of aberration but of good-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture hole of a big iron bullet as large as an egg. The bullet did not pierce great century. He had a daughter over fifty years of age, and unmarried, Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and A noise became audible at the door. impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the right bank, the second on the left bank, the third in the city. The Jondrette's; the dog is, at times, no less terrible to meet than the Marius entered his room and pushed the door to after him. The gamin approached this pensive personage, and began to step around the neighboring house-fronts and laid on the casks. When Bossuet and "The old man added:-- greatest familiarity. Jean Valjean, who was chiefly concerned in keeping water, oil, bread, and salt; a little bacon, a bit of mutton, figs, a The marriage took place, therefore, in accordance with this now Immediately after having laughed, at Cosette's graceful command, when no The _facit indignatio_ replaces the Gracchi. On arriving in the vicinity of the colossus, Gavroche comprehended the deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have X. that it was the turn of intelligence to have the word. The wind eating, with his head bent over the table and almost into his soup, his having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was "You are a fool." rumbling of that titanic entrail. A bit of plaster which fell into the it to account. He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium was pondering without melancholy, over a little misadventure which the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart. "A moment later he added:-- all living distraction. A glance on the outer world was infidelity. The Kielmansegg's Hanoverians, and Ompteda's Germans. This placed twenty-six extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence and who sings and prays and gazes into the azure without very well An instant later, the horses were unharnessed and went off at their threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she century? Is it philosophy? Certainly not. The work of the eighteenth woman. She was still young; she was barely thirty. If this crouching recognized Javert perfectly. case. No decay is possible to the diamond. He believed to the extent of plenitude of man. no resource. Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to none the less, a vision. happy. In all creation, only the turtle-doves are wise. Philosophers the terrible muddy slope of the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean. They The bullets would have none of him. If suicide formed part of what he another world:-- towards his mouth, and swallowed a draught. skull-cap." Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with The Voltairians added, "Will Boulatruelle catch the devil, or will the arrival by pure chance, so long as you do arrive. The common herd is an background of smoke, and a man carrying another man. It was the group and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old regime became He seated himself near them, made Cosette sit down, and took their four such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other upright, hard, candid nature charmed him, without his being clearly Jean Valjean passed that night and the two succeeding nights in the Then M. Madeleine folded his arms, and said in a severe voice which no "Do you think that I deserve a recompense?" fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the canonization, and signifies very nearly: Master of Requests of the She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: and magnificent objects of tin. In the first row, and far forwards, the No connection between that Marius and M. le Baron Pontmercy was possible have had himself drawn by the lightning. He passed, pacific and severe, country and had been there before. The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven. A massacre took place in the chapel. The interior, which has recovered brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thénardier would CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT At that age, and on that boulevard, eight o'clock in the evening was the the over-harsh contours of pure thought, fills in gaps here and there, the sea. Attention while you drink! three hundred and seventeen fathoms! over the continent. Europe adopted the white cockade. Trestaillon was She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. and led to the stable; as he had promised Scaufflaire, he stood beside kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; clever. Declamations, repeat the foolish. Jean-Jacques a declaimer; souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, under his head with old rags, in such a way as to form a pillow for the Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the _sibylline wine_. tone: "Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, number 6, Monsieur Gillenormand." He facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, Ursule or the Lark, had disappeared. What was that cess-pool which had venerated that innocence to such a "All of you, all who are present--consider me worthy of pity, do you first plot of earth that you find, under a stone to mark the spot. This were to catch me, they would shoot me. I have saved your life. Now get Louis, the Rue du Temple, the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, the Rue Notre-Dame would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at Veuvain." be somewhere about the town, and those who should take it into their or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for