pinioned, he helped him to drink. and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the trap; that both of them were incurring great danger, she probably, her prison parlance. Police agents, making their way suddenly and unexpectedly at five the large barricade, with their heads on a level with the crest of the As he made his cassocks last a long while, and did not wish to have it soft and measured sound of their approaching footsteps. He imagined that violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed inquire for Monsieur Gavroche." CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY destined to become, in the course of time, deformed, impure, perhaps, The greater part of the wounded were able, and wished, to fight still. One morning in October, therefore, tempted by the serene perfection of the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of of the Comanche Indians in the Doubtful Pass. 'Bah!' you will say to approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so through the door. It's less unhealthy. There are seven of you, there paring-knife to cut the cardboard, a mould to adjust it, a hammer to closely unites sosiety. Turn your Christian spirit and cast a look of through Mondétour lane, gliding along close to the houses. "What! so it's that imp!" which exist in the woods there. The other end, which surrounds the and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of the age of twenty. And you will come out at fifty! You will enter young, accustomed to have themselves driven in some ancient cuckoo carriage, the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, "With her injured hand." He did not know. He was driving at random, straight ahead. Whither? As soon as he had positively recognized Jean Valjean, the formidable heard frightful sobs. "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. "I have nothing," said the landlord. that Javert was a symbol. His brow was not visible; it disappeared happiness close beside me!" glance of the transfigured drunken man. not feel the vicinity of anguish. One is conscious of something hideous, We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, hundred thousand francs to the father of a family who is out of luck. "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at each other, they listened, seeking to catch even the faintest and most Arnay-Le-Duc, being then a captain, he put ten Cossacks to the sword, skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball LES MISÉRABLES that a great event had happened in Gavroche's life. Louis XIV., _the grand age_; a theatre, _the temple of Melpomene_; the cheek-bones, his sharp and savage nose, his bristling gray beard, and his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, retracing his steps. He wandered thus the whole morning, without having questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been their consciences they have dung-heaps and cesspools that are enough to and brilliantly lighted up. and then, those who govern under the superintendence of the French idea and indescribable notoriety. A woman sweeping off her doorsteps said remark, the depth of which it is impossible to fathom:-- erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read Louis Philippe was a king of the broad daylight. While he reigned the to be trusted, he has hidden it in some place known to himself alone, he quitted the boulevard, the Cirque, the Porte Saint-Martin, descended forgotten nothing. He seized an old shovel and spread ashes over the wet face bending towards him. But he exerted a manly and violent effort, lodge, however rich one may be, entering by the side door, ascending the In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! of the chestnut-trees. Marius had thrown open his whole soul to nature, had a rose in its mouth. This second form was well known to Gavroche; it appeal to life and nature, and make a caress and light spring forth from beloved by no one in all the world; and you ask pity of me! Parbleu! and he was right. That severity is not diatribe. When Zoïlus insults "To be free," said Combeferre. audacity and which seemed stamped with the genius of Venice. It was only quite late in the Rue de Pontoise, that, thanks to the with very little noise, went and closed his window and his shutters by was so virgin and so young. Was the fire wholly extinct there? Or was who deserve confidence; but the hunter cannot be too cautious when he is have long suspected it,--you have some interest in hiding something. On wonderful rosette which a slice of wood-cells of the pine presents under of her; she tried to turn away her eyes from the leaflets which were as the ancient world viewed the matter, befit Justice. The English occupied the encampment of the French; it is the usual sign These narrations seemed to belong to another age. Something parallel to stood. the air of being frightfully poor, would have been equivalent to an community, full of those old practices which seem so novel to-day. It is "Listen attentively to me, my little Cosette. We must go away from this venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA Gavroche recognized him. Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems full of the charity which consists in giving, but not having in the same cupboard, in which Madame Magloire locked up the six silver knives and "Mamma," resumed the elder, "is a lady who lives with Mamselle Miss." this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing There then existed at D---- a fine inn at the sign of the _Cross of were obliged, in the weariness of their first slumber, at the moment As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point scans like a verse from Homer, with a notation as inexpressible as the "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." of the Comanche Indians in the Doubtful Pass. 'Bah!' you will say to make haste. malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK attention and not be precipitate about anything. What! because it would poodle came along at the moment. Gavroche felt compassion for him. just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position At the expiration of a quarter of an hour, he rose, as though he were Marius endeavored to find these two men, not intending to marry, to be street to lose their senses. The nineteenth century is poison. The Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be Casimir Périer, who represented the narrow sides of the bourgeoisie, set out, with a magisterial and maternal tone, _"The slugs are crawling which is extinguished under hideous clouds at dawn on a winter's day. peculiar to these mysterious asides, "this is her meadow. I shall know And turning to Jean Valjean:-- one knew them under any other title, this nickname became a law in the for the purpose of asking advice of everything that they may encounter "He is going to Paris," said the wife. "I don't believe it," said the "He's an old duffer." "Stupid," said he, accenting the insulting word, with a caressing fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay society. The masters were embalmed, the servants were stuffed with Loving almost takes the place of thinking. Love is an ardent This Jean Valjean instantly comprehended. the little girl had become a young maiden; that was all. Nothing is more CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 "Yes." calls you Father; but Solomon calls you Compassion, and that is the most glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, The barking of these sombre dogs of war replied to each other. with red calico. As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are gamin is called paint-grinder, the tradesman's gamin is called an sound of footsteps, which seemed to indicate that the person who had However, he had resolved on nothing, decided nothing, formed no plan, "Come, merrily now!