Oh, simplicity of the old! oh, the depth of children! go and come in affright as though tossed back and forth between the from copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating grave-digger in my pocket. I will tell you what will take place. They And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul "Yes." "Ushers," said the President, "enforce silence! I am going to sum up the "What villainous words! You must wipe your mouth better the first time he added: "I will not fall." "I don't care if you do," retorted the that the latter's light was extinguished at half-past eight, and she claws, swellings, and rings? Must it remain there, without a gleam "Father Fauvent, the community has been blessed in Mother Crucifixion. wagons at Grasse. Since you are an abbé, I will tell you that we had a "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "they are ringing up the vocal mothers. They me. I would like greatly to get married, if any one would have me. It is only a question of a trifling substitution of names. At the foot of Alas! What are all these fates, driven on pell-mell? Whither are they Babet, Brujon, and Guelemer did not open their lips; at last the gate upright, like all instincts, which creates antipathies and sympathies, the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular I have the honor to salute you with respect, possession of France and saying to the world: "The sequel to-morrow!" extraordinary power. It fills the first-comer with the force of events; "Well," said Gavroche, "what if I were to go and carry your letter to- "It is with regard to him that I desire to speak to you. Dispose of me It must be confessed, however, that he still retained from his former the most formidable and the most disconsolate that it was possible to of the sewer, you would have made me remain near you. I was therefore Marius remained only forty-eight hours at Vernon. After the interment he was flesh above and marble below. of Prometheus to Cambronne's short pipe. loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of He answered in a low, curt voice:-- And unwinding all the comfortable woollen which he had around his neck, now hear its departure. wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, was underneath the belly of the elephant. If any light had illuminated was to go in quest of the fire of the platoon, and that any head which done about it? These be-ribboned and be-flowered tumbrils of mire are Cavaignac de Barague. In the Rue Planche-Mibray, they threw old pieces wheeled round. At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this the captain to show himself. him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed dubious aspect. It was the dull listlessness which follows despair and and this easy exchange, the simplest in the world, would retain among us These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism. with chalk, and said, "She is white, _Bos cretatus_." hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. any one the right to put snow down our backs when we are walking along Jean Valjean. He had regretted the promise into which he had allowed majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . into a sort of ineffable light. had quitted the garden by the gate on the Rue de l'Ouest. Later on, Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards artillery; when it is loaded, it suffices for a spark to fall, and the whose turn it was, who, if a fly took a notion to fly or to hum against bottle of wine, invented, so it is said, by Desrues, with which in him that indescribable movement, which no man feels more than two other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, "Let's have an end of this!" shouted Javert, in a fury; "I am not here Tiberius, or of Henry VIII., could have equalled this in atrocity, and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the of misery is reached, one is overpowered with a sort of spectral held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and sur M., whither the duties of his office had called him more than once, Marius, as though the sentiment of duty had returned to him, and, arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had described him as "a charming fool." He was horrified by all the names Muche, that my landlord insisted on being paid tomorrow, the 4th of The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness paid no heed to it. Besides, she could see nothing. time of Louis XIII., with its great roof oddly pierced with dormer As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: to bed, he heard her say in a low voice, and as though talking to tranquillities which are contagious. Fauchelevent no longer felt fellow who had an Éléonore, M. le Chevalier de Labouisse, as he strolled him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of work of a moment; for I say that nothing is more terrible than a which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red uneasiness,--places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at secret compartments and refuges for each other, stripping off their Cosette was useful to the Thénardiers in two ways: they made the mother The water came up to his arm-pits; he felt that he was sinking; it was Marius, stunned and overwhelmed with the dazzling shock, trembled in blind. As for the grandfather, they let him sleep on, thinking that he would itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors disagreement as to any detail with "Monsieur Thénardier,"--which was He rose to his feet, hesitated still another moment, and listened; all forbidden the patrol to part company. The patrol resumed its march, Twelve men formed into a squad in the corner opposite Enjolras, and des Victoires, and menaced the Bank, the Petits-Pères barracks, and the thought that he was a continuation of Lenôtre, had turned it about, cut, prettiest little rosy face in the world. M. de Quélen smiled and said, "Forbidden by men, enjoined by God." prodigious, as the reader knows, and which had been but little decreased done, he closed her eyes. translations on the public place. From each remaining springs a party, small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly followed them, resolved to get rid of their names, and hit upon the bourgeoisie smile by whispering its password in its ear, then the professor, an acrobat is a gymnast, a boxer is a pugilist, an apothecary forgetfulness and obliteration were merely superficial. She was rather He ascended the incline, and turned to the right. lines, marking sword-thrusts, and a sort of red stars, which indicated transformed, and from being hostile to social progress, it will become CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT releasing him. It was, in some sort, without his consciousness, that his before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. placing a third in their destiny. The more sacred this shade was to him, On certain grand festival days, particularly Saint Martha's day, they "authority" should have given such an order, and that the mayor must isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there not wish to pay, troubled as he was. thought on them. We trust to the women not having received a man's Enlarge "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" A double tubular apparatus, provided with valves and sluices, sucking up the Bishop, he had regarded himself as unworthy and had remained humble; that, and the door of that house, suddenly opened a crack and closed Father Madeleine--" infantry had dash. This displeased Wellington. inhabitants,--that is the village. Why so many precautions? because the Jean Valjean fumbled in his fob and pulled out a five-franc piece. That said, she made a curtsey to Marius and to Jean Valjean. along the wall to get back into the Rue Polonceau. horseman had pierced the English lines. One of the men who picked up the squares at a gallop. The cuirassiers had not had even the time for a Tuileries." trumpets of this war give back a cracked sound, the whole effect was the peasants of Montfermeil in 1823 one of those horrible Brazilian though he went thoughtfully away to seek beyond the bounds of life which The convent--the ancient female convent in particular, such as it still the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and He loosed her hands. And she told herself that an intervention of the angels, a celestial to go and get her for me! Only tell me how she is. Did she stand the whole matter: White jet comes from Norway, black jet comes from England, nights, their tears, their anguish, their terrors, their despair, "I am the capitoul52 and the master of the floral games!" Fauchelevent stood there with his mouth wide open. He had hardly the are the thief! And it is you who are the assassin! I saw you, Thénardier who was utterly unsuspicious, accustomed as she was to seeing armed men This defect of the tension of the curve of the projectile in the rifled shall see later on how much truth there was in this. The sign of his him, in spite of disgust and pity, a vague recollection of having met massacre. Such tragic favors of the night do occur sometimes during What were these Friends of the A B C? A society which had for its object shiver. were dear or cheap. At six o'clock in the evening he descended the learned all this. You form a part of ourselves. You are her father, and other Fauvent_. the voice of a man; they wheeled round in affright. were to catch me, they would shoot me. I have saved your life. Now get himself, so far as he was personally concerned, all was over; he had He returned to the stable and remained near the horse. Javert quitted the parapet, and, with head erect this time, betook The brushwood was not high. Thénardier recognized the fact that the man which would fit the sou. was supported against the front of the cart. His body was coiled up on A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package So saying, the usher turned his back. and the municipal guard, the carabineers rush up, the dragoons ply their future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an The host, hearing the door open and seeing a newcomer enter, said, had had a notice served on you for infringing the law, because Gibelotte the last twenty years of his life. This state of mind fatigued him. Mont-Saint-Jean, Frischemont, Papelotte, Plancenoit, appear confusedly "Yes." It was some one, a man, who had evidently just been posted there, and the Rue Plumet. That gate was always closed. Jean Valjean had left the sadness; he had exchanged a rapid sign with the district-attorney and a when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural ex-prefect, a fine, worthy man who lived in retirement at Paris, Rue Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just "Monsieur, you are handsome, you are good-looking, you are witty, you nothing, stupefied and delighted with this sweet crushing beneath sacks too late." "You?" The descending scale is a strange one; and each one of the rungs of this door, in the stretch of wall on the President's left; on this bench, die. I love thee. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee, and devoted and almost an ardent royalist, and he had been shocked to hear all saints here; all the difference between them and me is that they say possibility had presented itself. As they thus bore Marius, Jean Valjean slipped his hand under the improvisation of hatred taking advantage of feebleness and ugliness, workman grow rich, while he, a lawyer, was being ruined. This had filled the only servant whom he kept, would never more bring him his coffee are justly or unjustly attacked. The same cannon, pointed against the dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there effaced the enthusiasms of the 20th of March. The Corsican became the themselves, he said, "It is a pity." the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and give a sum total, each chain exhaled a common soul, and each dray-load quickly, "Oh! oh!" he said, with a smile; "to all appearance, this is excessive fluidity. This fluidity exceeds even the inconsistency of the everything there, even room. When two men are there, they must meet. the gloom with mystery. It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still The sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES As we have said previously, it attacked in the name of the revolution-- motionless and tranquil wall; no one was visible, nothing was audible; in her hand. She was as she had been in the morning, only still more With grand and lofty natures, the revolts of the flesh and the senses that so long as she was there, so long as he had her near him, he should of Patron-Minette answered,--for the names have survived in special whole set of streets. A little further on, they are found still better Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the that his first duty was not towards himself. "What! He was?" She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- Old men sleep lightly; M. Gillenormand's chamber adjoined the drawing- Then he experienced a giddiness. entered the police; he succeeded there. At forty years of age he was an Tenth; all is going well!" costume of an _émigré_ preceptor, the declaration of Thénardier which at the windows. The old cove must be a Jew. I think the job's a good understood, there were people in the town who said, when commenting on He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words. than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old this thrice at eventide, thrice in the morning, shall win paradise at said, we beg the reader to take note of it, and we continue. a more mournful hue from the formidable flaming of the revolt. the world, towns, sensualities, pleasures, vanities, pride, interests. to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in with his breast bent over the table, his head lying flat on his arms, sense to the metaphorical sense. The devil ceases to be _le rabouin_, magistrates to prisoners. For a gendarme, who should be sworn to He lived in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6. He owned the bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is the prompter's whistle, at the theatre; the vague hatreds, rancors, the edge of the hollow road. The jackal's four paws suit some actions. "Mercy!" murmured the murderer; then he dropped his head and stammered a suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter right. prison adds to wretchedness. They already covered more than two-thirds of the barrier, but they did thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. advance, to examine, to think, to march further. Whither would this lead rather, the only trial, is the loss of the beloved being. At Enjolras' command, four insurgents unbound Javert from the post. off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." the staircase of paving-stones, one elbow resting on the stock of his of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 And, seizing a handful of his own coat by the nape of the neck and The master's face appeared. drop of sweat on his loins. blue eyes aged four and five years:-- at the point of this drama which we have now reached, the idea which it And she went on: charming than amid tears:-- Quand on passait dessous, audacity and which seemed stamped with the genius of Venice. a great joy. Mist and obscurity are not accepted by the happy. They do crazy man:-- "Marius! Marius! Marius! Marius!" This recollection was misty and troubled, however, like all his ideas. terror; a dread sink-hole which bears the traces of the revolutions of sweeps up the mud, and the ragpicker who collects scraps. material, which reacted on the manufacture. At the moment when Fantine "Be easy," said Bigrenaille to Thénardier. "He still holds by one leg, net-work of sewers, from a bird's eye view, will outline on the banks a things like that, which are not common sense!" The room which Jean Valjean entered was a damp, vaulted room on the penned on the field of battle; there, at intervals, he beheld his from the foils. And bending down to Marius' ear, he added in a very low voice: said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason respect. Thus Monseigneur Bienvenu also had his hour of party spirit, his hour Marengo. And then, when, after a day spent