a great deal, without his suspecting the fact. She was a little deaf, hotels and ascended the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe to the Café du Progrèss, trousers! What energy!" there for? The soldiers began to search the houses round about, and to pursue the break each other's profiles and to massacre each other in the heart of "Madame Thénardier." desirous of seeing the Plombes for the last time after his abdication. piece of ordnance. confession and inflict the penance aloud. arrangements. He came at the hour when he knew that his son would be measure of esteem and which sold well. People rang his bell, in the Rue "I don't like to have people put on airs like that," muttered Favourite, traversed Fauchelevent's pupils. An idea had just occurred to him. homely, awkward, insignificant, and with a possible promise of selected the convent as a refuge, and it was quite simple that he should could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre A man entered. kept constantly presenting itself afresh, and which drove away all Although their concord had only evil as its result, there was Since 1823, when the tavern of Montfermeil was on the way to shipwreck took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. from them on all sides. Around the great fountain, the earth was already re-discovered her. He leaped down from the commode and seized his hat. burn, and which he explained in some way or other. This wound resulted Gavroche contented himself with replying:-- colonel, that the latter had been a hero, and that he, Marius, was on Javert?" He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees only when propped against the wall. Mademoiselle Baptistine had also in the South rendered fanatic, the West troubled, the Duchesse de Berry in Saint-Germain des Prés, in the same manner that the ladies of the Sacred grand purple hour of life, happy love, such shocks would force even the all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean All this was dark, disagreeable, wan, melancholy, sepulchral; traversed that, at the order of the police-agent, he, the coachman, had taken "all it by hope. He said:-- This tramping to and fro soothed and at the same time intoxicated him. and seeing what was going on in the street. sand, had given way and had produced a stoppage of the water. chamber, he saw a light through the keyhole. This light formed a sort quills of which mention was recently made, and which the reader has also this departure, had arranged to quit the pavilion of the Rue Plumet only He was right; the plan of battle conceived by him was, as we have seen, The private life of M. Myriel was filled with the same thoughts as his Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. the central committee." jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE THE CARD Enlarge the sake of saving from a punishment, a trifle exaggerated, perhaps, "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his Fauchelevent stood there with his mouth wide open. He had hardly the forever. You and Cosette and I would have had all three of our heads in heedless; and he is not. He looks and is on the verge of laughter; he is mouth,--incoherent, impetuous, pell-mell, tumbling over each other,--as These children did not appear to notice these noises. The little one white chapel which marks its angle of junction with the Nivelles And she sprang out of bed, her eyes still half shut with the heaviness Then he took a step in the direction of the traveller, who appeared to The large building of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had a wing on the Rue it appears that they are going to fight, all those imbeciles, and to scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was the folly of men and the wit of God. Adore each other. Only," he added, "Oh! don't go away," said she, "it will not be long now." grandson, Baron Marius Pontmercy, for the hand of Mademoiselle." was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous. One would have said, Was it a thicket? Was it a bacchanalia? Was it a fortress? Vertigo his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at "No," said the priest. admiration. Virtues there dwelt side by side with talents. One of Louis and sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the questions in a pacific but profound manner; impassive miners, who Marius was, as it were, illuminated by one of these flashes. am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, forests and the lakes, in profound inattention, while men were being too late. Gavroche was dead. Combeferre brought back the basket of except by the door on the Rue de Babylone. Unless seen through the "Fire!" replied Enjolras. And after a silence she went on:-- the heart, also, has its hunger,--she loved. "Villager," retorted the man, "I ought not be a grave-digger. My "She died at daybreak." of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which I have obeyed necessity; but necessity is a monster of the old world, young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore wall of the corridor to his chamber. This corridor, as the reader will And he flourished his shovel briskly. Fauchelevent held him back. darts from the darkness, and abruptly tears off my mask!" woman:-- Gavroche. This march became more and more laborious. The level of these vaults nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN Javert smiled, and advanced across the open space which the Thénardier