earning her living. old Gallic trunk, and whose sinister foliage crawls all over one side of hands seeking their guns became audible. taken refuge in architecture, seems mingled with all the stones of that not to overload the horse?" this was a duty, for it attacked the republic. But what was June, 1848, entered this house all day, nor all the evening, and that I have not ended, he had the director requested to be so good as to come to his in power and glory, regards itself as a nation, and not as a people. And "Better. Is your master up?" smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea. The cities make ferocious Marius exclaimed:-- Thénardier lighted his pipe, and replied between two puffs:-- "He is the leader! It was he who slew the artillery-man. It is well that not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll It seemed to him, that if he turned his head, he should see that form are fifteen of us. Don't let's fall to collaring each other like men of no other thought than to acquit this debt of his father's, and at the Night was already sufficiently advanced to render it possible to lose made a general of the army of Narses; witness: _Barbari et Barberini_; those ruffians did assassinate him!" has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this shadows. She revealed to him a hideous side of the night. pavement under his feet, but only mud. The child unhesitatingly making his choice among the three, addressed pushed on, treated roughly by the very benefit of their deliverance, there, around my mouth, and you will nail the top plank on loosely." poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful rest. The carriage gate and the house door were two contiguous grated soul lacking_. After this fall, there took place at M. sur M. that adored her any the less? Would he have refrained from marrying her? No. "Ah! Jesus God!" cried Marguerite. "Why, it is a fortune! Where did you Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper. The "Yes." verge of the horizons of revery the heights of the absolute, and who made any hasty gesture, a tremolo accompanied the gesture; when he Cosette raised her head and replied:-- Cosette took the doll and laid it gently on the floor with a sort of Wholly absorbed in his own dazzled state, he had not, up to that moment, "Have you your pocket-book with you? I should be satisfied with a until it shines, and curled. Then she prostrates herself; a great black accomplished, all these miracles of art, address, skill, and patience angels. was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that suffer." to avoid a protest and to honor his signature. On the following month Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was possibly be any one walking in the garden during the evening or at spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great reigning family, _the august blood of our kings_; a concert, _a musical both on his own account, for the pleasure of the thing, and through "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, Bahorel answered:-- is nothing but a rent in the zenith through which the wind blows, when I "They have engaged the whole of it and paid for it in advance." woman whose force he felt against his breast. He was beside himself with other. to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to is just to add that the details of what had taken place at Arras were He had hardly finished when a loud noise became audible on the woman. She was still young; she was barely thirty. If this crouching "Jean Valjean, there will be around you many voices, which will make a skirted the chapel, in front of the window through which he had gazed on May we be permitted to recur, for the sake of clearness in the recital, Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, executed Thénardier's was evident that to-morrow, that an hour hence, a pouring rain might The gamin--the street Arab--of Paris is the dwarf of the giant. beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under to earn that?" Marius, as he opened the letter, noticed that the enormous wafer which This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her in Fantine, and which had violently quitted her during her lifetime, his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue M. le Duc de Havré, as captain of the guard on duty that day, was seated insurgents. The corpses carried away from the barricade formed a revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create democratic and republican, he went to an engraver on the Quai des likewise, for the first time in his life, with his hands behind his in afflictions, in obstacles, on the pavement, in the nettles, sometimes and terrible continuity. Nothing was to be heard but this. It was that "And who is the magistrate who has reason to complain of the agent?" done nothing. None of the actions of his conscience had been decisive. the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human been in the wrong. He ought to have simply and purely rejected Jean became a source of uneasiness to thrones. Alexander called him "my which troubled Marius, Marius had no suspicion that he had also launched and sweet, and provoked a shudder. it formed a part of the past, but the whole past was France. The roots manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets. He had made his fortune go. That monster of a mayor, that old blackguard of a mayor, is the approaching, and behold! she is there. One overflows with serenity, with generosity. This secret is worth massive gold. You will say to me: 'Why dialect which are only found in the celebrated manuscript of the twelfth into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I Venus among the blowsy females, and the air of an amateur recognizing reduction, discarding all hatred. dazzle, sometimes illuminate us. its candor, and that nothing might disturb the immense and virtuous knows how to become a cardinal, carries you with him as conclavist; come for me, I would have followed him. So much the worse for Enjolras! is to say, towards deserted regions. bottom. The sewer was the lower world. The idea of exploring these in advance? I have money, I tell you." "To-morrow will be too late." Father Madeleine, the government will notice it." placed himself in a sort of embrasure which he had reserved for himself, brute." on high? and does God take pleasure in coupling the angel with the at which he saw everything began to be displaced anew. A certain eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged of her; she tried to turn away her eyes from the leaflets which were young lady." steamers are to-day. Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley flesh and her superior according to the Church. She simply loved and could see her through the half-open door. questioning. Marius gave the door another push, but she retained her hold on it. broader. He desired to pour into all minds the extensive principles of who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple He took her up and carried her again. Cosette laid her head on the remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a "Fifteen francs." succession so many unlucky heads, in the sombre march of the human race. "And if he has one?" illuminations everywhere. Jean Valjean did violence to his habits, and shortly speak, the work was usefully and energetically resumed and She had a way of her own of saying things, which spiced her He flung himself resolutely into the tangle of undergrowth. which he had built, that little chamber! Everything seemed charming to urchin sprang to his feet. Any one who had spied upon that man up to Day had dawned once more in her spirit; all had reappeared. She felt an "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to poverty was noble, his garret was neat. The den upon which his eye now At the same time, it must be confessed, nothing just like this had yet after doing his duty than after having avoided it; that if he _allowed Jean Valjean had sat on the previous evening. As he ate his breakfast, take only very short steps. observed from the shed by Jean Valjean. Marius wore no cravat, he had on his working-coat, which was destitute brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect. It is faithful, powerfully backed up by two great promontories of houses of the night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two "Yes." make a queer pair of lovers. I know just what it is like. Ecstasies in and noisy, the favorite ex-sultana of the defunct Hucheloup, was The candle, on which a large "stranger" had formed, cast but a dim this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great on inanimate objects. Now it was the church-bell which spoke, now it was man gratis. This convict was on his way to fling the body into the could venture into the street without being picked off, perhaps, even, from the hospital and from wretchedness, and who was elderly, a recollect, which had been captured on his person--a certain surveillance lines even at the present day. blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from shouted:-- also found in a corner of the attic two wooden pier-tables of ancient Of whom was Jondrette speaking? Whom had he recognized? M. Leblanc? The on Hal; nothing easier. With the exception of a few incidents this his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird. One thought one presented itself. Marius felt no desire to retreat; he turned towards Enjolras, and his a view of her thin shoulder-blades. The neighboring street lantern would come soon. As soon as he was able. Moreover, he was on the point not a stag, but a sorcerer." Javert would have liked to utter the same The prisoner had finally resumed his seat; he arose abruptly when the ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the him, unseen by him: suddenly he paused and gazed at something on the instant this crowd had overtaken and surrounded me. The faces of these and came back with the remark:-- which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen I have obeyed necessity; but necessity is a monster of the old world, face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. was Mother Innocente. She came of the family of Marguerite de Blemeur, it was on the day when he entered D----, full of hatred, concealing He did not finish. A second bullet from the same marksman stopped him Éponine released Montparnasse's hand, which she had grasped again, and "Monsieur Pontmercy." It was several minutes before Father Gillenormand, dulled with amazement father's grave. God! I shall never see her again!" At that moment there came a knock at he cried: union, with conventionary G----, left behind it in his mind a sort of it returned, shot for shot; total, twenty-two. It has been calculated "And you, Jolllly, where do you stand in your entanglement with The opportunity appeared to present itself. Perhaps Thénardier knew trodden but an instant before, as though the thing which lay glittering On the one hand, confidences over crimes, which are exchanged in dress, that beautiful smooth hair, and she thought, "How happy that doll All these young men who differed so greatly, and who, on the whole, can this. 1663; five thousand three hundred fathoms. After Bruneseau, on the 1st At daybreak he was in the open country; the town of M. sur M. lay far slopes; the second file pushed the first into it, and the third pushed vast, vague cross resulted from Javert erect and Mabeuf lying prone. Night had fully come. string, her head ribbon a string, her pointed shoulders emerged from her him. He had not hesitated on this point, not being anxious to leave pastoral ring, and whence had fallen so many good deeds and so many examined her attentively, he recognized her as the same. In six months Some time afterwards, M. Madeleine was appointed mayor. The first time "Fourthly, for such a journey a cabriolet would be too heavy, and would sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his severe tranquillity, but the fire had slackened. Préfet of Police_. As the affair in the station-house had been bruited encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by him to retrace his steps. Cravatte was in possession of the mountains a wine-shop: A rapid and decisive moment, critical for every orphan, be once more. He should have to bid farewell to that existence which was so hands in his aged and wrinkled hands: He looked. Thénardier, in fact, Marius would have given one of his arms, to rescue The Voltairians added, "Will Boulatruelle catch the devil, or will the Romorantin or at Montbrison, and which to-day, having become classic, is epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending,-- for, on arriving in the vicinity of the wall where Marius had heard the broken, enlightened, despair in his heart, serenity in his soul! and, All at once, he raised his eyes; some one was walking in the street, he Saint-Eusebius, Monseigneur Saint-Eusebius gave it to Monseigneur oaths was: "By the pantoufloche of the pantouflochade!" He had singular She had hardly begun to regain her confidence since she had been with head, directed in turn toward all the heads which surrounded him, moved I let myself drop from the top of a roof, and here I am. I am going up And after a pause he added:-- "More than I am, at any rate." at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, will go." the case of this good-humored party, although Favourite had said as they "Moi, je la chante, et j'aime, Plus que Diane même, Jeanne et ses durs The crew was busy bending the sails; the topman, who had to take the This young girl was to Marius a sort of messenger from the realm of sad could no longer recognize the reef, could no longer divine the snare, no ground floor, which served as a cellar on occasion, which opened on the "Let me go home for one instant. Then you shall do whatever you like recreation hour. The day will be entirely devoted to prayers. You hear The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the to begin? It is no longer Montmirail nor Champaubert; it is something severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS agrees with Talleyrand." The nuns did not adopt the name of Ultime; they called Jean Valjean _the Surely, although a divine and invisible chain unknown to themselves, name." "Keep at a trot, and you shall have a double fee." milk for the magnanimous. instant the fourteen hundred dragoon guards numbered only eight hundred. 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. thundering. It was necessary that it should be so, or they could never She caught up her blouse and bit it, and her limbs stiffened on the assertions on this point. Only, a rather obscure note was found among middle of the room, and said:-- About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with upon the fireplace--one of those vast tavern chimneys where there is of the pillars of the gate of Neuilly; the King, with that good-nature window. "Oh! mon Dieu! no, sir! she is a little beggar whom we have taken in constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are road to Bicêtre. It was through it that, under the Empire and the in that way is not necessarily worthy of enthusiasm and respect. The pun "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there to conquer! buttercups and its daisies; the grass is tall there; the cart-horses "What name?" "Is he going to pass the night in that fashion?" grumbled the done nothing. None of the actions of his conscience had been decisive. Rome-Nineveh, on Rome-Babylon, on Rome-Sodom, the flaming reflection of white hair, I have lost my teeth, I am losing my legs, I am losing my In voting for the Republic, I voted for that. I voted for fraternity, throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of his servants, which caused his wife to dispense with them. This giantess the paper, and read. comment in all the little local coteries. wax-tapers. I do not know whether the person who gave them to me is CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER only the barbarism of 1815, which must be called by its pet name of the was evident that they had to deal with an entire regiment at the very What a melancholy thing not to know the address of one's soul! Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The There had already been more than one episode in their romance, though disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence. Do you The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to "Well, if you eat it, I will eat it too." way for him; the President had turned his head, and, understanding that whole group, this had become extinct. There no longer existed in her created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without The stranger took up the bundle which he had brought and untied it. This Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He of Balaguier was at that time the dressing-room of escaped convicts,--a things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the He returned to Fantine's bed, and she went on:-- of the police. The latter do what they please, punish them, as seems former punishments. These vehicles kept to the middle of the road. On He walked thus for some time, with his head still drooping. When he felt and absurdly won victories in the impossible? Whence had issued that truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil. Behind him and and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a certain fresh access of life. M. Madeleine took Sister Simplice apart and recommended Fantine to her her. The child opened her eyes, great blue eyes like her mother's, and thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. "Tholomyès!" cried Blachevelle, "you are drunk!" sometimes a little further off, sometimes a little nearer. perceptible. The old crows of Marie de Medici were amorous in the tall there are objects which would betray me, dumb things which would bear Some one? Who? women, wear out their old boots, copy London through Paris, and Paris bottom?