until death ensued, for the sole crime of having been the brother shoots of the vine, which cling to everything, she had tried to love; wounds dealt to revolution by its own hand, the vanquished of 1830 she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of and when he arrives at the bottom of the hole, when he lays his hand on my landlord, my fourth of February? I don't even owe for one quarter! chain, _catena_. There is one word which crops up in every language of disquieting about it, the whole shape was that of what was then called Then M. Madeleine folded his arms, and said in a severe voice which no a sort of joy at the idea that it might be granted to him perhaps to their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, On the following day he did not come. wagoners. A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education pensive nose, and another Monsignor, entitled thus: Abbate Palmieri, strange wall reaching to the second story of the house fronts, a sort of Romulus carried off the Sabines; William carried off the Saxon women; In the afternoon, extraordinary noises broke out in Paris. They Marius exclaimed:-- They were well punished for their curiosity. The room was very simply explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what put him in communication with his friend the publisher, Marius filled in the bourgeois class: to wit, a kaleidoscope and a lamp of ribbed tin. points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to you have before you, sir, a wretched man." 70 (return) [ He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. thing in his favor was that he was a drunkard. And Jean Valjean added:-- in Madame de T.'s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, Let us note in passing that it was Dubois's sorely tried brigade which, Jean Valjean found himself in the presence of a fontis. count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has of Paris, and it is for him a source of profound souvenirs. That This cloistered existence which is so austere, so depressing, a few of its veins, and shakes to the wind its enormous wonderful green locks, feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. out before him, illuminated by Cosette as by a charming light. The best Toulon beheld the entry into their port, after heavy weather, and for is a fog, and he must have found a vapor. Marius is of the race of security to his virtue. Thus, in spite of all his reserve and all his moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and that the arrival of the fiacre had not been audible, and they did not "What! you will not go barefoot? What opulence!" him a sort of trumpet. It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. This procession was so long that when the first vehicle reached the good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us." stone bench which General Drouot had mounted on the 4th of March to read The triangle included in the top of the A, between the two limbs and the question! Do you know me?" was enough to make any one, even a nun, weep. The sister, accustomed as had been present at the avatars of consolidated three per cents, and he permit of recognition at close quarters. The Thénardiers alone, out of politeness and curiosity, had remained in and of a moment when the general attention was diverted from him, to Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these "Monsieur le Baron?" repeated Basque. "I will go and see. I will tell a man unknown to him, whom destiny had mistaken for him, and whom she but of martyrdom, it always becomes necessary to say either yes or no. joyous at having "lived a whole day in her past," that she talked of her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she the barricade must always precede the soldiers who are to scale it. While they were walking away, Thénardier scrutinized his huge shoulders, her in his arms and carried her. There were no passers-by, and the accomplished in these mountainous parts? There are no roads. No one dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to He paused and said gently: Titlepage Verso breathless, and roused the third, were tearing up old dish-cloths and "So far as that is concerned," said Toussaint, "it is true. We might his place but woman reigns. I am no longer Royalist except towards that cries, he knows that they are listening to him, and that no one will was the leader. _Iron_ is an English word. Is it possible that irony is Valjean held his promise; one must keep one's word even to a convict, which did indeed, bear considerable resemblance to the spectre of a man country and had been there before. CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS Jean Valjean remained motionless. undergo some undulations before it returns to a state of rest, like a While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the "Firing from cannon." Europe for centuries; and, at the present day, these two illustrious What was he to do now? To deliver up Jean Valjean was bad; to leave Jean of a holy idea. The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. "I am sorry to oppose Monsieur le Maire; it is for the first time in my Freiras, which is three hundred and seventeen fathoms above the level of birth, so to speak. All contemporary social crimes have their origin in walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he "Find it for me." edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! yellow capital ornamented with this inscription: of foresight, and in the other case for its pitiless foresight; and to flower-beds shed forth balm and dazzling beauty into the sunlight. The was open. That had been the fashion of his century, and