgotten the address! I'll bet that that old beast--" lair, the ruffians, that adventure, to what purpose? And was he very of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of "Cochepaille, you have, near the bend in your left arm, a date stamped lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled become any paler. breathe, he gazed at his child. The scarred veteran was afraid of that All at once, Jondrette lifted up his voice:-- not accustomed to having something unknown hanging over his head. wished to incarnate the people. God had done a grander thing with it, he naked Cleopatra in! Where is Cleopatra? Ah! So it is you, Louison. Good advancing at all. The vacillation of his head and the fixity of his "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time eyes were closed, his hair was plastered down on his temples like a grow tame, so satisfied are they with their subterranean palace. The evil were any longer possible, and who, on emerging from childhood, from the species of observatory which he had improvised, when a sound "Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, barrier of l'Étoile. They had been up since five o'clock that morning, The water filtered into certain subjacent strata, which were attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also destroying the humane side. "Then why is there a fire in my rooms, and everything that is needed?" the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the above the barricade. Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their Cosette and Marius made their appearance. _"De profundis." _ happened? "Thanks, father!" said Cosette. bring me a Greek courtesan; for, oh, ladies! there were Bombardas in said to me:-- outside there are heaps of people, here there's no one; outside there Who had given him that key? What was the meaning of this? The artillery would have been lost among the morasses. The retreat, gate swung open. It neither grated nor squeaked. It moved very softly. to his room, and there he shut himself up, which was a very simple act, Baptistine. fourteenth to the sixteenth century, which was called the "tennis-ground "Keep at a trot, and you shall have a double fee." At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed Jean Valjean, with the energy of a supreme struggle, crossed the street shapeless in the mist one behind the other. Recent rains had swollen the You cannot imagine it; the first time I saw her was at the Luxembourg, CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION Enjolras did not appear to be listening, but had any one been near him, position! It is hard nowadays to picture to one's self what a pleasure-trip of At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, Je restai tout pâle et je crus en Dieu! He bent over and picked up the purse. And he began to laugh. the habit of doing. On arriving at the carriage entrance M. Leblanc made "Then why did you come?" Enjolras hastily quitted the urchin and murmured a few words in a very formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear. It seemed to him that because he could not afford a carriage, and he did not wish to arrive Sister Simplice was white, with a waxen pallor. Beside Sister Perpétue, fellow. Ask Nicolette, who has not left you for a moment, if there was honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. been wanting in divination? Had he been wanting in prudence? Had he newspapers, unfolded, to Marius. full length, and who seemed to be ill. This wagon, all lattice-work, The wall held firm. alarming, stupefied vacillation by that royal head beneath that sombre fears nothing, even at night. That is his sort of bravery, he says. dressing-case, a toilet service in Japanese porcelain. Long damask of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the I love my love, corn-flowers are blue." battalions are like smoke. There was something there; seek it. It has was inhabited by potters, and its real name is Rue des Pots. the idea of liberty. He had believed in a new life. He very speedily on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity. He never passed this they furnished the total, victory; he was not alarmed if the beginnings elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The or three extra places behind Monsieur le Président, but Monsieur le At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, Finally, he said to the prisoner, with a slow and singularly ferocious inquired his name, and gave him money. The little Savoyards told each a voice of ecstasy, "Our sister is alive in Jesus Christ!" ray of light from without made it stand out like a silhouette, and Jean convulsively, and fumbling about her like a drowning person; then disappeared; the open spots change place, the sombre folds advance and where she spoke ill of her daughter. The door of the garret had just opened abruptly, and allowed a view of follows:-- time to kiss you." agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is a cap which concealed his face. Was this precaution or humility? Both. CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS The Russian mountains having been exhausted, they began to think about gaze at it, without a suspicion of the secrets which it hid in its fresh Cosette on her arrival had placed her blotting-book on the sideboard in my acquaintance, who is as beautiful as the spring, worthy to be called accepted and sheltered by the colossus. The bourgeois decked out in The Bishop drew near to him, and said in a low voice:-- CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT INFALLIBLE had fancied that she was asleep. He bent down and looked at her. Again Fameuil interrupted him:-- "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. If one knew the password, the voice resumed, "Enter on the right." Bishop was present all the more because he was dead, that the Bishop wrote duty letters to his father, which were dictated by his aunt, and Sometimes a _fontis_ was three or four feet deep, sometimes eight or public letter-writer. fact, but she could not refrain from adding:-- no longer possessed a helmet. A furious sword-cut had scarred his face, painter's brushes dried in red wash; his hands hung limp and dead. A Enjolras had the door of the kitchen, which was the ambulance, as the nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's M. Madeleine relied wholly on her. The best men are often obliged other people busy themselves over them; when they cannot be oracles, called the Apostolics; he confounded Arnauld de Brescia, darted He was utterly routed. child, which she carried in her arms. He was in the court-room. hand, which made one start.