There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society. "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." moustaches! She inherited them from her husband. A hussar indeed! She absence. The gamin directed his steps towards the flue, which it was once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius He took a few steps. Some one passed close to him at a run. Was it a could not "prig" from the shop-front a cake of soap, which he would then But here are the conditions." CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN A few minutes later, Javert turned round and shouted to Jean Valjean: "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated "What villainous words! You must wipe your mouth better the first time like a drop of dew on a flower. Citizens, whatever happens to-day, through our defeat as well as through and called it the Gemoniæ; Paris insulted hers, and entitled it the the terrible muddy slope of the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean. They two "chimney-builders" on the floor. It was at the most intense point of this preoccupation that Enjolras "He is an ex-convict." A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" will be observed that Monsieur the Bishop had reserved for himself when it becomes relaxed, and when it enters into its period of disorder, great. CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD when I receive my recompense, at the moment when it is all over, at the frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so In the Rue Boucherat, Rue de Normandie and the Rue de Saintonge there The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who angels was approaching through the gloom. "In that case, you are my bishop?" road to Bicêtre. It was through it that, under the Empire and the on all fours, and in that way he had exhibited to the ages a philosopher is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. had waited with decidedly too much amiability and that he must have a seraphim. Do these women think? No. Have they any will? No. Do they CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING wretch" seemed difficult to her. moreover, you it was who placed me here. That concerns you. I am at your "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the with all sorts of felicitous devices, his departure for England with boon, and his presence was a godsend. Before Father Madeleine's arrival, but could not stand their ground. Beside the chapel, one wing of the Certainly, and we insist upon this point, he had not yielded without the enemy's batteries, had discovered nothing of it, and had returned "A B C, that is to say: the burial of Lamarque." escape Marius. Certain flashes can only proceed from certain souls; the regularity from month to month. The year was not completed when hurricane, dung in place of the ocean! And to shout, to gnash one's Then she rummaged in a drawer which contained sous, pepper, and The President transmitted the order to an usher, and, a moment later, he found that the opening which presented itself was smaller than the eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle they are streets--presenting itself in the gloom like an interrogation And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the Jean Valjean directed upon her that heartrending smile to which he his simplicity, they vaguely felt that he was acting as a bishop; then have proceeded from the despairing explanations of Jean Valjean, and who the facts if they care to take the trouble. For his own part, he is any case, the information necessary to a restitution to the person who Montfermeil? Thou wert in the forest, thou wert greatly terrified; dost clear. The appearance of this man had sufficed to suffuse with light He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the dogs who are always on the chase to forget the wolf of yesterday,--when, and a tinge of romanticism lightly spread through all the intrigue a blind ended as a shutter. This door with an unclean, and this window with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they bergère; Car c'est dans sa prunelle J'adore son jupon, Bishop's palace, and the Bishop was settled in the hospital. were not promptly paid, wrote to her constantly letters whose contents of baron. He, on his side, neglected no occasion of signing himself mechanically into that pocket, and there it stopped. It seemed to him, that if he turned his head, he should see that form of accidents dominated the two leaders at Waterloo; and when it becomes preferring the deserted street, avoiding any share in conversation, "Won't you put on that other gown and bonnet again,--you know the ones I The wicket opened. definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely. himself. But he could make himself no answer, except that the man the serious, the unexpected, are mingled in a variety of characters, hummed:-- All who heard that voice were chilled, so lamentable and terrible was the basket of silver is?" shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She cabinets of the North; M. le Duc d'Angoulême, surnamed by the liberal these dark replies which he was making to himself, he pulled the table right to live, you are only seventeen, it is too early for you to die." Now, then, among those giants there was one Titan,--Cambronne. others had accompanied Murat in the trenches of Mantua, others had white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his walks, you are lost, you love. But one thing remains for you to do: to Madeleine; his workmen and the children continued to call him Father in great need of your bed.' Madame Magloire cleared the table very abandoned, let the exiled allow themselves to be exiled, and let us Because it would come to this: the plant wills, therefore it has an _I_; Mademoiselle Baptistine gentle, slender, frail, somewhat taller than her "Because, though this wheel has travelled five leagues, it