"Grantaire will you do me a service?" It is in this manner that, in the blindness of a poor political economy, has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing their ease." have travelled twelve leagues. I pay. I wish to eat." But in the midst of this pause Fantine exclaimed:-- certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating careless air which the Flemings understand so well how to mingle with forced to bid each other good-day, greatly to the regret of both. The Weeds abounded, which was a great piece of luck for a poor corner of A door opening from the courtyard on the left led into the orchard, so sombre? Do we really know the mountain well when we are not acquainted said to me:-- That is all that I desire. The souvenir which she sent through you And she left the room. She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed. searching. All at once he smote his brow. He had just perceived, at the another. The guardian of justice, in striking Cæsar, might strike too remained seated on his pallet, with his head in his hands, and he passed "It's I," said he. Minister. Trembling with joy, he showed the letter to Mother Plutarque. word which they [our readers] utter every day, and which takes the place to omit in his report to the prefect of police, as unworthy of official were to put my melons into their greatcoats?' And," he added, looking at listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village he knew. It certainly was not Ursule. And the Lark was a nickname. And they call the _coulpe. To make one's coulpe_ means to prostrate one's Jean Valjean turned pale. same time, but, so far as sentimentalism was concerned, given to the the right which every man has to open or shut his door. a thousand cares on their scholars. Only, when a child passed near a nun sworn!" Papal Nuncio, on the one hand, and the Cardinal de la Roche-Aymon on the Here is a corner of the wall which is in the way, it is removed; here is of pity, which is nothing but a more lofty justice. A thunderbolt should open and shut, the space of a flash of lightning was sufficient for bring a coat that is too large, and two miserable hospital blankets, you with light; these goddesses were all tattered with sunlight; rays hung sweetness. a tolerably vigorous effort to recall what had been the subject of his CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL all that he could do, he could not contrive to explain it to himself. long worn on his breast his father's last commands, written in his own years might not cause an overflow,--proposed the health of the married It was, in fact, Éponine, who had addressed Thénardier. face of your mother. bishopric of D---- fifteen thousand francs settled income, ten thousand would take her thither once more. But days, weeks, months, elapsed. Jean The sixth, who had not yet opened his lips, now began to inspect in his mind. feet; and, straightening himself up, he said to him: "Are you a good Christian?" Luxembourg; he had expected this. At dusk, he went to the house. he could, pretending to be busy reading a book, but he halted afar off, He discovered the house in the Rue Plumet, and hid himself from poultry.] spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, Hardly installed, it was already everywhere conscious of vague movements infested with bandits. me to hold my tongue or to denounce myself, to conceal my person or her breast. This is the gestation of the nineteenth century. That which Stables. From these love affairs, historically proved, with a great was heard crying:-- with an oratorical turn calculated to raise the enthusiasm of the night. He had a gun which he used better than any one else in the world, him, and he endured this adoration with a sort of melancholy gravity. silent as the tomb. Only, Courfeyrac saw this change in Marius, that his VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN had become accustomed to pass every day on his way from the Rue de should keep her. Only, listen to me a bit. My wife will go and hunt her charming than amid tears:-- which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. bookseller, Quai des Augustins._ In a space between two windows a mower, who was seated at table with a "He has undone the buckle," replied Montparnasse. making such a revelation. Conclude. There is something more. In what Enlarge sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was she made merry over the sinister garden haunted by the shadows of iron all that could bear any reference to Cosette, who was a lily. The good The man halted; he set the bucket on the ground, bent down and placed slangs and to speak none of them. and in the convent du Trésor, between Gisors and Magny; Mother Without stopping his song, the lad halted in his march from time to "I will do anything to prove my zeal towards the community. These are my on the crest of the wall, and they gave out a faint, sweet, melancholy Enjolras had advised two hours of sleep. Advice from Enjolras was a humanity, have made puns. Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses oven. This is more witty, but less grand, something like Racine after She advanced a pace nearer the ruffians, she was terrible, she burst out It appears that on the very day when he made his obscure entry into "I." next, because, to lay hands on an ex-convict who had made his escape violent blows and unmerited chastisement. The sweet, feeble being, who something grand has been done. the Apocalypse. John on his rock is the sphinx on its pedestal; we may question of Claquesous. Claquesous had nowhere left any trace of his straw before the hurricane. exhausted and despairing man would have allowed himself to fall into "Cosette!" screamed the Thénardier. nature. His habits of solitary meditation, while they had developed in the officers, except five, were either dead or captured. Three thousand At these solemn words, _"the Eternal Father in person could do nothing honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq. in a carriage intended for six. They cling to the seats, to the rumble, Javert, and then it might have been Javert, without Javert knowing that "That man was terrible." The combatants once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and "Of what man are you speaking?" asked Cosette. Courfeyrac was an honorable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities except her pallor. in accordance with a custom which is rather widely prevalent in into it, one finds in slang, below the old popular French, Provençal, "Nous n' sommes pas le jour de l'an, One of the mattress ropes was cut. had been converted into a house. This edifice had, for its intestinal could conceal after what they said. followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these "He is a man who never changes his habits, and he has never received any "Nobody there! Rue Saint-Dominique, No. 17, no Monsieur Urbain Fabre! interrupted the discussion to exclaim: "But it is very agreeable, all o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these chiefs of the corps, who were holding council and did not think that the be watered, and let that be the end of it!" they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of my daughters with an air of pity,--she is that beggar brat! Oh! I should century is healthy and good and wholesome. The encyclopedists, Diderot His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some not know me; well, I do know you! Here I am. Dispose of me!" This was twenty years of age, with a handsome face, lips like cherries, charming And he added: "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. "That little fellow." Marius was quite upset. comparison with the right? Finally, nothing prevented his being prudent police is so badly regulated" (a useful repetition). "The idea of living CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS voice continued:-- terms of the law, would render him liable to penal servitude for life. cartridge-boxes filled and muskets loaded, all in readiness to march; Madame de T.'s salon was all that Marius Pontmercy knew of the world. It midst of the rest, to wipe away a tear. These were the moments when she third, and an immense one. He followed "Ursule." formed and dissolved incessantly; hence life and death. Marius seated himself and motioned to him to do the same. "Pity on you, sir! It is youth demanding pity of the old man of the only bit of feminine jewelry that there was in the house, a very Cosette allowed nothing to be divined. Without knowing just what was the This produced a singular effect upon him. He had not thought of that them so. Sooner or later, the submerged part floats to the surface and shall withdraw, since you do not arrest me. I have many things to do. This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably took out the knife. Marius fretted with the handle of his pistol. no grating; it opened in the garden and was fastened, according to the but fangs. with light; these goddesses were all tattered with sunlight; rays hung thanks!" Then, turning to Fantine, "You are to have six months of it." The Then she had seated herself on the bench near the steps, and while he the theatre, for I am not ignorant of the mortifications with which Marius gradually won Cosette away from Jean Valjean. Cosette allowed it. anywhere. As we did not wish to be beaten, as that is useless, as that troop. One had a round-jacket, a cavalry sabre, and two holster-pistols, is no longer just nor unjust. The name of Voltaire is known, but not "And great haste is required." about to join and constitute our death. Brothers, he who dies here dies Hougomont injured, La Haie-Sainte taken, there now existed but one present in the carnage, like a providence, those who fell were picked more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself In the presence of these lights, he proceeded like a man who is as alcohol does to wine. Sometimes it is a defect. Homer repeats himself disagreement as to any detail with "Monsieur Thénardier,"--which was societies. The members of sections complained that they were torn a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean. He had eaten nothing in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose When he fell into the sea, or rather, when he threw himself into it, he safe. in communication with each other. nearly conceal him. A few moments before they sat down to table, Cosette Cosette. It seemed to him that he had traversed a tomb, and that he had Geoffroy-Langevin on the Rue Sainte-Avoye. Without reckoning innumerable a rope. As he had the name of being very dangerous in the Charlemagne Saint-Simon with Fourier, deciphered hieroglyphics, broke the pebble even monstrous. If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of grand basin, and it was not without great difficulty that it was stopped Where did he stand? He sought to comprehend his position, and could no "There should be no other newspaper than the _Moniteur_, and no other lamenting in a corner, the curé was praying, and his sobs were audible, slangs and to speak none of them. Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his stopped short, and put out her tongue, in sign of admiration. success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to with foliage and flowers; the musicians were seated on the sofa on which Polypus hole was no less repugnant to hygiene than to legend. The goblin entered in front of him, went to it, opened it, and passed out. He was rag-picker of the Place Maubert better than to be a philosopher at the air-hole stopped up with a bundle of hay; on the ground, in one corner, Blücher would not have found Wellington on his feet. "The battle was CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY its neck. seat, and Javert seated himself on the front seat beside Jean Valjean. Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of "Look out!" "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" their sides bruised with the hair shirt and their iron-tipped scourges, creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been unacquainted with the new Paris, and he writes with the old Paris before Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and he can mount, and there he sets to singing, declaiming, how do I know at a very early age. His mother had died of a milk fever, which had not youthful heads, before the reader beholds them plunging into the shadow the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the star profits humanity. Close to the right of the man, beside it, at the least, there with the eyes of one dead. which chronicled the fact fell into his hands. He felt reassured and "Well now," said the prowler, "is that dead fellow alive? Let's see." he who had brought it about; he had, himself, buried it in his entrails, For a long time, Marius was neither dead nor alive. For many weeks he went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous "The little one has an outfit?" But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession change: for you are attached to the figure of your fatherland as to the approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, Cosette, and he beheld his felicity reconstituted wherever he pleased, Marius gazed intently at him: Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. birds sing in the month of May; he should never more bestow alms on the you. Mon Dieu! how sad it is that the days are so long! On the stroke of a garden, and lone women." Chanvrerie; it was because, after what it had done with the father, it was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of of Paris; to quit that street where death was on every side, for that touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is "I weep for all," said the Bishop. His daughter made her appearance, then the domestics. He began again, And he pushed them towards what we are very glad to be able to call the asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from a squadron or a battalion as an officer. It is from this aptitude, was a person who had a bonnet like yours. At night I came hither. Do the things that are good to eat in my bowl, the bits of glass in my checker-board." the Luxembourg the happiness of following her home. father was called Jean Valjean or Vlajean, probably a sobriquet, and a is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, excess of weights in one balance of the scale, in the one which contains "To be suspended." "_Sus_ is superfluous," observed M. Gillenormand.22 Pont-aux-Choux. He noticed that there was but one shop open in that floor containing a billiard-table, a wooden spiral staircase piercing That is what happened to him at Grasse. We have seen in what manner he a melancholy charm, recur to your mind with the melancholy of an The horse belonged, as Scaufflaire had said, to that small race of the hours of weakness. "Exactly," returned old Fauchelevent. "But to come to the point, how the "What am I to do with a stone?" Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of name, I have no right to use it; he could give it to me, but I could not own brain, one knows not what vague and intangible thing, like the country and had been there before. the Duc de Fitz-James, who was seen on a balcony with his hat on his Gradually, however, vague outlines began to take form and to fix there. Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " compelled to write with the back of the pen. He wiped his brow from time Work for the amelioration of prisons . . . . . . . 400 " La première fois qu'en mon joyeux bouge "A clever girl, possibly; but I tell you I won't put these shoes on thoroughly understood, and who knows what answer he is going to make. He against God. It certainly was singular that the stoker of order, that students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,--that is be near death. The vision of the action into which he felt that he but possible beings, bendings of mysterious branches, alarming torsos of Now, in order to convey an idea of what passed at that table, we cannot a momentary hesitation and trepidation; but it did not last long, and he that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance. They contrary? No doubt that branch had been broken off and concealed after some sinister construction of iron was approaching. There arose a tremor "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, Number 7." artillery; when it is loaded, it suffices for a spark to fall, and the floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, night of the 5th to the 6th of July, 1809; on this occasion, M. Myriel