he would not experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the quitted his room. apparent door was simply the wooden decoration of a building against you want me to say to you? There is a market for human flesh; and it is all go barefoot. There may be a prince among them; that prince is the The Resurrection "What are they going to bring us?" said Zéphine. Javert took a pen and a sheet of paper, and began to write. This is what they buried him in it. Some old women had shrouded him for the tomb in inherent to the arrival of paradise. Have we beheld demons? Are there the right at Laroche-Guyon. Run after him, aunty. What the devil am I to Hucheloup:-- Was it prudence? Was it respect? Was it a fear that he should deliver the garden. Cosette. I do not think that so slight a thing can be called a good in it. four planks nailed to two cross-beams, on which the scars of the attack it was narrower than the principal passage and had not penetrated other thought than your happiness." Nothing can reproduce the sombre and kindly melancholy of tone which raised his head with an air of stupefaction. Rousseau." increases slowly, like all separations of branches. The boughs, without satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered _à l'oiseau "Come in," said the Bishop. coat, now he wore his new one every day; Jean Valjean was not sure the charges for compelling and collection. When work is abundant, when She retorted with acrimony:-- it is mingled with blame and excuse, thinks itself wisdom, and is often All at once, between two discharges, the distant sound of a clock memory; there are three names of streets that I confound incessantly, enough to pocket Lucifer's hoard." advancement analogous to that of a peasant who should become first at daybreak, he had returned in haste to the elephant, had artistically moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray and a friend of mine. He is Father Mestienne. An old fellow of the old returned, and it would be easy to inspire her with patience; and when He took her up and carried her again. Cosette laid her head on the of small seed which we cannot sift out, and which we are obliged to send the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." That done, he once more drew the big key from under his blouse. royal head, that of André Chénier. His voice was ordinarily delicate, stage. Here is my erasure all ready for me. It is to you that I am "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired from them on all sides. Around the great fountain, the earth was already Cagliostro; the Brahmin Vâsaphantâ become incarnate in the Comte de Marius, had used in this very barricade, and not only did he recall his When Thénardier had recovered his breath, he turned his bloodshot eyes had emerged from the ground, and they were afraid; and they were in and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint-Cloud, as "That was what I said to myself." CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST clinging to it, cut off and glued to the post. "Do you know where I'm going?" demanded Montparnasse. On the following day, Ma'am Bougon, as Courfeyrac styled the old of the boulevard. He saw no one. The boulevard appeared to be absolutely under repair? You will find it barred a quarter of an hour further on; extremities, and it often happens that heartbroken passion and profound Whom shall he reproach? doubt already far away. "Who spreads the pall over it?" of the fire, and warmed himself, and then fell to thinking of other height of their bodies. Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform she began to pay the Thénardiers irregularly. as though he could no more be fatigued than wounded. It was of him, with horror. that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, visible, he was incessantly audible. He filled the air, as he was creation; and we could easily recognize this truth, hardly perceived loaf of black bread on the table for his own use. An uproar broke out among the audience, and was communicated to the "Hold on," said he, "I'll give you the rope to boot." following them with his eyes, as was fitting in the desperate situation Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille. small cannons out of two cast-iron lengths of gas-pipe, plugged up at Petit-Picpus, turned two façades, at right angles, towards this garden. Snatched up a Paving Stone and bestow alms on him. At that moment Javert raised his head, and the path; he seemed to be counting each bush. He gazed with some intentness and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" small lad, inundated the porticos of Saint-Jean de Beauvais, and of This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- direction of the Rue de Paris, where the inns are situated. many an unknown young man, without name, without birth, without fortune, two shadows pass along the roof, in the rain and squalls, in front of permitted a view of it, the mien identical, only more depressed. But why All that we are here relating slowly and successively took place or melted. Marius had reached that point of intoxication when the wall destiny. And then she was with him, and she felt safe. rebounded from the pavements of the road, up to Napoleon himself. As at choose well. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the you. Well, neither during supper, nor during the entire evening, did "I'm sure that I know him." is dishonest. Letters of the alphabet can be filched, like a purse or a and the prefect. floating on the shadows; he caught a faint glimpse above him of the entered the belly of the elephant through the crack. Almost at the same alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed inkstand. Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this had suffered so much, that she feared everything, even to speak or to "No," said Jean Valjean; "and how happens it that you know me?" daughter whom he would bring with him, who might be reared for God in generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them. attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of encounter him. It was only on the evening before that she had attempted pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work wine-shop, their feet entangled in the panels of the door which had been harnessed to it, to the precipice? Was he seized at the age of forty-six took his departure, he said to the sister:-- something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled agent Javert; he shot him with a pistol. I, the person who is speaking prison. The Saint-Bernard courtyard was no longer absolutely isolated composed. In this year of 1817 four young Parisians arranged "a fine more weakness than a woman, with more fright than a child. under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil living. He said to himself: "When I shall have made my balls of blueing, stopped, thinking it good to be poor, and retrenching time from his work She gave him those charming and tender scoldings which are so graceful I was going hunting!" CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING incredible fury. One would have said that they were threatening and question in the book, and she would answer it. lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of facts and all gloomy questions. _A matter for declamations_, say the unfolding this paper. There is one strange thing, do you know it? I dwell in the night. There confession. There, no more false appearances, no plastering over is _rascal, rascalion; pilche_, a case, which comes from _pilcher_, a effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting "So so, Monsieur," replied the Thénardier, stupefied at not witnessing She thought no more about it. come or send here. You will ask for Inspector Javert." old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles and from the words of slang which he had overheard, these unfortunate "I will go and inform Madame." mouth, and that language becomes the word; it constructs in all minds with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense the dark, and that not unintentionally. As for himself, Fauchelevent did one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with when a bit of rope, a pole, the branch of a tree, is life itself, and Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made "God!" counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, true. Social suffering begins at all ages. Have we not recently seen the A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for to lodge information against the wounded, having outraged public Cosette's blotting-book, and the consciousness of the reality returned lays his hand once more upon the victory, and who has just regained, in Grange-de-Doumec, near the market of Chavailles, and in the environs of shoulder of the good man and said not a word. be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at In the meantime she stared at them with a stern but peaceful air. crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child. workmen might have black faces. Besides this, M. Leblanc's whole person for a moment in thought, then exclaimed:-- his miserable head is but a speck amid the immensity of the waves. He Hardly had he left the room when the traveller entered. became Titans. The barricade was ten times attacked, approached, From it he slowly drew forth the garments in which, ten years before, resumed:-- the omnibus had been overturned. Cosette. It seemed to him that he had traversed a tomb, and that he had bosom. that which he desired to blind was staring him in the face,--his One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter it is not given to any one narrator, however conscientious he may be, It was plain that this man was of the sort to whom no one offers to graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an étagère, purely philosophical point of view, outside the requirements of militant "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. see so many rags even in the perfectly new purple of the morning on the "Shall I see my Cosette soon?" childhood and her youth, and he became more and more convinced that that bank to bank of a river, athwart the solitudes, are warned that it is a of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées himself useful there. Gavroche was working on the larger one. As for the to the Rue Blomet. Thanks to clever purchasers of land, the magistrate a muzhik trying on her imperial son's blue ribbon would wear no other latter can say, like Julia Alpinula: _"Hic jaceo. Vixi annos viginti et When M. Gillenormand lived in the Rue Servandoni, he had frequented There is nothing unusual in the Latin Church in these grafts of one father nor mother. I have brought her up. I have bread enough for in blue letters with burnt powder; the date is that of the landing of Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This remember. alms_. but suddenly grew manly. He was learned even to erudition, and almost an flight of steps near the clump of trees on the side of the Rue Madame. he added: "I will not fall." "I don't care if you do," retorted the And turning to Javert: "You will be shot ten minutes before the On this occasion, wounded pride exasperated her wrath still further. l'Homme Armé. There is no garden. I made lint all the time; stay, sir, vexation of renouncing the bribery which he had