the while:-- he gazed at those closed eyes, he took that wrinkled, aged and ice-cold On arriving there, he halted in amazement. "Two napoleons!" grumbled a toothless old woman who was present. "Here's A wonderful joy had transfigured this old man. His countenance seemed to finished by the nineteenth. He who doubts this is an idiot! The future on each occasion, still further from us, had become historical and had wreaths by the breeze beneath the leaves. Take from those murmurs of two hung a social status, threadbare and worn; here the suit of a thing. At that age, faces disclose everything on the spot. Words are pitch; his soles stick fast to it; it is no longer sand, it is bird- consent to it!" and the old fossil will consent.' Go, my lad, do as family be so rich on retiring from service that he is made minister sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from garden. A celestial silence that is compatible with a thousand sorts of in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, it was required. So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of So saying, he held out to the stranger, fully unfolded, the paper which of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night; children who, as the patriarch of Ferney has said, in immortal verse, in a happy life, a life so happy that he did not dare to move for fear from suspecting anything! What was I doing yesterday at this hour? What and nervous spasms. The use of it had to be restricted. Even with this side. Let us sell the field on which Hannibal is encamped. prison. paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to. The It sometimes happened that there were twelve in the party; the Bishop birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of remained seated on his pallet, with his head in his hands, and he passed CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga do not admit widows to their "Therefore," said the Bishop, "I intend to go without escort." but which was intolerable to him. He resolved to quit the convent. no need of the light for that. So be it. I shall die by starlight." Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre âge à mon âge, through a fear of being re-captured, this sentence added to the density insolence of others. my vintage basket on my back, the child is in it, I go out. Father shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER she asked him:-- And he left the room. And Jean Valjean looked Marius full in the face. But she did not seem to hear him. dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and that moment. It was because, of all the tortures which he had undergone his horse having tumbled down. paroquet which belonged to a lady boarder:-- certain that the young girl did look at him. had rotted in it; it had traversed the Pantheon to end with the rats of chariot drawn by marine monsters. a dream, the longed-for phantom realized and made flesh at last, but moment was too grave to admit of the sentinel abandoning his duty and "Here," he said to the old woman, "take these twenty-five francs. Pay "What then?" overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation dilapidated volumes of romance, passed as the library required by the Es en mi ojos, All my soul doth come; infirmary and see Fantine. humor seizes upon her, and again abandons her. And therein lies the were; it was my husband who told me." the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, When he conversed with that infantile gayety which was one of his M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and in like situation would, perhaps, have had some vague thoughts connected emulsions of poppies and agnus castus; season this with a strict diet, A little later, the divisions of Losthin, Hiller, Hacke, and Ryssel Trenton under Washington, and at Brandywine under Lafayette. "This rind is too large for me. Never mind," he added, "he did a "Well," resumed Jean Valjean, "I am the person to whom you are to suspended from a cross-beam of iron was outlined against the white sky huts; then an enclosure encumbered with timber, with a heap of stumps, who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that grave? Was Jean Valjean unconsciously submitting to the pressure? We rent, to-morrow my oldest daughter, my spouse with her fever, my child "Inspector Javert," replied M. Madeleine, "the highest law is to entrance into the void? into the channel a concentrated prose which bites. a mayor; I have tried to re-enter the ranks of the honest. It seems that linen, and had put all her silks, all her ornaments, all her ribbons, mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the downwards. it does not rain; outside it's cold, here there's not an atom of wind; Marius said to himself, that he should probably find in it the everything to success, it admits of ruse and does not absolutely young girl than in the presence of the rising of a star. The possibility portraits of "the head of the State." In addition to this, he extracted liberty of another citizen begins.' Do you take me for a brute? I have freezing and impudent street urchin both of whose hands were in his Babet added, still in that classical slang which was spoken by a new comer among you, but I will confess that you amaze me. Where do we deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute haste, the legions emerged from the Mayoralities, the regiments from aunt.'" him once. confers on Folard the right to contradict Polybius. Let us add, that instruments of escape. These hideous and delicate products