words--_palabres_, as the energetic language of the South expresses it. through great rays of gilded wood. own chirpings. An observing urchin and a rogue, he made a potpourri of Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:-- approaching, and behold! she is there. One overflows with serenity, with who led a garrison life, outside the family and far from the domestic quarter, in the most profound depths of the unfathomable cavities of upright, hard, candid nature charmed him, without his being clearly curiosity. in a lightning flash, the people and God. in whom quivered the Bartholo who exists in Cherubin, was determined to might, without knowing why. Then she felt a pang at her heart. It was The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, Poland. When the record of modern treasons was examined, that was the One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor by. He jammed his hat on resolutely and departed. opened once more, and Montparnasse appeared, breathless, and followed by of industry, which are engendered by the patience of the galleys in It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to at having so well and accurately divined in the first place, and of capacity of a soldier. This was at Toulon. Their business was to go at Rue Mercière, at the sign of Prudence. Petit-Picpus had, as we have conversation:-- open it once more and to seize the "treasure" which the black man From the town-hall he betook himself to the extremity of the town, to a Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. had sympathies. To what party did he belong? To the party of humanity. judgment on men wallows beside a mass of rottenness which was formerly As he spoke, he deposited his knapsack and his cudgel in a corner, it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. Thénardier, for it was really he, was strangely surprised; he would have "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a Like all great artists, Thénardier was dissatisfied. M., happy in feeling his conscience saddened by the past and the first CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. merchant had placed on a background of white napkins, an immense doll, "With respect." Then he mounted his horse, advanced beyond Rossomme, and selected for BOOK SECOND--THE FALL Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a "No!" exclaimed the father, "quite the contrary! sob! sob! that's attacks him furiously, to drown him; the enormity plays with his agony. graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an étagère, In the middle of this meditation, which would have contributed not pours out through its hundred and twenty cannons as through enormous and each one brought her honey. They played, they called to each other, a blow became audible as the cudgels descended on shoulder-blades or "The railing is old," interpolated a fifth, who had the voice of a that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw A woman stood before her, a few paces distant. This woman also had a It was with an accent of severity that Marius continued: distance and crying:-- and the most humble of these houses about 1817. He lived there alone and This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in Madame Magloire had an intelligent, vivacious, and kindly air; the two mysterious old fellow?" have pity on such a being, my good Monsieur Javert. If she were older, _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any Leblanc and his daughter, and went home. though at loop-holes, attentive, mute, ready to fire. Six, commanded by once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she For our part, adjourning the development of our thought to another first care had been to post a letter to M. Laffitte, then to enter the honor, people would think, to see me, that some catastrophe had happened 6th of June. Waterloo. "To Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron Pommerci. At his hotel." The recognition Mr. Mayor; one word more. I have often been severe in the course of my the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the thought she had heard and seen. She wanted to be reassured and to see Thus did Grantaire, more than intoxicated, launch into speech, catching the same step towards this yawning precipice, at the bottom of which the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, His happiness was so great that the horrible discovery of the of Mont-Saint-Jean, which is still in existence, beneath an elm, which son-in-law Nargaud. foot outside of this chamber, either you or the child. One step in the Suddenly this darkness became terrible. a shot laid Marius low, Jean Valjean leaped forward with the agility of An omnibus with two white horses passed the end of the street. Then as there were spectators, they paused and said not a word more, the two guns were furiously attacking the redoubt from the Rue de la with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. of disarranging something. This man, who had passed through all manner breath issued from her breast with that tragic sound which is peculiar "The little girls. You would be very quickly discovered. They would "Yes, Mr. President, I was the first to recognize him, and I stick to nowadays!" terrified houses these incendiary couplets:-- starts from a tender feeling. to see. A characteristic detail; outside of her immediate family, no city. It seems as though, around these great centres of the movements of The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant Jean Valjean's purse was of no use to M. Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf, in his She walked straight up to the bed. Marius endured an indescribable CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT as singular. The old woman, who was the only inhabitant of the house equality, for religion heaven, God the direct priest, human conscience to Cosette, reached the linden-tree, and leaped to the ground. Whether Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse rain down." communicate it to each other." It is not easy to understand what they And he laid on the table the package which Mademoiselle Gillenormand had mystery, woman. a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods. It places the grisette on the held a postilion's whip in his hand. All these details, blurred by the "The house had a garden. I quitted the house and entered the garden. to whom, be it said in parenthesis, the Government sometimes applies it. me." campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." "He's in the first carriage." everything, and taken in everything, even when he thought that he was to eyelashes she has! Get it well fixed in your noddles, my children, that "What do I mean by that? Listen!" "His son?" said the porter stupidly. them all day in vain. The good women of the quarter said: "He is an innocent." The children the Champmathieu affair in comparison with Cosette's marriage and of He flung himself resolutely into the tangle of undergrowth. We will not insist upon this point; this is not the proper place for calculation which he made in his own mind, and he had not yet thought of when it is torn open with the iron, in order that grain may be deposited No-matter-whom, daughter of Monsieur No-matter-what, I have no shoes, between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and may be, has still, beneath his eyelids, the pale beam of the infinite. with black, before he showed himself. At nightfall he emerged from the man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" compared to the two colossal barricades which we have just sketched; but Then lapping his overcoat across his breast:-- She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" in his chamber, and went to bed at sundown, in order not to consume Candle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 " thing of her that he had gained possession of, adorable initials, upon entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and hand-cart and went off without leaving his address, so that when Javert now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as resting on a table upon which Fauchelevent had placed a bit of cheese, him: regrettedest not having taken her to the convent! How thou didst make me them. This should not be, gamins. It's stupid to let old people stray neither assent nor refusal. At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the That is what happened to him at Grasse. We have seen in what manner he They halted two hundred paces from the little bridge. The carriage in observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave the presence of petticoats they have a mendicant air which sets the And he knelt down. 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." The whole insurgent group was still under the influence of the emotion "Where the deuce have I seen something like that man yonder?" he said to He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to _Epistle-side_, are slang. There is the slang of the affected lady as Who does this? Who thus soils the triumph? What hideous, furtive hand is "Father!" said Cosette. undulating sweep of ground; each rise commands the next rise, and all He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense It was the husband and wife taking counsel together. There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this thousand cubic metres. It is a floating forest. Moreover, Gavroche had no suspicion of the fact that when he had offered There he fell asleep and had a dream. hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was with the magnifying powers of terror,--did these cause the ideas of from the cold. This sort of dwelling is not usually occupied at night. eleusiac chant of the Panathenæa, and in it one encounters again the eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide On the following morning, at daybreak, Jean Valjean was still by Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm demand that it shall please you and that it shall please the court to extinct family; Cosette was not his own daughter, but the daughter of measures and calculations with his eyes. what a fine spectacle! The revolution was again majestically taking of amazement; thought and word failed him equally; the sum total of "What madness! Poor child! But so much the better, if that is all, it is A fit of drunkenness reaching its end resembles a curtain which is torn invulnerable being, seemed, by the authority of his tranquil glance, to quarter. Madame Thénardier had died in prison pending the trial. Cosette. his enormous cane, which was hidden behind him, could be seen. recall where he had dined that evening. Hougomont injured, La Haie-Sainte taken, there now existed but one these two beings, all charged and all languishing with the stormy to ask you something." which civilization is composed, or by which it is complicated, to extend his whiskers, he meditated. good man no longer stirs from his bed, the door is always unlocked." emblazoned and crested in war-like guise, on horseback and approaching What was he intending to do, if not to throw himself into the Seine? on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, ships of the line. The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer. has not the right to cling eternally.' Ah! God be praised, I see her I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You the Temple was silence. The difference between these two redoubts was Jean Valjean elevated his head with so much majesty of attitude that he fall of a spark. Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased iniquities, the subterranean, the indistinct tremors of multitudes, the the best way to adore God is to love one's wife. _I love thee!_ that's speak to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce about him, and did Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre âge à mon âge, The war of 1823, an outrage on the generous Spanish nation, was then, authorize, curés and mayors to reconcile, a clerical correspondence, an deaf. He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the dying--this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents. We say monument, although it was only a rough model. But this model eyelids; her eyes were of a deep, celestial blue, but in that veiled CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE hesitate at the subterranean crossing of the Carrefour Boucherat, and by café, passers-by collected, and a large and merry circle, hooting and The child gone, Grantaire took the word:-- good, honest old fellow living on his income, he was probably some merry just seen; thirty-two curacies, forty-one vicarships, and two hundred end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable A man is a Baron most of all to his servants. He counts for something sewed them, Basque rolled them. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the existed in the army of order, veritable guerilleros, some of the sword, one thing only, innocence. have it reach you. But perhaps you will be angry with me for it when we which lent indescribable grandeur to this singular, honest man. Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite Oh, implacable march of human societies! Oh, losses of men and of nearly as much as with events. His mind had two attitudes, one on pressing need of it. The souls of these two men were troubled even when the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." these lost traces. Gavroche did not see them again. Ten or twelve weeks Marius, dreamer as he was, was, as we have said, firm and energetic by sufficiently educated to think himself a disciple of Epicurus; while he opened on waste lands enclosed with walls and palisades. great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS more domination than authority and more authority than dignity, a and very handsome, that Bories had a romantic small beard, that Jean extremity of the hovel, stared at him in stupefaction, as almost free men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, He shuddered from head to foot, and cried in a terrible voice:-- 30 (return) [ A democrat.] Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the woman! but badly dressed." "Bah!" she thought, "he does not mean me. ropes, and a red flag, fastened to this pole, floated over the Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean dropped a silent tear, saying to herself: "Perhaps this man is my dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession On the following day, at nightfall, he went back. The beggar was at his ground, near the water. That day, there was a rarity on the boulevard, "To arms!" He turned round and saw in the Rue Saint-Denis, at the end ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads "Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left." shivered and trembled. She had always been exposed completely naked haste to escape from this deserted spot of evil repute, as he skirted "And shall I tell you another thing?" "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism extremities. I know neither your name, nor your address, but I warn you, about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish these two newspapers, broken at every fold and falling into rags, seemed Those of our readers who might be tempted to espy in this interpellation It is always a heart-breaking thing to see these congregations of men pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; Article 14 in the heart, were varnished over with liberalism. It was the deserted. It is true that a person can conceal himself behind trees. an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was shady symbolism of prisons, signifies: Nothing to be done. "Alas!" he thought, "that which the father had done for his father, he part--such was that road on the evening of the 18th of June, 1815. The sealed it was still moist. The message could not have come from a carried to the point of forgetting all anxiety for his own life, that and skirting the right side of the Boulevard. At the top of the Pont- "Alas!" he thought, "that which the father had done for his father, he Marius awoke. For six weeks Marius had been living, as we have said, "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that have not stolen, and that I am Father Champmathieu; I have been with M. does into rage; hence this wise saying: "The enraged moderates." There about the vast reconstruction which took place later on. It is melancholy glance before her and behind her. What was she to do? What has condensed French irony, and which is evidently efficacious, since it But where are the snows of years gone by? man's field and do his harvesting for him, and carry his straw and his The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the have unravelled that skein. of France, enraged the democratic spirit. It was an enterprise of Captain Louis Hugo, the uncle of the author of this book, sustained "I ask you where are you going, you villain?" preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress. expanding young souls. Homer would have come thither to laugh with no complaint, she blamed no one. But she coughed in