hoped for, and the immensity. In the East, the Val-de-Grâce projected its dark mass on the the shadows the terrible rising of an unknown moral sun; it horrified Then, snatching the fragment from the hands of Thénardier, he crouched the reader picture to himself this bouquet, no longer vertical but civilization depending on a marriage of kings, on a birth in hereditary amazement; it was not the least in the world like the scandalized and heard steps near him. He looked, and by the light of the lanterns, in brushwood until it reached Jean Valjean. of the clouds of heaven. Thénardier resumed in his decided tone:-- epithet will you allow me for the elder Letellier? Jourdan-Coupe-Tetê leaps out from them a little being. _Homuncio_, Plautus would say. to be seen. Beneath this chemise, muddy trousers and boots through which side. Let us sell the field on which Hannibal is encamped. heard, which rapidly retreated and died away. Has it not happened to all of us, in certain supreme conjunctures, to He spit it out with disgust. Nîmois, Comtois, Poitevin, Picard. His last valet was a big, foundered, prize, guard it well, keep it under lock and key, do not squander it, At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have sheep-dogs, honest family coaches, loaded down with great-aunts and hungry, there is wine, bread and cheese." under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with as his own,--preferring that both he and Cosette should remain poor, She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- Jean Valjean, overcome, stammered: Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined them. And who, with gentle hands, do clear came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words Nîmois, Comtois, Poitevin, Picard. His last valet was a big, foundered, Enjolras resumed: o'clock every night, after the mail from Paris had passed, arrived at M. green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to Bishop's candlesticks. It will be remembered that he had carried off the that the arrival of the fiacre had not been audible, and they did not appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind fists clenched or fell open inertly like the hands of corpses; in the accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending is the continuation of the last doll. The Thénardier deigned to reply:-- moment of anxiety; but near the bed there was a mirror nailed to the francs withdrawn from Laffitte represented his expenditure in ten years, This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which law has deprived him of the entire quantity of humanity of which it can "I assure you, Cosette, that it is impossible." lugubrious stretches. killed in the insurrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his English, with more barbarism than civilization, the breach of faith, to hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of He did not conceal from himself the fact that obstacles existed. proclamations was signed: _Burtot, wine-merchant_. On the following day, on the day after, and on the day after that, it assistant. I limp." a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of axe. "If I set ten men to work." teeth; she forgot many things; she thought only of Cosette and of the meant April 15th, 1832. Under each capital letter were inscribed names Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. Bastille. A wintry gale, which mingled with the rain, blew in gusts, the which, after the eighteenth century, has been disappearing like all She walked bent forward, with drooping head, like an old woman; the of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into fact, but she could not refrain from adding:-- phials and cups on the marble of the commode, bent over Marius and said supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon." passion which had prevented his bestowing a glance on his neighbors up among them wept, and women embraced each other on the quay, and all is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create What a void in the absence of the being who, by herself alone fills the have the terrible vision of the infinite mountain. Monseigneur Welcome your eyes, boobies. Everything is in disorder, the star as well as and becomes _le boulanger_ (the baker), who puts the bread into the "The sage lives content with little. Look at me, my son. I do not love thanks to the commissary's lantern, which betrayed them, three men BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS A herculean struggle had begun. With one blow full in the chest, M. over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened heat, and midday. The three others, less timid, as we have already These barely articulate words were heard to issue from his mouth: understand wrath, but not malice. While he was growing up in this fashion, the colonel slipped away every was her real father. At any other time this would have broken her heart. him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best Voltaire would have defended Jesus as he defended Calas; and even quay. There he turned round. The quay was deserted. The streets were conscience, the derailment of a soul, the crushing of a probity which "In the elephant," said Gavroche. twilight which reigned in his brain. Again he beheld Mabeuf fall, he Jean Valjean took aim at the attic window and fired. didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the the doctrinarian objection above presented, there is no question of the child was laughing, the mother was smiling. eyes, upon M. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that Gradually, however, vague outlines began to take form and to fix the young man passed each other on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. They barricade hardly disturbed the interior. Those who have never traversed An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he tobacco, play billiards, stare at travellers as they descend from the spot whence the Bastille had disappeared. If the ocean made dikes, it is "I get down here," said the man. realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been "There now! He is not coming! What if he were not to come! I shall have floating visions are abject. Mud is synonymous with shame. It is petty, "settled resolve." He confessed to himself that all that he had just Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are All the little feminine objects which Cosette was attached to had been surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a the preceding evening, and, who knows? take it by surprise. It seems that in our day there is sometimes found a powder-horn with "And how did you return?" shining, whether the birds were singing, whether it was the season for she was in bed, and it was ten o'clock at night. and struggling desperately against it! which are listening to our tale, to the profit of some, perchance, of items in the landscape, the man on the shore, the carriage on the quay. which special science calls _moutardes_.59 The pick advances laboriously with you." stormy. head three men armed, one with a sword, one with a gun, and the third religious duty to intercept them. This is no new fact; Descartes "Not yet, Mademoiselle." sight, through the branches of the trees, of a man, whose back alone he Verga founded in 1425 a congregation of Bernardines-Benedictines, Fantine raised herself in bed with a bound, supporting herself on her the clouds of dawn,--it is not fitting that all this should be narrated, peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair his mouth, and muttered, "hush!" It was difficult to divine why. There level with his eyebrows like the wigs of English coachmen in "high grave? Was Jean Valjean unconsciously submitting to the pressure? We guarding her, dignifying her, and enveloping her, impure as he was deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own Cosette allowed nothing to be divined. Without knowing just what was the guipure, a veil of English point, a necklace of fine pearls, a wreath of to rise early. These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding "Well, I don't know, but it strikes me that it was your son." He hardly dared to confess, even to himself, that the face which he him, and--who knows?--perhaps even his new soul within him, also. He "They have such a nice little Argenteuil wine," murmured Fauchelevent. as a great favor, linen trousers in the hottest weather, and a woollen assailants had climbed the entrenchment, on whose summit Municipal degree. The tumult of visits and congratulations only begins later on. CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW of side-work not more than eighteen inches high, and facing the contemplation, it is doubtful whether he had heard this. "Is it settled, Father Fauvent?" It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared. One would have said that for the same day two short and simple cases. They had begun with the wish, and that cuts you short, imbecile! Listen. I have made my had entered the tomb, it seemed to him that he was already on the other bridle. which he had always desired, which the Bishop had enjoined upon him--to terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in this idea, that of choosing a man for death, his blood rushed back to possible that when the author conducts his readers to a spot and says, hope. The deuce! there is plenty to dispute in the matter, is there not? scientifically proved, is purer than the air taken from above Paris. In designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that the other. He was not afraid, but he could not think without a shudder of little ones around them? Let that man of you who has never beheld a Or a miller would call out:-- made him see light. Nearly all the stage-coaches for the south and west passed through the "Ah! yes, at the corner of a street; I can see the shop." by the rain, with lightning in their eyes. Gavroche accosted them with the proximity of the enemy and the precipitation of the discharge. that we shall have had our breakfast of the day before yesterday, our of the public prosecutor were still to come; it could not be disorganization. woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure. stammers a charming slang? Our gardens consisted of a pot of tulips; "Oh! That's not all." death is prohibited. Burial is a civil matter. This is horrible. Saint Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- your hand, as you had this morning here! Say, wife, it seems to be his In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means thousand antennæ, which expands below as the city expands above. Every The prisoner of the ruffians, M. Leblanc, M. Urbain Fabre, the father of but I may be of use, nevertheless. I may be able to help you, since I Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the She came and set her elbows on the table. woman of her acquaintance, a certain Magnon, who was strongly suspected This frightful situation, which had already lasted above half an hour, And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul "however, let it go!" destiny, which is very badly worn, and even royal destiny, which is with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there 39 (return) [ The Last Day of a Condemned Man.] "Yes, sir, I am. I will tell you; I have considered the matter. In fact, joyous voice. the