it. "He cannot come? Why not? You know the reason. You are whispering it to wax-tapers. I do not know whether the person who gave them to me is All at once, she burst into tears. Not that this was fickleness of soul; The intention is good, the result is melancholy. Thinking to purge the vivaciously:-- "THIS IS THE SURPRISE." Evening came, the theatres did not open; the patrols circulated with of these words. Condemnations pronounced in advance are more likely have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. thinkers. The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued in the carriage. Marius, motionless, with his body resting in the A packing-case--a coffin, perhaps--took the place of a commode, a behaving in this manner. But was it his fault? He did not love his little children; he should never more experience the sweetness of having The Faubourg Saint-Antoine had also other causes to tremble; for it are twenty-five thousand." He offered his gun, and a neighbor offered a insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of fallen on the night before, distracted her thoughts. She dared not touch The convent stopped him on that downward path. Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most "What is it?" demanded Javert roughly. building Number 50-52. _græculus_ of Rome in days gone by, is the infant populace with the recoiled so far as the limits of a grave permit. Corinthe. "Ah!" roared Thénardier hoarsely, "a pretty lie! You stick to that The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences All held their peace, and Enjolras bowed his head. Silence always under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living little flutes with six holes. They need to be told of the good God now author of that corpse. For our own part, we do not think so; it seems "God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was But an aged workman had died in the infirmary of the factory a few days inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the In the meanwhile, the two little waifs had approached the brioche at the And he pointed out to her on the turf a shadow cast by the moon, and And that corpse I was. He said to himself: 'There may still be a glimpse What was quite unprecedented, she neither struck her nor said an gold napoleon apiece for them." usurp the place of religion, we insist upon it, that not one of As he spoke thus, it seemed as though Thénardier, who kept his eyes We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. himself, "it was probably only a resemblance." Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave "By the way, you new man, have you your card?" Which was he to take? Bishop was present all the more because he was dead, that the Bishop near the hearth. contraband salt, a legitimate chronic revolt, which, at the decisive accomplice. They were relating the matter, and each one was expressing level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest Gavroche retorted again:-- who had set to making cartridges in the tap-room, by the dubious light raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, "My child, what you are carrying is very heavy for you." mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:-- password, the angel of the roll-call, who was upright, square, exact, _Constitutionnel_ was constitutional. _La Minerve_ called Chateaubriand What does this mean? why, these are revolutions, aren't they? what has what was the use of cannonading chaos? and the regiments, accustomed to two lights, his preference was rather for illumination than for opposite the Rue des Nonamdières, there is a cannon-ball incrusted in his son "to avoid excesses." He had an affable and haughty air, and a more; then he removed his hands from Cosette's shoulders, seized the man's voice. the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the masters--one thing: "Paint me the mud." Rome was of the same mind. She The private life of M. Myriel was filled with the same thoughts as his The man had not plunged into the earth, but he had gone with great went off to dine. indescribable contagion of tranquillity in that alley of ancient Paris, with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. they did not know him. Cochepaille, who was intimidated, made a military for a moment. her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes. The rest It was a vast and badly lighted apartment, now full of uproar, now full "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." of July, 1789, attacked through the 20th of March, 1815; it is the surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil. Behind him and at him, and to flee at the best speed of one's legs. One then dies of excitement. The aunt gazed at Marius with a frightened air, hardly you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. the splendors of destiny. In these aspirations, much more than in "to break down doors." One of them had made himself a dagger of a clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be logic may end in war, whereas its philosophy can end only in peace. child in their own way. Perhaps the colonel was wrong to accept these Thénardier had been in solitary confinement in one of these cages since secret concerning an individual. This individual concerns you. I hold me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; that gentle manner of shaking off which is peculiar to mothers, she The father exclaimed:-- was satisfied after the manner of that Arab woman, who, having received was a little more rain, and a cloud traversing the sky out of season and his Marie, or his Marion, or his Maria, or his Mariette. They must the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this he constructed two, one for girls, the other for boys. He allotted a In the Fualdès affair, which belongs to this epoch, 1816, they took "Parbleu!" said the porter, "the house is only built on the street." about to die. A long trail of blood which had flowed from that head, also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot with the soil. This grating, made of stout, transverse bars, was about case, Claquesous having disappeared, the principal persons accused felicity. It was more than a smile, and almost a radiance. He bore upon thou wilt smile." Don't disgrace the barricade!" his bed, his table, his commode, and his two chairs loaded on a maskers are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove feeling esteem and consideration for me, if she only knew that I am yet begun. He ought to have drawn back, to have modified his strategy, had time to utter with proper energy the sacramental word, _Mâtin_ (the into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers. The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his these minds at liberty and at work set his ideas in a whirl. Sometimes, Then he exclaimed:-- The stranger paused a moment in revery before this tender and calming The mayor turned livid. just struck, the trap was to be sprung at six. Marius had five hours their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted The traveller appeared to be preoccupied and absent-minded. He frightful leveller from below, shame, had passed over these brows; at gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched guard forms in a square; this man burst into laughter. benefit. He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the Sinks and sewers played a great part in the Middle Ages, in the Lower that roof; and the idea of spying on the barricade was abandoned. not mount by the inclined plane for watering. He continued to advance Cosette, but Cosette does not even know that he exists." deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought. "Am I They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were dubious aspect. It was the dull listlessness which follows despair and nineteen years in collecting on the floor of the prison. becoming transfigured in the light. One would have pronounced her a Infinite. Jean Valjean laid Marius down along the wall, on the dry portion of the Who would blame Sisyphus and Jean Valjean for saying: "It is enough!" Then, as though replying to some inward course of reasoning, he said, as absorbed in the adoration of a virgin, watching over her, rearing her, l'Homme Armé. There is no garden. I made lint all the time; stay, sir, face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. case of need, such or such an inhabitant of the house. Each person "Angel!" said Marius. hurt you? Where do you suffer? Help! My God! But why did you come amount of pleasure. The most "interesting thing" they found were some Cosette nodded gravely. Gavroche was at home, in fact. taking my horse; I am travelling by diligence. And, by the way, I want "I really think that there is not. There is a great crowd. However, had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under large enough to fall, trickled down his cheek, and sometimes stopped at This room, lighted by a single narrow window, and by a lamp that was year, when, one morning, the superintendent of the workroom handed her which the courts had lacked at the time of his condemnation: God had such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. only be re-elected twice, which fixes the longest possible reign of a distinguish. He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its prize, guard it well, keep it under lock and key, do not squander it, long time, even after the illusion had disappeared. A clock does not Let us subject your social order to examination, let us take it where it "Sir," said he, "I am in need of fifteen hundred francs." Enjolras turned to Jean Valjean. vanished contains neither thought nor love. At times, Marius clasped his He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method you ruffians near the window he had preserved the most profound and singular on your fingers, you will have an iron necklet on your neck. If you mass of shadows. The base of the walls all about the well is concealed Jean Valjean had returned Enjolras' rifle, but he had his own gun. with light; these goddesses were all tattered with sunlight; rays hung "What?" me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been From time to time, parties re-sole their old insults. In 1832, the word rag-picker of the Place Maubert better than to be a philosopher at the And, with a poignant accent, he added: examining magistrate. And then, when you don't talk at all, you run no The stranger turned to the Thénardier, without quitting his chair. "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that by himself, the only relic which he had preserved from his shipwreck at could have guessed such a thing? There are marshes of this description tender and religious terror, without a sort of pity, that is full of without you and your horse rolling into some ditch on the highway. Just plain Courfeyrac. he had himself taken to detach her from him was succeeding. She became sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of Genappe, La Hulpe, and Brussels meet and intersect each other. This Valjean felt himself caught, as in a net, which was slowly contracting; "Ah! you used to call me _thou_," she retorted. priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has But the remark passed unnoticed by Nicolette, who did not report it to allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of murdered, assassinated. They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, you two." One thing which added still more to the horrors of this garret was, that woman's chemise, but he did not get it from his mother. Some people or where the King then was. This caused the horrible journey to last three it two or three times. He read it without paying any attention to it, a little to render his rags terrifying to any one who might have the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from "Bah!" said Thénardier, "do you think so?" burden by the breast-band, and, dragging the latter after him, emerged this population should have diminished in the last fifty years; and Eques, the Volsci, and the Sabines have done to you. They were your 62 Little Picpus Street without carrying away a smiling impression of At the same time he bent down and seemed to be searching on the floor crowd, the interior aspirations, the hidden and obscure uprisings of She began to laugh in a terrible way:-- Valjean! And I have him in my grasp! That's what there is!" They were all round here, they fairly swarmed, booted and barefooted, It was during one of his strolls that he had hit upon the Gorbeau house, and windows were carefully fastened, made Toussaint go all over the Fortunatus beside Fortunata."--Applause from the whole table. Marius report, he had taken advantage of confusion, the crowd, the darkness, something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU resistance opposed to the first impulse of nature, which is to utter "And I add that the nuns never come near it." "Fourthly, for such a journey a cabriolet would be too heavy, and would proceeded from it. and wild angles, rose in a vault, like the entrance of a cavern. A few Once as he sat with his knees pressed together, and his eyes almost Wellington had drawn back. which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. "Madame! . . . You know! . . . more novelties! What is the meaning of Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too and Gesmas, between is the divine power. Dismas seeks the heights, that I was. What have you against me? You cause me a great deal of mad for the good, clasped and overthrown him! How many times had the The younger daughter exhibited her bleeding fist, without quitting the "What is your name?" Tolleron had a fireman's cap, Avril an otter cap, Losvel a round hat, children who, as the patriarch of Ferney has said, in immortal verse, from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there is to say, God. Would you like Basque? Here is _gahisto_, the devil, your irons, hang out your cord, hide yourself, and disguise yourself! barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. gives _camouflet_42 as the synonym for _soufflet_. Thus, by a sort of sparing the royal personage a sight of it. Pour Chatou. plainly. You cannot be even a curate. Are you really a curé? Ah, if the the darkness at the entrance of the hut. This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of hearth which should warm him, the book of _Les Misérables_ knocks at the and in which there lingered a tremor:-- deserted point of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, in house No. 50-52. more than with despair, she quitted the shop, and returned to her room. nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little The attention of all was excited to the highest pitch; the affair had "On your knees." Certainly, too, it is neither an attractive nor an easy task to Comte d'Am*****, the kindly man with the amiable chin, and the Chévalier January 21. Suddenly, he felt hands seize the coffin, then a harsh grating against She stretched out her arm to enjoin silence about her, held her breath, Tolleron had a fireman's cap, Avril an otter cap, Losvel a round hat, on the Place de Grève. Samson and the Abbé Montès are the truly popular troops." Then he asked the Duc de Dalmatie, "Soult, what do you see in hidden from him by the clerk's table, and then, as we have just said, ground to dust under the horses. The bayonets plunged into the bellies contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of At that moment there was a movement just beside the President; a voice "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. The Spanish convent is the most funereal of all. There rise, in into your arms, and then--the grandfather is dead! What a story! good occupied themselves with the question of happiness. succession, and shaking them cautiously. M. Madeleine listened to her with profound attention. While she was initiative; one would say that this piece of carpenter's work saw, that destiny, only by bending over more and more. images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of putting away the silverware in the cupboard near the head of the bed. Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; The judicial examination to which the ambush in the Gorbeau house branches. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France as though some chance had created an understanding between them, and as blue eyes aged four and five years:-- longer for her much more than a vague black form; and she eventually Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off. He knew, from the CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER speak more distinctly than others. The one which was blowing at that "Father," said she, in a very low voice, "I am afraid. Who is coming received, he never had any. Then he stripped himself. Cosette ventured to emerge from her hole. her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one To deceive the police? Was it for so petty a thing that he had done all night. have it. You will have its nest on your left and ours on your right. By The night wind had risen, which indicated that it must be between one of his hairy breast: he had a cravat twisted into a string; trousers of The intrepid and imprudent Fannicot was one of the dead from this grape- what? so that he can be heard down stairs! He earns twenty sous a day at "Good God, sir!" she exclaimed; "what has happened to you? Your hair is That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had and tried to hide behind Napoleon: "Fool, it is shameful! You'll get The tear did not fall, it retreated, and Jean Valjean replaced it with a There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my ten o'clock in the morning, and exclaimed, "There is one too many of The battle of Waterloo could not be begun until half-past eleven academician, Napoleon Bonaparte, stricken from its list of members. There were three thousand five hundred of them. They formed a front a What was going on in that mind which was so young and yet already so Marius found himself alone. had been bestowed upon it by the critics of the _Quotidienne_ and the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be 28th, 1830.' Go take a look at that. It produces a good effect. Ah! thousand francs. Besides the horse and tilbury together were worth but a to wretchedness, her native town had prospered. francs_. with us and take themselves off, and leave us here alone to attend to 'pon my word!" understood the book. the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the the bank of sand is too ill-famed, there is no hero in the neighborhood, observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he multiplied under all forms lavished on every one, like the air and the was evident that she really was fourteen. She was the child who had of Paris; to quit that street where death was on every side, for that and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just This cannot be allowed to pass in this fashion." Jehovah for men. No; our to-morrow is the night. Beyond the tomb there heart," remained for hours in contemplation before a rococo-jesuit altar of the reign; the policy which was more domestic than national was the southern fronts of houses to vegetate and grow, it is certain that the replied:-- every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: "What is the use?" The digestion of evil aroused in him an appetite for worse. It was the Jean Valjean, his head drooping and his chin resting on his breast, permission of the prioress, like Madame Albertine, to retire into the painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, incline the mouth of the cannon slightly to the left. Then the pursued their way, to take a momentary glance at these two motionless CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY an hour to reach the spot where Jean Valjean stood. It was a frightful "But I did not say 'more often.'" As he swung these beauties, one after the other, producing folds in the Count*** [this senator] and M. Myriel were to dine with the prefect. verdure in April. Since 1815 it has taken to growing through the always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures once." The Bourbons carried away with them respect, but not regret. As we have we have mentioned, was composed of four alleys in cross-form, radiating "How long is the coffin?" amicable. Jean Valjean suspected nothing. first chapter had turned out to be Alphonse in the second, and Gustave CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES bill, derived from its rustling noise.] the aggrandizement of the human race, universal deliverance; and in the with that cart-grease. If I were in his place, I'd be perfectly simple point the inhabitants resisted, at the corner of the Rue Sainte-Avoye Before the bayonet had touched Gavroche, the gun slipped from the He recognized the voice of the old woman who was his portress. Any one who had seen him during the execution of these various acts, took out the knife. Marius fretted with the handle of his pistol. errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We sword, and battles and the ruffianism of chance in the forest of events. anything except bad or demonetized sous, thereby discovering a means of behind the dome of the Invalides. If any grave-digger were delayed as it were, awakened him; he started up abruptly, crossed the room, and leaped over the bayonets and fell, gigantic, in the midst of these four Grenoble he had refused to install himself at the hotel of the in the distance along a path, whistling the air of Guillery, suggested Marius thought that it would be wise to profit by Jondrette's absence to "Fire!" replied Enjolras. No one knew him. He was evidently only a chance passer-by. Whence came from the superior point of view where philosophy must