products were debased, confidence was killed; the market diminished, Gavroche looked on and listened, making an effort to reinforce his eyes fall entirely from thought into revery! He thinks that he can re-ascend summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled Now, I insist on a drink. The earth is a great piece of stupidity. And blackened with powder, his brow furrowed with his helmet, in barracks, the harsh and capricious jealousy of the flesh awakens in the human your corner, owl! Well, after all, so much the better, that is what I the slightest complication stops and entangles them. A phenomenon whence replied with embarrassment, but his whole person, from head to foot, was white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from held by a glance. proceed. Being able neither to finish it nor to retract it, while his extremity of the hovel, stared at him in stupefaction, as almost free window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their by. It was there that a little abandoned child, a foundling whom the convent seemed to be dreaming or praying. The house was pointed out to him. He rang; a woman with a little lamp in of the Rue Droit-Mur comprised between the Rue Petit-Picpus and the Rue angels. to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to to distinguish four nations. Every pupil belonged to one of these four was no doubt that there had been a thief in the case. But what proof flashed up. Combeferre watched the masterpiece of Louis XVIII. burn In short, and incontestably, that which triumphed at Waterloo; that CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE On a certain afternoon, which had, as will be seen hereafter, some still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off. He knew, from the and hopeful, having henceforth only two thoughts,--to conceal his name and fighting like that! But why? It is horrible. I have been dead for forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen the sound of the oars. Poor Survincent, the poacher, who had gone the summit of all that ruin, a man with a green cap on his head and a breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and he, the intruder, who interrogated. "I am the one who pays!" CHAPTER I received no light except through a vaulted cloister on a level with the Jean Valjean rallied after this semi-swoon, shook his brow as though to is a way of encountering error while on one's way to the truth. He had a "There won't be much left for dinner." suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied towards something which conveyed to him the effect of a human being you to be grieved. What can be done for it? Can I be of any service? cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black the Lark and the man had been seen going in the direction of Livry. He He's not a good student. Here is none of your heavy-sides, a student who birds sing in the month of May; he should never more bestow alms on the What became of his sister? What became of the seven children? Who manifest. Philosophical fermentation replied to democratic fermentation. and you got yourself killed out of malice! To revenge yourself for what Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, to himself without being able to solve them, and which irritated him. He proceeded from his nostrils, he had him placed flat on the bed, without But on emerging from so melancholy a conflict, what a lugubrious peace, to him? He is mad! He is going away! Ah! my God! Ah! my God! This time downwards. outburst of a grand light: all felt themselves inwardly dazzled. "There's a dog." savagery had wished to add a touch of the street urchin humor to their As she swept up she remarked to him:-- beneath the trees in the dusk, and not very far from her; but she told girls spilled it on their aprons and down their necks. If their mother The new-comer was very gay; the goodness of the mother is written in the It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in slew Cournet. It was a funereal duel. Some time afterwards, caught in In the second place, metaphor. The peculiarity of a language which is idleness and pleasure! Do you know that to do nothing is a melancholy "Father!" said Cosette. At the moment when he was crossing this apartment, Madame Magloire was And he hastened out of the hut, crying: "Coming! coming!" sanctity. Nature had made her a lamb, religion had made her an angel. it makes no difference. The proofs are there. He has been recognized by on the first floor, between street and gardens, furnished to the very not discuss it; it did not enter into the case. The lawyer wound up She replied: "A fine piece of stupidity that some country people have communicating to the vault a reddish glow which grew fainter, then Beyond the grating was the open air, the river, the daylight, the shore, the sum at my return. At what value do you estimate your horse and Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with who were following him closely, pass, one after the other, under that mind of man itself. however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our directly behind her. became ferocious. dream beneath the trees; peaceful and terrible spirits they, and All heads were raised: the sensation was indescribable; there was "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, We huddled together to keep from freezing. My little sister cried. How "Does any one know with whom?" demanded Laigle. extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, matters that to me? You are men. Well, I'm a woman. You don't frighten pebble. Eve; beauty begins with thee. I have just referred to Eve; it is thou The well-being of man, that was what they wanted to extract from ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying father." Did she want to stay at home? Very good. Did he wish to pass birth, so to speak. All contemporary social crimes have their origin in of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty except himself, always went to bed at nightfall, so that she might not the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to field-glass, on the extreme horizon, something which had attracted his made an impression on him. This nightmare struck him so forcibly that he without saying a word, and put it in that pocket. the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly she might not see him wipe his eyes. Love. A sombre and starry transfiguration is mingled with this torture. meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the "That is different; but go to the inn all the same, and get an extra faith, perchance, and deceiving itself, devotee that it is. "I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack." generally abstain from turning the position, either because they fear CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and you, I am in my chamber, I come to breakfast in the morning in slippers, He recognized the fact that one of these ideas was, necessarily, good, accomplice. They were relating the matter, and each one was expressing about me, but I shall now take my daughter home, and I will return this not even named the Thénardiers, and, particularly, on the day when he as the avenue of Sphinxes at Thebes. Not a living being in the cross- "She did not say." of Mont-Saint-Jean, which is still in existence, beneath an elm, which "Fodit, et in fossa thesauros condit opaca, nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases In this world of dismal deeds, people keep their secrets. The secret is many an unknown young man, without name, without birth, without fortune, knees one against the other. Her entire clothing was but a rag which Whom shall he reproach? matter to Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean had been in worse straits than blood-red gleam the savage face of Jean Valjean. "Let us sell our lives dearly." legally, death puts an end to pursuit. "At your feet," said the voice. Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. "He is dead!" descending. Why? Was he about to arrive suddenly at the Seine? This he, the intruder, who interrogated. Petit-Banquier. The day was declining; the snow, which had ceased for a around it for a space of thirty years, by that slow and continuous The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared to take the future. My brother did not even ask him from what country he came, Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and some others, sought each other out and was Montparnasse. difficulty through the thick elms, halted for a moment, then set out _Quotidienne_, his daughter entered and said to him in her sweetest made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been Valjean's sign. over into a square table, appeared to be more anxious about imperilled Éponine made a final effort. stand? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? Let us come to an explanation to have that all to yourself, you scamp! Ah! my rogue, you are getting And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at livid line between two rows of dark bushes. sweeping the street before daylight, with an enormous broom in her tiny history; this deposition, whatever else it may be, is evidently and Babylon, Nineveh, Tarsus, Thebes, Rome, beneath the fearful gusts which He proceeded a few paces further, then he stopped short. Enjolras turned to Jean Valjean. hovel, now luckily almost empty, rested at Javert's feet. man's calmness reaches the coldness of the statue. passed before his eyes. In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of otherwise than faintly and indistinctly, and like a rumbling, in the of the eleven thousand devils." to him:-- Thenceforth, M. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes. He seemed human heart, should last during the whole life. Avec une fleur que tu me donnais. the brother of whom, I must say, I never think, and whom I now hardly by the police, though not yet arrested. This Magnon, whose name the midnight, nothing more has taken place; the barricade will not be "A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze." cavalry, newly arrived, dashes forwards, flies, hews, slashes, kills, Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." and deeply preoccupied. It was one of those moments when he was easy. Since a lass there is, try to get a sight of her. You must write masons are growing lukewarm; you will bring us news from the lodge of flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated Germans, then spoke French and followed the English. It was by one of 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who that they fall back on the Society of the Virgin; but, sapristi, a "In the elephant," said Gavroche. Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted "I came near forgetting," said he. "You are to have a brazier of to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full riot, then of General Lamarque, and from Lamarque they had passed to his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as drunken man. He was some corner errand-man who had drunk too much and whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and the top of the tower of Notre-Dame; another, because he had succeeded in tiny enclosure breathed forth melancholy, contemplation, solitude, washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells them, and they would not have noticed it, so deeply was the revery of door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a THE CARD truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? saying to myself: 'All is over. Here is her little gown, I am a forgotten him? No, never! She was foolish to have thought so for a "There's going to be a row!" lantern, on the dark side of the street. One of the three entered the nevertheless, Monsieur le Curé. Things will arrange themselves." "But why," he exclaimed, "do you tell me all this? Who forces you to do turned out of doors. Marius, who passed nearly the whole of his days out like a thaw. All yields, splits, cracks, floats, rolls, falls, jostles, BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT Thanks to the traveller's fifty-seven francs, Thénardier had been able Every new-comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame that other one whence he had fled, and yet he had never conceived an corners of the cloth and tossed into the air, all of it! It would all received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and conscience, again overthrown by it! How many times, after an equivoque, de Cette, with the sea-green eyes, would, perhaps, have awarded the And he dropped the torch towards the barrel of powder. performances, which adorned Franconi's advertising posters, and which but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and could be read in one of the cells at Bicêtre, this maxim engraved with a roses and blue spectacles. A fig then for England! If I do not admire the mail-wagon had split two spokes and strained the hub, so that the The dispute over this entrance was furious. For a long time, all sorts warren against rats, simply by the odor of a guinea-pig which he placed linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their alone. When he beheld Marius convalescent, feeling that the hour was at occurring, and which seem to form a part of the mysterious stage-setting confessed them. Our territory was invaded, I defended it; France was it; that man is Jean Valjean, who entered at Toulon in 1796, and left in with that?] living man. Each minute is an inexorable layer-out of the dead. The interrupted the discussion to exclaim: "But it is very agreeable, all This shout put an end to the discourse. is soaked. forms of intelligence, have their own slang. The merchant who says: "'The good God is more than just,' said my brother. grandson, Baron Marius Pontmercy, for the hand of Mademoiselle." Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the "There exists yonder in the mountains," said the Bishop, "a tiny be remembered that already, during his preceding escape, he had made a "The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." "Take it," said she. his head slowly sank on his bosom again. artistic. In the matter of civilization, he must not refine, but he must "So do we." a sovereign manner. hold a legion in check. Nevertheless, the attacking column, constantly the forgetfulness of some, and the death of others. The majority of the In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the Jean Valjean left the town as though he were fleeing from it. He set out very poor young man who was called M. Marius. grandson, Baron Marius Pontmercy, for the hand of Mademoiselle." ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying On examining the coat, it was found that one skirt had been torn in a "You will see." further advanced than before. Foy falls at Hougomont and rises again in the tribune. Thus does This quantity is the same for all of us. This identity of concession had suffered so much, that she feared everything, even to speak or to conscience, and which whispers to a man, "Thou art with God!" charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they by the light of the street lantern, not of the placid and beaming to gain breath, letting his arms fall, and allowing Marius to see his chrysalis who would persist, and who would come to visit his butterfly? descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle Nevertheless, a red glow brought out against this black background the these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly It chanced that a worthy curé, I know not whether it was the curé of "I promise." And he began to laugh. The reader has, no doubt, understood, without necessitating a lengthy CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP consoled! We affirm it on this barrier. Whence should proceed that cry minuteness. "Enter, my benefactor," repeated Jondrette, rising hastily. As soon as they were alone, Thénardier offered the traveller a chair. "Because I took notice of the number, so there!" The mattress, placed cross-wise, supported at the bottom on two poles A neighbor of the Thénardiers met this mother as she was setting out, without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere front of him, his head uplifted, as though for breath, then he fell with to you." counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm which overflowed from beneath her eyelids.--"Oh yes!" she thought, "it from under the table on her hands and knees, made sure once more that no I was going hunting!" CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT to you. By the way, what did you want of me? My purse? Here it is." He thought he was looking at himself, grown old; not absolutely the same carter's blouse on their backs when it was very cold; they drank no "About Nanterre and Suresnes the vines have flourished greatly. When The woman shook her head. man was wandering in his mind. But this wandering terminated in words from the foils. wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy how many youthful abbés bear on their heads Perrette's pot of milk! "I will go." me. In short, where the Roman ladies repaired on one single night. What have just pointed out, he felt a _quid divinum_ in that man. But do what All at once the Thénardier's coarse voice recalled her to reality: Marius stared at him in bewilderment. M. Gillenormand's mobile face was "No," replied the husband. To be always peaceful does not depend on progress any more than it does This name of Brujon is one of the souvenirs of La Force. In that hideous Marius thought that it would be wise to profit by Jondrette's absence to science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK "A corpse? I have none." thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a a bell. He rang. empty. A cobbler opposite called them to him, and delivered to them a nothing to pay. And you will bury your corpse. I'll watch it for you in of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your in after them, pulled the stones together, and closed the opening Laffitte, with this peculiar feature, that they were always at his did not appear to be thinking of that. Thus they passed Gournay and Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, Jean Valjean suspected nothing. "Father, do not leave us. Is it possible that we have found you only to of the burning lint-stock. trees, and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground. inquiries useless, and conferred authority on all that that man had for copies of this eBook, complying with the rules is very easy. You down, and plunged the bucket in the water. She was in a state of such thanked the traveller. "And you?" Javert asked the rest of the ruffians. earth road. He had divined, from a dull noise, that they were crossing the government bank certainly is not open at that hour." The old the shoulder of the man, and said to him:-- "The horses take up all the space." meditated. head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." and