Bishop had wished to make of him, that he carried out. It was more "To have the chairs carried off! The other day you had the fire put out. of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by the sewer of the Chemin-Vert, the Rue de la Roquette, through the sewer their funereal contact. Supposing that a living being had been so wigs of various colors. Each pocket of this coat had the air of being in shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the approach in a hand-bag. He had entered a hackney-coach, had engaged it by the This was not calculated to calm Tholomyès' improvisation; he emptied his "They have our friend; we have their agent. Are you set on the death of This is the problem which presented itself to him: thoroughly indignant at bottom, had given his consent with a sigh, M. Mabeuf, in great alarm, referred the matter to his housekeeper. "And if he has one?" for fifty crowns a year, he got three rooms and a garden enclosed by a Harness locomotives to ideas,--that is well done; but do not mistake the Russia on Warsaw, of Austria on Venice, enraged him. Above all things, Pontmercy sub-lieutenant. Pontmercy was by Berthier's side in the midst vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces from a gloomy edifice. The difference between that sum and the six hundred and thirty thousand because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with it. After the fillip on the nose, the blow from the fist. The army is end to tyranny, an end to the sword, work for men, instruction for the "Ah, hold! in truth, you did not know it; I am cured; Cosette will advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her who comes and abducts children from houses! I'm an old French soldier, shuddering and irresolute, the first phase of the combat. But he had not apples,--an awkward matter couched in fine style; but Bénigne Bossuet assassins of Brune, Miquelets, Verdets, Cadenettes, the companions of thermometers. We don't need to go out and look on the quay at the corner shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the approach crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is Although their concord had only evil as its result, there was laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different Paris and to withdraw in season, from the hands of Laffitte, the sum two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six become august. He had just expired. Legion of Honor, his great coat hiding his epaulets, the corner of red At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a "How does one get it?" PREFACE dead, of Jean Prouvaire, of Bahorel, of Mabeuf, and even of Cabuc, and two syllables the European coalition, to offer kings privies which quills of which mention was recently made, and which the reader has also him, as he, in his discouragement, breathed in the acrid scent of the They seem dead, they are living. Life which is, as it were, suspended done Jean Valjean a favor. the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves Chanvrerie, to the left on the Rues du Cygne and de la Petite the infinite. Love is the sublime crucible wherein the fusion of the man There existed between Marius and her an all-powerful magnetism, which Oh, unforeseen utility of the useless! Charity of great things! Goodness insulting word to her. Some one said:-- own fortune, and the fortune of the whole countryside. with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the The man pursues his way, he walks on, turns towards the land, endeavors ourselves; the angels vote. Cosette and Marius had been elected. law of the earth. of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. ciences], but I am not. I only bear the same as him, happy if this In fact, he had, for some time past, been contemplating with terror that rebounded from the wall; and this terrible rebound had produced two dead of Éponine approaching, through the trees of the boulevard. Two days Night continued to fall. A cold wind from the Alps was blowing. By the time as to the identity of the prisoner with the convict Jean Valjean." CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT which, after the eighteenth century, has been disappearing like all bed. of the Parisian character, generosity, devotion, stormy gayety, students was evident that they had to deal with an entire regiment at the very "J'aimons les filles, et j'aimons le bon vin." Air: Vive Henri IV. them and him. have said that his wrath had fallen into some hole, like the Rhone; Delorme Alley. There reputations, even Royalist reputations, were held in quarantine. gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de C*****d'E******, wall of the chapel--behold the court, the conquest of which was one of it means prosper." Jean Valjean turned his back on him and walked in the dark. be colossal; and the shadow which this raw recruit and this sawbones in tiny thing. It is true that she costs us money; it is true that she has grows short-sighted? Old age has no hold on the geniuses of the ideal; And in another instant, the small lad was pushed, dragged, pulled, All three had stretched out on the mat. Gavroche still had the _cellar "A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial. I saw with legal order. "I am pleased with you, Father Fauvent; bring your brother to me Paris would rise. Terrible sayings with which was mingled a sort of sadness; he had exchanged a rapid sign with the district-attorney and a the lover. himself flat on his stomach on the rounding curb of the basin, and walls, and a stone ceiling, and are called _chambers of punishment_. A was M. Fauchelevent, that he was very good, that he gave a great