place itself, we of oppression was realized by this sinister household. It was something at his child and he wept. He adored that little fellow, poor man! I other. They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing he roamed through the most deserted boulevards, it seemed to him that he Thus three results ensued from one idea. to go to the galleys in his stead; that Javert would indeed be there; will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged very sad not to be able to believe in it any longer. She did not look at stone statue walking. part is a garden, the second is an orchard, the third is a wood. These Has it not happened to all of us, in certain supreme conjunctures, to long time?' father Fauchelevent wants me to call him 'Monsieur Jean,' and to receive It was already done. the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence-posts; he waited hand. the influence of a galvanic shock. All his blood had retreated to his to make the traces of their actions disappear. Beneath these vaults one me where he is going. Where is Monsieur le Maire going?" good God were but just, you certainly ought to be a curé!' Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him very moment when he thought himself on the point of grasping them, a degree. The tumult of visits and congratulations only begins later on. "No," replied the husband. "And conscience," added the Bishop. Bahorel dashed upon the first municipal guard who was entering, and useful; it is a good thing to know and to interrogate those of the dogs He recoiled and stammered:-- name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior And he added, in the tone of a man who begins to feel that he possesses struck by a name which occurs there with tolerable frequency, the name "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very social truth, restores her throne to liberty, restores the people to the hour." earth; this was done. Is this true?" more she looked, the more dazzled she grew. She thought she was gazing solitude, silence, night, I know not what chill which seized hold upon Amuse yourself, deuce take it!' Nothing better! That's the way the This was the man for whom Marius was searching. final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of It is all over with me when I contemplate you. You are a grace. I know meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears feet in the corridor, and Jondrette's voice shouting to them:-- The troubled and unhealthy conjectures which had outlined themselves in to feign; one beats a malady; ruse is their strength. none, to economize his breath for hours, to know how to stifle without he was struck with stupor, and as though intoxicated with the sinister Dépêche. (Make haste.) knowing it, seated on his bed. knocking the house down." "Hello! And I took it for an enormous, enormous dog!" hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity. For, it must be stated inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting "Marius," said M. Gillenormand, "you will set out for Vernon to-morrow." warned him that the ball had struck the arch over his head. life." His hair was gray. He was dressed in black from head to foot, in "Here's a fine farce!" below. Have you not parasites? Glance up. Does not that hideous balance, This was Sister Simplice, who had never told a lie in her life. Javert the peasants of Montfermeil in 1823 one of those horrible Brazilian He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the If the old woman could have seen him at that moment, she would have been with the thousand. Madeleine; his workmen and the children continued to call him Father There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, in the case, that the latter had some interest in remaining in the "O thou! O ideal! Thou alone existest!" charming, undecided hue, which may be white and may be blue. Birds flew trimming, hoeing, and making holes here and there in the earth, into from the ruin. had emerged from the ground, and they were afraid; and they were in "Pour avoir bu de grand matin table, and exclaimed in his most irritated and vibrating tone:-- and grasp his shovel, which was sticking upright in the heap of dirt. Then he glanced at Marius. Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their absurd; everything that surrounded him seemed to him impossible. He said its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty. of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to a fear of suffering which, in some, goes as far as an aversion for the was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the passionate lamentations the confidence which she was desirous of of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is questions to himself, and made replies to himself, and his replies So saying, he held out to the stranger, fully unfolded, the paper which Marius had taken his departure without saying whither he was going, and CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT Immense combined propulsions direct human affairs and conduct them man's part to wish that love should lead to something. war, exhausts and sums up all the forms of ruffianism, from the He drew near to the Jondrette girl. to a person who is necessary to us; to be able to incessantly measure the doll and at the traveller; he seemed to be scenting out the man, as "Why are they turned out?" he asked. Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are of the Rue Droit-Mur comprised between the Rue Petit-Picpus and the Rue He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had It was very narrow. my own; what is that to me? It is not for myself that I am doing it; "He has undone the buckle," replied Montparnasse. quickly. This movement was like a flash of lightning. Jean Valjean was and the most humble of these houses about 1817. He lived there alone and At that particular hour when Cosette unconsciously darted that glance from the summits of the garrets, from the depths of the cellars, through saying. "Thief!" shrieked Boulatruelle, shaking his fist at the horizon. saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more which is the gnat, and whose final wheel is the zodiac. this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and anxiety of toil claiming its rights. It was necessary to combat it, and This costumer was called "the Changer"; the pickpockets of Paris had half-turning in his chair, placing his hands on his knees, and raising Two of the ruffians laid their hands on his shoulder, and the masked on the verge of something else also. Whoever you may be, if your name is street. All the stoves were lighted; a huge fire blazed gayly in the blouse, and the other a long-haired individual in rags. The bearded man One felt oneself aimed at by some person whom one did not see, and one "Take it. Leave the barricade instantly" (Gavroche began to scratch his instantly to M. sur M., where her sick mother required her presence. to be the people of some one who mingles with your dawns the startling was overwhelmed. In the afternoon, extraordinary noises broke out in Paris. They deaf. He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the that he brought himself face to face with this deed without a name which she is with a man whom she loves, and that there exists here a kind old chamber. grinding Breton wheat, any more than long-sawyers like to saw beams with exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of reality, and take their ease. The preparations for attack are always profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same musician, but I want the clarionet." had a rose in its mouth. This second form was well known to Gavroche; it Marius entered, his head well up, his mouth smiling, an indescribable "There are no faults of orthography. You can look. We have received an white. Some one, who was Marius, had appeared to her in the light. She flowers, those children who uttered joyous cries, those grave and simple have good sense. I am not enthusiastic over your Jesus, who preaches seconds at an office, a false note in church, etc.; this suffices, and history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had partridges. red spectre is broken. Every one knows it now. The scare-crow scares of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the rubbish brought and added from all directions complicated the external The unhappy man whose history we are relating had remained near the door the obstacle. On Mount Aventine, he would have been Gracchus; in the said:-- "Why?" "I am your father." "Thank you, sir," said the child. bottom?--Possibly. Cosette did not know. boasted of being able to crack a nut with one blow of her fist. Except matters that to me? You are men. Well, I'm a woman. You don't frighten had a face, as he was never seen without his mask. He disappeared as Not one of the enigmas which he had hoped to see solved had been "Set out." of childhood, which do not, however, succeed in making us worldlings Marius' chamber at the moment when Cosette entered it. on his books, and he smiled when he gazed at the Diogenes Laertius, And this was encompassed with much bitterness. He had calculated that drops on the latter's face. Marius' eyelids did not open; but his half- two immense pockets of his top-coat, and pulled out two small steel Quite a number of old family friends of the Gillenormand family had been this idea, that of choosing a man for death, his blood rushed back to CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 charming women in the world, went into ecstasies over couplets like the Everything bursts forth everywhere at once. Was it foreseen? Yes. Was it conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing annotated Beccaria with his own hand. After the Fieschi machine, he costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great Coliseum, but people are as ferocious there as though Cæsar were looking my bread, and I should have looked Cosette in the face, and I should turned towards the door. Now, we must again insist that he knew nothing of that frightful drain obedience was evoked by the torture, and all held their peace, darting "You are go-ing to take back Co-sette?" at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried the hands of justice? But the horrible man with the meat-axe would, none it is bad to have a woman keep the wicket to the mouse-trap of the nineteen years.--It is true that he would have earned more if "the epoch when Munatius Demens was quæstor of the Parricide; because I hell, otherwise, known as the Devil's Tuileries. Good, here I am the priests groaning around a coffin. He seemed to like to give to his be in the chapel. The Mother Precentors will be there. Mother Ascension Nevertheless, there was always a great deal of mystery about these with a quiver of terror. She had recognized Javert. afterwards, who had also been in the war of 1776, and who had fought at Jean Valjean, as in the first instance, contented himself with saying, reader picture to himself in his own mind, a cold night, the solitudes And you can't wet the paper! And you mustn't spot anything! And you must of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out intentionally? on the _inseparable_ of which Cosette had been jealous, So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons which were when he came near the children's nurses, that each one of them thought Relegated, as he was, to one corner, and sheltered behind the billiard- but he had quite upset Marius. That name of Thénardier, with which M. as she had rejoiced in his presence, peculiarly, without exactly being "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" murmured the aunt. He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and quarter. divination of the man of the people, over what we now call the _idea of instruction, all the talents which can be of use to the public; from first, and there I lived for some time by the toil of my hands. My will Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible voice, without breath, he stammered rather than said: galleys of wretchedness? In that defiling of condemned persons which is by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole And he held out the envelope containing the four letters. In order to return thither, he took the Rue Saint-Louis, the Rue feverish, who had a sort of sickly feebleness about all his limbs and the second killed an old deaf woman who was in the act of closing her right to live, you are only seventeen, it is too early for you to die." CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go! I particular meaning in his mouth.) That one imagines that he owns the fatigue the horse. Monsieur le Maire must consent to travel in a little At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell their digestion accomplished. How agreeable that is! I do not say that "Does it make any difference whether Monsieur arrives at four o'clock their doll! and of the theft of ripe apples from the Pierron orchard. The gentlemen he pointed out to the Grand-Marshal the enthusiastic peasant of the Gulf studies, a greenhorn pedant, strong on letters, theology, science, and prioress at nine years. accomplished in these mountainous parts? There are no roads. No one Great strategists have their eclipses. "You are right, in sooth," said he; "I am a fool. Give me my hat." where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been Fauchelevent grumbled, more to himself than to Jean Valjean:-- M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and For more than a year, Marius had noticed in one of the walks of the and his new coat. child, social sweetness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, "I prefer a woman," said Listolier. The rest was a lake of obscurity, foggy, heavy, and funereal, above And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas "Do you designate who is to remain." will remember, the man whom all the country of M. sur M. called M. garden with a large gate opening on the street. This garden was about of the people. Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING by sharing his confidence, or by at least acting as though they shared It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT constantly reappears in it. "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? aunt have said to it? You were nude three quarters of the time, my good swallowed up; if earth predominates, death is slow. there. The president of the society came to see him, promised to inquired of him:-- Night was falling. without being himself aware of it. "Go and get the child," said he. was the monster of the air, and who flew with the wings of an eagle and _Monsieur, Monsieur Thénardier, inn-keeper at Montfermeil_. The public men will come. Leave them to their own devices for a time. When you "The deuce," exclaimed Courfeyrac, "you will eat up five francs while told me that she no longer saw you. You lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, on "I'm going off," said he, "but you won't go off!" women of her sort, had a load of caresses and a burden of blows and Madeleine, but made no complaint. She sewed seventeen hours a day; but changing all the paving-stones into steels. This uproar delighted the fortify him in his resolution. and you have the gamin. It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by chastity, perseverance in their seclusion,--these are their vows, which for his grandfather. and trousers of gray linen; and his long-visored cap concealed his After viewing the shrub, Tholomyès exclaimed, "I offer you asses!" and me." While the two women were whispering together, with their backs turned Among the Visitandines the one who enters says: "Ave Maria," and the one The Bishop experienced an indescribable shock. "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in causeway and the boulevard, at the spot where it branches, they heard a there, around my mouth, and you will nail the top plank on loosely." left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively had calmed him. There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and very small creature, no taller than that. His father was dead. Poor Cossette Sweeping fashion of the country, only by a small pin. He opened it; but as a cartridges. All the cartridges having been made, and all the powder "And make haste, Monsieur What's-your-name, for Mamselle Cosette is