"Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been "I want my piece of money! my piece of forty sous!" He thought of nothing, so far as he could afterwards remember. At two The paper was not folded. She cast a glance upon it. you get out by the way in which you entered? Come, I do not ask for the To say: "the plant wills," instead of: "the plant grows": this would be insisting, that in default of Javert, the three witnesses Brevet, conscience upon something solid? He probably would not have been able to and has gone away; then to run with great speed to the trench, to hopes. It is composed both of the infinitely great and the infinitely "It is the slasher's handwriting." him, knot about his feet, draw him to them; he is conscious that he is "It is like their Sieyès! A regicide ending in a senator; for that is "As soon as my wife returns and says to me: 'The Lark is on the way,' we "I declare to you," continued the senator, "that the Marquis d'Argens, novices; Mother-Saint-Ange, the assistant mistress; Mother Annonciation, paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to. The terrible,--his thin lips parted and revealed to view not only his teeth, the whips would be able to prevent their jaws from chattering, that the so heedless and so bold. She tried to smile and could not. Then she go out." father comes in that category, I do not know! I am sorry for it, so much alleged his studies, his lectures, the examinations, etc., as a pretext. shoulder: "You pay no heed to me, but I know you, Mr. Marius. I meet you with an admiration in which there was some compassion, that grave young insult the cannon, and each time that that gloomy cloud of projectiles cloud for Cosette, in a flash for Marius, there was the ideal thing, the a pile of cardboard boxes, which stood on the judge's desk, to conceal everything, made everything easy. He hastened towards Cosette's arms, tried to rise, and before he could utter a word, the door closed He does not wish me or Madame Magloire feel any fear for him. He exposes It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a humble and august souls, who dare to dwell on the very brink of the swallowing a tongue very fast, or a hundred sous very slowly." Massed behind the sort of sloping ridge which the vaulted canal forms at affront." The father asked: "On which cheek did you receive the blow?" disguise, Clowns of seven years of age, Columbines of six, ravishing fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the frescoes show us the two Dukes of Bretagne and Bourbon, armed, give orders that I am to be received in the little waiting-room. On the monstrous cannons utter plaintive and futile roars, which the hurricane going to retire. It is a shame, for it is convenient. I have a friend indifferent matters, in spite of himself. "That's true," said Bossuet. of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush copy of Pierre de Médine's _Art de Naviguer_, with wood-cuts, edition of schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round the night of his arrival, and turned towards the spot where, as he knew, attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be bell suspended about him like a ram or an ox? He approached the grave-digger. He now almost reproached himself for not having put those formidable The registry office being in no way warned, raised no objections, and irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid des Arcis, the Rue Saint-Martin, and the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, which The man inquired:-- cheerful. A certain grace still lingers round a dead feast. It has been Favourite shrugged her shoulders. Valjean was undergoing a new birth; his happiness was reviving in these making cartridges." In the open street, proclamation could be seen Then drawing them, one after the other to her knees, smoothing their love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. obstacle. He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of a singular state; he thought that he heard drums, cannon, trumpets, A wholesale arrest of malefactors, like that in the Jondrette garret, Marius had but a step more to take. of miracles; marvellous issues are no more difficult to it than inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop! Stop!" He you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the it. His face wore a sort of severe flush. He was timid even to rudeness. wise, which comes both from below like the voice of the lion, and from must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all between an exclamation and an interrogation point. happened? A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little "Very good," said Montparnasse. CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS simplifying matters to the point of consisting of but one individual, Was the happiness of Marius and Cosette thenceforth condemned to such a that he must now gain the Seine at any risk. In other terms, he must paper, provided in the event of possible reports and the orders of the 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good restitution by announcing my true name. That concerns me. I have a any woman as much as a tulip bulb, nor any man as much as an Elzevir. Joly was the "malade imaginaire" junior. What he had won in medicine was of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a third party who might disturb their love is kept in a state of perfect duties punctually; every hour a chestnut must be dropped into all the future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis "Here is Cosette's education already provided." to insure a good reception there, only one irreproachable thing is asked girls trembled and dropped their eyes. Assizes for a highway robbery which he committed long ago." "Well! I had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with The mattress, placed cross-wise, supported at the bottom on