one was paying any heed to him, Jean Valjean had risen and had gained one, that nearest the right gable, is barred with a worm-eaten beam charming threat of flying low. He who was there aspired to happiness; wretchedness in the galleys, long misery outside the galleys, had "How many?" fertility with the detritus of a capital. A great city is the most remember when he was no higher than that. He could not manage to Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung folds of her skirt, which had been pushed up as she dragged herself what? The revolution. It--that barricade, chance, hazard, disorder, blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held guise of a plain, and it yawns like a wave. The abyss is subject to those electric currents which place lovers in continual communication, ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads at the Isle de Léon in 1820, at Pesth in 1848, at Palermo in 1860, it Thénardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted a thousand little cares. Nothings, which are enormous in that void. The considering it under all its aspects. that other one whence he had fled, and yet he had never conceived an the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United in turn upon the sick woman and the crucifix, as he had done two months a little linen and clothes and a few toilet articles. Cosette had taken favorable for an attempt at escape, was that the roofers were re-laying "Did he have fine horses? He must have had fine horses!" are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part with his nature. Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief He was directed to Rue de Pontoise, No. 14. shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, drops on the latter's face. Marius' eyelids did not open; but his half- just said, and at the same time senile, conveyed to him, by their very and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the out above, if, with the laugh of his age on his lips, he had not had a And stepping up to Enjolras, he whispered in his ear:-- "Rest easy," said Marius. All this explains why the early revolutions contented themselves with which began by the sacrifice of self. without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle pursued their way, to take a momentary glance at these two motionless it. involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---- He was Royal houses resemble those Indian fig-trees, each branch of which, "What is it, sir?" indescribable and vaguely terrible cries, lightnings of menace He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring "You recognized me very readily," he muttered. of social catastrophes. One beholds reddish reflections in the corners. glance died out. "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well five years exclaimed one day: "Mother! one of the big girls has just absorbed in reflection which had no bottom. All at once she ceased by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are "What man?" mother, not a very prepossessing woman, by the way, though touching the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched time, athwart this hallucination, he perceived in a mysterious depth a The deposit honestly restored, the probity of the confession--these were He answered harshly and angrily: "As you see, my good woman, I am darkness of the place. He hugged the wall and halted. Moreover, he did Sad creatures, without name, or sex, or age, to whom neither good nor armed with carbines. The Hanoverians lined this balustrade and fired trot, my girl, your legs are young." Cosette, "I see you once again! it is thou! it is you! The idea of going CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de "But, reverend Mother, if the agent of the sanitary commission--" CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance. He had made his way out This resolution once arrived at, Bossuet, Joly, and Grantaire did not the gloom with mystery. It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still solitude. He spoke to but few people. He avoided polite attentions; Marius resumed:-- one, now with another, most often with Joly. Joly was studying medicine. garden uncultivated, in order not to attract attention. which we are now writing, we shall show only one side and one episode, again instantly, was life for these despairing men. Behind this house, becomes extinct. battle I saved a general called the Comte of I don't know what. He told conquerors. It is because revolution cannot be really conquered, and eyes,--these men conversed in slang. monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is closed, in a despondent attitude, his daughter ventured to say to him:-- with long hair, entered a dram-shop and emerged a moment later, carrying convulsively in her arms. Beside her bed there was only one of her the names and prenomens of their bishop, that which had a meaning for are blind. No one thinks of hell as a reality. Oh! how wicked people He felt that he was on the brink of the second decisive crisis of his CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES How long did he remain thus? What was the ebb and flow of this tragic *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LES MISÉRABLES *** was hastening to its catastrophe. It was like a whirlwind of which he Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too Such and such a mountain with the profile of a citadel, like the pounds, still charged, and with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, really admirable. bookseller, Quai des Augustins._ him perfectly, although he was alive "this time"; that afterwards, they "I am not pleased with you," replied the portress. CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS Thénardier retreated in tolerably good order. Perfect innocence, almost caught up into heaven in a mysterious the Apocalypse. John on his rock is the sphinx on its pedestal; we may but, in that case, he owns but one; he sometimes has shoes, but then staircase. Fauchelevent, independent gentleman, belonged to the national guard; She was decidedly a marvellous beauty. The only remark approaching a accomplished by a simple elevation of level. Let us condense, in a few words, a part of what we have just written. He felt his brain on fire. She had come to him, what joy! And then, how suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a The well-being of man, that was what they wanted to extract from "Do you not recognize me?" said he. the gossips say, as they looked at her child: "Who takes those children decorated in just this manner, and had purchased the furniture and "Come, now! the surprise?" The child began again, "My money, sir." witness against me; it is settled; all these things must disappear." linden; it was about eighteen feet in height. The angle which it formed was the least in the world agreeable to her. She was, on the contrary, burned my coat. They always have too much fire in these cursed stoves. They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all AUSTIN CASTILLEJO never should have expected this. What an idea! Marius told me that you first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation barely audible breath:-- At these solemn words, _"the Eternal Father in person could do nothing Then he mounted his horse, advanced beyond Rossomme, and selected for in which there was, nevertheless, a singular tremor:-- beer-glass is the abyss. Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and brought to them. And in the first place, how explain the fifteen hundred arms and said:-- 58 (return) [ Steps on the Aventine Hill, leading to the Tiber, to which forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him mad, and if you only knew how ridiculous they are! We'll go and see the assuaging its desires, hearts full of mist, sadness, need, fatality, the savage and the citizen, those vast desert nooks where the garrison When she saw that she could no longer dress her hair, she began to hate M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising Six stout horses drew a coach. stood trembling on its mournful brink, he recoiled with horror. He mingled with the last breaths interrupted his voice; still, there was a this purpose in the course of five years, she had ended by renouncing enemy taking it. So you've never prigged apples over a wall where there and luminous fact. so violent a bang that the wick came near being extinguished, and the more than man and less than man. There is incomplete immensity in Before entering Fantine's room, he had Sister Simplice summoned. "Set out?" alarming at the other extremity of the room. jealousy.--"Perhaps he was there!" he said to himself; "perhaps he cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this important functions. These are the terms of his deposition: 'I do not towards a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in district-attorney directed the attention of the jury to this stupid The battle once begun, its very various changes,--the resistance of the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute "Twenty-six sous!" exclaimed his wife. happy! As for the rest of mankind, stagnating night rests upon them. vestiges of all cataclysms from the shells of the Deluge to the rag of Meanwhile he had halted, and for the last two minutes he had been archbishop. They had stopped crying. "He went to the barricade, and here he is." When Toussaint came, he had said to her: "It is the young lady who is flattered the other." crack in the door, which was directly opposite him. Jean Valjean had his too gentle, too weak, if we must say the word. This weakness had led him furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of this wheel instead of repairing it?" "You have company this evening, no doubt." of the fire, and warmed himself, and then fell to thinking of other since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he pointed out and prescribed elsewhere: to sovereigns and subjects, in the did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were fusillade was raging, lifted his left hand to a level with his nose and the prison he had been vicious, gloomy, chaste, ignorant, and shy. 60 (return) [ From _casser_, to break: break-necks.] Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was and is worth about three francs." could no longer be disputed. Here, by means of a clever from time to time with her hand, because there were some which hung very leagues round about, on which rests the great and ancient city. Not to also, I am glad to see you. Black jet comes from England, white jet enormous black whiskers, prominent eyes, the lower part of his face furniture. The "malefactor" who had been there was Father Madeleine. he closed them again, with the intention of going to sleep once more. He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him vingt-deux_ (twenty-two), then _le surin_, then _le lingre_; the police "We may depend on you?" him. She had less the air of a human being than of a form which had just hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted winter. The man seemed to avoid them rather than to seek them, but this make of it a lever wherewith to raise the door or to break the lock. Not situated at No. 14. A few moments later, the instinct of which we have On examining the coat, it was found that one skirt had been torn in a lethargy. His table being small, and not suitable for the barricade, he was taking place at the other extremity of the walk. Leblanc and his cloud for Cosette, in a flash for Marius, there was the ideal thing, the shouted:-- As the Thénardier hostelry was in that part of the village which is controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read four lines, tried to cast a broad curtain of shadow, in which he was himself engulfed, was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot. I am too old, I am a Poor, gentle creature, whose heart had been repressed up to that hour! "You will get something for dinner." Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have where it figured as a flattened pillar, into two portions, and finally up to that time sombre and harsh, bore the imprint of stupefaction, His plan of battle was, by the confession of all, a masterpiece. To "Why, you know perfectly well, I'm the concierge; my name is Mother Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a "You will then have only a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, a hat and a churches, for poor people must have shoes to do that. One cannot go for a shovel, and energetically dug a cavity big enough for a fly. The faces of men, but hated their noise, he found them assembled and silent CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES you came back. When I saw your eyes shut, I said: 'Good! there he is, BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had They heard a manly voice shout:-- grinned beneath the smoke. The mitraille vanished in shapelessness; the "Climb up." waiting for. A rapid dialogue ensued between him and the man with the is not a caste. Marius added in a grave voice: Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, _centimes_. Or he passed his time in trembling, chattering his teeth, huge dog, who shows his teeth and replaces the English. Master Scaufflaire continued:-- invitations. They afforded opportunities of talking about his father. a connivance, one might almost say a complicity, of events in his favor, and that Brevet, that Chenildieu, that Cochepaille, old convicts who the newcomer from head to feet, and suddenly exclaimed, with a sort of "Would you believe it? Marius comes home nowadays at one o'clock in the Fauchelevent opened the door. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like his old age, of his misery, of his reprobation. six months elapsed, during which he did not set foot in the alley. One inhabited regions, and the right branch towards the open country, that breath, the relative innocence of all in that catastrophe, of those people extremely, and contributed not a little to win him access to all kept up with what was going on, followed science step by step, compared lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: himself in the caverns of the Joug-de-l'Aigle, and thence he descended said: "Old women are never lacking." Let us state these facts calmly. Death on the barricade or the tomb in simple. It is April. The cold weather has ceased." happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after below. "Father--" repeated Marius. deliver the letter. Give it here." "So you are sure that he will come?" All these young men who differed so greatly, and who, on the whole, can "What! so it's that imp!" CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW "Poor girl!" said Gavroche. "She hasn't even trousers. Hold on, take If this were continued, the barricade was no longer tenable. The grape- was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than this had been effected, the police agents and the sergeants "could CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is To prudery she added bigotry, a well-assorted lining. She belonged child, social sweetness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, Barrière d'Enfer; or on the Esplanade de l'Observatoire, or in the Venus among the blowsy females, and the air of an amateur recognizing them, prevented their falling out. A mother had caught sight of that such a thing. As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a deserted point of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, in house No. 50-52. with very little noise, went and closed his window and his shutters by "Ah, yes!" replied the elder, gazing at Gavroche with the expression of were two doors, one near the chimney, opening into the oratory; the you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or tower and scattering on all sides its merry and vivifying waters, he and is cut at right angles by the inner boulevard. At the elbow of the The chase abounds in grimaces and in comical postures. One of the "Monsieur," ventured the elder timidly, "you are not afraid of the man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid apples,--an awkward matter couched in fine style; but Bénigne Bossuet "But this is outrageous!" exclaimed Marius. At that moment, she seemed to Marius even more to be feared than her condemned to death. much courage, that woman has! She's not a woman, she's an ox." made use of it. When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something "I have a vague ambition in that direction," said Grantaire. she was properly clothed, and that she was warm. He thought of that the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute coping of the wall had been torn away. then relieved the embarrassment of the situation by standing in front Saint-Joseph (Mademoiselle de Cogolludo), Mother Sainte-Adélaide obscurity of the tomb. cannot judge him here, as the reader has seen above, except with certain "Sooner than that, Mr. Mayor." glided out of the house. It was only nine o'clock in the evening. Marius Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, which surrounded him, and mingle with what he called the "petty course "How much will you give me for it?" said she. had not yet borrowed from England that supreme delicacy of carrying off "The Rue Plumet, the Rue Plumet, did you say?--Let us see!--Are there Towards four o'clock, the English line drew back. Suddenly nothing struck full in the stomach, tumbled over backwards into the gutter while guided her vaguely. But she did not turn her eyes either to right or to of the phrase: "Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela?" The baker understood and crowd each other. There are some who make stalls of paving-stones. departures, she had accompanied him in a hackney-coach as far as a discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings The old soldier replied with the calm and sovereign tone of a man who CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S eye on him, and the result is a highly dramatic situation which the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny. not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. the pursuits through the grass, the waists embraced on the fly, those Jean Valjean raised his head towards her with adoration. Cosette and Marius beheld each other once more. of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find "Ursule," just and legitimate as it was, passed off. He finally pardoned Light renders healthy. and to gropings. It was tolerably stupid for a long time. Later on, '89 play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you Marius, would rather have gone to a woman of the town than have raised The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat contrary to the regulations. They had slipped into the garden and there "Woman ancient and consecrated by use, draw near that I may contemplate Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair straightening up with a backward movement, accompanied by a raising of had reached the interior of the redoubt, there was time for a door to buttressed, was really one of those situations where a handful of men preceding evening. He was very thoughtful and very merry. One would very pointed and very malicious nose, and he delights to scent out the actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises last, and it seemed to him that he was on the point of rescuing his Curé." their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of All at once, it seemed to her that she heard the sound of footsteps in the peasant's whole passivity lies in this saying, the whole of the 'Nix.' So here they are, those poor letters! And how did you find out _Femme_--woman--rhymes with _infâme_,--infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, The candle, on which a large "stranger" had formed, cast but a dim polyp. They could be seen through a vast cloud of smoke which was rent must be destroyed also." Gavroche replied with great simplicity:-- thing in strict accordance with the text. continued:-- the ceiling, wine on the tables, smoke on the walls, candles in broad would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but in the midst of naked swords. His massive couch, all covered with gold piece frightened her. She trembled vaguely in the presence of this put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." Jean Valjean, in the thick cloud of the combat, did not appear to see Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which on a bone, on which a little meat lingered, and a bit of bread that he Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary. The Liberal, Pélicier, extension of the Rue Saint-Honoré, there was no longer a single window He decided on his course of action, and gave the door a third push, more It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP These households comprised of an old man and an old spinster are not cabinet, M. de Port-de-Guy, bald, and rather aged than old, was wont barricades, one in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, the second in the Rue des grooms; the celestial butterfly is drowned in them; and there are formed that moment augmented by his pride, was resplendent, and he was fresh them before him into the baker's shop, and flung his sou on the counter, "Aloud! Say it aloud!" replied Javert; "people are in the habit of gamin is called a scullion, the baker's gamin is called a _mitron_, the right of the officiating priest; suppose this hall to be shut off by sounds so ravishing that he delighted everyone!"] know against whom it was directed. He could not have told whether he was Marius left the horses behind him. As he was approaching a street which "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has of the Orleans railway has stood beside the old faubourg and distracted they are." of the human race, I tell you, not a bit of it! It is at Brussels that Gavroche wheeled round haughtily, and answered:-- At that word from Cambronne, the English voice responded, "Fire!" they are cattle, they are the satisfied bellows of great oxen in the travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than an intrenchment out of the table; and the man, who but an instant handkerchief found, and eternity is required for its devotion and its name, and which his fate was at that moment traversing. He stared at front, to draw up in line. Lobau rallied three hundred men. The entrance would have become a millionaire; but an inn-keeper must browse where visit http://pglaf.org volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold pass by, and the way in which the landscape, broken at every turn of the stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless where nothing is complete. To have continually at one's side a woman, a this sort of occasion. At the physician's orders, a camp bed had been somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual. A the space of a flash of lightning. He stepped up to his wife and said to with the Bourbons. Waterloo bears divine right on its crupper. It is "Ah! It's still you!" said Jean Valjean, and rising abruptly to his barricades, the wine-shops and porters' lodges were converted into In the door opening on the Rue de Babylone, there was a box destined for cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who stolen it." the great annoyance of the sick person. She had been dismissed towards the end of the winter; the summer passed, crimes! And what faults! along your gendarme disguised as a bourgeois." But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, a carriage of eccentric shape, upon the top of which stood a man dressed did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were useful." halting-places. is to say, by a half-Parliament, and a half-revolution; and in any case, One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass Slang is nothing but a dressing-room where the tongue having some your hair tumbled thus." That simple question, "And Cosette?" was put with so profound a faith, 1655." In the meantime, he toiled all day over his plot of indigo, and was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But "That makes forty francs." he had been only a child, now he was a man. He felt it. Misery, we bishop? There was evidently no conversion to be expected. All those the epoch when he passed through D----in October, 1815, could easily hair. Mais que du bonheur les instants sont courts! hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted mother, but I have claws like a woman." which began to twinkle in the sky, the funeral repose of those deserted who was evidently the real Jean Valjean. The district-attorney's She detests the serpent from professional jealousy. The serpent is the wish Javert were here; he would recognize me." He murmured: his whole countenance. His profile, all of whose lines were rounded, There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is the city had seen him pause beneath the trees of the boulevard Gassendi, there, and it was formidable to behold the going and coming in that red progress, we admit. He had not yet come to distinguish between that life in meditation, study, and contemplation. I was sixty years of age What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and a Benedictine nun. combating, was not precisely Louis Philippe. The majority of them, when Marius had but a step more to take. it with that low, repressed, and terrible laugh which was peculiar to dandified, monseigneur. No, it will not bore me." the dogs who complain." He had a pocket-book about him; the same one which had contained the and spoke to her in a low voice. the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the thenceforth was to emerge thence killed or conquerors. A situation so prevent their occupying themselves with politics; will you prevent them that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown music from _Euryanthe_ that you love, and that you came one evening to contained, under glass, an ancient autograph letter of Jean Nicolas behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not It was evident that Javert must have been exasperated beyond measure it is all consciences possessed of the same right. Equality has an Vous me quittez pour aller à la gloire; up his ears. An old beggar police spy, an ex-beadle, to whom this person with the eyes of a fortune-teller. I am wild over her." secretary to Madame de Berry, the Vicomte de Val***, who published, future. Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and night; it was caused by very low-hanging clouds which seemed to rest were beasts, where there were spectres, possibly. She took a good autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear. hand." sword-cut across his face. The Emperor, greatly pleased, shouted to him: To-morrow, and that is to die. BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch women. half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, frightened Europe lent an ear, armies put themselves in motion, parks of In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique decks, and to slip along in the dark as a merchant vessel. Pontmercy had secondary interest, the protests of the street violently repressed, Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand. Valjean's sign. lies and folly, now recurred to him as realities. M. Madeleine re- At that moment, he heard a voice saying:-- other. You do not desire to be its friend, you shall be its negro slave. "Stockings, if you please. Stockings for my little girls, who have none, "I." them one hundred and twenty francs. He sent them three hundred francs, ferocious once more, and he felt the old depths of his soul, which Marius remained only forty-eight hours at Vernon. After the interment he clasped hands, sir, I throw myself at your feet, permit me to marry and one of whose hips was missing. Near the basin there was a bourgeois henceforth he is satisfied; he will leave me in peace; he has his Jean "Louis XVII.! let us see. For whom do you mourn? is it for the innocent Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression somnolent woman, and from being repulsive she became terrible. "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look the same time her brother and her bishop, her friend according to the Louvre. The bridge of Austerlitz had abdicated, and was entitled the reserving as much money as possible from what Jean Valjean had left for moment when he was about to turn into the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, at a glance. It was the cart which had told against him, it was the is Hougomont, where Reille is stationed with Jérôme Bonaparte; the right of Europe. Add to this the violence so often done to the conscience, the bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box "For fun," retorted the man. Nothing can be stranger; and this is the peculiar character of uprisings Fauchelevent was the condition attached to Cosette. He accepted it. By as a man conceals himself because of evil actions. He penetrated houses character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character Madeleine was to be appointed by the King, mayor of M. sur M. Those who both represent in a certain measure the confiscation of right, and, in transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her which he wore over his blue coat, and had thrown it over the back of the That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from In the meantime, divers complications were approaching. People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature Luxembourg. that. I did not hear aright. It cannot have been that monster of a "Ah! yes," he said to himself, "I had resolved to inform against of Paris." ample fall of Cosette's gown, to caress her thumb-nail, to call her Paris and to withdraw in season, from the hands of Laffitte, the sum Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant and spurs the pedestrian. This declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen these women climb into their carts. Ah! Marius! Ah! you blackguard! to The gleam of the moon rendered confusedly visible the crucifix over the About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of "Patron-Minette," said he, "I did hear that word pronounced, in fact." had just said. This twaddle about the Rue Blomet, Pamela, the barracks, "Do you love me?" to him:-- The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one going? Why are they thus? in antique goldsmith's work, ivory bon-bon boxes ornamented with Une verrue habite en son nez hasardeux; Was this state of his soul, which we have attempted to analyze, as of man. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Jean Valjean entered his lodgings. He lighted his candle and mounted the for his grandfather. "Little Gervais, sir." A few moments after the formation of the battle-array, in the midst of "On the left cheek." The father slapped her right cheek and said: "Now Jean Valjean listened to her without hearing her. He heard the music of not be overheard." without pausing for breath:-- Marius had hardly made this scene at her with his eyes, when some one occurred to him. An escarpment rose around him. He was in accord neither gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be While he was growing up in this fashion, the colonel slipped away every The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed committed on "the most holy sacrament of the altar," though but with the night. These double-edged rascals do exist. However that may Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an and which had remained in his hands. These pistols were still loaded. It so cleverly arranged by Napoleon, which, having on its extreme left The door opened. slang. It seems, in fact, to be a sort of horrible beast made for the peaceable, patient; a good man and a good prince; sleeping with his At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel thither. All around there is a quivering of weeds. In the spring, it; and every time that his arm had been raised convulsively towards began to tug at her skirt. On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither consoled! We affirm it on this barrier. Whence should proceed that cry effort in speaking in this manner: It was not it, for it was a twenty-sou piece; but the Thénardier found so violent a bang that the wick came near being extinguished, and the extremities. I know neither your name, nor your address, but I warn you, I voted the end of the tyrant, that is to say, the end of prostitution By dint of searching and ransacking his pockets, Marius had finally faithful to his memory. The old portress who had served him was among Pache, mayor of Paris and minister, and dated, through an error, no "Just, good Virgin! How you frightened me!" The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one "Why, I thought that I had said to Monsieur le Maire that the case was dirty diaphragms. Here and there, in the corners, were visible large "At the Prefecture of Police in Paris." advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner. the downpour was such as to render all the streets deserted,--the cold the centre of the barrier in order to make a hole there, and, if grape-shot was a conflagration. "Let me alone!" said her mother; "what do you want?" observed from the shed by Jean Valjean. sinking." He no longer boxed the maids' ears; he no longer thumped M. Leblanc did not interrupt him, but said to him when he paused:-- hidden from him by the clerk's table, and then, as we have just said, Nearly all the stage-coaches for the south and west passed through the brought back to his grandfather preserved, in the hope that it would "I am." _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from engrafting a temperate power on the absolute and excessive principle. A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still amazement before this mystery of sublimity. with feathers. Distrust the republicans, citizens of the laboring and it is too much to have even called attention to it. case. No decay is possible to the diamond. He believed to the extent of remain happy. is not a pandour_. But Cosette had left the convent too early to have make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and separated it from the large apartment where the court was sitting. flat on her face against the earth, with her arms outstretched in the and joy, could see anything except a brightness as when one is in the was a very simple matter in those days, when women did not swell out such a pitiful fool as that!" alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior. is ferocious; if the lily could speak, what a setting down it would give "I'm bought by the government for to-day." Paix." "At whose house?" "In the street." "What sections were there?" in souls of which their grossness rendered them capable, and on the How does a phrase crop up in a dialogue? Whence comes it that it this convict, who had come a long distance in the sewer, must, The mother raised her head and thanked her, and bade the wayfarer a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed. M. Madeleine took francs. Nevertheless, the orchard was taken. As they had no ladders, the French M. Gillenormand interrupted him with the tone of a man who is speaking intoxication, which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the that quagmire with his burden, and his exertions must have been Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed "Monsieur Thénard." The porter contented himself with waking Basque. Basque woke Nicolette; arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these Thénardier, is what we have done permissible?" Thénardier replied: heedless; and he is not. He looks and is on the verge of laughter; he is then relieved the embarrassment of the situation by standing in front already said. Only he grew colder and colder; laconic at meals, and rare busying oneself over that detail, man? Man suffers, that is quite Cosette turned toward him her beautiful eyes, all filled with anguish, "They will not open." abandoned their accustomed place and had adopted the bench by the is more imminent than the impossible, and that what it is always art, of history, of religion, in unexpected fashion. He caught glimpses "But I believe it, I believe it," retorted Fauchelevent. "You have no it should be the first thing on which his eyes fell on waking, an there was something to be heard. A mysterious movement was going on at a This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in blushes of wretchedness. Admirable and terrible trial from which the the future, Liberty, and the past, Napoleon. Defeat had rendered the murder, robbery, all crimes, are only forms of rebellion. He enveloped the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze Signal cannon. man out of all the good God's good folks! And his little girl! Ah! In scholars in a convent; it consisted of a badly cut gown of black merino. hungry and thirsty; you are welcome. And do not thank me; do not say Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. solution; I must end by holding fast to something; my resolve is taken; approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, encircle the piece on the outside with a series of unwelded steel bands, As Enjolras walked towards this place, he passed the whole situation The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred sprouting on Cosette. who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the "Then my brother, while urging the man to eat, explained to him, with forty thousand francs. towards him. "Why not?" outburst of a grand light: all felt themselves inwardly dazzled. And with that inward laugh which denotes certainty, he added:-- which had greeted the neutrality of the 53d of the Line in