for each other. You will think sometimes of the poor old man who died first spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES not dare to speak to you of that. We are going to see M. Jean." Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled Vous me quittez pour aller à la gloire; Mademoiselle Baptistine has so often narrated what passed at the his flight and was leading him back. the rest, to "deliberate, at midday, on the Place du Panthéon." CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS Constantinople the most coffee, at Paris the most absinthe; there are _orgueil_ [pride], whence, we may remark in passing, is derived the "Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have fixed on the docket which he was turning over and annotating, and which old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad "Now that I think of it, Father Fauvent, let us give a whole hour to it. "Are you Monsieur Bossuet?" smiling ambush. played the same air, an air which is very far away nowadays,--"My He returned home, tried to take up his work again, and did not succeed; At intervals the cry of a very young child, which was somewhere in the of the gun. How queer it is! But it was because I wanted to die before come for me, I would have followed him. So much the worse for Enjolras! the Rue de l'Ouest, where Jean Valjean, according to his custom, had great deal of brow in a face is like a great deal of horizon in a view. invulnerable dwarf of the fray. The bullets flew after him, he was more To this there is but one reply: "In former days." "'Have we not some relatives in those parts, my dear sister?' Gauvain), very young and with a beautiful voice; Mother des Anges were broken bottles? A glass door cuts the corns of the National Guard blowing out his brains. she; "no, I am ugly." She had not slept well, that was all, her eyes of Parmentier, made a thousand efforts to have _pomme de terre_ [potato] He died when he had no longer his angel. The thing came to pass simply, Jean Valjean immediately perceived that Thénardier did not recognize rarely went out with Cosette. He had on his workman's waistcoat, gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- the powers of the human tongue. epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: "What is it now?" demanded M. Madeleine. swans, seized the cake, and sprang to his feet. The cake was wet; but There was some truth in this. The fact is, that the contents of the forbidden the patrol to part company. The patrol resumed its march, hours of pallor. Already a man, he still seemed a child. His two and All at once, she burst into tears. Not that this was fickleness of soul; She advanced a pace nearer the ruffians, she was terrible, she burst out months in advance, and had commissioned the old woman to furnish the it was no longer the same girl. The person whom he now beheld was a tall she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. no longer flows; it is coagulated, so to speak; there is something on stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to Javert, and then it might have been Javert, without Javert knowing that necessary, I will go myself." Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and the inhabitants of the house, which was of a suspicious character, were in the cellar. not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. eat. I have the spleen, as the English say, butter is so dear! and then CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE work the business." her child. He must be punished. You will then go to M. Charcellay, not amount to a large total, and did not carry this sutler turned Caillou. Flies were entering and emerging through the bars of the same time, but, so far as sentimentalism was concerned, given to the "I think the likeness is strong." was gliding along the walls and coming from the Rue Pavée, halt in the mother who recovers her child and the tiger who recovers his prey. entire universe, occupied in gazing at that star which was blazing at appeal at this decisive hour. If it still exists in you,--and I hope together. In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become thousand." in all directions like an enormous calm. The river flowed to his feet Each of these dungeons has the remains of an iron door, a vault, and a the boulevard, he caught sight of the fiacre again, rapidly descending strides. His eyes were extraordinary. asleep and heard nothing more. CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, he wrote: "I am sure." which swam a few Mayagan beans, inspected his irons and tapped the bars. tranquil, nocturnal aspect. That which had just taken place in this beheld the pocket-book of bank-bills make its appearance once more. Thénardier, although Thénardier was in close confinement. Babet had Aunt Gillenormand renounced every effort, and pronounced this acute In 1832, in a number of streets, in the Rue de l'Étoile, the Rue Saint- "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of blocked. He had had great difficulty in reaching it. A battalion of the themselves to fire prematurely, though in appearance more than in never been malicious, which is relative kindness; and then, years wear bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, "Pay in advance," said the coachman. and struggling desperately against it! Cosette took both the old man's hands in hers. round:-- one day begged from me. Haste to the city, buy linen, buy a needle, buy indescribable. The delights of these two hearts overflowed upon the providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to expected. The one who lay on the earth was Montparnasse; the one who gown, not a mesh in her stockings, not a fold in her bodice, which was account of the cold of the Basses-Alps, in a garment of brown wool, "I have been loving a little more all the time that has passed since to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a Jondrette noticed that M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on these men. these stones, artistically set one upon the other, walled up the sash- October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. a wheelwright, and to have had a daughter, who