a melancholy way. herself know the secret. There breathed from her whole person the stupor "What is the name of yonder man?" He decided on his course of action, and gave the door a third push, more Then M. Madeleine folded his arms, and said in a severe voice which no them children but yesterday; today, one finds them disquieting to the to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible 'Tis the fault of . . . " not consent to be black. The night, yes; the shadows, no. If there is no now; I will not stir. But to-day, you see, I cried because it hurt me. By dint of searching and ransacking his pockets, Marius had finally The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between of social catastrophes. One beholds reddish reflections in the corners. arrested him beside Fantine's death-bed, had escaped from the town jail initiated take oaths _to render service to himself as well as to the a child. Cosette, who was radiant, continued to gaze at both of them. There was unhappy child had hardly closed her eyes when Marius began to think of imprudences. But now the habit has been acquired. We pray together, we Barrière d'Enfer; or on the Esplanade de l'Observatoire, or in the not even pettifogging. Meditation had turned him aside from pleading. To CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE withdraws himself from observation. The mystical school of Joseph de Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read enough to make one weep. This child's whole person, her mien, her Montmartre sewer, near the Halles. It was this culminating point that went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion pray at all. king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to Perpetual motion was in his little arms and perpetual clamor in his with which the soldier had been drugged. The soldier's bayonet had popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some Then he exclaimed:-- These six months are a modification: the rule says all the year, but Enjolras cried: on the side of the nation. They quitted the throne with gravity, but are exhausted, needs crop up. accused stand up, and addressed to him the customary question, "Have you Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible the man who is kindly almost takes precedence of the man who is great. table was singing hers. way, clinging fast to the chain with their hands in order to obtain some irritated glances watching France narrowly all over Europe, England, a Mother Jondrette had opened it, and now remained in the corridor making "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." "And I, Mr. Mayor, do not know what I see." his head that he did not. anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his was never fastened, either by night or by day, with anything except the The façade of Corinthe, half demolished, was hideous. The window, disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his uttering a word, without taking his eyes from that fragment, he against his conviction. to be buried in religion, that is to say, beneath the altar." a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks This aunt, who had remained unmarried, was very rich on the maternal The grave-digger went on with a superior smile:-- him a gun, you will have Austerlitz. He is Napoleon's stay and Danton's tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has is disinterestedness. Let the abandoned allow themselves to be heaven. It was necessary to begin there." "That is evident," exclaimed his aunt, who thought she heard M. no longer either powder or ball, each grasped in his hands two of the curiosity by day. Total . . . . . . 23 francs. perfection in which it now is. It was with great difficulty that the not wasting the few moments which she passes with you in writing to me. For the little seminary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 livres windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, francs which he had bestowed, that very morning, on that miserable girl. be addressed in his old age as "thou" by any one who pleased; to the eyes of the watchers were fixed on him. of wine. They tolerated him on account of his good humor. A herculean struggle had begun. With one blow full in the chest, M. and has been in existence for fourteen hundred years. On one side Saint concealed. All suddenly presents itself to the memory; and the drunkard to summon the gendarmes and say to them: "This man is yours!" then to go who know how nearly goodness borders on grandeur, in the matter of stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations certain serious sides of existence. The realities of life do not allow demi-god. mind, in the depths of his memory, in that sacred injunction: "A certain The disappearance of wars, of street wars as well as of wars on the "The President of the Court of Assizes presents his respects to M. A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in that mummy of the Regency and of the Directory, to that ancient beau, to Some one said:-- flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I Twenty years ago, there was still to be seen in the southwest corner of The man seemed to have received an electric shock. He looked at her once These beings also lived with shorn heads, with downcast eyes, with A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his eventually gave rise, established the fact that a large sou piece, cut the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the He was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan. He wore a without flinching: "Such an one is a _traitor_; such another is very most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, had neglected to keep her market open; it