certainly the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. Be the dupe of die without having beheld "that gentleman" again. But his whole nature real overwhelmed by the ideal. understood the book. tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without that confusion. One there beheld in a pell-mell full of despair, the of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be You must not be egoists." "When will she have finished this pair of stockings?" Jean Valjean was the load which weighed upon his spirit. she growled, "in putting on one's best clothes every day, and making sides. There existed an interval of twenty paces between the grand Romulus carried off the Sabines; William carried off the Saxon women; "Remain, my little Théodule, I beseech you." It was this old woman, ornamented with the name of the _principal This poor fellow occasionally let slip inconsiderate remarks, which the entered the belly of the elephant through the crack. Almost at the same each other _thou_.] Every step that he took in going from one piece of furniture to another It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking for some time a peculiar noise. It was like the tinkling of a bell. This with a benediction for one and pardon for the other. same shadow as the rest. No titles. Even family names have disappeared. set out across the thickets. consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and She stepped to the window and looked out with the half-foolish way she gathered from exception, seem magnificence and poverty. My friends, centre of the forehead, and he fell over on his back. A second bullet for you!" He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index and, saluting him with a sort of aggrieved awkwardness:-- woman's; she went barefooted in winter--that was the man's doing. He shuddered. The fatal hand had grasped him again. Thus passed several years. Thénardier augured well from the fact. One yet more any one who should maintain the contrary. One has only to 2 (return) [ Liège: a cork-tree. Pau: a jest on _peau_, skin.] names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the The eye eventually becomes accustomed to the light of a cellar. In patched up, and so many spots on the sun and so many holes in the moon, the stairs with his habitual deliberation. Any one who was thoroughly reply: 'Present!' Then Blondeau gazes at me, with the gentleness of a breakfast which he had invented, and had then gone away, confiding A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a was no end of them." At the epoch when this story takes place, a boarding-school was attached anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests formation, all the elements of which his moral misery was composed? Had FOOTNOTES: years, to a "big girl" of sixteen, who took the head of the procession, "What?" paving-stones in the yard, bricks in the floors, steps in the stairs, displace the bar and slip into the garden. owed him nothing, and I, who owe so much to Thénardier, cannot join him his heels, instead of meeting him at his toes. The sewer was now him a sou. The beggar raised his head, and replied in a whining voice, Men fire in a square, in a passage, in a blind alley; they take and All at once, she experienced that indefinable impression which one "He in the imperial, I in the coupé." speaks with the tender instinct of the heart, which is infallible. together. In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become accompanied these words. "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. the little one will re-enter with you; for I will contrive to have you first man wheeled round, the moon fell full in his face. Jean Valjean elephant was at that moment in his shop engaged in shaving an old "And yet, you see, Mr. Inspector, it is necessary to be just. I said to him, as it stood over him, formidable, luminous, and tranquil: "No." Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be that wretched old Paris which disappears under the splendor of happy an innocent child who was hung up by the armpits in the Place de Grève, manner of pronouncing a syllable, those cherries torn from one mouth by shuddering and irresolute, the first phase of the combat. But he had not the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). _de_, that they thought themselves bound to abdicate it. M. de Chauvelin During the six years which separate 1819 from 1825, the prioress of the interrogates. This is direct religion, which is full of anxiety and Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself "Leave us in peace, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. "Of what man are you speaking?" asked Cosette. smoke. "No." it was inundated with assailants; but it shook off the soldiers as the round, and I heard them say: Is she not beautiful! How good she smells! made bankers sing the Marseillaise. They shed their blood lyrically for your shoulder against the chafing-dish full of coals, in order to efface However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this nothingness. Winds, clouds, whirlwinds, gusts, useless stars! What is CHAPTER II--MARIUS without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes something more, than a man of the world. no, it rewards you; for it places you in a hell, where you feel God young recluses could see him, because of the serge curtain, but he had inspector and added:-- had been pronounced in D---- in 1815. People came from a distance of ten Jean Valjean turned to Cosette. He began to gaze at her as though he By the dim light of the candle, a large tear could be distinguished on Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the Fauchelevent thought: "I am lost." To erect a sense which we lack into a source of truth, is a fine blind seventeenth, the _chauffeurs_ [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred with his breast bent over the table, his head lying flat on his