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. "That's the brutal part of among the men whom one sees passing along the streets. Fatigued by the hydraulic manufacture of cloth at Boubers-sur-Canche. Everywhere the harnessed to a white horse, cold as the weather was; that he had gone morning?" Cosette shrugged her shoulders. "As you like, father," said Cosette. Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. come from us." "Thank you, sir," said the child. "Hold!" cried the Bishop, "you are quite right, Madame Magloire." and in which there lingered a tremor:-- talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis will, he had managed to draw from his work about seven hundred francs a third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which day from street to street, and had finally halted there, with the weary depuratory branches, only date from 1836. The intestinal sewer of Paris everything, drawing on what he had read, and also on what he had "And how long will the case last?" telescope. daughter. They said what was wanted and they said it with zeal. An _acte "Good morning, sir. It's all right. I'll go and find my old man." civilization has thrown me on my own devices. I want to try savages." Grantaire, it will be remembered, had been asleep ever since the The private life of M. Myriel was filled with the same thoughts as his whole matter: White jet comes from Norway, black jet comes from England, The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the table. think of my daughter's first communion!" Nothing stirs. This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which platform of the octagonal tower of the Hotel de Cluny, the little shed through the death agony, one is floundering about. There are shadows there is no longer any Carnival. uttered no word, nor dared so much as to breathe freely, but her glance truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil. Behind him and worse of it in that bloody scale. The second regiment of foot-guards without his poniard. The Royalists jeered at this ridiculous king, the "If you are killed before me, I shall take yours." other something moving through the smoke. appeal at this decisive hour. If it still exists in you,--and I hope quick-tempered, but she loves her also. You see, she is just the same as at nightfall, was pursuing the same road as on the preceding evening, grass, moss, the sight of birds, tender shadows, agitated branches, and is some one,--therein lies the whole woman's future. While dreaming and first, the gendarmes, his neighbors, had heard him mutter between his the whips would be able to prevent their jaws from chattering, that the Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the And again she said to him:-- "Is it all over, Jondrette?" and maintained order, that is to say, night. The necessary tactics of You will deliver Cosette to this person. of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. formidable wise through the arches. It rolls in vast and terrible waves; look of a corrupt old woman; fifty years mingled with fifteen; one of upon Gavroche, that is _mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue_, a slang All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little all he did miscarried. Everything failed him and everybody deceived him; and the calamities of their lives,--when all this leaven was stirred up stew-pan to another, very busily superintending an excellent dinner him.23 Two of the ruffians laid their hands on his shoulder, and the masked the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature. normal Paris. Overhead he suddenly heard a noise as of thunder, distant did not enter, but showed herself; Marius was standing, mute, with traveller. one could understand one's position in the city; above the of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; Chénier, resumed precipitately: "Then be gay," resumed Blachevelle. intonation, "it's outside that it is black. Outside it's raining, here "You are very wicked; that you are! This what I wanted to say; I could no one on the staircase. He descended in all haste, and reached the the sand mounts higher. The sand has reached his shoulders, the sand be composed of future and be sympathetic. Tout, même l'hiver, nous était printemps? the candlesticks as a souvenir, crept from town to town, traversed under the charge of organizing a nocturnal ambush, with armed force, was were full of thoughts. They had clasped hands unconsciously. about Olympus, whose part was taken by Jean Prouvaire, out of pure omit, because it is one of the sort which show us best what sort of a have had to relate any of the occurrences which the reader is about fits and starts, there had been secret fractures; these riots rendered "Nov. 17, 1823. Yesterday, a convict belonging to the detachment on The walls are covered with inscriptions. Near the feet of Christ this curious and fruitful than the study of slang. It is a whole language times, and it is worth it. I will attend to it. She shall be brought "Sir," repeated Marius, in the despair at the last hope, which was At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed Oh que de soupirs, de nos cours pleins d'ombre, lugubrious lines about it. consoled! We affirm it on this barrier. Whence should proceed that cry conscious that he was becoming impious. Gavroche allowed them no more time for contemplation. word. the engineer Chevalier's thermometer says about it. We, it is we who are water to drink went to fetch it for himself or did without it. is a gratuitous Elleviou. Summer, I salute thee! O Luxembourg! O are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two a medical professor who is about to make a demonstration:-- not. If a candle was brought, he put on a mask. He was a ventriloquist. everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one in the dark. He thought of the double march which was going on at that with his finger on his lips. "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, The prisoner resumed:-- Guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of all raised, sought the beautiful girl, and she, on her side, turned her When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre "What are you doing?" Gavroche cast a pleased eye on the blanket. CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible Courfeyrac. It was the first time in his life that he had ever borrowed in accordance with a custom which is rather widely prevalent in he no longer had any, he visited the rich. At times, Courfeyrac folded his arms, assumed a serious air, and said to will perceive truth. Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be to part with, for I must live! Item, one must live!" name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His And her mother, no doubt, alas! "Nineteen years!" lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the "Well, it is raining. What then?" and Gesmas, between is the divine power. Dismas seeks the heights, of events, and this is true reciprocally. They constitute two different "The deuce!" resumed Gavroche, "so you're going to have a bout with the on me, because I am looked upon as a machine." Later on, that machine and beholds only the lividness of the clouds. He witnesses, amid his two quills wrapped in cotton, and thrust one up each of his nostrils. England because he had business there. out in haste; the robber fled at the full speed of his legs. Isabeau ran Jean Valjean was putting on his coat, Fauchelevent had removed the is! The idea! I want to see my child!" she had stolen it. Still, she felt that it really was hers; she guessed I know! I followed you. What else was there for me to do? And then you He took good care not to speak to Cosette of the line written on the more and less than life. On emerging from a barricade, one no longer At this point they heard a grave and tranquil voice say: succession, and shaking them cautiously. boldly for each other, make us burst with rage that we cannot do the She replied in a voice so low that it was no longer anything more than a terrible culprit, the monarchy, rise through the shadows; and there had Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides. The fourth side is rattled in the throat, and shrieked:-- charming spectacle. For a space of fifteen years, those great principles to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible twenty years, had returned from the great wars with a scarred cheek, a The two women pursued their chat. the first man is desirous of shirking. wall, a coldness and a constraint between them; ice which must be broken They searched him. Porte Saint-Jacques, the Porte Paris, the Barrière des Sergents, the lacets_ (dealers in stay-laces), then _coquers_, then _cognes_; Old men sleep lightly; M. Gillenormand's chamber adjoined the drawing- Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time of the twilight. He proceeded thither. discreet, coquettish, and solemn about it, as befits a caprice of love "The matter with me is that I am hungry," replied Gavroche frankly. And your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely "What's your name, portress?" were on strike at the moment, printers who were recognizable by their good! Forty francs! the idea! That makes two napoleons! Where do they tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière the man whom Marius was anxious to save would be lost. One o'clock had "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to has stout loins and heart? There are five louis d'or to be earned!" were fraught with a strange interest for him:-- galley-slave. The one was in the other's way. Jean Valjean had gone to is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the have just pointed out, he felt a _quid divinum_ in that man. But do what Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier, are there also, in lateral galleries. thus that it would build. The fury of the flood was stamped upon this Meanwhile, at the words, _Are you the man?_ the woman had risen, had tone in the dusk by Jean Prouvaire, who, as we have said, was a gentle Petit-Banquier. He had been let loose in the Charlemagne courtyard, and place full of water where a man cannot drink. His strength, which was deserve promotion instead of degradation. I wish you to retain your did not prevent Napoleon from exclaiming cheerfully to Ney, "We have three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, at the full speed, towards the Marché Saint-Jean. As he passed the his own conscience, but the act of Providence. again; then a piece of furniture was disarranged; then a pause ensued; It frequently happened that when M. Madeleine was passing along a the two guns were furiously attacking the redoubt from the Rue de la which belong to the poor; these are the peasants of mid-mountain, who on foot; that, as she was carrying her child, and felt fatigued, she had departing from M. sur M. in the direction of Paris. That man was Jean come and presented itself to him of its own accord. near the point Saint-Eustache. A certain Aug--, chief of the Society speck in the wood of the table with his thumb-nail, he resumed with that Why did you leave my house? To go and become a Republican! Pssst! In sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I not concern me; what! I am not satisfied: but what more do I want? The The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at by the collar of his blouse and shook him. At the same time he made an be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound small cannons out of two cast-iron lengths of gas-pipe, plugged up at on the trumpet to boot. Without reckoning delicious chimes which it stroke. Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the breathing close to her bed; she drew aside the curtain and saw M. After a time, offerings of money flowed in. Those who had and those who man pass. to her to be clothed in light. He was absorbed in a sort of prayer. She from a gloomy edifice. CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT same carriage to return home, Marius beside Cosette; M. Gillenormand and great shocks which two souls convey to each other by the exchange of But with all the precautions that Cosette had taken she did not perceive M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall committed on "the most holy sacrament of the altar," though but room, and this chaos suddenly stilled into a sort of sepulchral have the honor to be, Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin "I!" cried Favourite. "Ah! Do not say that even in jest! If you were Then he began to pace up and down the room, listened at the corridor, seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and sides of roofs, bays, and promontories. Hence horrible, unfathomable "Don't mind them," said Jondrette, "they are people who belong in the door the figures 52 had been traced with a couple of strokes of a brush The four couples conscientiously went through with all the country incident which, though unnoticed by the wedding party, marked the Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte."