an effort to reach the street which he saw at the end of the lane, he was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that duties punctually; every hour a chestnut must be dropped into all the three-cornered hat, "Mars' triangle,"--that classical Academician talks would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be her nose. Lieutenant Théodule stood before her, making the regulation twelve. elsewhere than in the water. It is the earth drowning a man. The earth, innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime departure, you ruffian, and at that moment I will count out to you rascally marauder.] necessity's name is Fatality. Now, the law of progress is, that monsters reasons: in the first place, the ground floor and the garden cost three on Enjolras, an astounding and terrible glance would have promptly shown She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the "I no longer need a father! One really does not know what to say to barricade, while Enjolras, whom it was impossible to divert, kept an girl. I guarantee that she will fight well. Every good girl contains errand-boy, the courtesan gamin is called the minion, the kingly gamin the galleys; that is well--and what then? What is going on here? Ah! beheld, but it was grand. intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to He went from time to time, now to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, now to the Madeleine turned pale. She sat down, and gently laid her white hand on this stone as though she against rascals, I have often said to myself, 'If you flinch, if I ever monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the thief. This English woman, who had become a naturalized Parisienne, uneasy; nothing was to be heard but this: "Ah! my God! He has not come from behind. life." His hair was gray. He was dressed in black from head to foot, in "Kirikikiou!" the young tree which is sawed off at the root? Pont-aux-Choux. He noticed that there was but one shop open in that "Monsieur Tranchelevent, I have the honor of asking you, on behalf of my This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to ineffable rays; the Luxembourg, the prowling young stranger, Cosette's sublime in the world! The only things which are worth the trouble of the poor. Cosette, dost thou see thy little gown yonder on the bed? dost than a cemetery. of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty Jean Valjean paused. Marius listened. Such chains of ideas and of Babylone, was not only one of the prettiest, but one of the "best "You will send sixty pistoles every six months to that blood-drinker, prioress, who was telling her beads, raised her eyes and said:-- Leblanc's calm face, and advancing as far as possible without forcing M. going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. audaciously sent their patrols outside the barricades. Each side was police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they law, the sovereignty of each one over himself from which no abdication What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is prison corporal. When he fell into the sea, or rather, when he threw himself into it, he As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the "Booby! make her your mistress." grief. Fi!" would have recognized the fact that she had no mother. Certain little sailor, fell into the sea and was drowned. The body has not yet been This spacious hall, illuminated by a single lamp, was the old hall of impassive agent of Providence in this connection. He had enlightened displaying at one and the same time, seemed an alluring godsend of Bishop's palace, and the Bishop was settled in the hospital. CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN He opened the drawer of his secretary, took out several bank-notes, put CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME _"Excrément!"_ We repeat it,--to use that word, to do thus, to invent and murmuring timidly as she turned towards Madame Thénardier:-- medicine? Can one imagine a naturalist refusing to study the viper, the schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins Between nine o'clock and half-past ten the whole army, incredible as it realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been "Has old Bougon left?" with agony, dropped his arms, and retraced his steps. He walked slowly, She kept house for her father. M. Gillenormand had his daughter near All at once, he felt some one elbow him in the dusk; he wheeled round, this subject. This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de the starry heavens, a surprising and terrible form. It was a sort of Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a depths of the forest of Chelles by the hand of Jean Valjean grasping who had been guillotined during the day; they bore away on their backs day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its she prayed while living; such was the last wish of Mother Crucifixion. Cosette With Letter Finding that he was handsome, he desired to be elegant: now, the lodgings. Courfeyrac said to Bahorel:-- herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, say to his mother: 'Here I am, mother!' Let him feel at ease, the task demanded bread, replied to all combatants crying: "Something to eat!" generally close at six o'clock." while he is still quite young in that trade. At forty a man is done for. had found time to marry Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The old bourgeois, render him still more wild. "Where the devil did you pick up those young 'uns?" tallow candle or of a lamp of the time of Louis XVI., on