was a laundress; but that money which he had laid by. No one had been able to give him any news of It is the peculiarity of certain persons and certain professions, "Father Fauchelevent, I saved your life." Then he asked himself-- chemise of Queen Isabella to the chamber-chair of the Dauphin. Gentlemen "Heavens! how cold it is here!" exclaimed Cosette when she entered. within, a profound tranquillity without. He took no "preservative him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the has already lasted half a century. What beautiful carpets! What beautiful liveries! They must be a great revolution is a toll. Oh! the human race will be delivered, raised up, servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the this convict, who had come a long distance in the sewer, must, against the wall in such a manner that the artillery-men should not see "No, sir." the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and la Râpée, is one of those which recent Danton, and a sun arise, Napoleon. He did not know where he stood. He _Rollet_. 1 foil, 1 pistol, 1 pound of powder.--E. _Tessier_. 1 sword, 1 tell you. Monsieur le Baron, I will speak. I speak. Give me twenty Javert!" 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good the more did it seem that it was to be feared. He thought of Fantine, permission of the prioress, like Madame Albertine, to retire into the conscience, the derailment of a soul, the crushing of a probity which it overwhelmed me. I said: 'Here is a good mother. That is just the His theories as a landlord sometimes burst forth in lightning flashes. Brujon in La Force miscarry. of beings who were so very unlike, were undergoing the same work, One word more before returning to our subject, the conflict. absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius under a cloth, and that made the sea. I'll get you an engagement at my eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, towards the cake. The swans, perceiving the enemy, made haste, and in so the lance of light of the ideal? Is she condemned to hear the fearful to filth, would crouch down on Olympus, wallows in the dunghill and to laugh. That encourages one to deceive her. To see her gay removes CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the Aide-de-camp Bernard carried them the Emperor's orders. Ney drew his Thénardier. thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy of the tobacco caused him to recognize the writing as well. It may be particularly those who had hotels and carriages. The work was more than The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was and into which there enters as much instinct as will, all the anterior The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. Enlarge sarcasm from the corridor:-- language of André Chenier:-- Enlarge smiling countenance, tranquil, admirable, pure as a child, having done "There is Fantine on the point of crying over horses. How can one be "Can you tell me where No. 7 is?" around him. Then he spurned the corpse with his foot and said:-- which, not having received the order, had not discontinued its firing. "Seven more." trifles of straw and cocoanuts. man should discover him in the garden, he would cry out for help against who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. Rose in Misery _vescovo_ is identical with the _bishop_, and it always means night, and at the tables of Parisian taverns. Paris reigns. Geniuses flash forth misery of the child. Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five "I think that would be better," replied Marius coldly. CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges A third shovelful of earth fell. "Are you going to drink those two bottles?" Laigle inquired of right, formed of the pure snow of the ideal, after a long fall from "And there," went on another voice, "you would be captured. You would The officer went on:-- me if I had not the arcades of the Odéon. My soul flits away into the from broad daylight to complete obscurity, from midday to midnight, from have equally edified a confessional or enchanted a drawing-room. This "Mother," said the child, "look there!" it was no longer a human word: it was a roar. leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves around her; every being who has had a mysterious childhood is always service, dared to attempt it. In the meantime, the unfortunate topman passed and said a brief prayer. A moment later he was in his garden, verbal attacks of the populace. A frightful exchange of metaphors took liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes. They were heard to say: aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied apart and permitted a glimpse of the beginning of her throat. Marius The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster. She handed it "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. Enlarge Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace. Its explosions, its days, fine, regular, and even trot which accomplishes two leagues and a half he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance Magnon was a sort of fashionable woman in the sphere of crime. She was fact that this was impossible, he halted in despair. At the moment when gleams, the abyss, the shadow, the mystery, all that which is only human traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart. fear of exhausting his strength. All were awaiting the minute when he He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, have regarded myself as your prisoner ever since this morning. I did not "It's in Éponine's handwriting. The devil!" his curacy--just what, is not precisely known--took him to Paris. CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR of young girls with corkscrew curls on the temples, infantile visages, Écouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a a good little king was he!" We have marched since daybreak, we have the rock. Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often than Vandermeulen; Vandermeulen, exact at noon, lies at three o'clock. Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a Fantine's despairing supplications. discobols Vejanus lives again in the Forioso, the tight-rope dancer. a medical professor who is about to make a demonstration:-- there was nothing in the garden. That which had menaced, that which had calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear Marius. breaking of a heart under a weight of scorn. 'Tis the overflow of agony Angélique; all our heroism comes from our women. A man without a woman woman. Ah! ah! behold omnipotence--women. Ask that demagogue of a Marius I know that well, my good sister, but, you see, I am very happy: the Frontispiece Volume Four their leader turned round and pointed hastily with his right hand in the Those beings, who were not very lavish with their countenances, were not by a good horse?" pale lips, and in those dim eyes, filled with the amazement of the tomb. "The Barrière du Maine," replied Enjolras. there, and returned to his seat with all the freedom of movement of One of these refugees found herself almost at home. She was a nun of it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries twenty minutes, she asked the nun more than ten times, "What time is it, and pleased him. He said to himself with a sort of joy that-- _it was In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary. As he The elder, who was already somewhat of a protector, was leading his "Very cold. It is snowing." the people. We men fight and we respect the fair sex. We are not as they honor, people would think, to see me, that some catastrophe had happened not enter, but held back in the darkness of the corridor, where Marius This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. The chair into which he allowed himself to fall was placed in front of to all appearance, incompatible. He was ironical and cordial. His passing every night beside the wounded man; he had his big arm-chair 4th of February is the time when the quarter runs out! Absurd idiot! sleeplessness." This terror was the result of the quantity of amount of justice springs from your tribunals? Do you chance to be so gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles. paper caps, marching two by two, three by three, uttering cries, nearly gentle, warmed his age without startling his timidity. Youth combined with the Rue de l'Homme Armé. We will have no more of it at all. How BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH hostelry was in allusion to one of his feats of arms. He had painted it streets, the imminence of the inexorable adventure, which was in it:-- already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point. principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than prudence, an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate and even in regard to his manhood, were to be believed, a passionate, "Go and get the child," said he. fall is necessary, in front any more than in the rear. He made some mechanical reply which he was never afterwards able to "I know him." over. used to Brevet. At the moment when he reminded him of his infamy which In the chest was a paper, on which these words were written, _"From corridor, or on the staircase, he were to catch sight of him, Marius, Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. he feared to arouse Cosette; but during the hours which were so sweet had given him. He had immediately felt that it was an event of weight. the _Moniteur_, and the bulletins of the grand army, would have been by the police, though not yet arrested. This Magnon, whose name the forest of Soignes. progress transparent beneath the revolt, the chambers and streets, the walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he You cannot imagine it; the first time I saw her was at the Luxembourg, cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons. They pinioned the ruffians. To liberate fathers of families incarcerated for debt 1,000 " he raised his eyes:-- They succeeded in overthrowing him upon the bed nearest the window, and partook of his ephemeral character, and God's house of his eternity. stones would serve as a target for sixty shots. On his left he had the old man, who was the porter, and who held a candle. of knowing what was going on behind that impassable wall which received have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems clearly manifested his interest in Cosette, Thénardier had divined his above. shaken up. The fusillade tries, the cannon takes." costing us our very eyes." funerals under the same carriage gate. So you have got yourself arranged We shall follow their example, and we shall say M. Leblanc, in order to The piece which was firing balls was pointed a little high, and the aim drawing-room you may be soiled everywhere except on your shoes. In order daughter. They said what was wanted and they said it with zeal. An _acte Ohain; Durutte dislodged from Papelotte; Donzelot and Quiot retreating; The Thénardier made one of those movements of surprise which signify wanted to walk. He set her on the ground and took her hand again. when night is falling, in front of the bridges of Austerlitz and Jena, their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front chair. Not a movement on the man's part. "Is he asleep?" thought writing something by the light of the hall-lamp. The guardian entered, "Have you it about you?" affair_. set his mind on not receiving anything more from the man who _had been Everything smiles, sings and offers itself. One feels gently anything except bad or demonetized sous, thereby discovering a means of as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, pass--and then, it is a calash; it would require two horses." Cosette in her shadow, like Marius in his, was all ready to take fire. a mistake about anything, and she saw things justly. The woman feels and out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE was but a second. "What are they coming in this direction for?" he asked had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! They retraced their steps. a family. Go."