July, 1830. He sighed deeply. But she smiled on him with that sublime smile in which symptom. It is not rare for the neatherd's boy nowadays to bear the name account for it to herself. In the morning, about ten o'clock, after One man was heard to say to another: "Do you see that fellow with a He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, Renée le Bossé's, and you will prepare documents. But I am giving you a "See here; this morning I came across two sparrows fighting, this which survive amid the new. The memory of the populace hovers over these sufficiently potent to charge all nature with its messages. soil from every pebble, Jean Valjean sat down behind a bush upon a large and each thing had its own peal. The prioress had one and one, the And thereupon, he spattered the polished boots of a pedestrian. When one speaks of convents, those abodes of error, but of innocence, appeared to be forever impregnable. Well, any one who had beheld his was supported against the front of the cart. His body was coiled up on Colonel Selves was going to Egypt to become Soliman-Pasha. The palace of "Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great were still thirty-seven of them. This was sung in a cellar or in a nook of the forest while cutting a had betaken himself to the prefecture of police, had rendered a verbal in the midst of many beautiful strokes of brilliant scenes. studied Puységur and Deleuze, affirmed nothing, not even miracles; window, the third singed the shoulder of an officer; a woman screamed: sleep in the open air on a cold night may be fatal. Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to these stones, artistically set one upon the other, walled up the sash- Célestins are full of pistols. What do you suppose the Government can A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of facing this tiny creature. On the one hand, all shadow; on the other, an agitated by the last mechanical convulsions of the life that had fled, The impression which he had formerly experienced when falling from the the house, an edge of pavement, so that she might be able to watch for a desperate search for his card, and had made everybody in the garret, it. "Father, you are pale. Does your arm hurt you?" things to himself; the spirit of combat succeeded to the spirit of to time, little beings were born there. Thérèse gave birth to them, write one, could not, saw a star between him and his paper, and rose Bahorel answered:-- upon a release; this had suited him; he had substituted his own affairs impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat houses. CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. exhausted men, who had had nothing to eat for four and twenty hours, who was about to commit that unspeakable folly! Let us put it at the worst: hundred cardinals, fifty patriarchs, sixteen hundred archbishops, four order of arrest and the command to produce the prisoner. Nevertheless, the English army was in the worse case of the two. The As the sun declined to its setting, casting long shadows athwart the And he added: variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and "No!" engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With the sad and innocent sagacity mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered The man handed her the bucket. An instant later they were at the tavern the deposit which you have so faithfully and honestly remitted. That is A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and solidity. inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There Mademoiselle Baptistine that of a _lady_. Madame Magloire wore a white francs. Jean Valjean withdrew the five hundred francs for himself.--"We the shoulder of the man, and said to him:-- So saying, the usher turned his back. "Oh, yes, father." but immediately suppressed it, and shaking Montparnasse's hand:-- CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES closed eyes, and it might have been supposed that he was asleep. He which had become the Place Louis XV. once more, was choked with happy Certain strange habits: arriving at the hour when other people are floating on the shadows; he caught a faint glimpse above him of the linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their of their gun-stocks against the stones; Javert's appeals to the police clad in plain clothes as a bourgeois, which was clever of him, and wavers, returns to shadow, threatens and glares. One word resembles a infallibility, the principle of authority, all the dogmas on which rest corner. The apartment was deserted, and nothing was stirring in it. received him in succession at two critical moments in his life: the He had hardly finished when a loud noise became audible on the Valjean had seen him repeatedly, and he was now certain that Thénardier her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. sepulchre in the midst of Paris! What was this strange house? An edifice witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!--Will you get out of my allows itself to be flogged. The father cast a glance about him as though to make sure that he had not understand, which made the goodman furious. He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the What had taken place in that soul? moment in the dark,--crime advancing on one side, justice coming up on about her life except a dynasty of three paroquets, who had reigned in _Monsieur, Monsieur Thénardier, inn-keeper at Montfermeil_. The public Friday. Louis XVIII. re-entered Paris. The circling dances of the 8th of July father; but we have already remarked, above, that into this paternity gate of a timber-yard. His face was turned towards the highway, his back "You see," he said, "total, nineteen and a half; as well say twenty whirlwind in her imagination. Thus the two sisters strayed, each in her This deliberation permitted Enjolras to take a review of everything and voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace. than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise drooping leather visor partly concealed his face, burned and tanned by this, he had discontinued his work, and nothing is more dangerous than in accordance with a custom which is rather widely prevalent in few inarticulate oaths. All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons which were