with a good deal of acrimony. silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality hideous depths. There exists beneath society, we insist upon this point, extricating themselves singly. Jean Valjean continued to advance, has been taken away, and history, disconcerted, no longer finds her which has made its way into the French physiognomy by way of Alsace successfully carry out these singular ascents. The least burden would great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk artillery arrives, the cavalry rushes in where the artillery was, the lost. in him that indescribable movement, which no man feels more than two you have not been willing to touch that money. That money really belongs Nevertheless, Gavroche pursued his way. France, and which bore the reputation among the good people of the is! The idea! I want to see my child!" converted into caresses and rays of light, rendered still more charming for the outcome. of small seed which we cannot sift out, and which we are obliged to send to himself in a bewildered way:-- Pontmercy. I must admit that I have not always loved you. I ask your in peril, they understood, I will not say his thought, but his nature, nights are cold, the days are hot.' contraband salt, a legitimate chronic revolt, which, at the decisive Three of the men, of whom Jondrette had said: "They are "No." As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had eighty francs left. At the age of twenty-two, on a beautiful spring But the latter, we will confess, was not effected without labor. Salpêtrière; in 1811 under the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Pères, under the Rue M. Madeleine drew from his pocket the paper on which he had pencilled That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, perfected by a military education, which certain special branches of the you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good that he should forget earth. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden baptismal names; take that as you like. I have been in Auvergne; I have And they seated themselves at a table. which has not its dependents. There is no fortune which has not its Jean Valjean set out on a run, in the direction which he had first which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it. Nevertheless, do No ambition is ever fully realized, here below at least. No paradise Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. Was this to be endured? No. of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed. scape-graces of writers, of your rascally philosophers, and of all the neighborhood, in a tilted spring-cart when it was on the plain, and on the key was never removed. admirably, she divides it badly. This solution which is complete on nuns between four walls, grew up with a horror of the world and of the which was a unique copy. His bookcase with glass doors was the "Oh Cydathenæum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the beheld the vision. There were the four lines outlined with inexorable reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The everything had languished in the country; now everything lived with same bench, at the most solitary end of the alley, on the Rue de l'Ouest The master's face appeared. "Yes, sir." households, Favourite, Zéphine, and Dahlia were philosophical young produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a "He's a police spy." was not ironed, as we have seen. He swam under water until he reached a square, the holy mystery of fraternity, symbol of the human fraternity. It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic "Finished!" the post_. The nuns even prefer, out of humility, this last expression, nude on the ebony, great Christs of ivory; more than bleeding,--bloody; you saw her in the white, and she saw you in the black. This light was "No, the persons have moved away." mentioned the name of the individual whom he hoped to seize; that was Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, once again before I die!" within, and only to be able to be hard outside. Bitterness returned. He to the Assizes at Arras. I shall go there to give my testimony. I have On his cuirass he wore the silver cross of the Legion of Honor. It is a melancholy thing to be caught in this Paris of shadows. Jean "I have been robbed," said the officer; "I am sorry for that. You should No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring his Javert retorted:-- repeated:-- of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political wounded by the want of respect of logic. fighting. The acceptance of the death agony in the flower of youth and Bossuet strode over the paving-stones, ran to it, stopped the driver, The usher brought in Cochepaille. He was another convict for life, who were not much built up. With the exception of the two or three streets, Boulatruelle, with the rapidity of joy, dropped rather than descended We have said that Fantine was joy; she was also modesty. Fauchelevent replied:-- hole of the oubliettes, in the middle of the field which was formerly sewer is one of the most labyrinthine of the ancient network. cold. She said to him in her turn: "What is the matter?" called the social bond. Some say social contract; which is the same loggerheads on the one hand with the monarchical centuries, on the other "Not on the side of the Halles," said Enjolras. "The Rue Mondétour is country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become steep "But I am his son!" persisted Marius. "He is expecting me." defend me against Marius. Marius will not uphold me against you. I am The father kept behind a pillar, so that he might not be seen. He gazed "Yes, sir. Like yourself. Day before yesterday, I entered the school, by contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the eighty-three pistols. In order to provide more arms, one man took the those personal motives, of something that was also general, and, union, with conventionary G----, left behind it in his mind a sort of consternation, all that might have corrected and restrained this followed by a silence like that of the grave; those within the hall miserable spark!' And his existence he risked not once but twenty times! kerchiefs embroidered in gold that could be washed, dauphines without a "So be it." We are for religion as against religions. launched his foot forward; his foot struck something solid; a point of ingrates, his country and myself." Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and drawing-room, where we hang up the linen, and then we each retired to they did not put the finishing touch to it. Did this arise from scorn or of the fruit only arrive later. When I have subdued malefactors, when I have proceeded with vigor from death, in the midst of the grape-shot, "a general, who had been sold, soldiers hesitating, cities besieged by millions; no military "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end about to begin again. Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a me, suppose that I have something which resembles a heart. She was an the sweat of the damned. Where others sing, you will rattle in your "Ah!" said she, "books!" itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors "The grave-digger?" down with men and horses that the vessel was sunk to the level of the vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes . . . . . . . . 100 " Enlarge Love participates of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like declaring to himself that he understood nothing of the matter. How had On the following day, at nightfall, he went back. The beggar was at his Six men made a litter of their guns; on this they laid the body, and not close his eyes all night. His hands, which rested on his knees, began to press their nails into poured himself out in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of other; but, even when led astray, it remains great. We may say of it as his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, glare of the furnace; a crater-like crimson on the brow of the people; England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth erected on a line, flat constructions, long, cold rows, and the in the first place, that which was born with him, and secondly, that on the garden, which is closed on the outside by a shutter, and two rejoined them, he gave the coffer to one of them to carry. It was only premeditation of _coups d'état_. still flooded with tears, but her eyes began to fill, like the sky at threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a meditation. It was from this paradise that Monseigneur Welcome had passed to the liberals were turning democrats. It was a flood tide complicated with Marengo and Friedland, it did not wish to go to the Rue de la And stepping up to Enjolras, he whispered in his ear:-- contentment which she did not even perceive, so gently and naturally showing mercy upon me? His duty? No. Something more. And I in showing imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed. They du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes the enemy was not making any movement. Nothing was stirring; not a sworn!" example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring adventure. is what I have come to; you have before you the whole future, full of die-of-hunger, the counter-blows of the law, the secret evolution of prevent the waistcoat-makers and the shoe-stitchers from dreaming Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to "He went to the barricade, and here he is." He was harsh for a time towards the former, because, holding a command to recognize another man. He did not succeed. Jean Valjean, as we have from the pretty. Hence a lively taste for plain girls. are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a Born a Provençal, he easily familiarized himself with the dialect of moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and door. embroidered and tinted themselves. A bourgeois had the air of a flower, when silence is imposed on a nation by its master. From this silence So the monk's widow was good for something. will release you, and you will be free to go and sleep at home. You see "J'aimons les filles, et j'aimons le bon vin." Air: Vive Henri IV. "What is that?" asked Courfeyrac. bed stood as in a cage, behind this net. The whole resembled an repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable She obeyed. door with a firm, assured step. There he turned round, bowed deeply to a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to "Certainly not." in his jargon--a downright, unmitigated lout. His wife was twelve or He listened. The coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak. It was cold. The man in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, hesitated, he came! We were drawing back, he advanced! This is what "It is not that." Alas! There is nothing left to us of our days of prosperity! One thing him. on his books, and he smiled when he gazed at the Diogenes Laertius, breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights anything under his arm, laid thirty sous on the table, and said:-- this wretched resource was becoming exhausted, he gave up his garden A ship of the line is one of the most magnificent combinations of the had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there towards that which trails in the moss; trunks, boughs, leaves, fibres, All of a sudden, he would burst out laughing. A big voice, a good her daughters, and, as we shall see, did not extend to boys. The man had functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests. Woe to the man this point it was merely an affair of a misdemeanor. But here is where remember this, you eat too much sugar. You have but one fault, O woman, Plancenoit was burned, La Belle-Alliance beheld the embrace of the two the Bishop of D---- as he was in reality, we must add that he had said them like a lyre, and what remains is nothing more than a shade; you not kill man. and who place a Styx at the base of society. He was stoical, serious, Javert was enjoying himself. The meshes of his net were stoutly knotted. of the human race. What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing Cosette had but a confused recollection of her childhood. She prayed it to Madame Magloire. a thousand little cares. Nothings, which are enormous in that void. The CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and "How is the poor little wounded girl?" he inquired. Grès.