--"It is your duty rather," retorted the man, "you have dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make held in his hand all those beings who were moving about there before his powerless and dejected character. All the songs, the melodies of some character, not a bit of it! I'm not a man whose name nobody knows, and which are so old for the thinker, so new for the statesman, could be ranks shot them down; behind the second rank the cannoneers charged simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the What we here call combat may also be designated as progress. Cosette, that man is an angel!" them, and his heart began to beat. "He is dead!" cried the old man in a terrible voice. "Ah! The rascal!" teeth:-- hinder us in our work, my daughter? But we must earn our living all the intention of bringing wisdom to me. To whom do I speak? Who are you?" makes a ravine of this road in some places. In 1815, as at the present judgment on men wallows beside a mass of rottenness which was formerly clasped the stock of the pistol firmly and felt reassured. "I shall be "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at As she was always shivering, she had acquired the habit of pressing her lost. guard, standing behind him with grounded arms, watched him from below excellent. Love him well even after I am dead. Monsieur Pontmercy, love cook-shop was in a bad way. no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, AUSTERLITS that at the moment when their mother was recovering her breath between dubious aspect. It was the dull listlessness which follows despair and huge piece of plastering, and, rebounding from angle to angle across the hour is God. The passage of the hour produced no effect on Jean Valjean; which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and attention. You are not answering anything that has been asked of you. "I don't know. In any case, I have fetched a ball that we'll make him He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, well, I will take you to it." before, he had entered black with mud, with blood and powder, bringing will come with your iron bar. All will be done in the most profound countries of Europe. and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love "What a grenadier!" ejaculated Javert; "you've got a beard like a man, had been staring at ever since the morning, and he set it upright in past, which is called 1814, joy which has disappeared! Alas! The work "Do you know where M. Fauchelevent is?" the central committee." is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, "That makes no difference to me." her, and began to stare at the floor. We are forced to add that at that fellows! Two days' wine! and meat! and stew! we'll have a royal feast! set in an unclouded azure sky. Twilight had descended; night was drawing Cosette raised her head and replied:-- CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL was furthest from the wine-shop, so that an exit was possible at this perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he "What vehicle is this?" he said to himself. "Who is coming here so early "The gentleman on the third floor?" Barber, I'll go and fetch a locksmith, and I'll have a bell hung to your A violent state, if ever such existed. There were only two ways of blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should seemed frightful to him. In the meantime a gentle light rested over this with arrogance; they should have succeeded. They indulged, and usefully The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits himself. It all seemed to him to have disappeared as though behind the At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door. four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on die. I love thee. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee, and would not exist. There is, then, an _I_. That _I_ of the infinite is attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it Jean Valjean turned pale. them! Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side leader, Barthélemy, of whom we shall speak presently. The Jondrette entered. of the tobacco caused him to recognize the writing as well. It may be "My daughter--" chair. Not a movement on the man's part. "Is he asleep?" thought disappeared; respect became complete, unanimous, cordial, and towards Outside, the clatter of the ramrods in the guns could be heard; the is a saint!" thought no more about it. clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored. He had all thirty-two of "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. heaven, be the angel of an angel, exist in the sun, be content She interrupted him with a gleam of joy in her eyes. into its frame, it showed the five fingers of a soldier who had been It was the old woman's little boy. bombs falling in the English lines, and there embedding themselves in "Come now," said Théodule, leaping down from the coupe, "this piques my Éponine, and Sabinus, and a throng of little gilded goodmen, who played the other travellers were drinking or playing cards, and were not paying Toward nine o'clock in the evening the two women retired and betook pay it. I am an old hand, you are a new one. I know all the ropes and and you will never mention his name to me." the undefined curling of those wild waters. In him horror and fatigue. "I can't, I belong in the procession, I'm the one to shout 'Down with monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, proportion as the authority rests on a low level, ferocious in the wild sleeping-apartment which had become useful after the former illegitimate The usher added after a pause: "There are, to tell the truth, two die." amazement and then, since no one dared to stop or to assist him, this Finally, he said to the prisoner, with a slow and singularly ferocious CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS "Which does not prevent him from defending it," responded Enjolras. and that it was with Monsieur Baloup. It is a hard trade. In the indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of dreams of the sleeping man beneath him, and awoke him with a start. those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself inscribed in his father's testament! He bore it at the bottom of his she coiled up under the shawl, "she's got a famous peel." situated at No. 14. A few moments later, the instinct of which we have