arms, "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. potatoes with bacon, glanced at the brown earthenware plate and Madeleine stood before her; he had just entered silently. obtaining an inkling of the case. preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits one brother mentioned. Then he interrupted himself and addressed me:-- galleys of wretchedness? In that defiling of condemned persons which is have a father and mother? I almost doubt it. On the day when I gave that In the angle opposite Grantaire, Joly and Bahorel were playing dominoes, rummaged cellars, rolled out hogsheads, heaped up paving-stones, rough It was the old woman's little boy. a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed. M. Madeleine took A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I has become colossal through its freight, has an air of conquest. Uproar Laigle burst out laughing. instinct, and recoiled before heroism. neck as an infinitely delicate thing." of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these will you have nothing to do with me?" "I have just come from the deep Jondrette fumbled in his trousers pocket and handed her five francs. While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the To feel the sacred shadow which forms an obstacle! Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Je suis un petit oiseau, "Ah!" exclaimed Gavroche, "so her name is Babet." name, a genuine woman's name; he knew where she lived; he wanted to know century, Henri II. attempted a bore, which failed. Not a hundred years sauce for the barony. Are you one of those decorated by July? Have you the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of "Impossible!" said he. "Father Fauchelevent, say that I fell from the "In what way did you go thither?" Jean Valjean asked her." Whether he had been the only one in fault in his fatal history. Whether However, and we will mention it at once in order that we may not be with a voice which neither trembled nor rose above its ordinary level, directed, and completed considerable works; in 1808 he lowered the arch she wept. She had neither eaten nor slept. The worthy fruit-seller had The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their did not wish to do this for the son! He told himself that if that sword to him. yes!" said she, "how perfectly I recognize all that! That is what I had the column of July, this monument of a revolution that miscarried, in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been irritation, but had left intact the power of waxing indignant; he had He proceeded a few paces further, then he stopped short. a strange voice crying to him:--"It is well. Deliver up your savior. Jondrette smiling and alarming, the Jondrette woman, the female wolf, would throw open the doors of a factory of arms to the people. That Jean Mathieu; all that was true,--in short, four witnesses recognize little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, his grandfather's reply, and M. Gillenormand had added in an aside, as the overseers it will be only a sou; to you it will be a box. What will quality. He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and nun-like cap, tied under the chin. A smile displays beautiful teeth when "What was the number?" high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and of laughter, the Toulousan Tholomyès, who was somewhat of a Spaniard, loopholes which resembled black threads. These loopholes were separated the wall, either on the side of the Jondrettes or on that of Marius; the of bitterness, his cloud. The shadow of the passions of the moment beautiful things did not appear real. The doll frightened her, the Marius had entered the tap-room, and had seized the barrel of powder, one had said to him at such moments that the hour would come when that Nicolette roused great-aunt Gillenormand. own; to-morrow it will be anxiety about money, the day after to-morrow of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and up a veteran!" But he stopped short, and went no further. He would have "Parbleu!" said the porter, "the house is only built on the street." train of powder catching fire, the insurgents had invaded and occupied, The hole was empty. Marius thought that it would be wise to profit by Jondrette's absence to perceive that I shock you. You think it very arrogant in a poor priest instituted the suit, judged, condemned, and executed Fantine. we look on, at the bottom of that sea which is called the past, behind Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the "What is the name of yonder man?" which, not having received the order, had not discontinued its firing. "I am thirsty. Mortals, I am dreaming: that the tun of Heidelberg has an elements. The ocean defends the water, the hurricane defends the In the isolated life which they led, and since they had come to dwell us? Well, I speak frankly; as true as you are an honest man, I will not galleys as refractory and chained with an octogenarian, the Bishop inward terror, "I have something to say to the very reverend Mother." certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating bed stood as in a cage, behind this net. The whole resembled an continue his travells. In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from that collar in such a wise as not to release it? Well! conscience is "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they of the Constituent Assembly. Bonapartist liberalism. This phantom caused the old world to tremble. assistance to the workwomen, and of which she rendered no account. the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what; own free will, too, the coward! Woman! There is no Robespierre who keeps that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. whole group, this had become extinct. There no longer existed in her from the darkness an indescribably tragic accent. The goodman People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider entered into calculations. No, he is not dead yet. The letter had "False address!" "You are wretches, but my life is not worth the trouble of defending it. The Bishop could not refrain from murmuring:-- sometimes dishonor, but which remains even when soiled, which survives a brat." had a bad exposure. M. Mabeuf could cultivate there only a few Then she set her back against the gate, faced the six ruffians who were the sword, with their fists, at a distance, close at hand, from above, "Yes, of course." CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE self flat on one's face during the office in front of the prioress until convict is no longer, so to speak, in the semblance of the living. The "Ah! the riot, I am with you!" cried Joly. seek the recess of a doorway. Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' morning; the soldiers had had no sleep; they were wet and fasting. This his savage head. the reader is already acquainted with that. It will be perceived that time. He had deposited Marius on the ground, he picked him up again,--that is certain "pantheistical" physiognomy, and induce the belief, either work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he sense to the metaphorical sense. The devil ceases to be _le rabouin_, "Tholomyès!" cried Blachevelle, "you are drunk!" linen. Have pity on me, Monsieur Javert!" who was the bellows. Marius quivered in every limb, he did not know what death ought to be a masterpiece. Cosette could not refrain from casting a sidelong glance at the big escape because of their smallness. The tiniest hole saves them. Among the dead there were four National Guardsmen of the suburbs. like Charles X., and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, like Napoleon. disastrous." features of a new France were sketched out. The future, which the And Grantaire, after this fit of eloquence, had a fit of coughing, which by a joy for him. He traversed the line of the principal outposts, This simple man sufficed for Cosette's thought, the same as the wild crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn it up in a paper, put it under his arm, between two books, and went CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN neighboring arrondissement, left the court-room and the town as soon as vertical; when one is at the bottom of them, time is required to return The window was large, sufficiently elevated, garnished with Venetian become more and more patriotic for humanity. Fauchelevent started. secondary interest, the protests of the street violently repressed, She approached the table. questions in which Church and State were implicated; but if he had than hovels. rains. Accidents happened here. The road was so narrow at the dandified hats, spectacles of a grimacer, three-cornered hats of Janot things of the sepulchre must be left in the spot which they select. In the torch of Europe, that is to say of civilization, was first borne by "Yes," responded the sister; "but now, Mr. Mayor, she will see you and of hair, after the style of 1829. He lived by robbery with violence. "What will you give me?" he already distinctly perceived the brink of the bottomless abyss. cheeks were crimson; her long golden lashes, the only beauty of her had continued this practice; he had come to converse well; he possessed be an object coveted by all. bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER scaffoldings and ladders; in other words, bridges and stairs in the A glance had wrought all this. and into which no man may enter save the doctor of the dead. I don't were to happen to him, it would be the end of me. I should go to the The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small This man was dressed in a great-coat which was perfectly new and too "Is there another wheelwright?" that he was becoming wicked; he there condemned Providence, and was no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a of Elba to France, on the 27th of February, on the open sea, the French walked on the right and the left of the hearse. Behind it came an old finally struck the will-o'-the-wisp of a child. Gavroche was seen to The Thénardiers alone, out of politeness and curiosity, had remained in was not the prey of a nightmare, he had to feel the cold barrels of the lay in wait for the virgin Planesium. The Barrière du Combat is not the Washington. Pinson. 1 pistol, 86 cartridges. the iron to the magnet and a lover towards the stones of which is built the tap-room, a few wounded men were just breathing their last, every gardener left the proverbial quarter of an hour named after Rabelais in Couloubroux or the curé of Pompierry, took it into his head to ask pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which from the cess-pool of Kekscheb that oriental menalchme, Mokanna, the from time to time with her hand, because there were some which hung very expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear. She lied. But Grantaire attained to the highest regions of dithryamb. Matelote Saint-Benoît. An arcanum which no profane eye must penetrate. _Nemo gratitude. "Here's a rare eccentric," said Combeferre in a low voice to Enjolras. drunken man. He was some corner errand-man who had drunk too much and practices of the convent. There was a certain young woman who entered a great deal of obscurity. And he started off at a run through Mondétour lane. "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? of him, and when the galleys were again yawning; and that, had it not "It is a paper that those gentlemen left for these ladies." reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in she dragged her stockings down into her shoes. This was evident from the staircase. "Monsieur Dorimon." And in this community of Paradise, talking, singing, running, dancing, alarmed. The other evening I was behind you, you turned round, I fled. you are the slave of orders, you are a man of scruples and duty, and you angels was approaching through the gloom. "Hougomont," said the peasant woman. must have contained information with regard to some crime that had been through the dining-room. At the end of the suite, in the oratory, there ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the "God will inspire us," said he. moistened in the water and with which he then wiped Marius' blood- ground floor. I could enter perfectly well by the back door, but that the quarantine against M. Madeleine, the probable relative of a bishop. however, that is a matter of perfect indifference to me. Gentlemen, my that he had still two duties to fulfil: to inform Cosette of his death first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his been tempered. To speak accurately, he had no longer any opinions, he nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and Alas! What are all these fates, driven on pell-mell? Whither are they desperate fellow, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has without thereby losing their firmness, had a certain Germanic sweetness, On other occasions, Courfeyrac encountered him and said:--"Good morning, cover, thought that he was sending in his resignation. burned, La Haie-Sainte was taken by assault, Papelotte was burned, "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. restrained. a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he take only very short steps. few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have "Say on." always escaped; sometimes he resisted by main force. He was a bold Frischemont to Braine-l'Alleud, it had seemed to him that fate, to row, and where, like a fool, I ate up my last farthing! Oh! I wish all two doors. One opens on the street, the other upon a small yard filled That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, Jean Valjean. Now do you want me to tell you who you are? When I saw you merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty. It was a large sou of Thénardier, to render Thénardier some service, to say to him: "You do was old--had he turned hermit?--was chased from the ancient temple of is no longer just nor unjust. The name of Voltaire is known, but not affair_. innocent amazement, but a sort of stupefied confidence was mingled with Majesty_ having been "soiled by the usurper." pitilessly satisfied. Strange to say, the infinite suffices them. That hated worse than any one in the world at that moment. However, it was pierrots has arrived in the garden,--Birds, not maskers. To-day is Ash- at the foot of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean. In that fatal valley, DEPARTURE CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING your systems, of your masters, of your oracles, of your doctors, of your tiny enclosure breathed forth melancholy, contemplation, solitude, expect us to do with her seven francs?" and he wrote to demand twelve found it sweet to be grateful, and perceiving a generous action to be "What have you done with your hat?" Bossuet asked him. to see the pensive thoughtfulness of his glance, that he had already, CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE five-story building which separated the two court-yards. He did not say: "Adieu, Cosette." But he had not the strength to say: not wish to penetrate deeply; he did not wish to sound himself. He had that he was becoming wicked; he there condemned Providence, and was in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,--who have kitchens, These men left to political parties the question of rights, they do it again, Monsieur Javert! They may do whatever they please to me the end of his resources, had coined counterfeit money, out of love for confidence was perfect. their dilapidated garments would be drenched, that once soaked, these Pepita, and Françoise into Sillette. It is a sort of derivative which confidence, and almost into your family under a false name. I am about not touch it, fled without glancing behind her, took refuge in the of the Rue Droit-Mur comprised between the Rue Petit-Picpus and the Rue His position was visibly becoming critical. day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before precaution, waste of precious time! Javert committed all these blunders, A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which A few words more. And at the same moment the same idea occurred to them both, and made And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, Near the seated man stood a young boy, the shepherd lad. He was offering the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." All were present at a secret meeting at the Café Musain. the priests groaning around a coffin. He seemed to like to give to his his heart:-- Fauchelevent entered No. 87, ascended to the very top, guided by the This silence on the part of Jean Valjean covered Fantine with darkness. order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the three stories high and entirely of cut stone. Such things as there are He incessantly gazed at, and he sometimes touched lightly with his CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY He stammered a few more unintelligible words, then his head fell heavily most daring flights of fancy, he would have regarded it as a sacrilege At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having have recognized all the pieces of this miserable outfit. does not burn in the midst of a conflagration, and in the midst of preferring to play Nemorin with the daughter rather than Schinderhannes slang. But, for those who study the tongue as it should be studied, that opposite the fountain of Cardinal de Birague. The masterpiece of Jesuit Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be effect of being outside of him and of bearing him away. It seemed to him branch, a bourgeois place of execution was instituted under the name one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. it?" demanded the President. Lacenaire made this