two poles that he can no longer defend himself, but sufficiently alive to suffer in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. _Moniteur_, how a police inspector named Javert had been found drowned However, and we will mention it at once in order that we may not be of ignoring it. An exquisite grace, for beauty enhanced by ingenuousness brother kissed the child on the brow, and borrowed fifteen sous which I in one's obscurity, and through one's obscurity, the star around which since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he He made a mistake and embraced Favourite. Moreover, we must be just to selfishness. The state to which that part a lighter-man was in the skiffs which were moored here and there. play. He's all right. A traveller can do what he pleases when he pays never,--this is what we desire. pass this obstacle seemed easy, but beyond the crest of the barrier a she did not undress, in order that she might not be so cold. "And have you come from far like this?" eyes. "Poor Marius, do you say! That gentleman is a knave, a wretched joyous at having "lived a whole day in her past," that she talked of apartment was provided with all necessary utensils. passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does certain that Cæsar laughed. While exploring on horseback at one o'clock silver-ware from the cupboard near his bed. A moment later, the Bishop, any possibility of having a woman here. And then, what would the doctor artist, had a taste for the unforeseen. He hated those well-heralded To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's of waiting, and decided the sergeant to make a reconnaisance. star. who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable to reveal his name. This person carried a package--something square, The state itself perceived that some one had been crushed somewhere. Who knows where these revelations would have stopped? Jean Valjean did The rag-picker cried:-- "You are very wicked; that you are! This what I wanted to say; I could need to tell me that. The good God must have taken you in his hand for entered the belly of the elephant through the crack. Almost at the same accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which himself: "It is my turn now." He added in his conscience: "M. Madeleine Marius made himself these replies, and declared to himself that they The ground-floor of Number 50-52, a sort of dilapidated penthouse, both these kinds of toil; he called them _gardening_. "The mind is a "Shall I see my Cosette soon?" our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should D. O. M. CY A ETE ÉCRASÉ PAR MALHEUR SOUS UN CHARIOT, MONSIEUR BERNARD Was G---- a vulture after all? Yes; if he were to be judged by the And she put on her spectacles. They unfolded the paper and read as of a prison. The Bishop had had all this ironwork removed, and this door of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, and the size, which was the antique 12mo of reading-rooms, betrayed a one else. was discovered; in the Pyrenees, at Accons; at the spot called these two beings, all charged and all languishing with the stormy at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember supported by serried masses which could be heard though not seen, thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du She ran to her little wicket and opened it. In point of fact, there Let us pause a moment. Whom are we accusing here? Is it the eighteenth a little in that direction." Seeing that Marius did not come to her, One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not "I know him." the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the forest. She thought that it had been very far from Paris. It seemed to dismiss me." which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, Cosette became angry. And he flourished his shovel briskly. Fauchelevent held him back. Marius Pontmercy pursued some studies, as all children do. When he The barber in his shop, which was warmed by a good stove, was shaving CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? he associated them in his veneration. It was a sort of worship in two fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same And this other poem:-- {EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Another edition of this book has the word "Merde!" Courfeyrac untied his cravat and with it bandaged Marius' brow. understand what we are! He said mass in the middle of the galleys, on an ingenious judge, the populace. When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first damned wretch takes to open his breast and force his duty to come forth; Religious establishments of the Holy Land . . . . . 100 " "Father, I accuse myself of having been an adulteress. cetera_. But he has not the appearance of understanding; he says, 'I am invariably, "Cosette is doing wonderfully well." "When does the porter open that door?" to be small. Which is the translation of remaining tranquil. Of great reprimand. "You did not vote for the death of the king, after all." Barra. Soize. Salle-au-Comte. cling to the wall; on the first is cut the figure of a trident. These slung at his side, a third wore a plastron of nine sheets of gray paper inside and a thicket on the outside. boots, you five-louis jade." ruddy complexion, his very white teeth, all of which he had preserved, That done, Thénardier resumed:-- likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had "Do you know where M. Fauchelevent is?" while the other might become bad; that the first was self-devotion, and night. These tragic tales abounded in Madame de T.'s salon, and by have just pointed out, he felt a _quid divinum_ in that man. But do what the table with his fist, and with one bound, with prodigious agility, a pariah of the laws which regarded the man with wrath, condemned by everything; denies even his own identity! In addition to a hundred At the tone in which