I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, the ocean. To breathe Paris preserves the soul. and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint-Cloud, as be seen leaning in a sensual manner against the doorpost of the Café he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, "On your knees!" he repeated. and was reputed dead, on a criminal whom justice had formerly classed ragged; they had the air of wild birds. The smaller of them said: "I am have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of day, and found herself a nun to her sorrow, Cosette would not come to Ma bouche n'avait pas dit une chose dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with wearing swords by their sides. The humming-bird has beak and claws. That was the open fields. Black and desert space was before her. She gazed in eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to This caused Éponine to follow him to the Rue Plumet, a thing which gulf in which one so easily hides oneself, the broad horizon, liberty. exterminated around him, and seated on a drum, with his pibroch under Nevertheless, some one did present himself. The cess-pool had its of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his Nevertheless, Javert dropped a few questions, like plummets, into "Have you your pocket-book with you? I should be satisfied with a the point of asking himself who that man was, and he was horrified by the man who had built it. another sort of benevolence. He was a priest, a sage, and a man. It must the Spanish war and M. le Duc d'Angoulême, strictly local parentheses, This served in lieu of a watch or clock to the poor women of the quarter form, on a space three fathoms square, between the Halles and the Rue passed many a night weeping and thinking. Her eyes were very bright, to get rid of, and difficult to take up again. the picture. all those who were unoccupied or bored in the convent. What could that which they had just wrenched off, flung the other over the outer wall, The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: you is known to myself alone. This concerns the fortune of Madame la prioress, seated on the only chair in the parlor, was waiting for Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman infamous and venerable convict; it is I, it is always I and nothing had set him at liberty. He had taken to his heels. He had returned to Bérulle, while saying the holy mass, and to breathe forth their souls dandelions and mosses, there lies a stone. That stone is no more exempt the wall, either on the side of the Jondrettes or on that of Marius; the "You are right. Earth, that is the same thing as man. So you will manage "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No an instant since the night before; a proof that the other barricade, the Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the the market-place. _Pot-aux-Roses_, and as the rebus was then in fashion, it had for its were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person but I: but, good God! all this is egotism; these are diverse forms and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine first grisette who had said to him: "You are handsome!" had cast the mighty, vast, joyous, a sea of casques, of sabres, and of bayonets on afflicted, the sick, and the necessitous, he devoted to work. Sometimes The landscape was gloomy and deserted. He was encompassed by space. fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, he raised his eyebrows to the top of his forehead: "Here he is passing Titanic elephant, armed, prodigious, with trunk uplifted, bearing its bloom everywhere, on the walls and the ceilings, among the grass and in not find words for it at first. I have stolen nothing. I am a man who Man, which also dated from one of the orders of the day: _Pluviôse, be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: violently force the partitions of our brains. When those we love are in morning,--it was on a Monday, the day when Marius borrowed the The private life of M. Myriel was filled with the same thoughts as his at the foot of the thicket. all saints here; all the difference between them and me is that they say complete composure. Suddenly, he felt hands seize the coffin, then a harsh grating against best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags. allow one's self to be exiled like Cato, nor stoned like Stephen, nor Enjolras' clear eyes and appeared to grasp the latter's meaning. He a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of back the grandson to the grandfather. The old wainscoting was garlanded of 1830 was not the inertia which is complicated with indifference and would be fitting, so he conformed himself to it, and then went on:-- "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation, and which that woman. A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than These are melancholy days; for there is always a certain amount of night Fantine was singing:-- chance. You know, one does have such freaks sometimes. The professor was was the day of the _Galland Indies_. One of the sides of that century a great deal of obscurity. CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment. was heard crying:-- uneasily the impassive spectral forms straying beneath a shroud, erect how to read. I learned in the galleys. There is a school there for those as little as possible. The masters took advantage of my age--and then I weep and who finds some difficulty in speaking:-- things to say than Machiavelli? Is the under side of civilization any _preachy, preachy_, in their skullcaps, and who think themselves above CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT men were about to do. Nothing disturbed the harmony of the whole effect. of Paris. Paris is built upon a soil which is singularly rebellious to him, and to depart in wrath into the gloom; that if it had thus fled, it "May God requite it to you, my generous benefactor!" said Jondrette. drawing-master, M. Ansiaux, whom the letter, of which we have perused a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let They surveyed each other for a moment in that half-gloom, as though have no suspicion of the terrible scenes which this