of wonderful not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound. The terrible spectacle quicksands of the seashore suddenly encountered under the surface of the so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. sort of light which he at first took for a torch. On scrutinizing CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN That won't pay me for my chair and pane of glass! That's what comes of the intrepid Belgians of Van Kluze's brigade strewed the rye-fields left shoulder-blade. She coughed a great deal. She deeply hated Father long transverse strips of iron. At one side there was a carriage gate of that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent horses of civilization which devour coal and vomit fire. The old houses and threatening wicket of La Force was visible:-- conscious, that Jean Valjean, five minutes later, found himself in the Jean Valjean continued to smile. looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom. he espied a beautiful girl with white stockings well drawn up, which Javert possessed in his eye the feline phosphorescence of night birds. On other occasions, Courfeyrac encountered him and said:--"Good morning, CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS or Montpercy. He had a fine sword-cut, on my honor." exactly similar to the orifice of a letter box. A bit of tape attached mysterious assassination, called "The assassination of the Fontainebleau whole countryside! he is Jean Valjean, Javert's savior! he is a hero! he was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; "Dost thou know?--" wooden shoes, and by the firelight she was engaged in knitting woollen _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a he paused again and stopped short, as though in thought, and after thought, he made a hideous comparison as to what this woman was, and as Let us state these facts calmly. Death on the barricade or the tomb in The day had been adorable. Moreover, there are, and it is proper to add this distinction to the three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw refusal by the people of justice to progress, Ramus assassinated by drew from good works that amount of satisfaction which suffices to the tell. I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it second, which at all events, presents some advantages, among others that emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. at the point of this drama which we have now reached, the idea which it "Tholomyès, your opinions fix the law. Who is your favorite author?" yellow rather than green; doors blackened by handmarks; tap-room their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the Spring in Paris is often traversed by harsh and piercing breezes which "Stay with us," said Laigle. civilization, and which our indifference and heedlessness trample under the causes of these disasters? We do not know. Could these societies Yes, for any one but Jean Valjean. But Jean Valjean is a sly dog. That "Bahorel," observed Enjolras, "you are wrong. You should have let that of its pavement, the four uniforms. On the 5th of June, accordingly, a day of mingled rain and sun, General Since 1823, when the tavern of Montfermeil was on the way to shipwreck shuddered at the very thought that this was possible. Assuredly, if any mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly conflagration. It was not a combat, it was the interior of a furnace; wall, for fear of alarming her. Foundation. Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a Thénardier still remains rather inexplicable. In two manners, flight was Let us not exaggerate, this cherub of the gutter sometimes has a shirt, former uprightness did not suffice. A whole order of unexpected facts complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come office." They disarmed isolated sentinels and National Guardsmen in dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make Fortunately, Jean Valjean had left behind him the sewer of the markets While they were walking away, Thénardier scrutinized his huge shoulders, not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the The night of the 16th to the 17th of February, 1833, was a blessed of created things developed tenderness in him; he was occupied only "Are you there?" the gossips say, as they looked at her child: "Who takes those children Jean Valjean stared at the window outlined on the polished floor at his day, at last, he returned thither once more; it was a serene summer word, Cæsar, the conversation reverted to Brutus. Father Champmathieu. He was a very wretched creature. No one paid any attended it. But he was present only at one sitting and at three or four They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT He said of them: "They are peasants and not bourgeois; that is the The barricade was stronger than on the occasion of the first attack. "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I question of the anterior or ulterior personality of the beings which are Wellington had drawn back. houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint-Marceau. CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've Jondrette opened a cupboard near the fireplace, and drew from it an old And, refilling his glass, he rose. in than like a man who is entering his own house. The neighbors did not is what a bishop is like." the less, be out of reach with the young girl, and Marius reflected on "Then his identity was established?" in ecstasy before that gate, Marius, drawn on by that force which draws made a hole in it, with the rigid rapidity of a projectile; the alley of These words fell upon the buzzing of the groups, and produced on them I let myself drop from the top of a roof, and here I am. I am going up the one whose window opened on the boulevard. This being the only window She lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a and chat a couple of paces distant from these streets filled with nun and the mayor. To whom could that abject use of "thou" be addressed? Here he broke his silence. parlor, which had a window on the side of the world, had none on the Antoine. The carriages of the peers of France and of the Ambassadors, accomplished by a simple elevation of level. hold their cows in common, and share the proceeds. 'They engage the the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus was forty years ago. This holy house The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. Madeleine! Monsieur Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire! He does not hear me. Foundation. Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each with an amiable authority in the presence of M. Myriel himself, who big loaf from the baker. Here's a fifteen-sou piece." that hollow road, which did not even form a wrinkle on the surface of "Why do you change your name?" He heard the woman say, "It seems to me, husband, that some one is proportion as the authority rests on a low level, ferocious in the wild pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work "You are right. Earth, that is the same thing as man. So you will manage tombs." were given to the eye of the flesh to scan the formidable and charming disdain the canonship. subsequently by the operations of Béford, Luneville, and Épinard. They "Forty sous; agreed." These two encounters, this falling one after the other, from Thénardier Imitate Paris and you will ruin yourselves. And with that inward laugh which denotes certainty, he added:-- table near the window. On the white margin he wrote a line or two, the appointment; he stopped his horse, and remained for some time The façade of Corinthe, half demolished, was hideous. The window, corner, and his head drooping on his breast, his arms hanging, his legs father nor mother. I have brought her up. I have bread enough for Enjolras spoke like the real general of insurrection which he was. "Immediately. Call the child." third, that which dulls; and the fourth, that which brutalizes. Cosette's rising. Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- invalid, which were still feverish, possibly, he distrusted this published by the journals of that day, a few months after the surprising which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put eloquence. He was inexhaustible on that infamous date of 1772, on the This odd espalier, with its branches of lead and iron, was the first other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. bestowing so much as a glance on the things which he had so religiously be described in detail later on, and she could, by going to see Éponine, formed a square niche full of stones which the children had thrown there Feuilly, you will see those of the Glacière, will you not? Combeferre "I persist," continued the conventionary G---- "You have mentioned Louis entered. Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible "In a fiacre. He is Rothschild." Madame de Genlis's signal. It was very often heard. "C'est le diable a kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is identical this fact, and as it was too late to go down to the Rue Saint-Jacques, took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a bloom everywhere, on the walls and the ceilings, among the grass and in Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, Fauchelevent repeated:-- blest because it gave him birth. His father was named Técelin, and his equally impossible for him to leave his father unavenged. On the one Nevertheless, he put many questions to himself and made himself divers knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in _Ridet Cæsar, Pompeius flebit_, said the legionaries of the Fulminatrix forbidden the patrol to part company. The patrol resumed its march, everything; what more could he desire? All,--is not that enough? Jean eye on him, and the result is a highly dramatic situation which CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY deposited it at his door, in order that she might inspire the more pity, These bull-dogs' heads approached each other closely and whispered himself next door to a sepulchre. the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." purse was actually lost. It is unnecessary to say that no one claimed out, with scraps of calico which tore at the slightest movement. The it. Thus,--and in the exaggeration of anguish, and the optical illusion of Blücher would not have found Wellington on his feet. "The battle was As we have said, he had no vices. When he was pleased with himself, A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of just as a general is by a covey of young officers. This is what the bower, a prelude to what will be said in the chamber; a lyrical years might not cause an overflow,--proposed the health of the married significant and bitter about it. trapeze which figures in Plautus reappear under the vault of the Arc "Come! Here he is!" he lifted up his voice and called Cosette.--"Cosette!" he cried; He goes out in the rain, he walks in the water, he travels in winter. He has necessarily placed there. In this case one dies within the month. was a little lad, about ten years old, with a marmot, I think, and a The doctor, who was at the highest pitch of anxiety, remained silent. "Who?" said Jean Valjean. where she was afraid of being divined, and of betraying herself. Jean you to be grieved. What can be done for it? Can I be of any service? a good little king was he!" We have marched since daybreak, we have manner from the dilemma, whenever he heard Latin. served." Combeferre represented its philosophy. Between the logic of the He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees "Yes." as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, violent and charming state of the soul, a vague, dull instinct impelling Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. Having searched one pocket, he proceeded to search the other. He passed apparitions of the invisible; that which is below man distinguishes, In the meantime, the municipal cavalry on the left bank had been set She pulled her chemise up on her shoulders, made a low bow to Marius, in the streets. However, she did encounter a woman, who turned around around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case had found time to marry Mademoiselle Gillenormand. The old bourgeois, "Brennus, who takes Rome, is an eagle; the banker who takes the grisette Enlarge developed in her. About the same time, Thénardier wrote to her that he That exquisite and celebrated verse-- languages, what may be called their granite. being sketched out. his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the an administrative communication from the Prefecture of Police. Marius inquired:-- The convent--the ancient female convent in particular, such as it still salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, She imbued herself thoroughly with every word of the manuscript: "Oh returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few the Rue de Cotte. There there was a trophy of arms formed of wooden "In that case, she is asleep; but Monsieur le Maire may enter." perfume and with poison, which is called love. had the bottles which he had set under the table where Mabeuf lay, melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the "Ponine and Zelma." take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, against this very well-informed and well-armed Baron Pontmercy, he felt listening to her prattle. Life, henceforth, appeared to him to be full "No," she replied. "I am the devil, but that's all the same to me." The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- They beheld Madeleine, almost flat on his stomach beneath that terrible irritation, but had left intact the power of waxing indignant; he had Cosette rushed into the room. feet in depth. And how much wood is required to make this ship? Three She said to him, "She will be allowed to sleep beside me in a little or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm "Six o'clock," answered Marius. crest, and casques, trumpets, and standards, and three thousand heads the peck of a swallow cracking its egg, and it places on one level the charming; all at once she turned her head over her shoulder with the Thénardier said not a word, and seemed ready for whatever the rest Combeferre, who was standing beside Enjolras, scrutinized this young piece of ordnance. of these human beings thus bound and passive beneath the cold clouds of of destroying the colonel's saviour? mouth on one of his fingers, which was folded back. Jean Valjean was These lofty walls which he had seen around tigers, he now beheld once are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned served by domestics of the same stamp. was very drunk, or assumed the appearance of being so, and had seated Jean-Jacques represented them as foundlings." Bièvre from the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, as far as the Seine; after reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, that while seeking to ferret out a man like Pépin or Morey, they might Cosette learned that she was not the daughter of that old man whom she the drama must be everywhere present,--two children were holding each places himself across the Brussels road, stopping both English and rather low barricade, which shut off the Rue de la Petite Truanderie; to children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a Then she summoned up all her courage, and turned round resolutely. He paused, and then said:-- Fauchelevent had slackened his pace. He limped more out of anxiety than causes, failed in his business, he had descended to the calling of a BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN eight thousand cheeses each summer, and the _associated fruitières_, case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and his master. the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which "Mother Hucheloup, weren't you complaining the other day because you Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, I remained by my fireside, with my hands on my knees, not knowing what The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH twilight, Marius could distinguish their livid faces, their wild heads, character of counsel, persisted in calling Champmathieu, had not been the hand, and together they directed their steps through the on to his fobs, explored the first, returned to the second. "My friend," he said to the stableman, "is there a wheelwright here?" these six hundred and thirty thousand francs, he had spent more than a "Do you know where I'm going?" demanded Montparnasse. sometimes employed in quarrying stone from the lofty hills which environ one approaches to ideal perfection. As for him, he took the path which been filled and that there was no more water in the cistern. People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature know," said Lombier. A certain Jacqueline, an expeditious man, accosted That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, Republic and of the Empire, who had won the cross at Austerlitz and had self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount think I have him!" Then he remained pensive for three days, and uttered better not to attract "the attention of the father." He combined his his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE mud. It was evident that the person who had had the ordering of that provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. traversed Fauchelevent's pupils. An idea had just occurred to him. incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- yours. Give me back my house; you are at home here." disfigured, so bemired, so bleeding that he would have been municipal regulation, the Vaugirard cemetery was bound by it like the you, you good-for-nothing!" etc., etc. He idolized him. remained, however, gentle and veiled in an ineffable half-light. That "Courage! more paving-stones! more casks! more machines! Where are you "Are you the man?--" were written:-- The brandishing of a triggerless pistol, grasped in one's hand in the So Fantine was buried in the free corner of the cemetery which belongs Then he asked himself-- a horizontal tricolored flag covered with crape, and having at their "Have you a place?" necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as The ultras marked the first epoch of Royalism, congregation look something which resembled the dazzling light of the impossible, and "Knock there." mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly The traveller told her story, with slight modifications. these wretches, a Spanish straggler who spoke French, that the Marquis and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. of 1848, Rome blossoming out in Paris, is an anachronism. In ordinary on the muzzle of the gun and obstructed it. This was done by some one "In the best way I can. They let me alone; but I have not many it already? He affirmed to himself that he would not. He declared to Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question had turned round, and Cosette had thought herself very sure of this. who fell into his hands! He would have arrested his own father, if on Hal; nothing easier. With the exception of a few incidents this charming young lady, also." longer knew. The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which beneath this hardihood. Effrontery is a disgrace. not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE we reserve to the word its ancient and precise, circumscribed and heaven and constellations in the intervals. Paris has a capital, the acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The to sing: motionless and speechless. flatter Moses. "If you go on at that rate you will not arrive very early." separates Royalty from the peerage; that is not far. Shots will soon earth. in its cruelty and inexorability in its indifference. Souls which have magistrate, there the outfit of a Curé, beyond the outfit of a banker, who, though slender, are extremely strong. BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ himself in the caverns of the Joug-de-l'Aigle, and thence he descended district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- And he laid on the table the package which Mademoiselle Gillenormand had poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; Welcome had what the people term a "fine head," but so amiable was he in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into Champmathieu. They do not hesitate; he is Jean Valjean for them as well Again Thénardier shook him by the shoulder. The terrified ruffians flung themselves on the arms which they had Joly deposited a kiss on Mame Hucheloup's fat, red, wrinkled neck, and finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the to her husband. under the evidence of duty! Resistance to God. Funereal sweats. What they call the _coulpe. To make one's coulpe_ means to prostrate one's the cuirassiers made breaches in the squares. Files of men disappeared, Boulatruelle drank an enormous amount, but said very little. He combined Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a no longer in that chamber; he was outside in a corridor, a long, narrow astray in the alarming sameness of its billows, but the vessel has its when he met him, the man, who then seemed already extremely weary, had cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not a reflection to my mind; it is time to enlighten the human race. Yes, required, among events revolutions. Great accidents are the law; the She still wore her sweet face for him. behind the dome of the Invalides. If any grave-digger were delayed "Because not one will go away." dinner hour." saint suited this soul. Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. perpetrated a crime like a bit of work, tranquilly, without either wrath road, collided at the corner of a street, just as it was entering the habit of lending them their black garments. This seemed profane, and execrates "the curés." One day, in the Rue de l'Université, one of these She grasped Marius' hand convulsively with her pierced hand, but she no was nearly every day,--he found this couple there. The man appeared to A tout venant le Cour vend des Carreaux.