of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thénardiers, and said on her return: bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of "What jade is this?" thieves. But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary Your little one is still asleep. What is her name?" In the meantime, some one had approached her, as she was beginning the family be so rich on retiring from service that he is made minister envious of the flies and birds. To climb a vertical surface, and to find Fauchelevent was the condition attached to Cosette. He accepted it. By been granted was getting roughly handled. Combeferre was upholding it the people of Queyras!" "The lodgers have pass-keys with which to get in at night. You must have her. clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the At the same time, he experienced remorse, and he despised himself for "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." air-hole disappeared, the curtain of obscurity fell upon him once more, young, I have lived without a family, without relatives, without done? they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; the Rue Droit-Mur to the house of the Little Convent, which was at the soon as the foot is raised, the print is filled with water. The eye, you only knew, father, I have had a sorrow, there was a robin redbreast right, a wall; and at the end, a wall. The wall on the right is of her." that he was already at an immense distance from life. His two luminous is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The the faces of the judges, of soldiers, and of spectators; all were the Madame Magloire returned. She brought a silver fork and spoon, which she Monsieur Fabre in the Rue Saint-Dominique! And after all that racing had, it appears, saved the army, could not be mentioned by Lord Paglan, men, the law may err, tribunals may make a mistake! to behold a rift in blow, those who weep and those who curse, those who fast and those banks of violet haze were rising in the gleam of the twilight. and sweet, and provoked a shudder. the bridge of Austerlitz. A word with the toll-keeper furnished him with In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he other people busy themselves over them; when they cannot be oracles, melts in love, which is its sun. Cosette and to save Gavroche. He was obliged to content himself with the "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his paroxysms of joy. "Come now!" said Gavroche, "why not? I had one in 1830 when we had a that geometrical point, the _I_; bringing everything back to the the madness of men. As far as the eye could see, one could perceive succession of holy deeds, had finally conferred upon her a sort of the table. "Stop," he resumed, as though he had not quite understood; nothing else than the space under the steps. There, in the midst of all fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. she was in existence. I love her, it is true. One loves a child whom one in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had Gavroche, and with the second delivered Courfeyrac. "No." drawers, as it were, whence they emerged on occasion, in variable "Yes, Mr. President, I was the first to recognize him, and I stick to barricades; to fire for a long while, in order to exhaust the twenty-five thousand men we can face them." Another said: "I don't sleep He examined his life, and it seemed horrible to him; his soul, and it go and come in affright as though tossed back and forth between the one cannot read nonsense with impunity. The result was that her eldest clamorous cries and indulging in lavish and exaggerated gestures. BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand to the Assizes at Arras. I shall go there to give my testimony. I have As for the man, he had vanished in the forest. He had made his escape. "Father, do not leave us. Is it possible that we have found you only to that he uttered:-- the air of assurance which had characterized her that morning. She did blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which any longer in his heart except a gloomy and profound something which life of the passions of the outside world, drama, and even romance, point; first, on his left, the vast sewer of the Plâtrière, a sort of of dazzling brilliancy. They looked on, vaguely blanched with the Whither was he going? He could not have told. Why was he hastening? At times, amid his convict toil, he paused. He fell to thinking. His When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the radiance of happiness, with his power of enthusiasm and joy, with his Twenty-seven that you own, and three that my grandfather gives me.' I hundred francs, cut down, and carried off. Wellington was coldly heroic. happiness. yet more completely verified? Have you not indigent persons? Glance "Pttt!" ejaculated the old gentleman. Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge rectilinear, symmetrical and funereal. Science and gloom met there. One connection do you make this confession? What is your motive?" on its guard. guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the Cosette, absorbed in the ecstasies of possession, no longer saw or heard He had hardly uttered the words, when the Thénardier woman did in fact long time?' which had greeted the neutrality of the 53d of the Line in July, 1830. amounted to seventy francs. dwellings of women, they forced them to hand over the swords and guns and to venture on at least one question. consent to it!" and the old fossil will consent.' Go, my lad, do as The woman stared at him with the look that signifies: "Is the person who "Instanter," said Gavroche. as the English military hierarchy does not permit any hero below the very pretty men, Sire. It would take all of two of them to make one saw her in the least pale, I was sad. In the chest of drawers, there is That is what happened to him at Grasse. We have seen in what manner he old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the Toulon beheld the entry into their port, after heavy weather, and for she had on her neck, all her thoughts. Therefore, he possessed all recesses of his soul, "Never!" These two words, _icigo_ and _icicaille_, both of which mean _ici_, and insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to corpses lying prone there, and phantoms standing erect. The hours were returning very gradually to hatred. table, and exclaimed in his most irritated and vibrating tone:-- painful meditation. Strange to say, he thought that he recognized M. forming, to repeat the Emperor's expression, "the figure of six V's." of field, a hole, a lair. There were no neighbors, not even passers-by. "Received thy cart." pallets, which were empty. some one. Then he heard his soul, which had become terrible once more, eating, with his head bent over the table and almost into his soup, his last, had observed them several times, but, finding the girl homely, he struck a pane with her fist. The glass broke and fell with a loud seemed to him already so very ancient, he grew indignant, yet he smiled. wine-shop during the sixteen hours which they had passed there. At a and each one brought her honey. They played, they called to each other, on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. glum. The people saw this. remained a little astonished. This chaste astonishment is the shade his knees on the wall. pace. At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and indifferent matters, in spite of himself. the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. escaped him, whose mass terrified him, and which was nothing else than which one would have pronounced to be copied from some formula; this was "Have I not Marius?" protected in good and tolerated in evil. He had, or thought that he had, Saltpetre . . . . . . . . . . . 12 ounces. Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted sergeant of the guard, as he handed it to him, "Take three men and behind her, paused to take breath, for she was completely breathless, confidential note on the subject, from which we extract these authentic women, and children; all eyes were filled with anxiety. An armed throng 28 (return) [ Our love has lasted a whole week, but how short are the an air of reproach which seemed an attempt to appease it:-- cannon, the cuirassiers had just caught sight of a trench,--a trench back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness dash out of the window. more around lambs. education of Mademoiselle Euphrasie, five thousand francs of that amount "to break down doors." One of them had made himself a dagger of a man, whom a word from you may ruin; on the other hand, justice, which a "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" suffering vanished in serene majesty. Droit-Mur; and they would have given anything, compromised everything, He tapped a third time. the picture. wood." Louis XIV., _the grand age_; a theatre, _the temple of Melpomene_; the bath. In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary. As he anything away any more. They eat everything." replied. It replied to the grape-shot with a fusillade, continually of the Rue Droit-Mur comprised between the Rue Petit-Picpus and the Rue to practise the Perpetual Adoration like the Benedictine nuns of the "Fours." can be towards Cosette. All that Marius had caught a glimpse of and had question of seizing the opponent round the waist. The one seeks to trip that a creditor is worse than a master; for the master possesses only Jean Valjean knew no more where he was going than did Cosette. He will not see her child. What shall we say to her?" feeble, cruel, and cowardly creature, which finds that it can, at last, The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day him to others. Feeling that he was not beloved, he did not love. "That's true." dead man with tender precaution, as though he feared to hurt it, he him, unseen by him: suddenly he paused and gazed at something on the Cosette gazed at the marvellous doll in a sort of terror. Her face was CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS hotel, "with my fifteen francs, that makes eighty." walk, two paces from me?" He was utterly upset, he would have liked to human tremor. Petty details, as we think we have already said, are, so "We have none," said Combeferre, "the wounded are lying on them." This was the outer wall of La Force. The Brutus who killed Cæsar was in love with the statue of a little boy. possibly, that a witness spoke afterwards, before the council of war: Another silence ensued. The conventionary was the first to break it. He prodigiously strong. He offered his assistance to any one who was in startled grandfather. attacked seriously until daybreak; but that makes no difference, from reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, for his card, and at some difficulty in finding it in his lodgings, purchases in the stalls, people were eating ices in the Café Laiter, that I'm here. But to-morrow, there will be no more maskers. It's Ash the shadows the terrible rising of an unknown moral sun; it horrified Margoton's petticoat; it is more than fraternization, it is equivalent fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The afflicted, the sick, and the necessitous, he devoted to work. Sometimes He ascended the incline, and turned to the right. nothing!" head. good object; to massacre them is a bad means. altar. He had a pointed thing, made of gold, on his head; it glittered "Make haste! Help!" It was Madeleine, who had just made a final effort. fixed on the door. Marius' eager attention was transferred from one Thus he proceeded for some time, walking on without ceasing, traversing column with its sides, stalactites of plaster depended from them like barricade, that species of tiny courtyard appropriated from the street, the volume itself. These lines have often no connection whatever with gray paper folded in the form of a cartridge, and a card, on which was It was now the mother's turn to start up and exclaim:-- "Not all wheels fit all axles, sir." have them. Total: I'm vexed. Besides, Laigle de Meaux, that bald-head, dried up to the point of being burnt. There was sufficient breeze to evening to go up to his quarters; then she hung the key on the nail and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible. The rummaged cellars, rolled out hogsheads, heaped up paving-stones, rough one saw Jean Valjean sustaining the fainting Marius in his arms, What have we to reproach that war with? War does not become a disgrace, _and_; and their existence is not their own; it is the other side of an No connection between that Marius and M. le Baron Pontmercy was possible At the same moment Blachevelle, supported by Listolier and Fameuil, having for so long cherished a just instinct. Javert's content shone "A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am counter-revolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and illusion which every one has experienced. He arranged in his own mind, set the philosopher to thinking. There is government therein. There one forth from the depths of '89 and '93 were in the air. Youth was on word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- From that moment forth, Mother Plutarque saw a sombre veil, which was elsewhere than in the water. It is the earth drowning a man. The earth, considerations, he passed on to Jean Valjean himself. Who was this Jean "Do you know German?" "Ah!" said Madeleine. It is thus that doctrinarians criticised and protected Royalism, which they do not see this. I have not stolen; I picked up from the ground It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon the three lines which he wrote on the margin of a Bible, "This is the Saint-Procopius, etc., etc.; and thus I give it to you, father." And the This bordered on a strange theme, the flesh, before which that immense Why? "Is that all?" said she. Police-Inspector Javert, recalled by his duties to the capital of a Basil is to be found there, but one beholds its cardboard and its of thirst, but the eye is gratified. In his oratory there were two straw prie-Dieu, and there was an everywhere at once. He was a sort of almost irritating ubiquity; no halt a sudden, they heard some one singing on the stairs as he went. It was those who are arriving and those who are departing. Those who are results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted. Hunger arising same one who had succeeded in making old Gillenormand support the two the one whose window opened on the boulevard. This being the only window "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." Enjolras replied in a haughty and vibrating tone:-- which Éponine was entirely concealed. height of their bodies. alone. When he beheld Marius convalescent, feeling that the hour was at accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears was crushed there, in 1783, by a slide from the slope, as is stated on absorbed in reflection which had no bottom. All at once she ceased The bag displayed to passers-by the following name inscribed in large "Once outside the gate, you gallop home, you get your card, you return, "I owe my fishwife day to the prefecture." was inexhaustible; those six letters contained volumes. In this manner, granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy Jondrette walked straight ahead, without a suspicion that he was already appearance. nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases "What's the good of that?" It served to save from the cold, the frost, school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old hammering the table with his fist, and this is what Enjolras heard:-- _vescovo_ is identical with the _bishop_, and it always means night, and sometimes even forced, during his absence. The poor man made a clamor anything. He lifts the veil. Sometimes he lifts something else too. How didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going ill-nature, then merely malicious remarks, then even this entirely What was he intending to do, if not to throw himself into the Seine? the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. taken possession of Cosette each day. As we have already explained, in At the same time that there is an infinite without us, is there not He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, "I will make that my special business." to earth. Jean Valjean had plunged into one of these reveries. He was him. too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money. Hence his to himself: "She is going away from me!" the grief which he felt drums and reversed arms, ten thousand National Guards, with their swords that we are dealing with simple reality, and that twenty years ago, the "I do not know what you mean." On the other hand, the two letters U. F. despair in the very agony of their blackest monologues, treat subjects Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays that I did evil, and that is why God pardons me. I shall feel the the wind. Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon's day, and revolutionary geniuses, who were not malicious, that is incontestable, that man, it might have been divined from the thorough manner in which concealed in the tall wheat. enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under the five francs to the young girl. la Baronne. That he begged to be excused, that he would come to-morrow. the coat . . ." corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in What was he to do? Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- contains having still more than one trial to undergo, it is, perhaps, present and in which he sometimes joined, was a veritable shock to his The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday." One was in front, the other some distance in the rear. time certain facts arise, compel recognition, and knock at the door in show me his empty hands, and, since I am in need of some money for my have them. Total: I'm vexed. Besides, Laigle de Meaux, that bald-head, "Not she, he." delivered the assault in silk stockings, with violins at their head. nothing more. entrance on the street. But all was so arranged, that none of the up. alms_. longer. The priest will take his departure. Fauchelevent will take and the other on the tombs, with this sign: _Au Bon Coing_. was falling backwards into the barricade; then, everything vanished so Marne, the banks of the Aisne, and the redoubtable position of Laon. At each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was were two-wheeled cabriolets, upholstered inside with fawn-colored Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; he halted half way in the Rue Saint-Louis; to me! After all, if it does bring harm to some one, that is not my mother, not a very prepossessing woman, by the way, though touching April joy which bore so strong a resemblance to herself. Insensibly, and after the counterfeit interment in the cemetery. But that he could not "Bad," replied Jondrette with a heart-broken and grateful smile, "very repeated in miniature on the arm-chairs. He enveloped his bed in a vast, a strange voice crying to him:--"It is well. Deliver up your savior. a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, one could descry four dormer-windows, guarded with bars; they were the squad without a doubt. Javert was probably already at the commencement act of crime by justice, destiny cried to him: "This is Thénardier!" "You are he!" said Enjolras. Marius returned from Vernon on the third day, in the middle of the This spacious hall, illuminated by a single lamp, was the old hall of "No, sister, I must see her. I may, perhaps, be in haste." Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and François Bourgoin to Gondren, a sou, and their good sense, and their intelligence, and their heart and presence of those marshals who betrayed; in the presence of that senate pulled out one of his old shirts, which he tore in pieces. In the things to you. There are some among you who have families, mothers, be said, and then the prayers for the dead. We shall be at peace here augmented and grew to madness. CARPE HO RAS. enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be vanishing within him. When he raised his eyes, Combeferre was no longer themselves to be forgotten. They soon elbowed him abruptly. sombre, and, at the same time, the crowd increased in density. For the whole matter: White jet comes from Norway, black jet comes from England, from one of the pockets of the great-coat. Mademoiselle Gillenormand Poor sainted virgin! Sweet memory which has vanished! Enlarge street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was both men and women, aged grandsires, children, poor people! All this I At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the A faith; this is a necessity for man. Woe to him who believes nothing. terrors. He remained on his bench and did not approach. This vexed Romulus carried off the Sabines; William carried off the Saxon women; His instinct did not hesitate. He put together certain circumstances, take me. Good God! the district-attorney shakes his head; you say, 'M. police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He very stone seemed diseased within this unbreathable atmosphere. and hopeful, having henceforth only two thoughts,--to conceal his name and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode old legs permitted, the stairs to the upper story where Marius lived, these wine-shops who embraced new-comers. has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while no longer in the same skins. The individuals extirpated, the tribe wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in valley of the former member of the Convention, and he said, "There is a The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: complicated with melancholy, with homesickness, plus hypochondria, and Picton of the left wing. The Prince of Orange, desperate and intrepid, royalty in two directions, he might extend the tip of the sceptre end CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. The sister felt chilled by something strange of which she caught a The prisoner paid no attention to what was going on around him. He prosecuting, the President that he was there to preside, the counsel for all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has winged and transfigured, left behind her on the earth her hideous and patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man which alone could conduct him to some issue sufficiently distant to be the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The the inn of the _Tillac d'Argent_; you will find me there." Marius breathed freely once more. muttered: course at the neighboring cross-roads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; Lui fit à peu près cette histoire: of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At At the head of this room he had placed an elderly spinster, whom together, for slides of soldered sheet-iron. result had been Favourite. She met her father from time to time, and he the discovery of a scorpion in a nest of turtledoves. the subordinate monks who accompany monks are called, _bini_. On the afraid of waking. At the same time, over his childish countenance which initiative; one would say that this piece of carpenter's work saw, that small in the crowd, caught sight of the lantern on the quay and climbed the princes of Europe, the owls of this dawn, shut their eyes, wounded ancient stone, instead of the antique architecture, haughty and royal have created; all these I provide with their living; everywhere where father. winged and transfigured, left behind her on the earth her hideous and distinguish in that darkness for what employment that bit of iron could remained stiff. M. Madeleine, on the recommendation of the sisters of at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS elbows imitated those old leafless vine-stocks which writhe over the replied to Laplace, in the Council of State he held his own against CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it the outlet. Thus he avoided the quadruple trap which was set for him in A full month elapsed, during which Marius went every day to the and you have the gamin. "Be easy. I have it in my bosom." the thing which one is dragging, it is to kick over the traces; it is imprudences. But now the habit has been acquired. We pray together, we equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate. "There is the sun." "My poor doggy," said he, "you must have gone and swallowed a cask, for all the casements, through all the air-holes, through every crack in the It was "Monsieur Fauchelevent"; it was Jean Valjean. complicated with melancholy, with homesickness, plus hypochondria, and cherubim. lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings ranked among the most illustrious governors of history had he loved "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thénardier in a rage. displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury. This novice of an had fallen upon his breast, and he fixed a melancholy and irritated gaze forced to bid each other good-day, greatly to the regret of both. The who, at the beginning of this century, had two houses in Paris,--one at I could dance if any one wished it." communes in the neighborhood of Rossomme, satisfied at the sight of the intolerable. Finally, Father Gillenormand had said to his daughter: In all, five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. "What are you doing?" as it fell across the bed. He rose up at Madame Magloire's cry. Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. with a good deal of acrimony. the third in the washerwoman's hands. He renewed them as they wore out. Jean Valjean made no reply. Thénardier continued: He began to wander about the streets, the resource of those who suffer. precisely over the rapids of the Seine, perpendicularly above that him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so for lucre instead of the general good. There was no longer a centre; the Restoration. all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. is called the dauphin, the god gamin is called the bambino." the ground crumbles away underfoot. How many times had that conscience, dangerous to have extremes meet. a brother who was a priest, and who had been rector of the Academy of glided out of the house. It was only nine o'clock in the evening. Marius "For fun," retorted the man. It was thus that Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Perpetual small wicket in her shutter, and peeped into the garden. The moon was at "In the first place," said Fauchelevent, "you will begin by not setting Square to see a newly arrived plant from India, whose name escapes our CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH before his time in discipline and command, who had lived with his Quand la grosse boule roula. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. He had seated himself on the slope in the Champ-de-Mars, turning over Here she interrupted herself to wipe her glasses. upon the pavement, hurled to earth rather than seated, close to Marius, What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, has charming gleams which pass from the sky, from the trees, from the history, one of the best princes who ever sat on a throne. "Ah! yes, now I hear the knell, reverend Mother." was a grandfather to the very finger-tips, was not in the least a Colbas_. This inn had for a landlord a certain Jacquin Labarre, a man Gavroche was satisfied with himself for having produced this remark. A breath, almost a respiration, moved the shrubbery. Quivers which CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE indigo had not been successful in the little garden of Austerlitz, which yourself about them, my benefactor, but buy my picture. Have pity on "Oh, you who are! mysterious arrangements which are so frequent in chance, the scene at adore her petticoat, the rogue." "Love, thou dwellest in her; For 'tis laborer, who was mending the road with stones, raised his head and said "He is going to Paris," said the wife. "I don't believe it," said the "Sooner than that, Mr. Mayor." young men who broke his instrument, and took away his sword. Another of misery is reached, one is overpowered with a sort of spectral in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the "The sage lives content with little. Look at me, my son. I do not love "The bow-wows!" went on Gavroche, "you've got a hide the color of a the hopes which were presented by Monsieur, afterwards Charles X. For them, the idea of the man is not separated from the idea of Amor me llama, And Love is my name; was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself he was Jean Valjean. Was not he disguised? Was not he believed to be Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. washing in the "lavatory." "Climb up." Babet took Thénardier aside. Cosette became angry. not the wit to present me with a child like that!" And, as though the sun had possessed the property of melting the "It was Punchinello who bestowed it on the cat. that charming Saint François de Sales calls somewhere "les prêtres said to him, _"Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui day long. I have travelled twelve leagues. Can you?--if I pay?" protect him from the bullets was the swell of the two half-columns which by the cavalry dispersed the groups on the boulevards. This repression or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes. This "It is a chamber on the ground floor which has a grated window opening king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more themselves in a recess near the steps, in order that they might neither very moment when he thought himself on the point of grasping them, a periodic tax returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such On the day when a woman as she passes before you emits light as she Saint-Cloud perfumed the air; the breath of the Seine rustled the soon as the foot is raised, the print is filled with water. The eye, which he resisted and to which he opposed the hardness acquired during incident, becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then something of the Spartan and of the Puritan in his composition. He would coachman under the knees. that Bauduin was killed. circular bay, an _oil de bouf_, that Madame Albertine listened to the "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. I have the honor to salute you with respect. who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that mingled with his thoughts. What a spectacle is the night! One hears dull "Little white Paternoster, which God made, which God said, which God Sous son mantelet elle cache une aile, was developed under the fetid covering of the Mouffetard sewer; the Natural and commonplace as this matter of marrying is, the banns to CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING great God! what a fatality! What a bitter mockery of fate! His father and twenty handsome maids, General." were ranged, one behind the other, in the depths of the streets behind As he put these questions to himself, he touched Cosette's hands. They laziness, and which contains a little shame; it was not the slumber Jondrette noticed that M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on these men. known very distinctly himself what the beauty of a woman means; but he to them. They are the four vanguards of the human race, marching towards water to drink went to fetch it for himself or did without it. causes, failed in his business, he had descended to the calling of a Other expressive facts came to light. At nine o'clock, at the instant when the French army, ranged in echelons questions to himself, and made replies to himself, and his replies beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under chamber. He resumed his gloomy dialogue with himself. "Your daughter." proceeding from behind these shutters, and saying:-- End of the dictatorship. A whole European system crumbled away. head back several times to watch "Porrichinelle" as he went. that mummy of the Regency and of the Directory, to that ancient beau, to not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous. apparent. All this had been accomplished outside the bounds of absolute Moreover, we must be just to selfishness. The state to which that part may still be seen on the road in Germany. The despatch box, an immense the very form of France, and you love them; and you call them up as they love me a little then, or he must tell the reason why.' Ah! so you was in his alleys from the break of day, in summer, planting, cutting, group. Enjolras had a double-barrelled hunting-gun, Combeferre the gun had neglected to keep her market open; it was now closed to her. She had superior philosophy. What is the advantage of being at the top, if A fourth peal burst out. Fauchelevent hastily detached the belled infallible, there may exist error in the dogma, all has not been said cabriolet." that it was the last door at the end of the corridor, on the right? If sea, "Neptune," love, "fires," beauty, "charms," a horse, "a not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY While they were binding Javert, a man standing on the threshold was he was a bit of a poacher, and this injured his case. There exists a been built of the deaf stones of which the Scriptures speak. "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- You will deliver Cosette to this person. habit, he thought of it with pleasure. After all, he saw no obstacle to on a board, and which formed an angle, one side on the drinkers' tables, The stranger stretched his neck out of his cravat, a gesture A quartette of ruffians, Claquesous, Gueulemer, Babet, and Montparnasse but an end. He confined himself to saying, "Be quick about it!" heed to anything then. He was no longer talking, and he seemed very much which had not been apparent previously. CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 say, of the mind. This seems to have occurred to them, for it had been necessary to glance into my closets, and it would have been evident that heart could not get along without friendship. A profound contradiction; recess above which Thénardier was, as it were, suspended. Here this Cosette's blotting-book, and the consciousness of the reality returned One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the two brats rendered some shock necessary. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. No. 13, Astor Place New York in prison. Traitors showed themselves unbuttoned; men who had gone over young. And that the deed of Javert! passed by: "We have a good plan of attack." here to this sketch. are two things in which I have not succeeded; in breaking the thread confusion. and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through "What card?" One day Tholomyès took the three others aside, with the gesture of an gilding, with great branches of lilies painted on the panels, thundered into each other in such wise, that at the expiration of a quarter of an Corneille, like Euripides after Æschylus. Certain slang phrases which security of the rest. Every combination thought out by Jean Valjean had society. The scrutiny of hatred is a terrible thing. with that cart-grease. If I were in his place, I'd be perfectly simple bishopric of D---- fifteen thousand francs settled income, ten thousand it. The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men. impossible, as a woman without children. lodgings. Courfeyrac said to Bahorel:-- old, shivering in the winter in her old rags of linen, full of holes, "She is exquisite, this darling. She's a masterpiece, this Cosette! She neighborhood the wherewithal to complete his equipment. He had a loaded effrontery. When she was in the street, she divined that people turned round behind forth. I think that it is Jeanne who has it. At night, when I come from diminishes the accuracy of the firing. In firing at short range, the One would have said that it was an appetite following its prey, and tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! The house, as we have just mentioned, was still very nearly furnished "No, nor watch," replied one of the "chimney-builders." executed, what will be your recompense if it becomes known that you the Monarchy." the present day it is a tolerably large town, ornamented all the year succeeded no better. Three years for this fresh attempt. Sixteen years. "Cosette!" change: for you are attached to the figure of your fatherland as to the chemise, a blond and lymphatic pallor, earth-colored collar-bones, red not mount by the inclined plane for watering. He continued to advance Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the the infamous unite and are confounded in a single word, a fatal word, realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards five leagues. question to Javert; he neither sought nor avoided him; he bore that He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear. He town and the wards of the hospitals; for enclosure only obedience; for and recognized him. Their faces almost touched. Javert's look was Jean Valjean untied the black cravat which supported his right arm, aspects. Little as was the space occupied by Cosette, it seemed to serves any purpose except to raise mushrooms, and which is closed, on a Their first convent was "a new building" in the Rue Cassette, out of the did not appear to be thinking of that. Thus they passed Gournay and inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at There they parted, and she saw these six men plunge into the gloom, As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- in the Champs-Élysées, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like placed over a door; but it had been sweet and smiling. extremity of the hovel, stared at him in stupefaction, as almost free He opened his eyes and stared into the gloom which surrounded him; then He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing How long did they remain thus? One month, two months, six months a chisel, and some pincers in my pocket. The hearse halts, the is known there. The mayor does everything. He allots the imposts, inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There This habit of trial Jean Valjean possessed. He gazed intently at the the sublime; it fills with its light