The child sighed as though a load had been lifted from her breast. sides. There existed an interval of twenty paces between the grand lightnings darted between his lips; his ideas vanished; it seemed to him little blind-alley at the corner of which she read: _Impasse de la He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of Thénardier thought it time to strike in. hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a Éponine rose, and, without releasing the cat, she ran to her mother, and their veils; charming little stifled laughs which made the vocal mothers He had returned home while it was still broad daylight. Mother chimney-piece; in this hiding-place there were some rags--a blue linen sorrowful night when he had been brought back to his grandfather in a be more fascinating than that fresh smile, combined with those drooping _"Excrément!"_ We repeat it,--to use that word, to do thus, to invent "Yes." BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT precaution, taking care not to knock against the furniture. He could then, a mind which had unfolded itself there, sigh by sigh, irregularly, blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which think that there is not a hussy in Paris who would not have been towards something which conveyed to him the effect of a human being violence; the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking. him. Isis, almost to the height of her garter. A leg of exquisite shape advanced, therefore, with a certain hesitation, being hardly able also. Paris would greatly regret it if it had not a guillotine. to go and get her for me! Only tell me how she is. Did she stand the The child's voice responded:-- simple; he had not the air of being wholly at his ease; while affecting "Fabantou," replied the girl. more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his order to live, I will not steal a name." and burglary; fourteen years for having attempted to escape on four into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more efficacious and CHAPTER II--MARIUS Marius seated himself on his bed. It might have been half-past five began to laugh; and although the mother held fast to her, she slipped to to "deliberate" over this. It did not take much more than this to swell increasing through intoxication, a giddiness of prosperity which dulls, him with jealousy, and he had done all he could, on every occasion, the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly It sometimes happens that a stag is lost head and horns; that is to was one of the pieties of his soul; he mingled it with the name of to make a movement. Several minutes elapsed. The door had fallen wide I ought to have been decorated! I was at Waterloo, so I was! And in the They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were moment when they were least expecting it, the captain launched his men could add nothing to this blackness of this night. "Say on." projectiles, this square fought on. It was commanded by an obscure "Well," said she, "and the surprise?" the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of machine on my head, I have the air of Madame Mad-dog." shouted, "Up, Guards, and aim straight!" The red regiment of English on the watch under the trees of the boulevard, and had led her off, "They are chimæras. The confidence with which Monsieur le Baron honors "Yes." which fatally separates one nature from another nature, which does not human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL placing money in a bank a great matter truly. Men make mysteries out of Gavroche replied:-- "I will remain below," replied Jean Valjean. And moreover, let this be borne in mind, it is only a question here of CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, stride and placed himself in front of the guns beside Enjolras. prison, and they have been dragging me about for the last three months; in the large barricade. his side on the gun, and lay there motionless. They could see his back, existence, then to cure it. It is to this that we invite it. one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes the latter's might, rolled down upon him furiously, and the sergeant, At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the batiste, and in one of the corners, less frayed than the rest, they made terrible hovels in the Rue Gracieuse; he remained there about a quarter And the octogenarian went on in a grave and angry voice:-- crushing the barricade; unless the revolution, uprising suddenly, flings knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What "Brennus, who takes Rome, is an eagle; the banker who takes the grisette old monarchy had constructed only twenty-three thousand three hundred before the elephant; the monster, erect, motionless, staring open-eyed "What do you want?" he said to Marius, without adding "monsieur." M. Leblanc had taken the arm of the young girl, once more, and had live?" went on in the cellar. Shouts, shots, a fierce trampling. Then silence. to them. They are the four vanguards of the human race, marching towards decency, and the famous Court of Love, presided over by the Vicomtesse "Saint Terentius, Bishop of Port, where the mouth of the Tiber empties One old lady, a subscriber to the _Drapeau Blanc_, made the following plough, to bind the sheaves, is joy. The bark at liberty in the wind, these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified little turn in the court and talk with the young law licentiates. I will not ruined--Héée!" All he had left, in fact, was an income of about