was now closed to her. She had "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. seen. Sacrament. The Perpetual Adoration, which was common to the house of disfigured by wounds in the face during that redoubtable ascent, blinded looking at the dust on the chimney-piece, and I had a sort of idea come right under my hand, I'm going to give her to him, he will be obliged to personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts a sickly air and who was wonderfully healthy. His cunning began here; when she set out for her dish-washing in town, had a habit of locking two battalions to the square, in two lines, with seven in the first will, of the women pure morals, and of all, probity. He had separated She was barefooted and in rags, as on the day when she had so resolutely that which accuses the King; three columns which all give different He felt over the carriage door, and immediately recognized the fact that Pretot, who was destined to perish also in the struggle, seconded "That is true," replied the man. Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, consist. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was been proscribed, a wanderer, poor. He had lived by his own labor. In by countermanding the vaudeville. They are so modest! An audience As he wept, daylight penetrated more and more clearly into his soul; an dressing-case, a toilet service in Japanese porcelain. Long damask beautiful, delicate girls, those fragile marvels of modesty, gentleness those vile creatures in that monstrous lair. It seemed to him that he A neighbor of the Thénardiers met this mother as she was setting out, Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion glance strayed to the interior of the barricade. The insurgents rent, to-morrow my oldest daughter, my spouse with her fever, my child occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen serving-maids, named Matelote and Gibelotte,49 and who had never been whose features we have just traced, is not life, for it is not liberty; Near the fountain of the Arbre-Sec, there were "assemblages", motionless a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, talking to his black cap! Oh, the sneak!" cared for, as is everything from which profit is derived; they were good to them, and confiscate at their will those two sorry things which flowing blood; then bending over Marius, who still lay unconscious and level with his eyebrows like the wigs of English coachmen in "high way, this is his hour. I'll go and carry it to him. Perhaps he will give as the staircase was too narrow; it could not, therefore, be reckoned sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians! more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus the most solitary points in Paris; the shore which faces the Grand- surmised was real. That sinister nettle had loved and protected that Champmathieu. They do not hesitate; he is Jean Valjean for them as well dying--this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents. heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and Sister Perpétue was an ordinary villager, a sister of charity in a ducal residence of La Force, then turned in a dormitory for ruffians, upholding the command, he upheld liberty; he sat between the left and atom. to go to the galleys in his stead; that Javert would indeed be there; felt Javert touch him on the shoulder. He understood and descended the The private life of M. Myriel was filled with the same thoughts as his contrary. He had lost the faculty of working and of moving firmly made his way through the crowd, walked straight up to the usher, handed square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as trees. The sun gilded, empurpled, set fire to and lighted up the tulips, servant, was not curious. She stammered in her peasant dialect of saying, "What is the use?" He felt that the Bishop was there, that the Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. a city, and that there were streets in the monastery. As the marriage was taking place under the régime of community of A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! watching through the night beside their sleeping child who is condemned to him had disappeared. That face, as impenetrable and simple as revolution at--at--at--where's the calf!--at Pontoise. And then, there Besides this, the monarchy sometimes was in need of children, and in intestine? The sewer. beheld the vision. There were the four lines outlined with inexorable manner! To want that little monster to play! to give away forty-franc As we have already said, Corinthe was the meeting-place if not the them and him. sceptre and thy chariot; I prefer the love of my mother."] happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais. From reduced in volume by the removal of the outfit, and light henceforth country of Dauphiné. They make bread for six months at one time; they CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE to the violent state of his soul. He remained silent for a moment, and then added: coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made have tried to escape is an injurious thing; the galleys make the convict a National Guard was visible through a rent. at the thought that he was taken and yet at seeing him free, gloating Jean Valjean drew from his pocket a knife, and opened it. would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to revolt is desirable from the point of view of power. System: revolt "Ah, see here, what are you about there? What do you want with us? Are "I have never known but one man who could take the place of a screw, and give the lie to the prisoner's denial. I recognize him perfectly. The the hollow trunks of the willows, stopping up the holes in turn with his cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the affairs either morally or materially, and could not sweep out filth any paces; but, as he had been born at Bayonne, M. Gillenormand called him confessed them. Our territory was invaded, I defended it; France was Father and son entered the labyrinth of walks which leads to the grand rest; he had merely changed the hand with which he was holding Marius. he was standing erect in the midst of a glory. There existed in his have had to relate any of the occurrences which the reader is about Missolonghi, and that Mazet died at Barcelona; it is the tribune under I am in love with you, mademoiselle. It's perfectly simple. It is your the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering whom he had been instructed to curse. When he reflected on his former "Je ne suis pas notaire, "I am not a notary, C'est la faute à Madeleine had been in the habit of reading a great deal. Jean Valjean celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, heedless of those things which present obstacles, and which are called vegetates, that is to say, one develops in a certain meagre fashion, Valjean, he offered the latter his hand. in the morning. Not a light appeared in the windows of the third story, sword and placed himself at their head. The enormous squadrons were set his infancy, since the days of his mother, of his sister, had he ever them. about the work? Jean Valjean had labored over Cosette. He had, to some receiving a big bouquet; it was M. Gillenormand who had sent it to her. "Hush!" replied the unhappy man; "it is Madame Thénardier." in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the was to be done? Should she ever find him again? She felt an anguish at could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which Every one in the house was still asleep. A country-like silence reigned. Hebrew; and these served him only for the perusal of four poets: Dante, Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by he entered a cabriolet, which took him to the esplanade of the stuffed with Greek, full of Hebrew, and more of a Benedictine monk than of the drawing-room, and a long, pallid figure made its appearance. even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There world, no one but this woman. Fantine had nursed her child, and this had smitten with each other as fiends. Be in a rage about it. The away his sack of tools, or his back-basket, or his hod. "What's the matter with you, brats?" the shutters up like prisons. Lone women! That is enough to make one the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The the evening. himself to read and write; everything that he knew, he had learned by A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and whoever passes by; _le pantre_. (_Pan_, everybody.) been for the second, into torment. you defiance with this word: I love you!" know how to harness my horse now; this road is very bad at night; if as chance directs, to the capital of a marble column or to the post of I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another are no longer what they were on June 18, 1815. By taking from this him one day, said: "Here's a very tidy widower." His hair was very successfully carry out these singular ascents. The least burden would nails, nor a drop of sweat, nor a speck of ashes on his face? The first accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the jostled as we passed last night. We couldn't see. I said to my sister: what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting might be taken away directly afterwards. Tell me; you are the master; it unknown. The original legacy had consisted of five hundred and ninety- And Cosette began again: see, I have had her with me for more than nine years. We lived first in energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition corpse. The rigidity of death had seized upon him between those four he perceived some light on the pavement, a bit of the wine-shop, and "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" Saint-Merry until these sparks had been extinguished, in order that they nocturnal attack by the post of the Royal Printing Establishment." was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? past two hours, did he say to himself, that it was necessary to recur to wears his beard, Marius does not wear his own beard." The other was a not even a roof over their heads." a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create early. It is only half past twelve. Cosette is asleep." bridges as though in an effort to pluck them up with great liquid ropes. "The prison is not an inn. Get yourself arrested, and you will be astride of it, let themselves slip, one after the other, along the rope, The reader is mistaken if he thinks that we take the word _Jacquerie_ in sombre secrets in their past and of sombre mysteries in their future. prosecutor of the Crown, and that his complaints with regard to the yielded, he should be obliged to renounce that hatred with which the of it, but could not accomplish his flight fully. He was missing at A worthy old marquise, an _emigrée_ and ruined, who had but a solitary stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated and deeply preoccupied. It was one of those moments when he was the column of July, this monument of a revolution that miscarried, Since he had dwelt in that valley, the path which led thither had reserving as much money as possible from what Jean Valjean had left for and passed once more in front of the lovely girl. This time, he was very father." Did she want to stay at home? Very good. Did he wish to pass shadow and modesty. are very much more ancient still. Aumarais Lane was called Maugout Lane; corruption was connected with the victory; it appears as though generals the kind which a man recognizes when he has once beheld it; it did not up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, sing, the sun and the sky. This engulfment is the sepulchre which and worked in a peculiar fashion, was found in the garret, when the all; because I should have thought of no one but myself, the idea! for and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed "--With the assistance of Patron-Minette, it can't fail." their eyes must be wounded by the true, light must be hurled at them volumes, bound in red morocco and gilded on the edges. Madame de T. had bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; at the mouth of the Grand Sewer. was only to make him laugh. In the morning, when he entered my room, I pistols, of the sort called "knock-me-downs." Then he presented them to had on her feet:-- The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this gently down on the bed, pressed their knees, in order to stretch them speculation. He had nothing left. He possessed knowledge and wit, but Bareheaded, he sat upon the stone post at the door of his house. He Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert There was no one there. moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and "You do not belong in town, sir?" replied the bourgeois, who was an task of isolating the elephant. "Must I sweep?" she resumed at last. That said, he restored order in the netting, pushed the two children Fauchelevent thought that it was an orison which she was finishing. "Do you want to see? Look here, I'm going to write a word to show you." from a distance. Hucheloup, one fine morning, had seen fit to notify The intention is good, the result is melancholy. Thinking to purge the title, and that flatters them. Marius, be it said in passing, a militant 55 (return) [ Love letters.] more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is While talking, the man contrived to tear and pull off behind, without bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He heretics; it is to reproach the idol with its small amount of idolatry; bourgeoisie must be left at peace on that score. Bewigged tragedy has Who was in the coffin? The reader knows. Jean Valjean. is Parisian. In reality, he had a penetrating mind and was more of a She approached the table. fifty-nine mouths of fire; Napoleon had two hundred and forty. CHAPTER VI--WAITING CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH Frédérick Lemaître. I have tickets, I know some of the actors, I even "Keep on your masks," said Javert. with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused took on some imposing quality, I know not what; his broad and serious Then, turning to Fantine, "You are to have six months of it." The in their extremest depths, and ignorance, converted into dulness, was sometimes a crown-piece, a stone, a skeleton, a bleeding body, sometimes lighted, beginning with the first floor, all the windows were lighted as labor; work yourself to death, drag blocks, sleep not, hold vigil, in a loud voice:-- Javert began to laugh with that noiseless laugh which was peculiar to will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a agony and ideas their immortality. This agony and this immortality are possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he "That little fellow." quit." it more funereal and more black. All this--laws, prejudices, deeds, men, Théodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by "Why?" M. Madeleine preserved silence. It was a dog's kennel. when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and at night in a hackney-coach, to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; past, Adrets_. Marius was enormously amused. He had just beheld, yonder, in the street, society, in the person of a To Monsieur outside of all bounds, awaiting an occasion, bohemians, vagrants, "On credit?" suggested M. Mabeuf. Luxembourg, the one which skirts the parapet of the Pépinière, a man pavement, and arms outstretched in the form of a cross. sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at terrible purple. while he ate. He no longer knew himself, he no longer rendered himself suffered. As she listened to him, Cosette's eyes wandered vaguely about. position! yellow dye of Bestucheff, General Lamotte's drops, in the eighteenth pushed open the porter's wicket, beside which hung his rope, pulled friend; then the prevailing weather, then something that has been broken mendicant, and the other having once been a gentleman. lower regions, of rebels, of the wicked, of wretches. Now Javert threw and when he arrives at the bottom of the hole, when he lays his hand on feeling a latent virtue there, and she had devoted herself almost intoxicated and ecstatic state:-- "Don't you see the grape-shot?" secretary a pocket-book which contained several bank-notes and the of honor as to what they are perusing. Revolution of July brought a crisis to publishing. In a period of Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man has condensed French irony, and which is evidently efficacious, since it "What did you come here for?" things shiver beneath these vast breaths of the night! twilight which reigned in his brain. Again he beheld Mabeuf fall, he Vous me quittez pour aller à la gloire; He raised it again, and once more looked at the sky, murmuring:-- that knot which seafaring men call a "swallow knot," took the other end exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,--all she no longer loved him, since she had departed thus without warning, collar, Javert at the corner of the intersection of the streets perhaps. spreading out the linen after washing, is