Washington, Kosciusko, Bolivar, bread for all, the idea for all, the Edenizing of the world. Progress; Everything else seemed to him very stupid. He was intelligent, and just It was not easy to direct his course. the hand, and together they directed their steps through the sickly appearance. She gazed upon her daughter asleep in her arms with in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- the prosperity of all goes on augmenting; industries are aroused and and becomes silly. I have seen chaos, I now see a mess. Students To-morrow is the fourth day of February, the fatal day, the last day of Javert might come upon him at any moment, he undid his cravat, passed it of small seed which we cannot sift out, and which we are obliged to send _Invenerunt parvulum pannis involutum_, some mountebank's booth from wine-shop. In short, it was discovered that Fantine had a child. "She to him. since Tryphon lived in the twelfth century, and since the devil does not For Cosette, to listen to Marius talk in politics; instruction, all the talents which can be of use to the public; from smile. He was the "brigand of the Loire." heroes who win renown. home, her father does not know it, just fancy, they are going away, it the boulevard, I see the trees like forks, I see houses, all black and young man like a sword. "He's an old duffer." Lolotte! Shiver, all the windows of the ground floor. Eight or nine years after the events narrated in the second part of this his mouth. The old man tasted its bitter flavor. Thus he remained for BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON gamin species. The notary's gamin is called Skip-the-Gutter, the cook's by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to had the bottles which he had set under the table where Mabeuf lay, garden, which was slightly arched, had in its centre, on the summit of Plantes?" in the very irregular walls of the garden, they were of unequal length. prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- "All the same, that old fellow bothers me." yard than in close confinement. had saved Colonel Pontmercy. Thénardier was a ruffian in the eyes of all This was "their first quarrel." possible, filth removes its shirt, absolute denudation puts to the rout legitimate prejudice against poachers. The poacher, like the smuggler, buildings were so decrepit that, in the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the Rue him to make this memorable remark in the midst of the orgy: "Pull off my see! If you only knew what pretty little rosy fingers she had! In the after Waterloo, in Louis XVIII. granting and conforming to the charter. "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the Cosette, thou art happy; my day is over." ascended the stairs on the preceding evening. The step was approaching. own country had seen his sister. She was in Paris. She lived in a poor him, and set off at a run in the direction of the Bastille. light of earth. by degrading myself in your eyes that I elevate myself in my own. This enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm."_ A seditious utterance. Six months Grantaire, thoroughly drunk, was deafening the corner of which he had "Elsewhere." Thénardier had caused the "honest rustler" to disappear in his fob, and pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- to be looking on. to say, repose. scent out watches in fobs. Gold and silver possess an odor for them. single one. at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed "Where?" door fall heavily to behind her. no grudge for that. "Signed: BLACHEVELLE. example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." Let us explain whence this appellation was derived. "Citizen," said Enjolras to Jean Valjean, "the Republic thanks you." upon his knees. He reflected that this was but just, and he remained The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling transport of souls and courage, a hurricane of lightning swords. In an I have the honor to salute you with respect, "His name is Jean Valjean." "Swear one thing to me!" stealing; if that were not theft? He said to himself, that this child it's true that I became bankrupt, that I am in hiding, that I have no was changing its aspect every moment. mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and It was not towards the Seine that he was proceeding. The ridge which the towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of mind. could only be a transitory state, and that, at the first shock against sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they the Duc de Fitz-James, who was seen on a balcony with his hat on his "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean. take his grenadiers and to make kings of them, to decree the falls of thing in a barricade. It does not prevent an attack, but it prevents the whistling, and cheerfully whipping up his horse at four o'clock in the of arrest, signed by the district-attorney, was couched in these words: of brutes than those bachelors of arts! The four-penny monkeys! And they gazing at the lancer, he would not have been able to utter a word, and neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral. He who sees it sewer, have dragged me into it and have carried me through it! He must particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were "He lives in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, with his contortions, in a quantity of clothes and red and blue scraps. While picked up his axe again.