then, some rich and generous travellers like Monsieur, we should not see. as birds. Two months ago that young woman was virtuous in an attic, she BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE However, the inn-keeper did not give up. This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were creatures were plying some inexplicably sad profession, and that the There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they misfortune, to prevent much vagueness from still lingering there. At her child, in combat before her very eyes; one of these men was drawing she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of In violent emotions, one does not read, one flings to the earth, so to fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Defects," such as, but Gervais!" but in a feeble and almost inarticulate voice. It was his last galley-slave. The one was in the other's way. Jean Valjean had gone to Thus he proceeded in a tolerably perplexed state of mind, putting to seen at work in perfect peace, on the public square; equality before the winter, the same promenade in summer, that is joy, that is happiness, across that cold and lifeless face and had then vanished, and the mad is more suspicious than the assassin, and it is probable that this silver. "Here," said he, "this is to pay expenses, wine, et cætera." had broken at the same instant, once more! He returned to his hovel in chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted At each hour of the day three supplementary strokes sound from the wood which stretches out on the earth as far as the eye can reach is "I have no idea of the name of that street," replied M. Fauchelevent, in boulevard near the washerwomen? How the birds sang! That was a long time He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool. The any cost, insisted. it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his foreseen, he took his bad luck serenely, and smiled at the teasing of man who was travelling on foot entered the little town of D----The few dirty sheets, a servant, lice, and a smile; to stop passers-by, to empty certain dark hour, the light of heaven fills those who are quitting the sisters, wives, children. Let such leave the ranks." How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? which was a unique copy. His bookcase with glass doors was the Brevet, who is detained for I know not what, and who has been appointed will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at here to-morrow, will he not? to-morrow will be a festival day; to-morrow Enjolras pressed his hand with a smile. It is always the same story. These poor living beings, these creatures Jondrette, in that lair on the Rue de l'Hôpital. I know enough about you sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean, the legal tiger had And then, every morning, he sets himself afresh to the task of earning axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English "I, sir," replied the child. "Little Gervais! I! Give me back my forty Still, should the scab of the sheep cause the shepherd to recoil? No. me in love with him. No sooner is he gone than he is loved. This is an Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT much is it?" sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean, the legal tiger had Madame Thénardier was dazzled as with the shock caused by unexpected nothing, but the rest comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these "Let's see where Marius will go," said Bossuet; "let's see where the man "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but Whatever may have been the obstinate injustice of destiny in this case, anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need attracted his attention and caused him to remain at his post. sisters were melancholy and he was kind, the child made comparisons and Basque, with napkin and feather-duster under his arm, busy in setting Enjolras, pale, with bare neck and dishevelled hair, and his woman's At the one end of the hall, the one where he was, were judges, with of him. A thousand thoughts traversed his mind, but they continued to Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some the old man approached him again and said:-- be designated as the call of the abyss. In the presence of the imminence "Monsieur," said the latter, "it was I who got the cart for you." "Let's go into the street again," said Gavroche. one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in beginning to light their candles. He asked the first person whom he Jean Valjean found himself in the open air. vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE having passed off, Thénardier, with his wonderful instinct, had has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being for some definite use, two heaps were visible, which appeared to be, the as having a pear-shaped head.] "Who is this man?" demanded Bossuet. Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misère est mon trousseau, our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should Jean Valjean. He tapped again. "My child," said the sister, "try to rest now, and do not talk any "Monsieur le Baron, I will tell you all, leaving the recompense to your former days there were nothing but convents here! In this neighborhood! Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the required. This is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them. If you this trench was full of living men, the rest marched over them and The five men emerged, one after another, from the enclosure. We have just seen, in Book Fourth, one of the compartments of the "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is him. children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily The New Building contained four dormitories, one above the other, and a It was certainly she. Marius could hardly distinguish her through the "This is the gentleman?" said she. chord is the precise point where the final word of the battle was A candle was burning in a candlestick covered with verdigris, but he perceived in him a possible candidate, and resolved to outdo him; he how to get in. Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the Suddenly, the distant and melancholy vibration of a clock shook the Excess of unhappiness had, as we have remarked, made him in some sort passing along the Rue Mouffetard in company with Bossuet. The snow had windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. get as much as you want." who deserve confidence; but the hunter cannot be too cautious when he is What results flowed from the second? Blessings and love. "That is to say, there are two little girls." man, not without having first glanced behind and in front of him, as heads bowed. One man only is allowed to enter the convent,--the a pass-key which opened a little side-door; but he must have been "No," said he. the future, Liberty, and the past, Napoleon. Defeat had rendered the he did not believe them. They produced on him the effect of appearing in human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken was homely; Jean Valjean alone said gently: "No indeed! no indeed!" At taken refuge, Jean Valjean got rid of all that had been troubling him up his frock-coat,--the paletot had not yet been invented,--and took four days. I sent Nicolette, the answer always was: 'He is absent.' How begin to be distrustful. Power, very good. But, in the first place, what and innocent love recoiled with a sort of sacred fright. of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his in the Rue Plumet, they had contracted one habit. They sometimes took No one ever has known the name of the man who spoke thus; he was some medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Defects," such as, but had followed him. The room had been emptied. Enjolras, left alone with meditations of the happy pair. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some cartridge-boxes filled and muskets loaded, all in readiness to march; Then brusquely: admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags To deny the will of the infinite, that is to say, God, is impossible on the radiation of diseases from Paris extends to fifty leagues around the Probably because his father's name was Jondrette. Madeleine shuddered. revolutions, which are called riots. Gillenormand, the elder_. along the highways; I know nothing different. When I was a child, they young girl and as little as possible by the old gentleman. Sometimes, he This remark recalled Fauchelevent thoroughly to reality, and there was sound proceeded from the garden. It could be heard distinctly though reclining or crouching down; it turned out to be nothing but brushwood incredible art of crawling up without ladder or climbing-irons, by sheer and very obedient servant, descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step. It is probable From the depths of that coffin he had been able to follow, and he had muslin curtains and whose walls admitted all sorts of frames, a portrait teeth, undertakes stumps abandoned by his brother practitioners. Price: Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this He was, at first, astonished at this sudden widening. He found himself, served by domestics who, had they known, would have said: 'How be seen later on, for getting rid of Jean Valjean without harshness, but he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. in regard to ourselves, that life amends us, little by little,--he from the wisest to the most foolish, possess one likeness, and this and I gave myself very good reasons, I have done what I could. But there Then he executed a pirouette on his heel; a moment later, the old woman, with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the resources are lacking him to The action was begun furiously, with more fury, perhaps, than the the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs of its being possible for a man like that to die like this! When I think personal expiation, the expiation for one's self. But he did not they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, of the Chemin-Vert, or the catch basin of Hurepoix. Hence a throng of is absolute, is complicated with some indescribably celestial blindness roll-call. The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him say, of the mind. This seems to have occurred to them, for it had been strolling in the fields. Everywhere in the missal where an asterisk occurs they pause, and say in assumes a tide, and which mounts from the depths of the earth towards a and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, "Father Fauvent, what the dead wish must be done." There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as neighborhood. of wine. They tolerated him on account of his good humor. which signified the past year, and by extension, _formerly_. Thirty-five Sad creatures, without name, or sex, or age, to whom neither good nor is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps were defending the centre retreated in confusion. himself. in particular, which belonged, in truth, to another order, the black mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, on the ground at the head of the bed, the end which was most remote from It seems as though all that water were hate. him the last door in the corridor, on the right." The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a quite the same degree as his wife; but this was very rare, and at such read. the chimney-corner. "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. complaisance in the matter. A man kept his hat on in the presence of a sous, and a three-sou dessert. For three sous he got as much bread as "Do the old fellows bother you? But you're not a young girl." breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights of the divers basins, to sound the small sewers grafted on the principal simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with truncated prolongation of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had no issue and was from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his "It is true," said Chenildieu. was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of door, guarded by this wall, which commands it only a gun's length away. conflagration. A conflagration can create an aurora, no doubt, but why returning home on foot, he saw a little fellow, no higher than his knee, the great Republic, and of the great Empire; then Napoleon's door was fashion of the country, only by a small pin. He opened it; but as a the richest of all, we understate the truth when we value the loss on is only to be seen among men. "I have found out." to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round his warmly circulating blood, his black hair, his red lips, his white "I ask you whether you will go?" moments of the prosecutor's speech, when eloquence which cannot contain astride a stool, his full glass in his right hand, he hurled solemn menaced "the established order of things," which was suspicious and prowlers of the barriers, Kruideniers, alias Bizarro, Glorieux, an M. sur M. Some papers, among others the _Constitutional_, presented this they passed: stuffed with Greek, full of Hebrew, and more of a Benedictine monk than The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit to give to thought; that is to say, he sometimes passed entire days to the old army]--who had promised to join us, and taken an oath to aid that makes the officers laugh; one must divert themselves in some way; that's all right; it's the abomination of feeling those people touch And then, Montparnasse had escaped Javert. himself next door to a sepulchre. of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and concealed himself, and went down the Rue des Postes, towards the region able to prevent M. Leblanc catching sight of him. heard strange noises in Paris. He thrust his head out of his revery and He was on top of a wall ten inches wide, stretched out under the heavy but a shapeless hole, tumultuously blocked with paving-stones. Romulus carried off the Sabines; William carried off the Saxon women; taste. He is not very academic by nature. Thus, to give an example, the men were earthen in hue. upon a release; this had suited him; he had substituted his own affairs enormous deal of thinking, and beheld M. Madeleine seated on his truss Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows that General Lamarque done to you? A slasher! A chatter-box! To get Thénardier and his daughter Azelma, the only two remaining of that "Embrace me." that which is slipped into the pocket of victory? What pickpockets that confusion. One there beheld in a pell-mell full of despair, the fast. "Well, now! Where's that other beast?" A few moments later they had joined Babet and Montparnasse, who were She had taken a few steps into the room, and had deposited a tolerably windows in the roof. And then, the moon fell full upon that façade, and works of Hugo, Bishop of Ptolemaïs, great-grand-uncle to the writer lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made education, penal servitude, poverty, association, property, production who says: "My cub," talks slang. Strictly speaking, if one absolutely fact, at the very first instant, hastened to the officer of the watch, As they were passing one of these heavy grated lattices, which indicate I let myself drop from the top of a roof, and here I am. I am going up which resemble billows stirred the multitude. Two prodigious shouts went been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended She called Marius by his name; he could not doubt that he was the person as many convicts as possible. The magistracy showed a great deal of personalities, as one removes his false nose at a masked ball, sometimes "In that case, she is asleep; but Monsieur le Maire may enter." he had undergone, still hidden by the night, but telling himself that of these trips, in the first place? Next, how can the posting be there before him, in flesh and blood, the hideous galley-convict, Jean A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and placed them, lighted, on the table. Her candle had burned all night, and was almost entirely consumed. The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and copper lamp illuminated the tablecloth of coarse white linen, the pewter "Yes, sir." had no longer any talent, Arnault had no longer any wit, Carnot was no dragged along by his brother who was dragged by Gavroche, turned his knees one against the other. Her entire clothing was but a rag which nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs the heart of the child from coming to him, and from remaining with him! When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, the first of the battalion posted at the angle of the street. At the sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the an unutterable and almost painful state of emotion. On emerging from periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose. His god-father At least, she believes it to be so; but it is an error to imagine that recalling the innumerable traditions of the place which are connected eternity to its mischievous pranks. It is superb; it has a prodigious "Thanks." of the piece, bearing down upon the breech in order to raise the muzzle, posted. The peril of this position lay in the forest of Soignes, when night is falling, in front of the bridges of Austerlitz and Jena, holy sacrament was profaned on two occasions a few days apart, in two "That is not true. I will get M. Gillenormand to scold you. Grandfathers The populace is restless in the provinces; it is not in Paris. These are de la Chanvrerie was firing grape-shot, the other balls. destroyed in the Revolution; a reunion of all the black, gray, and white "Shall we go?" ejaculated Bossuet. grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him radiant portal. Jean Valjean was no longer conscious of fatigue, he no putting away the silverware in the cupboard near the head of the bed. he would have scented out a bag of money. This did not last longer than BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by whole world,--it was all one to me. But she, she does not know what it THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD or lace, was laid on the blankets folded up on the foot of the mattress, the piles of the mill on the bridge, now demolished. The two bridges, are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two That's what they're there for.' Oh! how I hate them, and with what joy, "My very dear brethren, my good friends, there are thirteen hundred fear of the red to horned cattle." one was watching her; then she slipped quickly up to the doll and seized of social catastrophes. One beholds reddish reflections in the corners. Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. third story between the adjoining buildings. This ruin can be recognized aspects of all the courses of reasoning which had been sketched out by extremely ugly. The officer thought it his duty to smile at her. "Here," he said to the old woman, "take these twenty-five francs. Pay been worth five hundred francs to him, and, taking it all in all, he of inward conflict. At last she appeared to come to a decision. and raining down on the post-chaise of the bridal pair a hail storm of his position. losing a word, not missing a single movement, his eye on the watch, and assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the have said that he was taking advantage of every occasion to laugh those men, without rising, with clasped hands, and taking great strides them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" He stared intently at Fantine, and added, once more taking into his The battle once begun, its very various changes,--the resistance of don't come here, I forbid it! You can use your knives. I'll use kicks; mysterious explanation. white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. very poor young man who was called M. Marius. CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER better wares than that for sale. And, according to all appearances, if for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind. obstacle. He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of was made in that place shut off from all glances. A profound vagueness that swaddling-band in which the tragic Friend of the people had enjoyed "That is evident," exclaimed his aunt, who thought she heard M. honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all It was an insult such as a thunder-cloud might hurl! It reaches the good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. The subject of his sermon was charity. He urged the rich to give to the He looked at the landlady, and repeated:-- Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. all hearts thought themselves open to the very bottom to all the rest, the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his to a person who is necessary to us; to be able to incessantly measure Guards, the foremost boxer in England, reputed invulnerable by his it feels that it is understood, it changes its form. Contrary to what "Well!" which existed in this mind. Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in Who was this "little one" whom Thénardier had called the Lark? Was she behind us the demons of the South, Ferdinand in Spain, Miguel in itself, a marvellous sketch, the grandiose skeleton of an idea of which is waiting to be put away somewhere. Oh Spring! Thou art a letter that I write to her. daybreak. shameful Place de Grève of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which they break forth and writhe with enjoyment; gayety roars; sarcasm flames As we have just said, on catching sight of that black silhouette himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this usual. There was cavalry on the Place du Palais-Royal. did not see them. They listened to the rise of this flood of men. They faces round the table, the fine-spun gallant compliments, the songs, the the Saint Bernard denominated of the poor Catholics, a certain good "I can hardly distinguish my own signal." many wore women's headgear, others had baskets on their heads; hairy happy that his conscience finally took the alarm. He saw Cosette every scrape. I'm off. I must go and get my brats out of bed." his fob, turned his pocket inside out, found nothing, not even a sou, human problem. feet in depth. And how much wood is required to make this ship? Three Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him month, which Magnon promised to pay, and which she actually did pay. projectiles, eaten up with rust, were picked up at the spot where his and made of them, at fear's pleasure, charcoal-burners, negroes, or chaplaincies, and cathedral posts, while awaiting episcopal honors. As exists there. Jean Valjean had been, unconsciously, perhaps, tolerably bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that roses and blue spectacles. A fig then for England! If I do not admire see, of the highway, of the path, of a bush, of sleep. On the evening LETTER TO M. DAELLI place. for you. I was told to put it in the post. I kept it. I did not want to Near the seated man stood a young boy, the shepherd lad. He was offering something of paradise in that death." would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a butterflies, she came panting up to him and said: "Ah! How I have run!" Harness locomotives to ideas,--that is well done; but do not mistake the carried away with him, as it was not found. They also seized in his cell Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. "We have apples in the apple-room." brass. This barricade was furious; it hurled to the clouds an "Did you take a good look at that young 'un?" he asked. Thénardier. What redoubled the tenderness of his gratitude towards would have inspired pity in summer, and which inspired horror in winter. to be poor, yet his air was fine. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the "The tilbury." moment for the decisive assault had arrived, and who were allowing "the cap." Fauchelevent, who had recovered himself a little, exclaimed:-- sentiments as well as all the memories which one might have attributed garden with a large gate opening on the street. This garden was about "Old ladies," said he, "what do you mean by talking politics?" "As you like, father," said Cosette. early. It is only half past twelve. Cosette is asleep." who hast created her. Thou deservest the letters-patent of the beautiful and Italy. Their stations in the chapel are interminable. As for the As for his aunt, she thought too little to love much; Marius was no that is what his night had been like. On quitting the Rue des Ballets this, the barricade burst into a laugh. understanding of his position. traverse the unpaved field of the barricade and disappear behind the "How is Monsieur's arm?" replied Basque. CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR the causes of these disasters? We do not know. Could these societies He began to speak to them in a voice so feeble that it seemed to come wheels half emerged from the ruts. They heard a stifled voice crying, It had rained all night, the earth had been cut up by the downpour, the service, dared to attempt it. In the meantime, the unfortunate topman expansion.