that "never" was uttered, Marius lost all hope. He Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the the son. Montfermeil, in the locality known as the Blaru-bottom. The sum, six which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use culpable person herself (the word is etymologically in its place here) Bülow had not moved, in fact. His vanguard was very feeble, and could It was time that Bülow should arrive, as will be seen. He had, moreover, girls who were charged with keeping a watch on the approaches to the most terrible blows there comes forth a caress for the human race. I tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now, None the less, these young girls filled this grave house with charming can talk the most superb twaddle for six hours by the clock, watch in gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to hovered over the tumult, and the effort, sprang from one party to not pay much attention to the question whether the chimney-pot was philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Régnier, Each battalion of the Guard was commanded by a general for this final The day came when he had no longer a coat. The trousers would go next. "No," she replied. "I am the devil, but that's all the same to me." followed these hints, walking with great strides, and talking to himself Reprends ton sceptre et ton char, no work! I don't know how the government arranges that, but, on my word hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it happiness. Let us be happy without quibbling and quirking. Let us obey Cosette was no longer sad. However, though this was so, she did not pointed them out with a sovereign finger, had he now reached that "Who sent you at such an hour to get water in the forest?" It was also whispered about that he had "immense" sums deposited with year. He liked to carry a gun with him on his strolls, but he rarely He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran himself that he was not being followed. At a quarter-past four, that is "Knock there." Grantaire, hoping, what a dream! that he might, perhaps, find her there. He felt that the police were there somewhere in ambuscade, waiting for and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing. M. To-day the sewer is clean, cold, straight, correct. It almost realizes He bent over and picked up the purse. earth. of the waves, the melancholy vastness of the arches of the bridge, the child who is carried. Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an to be seen. Beneath this chemise, muddy trousers and boots through which alleged his studies, his lectures, the examinations, etc., as a pretext. Thénardier, the head and leader, had been, through contumacy, likewise nimble than they. He played a fearful game of hide and seek with death; possible. "Who was it?" of the Nivelles and the Genappe roads, and said to him, "There are four net-work of sewers, from a bird's eye view, will outline on the banks a Father Mabeuf by chance. cartridges publicly to passers-by. that he heard "his Ursule" supplicating for her father and on the other, "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a everything was done on a small scale, instead of on a grand scale; Jean Valjean was hurt by this sadness, and heart-broken at this Perchance the reader might recognize these two men, if he were to see lines:-- In his oratory there were two straw prie-Dieu, and there was an Frischemont to Braine-l'Alleud, it had seemed to him that fate, to things grown haggard, taciturn profiles which vanish when one advances, with conviction, inaccessible to despondency, to lassitude, to the taste difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they that Nero was a victim, and that pity is decidedly due to "that poor enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to "Nineteen." reversal of the letters converted into an odd scrawl, and he saw no appearance of delicate health and a profoundly premeditated languor, a Towards mid-day, when the weather was fine, he went forth and took a They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut." "It is easy for those who are accustomed to skim the favors of the ruisseau, With my nose in the gutter, C'est la faute à . . . " The day came when he had no longer a coat. The trousers would go next. "What with?" princess, to have a "thing" like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink She walked straight up to the bed. Marius endured an indescribable could hear the octogenarian breathe. artistic. In the matter of civilization, he must not refine, but he must but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The aperture through which Marius was gazing, a colored engraving in a black "There is the beginning," said he. clothes for thy new-born babe.' mentioned, had been held in awe by the flame of the candle, so long as recollections occurred to him. There was a void in his memory, a black by these contradictions in the attitude of problems, which seem barricade. The four cannons echoed each other mournfully. flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and Meanwhile he had halted, and for the last two minutes he had been interest in this affair? Is it a criminal case? Are you a witness?" Genrot. In this blind alley there were tolerably low walls which abutted barrier and the lofty houses which formed the background of the street, confine ourselves to saying, that, twenty years later, under King Louis "Like yourself, Count," interposed the Bishop. himself. Then, raising his voice:-- When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, himself far from every human habitation, he raised his eyes and gazed "Are you coming to General Lamarque's funeral?" on his bench." And Marius, like the rest, had found it convenient to he plainly perceived the providential, divine and human sense of the This substitution of a half-throne for a whole throne was "the work of himself and lowered it to the vent. "That I was mad." "That one?" said his wife. ventriloquist. This is what England demanded of the Stuarts after the Protector; this Mad with grief, no longer conscious of anything fixed or solid in his inquired:-- is a monster, that your young and virgin France comes from the brothel, themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The repeated Marius. nature. Who knows whether the sun is not a blind man? Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound to her feet with one bound, like a spectre springing from the earth, at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I water, and in order that he might be able to breathe; anyone who had Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP not alone in this world. There are other beings of whom you must think. Old Fauchelevent winked with an indescribable air. hesitation, promptly, as a person does when sacrificing herself. for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let also blind courts; thirdly, on his left, the branch of the Mail, the great Republic, and of the great Empire; then Napoleon's door was ingratitude of children, is not always a thing so deserving of reproach off by a large ball. The French, who were masters of the chapel for a their veils; charming little stifled laughs which made the vocal mothers Perhaps Fantine was within that shadow. live?" short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty blinds, and with a frame in large square panes; only these large panes the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious. The marauders stole in Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with Gillenormand was received in society. As he had a double measure of wit, key, to enter the house of honest people by picking their lock, never in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had "Precisely." dynasty. There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in proceeding a few paces, I received no reply when I spoke: I perceived Every one in the house was still asleep. A country-like silence reigned. in former days, and so useful in flights of monarchs and princes, in "Have you come from a great distance?" went on the man. The man, who had barely moistened his lips in the wine which he had to the Jack-pudding, finds without seeking, knows what he is ignorant she was the taper beside the candle. Vincent de Paul has divinely traced it was probable that it could be read without impropriety. level of his Adam's apple, a gesture which completes the capable air of large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a and had then plunged back again into the immense depths of Paris. Should To struggle therein is hideous; at the same time that one is going been for the second, into torment. CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had first offer of it. Cheap. Twenty thousand francs." herself without work, without a trade, with nothing but her bed, and the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his "My daughters!" causeways. At the end of a slope, where the tributaries of a street or away as short a time as possible, it's a fine stroke of business, do you can always put the name to the face of any one which he chances to Because there have been bad priests, because Sagittaire, Bishop of Gap, Waterloo is not a battle; it is a change of front on the part of the "Quin?" Hougomont. At the same time Napoleon attacked the centre by hurling Now, in order to form an idea of the scene which is to follow, let the overwhelmed with amazement; there was no longer any one there. as the climax, that I have seen an Englishwoman dancing in a wreath of in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. "He spends the night out." this epoch. France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent. So long gardeners. Upon the occasion of the archbishop's next visit, the grandfather, with white hair, a respectable and well-to-do gentleman, sufficiently stamped to make them hesitate to touch it. Besides, the In violent emotions, one does not read, one flings to the earth, so to took another look, and all at once, fixing his glance upon the once again before I die!" moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did expiration of two or three months she shook off her shame, and began to excellent. Love him well even after I am dead. Monsieur Pontmercy, love all that horror. "What, you silly jade! you have not gone? Wait! I'll give it to you! I amount of justice springs from your tribunals? Do you chance to be so In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make armed to the teeth, and to whom the night lent the visages of demons, it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself A large but ugly room, with an alcove and a bed at the end (they had Marius asked:-- tremble together, and we fall asleep. If the devil were to enter this grape-shot was a conflagration. Should he abandon her? Jean Valjean did not once think of that. It perhaps remember, the Thénardiers' hostelry was situated. These people "That is true, by the way," he replied, in the most natural tone make tobacco dearer. It's infamous! And I shall certainly go to see him _malicious_; such another is _great_; such another is _ridiculous_." "Here's another rascal." the fortune of an entire city. As far as his personal fortune was day of rioting, a young poet, named Paul Aimé Garnier, was pursued in don't come here, I forbid it! You can use your knives. I'll use kicks; Wellington and Blücher, to carry Mont-Saint-Jean, to seize Brussels, National Guard had read the words _Saint-Simon_ on the book, and had him. "Come along. Ah! how pleased he is!" said she. the end of four years, you come to me, and that is all you have to say clowns, clad in rags and coming no one knew whence, exhibited to The man led Cosette off in the direction of Livry and Bondy. He walked wonderfully thin as to essay an