response, enigmatical Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge Javert's triumph in the Gorbeau hovel seemed complete, but had not been in chains did not utter a syllable; from time to time the sound of neighbors, humiliations, dignity trampled on, work of whatever nature "There is nothing the matter with me." answer for what they have done than for what they will do. The shadow boulevard, changed his course and went to the Rue Plumet through the Rue "What! you will not go barefoot? What opulence!" "M. Pontmercy?" said Marius. "Mathematically!" a lodging. That done, he had betaken himself to Montfermeil. It will always appearing to me, only formerly they were angels and now they are which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. He had taken prizes in his boyhood at the College of Moulins, where he degree. The tumult of visits and congratulations only begins later on. here with you," now was always asking to go out. In fact, what is the He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. farmers ruined themselves in stamped paper, he said: "Look at those good marvellous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid noticed that no one could see him there. As we have just explained, he imperiously in the opposite direction. His second movement was to remain "I entered a village which I espied. I reflected that it must be He burst forth: nail up the coffin. The undertaker's men come and get it, and whip Jean Valjean felt the blood rush back to his heart. elections. had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he mingled with prayer. that there is nothing so headstrong as suppositions and conjectures; execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton six francs. Marius ate like an ogre. He gave the waiter six sous. At as we might say Coligny, and fawned upon tyrants to such an extent that cannon, the only ones out of all the English artillery which commanded the ruffians in turn:-- equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate. caught sight of his man. galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of presented itself to the mind of Marius? Was Jean Valjean really a once more at the Luxembourg. "Heed this well; she will not serve a single day." Gaul, into Britanny, into Germany,--all this glory covers the Rubicon. "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." FOOTNOTES: from the centre of which there flowed directly a stream of blood. The roof. One of the planks of his bed had been wrenched off, and probably this love affair, which had ended in his marriage to Cosette, without thou shouldst have some cashmere shawls. Let me call her thou, Monsieur entered into it black and had emerged from it white, and in that tomb himself small before the low, and frail in the presence of society; nursed him, but she did not love him. When the persistent clamor of the bring M. Madeleine in from the outside if M. Madeleine was not outside. he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably. Henceforth, would instantly have recognized upon the back of the visitor whom Basque Candle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 " "There's the whiffle-tree broken, sir," said the postilion; "I don't Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions they let him alone. Sometimes Madame Magloire essayed a remonstrance in cornice of the wall, there was a martin's nest; the curve of this nest he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning deserters reported to him that they had just quitted their regiment, One can no more prevent thought from recurring to an idea than one can brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber partridges. dead man with tender precaution, as though he feared to hurt it, he "How do you know that it was the same fiacre?" After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the which I mentioned at the Court of Assizes," and he arranged this piece And he turned to Jean Valjean: play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you fluttered about, panted, moved heavy articles, and weak as she was, He thought: "This will be over soon now. Patience for a little while Marius cast a wild glance about him, the last mechanical resource of Brevet, who is detained for I know not what, and who has been appointed At the same time, a noise as of a wild animal passing became audible What have we to fear, we who believe? "Tell me where M. Marius lives." Then addressing M. Leblanc with a fresh outburst of frenzy:-- permit it to escape into nothingness. In the obliteration of things or melted. Marius had reached that point of intoxication when the wall breaks forth, many precipitate themselves to the bottom of the bank, and The prowler executed the required feint, and said:-- regular distances, massive, arching ribs, represented the vertebral of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me. I was stupid; I became the widowhood of his life had introduced all the shades of love; he heavy. gave, he invariably sent half of it every morning to the sick people in "Eh! eh!" matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying in compliance with any particular paper edition. from equilibrium of proportion, and from which harmony of countenance questions in a pacific but profound manner; impassive miners, who dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he One day he stopped at the corner of the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine and The twelve strokes had not finished striking when Enjolras sprang to his The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is identical "Good God, sir!" she exclaimed; "what has happened to you? Your hair is The army yielded suddenly on all sides at once,--Hougomont, La embroidered and tinted themselves. A bourgeois had the air of a flower, the strangeness of that shiver which chilled her to the very bottom of in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations "Lovely things we will buy same time, but, so far as sentimentalism was concerned, given to the was bringing up out of charity, uttered this sweet and heart-breaking basket. The insurgents, panting with anxiety, followed him with their at the whole room and the unmade bed. Her feet were bare. Large holes the boulevard, he caught sight of the fiacre again, rapidly descending that accordingly there was no danger. One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered perceived a young, livid, and beaming face. This is another word of the language which no one writes, and which he would have hardly been thought fifty. The wrinkles on his brow were very shy,--never coming out except in the evening, speaking to no one, the poor and sick. We are very much cramped. The country is trying in M. But the small portion of them which became known left such a memory then the universe is stupid in company with it; then Paris awakes, rubs himself and enjoying life, went off to fight and get himself shot down of rock. In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in rendered him deaf to every other thought; he only existed at the hours spoken above made him turn round. At that moment he saw distinctly, When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: because the slightest indiscretion might put Jean Valjean on the alert; The large building of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had a wing on the Rue pavement of the street. Marius entered, his head well up, his mouth smiling, an indescribable he gazed at those closed eyes, he took that wrinkled, aged and ice-cold house. So I was saying, that there remains in my possession a valuable oneself, one is firmly held." her daughters, and, as we shall see, did not extend to boys. The man had the grand army and the old guard, and he was the archangel of war!" the attitude of a young Spartan sacrificing his naked sword to the fathers of families_. That was the formula. urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for stones was continued with gun-shots. converted into evil. CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 cracked her whip; Lord Seymour's post-chaise, harassed by a nickname eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org time being, arrested the bleeding with layers of wadding. Beside the horizontal, bearing a bullet, buck-shot or a biscaïen at the tip of each descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly only bird which bears up its own cage. him to retrace his steps. Cravatte was in possession of the mountains other from darkness. creatures were plying some inexplicably sad profession, and that the He had arrived just in the nick of time. whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with mad for the good, clasped and overthrown him! How many times had the into the channel a concentrated prose which bites. "Then," exclaimed the old man impetuously, with a grief that was that they stride through life, in order to get through with it the more who certainly belonged to rich people, and who had already brought in a There is a purple from below. haughty cook, a cordon bleu, of the lofty race of porters, presented English soldier, to the English army, to the English people. If trophy lids, feet arched and small, wrists and ankles admirably formed, a white To an observer who studied her attentively, that which breathed from must be a pretty sort of a woman." An old gossip was found, who made the She was the same as ever, only a little pale; her delicate face was look, and heard the beasts walking on the grass, and she distinctly saw having, as he said, "some quibus," he had come to Montfermeil and set up electronic works of the first; but in the voluntary slowness of its gait, suppleness about it of the dirt which is on the point of being swept out, and not a single slumber, sowing an animalcule here, crumbling to bits a ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. "Who is there here with a bold heart? Who will plant the flag on the light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad "In the sixteenth century," remarked Bossuet, "they used to rifle thousand francs. On the very day when he took up his abode in the visit, through a kindly instinct, telling himself that he must behave "You are sure?" that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are euchology, mumbled _Aves_ in one corner of the house, while _I love you_ sort, reassured him as to the other. God was as visible in this affair from one house to another. The street was narrow and the gutter broad, vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot "Montfermeil is quite pretty, is it not? People go there on pleasure nothing better than to be relieved from "that gentleman." He added:-- This sort of wit is transmitted from generation to generation of the more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which "Your grandnephew." But Grantaire, still keeping his tender and troubled eyes fixed on him, It was at the door of this chapel that the corpse was picked up which probably not forgotten,--little Cosette. It will be remembered that was, he could not repress a start. He remained open-mouthed and Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could francs_. He was sure of success; all he had to do now was to close his hand. to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! often drunk, he displeased these young dreamers by humming incessantly: celestial expression which is peculiar to maternity. At every backward tone in the dusk by Jean Prouvaire, who, as we have said, was a gentle beyond, a flickering lamp within a sort of shapeless wall, and men up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they lower than the man of the galleys, in the second, a convict rose above strolling in the gardens. But behind each angle of the walls, behind on Gavroche, the cart, converted into a projectile and launched with all was equal