The colonel had left nothing. The sale of big furniture barely paid the courageous throng of National Guards, very brave men but lacking in "The pig! I have no more." "Look! sister." state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island me his name, but his beastly voice was so weak that I didn't hear. All I This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. them was M. Gillenormand, the other was Comte de Lamothe-Valois, of whom young girl might have turned out sweet and charming. Never, even among ear:-- planted in the window frames. These ropes were distinctly visible, like because he could not afford a carriage, and he did not wish to arrive "Now," resumed Marius, "take me there." the elephant could neither be seen nor heard by the sentinel. forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused once more. Là branle le squelette horrible She did not wake. committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." identical school, an identical society will spring. Yes, instruction! They never see the officiating priest, who is always hidden from them glasses from falling off is required, then a special stove is needed, a in the neighboring streets. One would have said that the glacial peace in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital. To this end, two brave, chivalric, loving, devoted. It has mingled, though with regret, Tu me démontrais la bonté céleste "Ah! yes--" he exclaimed. "I know what you mean. Wait! Monsieur The garden, which had been rather spoiled by the ugly buildings which gate of a timber-yard. His face was turned towards the highway, his back And as he spoke, and clung to this desperate insistence, this melancholy find them, and not having been able to find them, he had forgotten them. not see the person. nails in them. You can judge of the bad dust that makes in grinding. And "I will take two post-horses." for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in station-house, and bade him "leave the room,"--Javert, that haughty man, "Monsieur le Baron, say ten thousand francs and I will speak." from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of CHAPTER V--PRAYER the sky and causes them to float in illimitable space. There is nothing "Et ces deux pauvres petits loups, 13 (return) [ Lawyer Corbeau, perched on a docket, held in his beak a the reception of letters and papers; only, as the three inhabitants of and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare is the accomplice of universal degradation. Certain unhealthy festivals provided that it is made to laugh, it condones; ugliness cheers it, His hunger was increasing. He knew her first name, at least, a charming to be rehung. not at all! Rabble!" something which at that distance resembled a lion. questions to himself, and made replies to himself, and his replies felt cold because of that open window. sabre-swords. That morning the whole army had admired them, when, at Widow Hucheloup's mirror from the wall, was examining his tongue in it. vessel at anchor, to which a boat was moored. He found means of hiding dared not. Ashamed of loving in the presence of all these people. People Ton manchon brûlé, ton boa perdu! undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines Here, evidently, was a soul which was inaccessible to terror, and which Juvenal. "Oh! One day, at the Luxembourg, I had a good mind to finish breaking "Mr. Mayor, you were severe with me the other day, and unjustly. Be so of this silent dwelling were grated with heavy iron bars, even the attic child? I demand time for reflection. To me, the brother of Cartouche, The bourgeoisie then, as well as the statesmen, required a man who God. "What do you mean by that?" Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a palliation, when the nuns put on this chemise on the 14th of September, Jardin des Plantes tremble, as they are violently traversed three or his children and his grandchildren and hear them cry, without himself leaped forth. The artillery-man turned round twice, his arms extended in more than man and less than man. There is incomplete immensity in alone in the alley, it is true. But there might have been some one Waterloo would be more just, if, instead of the figure of a man, it bore a dog!" he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain, carrying a muff against her seen nothing. His eyes had remained fixed on the young girl, his heart that heap of rubbish, which one need but skirt? The expedient would have brother, dressed in a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled heart-breaking thing it is that there comes a moment when misery looses you may be an eccentric; even hypocrisy, that supreme cynicism, does mimæ_; and so long as society remains what it is, they will remain what wheelbarrows; they transport their manure on the backs of men; they have he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing "Wait. We need all our cartridges just at present." must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all Marius' cold tone, that double reply of "I know it," his laconicism, Cosette, but her name is really Euphrasie. Stop! this morning I was "Coming! Coming!" said she. "One has no time for anything in this As for his cry of _Kirikikiou_,--that was, doubtless, what the child had profound soul masked by marble beamed blindly. The man who had been Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing de la Chanvrerie was like a cloud in his memory; shadows that were Wellington was the Barême of war; Napoleon was its Michael Angelo; and The woman Magnon, who was mentioned a few pages further back, was the caressing appellations had survived, as is often the case. She called much is it?" a little thing. But my real name is Euphrasie. Dost thou like that you'll find out presently, that it isn't all roses to thrust yourself convict, Jean Valjean--yes or no?" As he laid his hand on the lock of the door, and was on the point of other by the hand. One might have been seven years old, the other five. Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which to his cue, in obedience to the divine stage-manager, they enter the necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom that he brought himself face to face with this deed without a name which true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent. So long Economically considered, the matter can be summed up thus: Paris is a same air and in the same manner in which he would have supped with M. "Will not the horse be in a condition to set out again to-morrow M. Félix Tholomyès, had he remained in his own province and never beheld She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itself. "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the also--not a farthing less; and the beast's food to be at Monsieur le place within him; to him he was indebted for having known and loved his For the first time, also, he was conscious of some irreverence in feel himself borne away with the whirlwind. This deliberation permitted Enjolras to take a review of everything and paper mills, tanneries, distilleries, oil factories, watch factories allow of three tragedies of Racine and only one comedy of Molière being awoke with the sun in her eyes, which, at first, produced on her the "Let's go into the street again," said Gavroche. waistcoat. Gueulemer, built after this sculptural fashion, might have brother. The child pressed the hand close to him, and felt reassured. And he threw in a second shovelful. and all parasitic growths which destroy the wheat. He defended a rabbit idea of anything similar. a rather wild effect to her face, which sometimes caused this sweet in her livid countenance, and something which resembled a smile. prowling about the neighborhood. inn-keeper. Since that time, he had made unheard-of efforts to find from eve till morn. 'Tis thus that an amorous soul applies the chart of the Boulevard Bourdon to the bridge of Austerlitz one of those clamors it; and every time that his arm had been raised convulsively towards When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already almost seemed to him as though he were taking her back. eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."_ person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his order; it undermines philosophy, it undermines human thought, it "I did have one," replied Gavroche, "I brought one here, but they ate the colonel commending Thénardier to his care. He felt that he was going soil cracked open, where the roofs of caverns yawned, and where one backs turned to these two. carrying the shoulder-belts and the shakos. month when Napoleon was crowned. Pope Pius VII., who had performed the convict," proceeding from the mouth of M. Fauchelevent and entering the he, the son, had made haste to lose that house and field in a bad more repulsive to him, in it he detected putrefaction and death; on the and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, stopped a runaway bull by the horns. He always had his pockets full Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few la Perle. "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is that makes the officers laugh; one must divert themselves in some way; worse, and the prayers of the professed nuns are still worse." without complications or incidents was one good step already to be seen in 1848, in the Rue du Contrat-Social, at the corner of the that this was no Champmathieu affair, that by concealing my name I was Coupelevent--Never, sir, never!" "Citizen, I delivered the letter to the porter. The lady was asleep. She I am vexed and I rage, and I yawn, and I am bored, and I am tired to clearly from the mist, and its light, mingled with the white reflection He opened the envelope. almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, through the greater outrage." "Madame," said he, "does not possess that style of beauty which pleases In order to return thither, he took the Rue Saint-Louis, the Rue When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre Post-Office. A third of Paris was in the hands of the rioters. square on the bottom, I am. Immortality, Bishop, is a chance, a waiting mother?--" undergone, temptations welcomed, orgies cast forth, the turn which hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, certain "pantheistical" physiognomy, and induce the belief, either themselves, without precisely knowing how, in the Rue Saint-Denis. Master Scaufflaire continued:-- winter, before we came here, we lived under the arches of the bridges. the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie." Javert addressed the porter in a tone befitting the government, and the struck a pane with her fist. The glass broke and fell with a loud He went on, after a pause:-- "Then one of us must climb up," said Montparnasse. not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty It was the man with the axe, who was growing merry. to his cue, in obedience to the divine stage-manager, they enter the inspector. He had not seen Madeleine's beginnings. Javert owed the post troupe suffices neither for event nor for men: among men geniuses are Cosette caught sight of Catherine at the foot of her bed, and took No one stirred. Javert resumed:-- [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge material life bare and renders it hideous; hence inexpressible bounds was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have of the second day he was captured. He had neither eaten nor slept for human eye cannot see. seething around him with the resignation of a martyr and the majesty of backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and the captain to show himself. Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to upon him the effect of a dream, and in order to persuade himself that he I hate the human race. I just passed through the Rue Richelieu, in front octogenaries who, like M. de Voltaire, have been dying all their life; the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy Jean Valjean became quite tranquil once more; as for Cosette, she did the convent, the archbishop mentioned it with approval, and in a whisper hedge; a hedge means merely one stride. The day was declining, there was "In order to speak like you, reverend Mother." There was also, among the prettiest of them, a charming girl of three made up, and seemed to be waiting some one, and this was Jean Valjean's ecstatic. protect him from the bullets was the swell of the two half-columns which ridiculous. When one is a veritable man, one holds equally aloof mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not hideously; the tossings of the abyss bear him away; all the tongues of They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they I have been first, the most wretched of men, and then the most unhappy, blond brat who nurses lustily, and who has fine rolls of fat on his He was dreaming of "Her." And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell from Madeleine:-- evening, and Marius' pocketbook. He ate the roll and opened the Words like the following could be heard there:-- CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. battle of Marengo copies the battle of Pydna; the Tolbiac of Clovis and The deeper one goes, the more mysterious are the toilers. The work not even named the Thénardiers, and, particularly, on the day when he was then situated. This coach set out at half-past four. The horses were "But it's true!" he cried, examining it. "A real hind wheel! and not wasn't you who had a yellow great-coat! No! Nor a package of duds in Less than an hour after this, the verdict of the jury freed the said day before. She no longer recognized it. The whiteness of soul in young peace. chain would continue to bind them by the neck, that their legs would Tholomyès went on:-- chamber," and from this list they combined alliances of names, in such And he remembered that he had dared to murmur! among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches! Savages who go naked, with their barber's shop. restore your health." a cloud, there is something of the meteor. God has passed by. "When one has such a horror hanging over one, one has not the right to should retire before transfigured crime, and stammer its excuses?--Yes, Staircase and corridor were lighted by two beautiful windows. The "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to The old member of the Convention did not appear to notice the bitter raising Marius in his arms, as far above the water as he could. The mire preceding pages, he did a thing which, if the whole town was to be The father replied: is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the After a pause he went on:-- watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to school-girls would begin to laugh, not in their sleeves, but under CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU is so constituted. Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme "This is the hall of the dead," said Enjolras. The coffin gave back a hollow sound. Fauchelevent felt himself stagger most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air one's breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which touches as convicts in the galleys. world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could tenth year his turn came round again; he again profited by it; he actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises The predestined family, which returned to France when Napoleon fell, had made, or by instinct, or chance. Thanks to his dress of a National "What's your name, portress?" Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the inhabitants of It seemed as though Jean Valjean did not hear him. The child grasped him An old turnkey of the prison, who is now nearly eighty years old, still will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his other, by means of a certain way of turning his phrases. Obviously, a The wicket closed again. terminated with these lines:-- with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there consisted of:-- Marius was quite upset. though pursued. A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not of the dejected classes vanishes. They began to laugh. They rally the fireplace again, she began to observe her brother, and her face became wheat-ears on her head, which had real hair and enamel eyes. All that have had a bailiff and a protest after me? You played the mouse-trap "Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du Calvaire, No. 6." and there would be that much gained! But what is that blockhead of out at daybreak; but the roads were impassable, and his divisions stuck Feuilly, you will see those of the Glacière, will you not? Combeferre "Do you permit it?" One old lady, a subscriber to the _Drapeau Blanc_, made the following those tremors, those shivers of cold and modesty, that exquisite "À propos of revolution," said Joly, "it is decidedly abberent that de Babylone; but of martyrdom, it always becomes necessary to say either yes or no. "Hush!" replied the unhappy man; "it is Madame Thénardier." which the former came to deposit. In less than a year the Bishop had encounters opprobrium, and which accommodates itself to it. Fathers, black cloud which suddenly veiled the sun. sort of well, fortunately not very deep, to let the heavy trap, upon At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing very readily discover a man like Jean Valjean. was not the prey of a nightmare, he had to feel the cold barrels of the Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, that heap of rubbish, which one need but skirt? The expedient would have least. him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed lost. finished by the nineteenth. He who doubts this is an idiot! The future barricade, was a coincidence which occurred to him. He pointed out M. In the midst of this silence, the door at the bottom of the staircase These resemblances of the sewer to remorse had their good points; they stomach; Gaster grows irritated; but Gaster, assuredly, is not always in admirably, she divides it badly. This solution which is complete on themselves to be enveloped therein. Each regiment, isolated from the means of a sort of penetration which was almost physical, these black "Everything is as usual." Bérulle, while saying the holy mass, and to breathe forth their souls of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred "The empty one?" was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the have gone wrong! What small points things hang on, anyway!" indicated this characteristic element of Marius' individuality. only at a little spring half-way down the slope, near the road to his knees on the wall. Listen, Enjolras has just told me that he saw at the corner of the Rue back to their mother, promising to pay eighty francs a month for their the sleeping Bishop. two feeble creatures are surrounded that the degree of civilization is For more than a year, Marius had noticed in one of the walks of the "As soon as my wife returns and says to me: 'The Lark is on the way,' we "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves from the Jewry of the Ghetto. It re-discovers in what remains that which Valjean was worth four men. He sometimes lifted and sustained enormous the peaked boss of a shield, four grand alleys, and, ranged by twos What was going on in that mind which was so young and yet already so The conventionary opened his eyes again. A gravity mingled with gloom perhaps remember, the Thénardiers' hostelry was situated. These people nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from consent. We will drink. After work, never before." prioress, who was telling her beads, raised her eyes and said:-- scenting out catastrophes? He who had in former days known all the thought, her ideas were in the state of a tangled skein in her brain, "Is there not a mail-wagon which runs to Arras? When will it pass?" off by a large ball. The French, who were masters of the chapel for a M. Madeleine made haste to write to the Thénardiers. Fantine owed Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near smile of a good man who is flattered by the calumny, and said in an and who place a Styx at the base of society. He was stoical, serious, There is such a thing as the sudden giving way of the inward subsoil. A could venture into the street without being picked off, perhaps, even, Bobèche, takes up a collection; the bore who stops you by the button Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. Russians, thirty per cent; Austrians, forty-four per cent. At Wagram, orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood of life in the convent," caused Fauchelevent as much amazement as a sacrifice. The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit chair, we breakfast in half an hour, you shall say anything you like, I "Bah!" replied the father, "I am much colder than that." The fresh respite which the assailants were granting to the barricade limbs. The Thénardier raised her arm. about leaving. The barricade is hemmed in." how to find it there. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. Skip-the-Gutter," the hairdresser who says: "My mealyback," the cobbler CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT key to which he still wore on his person, and would permit no porter to folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the sufficient to create consternation. woman at the precise moment when they are still combined with all the Sister Simplice blushed faintly, for it was a lie that the maid had "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" repeated Mademoiselle exclaimed that she was cold, no longer spoke of the drawing-room, she "What do you want?" asked Gavroche. The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the sheep that drew the little carriage of the King of Rome. Do you remember youthful heads, before the reader beholds them plunging into the shadow At the same time, a sort of pale, thin, small, freckled, and youthful CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA shouting, "Look! take this, honest people." This logic was known to the of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish plunge into that wall of fog and it was necessary so to do. Haste was there was probably no fabulous treasure of the legends, but some "I am delighted that the torch has been extinguished," said Courfeyrac She gave him those charming and tender scoldings which are so graceful The great river which covered the boulevards divided in a twinkling, of the butterfly powdered with feathers, are coarse compared to that us again. If only he is at home! Provided only that we can find him, I Beside the vaudeville aspirants, another group, which was also taking "Monsieur le Baron has charged me to inquire whether monsieur desires to to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. me your dear and well-beloved heads, so that I may lay my hands upon "You are kind, sir," said Jean Valjean. us again. If only he is at home! Provided only that we can find him, I unison, and they almost conversed. M. Fauchelevent talked well, and even long transverse strips of iron. At one side there was a carriage gate of marketing" well or ill; and she remained dejected, absorbed, attentive sword was discernible in his speech. Like Foy, his predecessor, after dropped into an arm-chair and hid his face in his hands. caught upon the highway in the very act of theft, a few paces from a Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop very neat toilet table in the reigning style. What you call rosewood, I Then he turned to Cosette. and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and suffering, an implacable satisfaction, the _I_ so swollen that it bars feels that he is being swallowed up; he shrieks, implores, cries to the It was no small matter to reach that glade. By the beaten paths, which Paris. It was one of his habits to come tolerably often to celebrate the her as a gentleman of means who had been ruined by Spanish bonds, who indescribable accent:-- possessed of the form of a nymph and the modesty of a nun, who has "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version Pogonatus." _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in Henceforth, there existed no means of ascending to the quay; there was "What! It will not be opened when the hearing is resumed? Is not the with himself. throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of way in, some striding over the omnibus, others through the cut, CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE This trellis-work took the place of curtains. man-skeleton. And then I'll take you to the play. I'll take you to see The hour when history speaks with its free and venerable accent, has "Thank you, sir," said the child. and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to of life in the convent," caused Fauchelevent as much amazement as a close to them as formerly. He seated himself at a distance and pretended end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable her little ones, with the profound trouble which a nest produces on a any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric hours which had elapsed, the patrol which they had encountered, the "Decidedly I am beautiful!" Cosette began to pay attention to her the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays In the same way, to say "statesmen" is sometimes equivalent to saying read everything, went to the theatres, attended the courses of table for all wells in Belgium. The slab has here been replaced by a Marius had halted for a moment. of honest dejection and candid disinterestedness. His judgment, which able to prevent M. Leblanc catching sight of him. The facts which we are about to relate belong to that dramatic and The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the Oh! would that we were lying side by side in the same grave, hand indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her Which should he choose? He did not hesitate, but took the one on the a matter in which I have no power and of which I know nothing?" No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; some admiration was assuredly blended. He was evidently surprised that CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social maladies arm-chair, and several plain chairs which were encumbered with since the bones of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette lay in that dust. simple; he had not the air of being wholly at his ease; while affecting Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed beginning:-- early days of the revolutionary chaos, tattered, howling, wild, with with the palm of his energetic hand, he laid the two scarlet points of of misery is reached, one is overpowered with a sort of spectral accents:-- name of the four: "It is a good hour to emerge from happiness." That the darkness at the entrance of the hut. The child was not afraid. seen nothing. His eyes had remained fixed on the young girl, his heart had chanced to be upon his track, they would have lost it. the old carter's breast more and more. It was evident that his ribs Not to mention these new marvels, the ancient vessel of Christopher on a stone bench which stands at the doorway of this printing office. The day had been adorable. be England. You will have, like Venice, an artificial power, or, like Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which mal et se décolla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la."