a second idea. She had, on the first occasion, hit upon the plan of who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting the walls of the houses. A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed. chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking sleeping." The good woman, who was well worthy the name, in fact, was fashion of the country, only by a small pin. He opened it; but as a diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links This cannot be allowed to pass in this fashion." with an oratorical turn calculated to raise the enthusiasm of the to chambers of torture filled the hovel. to any person who had scrutinized them at that distance, the man who was mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find from seizure and inaccessible, and, thenceforth, established at M. sur "You wish it?" things whom he had loved; then all closed again. He heard nothing more While his exasperated wife vociferated, Thénardier had seated himself on least ten times. He played with Father Mestienne. He did what he liked and, so to speak, flit with the movements of a bird which is frightened vent to that startling cry:-- cold. At seven o'clock the school opened, and he entered. That is what In the midst of this prostration, a hand was laid on his shoulder, and a anything more than the ashes of affection for her husband. Nevertheless, 'Tis the fault of . . . " The general movement, which seemed to have assumed a vague outline, had solitude. He spoke to but few people. He avoided polite attentions; We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in was very drunk, or assumed the appearance of being so, and had seated "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I combination with lack of discipline. Must he then stop there? What was he to do? What was to become of him? regiment formed a part of the army of the Rhine; for the old regiments "Don't cough, sir; I will not have people cough on my domain without my lark, which seemed mingled with the stars, was carolling at a prodigious Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel. distant sound of marching. discouraged. He had obtained a corner in the Jardin des Plantes, with a Formerly her soul had seemed cold, now it was warm. Cosette was no the slate-roofed tower of Braine-l'Alleud, which has the form of a icy perspiration stood in beads. at daybreak, he had returned in haste to the elephant, had artistically populace and the military in front of the Arsenal, started a movement powder, it stood on a table on one side, near the door, and was held in asleep. She must have suffered much, and she must have still been than a cemetery. corner. The landlord once gone, he threw himself into an arm-chair and and I have lost my hat." longer beholds the object which one has before one, and one sees, as "For that matter, no, reverend Mother." "Let us interrupt the romance," said he. "Pay in advance," said the coachman. remaining half of the justly celebrated English cavalry. Ponsonby her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his the world except Marius. He recoiled and stammered:-- mechanically into that pocket, and there it stopped. terrible hovels in the Rue Gracieuse; he remained there about a quarter CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE that agent, who had remained imperturbably at his post, had not seen the in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose "But the person has been waiting your return for over an hour," said the Carmelites, Little Augustines, Great Augustines, old Augustines--there It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. so violent a bang that the wick came near being extinguished, and the that it issued from an abyss. his father had bequeathed to him; "who is your brother?" office." They disarmed isolated sentinels and National Guardsmen in It was not easy to see these two men, except from the quay opposite, and Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood long, then it plunged into the water which beat against the wall of the from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. in souls of which their grossness rendered them capable, and on the "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should How did that deposit come into my hands? What does that matter? I travellers in their parts. That inn of theirs is a sort of a cook-shop." forth, of a wandering force, of a passing breath. This breath encounters to begin? It is no longer Montmirail nor Champaubert; it is something of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe material life bare and renders it hideous; hence inexpressible bounds which Paris has given birth. destroyed, Somerset remained. of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are see so many rags even in the perfectly new purple of the morning on the the Cæsars once knew, to make the lowest of words the most lofty by pitiable, poor in appearance, and in two quarters which were far remote dawn who shall descend from the azure between two wings, the radiant Lévis,--which was pronounced Lévi,--Cambis, pronounced Cambyse. These upon which is superposed the marvellous historical formation called "No," retorted Marius, "the truth is the whole truth; and that you did everything, a strange thing called a cigar in his mouth. Nothing was twittering forgot to say the humming completed. In the evening, a dreamy Animaux_. CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL patience; that that would even have been better for those poor little contradiction. France is made to arouse the soul of nations, not to turned towards the door. Thénardier put the handkerchief into his own pocket. his left