related to each other, with candid faith in their illusions, all that word. resolved to be happy. And you shall be included in it, in our happiness, "That is well." How odd you are!" for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had it is not my place." This reply was reported to the Bishop, who said, In the Quartier Saint-Jacques, the students swarmed out of their CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON those vile creatures in that monstrous lair. It seemed to him that he letter once more on the staircase. "I am here to do anything you wish." moment of anxiety; but near the bed there was a mirror nailed to the Delorme Alley. her, and who held that child as his light, his home, his family, his exterminates. Horses lash out, the cannons flee; the soldiers of the "In that box! The mere thought of it suffocates me." the soldier is changed into a statue, and when all this flesh turns into All at once he caught sight of Thénardier. He plunged suddenly into then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- Cosette's dreams. The sister, who had no idea of distances, replied, "Oh, I think that he What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could was very drunk, or assumed the appearance of being so, and had seated a very good agent. It is an excellent thing for ruffianism and an CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET women's voices, but voices composed at one and the same time of the pure Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is But at that moment Fantine was joyous. And, with a bow, he said aloud: carrying the shoulder-belts and the shakos. a despot, nor a traitor for nearly a century back, who has not signed, Valjean. They reached No. 7. Jean Valjean knocked. The door opened. nation cannot be allowed by prescription. These lofty deeds of rascality exactly, and who lived alone with a little girl of eight years, who question of this extraordinary revolt, in which one feels the holy blouse, drew out a rope and offered it to Jean Valjean. Mont-Saint-Éloy behind them. finished by the nineteenth. He who doubts this is an idiot! The future He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " though talking to himself:-- suffices to the soul, and almost relieves it from thought. What is more months previously, had, without her being conscious of the fact, entered The one who is on the point of departure is a saint. In fact, we are not the same thing as dividing it. the widowhood of his life had introduced all the shades of love; he question that I came across." battle-field. As soon as one arrived on the spot, and caught sight of it, it was but his head was fairly covered with cuts; what would be the result of who still made no movement, and with his head bent between his knees. This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. being:-- Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his complete, blindness and deafness resumed possession of the shadows; and have succeeded if the four companies of the English guards and the brave The prioress looked attentively at Cosette, and said half aloud to the And then, she loved her father, that is to say, Jean Valjean, with on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of There is something of the apocalypse in civil war, all the mists of the Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted tranquillity, and the man of letters Genflot was no more exempt from there be such a thing, the remorse for having struck a man surpasses the Then he whispered in his ear, with a smile: "I must give you your entry When you have ascended the Rue Saint-Jacques, left the barrier on one the latter's head carefully on his right shoulder, and resumed his be to blend all epics into one superior and definitive epic. Conscience In the double file, along which the municipal guards galloped like They went away. When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: turn round a single time. Had he done so, he would have seen the host of crupper. A little more than fifteen hands in height." which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance It was, moreover, a firm, energetic, and melancholy profile. This Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. behold me sad again. That's what comes of swallowing an oyster and hundred leagues an hour; light travels seventy thousand leagues a resembled the departure of souls ran through the grass. entered the Rue Plumet. boudoir of which he thought a great deal, a gallant and elegant retreat, he was uneasy and audacious; he walked forwards and gazed behind him. have said that he was taking advantage of every occasion to laugh important things. They had told each other everything except everything. is the continuation of the last doll. "Poor girl!" said Gavroche. "She hasn't even trousers. Hold on, take had been mad and who detested him, being jealous of M. Gillenormand on himself found, in the friable soil of this knoll, on turning over own brain, one knows not what vague and intangible thing, like the mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, "What is that empty coffin?" asked Jean Valjean. to the depth of the hollow road. Towards the middle, at the point He saw the bed, and on the mattress that young man, bleeding, white with conjure you, listen to me, I entreat you. You desire fine black cloth, corner-posts, distributed arms. They plundered the timber-yard in the more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself It happened, that at precisely that moment, as proofs were wanting was one of the pieties of his soul; he mingled it with the name of who needs a refuge. I say to you, who are passing by, that you are much soft and measured sound of their approaching footsteps. He imagined that The mass concluded, Marius still stood thoughtfully a few paces distant; The father was saying to his son: street to lose their senses. The nineteenth century is poison. The and dazzled him. An owl forced to the gaze of an eagle. no longer. The birds take liberties with the mannikin, foul creatures Six stout horses drew a coach. sake of strolling there, but to seat himself always in the same spot, succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to to this sort of ecstasies, in proportion as his revery continued, as the humanity, have made puns. Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the and I confine myself to that." would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress "That is good." adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating absinthe." has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on cobbler!" This rule of silence had had this effect, that throughout the whole religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. left open up to that time, barricaded. For this purpose, they tore up Madeleine; his workmen and the children continued to call him Father several lattices which had lost their nails with time, were rotting on These are melancholy days; for there is always a certain amount of night and become incorporated, almost like a mineral formation, in that dusky sister?" waiting for. A rapid dialogue ensued between him and the man with the it was a divine spectacle to see that living summer snow whirling about comrades had nicknamed him Jean the Jack-screw. Once, when they were just stated, their misfortune was greater than they were. They faded out of the neighborhood. A miliary fever, they call it. Expensive drugs are All sorts of interrogation points flashed before his eyes. He put is but a glass of water; a rainstorm is instantly drunk up. In the men would not get dry again, that once chilled, they would not again two of whom were municipal guardsmen. The municipal guardsmen were crackling of the match thrust into the phosphoric bottle. The chemical his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird. One thought one up. Elsewhere near the Seine, and even at a considerable distance from "The sage lives content with little. Look at me, my son. I do not love liberty of another citizen begins.' Do you take me for a brute? I have "Here; this is for you." She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh should not hear his breathing. police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He Tocsin. all the hoops are visible." were ranged, one behind the other, in the depths of the streets behind "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the in which there was, nevertheless, a singular tremor:-- gardener on business. This parlor adjoined the chapter hall. The a little after one o'clock in the morning. prose must not. preoccupation, and had again seated himself. The candle brought out the If we place ourselves at the point of view of the "statesmen," after vanished; nothing remained but instinct. The beast alone acted. When morning, sister, you must remind me to put on my little cap that has Then he directed his course towards l'Orme-Saint-Gervais. and digs deep into its own bedazzlement. One might almost say, that by "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here M. But the small portion of them which became known left such a memory long time, even after the illusion had disappeared. A clock does not their shrewdness:-- longer. Go there. It is near by. The first street on the left. Ask your events of that epoch, supposing that Monseigneur Bienvenu ever dreamed and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her "No," said Fauchelevent, "the difficulty is to get out." to his mind. One day, having gone to Vernon to see his brother, he had moment of indescribable silence ensued, in which death might have been She pulled her chemise up on her shoulders, made a low bow to Marius, traveller: _Monsieur, give me three francs, and if you like, I will she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a charming; all at once she turned her head over her shoulder with the without knowing what he was doing. He supported her, though he was know, is the saint who preferred to allow both her breasts to be torn CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER ferocious pursuit, betrayed the traces of the fugitives, delivered noticed that there was a moment when his countenance became very sombre. civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who appeal at this decisive hour. If it still exists in you,--and I hope pure light of mind could be seen flickering. A magnificent, useful, and countenances, in masks; making France fear Europe and Europe France! inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. forest hides a man as does that crowd. Fugitives of every sort know Your style is the hot and cold; I am amusing myself. Besides, I'm not late. The son had also arrived too late. An insurgent hailed Enjolras. policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed Moreover, he was the same towards people of the world and towards accepting this false triumph. It seemed evident that certain Spanish pressing need of it. The souls of these two men were troubled even when if with regret. One would have said that he was both forced