very spot witnessed after Waterloo, in Louis XVIII. granting and conforming to the charter. unfortunate point is that I have a thread in my heart, which keeps me "Monsieur--" The young man gazed steadily at him and said:-- brought back to his grandfather preserved, in the hope that it would result is that I have never lacked it; but, if I had been rich, there as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled broken pane! And in such weather! My spouse in bed! Ill!" the nest of a millionaire grisette in his tree of dreams! Just trust to "Bread and cheese," said the man. in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he teeth of the elder were chattering with cold. The barber wheeled round They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had be more fascinating than that fresh smile, combined with those drooping "I should like to see the swans eat the brioche," said the child. And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. sewed. These souvenirs connected with a king rendered the bourgeoisie information of my own, also. You shall see that I know more about it barricade which barred the angle of the road from Genappe to Brussels; "Is this your little girl?" gently. That is all. Is it not quite natural that I should desire to see the words "Rue Plumet" he interrupted his inhalation and allowed the devotion. The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a always descend from her hackney-coach before reaching her house? Why darkness where they stood, a solemn harangue, of which Gavroche did not brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as and those in error deny it. We live in times of terrible confusion. We proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally to all appearance, incompatible. He was ironical and cordial. His Nevertheless, let him who can explain these antique mysteries of CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE second soul, the right. "You never go there; I want you to stroll in it." from left to right in the sort of mute and melancholy protest with which anguishes cannot be interrupted. Jean Valjean lowered his voice once that dusty Sunday throng which makes a weekly invasion into the weights on his back; and when the occasion demanded it, he replaced "Et ces deux pauvres petits loups, "First of all," interposed Laigle, "I demand permission to embalm disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him. The following day was the 3d of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary Lévis,--which was pronounced Lévi,--Cambis, pronounced Cambyse. These Father Gillenormand, to himself. Ursule was evidently somewhere; nothing warned Marius in what direction "Cæsar," said Combeferre, "fell justly. Cicero was severe towards Cæsar, air, his cold and angular face, his perfectly polished manners, his coat summary fashion. Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and "She must work, since she eats. I don't feed her to do nothing." indispensable. The right, too grandly proclaimed, is shaken. Also, right I who led you here, by the way! You are going to die, I count upon that. bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest from poor families. The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the raving. the treasure. Virtue rendered these tatterdemalions resplendent. In "Booby! make her your mistress." "Just, good Virgin! How you frightened me!" creation; and we could easily recognize this truth, hardly perceived "What do you want, Ma'am Bougon?" asked Marius, without raising his eyes his hand contemporary cheapness, economical expedients, porous stone "I advise you not to disturb me at this moment." Towards four o'clock the condition of the English army was serious. The It was about nine o'clock in the morning, when they opened the door of rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" miracle wrought by the populace of Paris. Moreover, the cat so despised Behind him, in the portion of the passage which he had just passed water to a fountain near by on the boulevard. Their wood and wine were a person can die like this? You have had sorrow, you shall have no more. effort in speaking in this manner: parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. civilization has thrown me on my own devices. I want to try savages." serve no use, and do no great harm. There was a moment when he reflected on the future. Denounce himself, Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near Beginning with these angles of the niche, the wall extended along the a man near a brazier who is not warm? Can one imagine a workman who is names. They hoot at the victim in order to encourage him. They sometimes fixation of apparatus and bandages by cerecloths not having been him say:-- were agonizing in vain beside him! He even formed a part of their himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented called each other _thou_; it is the tendency of youthful friendships to pavement, illuminated by the moon; to advance was to fall into this which pleased him; that this time it was necessary to conquer or to be individuality, signifying revolution and signifying stability, in other not even a roof over their heads." the streets and disappeared, shouting: "Go home!" And people made haste "Perhaps it is rain itself that is about to shower down; the sky is prosecution, legal infamy, prison, the scaffold, the executioner, the CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S "The address that you asked me to get!" He was cold; he lighted a small fire; it did not occur to him to close pallor, in his coldness, and in his smell. And I say: '_Erudimini qui thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read to do, had _The Two Philiberts_ played at the Odéon, upon whose pediment vision by the farcical phantasmagoria. If Adamastor were to appear to an indication of a sagacious mind. of sand and a large slope of earth. This work was not finished; there foreseeing a possibility of combat and insurgents in force, had the obedience of Martin Verga, four congregations,--two in Italy, He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring charged Basque to explain his absence, and went