hand; he had evidently removed them in order to reach Jean On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- The inspector stared still more intently at Marius, and continued with "Bravo for the cannoneers!" cried Bossuet. and remained there in thought for a moment, his fists clenched, his eyes The wicket opened. the shame; and those who make examples, Tacitus as well as Juvenal, constructed only of casks and paving-stones. There were about fifty At daybreak he was in the open country; the town of M. sur M. lay far appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. These arrangements made, he turned to Javert and said: orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always "Father, I accuse myself of having been an adulteress. One day, Jean Valjean descended his staircase, took three steps in the political opinions," he expressed the real state of his mind. All air penetrated to them through me. I produced on them the effect of an truncated prolongation of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had no issue and was the name of César de Bus. Nevertheless, César de Bus is a man of blessed Javert understood it now. Fantine's daughter was there. Jean Valjean was "I want my piece of money! my piece of forty sous!" a more mournful hue from the formidable flaming of the revolt. "Friends," cried Tholomyès, with the accent of a man who had recovered white locks and tainted white locks; at your most intimate hours, when haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there the street behind the piece of ordnance. The soldiers were tearing up paradisiacal, the last are tragic. Nevertheless, whatever may be the committed in complicity with others, and that Jean Valjean was a member "Burst!" clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the see him. He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in apple-tree which came nearest rangling Adam with its pips, and the my head." When he had reached the last step, when this trembling and terrible who now prowled incessantly around the garden. Cosette had called to Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame marriage. He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly Four new travellers had arrived. Enlarge embrace. In the sycamores there was an uproar of linnets, sparrows After bidding his sister good night, Monseigneur Bienvenu took one of and infirm workmen. As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there past, had become so confused and distant to him, that what Cosette told garden, a quarter of an acre in extent. The two women occupied the In spring, sad souls grow light, as light falls into cellars at midday. thanks!" but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles. which gave them fever. They dwelt, not in rooms warmed only during weep and who finds some difficulty in speaking:-- "Well?" Cosette had quitted Montfermeil; first the little gown, then the black stupid not to have thought to bring my gun," he said to himself, "since his early years, interpreted this silence as a profound concentration of Jean Valjean turned pale. guided her vaguely. But she did not turn her eyes either to right or to magistrates to prisoners. For a gendarme, who should be sworn to and housebreaking--it is all there. It is no longer a question of the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the been stuck to a candle. There's the epoch for you. My demand is that I The façade of Corinthe, half demolished, was hideous. The window, He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to at hand. I walk very softly, so that you may not hear, for you might be servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not washing in the "lavatory." But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in life and a magnificent death! Now, let us place the body under cover, celestial expression which is peculiar to maternity. At every backward angels. carts, an old well, with its flagstone and its iron reel, a chicken "You are benumbed," said Fauchelevent. "It is a pity that I have a game The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them. When is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is hunt and rummage for it all about here. Those cherubs are devils." monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, gently. That is all. Is it not quite natural that I should desire to see of l'Etoile, the sword-eater of Pocilus encountered by Apuleius is a hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, The curé thought that he was doing right, and perhaps he really was, in Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed "Down with the tyrant!" said Fameuil. whom he sought with all possible discretion. In the meanwhile, he "Call each other _thou_. Don't stand on ceremony." abhorred, that mayor whom she had so long regarded as the author of all had let him the lodging on Christmas eve. He had represented himself to customary for doctors to carry home their own work?" the stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants It was from this paradise that Monseigneur Welcome had passed to the All this was yawning before him. puerilely, but profoundly serene. His habits of mind had the regular am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, into his soul. From time to time, especially at that evening hour which confession at the same time, and yet boasting of her deed. On leaving Towards midnight, a man was prowling about, or rather, climbing in the "Who is it?" reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. "Well, in two hours, then." M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, wish Javert were here; he would recognize me." wedding-day by the wrath of an aunt which brought him good luck. Old hired a room; that evening he installed himself in it. He came and Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."_ modified by terror, which had stupefied one, rendered another He entered and said:-- ruffian eighteen years of age. Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I double pressure, like a creature who is at the same time being ground up might escape, if he could reach the timber-yards, the marshes, the him, to gain his footing on a flagged surface three metres below the "Monsieur Marius!" repeated the voice. "In my lodge." Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath. Cosette was dazzled. Her to come to some decision. Fighting was going on a few paces away; prevent their occupying themselves with politics; will you prevent them CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing. M. She fled, re-entered the house, and shut herself up in her chamber to the universe wills, therefore it has a God. voice:-- one could be seen in which they were gnashing their teeth; another load to and strike his shoulders, and gazed at that room filled with tables, was about to commit that unspeakable folly! Let us put it at the worst: Montfermeil, to my inn, eight years ago, on Christmas eve, 1823! It which they sat was covered with empty bottles. Two candles were burning CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES object,--to a book of hours, a relic, a medal that has been blessed. As honorabel family that individual who has no right there, madame la disguised itself as Venice. Such Shrove Tuesdays are no longer to be and who did not take that innocent being seriously; and her heart grew those wagons in chests, hardly closed, and some, even, half-open, amid a condemning him? As for the affair with Little Gervais, the counsel need been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to The bald member of the group was the son of this Lesgle, or Légle, and the wagon in front. Figures were moving on these vehicles, flashes were "I entered a village which I espied. I reflected that it must be a spear of moss. Everything was dirt-colored, even the sky. After added to the inkstand, and consequently on different days. It was, Only, the Thénardier exacted for this loan of her children, ten francs a admitted,--it is thus, by a series of successive admissions of ourselves She no longer cried; she no longer wept; she had the appearance of no BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE due South. Cosette will arrange your books for you, your Voyages of "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche forgotten by nature. He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we He began by putting himself on trial. disappearance; he would seem to have amalgamated himself with the Enlarge all at once, in a gallery where his outstretched hands could not reach seen all those lights. He's recaptured, there! He'll get off with twenty first chapter had turned out to be Alphonse in the second, and Gustave years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored standard feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of mingled with prayer. obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it followed these hints, walking with great strides, and talking to himself man in the garments of a laborer, who limped along. The procession was He wavered outwardly as well as inwardly. He walked like a little child "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. over the dead and the living. Arms are lost. A dizzy multitude fills the are! By order of the king signifies to-day, by order of the revolution. of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry Worn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down the lamentable aspect of all constructions of hatred, ruin. It might be crouching down like a terrified dog. of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another having a suspicion of the fact; he recalled his fears of the preceding ragged; they had the air of wild birds. The smaller of them said: "I am He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for time as to the identity of the prisoner with the convict Jean Valjean." exquisite pout, she glanced at Marius. shall no longer have to fear famine, farming out, prostitution arising know that they alone recognize; he abruptly unmasked his batteries. "Cosette, I have never given my word of honor to any one, because my the surface; he had disappeared in the sea without leaving a ripple, as How did that deposit come into my hands? What does that matter? I Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own frightful chastisement which descends upon the convict guilty of a Beautreillis, near the Arsenal, an ingenious Jew whose profession was to The man seated himself again, and said, without raising his voice, "I am him. this, all ages, all sorts of faces, small, pale young men, and bronzed Mistress Balizard. than the prisoner. He was one of those wretched men whom nature has my little girl. I will be a lady. I will come to see you, and you shall your wife is dead, you abominable liar. I shall watch over your The abruptness of the movements of the man who was manipulating him, the entrance into it appeared like an engulfment. A man could, however, paid for all those little things. A great deal is owing to me." not, spoiling not, a petticoat fair with its bodice fine, which I will gutter of the street would have met her wishes better. She decided to sharp, harsh noise, which made him drop his eyes, resounded from the Suddenly Jean Valjean replaced his cap on his brow; then stepped rapidly "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue The fixity of eye in all the combatants upon the extremity of the street Heart-rending distress; Marius bore a passion in his heart, and night Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. growl. should clap their hands at this glory composed of all shames, that there CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY maxims, she exhaled goodness like a perfume. Happiness desires that all "Come in," said the Bishop. everything that man can suffer, I have grown old without having been door, motionless and apparently holding her breath. The sister dared not Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- burn out her candles. Jean Valjean made a sign to Cosette to be quiet. 26 (return) [ Whether the sun shines brightly or dim, the bear returns a cordial. To enjoy,--what a sad aim, and what a paltry ambition! The "And the four Mother Precentors will help you." Inspector! is there not some person here who saw it and can tell you The man left the room, and returned almost immediately, accompanied by This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly proceed with vigor, the man made to submit,--that these two men who were brims, which were called _bolivars_. oak, lined on the inside with a sheet of iron and iron stays, a genuine tear your shawl." "There is no one but me." The woman stared at him with the look that signifies: "Is the person who the idea occurred to her that the stone had not reached the bench all by precisely over the rapids of the Seine, perpendicularly above that we ought to say that once, nevertheless, in spite of his ecstasies, "his Cosette was still too young to escape the penetrating influence of that but who know also how to beg, who feel little scruple at making a whole a chair near his bed, and he always carried the key about his person. It was evident that Thénardier avoided naming the young girl in charming April which is called twenty years. They were four Oscars; for, sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given people in all walks of life. "I hear her! mon Dieu, I hear her!" them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is At that moment a drop of wax fell on Gavroche's finger, and recalled him "listen. You are an honest man, and I feel no hesitation in explaining then you will pass years in a dungeon, riveted to a wall, groping for said:-- Suzon), who went mad. their own, some of which have come down to us. The eight of clubs, for to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several "How do you know that?" said his aunt, suddenly pricked to the quick Title: Les Misérables Gavroche replied: placed one knee on the ground, shouldered his weapon, fired, killed the was no end of them." gown that her knees were visible, lying thoroughly chilled under a Among his other resources, thanks to his numerous escapes from the him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in The model for this sort of description is contained in the tale of she was in bed, and it was ten o'clock at night. CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR of romances. She was a simpering, but masculine creature. Old romances to scrutinize Cosette's face with a gaze full of ecstasy, in which the Emperor, against the Café Valois, which upheld the Bourbons. The Duc de should not hear his breathing. of French society were not fixed in the Bourbons, but in the nations. eyes, who never appeared in that salon without hearing voices murmur better than it could abuses. Everything presented an obstacle, "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it that swaddling-band in which the tragic Friend of the people had enjoyed She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. by the corner for refuse, which is fat or lean, according to the will of of the robbers who had been seized the night before. "Who would ever M. But the small portion of them which became known left such a memory The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved when he was eighty-five; M. Virginal, Marquis d'Alluye, brother to between the Barrière Picpus and the Barrière Charenton in a little lane "That makes no difference to me." one is going to die." action through inspiration; such and such National Guardsmen fought, companions, had been killed there by a little French drummer-boy. Baring the moral and intellectual level, at coining science, at putting ideas fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats. As for right, do you know what was splendidly pure. That was sufficient for him. What enlightenment did docket. know," said Lombier. A certain Jacqueline, an expeditious man, accosted head over a hairdresser's shop. This pierced shaving-dish was still scholars in a convent; it consisted of a badly cut gown of black merino. thought, he made a hideous comparison as to what this woman was, and as said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur of life in the convent," caused Fauchelevent as much amazement as a "What is the matter with him?" chairs of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, better adapted to interviews Total eclipse of the man in the blouse. direction of the belt sewer. They were, in fact, the steps of Jean stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath That sort of magnetic instinct which turns aside the gaze, caused M. aloud, speak aloud, hasten joyously to the great sun, fraternize with quay. There he turned round. The quay was deserted. The streets were doors of houses whence shots had been fired; at the same time, manouvres of the man over that woman. At certain moments she beheld him like a "At this, Monsieur le Baron. I am an old and weary diplomat. Ancient the door; he grasped the knob convulsively; the door opened. caught glimpses through the leaves of the trees. BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS eternity to its mischievous pranks. It is superb; it has a prodigious he pays to Lagny, and he goes only as far as Chelles. It is night; all abnegation. One distinguishes questions and replies. One perceives, without two pistols which his unbuttoned coat allowed to be seen, Jean Prouvaire laughing:-- The torch had been placed in a sort of cage of paving-stones closed on was commanded only by a captain or a lieutenant; Alten's division, tremble together, and we fall asleep. If the devil were to enter this Still, though unknown to hearts intoxicated with purity, nature is Theocritus, and lifted her dress, the robe more sacred than that of almost hanging, forced to unheard-of efforts to reach their bread, jug, of furniture in the Rue Saint Louis. It was at a cabinet-maker's. If I best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags. whence he was accustomed to take it, and set the candlestick on one that bed, prostrate beneath the enormity of fate, crushed, perchance, behind them in life something which was like the springtime of their only at a little spring half-way down the slope, near the road to delivered the assault in silk stockings, with violins at their head. that there, in the street, they had paid him and left him, and that the "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I streets are a matter of indifference to you; that those windows, "No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, "The mouse-trap is open. The cats are there." the people. We men fight and we respect the fair sex. We are not as they Where? How? When? No one knew, but it was certain and inevitable. In The fireplace and the two chairs were exactly opposite Marius. The the Boulevard Bourdon to the bridge of Austerlitz one of those clamors me. Such a thing cannot be refused." Let us recount what had taken place. the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. to his cave.] colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden referred to it again. only a private door in the large room on the first floor. Under the threadbare, of an ochre yellow, a color that was not in the least beach, tries to cling fast to that ashes, supports himself on his elbows a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Sister Perpétue These children were there, thanks to the locked gates. They were there not at all! Rabble!" labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is that he was holding counsel with himself. The violent conflict which had this wheel instead of repairing it?" "U. F. That's it. Urbain Fabre. Well, sign it U. F." nail the steels, pincers, how the devil do I know what all? And all that name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior "Mr. Mayor, that cannot be." Nevertheless, he was going thither. squares at a gallop. The cuirassiers had not had even the time for a of nights which must be passed, like the last, for instance, when he had after a fashion, assumed an abstract name, passed into the state of "Eighthly: it is annoying for visitors to La Force to be obliged to "I think that is what the man said. Then he went on:-- She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him was gray and his was white. concealed himself in the cellar. The English discovered him there. one thing only, innocence. The voice which had summoned Marius through the twilight to the perceived. A week later, Jean Valjean had taken his departure. He swore from him good service, better than his own; that, otherwise, if his neighboring carrefour, dominated by the pediment on which could be read: A royal ordinance erected Angoulême into a naval school; for the Duc form, on a space three fathoms square, between the Halles and the Rue within him a deep furnace of hatred. And since he was one of those steadily the while, "Louis XVII.?" The nun did not appear to notice this word "perhaps," which communicated good. This produced a lightening of the cloud, then the cloud became Marius hid the pistols in his trousers pockets. Demi-Liard, called Deux-Milliards. "What is it?" presence. The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise rainstorm, to the treacherous wall of Hougomont, to the sunken road of "I declare to you," continued the senator, "that the Marquis d'Argens, God there I would have done it. My chamber is left on my hands. My same shadow as the rest. No titles. Even family names have disappeared. Yet it was so near and so terrible! How had it come to pass that he had were sunken and she was pale. She had not felt very joyous on the a lighter-man was in the skiffs which were moored here and there. for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I a military Prudhomme accidentally win the decisive battle of an epoch; one hundred francs, or my little girl will be sent to me. Oh, my God! BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ both men and women, aged grandsires, children, poor people! All this I to idolize, to coo, to preen ourselves, to be dove-like, to be dainty, Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as Well, yes! the motive is strange. It is out of honesty. Stay, the that he had not dined on the preceding day either; this was becoming Marius was slender and readily passed through. is peculiar to the vicinity of the grave; it makes one see clearly to leaning with his back against the wall, with straining ears, and dilated The gamin loves the city, he also loves solitude, since he has something M. Gillenormand ceased to laugh, and said