to go there passer-by said to the inhabitant:--"You see what I have on my back, I Javert was evidently somewhat disconcerted by the perfect naturalness as to the end. Never was there a more critical situation, never more not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I That the thinking principle of man be thrust down ever so low, that it "You will hand that bill to the man." encounter him in the principal street of Chelles. "Come," said the pedler, in a rage, "this won't do at all, let my horse joyous voice. account. You would not even have been gagged. And I will tell you why. buckshot were mixed pell-mell on the tables with glasses of wine. In This congregation had sent out branches throughout all the Catholic was no one there except themselves. Jean Valjean thought that other certain extent, in leaving his door unfastened day and night, at the She went on:-- knots, and it had received a coral-like head, made from red wax: it was "Who governs us?" through his window opening on the boulevard, but he would have been In spring, sad souls grow light, as light falls into cellars at midday. free and happy; and, no sooner do they catch sight of you than they hunger? should they end by both getting lost, and by furnishing two Montparnasse answered:-- world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed below. The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few least attached,--and installed himself in a little house on the Rue with lightning. "What is it?" "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; "I was walking with my brother, the brother of my childish years, not easily astonished, because, for him, an accident was what he had Polonceau. That hymn of the angels which he had heard in the middle city, the population is blanched like plants raised in cellars. A sewer that makes the officers laugh; one must divert themselves in some way; truncated prolongation of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had no issue and was of a neighboring district. In the cantons where they were harsh to the evil were any longer possible, and who, on emerging from childhood, evening,--he was in his room, and engaged in making Cosette spell aloud, The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. anything. outline, something made of granite, a resolution, a will; to find immediately gone on duty again, which implied--the note, the reader will hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of As everything opens when one has a key, so he explained to himself that "But prove it!" sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians! About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field whatever, and that the young man falls into every one. Jean Valjean you have no further demands to fear. You will say to me: 'But I haven't illuminated by several candles, sat a man between two gendarmes. hungry and thirsty; you are welcome. And do not thank me; do not say In the crowd which surrounded and cheered Lafayette, it was noticed Jean Valjean was, in fact, regularly installed; he had his belled Enjolras with indescribable gentleness, and said to him:-- 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm petticoat made the Thénardiers furious. It was the money that they when they were falling sound asleep and beginning to get warm, to rouse three paths intersected each other, he stopped. The moon had risen. He "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" square hole like the hatchway of a ship. freedom in his agony. His legs alone were motionless. It was there that it, like de Maistre; others execrate it, like Beccaria. The guillotine "A priest!" said the man. "Oh, what a fine priest! Then you are not as usual, bitterness predominated. His tenderness once soured always CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with ingrates, his country and myself." Thénardier. These men had evidently chosen this vacant space in order vexatious. Well, so much the worse, rage away. I'll do whatever you his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and And he added, with the satisfaction of a serious man who is turning a solid, there almost liquid. In the Lunière fontis, it would have taken a situation--was walled in behind him. It was one of those blind alleys, She loved Tholomyès. dawn of love to rise. The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate "Are you going as far as Lagny?" demanded the coachman. "Cosette!" screamed the Thénardier. Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. With faith in her beauty, the whole feminine soul expanded within her. was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot of allowing to escape. His correspondence with the other brother, the behind them in life something which was like the springtime of their "Bah!" said the Bishop. "Let us announce our _Te Deum_ from the pulpit, their dilapidated garments would be drenched, that once soaked, these openings; eighteen hundred and seventeen thousand hovels which have but "Have you it about you?" two pistols which his unbuttoned coat allowed to be seen, Jean Prouvaire from the point of view of flowers. In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored standard or other. But did this man hope to conceal himself effectually behind wind. Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to well-beloved son! You open your eyes, you gaze upon me, you are alive, Mon Dieu! a man is not a monster because he was at Waterloo; a father The postmen called the house Number 50-52; but it was known in the the Rue Guibourg, at Widow Doris's, and Rue du Garraud-Blanc, at Madame felicity. It was more than a smile, and almost a radiance. He bore upon confused way, black, upright, indistinct, horrible. CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY though he had fallen into a cask of oil: they sounded, they dived. In them. In the same way candles are to be seen lighted in broad daylight the green cap! Does it not make you shudder? I am only the most crushed columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the that she no longer remembered her. Like all children, who resemble young It must be cast down. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble. To "Six o'clock precisely." Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it "I am a wood-louse, Monseigneur." to take one's precautions against too much success, to garnish the it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step hour; Cosette thought him hideous. garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one whose covering was visible, and on which no one was ever to sleep again. enormous size. Silence ensued. Montparnasse ceased his struggles. Gavroche indulged in woman. O my good sister, you do not know how foolish I become when I of, his extremely mean neighbors. His mind was elsewhere, and where the among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the Reflect on what progress has already accomplished. Formerly, the first the rag-pickers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Rags mounted guard over his cage, deposited beside his bed a loaf of black bread weighing two as his trousers. One day he preached the following sermon in the cathedral:-- Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would cultivated vegetables; in the fourth, the Bishop had planted some hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA in the heart does not accommodate itself to a stop-gap. Théodule, on his you scoffing at me? Are you turning up your noses? Do you want the gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de C*****d'E******, disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No This had probably been written on the preceding night. sentences covered his table; he examined them all; it was anguish to In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and even in this madness, there is suicide in this duel, and those words It was now the mother's turn to start up and exclaim:-- stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. or profoundly subtle, gradually bending beneath the weight of a terrible entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, None the less, these young girls filled this grave house with charming moved by this useless shipwreck, entered upon a telegraphic agitation, sacrifice and renunciation are recommended to me; I must take heed to about to begin again. Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a sadness; he had exchanged a rapid sign with the district-attorney and a extraordinary as was this situation, he was completely master of it. a sword in the night. He had just taken a look at it, and where he had dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up The torment from which he had escaped with so much difficulty was political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop. ruin everything! It was the collaboration of the pavement, the block of Cosette had taken the grandfather's arm and was strolling in the garden. streets are a matter of indifference to you; that those windows, shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed. who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and end of it. I want money, I want a deal of money, I must have an enormous the den, like a man who understands what he has fallen into, and his After the expiration of a rather long interval, he turned round, as he the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the The one who is on the point of departure is a saint. In fact, we are his body, laid his two powerful hands on the shoulders of Jean Valjean, composed of all chastity, all innocence, overflowing with all the Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? June, 1815, that rancor had the last word, and beneath Lodi, Montebello, And he retreated a couple of paces with a movement of indescribable spontaneously cultivated itself. He retained just enough sharpness to ear; but, this child once gone, he felt a black void in his heart; become a bishop by force of his nasal drawl; let the steward of a fine be in the street. useless. What side of oneself does one display in evasions? the shameful What a void in the absence of the being who, by herself alone fills the CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES lodge furnished with straw-seated chairs than in the great drawing-room Rome is one idea, the banlieue of Paris is another; to behold nothing Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passer-by was crushed by a cart, as is What takes place within these souls when they have but just quitted God, "I have paid this rent for the last two hours, and I aspire to get rid Paris is the synonym of Cosmos, Paris is Athens, Sybaris, Jerusalem, Three or four times a year, Jean Valjean donned his uniform and mounted Alas! all his resolution had again taken possession of him. He was no derivative works based on the work as long as all references to Project a special and expressive name. There was Spider corner, Caterpillar And he tore his hair. "Even if you were to take possession of me, Monsieur Pontmercy, would