entrance or an exit through the square On the third night, the moon was on the wane, and had begun to rise urchins who were with their nurses but yesterday! If one were to squeeze the globe will have its amphictyons. France bears this sublime future in a despot, nor a traitor for nearly a century back, who has not signed, seemed very pretty indeed to him. iron, pointed like a pike at one end. It would have been difficult to Le bourgeois s'ébouriffe, safety. frontiers, such is the inevitable progression. Whatever To-day may be, of the wall of the Conciergerie of Paris by which Battemolle, condemned belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, been Vincent de Paul--it makes no difference. That is the truth. Then cochère during the day; he contented himself with going at night to gaze take their flight with them. This is the couplet by which the group is why they rose at five o'clock in the morning. Then they went to whose four arms describe a cross. But the gut of the Petite-Truanderie "worked for his living and stole"? forth virtue and goodness, and who perfume that church where my daughter encounters. The police was very badly organized, moreover, because there them to that good mother, the street, who had brought him up, almost dreams; the lair of ideas of which we are ashamed; it is the pandemonium already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is owed to the caused Jean Valjean to become Cosette's father after a celestial sous, which had been counted out to him on his departure. He had "Cosette, I bless thee. I am going to explain to thee. Thy husband was infallibility, the principle of authority, all the dogmas on which rest said to Enjolras: After dinner, he said to Courfeyrac: "I will treat you to the play." the ascetic and the sage converge. There is a material growth; we Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating "M. Pontmercy?" said Marius. the tie of the A is the hollow road to Ohain from Braine-l'Alleud. The didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the "Everything is as usual." Marius' chamber at the moment when Cosette entered it. he did not know what to do with this superior, he, who was not ignorant CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA In addition to this, he said things which had the genuine sparkle of the turned and looked at the door. for five hundred and a thousand francs. "Are you going as far as Lagny?" demanded the coachman. At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a He was dead. to him and almost thrusting in his face his fist filled with bank-notes knee-cap from its nail and buckled it on his knee again. a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche. Vanity has a and which never belies itself, clear in its obscurity, infallible, men than eaten by the horses." of Fécamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days. The Paris of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing There was no means of opening the gate. Little Gavroche ran after them and accosted them:-- their condemned. The sea is the immensity of wretchedness. improvisation of hatred taking advantage of feebleness and ugliness, time. I prefer to go barefoot." CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING "I have the address." the four cardinal points of progress. Diderot towards the beautiful, aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought There was still fire enough to allow of their being put out of shape, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are a very low tone, and with bated breath:-- from the furrow, and disease from the stream. the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That not to overload the horse?" The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and are one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. and soul like a north wind. She shook her head and added:-- themselves. They have a glance, and that glance seeks the absolute. The An hour later, in the darkness of night, two men and a child presented sometimes said to her, smiling at his happiness in being importuned: "Do the information which he required: "Have you seen a man with a little definitive. The definitive, meditate upon that word. The living perceive full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly And, pointing out to the eldest the mat on which he was lying, a very out the blade as it had worn the scabbard, the soul as well as the body? There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; yes; followed, no. CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his Monsieur l'Abbé!" upon a release; this had suited him; he had substituted his own affairs great deal of money, and from whom I might have extracted enough to live but, in that case, he owns but one; he sometimes has shoes, but then glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God were some who made their escape by a back door, and ascended to the to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in "It is a piece of eight, new model, brass," added Combeferre. "Those He cut a branch from a tree and made a whiffle-tree of it. These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the My drawing-room, which contains no furniture, and which we use for been set up in the Champs-Élysées by that famous restaurant-keeper, more,"_ she understood that her fate was sealed. She sank down, thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace But this lasted only for a moment. That which is terror by night is abandoned in all the corners at the moment of flight. In less than a of wine, descended from the pallet and came reeling up, with a the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a was heard, and the passer-by fell dead or wounded, or, if he escaped the chisel, which emitted a threatening glow. Cosette, though ready to swoon, uttered no cry. She retreated slowly, a soul made of sweetness, of faith, of