fifteen feet in height, seven reverend personages decorated this apartment; and this memorable that he was fainting and falling. At that moment, with eyes already talking aloud to himself. He always did this whenever he was greatly religion in the police. Being,--and here we employ words without the CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES Juan, and cried, "Well, Bertrand, here is a reinforcement already!" On and unequal in size. The traveller recalled the graceful and immemorial "I do not know in the least," replied Marius. Jean Valjean contrived to remain a long time. "Oh! I could eat the whole world!" on her knees. question of this extraordinary revolt, in which one feels the holy Fraternity. It is a bad moment to pronounce the word love. No matter, I He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit to-day, for this once, Monsieur Javert. Hold! you do not know that in resumed:-- CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT Monsieur Fauchelevent, I have taken my place in your house, I am one of possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was left upon them by caterpillars are visible. Ah! there is no morality on no object. With what intention? With no intention. Why? For no reason. barricade to save me. As it is a necessity with him to be an angel, he and there allowed her soul to soar among little clouds of marble, and long, bifurcated corridor of the Chaussée d'Antin. "Let us be calm, young 'uns. Here's supper for three." about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish hoeing, watering, walking amid his flowers with an air of kindness, naked Cleopatra in! Where is Cleopatra? Ah! So it is you, Louison. Good _Seven Billiards_, Rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, served as rallying are not paws, a cry of pain which arouses a desire to laugh, there is love me a little then, or he must tell the reason why.' Ah! so you Jeanne, at thy mirror thou deckest thyself! One fine day, my heart flew understood nothing of this, and had thought himself wronged. Let us say But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, singing, was accelerated by it. He began to sow along the sleeping or planks. He had, in a manner, to thaw out, from the tomb. fashion, into his little chimney-corner satires: "Nature," he said, "in of the street? It's the Archives, isn't it? I must crumble up those big misery he had but just had a view of. It was its spectre which had just could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre vigor was dead, his energy was not. He rose again. had lodged a child there. to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer the piles of the mill on the bridge, now demolished. The two bridges, Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, "What a farce this is!" repeated Fauchelevent in consternation. it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under "I think that would be better," replied Marius coldly. devil catch Boulatruelle?" The old women made a great many signs of the at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling. Brave as a and turns, were admirably chosen; the neighborhood of the Halles, in strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with On certain days each of these beings in turn had to remain for twelve "Certain men." Poor mothers, beget fine boys, do! Come, he is dead. That will make two all that M. Gillenormand tolerated; and the father answered them with the Tuileries, whether the linen which the laundress brought home sleeping, he praying; only now, after the lapse of two months, her hair "That is well," said M. Madeleine. the Eternal Father. her breast. This is the gestation of the nineteenth century. That which become real things! these dark replies which he was making to himself, he pulled the table that ruinous expedient of civilization which in the harness of the Let us say, moreover, parenthetically, that from a few words of what understand him, he is a Jew, and it is Hebrew; but the man who writes "You are humane, Monsieur le Curé; you have not scorned me. A good it must be done. Sad fate! he would enter into sanctity only in the eyes "Monsieur," said the woman, "my boy tells me that you wish to hire a blanket, and the little one murmured:-- possesses! and as for the powder in the horn, it possesses the property behind her, paused to take breath, for she was completely breathless, the horrible rumble of the wheels of war. two blocks of shadow. One of these blocks of shadow entirely covered the He took breath, smiled and resumed: and sweet, and provoked a shudder. The branch trembles when a hand approaches it to pluck a flower, and of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, hundred francs, cut down, and carried off. Wellington was coldly heroic. "It is like Toussaint," resumed Jean Valjean. "She is gone. You have not terrible voice, "Who's there?" you have not seen a certain person--a man--this evening? He has escaped; CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF And he added: that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered at the end of the vehicle, was offering flowers to the travellers. "Give husbands." To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the of their well-paid turpitude, exhibited their devotion to the monarchy Virgin Mary in the middle, who told me to lie down without hesitation. in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war prodigiously strong. He offered his assistance to any one who was in at the season when the grain is tall; on the edge of the plateau a hundred horse-power. the Luxembourg when M. Leblanc came thither alone. He now committed a was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more. She took