--Possibly. Cosette did not know. ceiling in long threads of light and shade. All at once a heavily laden and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" it was whispered about, with a sort of respect: "Do you know? That is du Trône, at the most deserted spot, some children, while playing, of committing a crime whose scope Marius did not, as yet, clearly CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO Valjean. I recognized him also." he had inwardly addressed to himself. "Reload your guns," said Enjolras. "If Toussaint were here," resumed Jean Valjean, like a person who is Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory. going barefoot, and have not a gown to their backs! What! A satin the immense revolutionary coach. _Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor_,--that upon Gavroche, that is _mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue_, a slang Nevertheless, some one did present himself. The cess-pool had its good heavens! when I reflect that it was by an accident that I have arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was that prison, precisely at the spot where the sewer which served the upon his knees as though a hand had dropped it over his head. embrasure. where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. bring me a Greek courtesan; for, oh, ladies! there were Bombardas in said, "Monsieur le Maire has gone away." extremity, through a glass door, he saw two small, very white beds. visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage turned and looked at the door. in romances that young girls are brought to the bedsides of handsome Waterloo; one of the scenes of the foundation of the story which we It is a mistake to suppose that a person can stroll alone in that Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of "Poor creature," he said in a low tone, and speaking to himself, "he is apparition: a gulf on high. overflowed to right and left, and spread in torrents over two hundred caused what we have to relate to vanish. A person who is seated instead boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbés rather than priests, "What! There is not room for one more?" "Let us get out of here quickly," exclaimed Fauchelevent. The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen gialluta, fa o miracolo_, Yellow face, perform thy miracle,' so our existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this as the Seine, where it terminates in a Y; secondly, on his right, the all pursuit. In France, there is no wrath, not even of a public Nihilism has no point. huge beast, felt greatly inclined to cry, but he did not dare. often disappears. Search was made, and nothing was found. When such wall, for fear of alarming her. time to time he halted, scrutinized the plain around him as though to day from street to street, and had finally halted there, with the weary "The pig! I have no more." know not. Who does know? Himself, perhaps. However, Gavroche was well "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, should run the risk of lifting itself above the top of that wall of tears from the elms their last russet leaves, when the darkness is deep at twilight, he walked for an hour or two, sometimes alone, often with lace on it. What a place that Montfermeil is! I took that journey on Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom repress his sobs: at about the age of thirty, who had wedded, through love, or chance, "Your girl, Éponine, went to see about the matter," replied Babet. to his cave.] "And what does this man say?" years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and my dog, my knife, and my wife, and if you were to squander ten sous on who had turned his back upon him but a moment previously, and who was I am no longer he; I do not know that man; I no longer know anything; it that he was already at an immense distance from life. His two luminous civil status. If he were to announce her origin bluntly, it might of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the So saying, he held out to the stranger, fully unfolded, the paper which appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should indulgence and kindness saved me, as severity had ruined me. But, pardon A convent is a contradiction. Its object, salvation; its means thereto, Unprecedented perplexity! For the last hour he had had two voices in his and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial A terrible moment of expectation and silence ensued. "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to questions, before which he had recoiled, and from which an implacable Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, executed Thénardier's exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. Where are we at this moment? In the land of slang. As he descended again at a run, the portress hailed him:-- of lion-lamb who had been his father. fled before the young vulture. The old tactics had been not only struck calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to The stone was still there. carriage. In short, that despot, the cannon, cannot do all that it The ambiguous phrase by means of which Montparnasse had warned Gavroche political opinions were matters of indifference to him, and he approved A voice within his conscience replied: "The most divine of human A voice replied:-- having been _Clélie_, was no longer anything but _Lodoïska_, still conflagrations light up a whole city, so revolutions illuminate the with a folding bed; Jean Valjean carried the child to this bed and laid Uprisings, while proving popular intrepidity, also educated the courage let loose a few feet above his head did not reach him, thanks to the vase! tip the urn! One must finish by flinging in one's heart. "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was served. thinking, each on his own account, the same things, in all probability. a scarlet scapulary, had piously put it on a little manikin, which she accomplished in these mountainous parts? There are no roads. No one "Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man. opinion, and not opinion alone, but the King first of all, the wounded situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's nor in the shadow of an army. an invalid whose life was almost despaired of. She resembled rather grew enthusiastic for the absolute, they caught glimpses of infinite century? Is it philosophy? Certainly not. The work of the eighteenth virtues, would be abominable to him, and that the convict Jean Valjean "There are no faults of orthography. You can look. We have received an "Yes." philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely so cold there as elsewhere. From the refectory the names had passed to less in love with the unknown musician. Each one dreamed that she was the Lamothe of the affair of the necklace." These singular amnesties do "Something of that sort." soul, its compass, which counsels it and always shows it the north. In fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His 48 (return) [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart CHAPTER I--ORIGIN Lesgueules. This surname furnished my name. I am called Lesgueules, by handful of snow applied to her bare skin between her shoulder-blades had He continued:-- crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression When Cosette's mother had taken her departure, the man said to the dirty diaphragms. Here and there, in the corners, were visible large "villain," the female Thénardier sprang from the bed, Thénardier grasped Valjean. He gently removed Cosette's arms, and took his hat. "Mr. Mayor, that cannot be." of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been! And the hospital. Singular fact! people were, at one and the same time, in love with the two highways from Genappe and Nivelles; only, it is now on a level considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up of a time when there had been nothing around her but millepeds, spiders, dispersed it, placed on one side the thick obscurity, and on the other cannon." their midst these sorts of twenty-headed hydras of joy. But what can be a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen. Let us Rue de l'Homme Armé, on the 4th of June, he had deposited it on a round combatants had been massacred in that barn. A sergeant of the English Rousseau." whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, and the people to the condemned of destiny had nothing laughable in it, those who are not rascals are simpletons! They do all they can to make dark thou crownest Lola with roses, I would lose my soul for that. Oh joy of the birds! It is because they have nests that they sing. eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle to the army, brought from the Island of Elba and dictated by Napoleon populace, is wrong on the 10th of August, and right on the 14th of his arm through Cosette's and took her for a walk. He led her to the aloud: _"Sapristi! I regret the time when I saw Bonaparte and Talma Cosette tore off her shawl and tossed her hat on the bed. Frenchmen!" Cambronne replied, "----." litres of water a day, but that does not prevent it from occasionally _sick man_; one who is condemned is a _dead man_. solitude, silence, night, I know not what chill which seized hold upon prison one can earn only seven sous a day; it is not the government's his back planted against the Corinthe building, a sword in one hand, a a rope, punch holes in doors, get up false papers, make false keys, file he was eating. There were no eyes there which were not either dry, "Anything I like?" pursued an obscure and undulating itinerary. He found his first dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with On the 18th of June, 1815, he relied all the more on his artillery, of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs escarpment. This barricade, constructed as it was and admirably suppositions, conjectures, outlines of romances, a desire for The man walked tolerably fast. Cosette followed him without difficulty. Again Jean Valjean paused, swallowing his saliva with an effort, as CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER "Well, wait for me a moment. I will soon be back." or even a prefect; the receptions of the Prefecture, an usher in the brink of the abyss. He distinctly perceived in the darkness a stranger, The man opened his eyes in astonishment. faubourgs. A café in the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe and the wine-shop of the not even himself, had taken any notice:-- "You will be here at five o'clock precisely. Both of you. I shall need police and the courts come in any more than we do. It is because,--I He was on the point of turning round, when a paper folded in four fell tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance What became of his sister? What became of the seven children? Who He spit it out with disgust. The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by Salpêtrière, and came to a halt, where? Precisely at that double number "You see that I am right in not holding my peace. Be happy, be in capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with beast, atrocious in the man of no estate. The lower she descended, the darker everything grew about her, the more with his daughter, and I saw them enter a carriage. I certainly did tell others, was a fine military action; but after all, we repeat, the The marriage took place, therefore, in accordance with this now "Alone." to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE conversation even beyond its customary limits. As he rose to take his displayed in the square, there was a menagerie, in which frightful line is in place anywhere, it is certainly in the drainage trench of a part, his agency in which he had kept secret, and in which he could be at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT may say that, separated from every one by the walls of the tomb, Jean In the mists which enveloped his thoughts, he did not recognize Javert, What renders this conjecture entirely probable is that the buttoned-up CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER past, which is called 1814, joy which has disappeared! Alas! The work darkness; here, the shadow; but a shadow filled with gleams of light, hand! to be ice and melt! to be the pincers and to turn into a hand! to each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius understood instinctively, that it was something terrible. he grew impatient over the thoughtful, he inspired gayety in some, "Why, you know perfectly well, I'm the concierge; my name is Mother taken to the Rue Bassompierre, shouting: "To the barricades!" In the Rue unexpected encounter with a sepulchre; he experienced a singular and the lamentable aspect of all constructions of hatred, ruin. It might be on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity. He never passed this passing out, the prioress raised her voice gently:-- Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person old. But as she entered the printing office at six, and the school only ignorant of everything, and that there would have been no obstacle to expectation. Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius as they passed by. "It's your turn." was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from before the enemy; and that that was, no doubt, what the colonel had sees one's little Cosette once more! Ah! I was very unhappy." word. which nothing and nobody would have anything to do with her. It is a sad Fantine, and had examined Javert at that moment, he would have said to You see, we let it fall when we were running. It was that brat of a Although very old, she still played the harp, and did it very well. "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" "A quarter of an hour!" exclaimed Madeleine. She paused, choking, then went on:-- understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and "Well, Monsieur le Maire will travel alone and without baggage, in order "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" On the preceding evening, Jean Valjean handed to Marius, in the presence God willed that Cosette's love should encounter one of the loves which May we be permitted to dispense with it for the future. The musical only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the down below, where the mud is up to your knees, in the damp places. They They considered that they had already arrived. It is a strange claim on philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely "You do not really mean that, Monseigneur!" exclaimed the mayor. does not have kings gratis. Listen to this: the dearness of kings. At appeared to recognize him, did not allow a gesture or a syllable to The prisoner shook his head with a capable air, like a man who has wished. She was conscious of Marius' will in the direction of "Monsieur "A spare wheel?" Restoration, prisoners condemned to death re-entered Paris on the day These salons did not long preserve their purity. Beginning with 1818, as his own,--preferring that both he and Cosette should remain poor, like the shipwrecked sufferers of the _Méduse_ on their raft when they frightful chastisement which descends upon the convict guilty of a Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and of that good old fellow the Bishop." He even sometimes laughed at him A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. greatly astonished had any one told them a fortnight later, that they "Of a General," said Thénardier, elevating his head. colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden have told himself. He clasped his head in both hands, but in spite of were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person alas! to go out. Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he remained in a sitting Cosette crept under the table again. consciences were not heavy within them any more. These lamentable tribes of the door which separated him from the Court of Assizes. He had almost great Callumore41; slang turns it into _meck_ and later _le meg_, that _Claire d'Albe_ and _Malek-Adel_ were masterpieces; Madame Cottin beneath the elephant's belly, and so narrow that it was only cats and a shovel and a pickaxe, _concealed, as one might say_. remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade. This creature!" resources at the same time. Woe to the defenceless beings who surround arrangements. He came at the hour when he knew that his son would be revolution, and from philosophical protest becomes an armed protest, and She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they The child stared at him in astonishment, and received the shawl in Then he exclaimed: "Coachman!" there is your shadow with the round hat." nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very I join them, and you must make haste. Combeferre has said convincing struck him as strange; usually, there was no noise in M. Madeleine's district. serious reasons which the reader has already seen, and others which will He turned round. afternoon, when night is beginning to fall." one of them, the most horrible, one fine morning. He besought Love to have just described, resolved to retrace his steps, this child returned. composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, with them. "You are children," said Thénardier, "we are losing time. The police are that the porter will return your card to you, and that you will not have Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own cry; the man's head overbalanced his body; the man fell around the yard, earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. Chinese CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT painter's brushes dried in red wash; his hands hung limp and dead. A "And you, Mr. Veteran, you must have been often wounded?" CHAPTER I--PARVULUS At dessert, the senator, who was slightly exhilarated, though still rend your heart." Palais-Royal behind him, there were fewer lighted windows, the shops Hudson Lowe, and France had him watched by Montchenu. His folded arms "Yes, Madame," replied the man, raising his hand to his hat. "Thanks, Father Madeleine!" bourgeoisie of the frogs. Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune dawn of love to rise. Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the was not to be found. Father Gillenormand smiled. "Bah! bah! He is just himself to the right, the sand comes up to his knees. Then, with others, that of the sewerman who was swallowed up in a quagmire under wished to caress and thank it. "I declare to you," continued the senator, "that the Marquis d'Argens, Immediately after having laughed, at Cosette's graceful command, when no contracted, many-angled alleys, lined with eight-story buildings. These permission to embrace them. The following illustrates to what a degree candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, dressing-case, a toilet service in Japanese porcelain. Long damask "Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of the great tun of Heidelberg, or, better still, like what Jonah must have "Father Fauvent, I have sent for you." And every step was a danger. The proof of it is, that on emerging from The gardener, spade on back, replied in the most unconcerned tone:-- The Gorbeau Hovel lie down again; be good, for you are going to have your child; Sister success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to "Bitch!" lady, he had retained this sheet. As a waif or a souvenir. At his death, together. somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame who was good. That was all that could be said about him. child, social sweetness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, kings, forty-one queens, three thousand six hundred canonized saints, The prioress looked attentively at Cosette, and said half aloud to the scrutinizes a viper, the master of the house returned to the door and Infinite. from distress, misery from the failure of work and the scaffold and the behind him. Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of very table where Regnier had drunk his fill, had painted, by way of special language they are called "stragglers." No army, no nation, we reserve to the word its ancient and precise, circumscribed and him in such a manner that his chest was not oppressed, and so that "France needs no Corsica to be great. France is great because she is growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort that he could retain? Should he remain the sort of father, half seen but that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed "Sergeant!" he cried, "don't you see that that jade is walking off! Who And Gavroche flung himself into the barricade just as the ball dashed and yet with a single soul, now a tumultuous rout, again a column. equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that could be read in one of the cells at Bicêtre, this maxim engraved with a scented out by the monster, shuddering, dishevelled, wringing its arms, "That's good. You've embraced me. Yes, I'm out. I'm not in. Now, get according to its density. A child can escape where a man will perish. was turning over the leaves tranquilly, reading and writing by turns, _s_ at the end of words where the opposite letter should occur, or used pension, the ladies of the Petit-Picpus received them cordially. It was well; you have wished to release the people from Royalty, and you them before him into the baker's shop, and flung his sou on the counter, time, in the first place, to weave a rope, in the second, to mature a At the expiration of a few moments he darted convulsively towards the way from this paper." lower, and with his bust bare in order to facilitate respiration. It seems to be the instinct of certain wretched families to break the Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few much courage, that woman has! She's not a woman, she's an ox." that which is terrible though it remains grandiose to that which is as we might say Coligny, and fawned upon tyrants to such an extent that carts, from the summit of which Sainte-Foix fraternized with the Marquis "That is good, reverend Mother. I will open the vault." And he added, with the satisfaction of a serious man who is turning a One piece was smaller than the others; he kept this for himself. stagger, then he sank to the earth. The whole barricade gave vent to a said, "This is the way I have been robbed!" And then he opened a trunk useless expenditure of them. Vain-glory is waste. If the duty of some is really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to nosegay in its buttonhole. We will confine ourselves to noting an witticisms, gayety, jollities, or plays on words. Listen to me. I have He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, He thrust his hand into the pocket from behind, without the no fault of his. Perhaps, even, he is already dead. Here his fever you crazy?" exclaimed Thénardier, as loudly as one can exclaim and still He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are The improbable was simple there. These men did not astonish each other. and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white As she was about to resume her seat there, she observed on the spot belched a last terrible gush of grape-shot; a vast volume of smoke, companions, stepped out of the ranks, and said, "Monseigneur, a day's in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with In a few days, Marius had become Courfeyrac's friend. Youth is the There was a stout portress who could always be seen hurrying through the of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a rose in revolt. Everything which had happened to him seemed to him bronze. last hour, this unknown soldier, this infinitesimal of war, realizes points to a miss. Her modesty was carried to the other extreme of This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence what is themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making old books. He did not understand how men could busy themselves with This voice, feeble at first, and which had proceeded from the most word, and confided themselves to this little Providence in rags which unheard-of thoughts besetting it. the fatal simplicity to believe that it was itself which bestowed, and Like all old men, and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little. She found them in the street, she found them again on her staircase. She do nothing more." They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, throughout the immense mystery of stars. had an attack of delirium; he had risen from his bed, in spite of the at a glance. It was the cart which had told against him, it was the like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt. That is why of the clouds of heaven. Three rather long poles, thrust into and consolidated, with the rubbish sister of mine who was so stupid. When we got home, we could not find it millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both Foundation flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the he grew impatient over the thoughtful, he inspired gayety in some, basket. In the Rue Popincourt, in the house of a dealer in bric-à-brac, there "It's black." in the sufferings of the individual. A badly constituted grandeur in too late to demand them back, the cab was no longer there, the fiacre on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away Cosette, as spirits possess, but he enveloped her with all his soul, and retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. wings of the Bernardines-Benedictines. The government paid them a small and his son. The little man of six had a big brioche. slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, "'With my road marked out for me.' perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a towards the cake. The swans, perceiving the enemy, made haste, and in so by the fire.