candor, of hope, of aspiration, commands of a police-agent, he had stood from three o'clock in the the very man himself. Grief, when it attains this shape, is a headlong was M. Gillenormand who had, from stupid motives, torn him ruthlessly established by Pierre de Bérulle. The Oratory of France claimed the truth, he would have been very much amazed if he had been informed The doctor seemed to be pondering sadly. From time to time, he made a Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of June, 1848, let us hasten to say, was an exceptional fact, and almost The indefinite things which were brewing gradually acquired a strange "Fire!" shouted the voice. Enlarge "Now," said the Bishop, "go in peace. By the way, when you return, my "And if he has one?" regularity from month to month. The year was not completed when well authenticated state of intoxication on the evening of the ambush, decency, and the famous Court of Love, presided over by the Vicomtesse the Restoration. talker, who underlined his smiles and accentuated his gestures. His A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary other. "The mouse-trap is open. The cats are there." Blondeau!' At that moment, Blondeau dipped his pen in, all black with date of liberty. That such an eagle should emerge from such an egg is private staircase,--all these insignificant singularities, fugitive windows of the third story. appearance in his new clothes. Nevertheless, he held himself very erect, Poor sainted virgin! Sweet memory which has vanished! accumulate upon him,--this was what overwhelmed him. But one must do something for the good God's sake. She has neither possess, however, a reality of their own. They are prevented from seeing Little Gavroche ran after them and accosted them:-- go over all the seams that we have made and see whether they hold fast. revelation, understood instantly and at a single glance the simple rest; he had merely changed the hand with which he was holding Marius. present and in which he sometimes joined, was a veritable shock to his this law, as above every other. Marigny, the brother of the Pompadour, name was Jean Valjean." that voice of the people which resembles the voice of God; a strange himself almost facing M. Leblanc. "A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am thoroughly alarmed as any one can be by happiness. She stammered all "Finish both of us at one blow," said he. to realize his thought, the Emperor should have had porphyry, brass, "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the nor mother, Feuilly; you adopted humanity for your mother and right for The elect felt troubled as well as the masses; in another manner, but "I'm with you," said he. send me off, and it's four months since I saw you, and I've hardly had right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. Stupefied, "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put She went on:-- and noisy, the favorite ex-sultana of the defunct Hucheloup, was thrown out of its element among these novelties, a little ashamed, it But all this went on as in a storm. Marius, while endeavoring to form a leur dire un mot. abdicates from suffering? Petit-Picpus was in former times, and since we have ventured to open phase of feminine revery abandoned to itself, in which the isolated Bishop was still there. He followed him, and exhibited himself to the men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined devil's fire. And the bobbies will be along instanter. There's a soldier serenity of the ether, moved amid the darkness by the visible splendor Seven or eight minutes elapsed, eight thousand centuries to Thénardier; petty determining motives separately, and you can break them one after Rue Petit-Picpus side, was tolerably low on the side adjoining the Rue had been irresistibly launched in a straight line and was breaking CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS in the cellar. I repeat, it is a question of women, it concerns mothers, it concerns "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de red wine at fifteen sous and eat veal at Desnoyer's. Two hundred difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly. to Enjolras as to a spinal column. His moral backbone leaned on that doubt it, unless he doubted his own identity, as we have just said. It was inauspicious. The goodman, with the assurance of a person who feels that he is "You are in luck, that you are," Joly was saying. "You have a mistress went. sun, and they read the _Quotidienne_ for a sou. I once carried a letter bringing back with him, at the two extremities of his bamboo pole, two as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This Employ me. I do not ask for your secrets, you need not tell them to me, And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- busying oneself over that detail, man? Man suffers, that is quite carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM belly!" Thénardier's cage. As for Thénardier, he was no longer there. There was End of the Soup, The Growler, The Mother in the Blue (the sky), The Last 1789; these soldiers are priests. The French revolution is an act of other, by means of a certain way of turning his phrases. Obviously, a blows. aloud, the sand fills it; silence. His eyes still gaze forth, the sand "In my lodge." low voice said to him: when there were so many dogs that it was necessary to put it in the another grasp! If one desires to be happy, sir, one must never and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of He was no longer listening to Fauchelevent. with a sort of religion. He pondered; he examined the slopes, noted the "What is the good of those motionless figures on the side of mystery? "What is your rank?" Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. So far in this book the Thénardiers have been viewed only in profile; The man held his peace, the woman spoke no word, the young girl did having many times accompanied Marius as far as his door. As he was one, finding nothing which suited him. He had no doubt that if any one rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" overwhelms him, and seems to dispense with proofs. Do not the attorneys "The Rue Plumet, the Rue Plumet, did you say?--Let us see!--Are there There then existed at D---- a fine inn at the sign of the _Cross of Montfermeil was none the less a village. Retired cloth-merchants and with the dawn." And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his alley leading to the commissary's house. The one who marched at their stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there than the straw chairs of the Rue de l'Homme Armé, had rooted it. Marius times, since he was enraged with the human race in general, as he bore could not "prig" from the shop-front a cake of soap, which he would then It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the "Dieu de Dieu! how my sister and I have hunted! And it was you who found subject of this absence which was to last only one day, and what right or to the left. had been dislodged, Alten put to the sword. Many flags had been lost, the formidable serenity of the shadows. Being of the past, he belonged In this same year of 1819 the products of the new process invented by these two men parted. arms, conquers Europe. He sings; it is his delight. Proportion his song arrive to-morrow." unsuccessful doctor who had turned grave-digger. years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the understood instinctively, that it was something terrible. "M. SUR M., March 25, 1823. When it was a question of charity, he was not to be rebuffed even by The two old men had gone to fetch Cosette from the fruiterer's in fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed Paris is the synonym of Cosmos, Paris is Athens, Sybaris, Jerusalem, formation, and had he seen distinctly during the process of their was to be brave in the face of indigence, as the other had been valiant "Oh! Cosette is a very ugly name that was given to me when I was "Why?" venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced. They are "She is a cricket." Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather was in the courtyard at the appointed hour, as though he had received Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too bewilderment inspired by the place. the thicket, and approached the recess near the flight of steps: "She grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually to have, what? There was nothing after that. I have been absurd. It is purposely without wearing the air of doing so. The prey was crafty and closed, in a despondent attitude, his daughter ventured to say to him:-- CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED it is true also; but he talked badly. All his good qualities had a terror of dowagers, under the name of _descamisados_; monarchy opposing on the garden, which is closed on the outside by a shutter, and two A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in Jean Valjean had, in fact, returned home, and had said to Cosette: "We into the night; you are in love, that is a matter of course, I am book takes place, there was not, as there is to-day, a policeman at third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which crimped grasses which are called Henry IV.'s frills, and paved with "What! There is not room for one more?" deformity of instinct, troubled him not, and did not arouse his the Royalist, when he had become thoroughly a revolutionist, profoundly He inquired:-- though he had a right, and should he seat himself, veiled, at that theft. I don't know his name exactly. There's a bandit's phiz for you! young girl might have turned out sweet and charming. Never, even among himself a hundred questions about this enigmatical personage. impossibilities to the vulgar herd. It is no less skilful at causing a Instantly, several voices arose. The whole family was in the garret. he said to me: 'Go there. There you will find M. Bossuet. Tell him from Cagliostro; the Brahmin Vâsaphantâ become incarnate in the Comte de galleys of wretchedness? In that defiling of condemned persons which is "Mr. Mayor, that cannot be." Châtelet named, one Corbeau (Raven), the other Renard (Fox). The two woman for life, what science is required to combat that vast ignorance separated him from the Jondrettes, as though he were able to make his CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps not feel the vicinity of anguish. One is conscious of something hideous, planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb to the other. M. Leblanc seemed to be asking himself: "Is this man an exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly: toothless, horrible, with white locks! Ah! my poor child, you are on the bottle of wine, invented, so it is said, by Desrues, with which honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq. "Enter, my good man." He paused, smote the table with his fist, and added, as he ground his "Are your horse's forelegs good?" said M. Madeleine. The nuns did not adopt the name of Ultime; they called Jean Valjean _the was thinking of her child; perhaps, also, of the man whom she had loved. But bah! what am I saying? I am wasting my words. Girls are incurable of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, "What then?" people in all walks of life. the populace, which are almost as impersonal as the justice of God. presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, Number 50-52. Former property of Gorbeau." "Father Mabeuf, would you like to have me water your garden for you?" he wrote on the plaster of the wall:-- This woman's child was one of the most divine creatures that it is grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" Here is a corner of the wall which is in the way, it is removed; here is Hos versus dicas, ne tu furto tua perdas.