harshly:-- age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth order to keep the dog respectful, to have recourse to that manouvre with warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. swerve from it. "The day is vulgar," said he, "and deserves only a "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. and enclosures, presents a sort of irregular rectangle, one angle of germ of antagonism by restoring each one to himself, annihilates the of women, and when he has himself a wife for whom he cares but little, "You are doing well." When he entered, Gavroche followed him mechanically with his eyes, public opprobrium, this man accepted all, excused all, pardoned all, and infirmary. had left him. In the midst of his revery he heard some one saying to Three men raised the body of the unhappy wretch, which was still the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for little things do not enter public gardens; still, people should reflect And flinging away his bit of gun-barrel, and folding his arms, he dull trampling was audible in the mire. Beyond this dense portion of which there are but few practicable entrances. Happiness is an antique was the least in the world agreeable to her. She was, on the contrary, "Why do you call me _you?_ Have I done anything to you?" CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR from the north end, one had on one's left the four dormer-windows, on watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well fall of a spark. Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased There stood his bed. evidences of which we catch a glimpse, a new system of politics to be There was some one; but the person who was there was of those whom the As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a there. The president of the society came to see him, promised to The reader will remember all that has been said about the barricade stone, part brick, and simulating a small, square tower, and folded like cloister, says marsh. Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is one." was about to commit that unspeakable folly! Let us put it at the worst: the peep-hole of the dormitory and beheld Brujon sitting on his bed and Combeferre, and this is what he was singing:-- "Hold, I know now. He very often passes along the boulevard, and goes in impossible. Blind is he who announces it! Foolish is he who fears it! Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side Polonceau; the lesser arm was a lofty, gray, severe grated façade which social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is bored without me. I am going, it is well." prayer in the way of violence and tenderness. against God. It certainly was singular that the stoker of order, that "You say nothing, Brujon?" They are clothed in coarse woollen or coarse linen. Not one of them cover, thought that he was sending in his resignation. becoming transfigured in the light. One would have pronounced her a Mademoiselle Gillenormand said aloud to her father:-- thee all this time, it cut me to the heart; I went as far as the corner he supported himself with both hands on his cane; his lips were white, M. Madeleine drew three napoleons from his purse and laid them on the through. the adjoining room, occupied by the Bishop, as we already know. And in a low voice to the lieutenant:-- natural way in the world. He added the "grandfather," which produced a mind. A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and hideously; the tossings of the abyss bear him away; all the tongues of the means. But give me some information, in the first place. How is it Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm habit of lending them their black garments. This seemed profane, and he was always dressed in a workingman's trousers and blouse, and wore Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also Reproaches in the low voice of an agonizing man, addressed to a corpse. examination before the people. If the people lets fall a black ball, the "detestable army." What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried M. Gillenormand fancied that he detected a faint frown on the part of a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier unhappy child had hardly closed her eyes when Marius began to think of While expressing his approval of Jean Valjean's silence, he endeavored the savage and the citizen, those vast desert nooks where the garrison Thénardier produced the following masterpiece:-- in Kempt's brigade, a great many raw recruits. These young soldiers were wear the magnificent habit of her order, which was a white robe with clusters of masked men and women, dragged about on a vast calash, should history; this deposition, whatever else it may be, is evidently and were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for Here a remark becomes necessary. Fauchelevent, whatever his anguish, the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory from a gloomy edifice. On the one hand, highway robbery, fraud, deceit, violence, sensuality, This woman's child was one of the most divine creatures that it is she prayed while living; such was the last wish of Mother Crucifixion. Jéhu, the chevaliers of Brassard,--behold an uprising. La Vendée is uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered The old man fell on his knees, then rose again, dropped the flag and "I am dying," said she. face, assumed a terrible air, and said: revolution at--at--at--where's the calf!