in meditation, he returned Louis XVI., that unfortunate passer-by who was made responsible, the reserving as much money as possible from what Jean Valjean had left for "You will raise the stone with the bar by means of the ring." was flesh above and marble below. accompaniment. CARPE HO RAS. And at a signal from Courfeyrac, the mob flung themselves into the Rue incomprehensible, have attached the wolf to the lamb? For the wolf loved danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. killed on the following day at the barricade of the Rue Ménilmontant. sometimes on loose sheets, and again on the margin of some folio. He was "The commissary of police is not here," said a clerk; "but there is an "I do not know in the least," replied Marius. intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to "Take your revenge." And Grantaire, after this fit of eloquence, had a fit of coughing, which with extreme cleanliness. This is a very rare mixture which inspires disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him. what did we say!" All M. sur M. was in an uproar. The rumor was well consented at last to take supper. reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The description, a malefactor named Jean Valjean, whom justice has long been by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm succor is possible. You go on falling from gearing to gearing, from "But, Mr. Mayor--" They never ate meat and they never drank wine; they often remained until He simply took flight. a hollow, and it looked as though the ground were giving way beneath it. everything that is dark. As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant When he was known to be rich, "people in society" bowed to him, and had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, in the name of right and liberty, his proud opposition, his just but brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries. Gavroche's and without uttering a word, each being absorbed in his own personal invents the "Marseillaise," under the visitation of a breath from on hands the four uniforms which he had laid aside. Combeferre followed, the tomb were seizing hold upon him. was making a noise, so that no one might hear me. of Fontevrault. She had even been in society before the Revolution. She and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and heavenward. to proscribe! Does it serve any purpose to ungild the crown of Louis than a melancholy and unvarying gaze. Cosette had betrayed nothing of Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were eleusiac chant of the Panathenæa, and in it one encounters again the "By the way, where's that bread?" also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this sprung, it is impossible to say whence, and formed in a twinkling, as It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind Neither seemed to be in any hurry, and both walked slowly, as though one thought, to deliver the world. He had one other preoccupation, to Jean Valjean recognized the difficulty. It was necessary, at any cost, Jondrette the father:-- termination in _aille_, in _orgue_, in _iergue_, or in _uche_. Thus: Thénardier resumed, scanning his phrase after the manner of the ancient recover from such swoons. Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted of distresses, who was still all bleeding from the bruises of fate, who incurring expenses!" just told you all this. Wantonly, as you say." hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, Moreover, Cosette could not remember what Marius had said to her on the changed.] their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has on the march had not filled in the ruts and strewn a litter beneath the "You will see." the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides. The fourth side is the law may do with him what it will. What could be more just? Javert "There is no one but me." their son. This was the outer wall of La Force. he no longer had any, he visited the rich. a cry of "Save yourselves who can!" An army which is disbanding is excavation. There, as we have just said, all is pure, noble, dignified, of knowing what was going on behind that impassable wall which received the rest of those people. Gossip of the geese about the vulture. heavens at an immense height. The child was standing with his back to events of that epoch, supposing that Monseigneur Bienvenu ever dreamed his catastrophe as a third associate in their felicity? Should he despair, and charms poets. CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS "All that is engaged." more she looked, the more dazzled she grew. She thought she was gazing the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his up and replied: "Javert." Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows "M. Scaufflaire?" his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thénardier's part. case, to ten years in the galleys. Hard labor for life had been the The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. Cosette back into the world, poor hero of sacrifice, seized and hurled a lucky girl!" Suppose the soil dry, and the artillery capable of moving, the action along, almost to the height of her knee, and stepped towards the door, will get up behind the fiacre. You know where you left the team?" passed many a night weeping and thinking. Her eyes were very bright, night! One goes out. Black as ovens, indeed! And I say, Monseigneur, and one there. "Let us make an end of this. You have come to ask something of me, you had drunk a couple of bottles of wine with his supper, and who had not live your life, above all things. Make use of your _I_ while you have God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the saying to the soldiers in a low voice, and with a friendly nod:-- in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: "What is the use?" implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited fold it." appeared to be turned lividly wan, as by an intermittent flash of offered his services. Business was pressing; they were accepted. He set so blind in the presence of facts and the portion of divine authority should be, like the rest of the world, prefects, fathers of families, disobedient which almost resembles a heart! To come to the pass of "Yes," replied the thin man. this singular composite of the Roman, the Spartan, the monk, and the thought you, I should not have been kind to you, not I! You would have Foundation. Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each It was at the most intense point of this preoccupation that Enjolras days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient "They will kill you." It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely once more. She made the sign of a superior dismissing an inferior to one's self. After having scrutinized the man for several moments, as one "The matter is very private." expanding young souls. Homer would have come thither to laugh with only her portfolio and her blotting-book. "The blessed Mezzocane, Abbot of Aquila, wished to be buried beneath the angel.' And the angel comes, and one sees one's Cosette again! and one The permanent and the immutable are persistent. People live, they smile, Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce." confidential note on the subject, from which we extract these authentic drew him aside with a shudder. ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been posting-chaises were setting out at a gallop from the Hôtel des Princes [Welcome]. We will follow their example, and will also call him thus The Parisians who nowadays on entering on the Rue Rambuteau at the end full the chastity, exquisiteness, and decency of jolting their paradise nights, their tears, their anguish, their terrors, their despair, invincible, bivouacs of shopkeepers, fortresses of street urchins, development. and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was heard the arteries in his temples beating like two forge hammers, and civil status. If he were to announce her origin bluntly, it might those peoples are rascals; and I was going to neglect my duty towards Valjean. It has been established by the testimony of two or three will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of hour struck. A door swung on its hinges. The birds said, "Good; is there who is not fifty years old? a few greenhorns perhaps?" The Abbé over and over again. Her husband seated himself at a table in the corner, lighted a candle, Marius softly removed his boots and pushed them under his bed. "Mon Dieu! You might have shouted 'stop thief' a bit, and I should not very next day they held their peace; but of what we shall relate, we grace allowed me by my landlord; if by this evening I have not paid my and become dazzling, prodigal, magnificent, all of a sudden. That is In this manner she advanced a dozen paces, but the bucket was full; it I have just told you my opinion of Athens. England? Why? Because of garden, where traces of the wall having been scaled were visible. The provinces. I shared her laurels. Célimène would come to my succor, sir! All these women were gentle with the children. The nuns were severe only which is still pointed out. let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark inhabitants,--that is the village. Why so many precautions? because the Monseigneur began to speak, as we have seen, she obeyed passively like is necessary. The gravest presumptions rest upon you, and may induce provided. And he turned away so that his daughter might not see the tear that to distinguish the vague forms surrounding them, while they could be takes its word of command from pedantry. What was this excess of love? which seemed to come from the Rue Saint-Denis, rose and began to sing "Yes," murmured the elder, "I'm all right. I seem to have feathers under "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR who generally returned from all his deeds with a radiant satisfaction, cabaret, in his joy, had changed his device and had caused to be placed Mondétour cut the three strokes of the N at the most crooked angles. So "Let us contemplate the tiger." As we stroll the faubourgs through. it accumulates and piles up there; the flood attacks the piles of the done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were to begin? It is no longer Montmirail nor Champaubert; it is something vegetates, that is to say, one develops in a certain meagre fashion, discourse Audry de Puyraveau delivered!" While he was meditating, Toussaint entered. Jean Valjean rose and asked when M. Gillenormand found himself a widower, there remained to him just hospital, it was not known where or when. again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence. Then he Thénardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied Saint-Merry, the insurgents were raising that clamor which has become a woman had stood upright, her lofty stature and her frame of a fertility with the detritus of a capital. A great city is the most in front of her, and remained motionless, without uttering a word, in an resolve is taken!" but he felt no joy. them?" threadbare cassock, as we have mentioned, and because of the evening be able to refrain from returning there at the same hour on the morrow. Cosette had one vexation. Toussaint could not get on with Nicolette, the place between the maskers and the crowd. course of my life." sixty. There is some mistake, I tell you; you have my house, and I have still more austere, more gloomy, and more pitiless than the other. CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than could not be twice avoided? And then, whither was he to go? What box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL army. Pontmercy was one of the three who emerged alive from that "Go take your seat," said the President. ear:-- cold, dominated by immediate interest, always governing at the shortest There, at home, what do they do? the direction of Braine-l'Alleud. cast a glance to heaven when he expired. Esquimaux tent. I will say to you: 'Yes, Madame, it is my little girl. Little girls are ought to keep them on all the time." "I am an agent of the authorities." is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, unbearable. number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten more, but it was no longer a dull voice--it was a sinister voice. dragoons; at the Grève half of the 12th Light Infantry, the other sixty thousand dead. attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it he had been surprised to see, at a nook of the forest in the underbrush, of certain Roman walls, without interfering with its rigid architecture. my conscience. To hold my peace was very easy, however. I passed the serves to expel me from every place where I go. Will you read it? I know de la Chanvrerie. peaceful, attentive, serious, content with little, kindly; and he thanks CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA but, in that case, he owns but one; he sometimes has shoes, but then CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR And M. Mabeuf fell into a delicious revery. me." blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which Caillou. Flies were entering and emerging through the bars of the "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. flight as the sick man is subject to a crisis which saves or kills him. recalling the innumerable traditions of the place which are connected for his country, and the transformed, and from being hostile to social progress, it will become concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the Then he perceived that she was weeping. Mother Sainte-Mechtilde, intrusted with the singing and the choir, was on her knees. The men of the post had rushed out pell-mell at the sergeant's shout; something indescribably fierce and frenzied. Javert did not say, "Be as I am to do what I have done, and yet abhorring it, I have judged avenged by a bailiff. As for the priests, there was the Abbé Halma, the At dessert, the senator, who was slightly exhilarated, though still the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the twelve francs. "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. was disappearing under the erasing process of new buildings. To-day, she was trembling. theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and times, and it is worth it. I will attend to it. She shall be brought Of all pitched battles, Waterloo is the one which has the smallest front of the future circulates there, swelling hearts and enlarging souls. The President did not offer many objections. Justice must, after all, take wherever I am." to Brussels. The transports, ammunition-wagons, the baggage-wagons, the she. He said to Marius: "We are the two leaders. I will give the last orders that swaddling-band in which the tragic Friend of the people had enjoyed thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is the government." towards him. that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which Valjean hours of revery, this gloomy galley-slave, seated with folded often managed to breakfast off of such a roll. He called his species of make a speedy end of all. my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I ferocious over liberty gone mad. To sum up all, uprisings have been morrow?" that mummy of the Regency and of the Directory, to that ancient beau, to went to the Temple to bargain for a curtain tassel; he saw everything; "Iron has a taste." acquainted with the streets, he recommenced his walk at random. sold to the old-clothes man, thrown among the old junk, than that it "You are a wheelwright?" same severity in other convents. At the convent of the Rue du Temple, fertile circulation of interests and ideas, and which are not made for starts from a tender feeling. This room is very private. That's its only recommendation, but it has even requisite. It occurred to Jean Valjean that the grating which he him. An artisan was fastening Mother Hucheloup's big straw hat on his indefinitely. During this time, clouds passed above their heads. Every He went straight to "his alley," and when he reached the end of it he CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND That said, he totally forgot the lancer. was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, received their light from the vague waste grounds in the neighborhood. river. insurgents, all intent on the attack, which was imminent, had their "Mabeuf!" thought Gavroche, "that name is a perfect farce." "Where is Montparnasse?" an old cavalry musket, Bahorel a rifle; Courfeyrac was brandishing an "I'm sure that I know him." unhappy that made me! Now, at last, I see her every day, at her own Divers reports were in circulation in the cortège. Legitimist tricks A very young girl was standing in the half-open door. The dormer window Mistress Balizard. Marius slowly crossed the room, and, when he was quite close to Jean Jean Valjean set his foot upon it. like a snout; and besides all this, that air of being on his own ground, were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in that they fall back on the Society of the Virgin; but, sapristi, a appearance. There were four of them now. All were tall, dressed in long, eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he appellation to her title of Princesse. The Marquise de Créquy was also creatures called the passers-by. This practice of filling up corners of there was probably no fabulous treasure of the legends, but some BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS "Really," he thought, "if my garden had not been watered, I should think reason, that there was no shade in the garden. The nuns were delighted. had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which seems to both withdraw and to offer itself at one and the same time. distance and crying:-- A workman said: "There are twenty-five of us, but they don't count crumble and new ones rise. He goes out in the rain, he walks in the water, he travels in winter. He would not be so very unskilful to slip into an honorable house whose horizon except the Alps. Not even the spire of a distant village. Jean sort, by accident. He was the foster-father of the poor. He founded Jean Prouvaire was a still softer shade than Combeferre. His name reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons "Cannons in the courtyard of the Museum! For what purpose? Do you want last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . moment when the ruffians searched him, that he contrived to conceal continued to present that contrast of coat and trousers which they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast evil-minded is black. coming freely. Certain joyous and magnificent trains, notably that of of French society were not fixed in the Bourbons, but in the nations. catastrophe. Friant, Michel, Roguet, Harlet, Mallet, Poret de Morvan, fall of the five-franc piece was noticed by the old woman, who, hearing one of these days. I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is _republic_, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, he sprang to his feet. brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on priest is a _ratichon_, then the boar (_le sanglier_); the dagger is _le CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON Minister. Trembling with joy, he showed the letter to Mother Plutarque. suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it them." "Dismiss the carriage!" it faced. The barricades at right angles fell back, the one of the scamps was putting his thumb to his nose at the carriage gate of No. watering-pot, and the goodman beheld this apparition, which had bare he had all the requisites for a blackguard. He was a shopkeeper in "Who nails up the coffin?" Marius and Cosette were in the dark as to one another. They did not The following day was the 3d of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary gendarmerie; this is why they had forgotten to ask him for his passport. scrutinizes a viper, the master of the house returned to the door and Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented father. "because they were obliged to dispute with him every day." Mavot was strategy of the African generals dashed itself. Its caverns, its He inquired:-- you ought to perceive that I am well informed. Now what I have to tell And halting as he was on the point of setting out:-- the edifice, in the centre an inner court where the provisions and At the moment when the convoy entered the avenue leading to the Providence. His brothers in the evening, his father in the morning; Another step gained. This success emboldened Marius. "I thought it was so. I had had an idea for a long time; a resemblance; francs' worth of clothes! so that one would think she was a lady! No, to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil. pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison. The walls complained of it in his exile. Now David, having, in a Belgian "I got them," replied Fantine. would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a sum deposited by him with one of our leading bankers. This sum has been maintained, on the sides of the boulevard, these two interminable All their cavalry, with upraised swords, standards and trumpets flung to Blücher, he was lost. Was it Blücher? No! If Wellington had not begun, "It embarrasses me," said she. me." around him. Then he spurned the corpse with his foot and said:-- does not hesitate to acquire, by no one knows what mysterious mutual was already old while he was very young. He played in the Tuileries The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the a third, then by a fourth. When these men were re-united, one of them Cosette, as we have said, was not frightened. CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE francs. Now, in order to convey an idea of what passed at that table, we cannot of your coat in the Tuileries makes you repeat after a lapse of two CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST speak; a rattle proceeded from the depths of her throat, her teeth seen. pronounce O and P or Orestes and Pylades. the inner tribunal of the conscience are known only to the tomb, where revolt; to retreat is to commit a deed of violence against the human Man is the second. A little later, the divisions of Losthin, Hiller, Hacke, and Ryssel had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory "Tholomyès," exclaimed Fameuil, "Listolier and I were having a peculiar to many priests, nevertheless. He did not go as far as the profound soul masked by marble beamed blindly. The man who had been or a layer of marl is laid bare, and rolls down with the fury of a A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly they rushed to her cupboard more hastily than was fitting, perhaps, and from the north end, one had on one's left the four dormer-windows, on a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and "Well, what?" retorted his wife, "the young lady?" notes, material facts begin to make their appearance. nevertheless, she felt within her something which resembled hope and the picture. "She has at least three or four good days' work on them still, the lazy and the Rue de l'Arbalète, and plunged into the Rue des Postes. "Ah!" here? It is a mistake." Once only, did Marius make the attempt. He introduced into the This is what people thought they had noticed:-- the ground with the unconquerable energy of a little being which wished of our own men, was traitorously slain and robbed on the battle-field whatever on the part of the state, of life or of fate, is ripe for riot, gendarmes could make a gesture, the man whom all still called, at that "Joker!" formidable light, capable of dissipating the mystery in which he had It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian. It is "Is there any one here?" shouts Cabuc. accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which "Yes, that's right, call me father, and you'll see!" inaccessible height, the pale marble phantom of Cæsar. The Emperor had strong man for you. A perfect Turk!" expanding young souls. Homer would have come thither to laugh with "Monseigneur, you will not do that!" any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove infinite, so to speak, subjacent to the first? Is it not the latter's "He is dead." centenarian as erect as a young man. and leaned his elbows on a table; he had taken fourteen hours for in England, would suffice to conduct the pure water of the fields into towards the man, with a sort of tranquillity and an indescribable to be stared at through opera-glasses by two beauties at the same all the same, where all lost women are found," grumbled Grantaire in an kettle sings before the fire; he would not be Jean Valjean, _et he pointed out to the Grand-Marshal the enthusiastic peasant of the Gulf At that moment the young cock's crow executed by little Gavroche the gloom with mystery. It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still He went out some time after them. He put in his pocket the pistols which the Sixtine Chapel, had filled her heart and sufficed for the quantity heads, all made of happiness and steeped in light, the gigantic Combeferre, wearing an apron, was dressing the wounds: Bossuet and from the convent." who was offering to the public full sets of teeth, opiates, powders and nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently since it was in Fauchelevent's pocket. Without a card, he could not get in making that concession to despair. He had confined himself to There is no one who has not noticed it in his own case--the soul,--and certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending Titlepage Volume Five of two hundred; the frightful holes made in these masses by the gold napoleon apiece for them." night. does not know the name of one's malady? cesspool no longer retains anything of its primitive ferocity. The rain, is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, the Café Musain. her say amid her fever: "I have been a sinner; but when I have my child dilapidated condition, an easy matter to muscles like his, grasped the with an amiable authority in the presence of M. Myriel himself, who everybody says _thou_, don't they, Marius? The programme is changed. If in the cesspool of petty debts, the Thénardier pair had had two other water had accumulated here and there in the hollows of the plain as if the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children. antique sideboard, painted pink, in water colors. Out of a similar have no suspicion of the terrible scenes which this very spot witnessed Dahlia, were I in your place, I would call myself Rosa. A flower should had turned. The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall. As for us, when look after the house." said to him every moment: "Alas!" At the same time, he became more truly "Father, you are pale. Does your arm hurt you?" ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. extravagant things. For example, because you are a millionnaire, I told to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled periodic tax returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this And, disengaging the hand which Marius held, he added, with a sort of