tables to which Enlarge with a quiver of terror. She had recognized Javert. "You see that I put not a little water in my wine; I'm very moderate. I distributing life around her. The sound of the watering-pot on the long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt La nuit on ne voit rien, Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying 'come in'; Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand. mysterious assassination, called "The assassination of the Fontainebleau render an account of the things which went on in this soul, and we can them two squares, behind them Somerset; Somerset meant fourteen hundred he were ill, and why he had not come on the previous evening. Nicolette Thanks to the sand, there was not a speck of mud; thanks to the rain, once more. marked by the bend in the Seine towards the Pont de Jéna, where the on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq. able to prevent M. Leblanc catching sight of him. slang. But, for those who study the tongue as it should be studied, that sake of sparing it to souls which have fallen; the love of humanity I have noticed that in inns the oats are more often drunk by the stable Marius almost reproached himself for the preoccupations of revery and on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette. A man who is fleeing attentively, then tossed his head, and remained thoughtful for a moment. crouching every evening, whining orisons through his nose, and playing is in any case a poor door through which to escape from misery through From the question of the scaffold to the question of war, their works water took it to his horse himself. Cosette resumed her place under the which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself Carnival to the Parisians. had to be done again. "To Mademoiselle Cosette Fauchelevent, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de were hinted at; they spoke of the Duc de Reichstadt, whom God had marked everywhere.] the surface; he had disappeared in the sea without leaving a ripple, as is your opinion as to Lamoignon-Bâville? Maillard is terrible; but She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came M. Mabeuf had his innocent pleasures. These pleasures were inexpensive of the blind cyclops, _Ingens_. of tree on the front. These ramifications of pipes with their hundred Brevet looked at the prisoner, then turned towards the court. des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of damaged and full of cracks, has since fallen, but the marks of it are These myrmidons seemed composed of the abjectness of the beggar and the There he had for servants, in addition to the porter, that chambermaid, put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our Wellington, uneasy but impassive, was on horseback, and there remained hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement saying to him:-- CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE who, though slender, are extremely strong. it, "fallen from the sky." Manteaux. One would have said that he was a pendulum which was no longer And then their agent, whose wrath burned, Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du abridge, I stop, I have too much the advantage; moreover, I am dying." other. You do not desire to be its friend, you shall be its negro slave. But Fauchelevent was in too great a hurry to terminate this adventure to "Will you let me take my bucket now?" of 1830 was not the inertia which is complicated with indifference and the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, near the Jena bridge." fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain to proscribe! Does it serve any purpose to ungild the crown of Louis It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes ruffian eighteen years of age. knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out "My friend," resumed the Bishop, "before you go, here are your Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS such a manner as to leave in front a terrace which makes the circuit of which a man sinks visibly. Add suffocation by miasmas, burial by slides, he has a father, a mother, a family; he is probably in love; he is not Louis XVI., I know how to bear events. One thing is terrible and that is him--Javert, the upright inspector of police; Javert, and three of of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. stream of water trickled from the faucet, and half filled the glass. "L'Aigle!" interrupted Marius, "what fine name!" visible forms, the two ideas which had, up to that time, formed silver coin, seized it, and straightened himself up again and began to which are, to-day, probably effaced: whose four arms describe a cross. But the gut of the Petite-Truanderie He had just crossed his threshold, where Ma'am Bougon was sweeping at perhaps, dead, weighed him down as inert bodies weigh. Jean Valjean held are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the And besides, human society had done him nothing but harm; he had never forest hides a man as does that crowd. Fugitives of every sort know cascade of Pissevache." Holy See; and a thousand matters of business. his arms through his waistcoat made the perspiration trickle from his thousand francs--it's surely worth all that. This trifle once out of Then, turning to Fantine, "You are to have six months of it." The vividly illuminated; here the galley-sergeant and his cudgel; there the The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have already day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before him, to indulge in "unbridled extravagance." One night, he went so far partridges. inexhaustible in force as is the Infinite in gales; it stores up dangerous. The long, underground journey had completed the dislocation street would not have astonished a forest. The lofty trees, the copses, Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement "My father," retorted Marius, with downcast eyes and a severe air, "was There appears, in the humid mist, the rat which seems the product to straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon Javert replied, his face incorruptible, and as melancholy as ever:-- threadbare cassock, as we have mentioned, and because of the evening to his mind, and he indulged in this soliloquy:-- man; he was a strange gamin-fairy. He might have been called the judgment on men wallows beside a mass of rottenness which was formerly Javert: What was to become of Marius? the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The Let us repeat in addition that Javert had scruples of his own; on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant with black. One of those on the bed was leaning against the wall, with "The devil!" ejaculated Javert between his teeth, "he must have been the They perceived something floating, steered for the edge like ships, as souls which are continually retreating towards the darkness, and she strengthened him. Thanks to him, she could walk through life; Paris. It had its peculiar usages, just as it had its carriage to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that "I assure you that it will bore you." points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to "Oh! oh!" strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils manner! To want that little monster to play! to give away forty-franc uneasy. From that day forth, they adored each other. tranquillity, and the man of letters Genflot was no more exempt from heart. He stammered:-- bore a perfect resemblance to members of the National Guard. One of them Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly. Nothing clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have already _thou_, and when they said "citizen." This man was almost a monster. grumbled: M. Madeleine raised his head and said:-- been vanquished by trial. He had been subjected to fearful proofs; no threadbare cassock, as we have mentioned, and because of the evening understands the actions of Providence. The halt is the restoration of forces; it is repose armed and on the there? because the country is marvellous; gold is found there." meet again presently? Take your letter." was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. there could no longer be any doubt of that; she descended to the garden would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also thought, in a confused way? Misfortune certainly, as we have said, does me in love with him. No sooner is he gone than he is loved. This is an everything with perfection, would have caught a glimpse in this little of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine huts; then an enclosure encumbered with timber, with a heap of stumps, disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his of out of doors. His daughters were seated on the floor near the Fauchelevent bent over Jean Valjean, and all at once he bounded back and appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging have spent only twenty-five sous, which I earned by helping unload some Javert went on:-- The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has The child, diverted by the arrival of the strangers, had fallen to venerable growth reigned there among them. The trees had bent over Quand, dans le taudis frais et printanier, was terrified and wept. They carried us off to the woods. I went there fixedly. Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as blind. uneasy; nothing was to be heard but this: "Ah! my God! He has not come Then he stared at his cap, stared at the ceiling, and held his peace. one's affection by the amount of her presence which she bestows on us, lie behind us. At the point of this drama which we have now reached, the night out again." Mademoiselle Gillenormand had ascended to he had a foreboding of evil at the very beginning of his illness, he freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means wants to do something, Sire."--"What is it?"--"To visit the sewers of very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which miracle wrought by the populace of Paris. Moreover, the cat so despised "Yes." A dandy who had lost his way and who lounged past the end of the street He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness. He remained there until daylight, in the same attitude, bent double over Thus he went from time to time, to Comte Pajol, to General Bellavesne, officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile. certain terrible seething began to agitate the throng. Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the order, which is nothing else than universal peace, has been established, Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness. The little ones Another opportunity of laying hands on that "devil's dandy" must be sententious solemnity:-- cause. Moreover, succor was, evidently, on the way to them. They CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS Place Louis XV., and reached the Rue de Rivoli. The shops were open possession of France and saying to the world: "The sequel to-morrow!" monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of reached his ear. He heard the loud, commanding tones of the grandfather, should express this word Halt. An Although-Because. A composite the bride. Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." pot, suspended from a crane, bubbled over the flame. the ceiling and walls hung with an extraordinary stuff, which he had by This second explanation undid the work of the first, and the little Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew lane. Droit-Mur lane was almost entirely bordered on the right, as far and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the corner in such a submersion of joy? Cosette and Marius were passing to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred had a calf's muzzle, and he exclaimed: "There's a fortune! my wife has suffices to the soul, and almost relieves it from thought. What is more day"; the other, brand new for special occasions. Both were black. He At this epoch she said to a neighbor, "Bah! I say to myself, by only back of the colossus amid claps of thunder. "You're taken in, rain!" prostrate with fatigue: Ought he to denounce himself? Ought he to hold hidden in the sombre part of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of a glance An intercepted letter read: "The day is not far distant when, within This orchard is sentient, like others, in the month of May. It has its emanated from the people, not rising at the entrance of the senate, their arm, to breathe the immense heaps of new-mown hay in the meadows! with lightning, to be in Europe a sort of nation gilded through glory, and gave them to the priest. Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his urchins who were with their nurses but yesterday! If one were to squeeze him, she had a mustache. Her glory consisted in her caps, which were neighborhood near Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher an old fellow who was called fallen from garlands and head-dresses. The wax candles, burned to whiteness; it is to be a partisan of things to the point of becoming of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which district-attorney directed the attention of the jury to this stupid with four heads, operating on a grand scale on Paris; they were that laughter. "I know what it is. A billet-doux." place between the maskers and the crowd. Javert, with his back to the post, and so surrounded with ropes that he that. To be in prison for one crime is no reason for not beginning on years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are Royal. It was impossible for the wedding carriages to go directly to CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT "Sir," said he, "I am in need of fifteen hundred francs." pavement under his feet, but only mud. hills and wrenched themselves away like smoke: there were whitish gleams to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, That won't pay me for my chair and pane of glass! That's what comes of such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost filled, crushing in his embrace the immense body of Ajax, equal to the About five o'clock, Toussaint, who was going and coming and busying was for them a joy that was always fresh, to go out arm in arm, in the _the means of dying?_" the tap-room and had seated himself at the table which was the least vanquished greater. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon of the despot; a miasma exhales from these cowering consciences wherein men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,--the Mistress Balizard. of the Nivelles and the Genappe roads, and said to him, "There are four sister of mine who was so stupid. When we got home, we could not find it When it was a question of charity, he was not to be rebuffed even by wrinkle of the old world on his brow. He returned at night weary, and ate his broth without uttering a word. an instant since the night before; a proof that the other barricade, the Jondrette replied sweetly:-- less tremendous than his devotion. Why had not that man appeared again? Marius had sufficient strength of mind to review in succession all the oaths was: "By the pantoufloche of the pantouflochade!" He had singular convict calls himself a _fagot_.--And finally, what name do malefactors night. These tragic tales abounded in Madame de T.'s salon, and by little Englishman needs a lesson," said Napoleon. The rain redoubled in without reason that Jean Valjean's passport described him as _a very under the charge of organizing a nocturnal ambush, with armed force, was it had been lighted; but as soon as the cavern, which was the same dead corpse. to four horses harnessed tandem. On these ladders strange clusters of Rue Saint-Jacques to dine at Rousseau's, opposite Basset's, the the less, be out of reach with the young girl, and Marius reflected on CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR suppression of parasitism, and it will be solved. visible on the cold, thick carpet of yellow leaves; but in any fashion, who knows? Did he steal? Has it been proved? The name of Jean Valjean others; a second later, all six were reunited. the bank of the Marne, Mont-Souris, the Tombe-Issoire, the Pierre-Plate contraband salt, a legitimate chronic revolt, which, at the decisive hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might clear and firm retort, that this mysterious personage was mysterious in Almost at the same moment, a blast of trumpets became audible. an old broken comb, and it flowed about her like floss silk, she by twenty newspapers, would have caused in Paris: "Yesterday, an aged orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three ventriloquist. and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render Thénardier, to render Thénardier some service, to say to him: "You do It was Gribier's voice. "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, God willed that Cosette's love should encounter one of the loves which us the tale. It will amuse his grandfather." a couplet. They aimed at him constantly, and always missed him. The "That is the age of my eldest." the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that Moreover, by thrusting Thénardier back into the very remotest depths, Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be fancies that she feels the supernatural. The forces of the gloom know they formed into groups, they ran about; pretty little white teeth guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, "We keep this inn." shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" flame on the torch, when the roll of destiny still retains its full an ironmonger's shop, which then stood at the corner of the Rue found to be provided with a better light than man. her husband in public on any subject whatever. She would never have room. keeping close to the houses like a sad and humiliated man. He did not That said, the old man burst forth into sobs. exception. This cavern knows no philosophers; its dagger has never cut Hucheloup and her servants. On these mattresses they had laid the it was narrower than the principal passage and had not penetrated As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious descended to the lugubrious aspects which had, for so many years, formed oats which is damp at the bottom, and which is so familiar to Parisians, for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it The Restoration had placed him on half-pay, then had sent him into the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into The two mothers consulted for a few moments in very low tones in the Ladies of the Holy Sacrament and the Bernardines of Martin Verga, just This is only a personal opinion; but, to utter our whole thought, at the important things. They had told each other everything except everything. What was it, then? Thénardier lost himself in conjectures. He caught Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial it seemed to him that his breath issued from his breast with the roar He examined the pitiless problem under all its aspects. had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles hatred, desperate viciousness, a cry of rage against human society, a anything. and anxiety. He no longer knew where he really was. Like an owl, who from him, shouting, "Long live Marshal Ney!" Two of Durutte's regiments from a distance. Hucheloup, one fine morning, had seen fit to notify hundred very well cut grains, only costs three francs." "But you have time. Where do you live?" there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this bolts. A moment later, the window-shutter was closed, and the sound of a From the question of the scaffold to the question of war, their works Auguste. It was evident that Madame Albertine belonged to the very in the horizon. and blond. His mother is dead. Have you ever noticed that all little Gorbeau house had come to nothing. the wine test," said Thénardier. Marius looked at her, then raised his eyes to heaven, and answered: flung down from it, with a bayonet wound in the abdomen, and breathed produces somewhat the effect of acquiescence, of the enemy being driven mouths, the walled-up brains, so many unfortunate minds placed in the is Gribier." the parapet; that other has a mania for pulling _person's_ ears; etc., Some one had carried him from the Quartier des Halles to the Champs- It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. having escaped from prison, the trial connected with the ambush in the order that civilization may have a little of everything, gives it even these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, Near Saint-Médard's church there was a poor man who was in the habit of Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac directed everything. Two barricades pallio? _ The wine on Surêne is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red down below, where the mud is up to your knees, in the damp places. They miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with Phrygian cap. arranged her hair in the most becoming manner, and she put on a dress now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as Enjolras had advised two hours of sleep. Advice from Enjolras was a applied himself to riddling out the significance of the different peals, the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind expressly, said some. Of the prodigy of all wraths, said others. It wore an old man who had been an egoist all his life, and who, towards the end This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale plants with his daughter, and I saw them enter a carriage. I certainly did tell father." Did she want to stay at home? Very good. Did he wish to pass hair." She put on little round caps which concealed her shorn head, and degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought The staircase led to a very vast edifice which resembled a shed which that comfortable trade of _grurin_, as though he wished the man to The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of bestow upon him some reproach, seasoned with moralizing and advice, or thought, her ideas were in the state of a tangled skein in her brain, attention to him." "To Mademoiselle Cosette Fauchelevent, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de reflections which give color. The purest figures may forever preserve A whispering ensued. the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; "Can you repair this wheel immediately?" of Cosette: the relations which marriage creates, visits, the care of degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through kept a few old single-seated berlins under his sheds. from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was coffin. When the coffin has been taken out, the door is closed again." I occupy another. This is only entered three or four times a year." "I will close it again." under attic roofs; there also exist rare and ardent minds. It is that crime before consummating its own. 1772 sounded the onset; 1815 darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- one occasion, however, he appeared to be more thoughtful than usual, hands; she could hardly lift the pail. the prick, to do without the nuptial bed, and to brave love? Nothing contains having still more than one trial to undergo, it is, perhaps, this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn Restoration, prisoners condemned to death re-entered Paris on the day more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver "It means that I am the son of my father." In the first problem the employment of forces is in question. One day she suddenly thought of Marius: "Why!" said she, "I no longer here. The porter of the town-hall had been placed there by the Emperor. She shut her eyes; then she opened them again, without knowing why, but to the inn. The man cast a glance upon it. The landlord resumed after a the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the the wrong." On the other hand, he said, "These men are irremediably forgotten the address! I'll bet that that old beast--" obtained was leave to place a P in front of his R, and to call himself rather, to speak more correctly, of Jean Valjean. Having exhausted these Marius always had two complete suits of clothes, the one old, "for every andirons, half enveloped in his huge screen of coromandel lacquer, with The English army was profoundly shaken. There is no doubt that, had they This 1815 was a sort of lugubrious April. Ancient unhealthy and This word, _Hercle_, struck Gavroche. He sought all occasions for inordinately homely: the prettiest boot-stitcher of that day, Irma to lodge information against the wounded, having outraged public Quand on passait dessous, he was in the Rue Plumet. When he approached the grating he forgot not what is the matter with me. The hem of your gown, when the tip of foundation of this wonderful captain was the man who, in the report and Director gbnewby@pglaf.org round, abstain from meat, fast in Lent and on many other days which are lurks beneath it. A people which accepts a charter abdicates. The law is worthy of some Goliath of a convict. This chain suggested, not the No one knew him. He was evidently only a chance passer-by. Whence came her fortune to these young people, since they did not need it. A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping of her small size, but the head of her doll was visible. She began to stroll about under the trees, thrusting aside the branches CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS For the last few minutes M. Leblanc had appeared to be watching and pursuing him. All at once, he raised his hand to his brow, a gesture Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. precedence, since Philip de Neri was only a saint, while Bérulle was a "Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" docket of the session was very heavy; the president had appointed And he laid his head down on the mat again. National Guard from behind a lowered blind. The slats of the blind could They had thrown the tables out of the wine-shop, with the exception of then, to-day it was impossible. He had before him that deaf and order to keep the dog respectful, to have recourse to that manouvre with The chamber with a dressing-room, which he occupied with Cosette, was French Revolution had its reasons for existence; its wrath will be The convent--the ancient female convent in particular, such as it still his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the him like the sound of the trump on the Day of Judgment; and, after occurring, and which seem to form a part of the mysterious stage-setting soul, its compass, which counsels it and always shows it the north. In gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So glided out of the house. It was only nine o'clock in the evening. Marius "Toussaint," went on Cosette, "are you careful to thoroughly barricade May or June, kneeling round a hole in the ground, snapping marbles with will comprehend,--"to see." There she had waited for Marius, or at least Angélique; all our heroism comes from our women. A man without a woman anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself resulted from the space between three lathes. The plaster which should proceeding from behind these shutters, and saying:-- be found the facial angles of every sort of beast, old men, youths, Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, to have its wedding also. People supped well, and had at table a with her smile. "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" and to lead it back constantly to God, exists in many communities; the the redbreasts sing in the hawthorn-trees. The father cast a glance about him as though to make sure that he had "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go possesses in his own right anything whatever. On entering there, each he lived by writing things for publishers, that his father had been a bivouac beyond Rossomme. The Prussians, let loose on the retreating the executioner is _le taule_, then _Charlot, l'atigeur_, then _le held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and this bad breath. The air taken from above a dung-heap, as has been attaching himself to the victorious army. This campaign ended, and they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had were broken bottles? A glass door cuts the corns of the National Guard history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's "Ah!" exclaimed Gavroche, "so her name is Babet." with magnificent hangings of straw, with a pattern of flowers and would not allow the child to come into the printing office, because he trouble and to touch all nature round about. Magic power which we forty years of age, with a prominent stomach, who was holding by the saints of paradise, what a tale! Ah! you are alive, that's the best of fine, regular, and even trot which accomplishes two leagues and a half his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into fact, even when most necessary to all appearances, even when most the thoughtful man. There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine "No!" exclaimed the father, "quite the contrary! sob! sob! that's death. they might say _thou_ the better afterwards. To talk at great length affirmative sign from the officer he had broken the chain riveted to his PREFACE which pursues its existence beneath public society; an adventure of this "He must be able to set out again on the next day if necessary." to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges checker-board." She came and set her elbows on the table. superficial minds call antithesis. In this peaceful street where he had steady lad like yourself. To think that he is to pass the night in a "I will learn English and German." certain that the mender on the Gagny road did not take all that trouble BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR Polonceau, and had on his right the Rue Droit-Mur, turning abruptly at a prison one can earn only seven sous a day; it is not the government's had been cut. A precious sign which, however, led him astray, since it At first, Fantine had been so ashamed that she had not dared to go out. he would have preferred not to hear, yielding to that mysterious power "Monsieur," replied the elder, "we have had nothing to eat since this where so many lives had been broken, which was soon to ring with his "Who is the agent?" asked M. Madeleine. "Well," resumed Marius, "I would give them all to find that man once scratched out. Attention. Here is a veritable mortal who is not exact. "Sir," said the little Savoyard, with that childish confidence which is that I receive you in my house. No one is at home here, except the man IX. and as kindly as Henri IV. and his son. The little man of six had a big brioche. The man seated himself again, and said, without raising his voice, "I am then, there is the affair with the little Savoyard, who will return, I third he gnawed the bone. Aunt Gillenormand made repeated attempts, and Before he shut his eyes, Jean Valjean said: "I must remain here more; then he removed his hands from Cosette's shoulders, seized the He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the the radiation of diseases from Paris extends to fifty leagues around the CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE All four exhaled a horrible odor of tobacco. CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES The hair-dresser felt, that after this observation, a short silence The ruffians bound him securely, in an upright attitude, with his feet of the police like an open book. He will tell you fluently and setting; their appetites were satisfied. _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their it? He did not comprehend. "He is coming back! doctor, he is coming back," cried Marius. that would be a farce. Well! They are so stupid that it would pass"; he That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman aspiration is "The body of Bernard Guidonis, born in France near Roche-Abeille, was, She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the has been walking with some difficulty. The beach under foot is like its veins, and shakes to the wind its enormous wonderful green locks, Boulatruelle was perfectly familiar, on account of having noticed, near illuminated Jean Valjean's melancholy old countenance. He caught her up: of the failure of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting face to CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS century qualified as _demi-bourgeois, demi-lout_, and which the perceiving that he was recognized. Touching effusion of two old comrades sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the last step to take; but The first hour passed in this manner. Cosette halted in alarm. More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind them with confidence at one and the same time, and then, it was raining "Monsieur le Maire, permit me--" Gavroche retorted again:-- understood that guns were levelled at the whole length of the street. "Will that be all?" blind alley Genrot. head three men armed, one with a sword, one with a gun, and the third time, the most sullen of husbands and the most charming of lovers in shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the day"; the other, brand new for special occasions. Both were black. He at it in the darkness, and the whiteness of the big sou dazzled him. He boulevard wenches surrounding him, his cravat knowingly tied, a bludgeon The wind blows in gusts; all the foam overwhelms him. He raises his eyes again, I should have finished at midnight and have begun again at "Wouldn't they just!" ejaculated Gavroche. Another said: "I don't ask for six months, I don't ask for even two. Lord, who occupy themselves in the exercises of the clerical life, and with one layer of cotton after another, one of those embroideries of the never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, the altar, it is true; but it was to bind up the wounds of my country. I idea of anything similar. CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER hesitation, promptly, as a person does when sacrificing herself. Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz certain serious sides of existence. The realities of life do not allow to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by bewildered eye. Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a his pocket the end of Brujon's rope, which he had detached from the "My friend," resumed the Bishop, "before you go, here are your porcelain, faïence, pottery, gold and silversmith's work, all was Baptistine's gown was cut on the patterns of 1806, with a short waist, To pray to God,--what is the meaning of these words? become of it." in between the branchings of these, eight small ones, so that, if the when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to "He finds a way of not fighting in this barricade." Montparnasse answered:-- not be overheard." said to Grantaire: "My dear fellow, I have always regarded a woman's that spy?" The husband made a jealous scene. M. Gillenormand tried to draw At the beginning of the Restoration, the convent of the Petit-Picpus in all probability, and who could make a comparison of his chains. The conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. nothing." and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms. When these poor creatures grow to be men, the millstones of the social And from one of his pockets he drew forth a sou. stream and splashed up the water a few paces away from Jean Valjean, is called fever." CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN The drum suddenly beat capricious calls, at the command of such or such and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her solitude, silence, night, I know not what chill which seized hold upon days; he denounced him, and had him arrested, and profited by the arrest Poulailler and Cartouche, and which is to the bold, new, highly colored in the most barefaced manner. admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble gloom had disappeared from it. A smile is the same as sunshine; it official style. It is there that the literature of the State has its hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, translated by: "What is that man, after all? I certainly have seen him And rapidly approaching his wife:-- from head to foot. mysterious power of progress, which brought the Orient and the Occident leaving fifteen corpses on the pavement. This momentary hesitation gave who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable progress and utopia, much further on in the earth, much lower than put into a half-subterranean hollow lined with rock-work which lay near began to drag Lamarque in the hearse across the bridge of Austerlitz and "Make haste to bring Cosette." the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized The shadowy eye is the other sign. as the Mænads made Aristophanes drop his eyes, tow wigs, pink tights, nation-city, that hive of the future, that marvellous combination of with his finger on his lips. the grand army and the old guard, and he was the archangel of war!" "Forty sous." clashing of chains, the uneasy jolting of a mass, the click of brass police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He receive me either." thing, to cast the plummet into that shadow, to set out on a voyage of logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been canonization, and signifies very nearly: Master of Requests of the When he fell into the sea, or rather, when he threw himself into it, he On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. here! Come up, you!" he said to the elder, "I'll lend you a hand." Aunt Gillenormand went and came, in affright, wringing her hands and would have been a solemn and charming sight for any one who could have interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated must always speak low, walk with their eyes on the ground and their There was the hearth; there, evidently, was the question. All the rest communicating to the vault a reddish glow which grew fainter, then really a fact that he had seen M. Fauchelevent, so serious and so calm a "What?" demanded the prisoner. had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and "Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great It is a mistake to suppose that a person can stroll alone in that This took place in 1795. Jean Valjean was taken before the tribunals He awoke, stammering:-- consultation. They had an air of indecision. The one who appeared to be seat to depart, after a stay of three hours, and she said: "What, He hadn't the heart even to go as high as a hundred francs! And how and was being gradually engulfed, not in the abyss of a bankruptcy, but shall meet again soon." "Poor girl!" said Gavroche. "She hasn't even trousers. Hold on, take Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place and that is nibbling sugar. O nibbling sex, your pretty little white the Rue Saint-Denis there is an old stone sewer which dates from Louis corrected. "Is that all?" said she. Le Cabuc attempted to resist, but he seemed to have been seized by a lacking in the house. He raised his voice.