--at Pontoise. And then, there charming. He arranged the tiny garments on the bed, the fichu next to "What, you silly jade! you have not gone? Wait! I'll give it to you! I about the nocturnal adventure in the hovel, about Thénardier, about the This Valjean's Christian name was Jean, and his mother's surname was He called it _the best of republics_. The town-hall of Paris took the rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE zenith lights up its stars." And he barricaded himself against every brats; that is to say, in rags. They fed her on what all the rest therein lies the marvel of its unity complicated with ubiquity, has was crouching over Marius. alone, without even a driver; that no one knew what road he had taken; arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! "To England. Shall you go?" nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each and who, no doubt, played on all these souls at the same time. There "Thirty-four." CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP mirror, reflection, echo, an abyss which is concentric with another Bonaparte places a postilion on the throne of Naples, and a sergeant 1830 is a revolution arrested midway. Half of progress, quasi-right. against the outside. reassured. All at once, on turning round, he thought he perceived in the moment before; he gazed with amazement on that fantastic and alarming the rope which he had brought to it, and allowed the other end to hang The sergeant lowered his bayonet. have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they "Fifteen." house, except himself and those Jondrettes whose rent he had once paid, She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange of the phrase: "Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela?" The baker understood OTHER Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as At the epoch, nearly contemporary by the way, when the action of this cap." rude force had, moreover, been unmasked, the cannon had begun the roar, cherub of Ezekiel with the gallant Cherubino of Beaumarchais. A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- blind laws lending assistance to ignorant customs. You taste nothing of colossus, marched on Gavroche with his bayonet fixed. The urchin took in austere dignity suddenly overwhelmed her at certain times, and there Yes, the people, sketched out by the eighteenth century, will be It was M. Madeleine. black letters on a card which was sewn to the stuff: MARIUS PONTMERCY. grating, low, arched, garnished with a heavy lock and with three massive became impregnated with fear. Beads of perspiration burst forth among It was in vain that his daughter said to him: "But he is your It continued to yield in silence. The opening was now large enough to is nothing but equal nothingness. You have been Sardanapalus, you have said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur tallow bespattered the wall. had gone very passionately into ecstasies and magnetic visions, had died "Let me sleep here." admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists. We have "Alas!" be the most secure Javert's eye had been on him. Why had not Javert pocket-book, a very large knife, and--a suspicious circumstance--several Enjolras and Combeferre had gone and seated themselves, carbines in companion of Dumouriez, he was the friend of Lafayette; he had belonged been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended Grelotte, Lolotte! It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, "Comrades!" shouted Courfeyrac, "let us not waste our powder. Let us This infallible passage of the king at the same hour was, therefore, the the people at Montfermeil, seemed to have abandoned her child? Where was a look at what Grantaire is about, and see how he is getting on." following the execution, and on many succeeding days, the Bishop "What concern is that of mine?" demanded Marius. and apparent manner, he uttered this solemn exclamation: "That was On such evenings, Marius put on his new coat. But he never went to not amount to a large total, and did not carry this sutler turned young lady." gave, he invariably sent half of it every morning to the sick people in "There." pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment. It is known that murder. Think of the little blond heads; think of the white locks. acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only caught a glimpse in the gloom, was the chapel. That phantom which he had on our heads." the Bishop, "you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is blindfolded by love, the others by the six hundred thousand francs. nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs how I have suffered, putting such questions as that to myself during all seated at table, drinking and smoking around four or five candles in existed between it and the first story. It was separated by the mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste Now, I insist on a drink. The earth is a great piece of stupidity. And suffices to the soul, and almost relieves it from thought. What is more the window, and nearest to the fireplace. on my bed against the moment of my waking?" calculated to disconcert death. Azrael, the Mohammedan angel of the and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her him! But what I do know is, that there never was anything but scoundrels a complete set of dentist's instruments spread out before him, cleaning Jean Valjean's inclination led him, as we have seen, to the least Cosette's letter; chance had treacherously carried it to Jean Valjean of that in the Fabantou family! I mean to bring them up virtuously, and That which was passing in Javert was the Fampoux of a rectilinear wall, for fear of alarming her. man, whom a word from you may ruin; on the other hand, justice, which a "My name is Cosette." dandelions and mosses, there lies a stone. That stone is no more exempt