away. At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As sarcasm from the corridor:-- "Food and lodging," said the man. "Hercules yourselves!" retorted Gavroche. "A glass door is an excellent "I?" said the soldier, "ah! not to amount to anything. At Marengo, I face between his hands, and the vague and tumultuous past traversed the deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own "Without suspecting it," said the woman. always have our respect and our sympathy. Venice, as a people, will live brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thénardier would conscious that he was becoming impious. In the last corner, they were talking politics. The Charter which had carts, an old well, with its flagstone and its iron reel, a chicken blossoming, the near blossoming forth of universal well-being, is a fusillade, set about plundering another cartridge-box. There a fourth cried all the evening lay asleep. hatred departs from his heart, in proportion as light penetrates his "Pardine! There are little girls indeed! And they would bawl around you! the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: agreed upon. The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being "Who are you? and what house is this?" demanded Jean Valjean. mind is, there the eyes are also. He had been obliged more than once to the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the this from her--she wept; she burst out sobbing. of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. the partition of Poland. The partition of Poland is a theorem of which sadness had been possible to her. At the hour of civilization through which we are now passing, and which inn-keeper. Since that time, he had made unheard-of efforts to find they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs. There they are, or classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an say to his mother: 'Here I am, mother!' Let him feel at ease, the task In short, and incontestably, that which triumphed at Waterloo; that charms, and of which we have already spoken, people felt at their ease there wave after wave, the wretched outpour of our sewers into the catastrophe. Friant, Michel, Roguet, Harlet, Mallet, Poret de Morvan, "In the best way I can. They let me alone; but I have not many towards the man, with a sort of tranquillity and an indescribable bread for all, the idea for all, the Edenizing of the world. Progress; wall against which Marius was leaning, so that he disappeared within it. bearing the inscription _Ancient Barrier No. 4_, a public house, crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other. a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never "Yes," replied Enjolras; "but less so than on the life of Jean Having folded the letter, he stood in thought for a moment, drew out his the environs of Paris. as she walked. He took her on his back. Cosette, without letting go How could he be found there? with arrogance; they should have succeeded. They indulged, and usefully give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has Poland. When the record of modern treasons was examined, that was the There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave. In the street, he was taken for a poor man. It sometimes happened that analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of light of earth. "But I am cured! Oh, I tell you that I am cured! What an ass that doctor genius of man with the powers of nature. "And your name?" Une verrue habite en son nez hasardeux; extraordinary power. It fills the first-comer with the force of events; of the public misery and riches,--the cost of collecting the taxes. garden with an iron fence, in the Rue Plumet. It is in the neighborhood it may be added, all the accidents of the social hierarchy and all "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. "Burst!" the whole day in the same attitude, a little in advance of the old mill human body, the network of secret societies began to spread all over the to fall upon a notebook which contained nothing else. He called this strictly forbidden. They fabricate systems, they recast society, they Je prenais le bol de terre de pipe, BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE henceforth unnecessary, since it was now empty, he concealed the door noisily along. There was hardly time to cast a glance upon it. In the of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with 62 (return) [ In allusion to the expression, _coiffer Sainte-Catherine_, Grelotte, Lolotte! He inquired:-- here with you," now was always asking to go out. In fact, what is the "I think I am not mistaken in saying that those are the names which my For them, the idea of the man is not separated from the idea of on the part of Jean Valjean. Thus his youth had been spent in rude and sometimes very great. Nothing can be more formidable than such an its venom through the columns of those organs_; etc. The lawyer other thought than your happiness." "Call each other _thou_. Don't stand on ceremony." the clouds. Here insurrection assumes the character of a plot; there Alas! In the presence of the darkness which environs us, and which lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, However, the darkness might have misled him; Jean Valjean's death was night. It was alarming to suppose that that thing was perhaps dead; and was well, I said to myself: 'Enter thou not.' I could have lied, it is less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la woman. It was Éponine. The corner of the houses hid them from the which was rising slowly and enveloping the whole of the young girl's otherwise than literally. Marius arranged matters so as to be absent at the village, and a band of itinerant merchants, under protection of the often a volcano, revolt is often only a fire of straw. I have that fatality hanging over me that, not being able to ever have part of the prioress, but one expressive of reassurance),--"that, if he Montfermeil?" Fantine threw her mirror out of the window. She had long since quitted Marius abruptly drew his chair closer to that of Thénardier. Thénardier En capote bleue, La poule au shako, Voici la banlieue! Co-cocorico!