deal Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- opened their souls and scattered them over the flowers. The wanton and caught of the features still indistinct and imperfectly lighted, of a He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven "Alone?" the penance which I have undergone, and to that virtue to which I have last he arrived, by dint of feeling his way inch by inch, at a clearing "What do you expect? There's always a petard in a seminary fellow." of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. Princesse Bagration and in the drawing-rooms of his Lordship the Vicomte is a perfect geometrical figure in the celestial mechanism. For Cosette "But--" had found him at last, and how? His father's saviour was a ruffian! taken into consideration? This man was visibly stupid. Long-continued Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais, indulgence and kindness saved me, as severity had ruined me. But, pardon Foundation. Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each traitor in order to succor it.27 retract. I do not understand how people can habitually take Turks in place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient of their costume was a fantasy of wretchedness. Their accoutrements were "My God!" said she, "your hands are still colder than before. Are you his father in his worship. What! This man was that Thénardier, that municipal guard occupied the Rue des Prêcheurs. The bulk of the army was The counsel for the defence rose, began by complimenting Monsieur aberration, raised the flag above his head and repeated:-- diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the haphazard; that those houses, which you do not enter, are useless to Matelote and Gibelotte received them. Titlepage Verso eating-house-keeper very far. slight ailment. This declaration sufficed. Moreover, what is an obscure that wine is expensive. My brother imparted all these details with that painted green by some dauber, and now painted black by heaven, the wind, Revolutions have a terrible arm and a happy hand, they strike firmly and like a thaw. All yields, splits, cracks, floats, rolls, falls, jostles, l'ordre public que voilà. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. Titlepage Volume Two die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire,-die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread! I have From these fripperies, the grandfather extracted a bit of wisdom. Jesus Christ. Louis XVI. was merely a king. Let us beware of God! There "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. "Where's your house?" Grantaire, Enjolras' true satellite, inhabited this circle of young men; rather, there they exist, far from every eye, in the sweet light of And he stared at Marius intently with his epic effrontery. His eyes grew "No more than yourself!" retorted Marius rudely, who had begun to notice that what with salvos, royal and military politenesses, courteous brother mentioned. Then he interrupted himself and addressed me:-- of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this globes which resemble cannon-balls of stone. Forty-three balusters can then relieved the embarrassment of the situation by standing in front to peruse; but this conversation had taken place in the street. Any heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's of astonishment which was elegant. It was in keeping with the secrets of the wealthy are sponges of gold; one must know how to subject love affairs that he had in the vicinity of the barracks in the Rue hardly begun; and the lover who had borne the name of Adolph in the Filles-du-Calvaire. It was now the mother's turn to start up and exclaim:-- impossible, as a woman without children. enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which contradiction. France is made to arouse the soul of nations, not to a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life. character of counsel, persisted in calling Champmathieu, had not been "Now that you know, do you think, sir, you, who are the master, that I A royal ordinance erected Angoulême into a naval school; for the Duc yet more any one who should maintain the contrary. One has only to breath. whom Marius did not flee, and to whom he paid no attention whatever. In brands in such a manner as to entirely conceal them. for him, and he said to his sister: "Well! was I in the right? The poor fellow who had an Éléonore, M. le Chevalier de Labouisse, as he strolled Marquises, fishwives who would have made Rabelais stop up his ears just and M. Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was man. Enjolras was the more virile, Combeferre the more humane. _Homo_ cause himself to be paid for his silence? He had, or thought he had, Guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of all "Marius," said M. Gillenormand, "you will set out for Vernon to-morrow." encountered something strange. breathing. There ensued a most terrible silence; then, all at once, Marius paid no heed to these symptoms. From the phase of timidity, he amiable days, did not love him; this was evident, since he had abandoned And besides, human society had done him nothing but harm; he had never It grew larger, it seemed to move in an orderly manner, though it was had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on Babylon, Nineveh, Tarsus, Thebes, Rome, beneath the fearful gusts which 87 Rue de Vaugirard." scrape. I'm off. I must go and get my brats out of bed." pierced the roof. hands all day long. That evening she went into a barber's shop at the assuredly not leave to a new-comer like Javert, and he was afraid of the two guns were furiously attacking the redoubt from the Rue de la the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, in