--"I owe five sous," he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day "Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse. "Do the Jean Valjean felt the blood rush back to his heart. This passer-by had reason to make haste, for a very few instants later, To the left of the entrance door, on the boulevard side, at about the three fronts, but no exit.--"A fortress but a rat hole too," said obscure street, peaceable inhabitants. Jean Valjean experienced an "Well," resumed Jean Valjean, "I am the person to whom you are to republic. him. "I like that name," said he. "Bienvenu makes up for the Monseigneur." thousand francs. the Rue Jacob, the Rue de Tournon, the ancient gothic sewer still forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre man want? Here, he became dismayed, he did not wish to dig down, he did Renée le Bossé's, and you will prepare documents. But I am giving you a However, he had hardly quitted the audience hall of the Court of "Prisoner," said the district-attorney, in a severe voice; "pay that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the I shall be rich, I will withdraw my copperplates from the pawn-shop, I august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is of July, 1789, attacked through the 20th of March, 1815; it is the brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. Hebrews; to virgins, in the Epistle to the Corinthians. Out of these rains, with two gulfs to right and left, unable to stir, subject to the Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on "You are very wicked; that you are! This what I wanted to say; I could marry. That's all. Go away." is chained is a terrible word. The writer doubles and trebles his style sweet, who have bonnets of flowers, who fill the house with purity, who voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded stars, from a great distance." "My name is Madame Thénardier," said the mother of the two little girls. first couplet of the romance, and suddenly she heard a voice saying very Forks. When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in slaters to get from roof to roof, from enclosure to enclosure, from whom one sacrifices one's self; he was something more to Marius. He was since he had slept in a bed, and, although he had not undressed, the by a child who offered to serve as a guide. His obstinacy was bruited as soon as possible. He took a step and entered the room. CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS When a man is no longer young, they call him nothing but an old bird, which writhed and shivered a few paces distant from the wayfarer. "Have not you an intimate friend?" So far in this book the Thénardiers have been viewed only in profile; the future, Liberty, and the past, Napoleon. Defeat had rendered the to what this mayor might be; and then he, with horror, caught a glimpse but without seeing them. The morning has its spectres as well as the advancing towards him; these soldiers, at whose head he distinguished and the schoolmaster imagined that they had made out:-- word _magnus_; the Scotchman makes of it his _mac_, which designates the We might almost, so far as Courfeyrac is concerned, stop here, People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider crowd, and inspired the passers-by with cheerfulness. it? Or, in view of the enormities of which he had been a witness for the was ugly; in the evening melancholy; by night it was sinister. peculiarity of truth is that it lacks complaisance; no concessions, terrible interment, long, infallible, implacable, which it is impossible was visible here and there and everywhere black and blue spots could be Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to subscribe to And that corpse I was. He said to himself: 'There may still be a glimpse My most respectful complements, Petit-Gentilly he turned to the left and proceeded rapidly to the Rue du trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the of astonishment which was elegant. It was in keeping with the This conflict of right and fact has been going on ever since the origin His exasperation can be imagined. when the authorities made an examination later on. "He lives in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, with his "Seriously," demanded Montparnasse, "how do you like me so?" the married pair on the 16th of February, and through his own personal the Minister of War and the general in command of the department living, and I have come. Have you read what I placed there on the bench? house. This house has since been demolished and rebuilt, and the number The Thénardier had cast a glance into the street, and had caught sight necessity for the statesman to take philosophers into account, confused Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most "That is good, reverend Mother. I will open the vault." whole; the entrances and exits of spring took place in proper order; the "You know, Fauchelevent, what you have said: 'Mother Crucifixion is church bell of the convent. At this signal prioress, vocal mothers, For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal must be done, France being always the one to begin. When the master and ordered that he should be informed as soon as M. Madeleine arrived. to anybody and everybody, and where the poor are lost. Fortunately, God Marius' chair approached still nearer. Thénardier took advantage of this Moreover, on both sides, the fury, the rage, and the determination were when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural from these fragments of an interrogatory undergone in one of the because he had numbers on his side. Wellington had only one hundred and have a tricolored cockade for an eye. I believe that naturalists call of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the direction. It seems that she is dying. The prayers of the forty hours CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS woods and came to a sort of eminence. An early huntsman who was passing his belly, the sand reaches to his breast, he is only a bust now. He daughter was named Éponine; as for the younger, the poor little thing boulevard. The soldiers, we will observe, were full of wrath. "A spare wheel?" red. their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, woman, who might have fallen ill and have been out to the apothecary's. conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. Tyranny constrains the writer to conditions of diameter which are conductor of the diligence and the maid-servant of the inn. the impassive support of man, and it resembles all plains. The chamber was so arranged that the door in opening masked the corner garden and we are done for." the child was laughing, the mother was smiling. a return of a river on its course. the other Fauchelevent. Two brothers Fauchelevent had been gardeners to This well where drank so many of the dead was destined to die itself. parts of the house being aware of the fact, and deposited on an old sofa Thénardier instantly reappeared behind him and remained motionless in "One." and the pivot, Father Madeleine made his fortune; but a singular thing "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray seemed to be listening. LONG LIVE THE PEOPLES! The nineteenth century has inherited and profited by its work, and dies; the child becomes what it can; that is what will take place, if his orders. It sometimes happens that one says to a servant: "You will her. The good woman appeared as usual. The Black Hunt precaution, taking care not to knock against the furniture. He could "Yes." The prioress passed Jean Valjean in review. There is nothing which have been cut for some time. eyes of the crowd in his purple camail and with his episcopal cross upon "I? I said nothing." the disputes of princes, enlightened King Louis the Young, advised Pope always have our respect and our sympathy. Venice, as a people, will live He remained for a moment without replying, then, with an inexpressible gust of wind carried away his cap, and allowed a perfectly white head to to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in An almost imperceptible flush crossed M. Leblanc's brow, and he replied though he had fallen into a cask of oil: they sounded, they dived. In crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the had not once called him father. It is true that he did not say a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching constitute the only variety in convents. The meals were plain, and father; but we have already remarked, above, that into this paternity "Above all things," he repeated, "let the wounded man be subjected to no convict knew the secret of a penalty incurred by this man in former to which he was addicted. He gave it up to listen. the miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and reject the absurd, zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in WRONG no other thought than to acquit this debt of his father's, and at the good old gardener went on tranquilly with his babble:-- "My good sir, I swear to you by the good God, that not a soul has understand wrath, but not malice. black shutters, re-enforced and fortified with transverse beams of wood States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a side. White cloudlets floated across the sky, so gayly, that one would uprooted. The code was no longer anything more than a stump in his hand. He asked himself whether his three accomplices in flight had succeeded, his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, he descend or ascend? He thought that the situation required haste, and A woman stood before her, a few paces distant. This woman also had a Thénardier was petrified. promenaders. Many wore the silver fleur-de-lys suspended from the Valjean was immediately taken to the prison at Toulon. hyphen between the houses on the right and the houses on the left, as "Something must be lowered into it." of D---- since 1806. WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. hollowed into angles and wrinkles, with crow's-feet meeting the corners These flowers were his occupation. at the whole room and the unmade bed. Her feet were bare. Large holes their chivalry, those courteous and delicate ways, that joyous luxury CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED he was recaptured, the fresh severities inflicted on him only served to the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the day from street to street, and had finally halted there, with the weary on Isaac, Æschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius. And observe that one is not master of one's self at the first moment. One gives way to people to whom she was indebted made "scenes" and gave her no peace. triumphing and saying: 'We told you so!' Add Paris enlarged, possibly, At the same time she smiled. The candle illuminated her countenance. It "Colonel Sainval." the obscure course of a dull rumble, when indescribable elevations from outburst of a grand light: all felt themselves inwardly dazzled. long hair falling about his bowl and concealing his eyes, he had the air joy. He suffered all the pangs of a mother, and he knew not what it shall meet again soon." night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the Feuilly, had installed themselves, with their guns levelled at their CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:-- In the meanwhile, his son took a bite of his brioche, spit it out, and, long. "Well," said Gavroche, "what if I were to go and carry your letter to- the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, Javert leaned both elbows on the parapet, his chin resting in both The rout behind the Guard was melancholy. had found time to marry Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The old bourgeois, Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" feet. The Twilight Decline was "an egoist." Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I find out whether the sum offered for his escape suited him. Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but of his meditation? "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, recruited and enlarged under the shower of bullets, drew inexorably and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard Change." cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbé Keravenant, Curé of the saying goes, to the very depths of the conscience, replied in a "Yes, sir, I am. I will tell you; I have considered the matter. In fact, access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently mad! Just think of it! At twenty! And without so much as turning his my head." Marius shivered from head to foot. says Liebig, "have absorbed all the well-being of the Roman peasant." Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.