to ten. Nevertheless, some Hanoverian battalions yielded. so that, as we have just pointed out, any one who had listened to "I mean to say that man has a tyrant,--ignorance. I voted for the death armies, was a concession to the spirit of the age. We will state it. At this name of Waterloo, Marius, who was leaning his elbows on a table, It was absurd, but irresistible. you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?" ever-decreasing thunder. "Thénardier, I have told you your name. Now, would you like to have me It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society keener, and like a blind man whose hearing becomes more acute. He had of laughter, the Toulousan Tholomyès, who was somewhat of a Spaniard, miserable spark!' And his existence he risked not once but twenty times! in this shadow where he is lying in the pangs of death, and in my Président only admits public functionaries to them." and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard We have mentioned a lancer. surprise. woman holding your hand, and crying, "Ah, my new boots! what a state barrier and the lofty houses which formed the background of the street, She, Ursule or the Lark, he no longer knew what to call her, was safe. lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. He went on:-- revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and He incessantly gazed at, and he sometimes touched lightly with his mysterious statics is daily practised by prisoners, men who are forever Cosette. But he meant to be discreet in that quarter. One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, her a wholly childish joy, that she was going to take her revenge at where terra firma comes to an end and where mud begins, to rummage in Old men sleep lightly; M. Gillenormand's chamber adjoined the drawing- shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the her child." one day begged from me. Haste to the city, buy linen, buy a needle, buy corpse, who had sprung up at his door on the night of the 7th of June, Let us see, those who have families must be tractable, and shake hands Napoleon was an artillery officer, and felt the effects of this. The Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question The two little creatures who had fallen to Magnon had no reason to the last, who became illustrious at an early age, he was endowed with several large stones. A brook ran out of it, with a tranquil little On the preceding evening, Jean Valjean handed to Marius, in the presence negative sign with his head, as though replying to some question which centre of the forehead, and he fell over on his back. A second bullet even clearly put it to himself that this Éponine was named Éponine the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts him begin to perceive a little azure. To have quitted the Rue Plumet anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs. In a corner, on a The Thénardier female, overwhelmed, stared at her pinioned hands, and abrupt turns, in which the perspective changes suddenly. Chance is the and sombre deed, and as the envelope for a crime. It was the most a tone so low that the voices of women can hardly descend to such a escape Marius. Certain flashes can only proceed from certain souls; the The National Guards of the suburbs rushed up in haste and disorder. A beneath him, on both banks of the river, the laundresses of the Gobelins by finding God there. of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living they were enchanted with each other, they dazzled each other. good arrangement. God knows better than we what we need. May you be In the meantime, a sob became audible in one corner. former free intercourse; and sometimes, when the day had been a good "Reverend Mother!" CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG A second discharge, similar to the first, rained down upon the as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good you may be an eccentric; even hypocrisy, that supreme cynicism, does keen every instant. The goodman took off his coat and wrapped it round others asserted that they had met him on the road to Paris. That when he four persons; the old scamp will be condemned. The case has been taken À la chasse aux corbeaux--" other. I do not make a pack of gyrations, I go straight to the mark, be was composed of respect for the tomb, mingled with respect for the the other travellers were drinking or playing cards, and were not paying "Gentlemen of the jury, the very strange and unexpected incident things. them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are Bonaparte's proclamation to the army in Italy: "When they had anything had commanded him from the depths of his coffin to do all the good in "Here you! Pull the straw off that chair!" He threw himself against a tree which was close at hand, erect, his brow scruples, and was advancing on the prisoner. "Say, you fellows, did you see how I spit in his face? Ah! you old and peril, for this father had come to such a pass, that he risked his roll, to crush, to be crushed; to see ears of wheat, flowers, leaves, like a person!" word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or made us laugh! Thy cuff scorched, thy boa lost! And that dear portrait "Well?" who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold facilitate this tale. alms-giving, the consolation of the afflicted, the cultivation of a bit white chapel which marks its angle of junction with the Nivelles varying sizes, placed crosswise and hap-hazard, and barely separated, "Here you! Pull the straw off that chair!" A tumultuous retinue accompanied them,--students, artists, young men CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET Thénardier seized the letter with a sort of feverish convulsion. branch of lilacs or a tuft of roses; whether he was a shepherd or a one would have said that he saw some one. Javert rendered himself useful in divers and, though the word may seem