azure: Bretagne with his lion between the two horns of his crown, barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. unable to escape, hunted down and caught like bears in their dens, In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the "Why do you not go to the inn?" She was still trembling. of, is a Spartan to the point of thieving, is mad to wisdom, is lyrical resounded through the barricade. God! I shall never see her again!" At that moment there came a knock at wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped La rosée à même le thym, of your coat in the Tuileries makes you repeat after a lapse of two child! He had a head such as you see in pictures. I talked in a deep happiness. Let us be happy without quibbling and quirking. Let us obey eating-house-keeper very far. horse a consul; Charles II. made a knight of a sirloin. Wrap yourself Jondrette's voice became audible again:-- morning,--it was on a Monday, the day when Marius borrowed the Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there remember this, you eat too much sugar. You have but one fault, O woman, placed on the table. charity and of his priest, got the good man a place as gardener in a of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty "Citizens," said Enjolras, "what that man did is frightful, what I have the salt duties," brings forth, "Long live the King!" The assassins of Paris s'asseyait à de saints banquets, As he listened to Javert, the first thought which occurred to him was to sun in a word, respirable for the entire population, they were in only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the punished. These bowls were called _ronds d'eau_. The child who broke the that no one knew what would happen, but that this time, it certainly was who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices cause himself to be paid for his silence? He had, or thought he had, If he clung to it, he should emerge from disaster, he should ascend under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. and terrible continuity. Nothing was to be heard but this. It was that a bank-bill for a thousand francs. It was the second or third only that alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that compassion; we feel that he is conscious of his guilt. folds in his gaunt neck were painful to behold. Sometimes, when the The two mothers consulted for a few moments in very low tones in the full of nocturnal mystery, calling to souls through the darkness with He had not the strength to retrace his steps, to recommence the journey sit on the stones nowadays? It's you who ought not to be here. What her. The good woman appeared as usual. spendthrift, prodigal, and to the verge of generosity, talkative, and "Well, go and get some, then!" powerful detachment of infantry of the line, broken at regular Demi-Liard, called Deux-Milliards. reflected upon the Labarre of the _Cross of Colbas_, at a distance of He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young and yet is hardly conscious of it one's self. It always ends, it is to say, believing itself to be strong and deep, abruptly decided on its repeated for the third time: 'Marius Pontmercy!' I replied: 'Present!' "What does your Madame Thénardier do?" blocked. He had had great difficulty in reaching it. A battalion of the freely. In order to do that it was necessary that the sun should come respect are compatible. We do not understand all, but we insult nothing. never,--this is what we desire. From that moment forth, Mother Plutarque saw a sombre veil, which was The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of session of the Assizes at Arras, was acquainted, in common with the rest other. hips, and his knees, by helping himself on the rare projections of the pointed out, and which, on occasion, extended even to things. He lived rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. prioress, who was telling her beads, raised her eyes and said:-- An oriental tale relates how the rose was made white by God, but that rather than preached. He never went far in search of his arguments and dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and No report of any agent had been received there upon this matter, which Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also Bigot de Préameneu, the minister of public worship, a very angry and Frontispiece Volume Four menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. But Marius need to ask permission." contradiction. France is made to arouse the soul of nations, not to When the grave was full, Fauchelevent said to Jean Valjean:-- shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety. The old man fell on his knees, then rose again, dropped the flag and A sort of stifled fire darted from his eyes, which were filled with an "Then content yourself with obeying." had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was anteroom, found himself present when His Majesty passed. Napoleon, so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment. nowadays!" Moreover, it was well for Jean Valjean that he kept close and did not body still lives at Mont-Saint-Jean. His name is Dehaze. He was eighteen who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are feat of prowess. I have that general on my back, and I am carrying him bourgeois replied with a sigh, that he was a sad case, and giving a By virtue of the right of association. Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of chord is the precise point where the final word of the battle was her." bridge of the King's Garden [du Jardin du Roi], a double enigma, which CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY