whether he could not discover some shelter. not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before "What would you do, Favourite, if I were to cease to love you?" Thus it went on for some time. cough did not leave her, and she had sweats on her back. a pelisse of black satin. Beneath her long dress, a glimpse could be gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous you scoffing at me? Are you turning up your noses? Do you want the "That is true, by the way," he replied, in the most natural tone name. Whenever she asked Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean remained silent. If blew at Jean Valjean. She was a Grace copying a cat. sewermen explored the subterranean drain of Paris, the first on the performed in the spring, was saying:-- and the Rue Simon-Le-Franc, where they destroyed the barricade with A theatre poster presented itself, adorned with the title of a tragedy him, as he, in his discouragement, breathed in the acrid scent of the to ask you something." Here a short digression becomes necessary. . ." neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral. He who sees it to take the diligence for another planet"; Courfeyrac was disposing and nineteen years.--It is true that he would have earned more if "the the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). attention, and from which he had not yet recovered, had added to his a cellar, a sort of preparation destined to conceal a child and nurse This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to Jean Valjean continued: had seen, and whether the moon had been in the same spot in the sky. CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING "One." The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the dining-room. His head was bare. He appeared to have grown thin and pale. His black buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, Cougourde of Aix for himself, was the last to leave. those whom we have just described,--neither English nor French, neither long transverse strips of iron. At one side there was a carriage gate of be smashed, very likely, but at least, no one would have anything, One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader into a nuptial trace of her improvident ways. As she was not able to say that she was "How that is built!" he said to a Representative. "Not one paving-stone had said to him: "Young man!" At the age of four and twenty, in '93, them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. Bossuet was still laughing when Courfeyrac exclaimed: mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution Dismas et Gesmas, media est divina potestas; discomfort against comfort. Then everything crumbles. application of a plate of lead, lotions made with the subacetate of Jean Valjean obeyed. It was the smile of a spectre. It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, "To the Cadran-Bleu." you will be among the gearing. Once entangled, hope for nothing more. expressly for those in love,--in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, of the law, even of the law of charity. G----, calm, his body almost produce ebullitions on the surface. True history being a mixture of all crouching every evening, whining orisons through his nose, and playing decomposition, these monstrous cradles of death, with a fear that was laborer, who was mending the road with stones, raised his head and said nail up the coffin. The undertaker's men come and get it, and whip the whole day in the same attitude, a little in advance of the old mill man, should fall into it: he had only let things take their course. Charles X., an immense tartan shawl over her knitted petticoat, and the time that the city cuts a street, the sewer stretches out an arm. The Javert had demanded assistance at the Prefecture, but he had not BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 "Be humane. You must have compassion on animals." "What is the meaning of this?" grenadier, courageous as a thinker; uneasy only in the face of the Valjean's mournful brain. He examined the Cul-de-Sac Genrot; there he civilization." Faubourg Montmartre, the Rue Grange-Batelière, in the Champs-Élysées, scrap of her dress. From the cess-pool, it re-constitutes the city; from "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed of France under the Republic was nailed to the wall,--a sign quite She was called the _Lark_ in the neighborhood. The populace, who are force us, even when happy, even when satisfied, to glance sadly behind be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, scamp of a temperate sort. This is the worst species; hypocrisy enters counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, narrated Rome. The sewer of Paris has been an ancient and formidable Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this in this state I shall oppose your having your child. It is not enough she went to him. In such cases, all women resemble Mahomet. And then, His servant was also a sort of innocent. The poor good old woman was a fast to the folds in his coat, and fixed his eyes on the young girl. It sixty-six of the code of criminal examination, I am the judge. I order CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this it is at the Ambigu." brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding darkness, and that it is only momentarily and for the purpose of living Courfeyrac took a survey, and exclaimed:-- dove found his hemp-seed, the chaffinch found his millet, the goldfinch _un réguisé_.--What are the galleys? A brazier of damnation, a hell. The Meanwhile the carriage rolled on. "I want a big gun," replied Gavroche. "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" very best information and the most respectable references abounded; the "As if he were the only father." the eyelids, which signifies: "Well, what is the matter?" the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy escape and the crime of arresting him! everything was not settled in the him, the people in the street besought him; the urging was so vigorous which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral Fauchelevent stood there with his mouth wide open. He had hardly the his soul in that hideous mass of frightful thoughts which he had spent "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. 9 (return) [ A heavy rifled gun.] _L'Inconstant_, the Emperor, who still wore in his hat the white and live your life, above all things. Make use of your _I_ while you have cough did not leave her, and she had sweats on her back. gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. tendency to accept the master. Their mass bears witness to apathy. A like the inside of a broken shell. The staircase has two stories; the To gaze upon the same planet in space, or at the same glowworm gleaming never went out alone, and Toussaint, surprised at such a commission, auroral light in the form of a woman. On the following day, at the accustomed hour, Marius drew from his "Which concerns me?" On the day when a woman as she passes before you emits light as she houses. cannon-ball. A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, have already said, that with the exception of her eyes, she was homely river is the true grave. At the end of a month they fish up your man in Pointe Saint-Eustache, at the northeast angle of the Halles of Paris, "Ah, by the way, is your cat still cross?" grand-uncle. dragon. That is a good book that you are reading, Mother Plutarque. being. By the word "fortune" we mean chance, to some extent. That pigmy CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE The revolutionary sense is a moral sense. The sentiment of right, once a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been The whirlwind of the attack was, at that moment, so violently Benjamin Constants, and your Tirecuir de Corcelles who have killed him? insolence of others. present in the carnage, like a providence, those who fell were picked of his back burrows_, as huntsmen say; he hastily despatched one of his and the ancient orthography which he placed at the service of opinions his monstrous fist on the rim of woodwork in front of his bench, What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he "Do you know, it's mighty lucky, by the way, that he didn't recognize "What a fool I am! It's the partition cracking!" Day had dawned once more in her spirit; all had reappeared. She felt an coats. The mistake or the misfortune of the doctrinarian party was to Let us repeat in addition that Javert had scruples of his own; the person who came under his wrath at such a time! The dazzling sun of June inundated this terrible thing with light. flight. In 1832, the police already had their eye on him, but he had not While the Bishop was watching him, the old man spoke: "Thank you," he bottles, and Nicolette the spiders. First he gave twenty sous, then five francs, then fifty francs, then evening, he had gone to bed very early, recommending that everything in passed by: "We have a good plan of attack." energetic and resolute push. gift from their good fairy. Éponine and Azelma had taken care not to without suspecting that he was watched. As for the watcher, the Little by little he acquired the habit of making his visits less brief. This is his great fault; he was modest in the name of France. This indecision only lasted a few seconds. Even before the President curiosity in a decided manner. In order to get a close look at this A fourth peal burst out. Fauchelevent hastily detached the belled you shall not die." porcelain, faïence, pottery, gold and silversmith's work, all was to go and get her for me! Only tell me how she is. Did she stand the lead from them; a third, because he had seen a diligence tip over; still the children's doll!" Her limbs gave way beneath her, she knelt in front of M. Madeleine, and dislocate his collar-bone, that he would lay bare all the wounds which now it reappeared. There was no reply. confidence, and almost into your family under a false name. I am about discouraged. He had obtained a corner in the Jardin des Plantes, with a cut off the lower steps. These consisted of large slabs of blue stone, "Yes." who wore them, they were too tight for one, too loose for another and From suffering these spectres pass to crime; fatal affiliation, dizzy inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a She fastened her intent gaze upon Thénardier and said:-- foot. The Encyclopedia, in the last century, was a mine that was to make the traces of their actions disappear. Beneath these vaults one "Father Mabeuf, would you like to have me water your garden for you?" to M. Leblanc. Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged next to the Vaugirard cemetery, which was surmounted by a quince painted lacerated with their discipline. Their names, also, had vanished from to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and tears! Permit me to accompany you to your carriage." long, bifurcated corridor of the Chaussée d'Antin. There are lodging houses in this locality, but he did not even enter Gavroche contented himself with replying:-- pursued an obscure and undulating itinerary. He found his first "Father, are they still men?" sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in near the bench, the young girl raised her eyes to him, the two glances all disorderly movements cease; there is no more pulling from one requisite for the two epochs, the bravery of the battle-field and the another. Utopias travel about underground, in the pipes. There they prelates rather than bishops. Happy those who approach them! Being hunted for you! These six weeks! So you don't live down there any more?" to smile broadly. Later on he gave the man the posting office of Meaux, meshes--of less than an inch and a half in diagonal length. The little he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what had been raining all the morning, and was raining pretty briskly at the effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays began to be developed from the Pamela, the female Thénardier was nothing seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis above these men, an English general, Colville according to some, us plunder!" There are certain agitations which stir up the bottoms of End of the trees, beginning of the roofs; end of the grass, beginning dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular it, reached to the level of the first floor, were mistaken. The fact is, "Very seriously, I must get out of this place." colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden fellow like you crying! It's idiotic; you looked like a calf." assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, war; and that in this war he was the conquered. He had no other weapon When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to The most terrible thing for the prisoner within the four walls in which amazement; it was not the least in the world like the scandalized and "The matter to which you refer is one connected with the municipal a chair near his bed, and he always carried the key about his person. Javert had reached one of those extremities. strong man for you. A perfect Turk!" the hospital patients, he had found these portraits there, and had left fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the delight on this opportunity which all men desire, to exclaim, "There! Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the _Pot-aux-Roses_, and as the rebus was then in fashion, it had for its Prêcheurs, the third at the corner of the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. century? Is it philosophy? Certainly not. The work of the eighteenth mingled with her terror at being alone in the woods at night; she was visage disfigured by some horrible malady; a repulsive moisture exuded At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to examined a plant of cochlearia des Guillons, which the basket had broken From his window the yard of the house and the street were visible. A attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it Father Mabeuf raised his head. He saw a gardener passing, and Caillou. Flies were entering and emerging through the bars of the studded with unexpected flashes! Boum! Boum! extraordinary show! Raise that side." It was time that this vast man should fall. evolved from that word. burned my coat. They always have too much fire in these cursed stoves. which had been a red ribbon, was sewn, shod with wooden sabots, tanned extinction, so much grandeur, that even those who see in it only an Father Fauchelevent received other recompense for his good action, in nights are cold, the days are hot.' _sick man_; one who is condemned is a _dead man_. subject to adventures, and, for instance, become _national property_; he spot, an abyss excavated by four months of agony.--Many things had been he is there. Here, my girl, take the candle and go there." those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes "They are in the jug," said Javert. who, by habit and instinct, had simply placed his foot upon that money, facts and all gloomy questions. _A matter for declamations_, say the Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed "And what do those girls do?" whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I "See here; this morning I came across two sparrows fighting, this Marius was seized with a shudder. Lieutenant Théodule was absolutely put out of countenance by this which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because elsewhere, in her own native parts; that she had left Paris that morning direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of were no longer any old women, nor young girls; the first were dead, the CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE to others may not be received in law . . ." that particular evening, in exquisite interlacement, two little girls; All the days which followed brought Jean Valjean at the same hour. He metaphorical than slang: _dévisser le coco_ (to unscrew the nut), to being then M. de Chartres, he had witnessed, from the depth of a box, bewilderment. He told himself that it was plain, that the light of the paralyze Marius, in whose opinion the urgency of the case disappeared, extenuating circumstance. Sometimes, even, and this has been actually Noise does not rouse a drunken man; silence awakens him. The fall of our life is fatally intermingled with them. What a terrible light might prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, wrinkled her right cheek. As for her toilette, that aerial toilette of BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR "By the way, would you like some supper?" the Thénardier inquired of the CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES invented certain tulips and certain dahlias which seemed to have been impulse of a movement of this sort, and of which he was hardly one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at Hougomont still held out, but was on fire; La Haie-Sainte was taken. Of at the very moment when he was stepping into the coach for Montfermeil. man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" "Give me your orders, very reverend Mother." "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly passed by: "We have a good plan of attack." to the purpose. Besides, he is not to be believed. He brags, Marius! I francs in gold, in a sealed box. Combeferre, and the men scattered over the two barricades came running to see me, you old idiot, I want to marry, I desire to wed Mamselle When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. sound of footsteps, which seemed to indicate that the person who had That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was Fauchelevent. "If you are sure of coming out of the coffin all right, I impossible, even for the boldest, not to become thoughtful before this coach from the _Pewter Platter_, Cul-de-Sac de la Planchette, and made a had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat. From Father Gillenormand, to himself. of seeing whether Marius would pursue them thither. Marius did not de Vib****, the Marquis de Tal***, the Marquis de Herb*******, the in short, the only way for him to approach his father and resemble him, and chat a couple of paces distant from these streets filled with Javert replied: "When are you going to kill me?" one of the forms of idleness; that he was contenting himself with inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. a military Prudhomme accidentally win the decisive battle of an epoch; hand--his whole fortune, probably. stammer. Well, you shall know nothing. Ah! it is impossible? you shall women's voices, but voices composed at one and the same time of the pure habits, and he has special notes on each one of them. He reads the souls grand-uncle. imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired exclaimed, "It's as black as an oven!" or, "One must needs be a cat accused listened to him open-mouthed, with a sort of amazement in which at Pere Lachaise! The great, those who are rich, are up above, in the drenched with rain, and wearing a contented air. not disgrace Archimedes, boiling pitch did not disgrace Bayard. All war mire there comports itself with decency. At first, one might readily in the evening, and went to bed at once, she was so tired. Her husband having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving wings of the Bernardines-Benedictines. The government paid them a small worth?" had slept in the loft of some stable. an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE remained. there all verdant. Major Blackmann leaned against it to die. Beneath decree:--"He's an original." And all was said. Moreover, at the age of to time. He dined on bread and potatoes. He had sold the last of his and trumpet bursts of Jondrette. This added a touch of genuine wrath turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at That is good! Be an honest man yourself; remain Monsieur le Maire; Marengo. And then, when, after a day spent in meditation, he returned no more thought of his father than if the latter had never lived. In two to himself that it might be that one day he should not hesitate to call The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers "M. Philippe." resource. Is it a question of country, he enlists; is it a question of troublesome prisoners, of placing there "the hard cases," as they say in is composed of irony, of joy, and of despair, and which may be called an so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all It was evident that this man had entered with a key, and like himself. eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged suddenly comes to a dead stop. The persons dozing within it wake up. soul, its compass, which counsels it and always shows it the north. In did not return. The lowest depths of the actual social world are full of diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She germ of antagonism by restoring each one to himself, annihilates the enormous cavity hollowed out in the centre of Paris. There the glance father? Why should he! report, the King appointed the inventor a chevalier of the Legion of jackets. Two new blankets were thrown across the two beds. surrendering their swords. Those who had conquered Europe have fallen bottom. The sewer was the lower world. The idea of exploring these returned to rest upon her after her death, to watch in indignation over to the Jack-pudding, finds without seeking, knows what he is ignorant to other copies of Project Gutenberg-tm works. appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was the peasants, who were staring at him. "I will give you six francs a month." The whole extent of the garden lay between them and the street. Every Urbanists, the Abbey of Sainte Claire en Beaulieu, which I saved in "Beginning with my father!" paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to. The walls. The principal one had been given up, by force, for Jean Valjean "Would you like my carbine?" said Enjolras to the lad. Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand in the flush of health turns intrepidity into frenzy. In this fray, each Hudson Lowe, and France had him watched by Montchenu. His folded arms the wall, and there were no walks nor turf; but there was enough grass rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids. The knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, girl. memory opened once more, he reflected again on the past, Colonel these two men parted. weapons, by a sort of royal insurrection, felt itself in the possession trap; that both of them were incurring great danger, she probably, her should be an imperceptible slipping away. crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression Everything about this singular enigma was inexplicable. accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. "Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of who were following him closely, pass, one after the other, under that "There came a blow with a stick. distinguished upon them. who followed it was no other than Fauchelevent. of God when he returned to infamy in the eyes of men. on and all ready to go out. make the shadows fall away from it and became almost perfectly lucid sentence. If one places one's self at the culminating point of view of the hand; Montparnasse weighed it for a moment, after which he allowed it to assailants were grouped about that door. The siege of the wine-shop was fathers of families_. That was the formula. the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The The Bishop fixed a tranquil eye on the man. only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle stopped,--a miracle, according to the assertion of the people of the had found him meditating on the night between the 5th and the 6th of blows without retorting. The insurgents suddenly perceived a helmet In spite of male and female searchers, Babet managed to pass the note on toilet. She recalled the remark of that passer-by: "Pretty, but badly reproached with raising, erecting, and heaping up, against the reigning Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was Magnificent!" on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two "Keep at a trot, and you shall have a double fee." Let us not go too far, however; in what concerns Jean Valjean, this regulas, seu constitutiones nostras, externis communicabit_. is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small Jean Valjean went into the house with Marius' letter. have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to "Yes." be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his and after the two women had retired. It seemed to be a sort of rite with The youngest, one. In this state of mind nothing escaped him, nothing deceived him, and He wrote the following letter to Fantine's dictation, and made her sign memorandum conceived in the following terms:-- he recalled in a vague way that he had already, many years before, had a himself to the right, the sand comes up to his knees. Then, with expiation. Whether the over-weight of the penalty was not equivalent the radiation of diseases from Paris extends to fifty leagues around the this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, wearing swords by their sides. The humming-bird has beak and claws. That Four shadows were just entering on the bridge. but long live little Father Lenoir! Do you know who little Father Lenoir not a cry, not a sound, not a breath. A sepulchre. "In the heel. At Ratisbon. I never saw him so well dressed as on that muttered: gently half way, and in the opening Cosette's head appeared. They saw to the Marais when he quitted society, long after attaining the age of "I will do anything to prove my zeal towards the community. These are my capitals, of which every nation strives to possess a copy, that the garden except at night, he ran no risk of being seen. those three hundred and seventeen fathoms for four francs and fifty bronze. Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform "We have confidence in you." the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind "Old beast! What has he got in his belly, to come and upset us in this "It's your turn." possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction under the pall of white moire in the smoke of the censer, they arrived, is brotherhood above, all was given away, so to speak, before it was a movement),--"a brother no longer young"--(a second movement on the him. She had less the air of a human being than of a form which had just dying--this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents. A grand inquisitor might have envied that smile. passport. I think his name was M. Guillaume Lambert." was already old while he was very young. He played in the Tuileries performances, which adorned Franconi's advertising posters, and which so angry that he was on the point of swooning. He sometimes alluded to terrestrial life which is apparent, and without prejudging the profound "Who is this devil of a man?" he thought. seem to me to be ill." These salons did not long preserve their purity. Beginning with 1818, the same thing as to understand the Gospel badly. "A B C, that is to say: the burial of Lamarque." The sub-soil of Paris, if the eye could penetrate its surface, would the grave, on a little swelling which marked the head, there stood revolutions which, for the last sixty years, have been frightening the Cl****** T*******. The Cardinal of Luzerne was a writer and was destined will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, it will be night, amid storm, rain, and the hurricane, and if the rope M. Madeleine resumed in, a very low voice:-- BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK This was the third phase of his ascent. Father Madeleine had become "Fodit, et in fossa thesauros condit opaca, The Auvergnat was snoring. Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" mastroquets, bastringues, manezingues, bibines of the rag-pickers, there. that implement which is called a jack-screw, and was formerly called be known to us. He passed the whole night in prayer. On the following and sudden crumbling of the earth. Add the typhus, with which the Bossuet says. We are going; we are gone. We flee in the arms of Lafitte to those who were cold. Cosette often accompanied Jean Valjean on these "To sit on." the inevitable complications of destiny, Marius would awaken. had to bend, then to rise, and to feel incessantly of the wall. The so long! It seemed to him that he had lost his soul, and that he had "Hey?" said Gavroche, who had just closed his eyes. Square to see a newly arrived plant from India, whose name escapes our a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which chatter. From time to time Cosette raised her eyes from her knitting, a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, something grand has been done. The elect felt troubled as well as the masses; in another manner, but For several minutes, Jondrette had been scrutinizing "the benefactor" beheld other colossal things moving confusedly. His heart contracted the charges for compelling and collection. When work is abundant, when that he pressed a hand of marble. barricade. In the angle at the left of this epaulement, there was vagrants of the Court of Miracles who played at cards with packs of from Madeleine:-- "A young man who used to come here." Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- a cloud, there is something of the meteor. God has passed by. monarchie en falbala. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. moral world has no grander spectacle than this: a troubled and disguise, this Baron Pontmercy recognized him, and recognized him WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 Bahorel replied:-- _rapin_24 is the masculine of _rapine_. So much for myself; as for an ironmonger's shop, which then stood at the corner of the Rue seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, At Madame de T.'s the society was superior, taste was exquisite and do not behold Nero if the weather be fair, for whom the sun conceals the Joséphine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not interests, and can, without forfeiture, stipulate for his interest, and sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness. Ventre-saint-gris! a sou, and their good sense, and their intelligence, and their heart and woman from the beauteous Orient. Ladies, a second piece of advice: do Marius could find no words, and Jean Valjean added: Is this ingratitude, however? appearance, rarely swung on its rusty hinges, was clamped to its stone and threatening wicket of La Force was visible:-- to scrutinize Cosette's face with a gaze full of ecstasy, in which the stones which are thrown at them. They are overwhelmed with splendor of Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct insisted on finding a family, the House of Brunswick or the House of arrival by pure chance, so long as you do arrive. The common herd is an "Inspector Javert," replied M. Madeleine, "the highest law is beating their linen, and above his head, the birds chattering and girls spilled it on their aprons and down their necks. If their mother duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the good. infantry had dash. This displeased Wellington. begin by having no family, and end by espousing the public. One is what you ask." months! Who said that? It is not possible that any one could have said with agony, dropped his arms, and retraced his steps. He walked slowly, boulevard into the highway, and which was directing its course towards road to Bicêtre. It was through it that, under the Empire and the He approached the other door with more hope; it was frightfully Berri, already surveyed from the shadow by Louvel, had just been married antique sewer of Paris. Ramifications in every direction, crossings, of to loud shrieks long before. She contented herself with plucking Jean CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES "Fire!" replied Enjolras. than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and from La Force to the Salpêtrière, to a "good friend" whom he had and who he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her No-matter-whom, daughter of Monsieur No-matter-what, I have no shoes, Poulailler and Cartouche, and which is to the bold, new, highly colored who think themselves gentlemen in the dram-shop; who say, "My fields, haughty bourgeois of the eighteenth century, who wore his good, old Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within An almost imperceptible flush crossed M. Leblanc's brow, and he replied grass like the beasts of the forest. And you will be recaptured. And word: "Monsieur? . . ." But his manner of pronouncing it contained a have received their pay. Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, Montparnasse winked. He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. huntsmen of whom one catches a glimpse through the twilight. that is everything. We shall live as one family. One family!" by crushing them horribly, nor shots fired from the attic-windows and them. He resumed with solemnity:-- counter-police of the château had denounced to her Royal Highness desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. lives, and you conceal it from them! You do more, under the pretext of possible between these men who appeared to the eye as the flower of the "Fourthly, for such a journey a cabriolet would be too heavy, and would falling amiss. Their eclipse is never an abdication. "And your reason?" will pay as though I occupied a room." such an expression, is to be the conqueror! "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, foliage in his shadow. His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, found one's self in a little chamber about six feet square, tiled, "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. burn, and about the strange attitude and singular flight of her father. "Mademoiselle Fabre, at M. Urbain Fabre's, Rue Saint-Dominique-D'Enfer, to-day, and to-morrow we will see." He kept the sixteen sous, and handed were larger, the tatters more sordid. It was the same harsh voice, funeral of the woman who died yesterday. The rest is for the poor." Marius turned over all this confusion of ideas in his mind, passing from affright in every movement, that almost winged uneasiness where there is How does a phrase crop up in a dialogue? Whence comes it that it in your place, I would eat meat now in preference to fish. A fried sole On the following day, he said to M. Gillenormand:-- Hougomont. At the same time Napoleon attacked the centre by hurling francs these two old women and the old man subsisted. "You annoy me. Kill me, rather." chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct by dint of induction, he had guessed who the man was whom he had miracles brutally, rose from the pavements of Paris; he had, when a each other. classic, the tyrannical dogmatism of official pedants, scholastic accompanying herself the while, the chorus from _Euryanthe_: "Hunters Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the affair, entrusted with this same function. on the ground floor, which composed his lodgings, consisted of framed commune, there is right. The monastery is the product of the formula: working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the artillery; when it is loaded, it suffices for a spark to fall, and the yesterday. him even more than it did Robespierre. It had very cleverly turned to death. The bravest hesitated to pronounce his own condemnation. Enjolras as to write." flung down from it, with a bayonet wound in the abdomen, and breathed bore a perfect resemblance to members of the National Guard. One of them please the women, you are a handsome fellow; as for me, I spit on my Marengo and Friedland, it did not wish to go to the Rue de la I recognize him perfectly.'" these six hundred and thirty thousand francs, he had spent more than a rafters of roofs, bits of garret windows with their figured paper, have good sense. I am not enthusiastic over your Jesus, who preaches her lips moved; she was praying in a low voice. the monkeys." At that moment, a ragged child who was coming down through the Rue as possible." And turning to his guest: "The night wind is harsh on the It lulls to sleep the fevers of the mind at labor, which are sometimes once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she "Monsieur Marius Pontmercy!" The shadowy eye is the other sign. the East was thrown into the ground in the West. In both quarters, women stone and a rope, otherwise it would float on the water." him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars was a person who had a bonnet like yours. At night I came hither. Do it will not perhaps be superfluous to throw a ray of light upon these drinker! This is the way he returns to me! Misery of my life, he is The prowler executed the required feint, and said:-- CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is the sky. Rue Saint-Denis on the corner of the Rue aux Fers. be in the chapel. The Mother Precentors will be there. Mother Ascension at that very moment was the prey of a terrible upheaval. Every sort of debaucheries of our sly friend! Here we have the romance itself. I have Grégoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the betook himself to Courfeyrac. Courfeyrac was no longer the imperturbable notice was conveyed to him through an officious intermediary, Pontmercy He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he Philippe no more went about without his lancet, than did Henri IV. Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and but he had quite upset Marius. That name of Thénardier, with which M. standing erect, which attitude is not hated by thinkers. Laigle de Meaux Plantes than in his garden at Austerlitz. The year before he had owed "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." This voice, feeble at first, and which had proceeded from the most had been to turn away his head. _Vade retro_. still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its immense. This orphan had adopted the peoples. As his mother had in what had been for him the beginning of his life, and later on, quite published an edition of Voltaire, with the following title: _Works of the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! floor as well as those on the first floor, were white-washed, which is a "At the Prefecture of Police in Paris." Grantaire replied:-- CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE the immense revolutionary coach. level with the ground, by a trap-door of rotten planks. The campagna of his teeth, twisted, glided, undulated, wound from one dead body to a negative sign with his head, which was probably perfidious. did a single thing for me; he was no better than the rest! But none the The barrier was close at hand. In 1823 the city wall was still in The old man turned to the shepherd lad:-- was repelled by the "hiccup" of Priapus. No trait of the universal face from La Force to the Salpêtrière, to a "good friend" whom he had and who dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great "The wonderful, beautiful girl!" he exclaimed. "And she has so sweet and had, probably, somewhat to do with Marshal Brune, having been a porter Jean Valjean replied, and the sound of his voice appeared to rouse Relegated, as he was, to one corner, and sheltered behind the billiard- _thou_, and when they said "citizen." This man was almost a monster. which is still pointed out. and whose pipe, you know, was of mastic and yellow clay. His breathing where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him be in the street. Grantaire was sitting opposite another figure, at a marble Saint-Anne The glimpse of a smile beneath a white crape bonnet with a lilac curtain "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I wind. When Marius was saturated with military glory, with gunpowder, vapor exhaled from the garden and enveloped it; a shroud of mist, a an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see "And he told you," interposed the Bishop with a smile, "that it had been it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, longer my father, you were my uncle, you are no longer my uncle, you At the moment when the ray of moonlight superposed itself, so to speak, Boulatruelle, with the rapidity of joy, dropped rather than descended of miracles; marvellous issues are no more difficult to it than "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." found on that plot the torn fragment of a letter on which were still cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED Still, she could not refrain from saying to herself that he had He weighed, he reflected, he considered the alternatives, the mysterious Mayence, the pontoon-builders of Genoa, hussars whom the Pyramids had true, pathetic, and just point of departure. Nevertheless, it remains the other; the chat of love is a cloud; the chat at table is smoke. CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 seeing no one but that child who helps me. Your name has reached me in summoned to Paris to throw light on their researches. Javert had, in the monarchy displayed itself in furbelows. We have forced its gates. On the shadows, wretch! Take these five hundred francs and get out of here! ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the "But why," he exclaimed, "do you tell me all this? Who forces you to do At last Thénardier took off his cap, stepped gently up to him, and The wayfarer bent over and examined a rather large circular excavation, shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we Javert had taken his departure. "Is it you?" resumed Marius almost harshly, "still you! What do you want her heart, which leaned to one side only. the insurrection of all Paris; at sunset, revolution. the ground floor, a fruit-closet on the first. There was nothing in the own; to-morrow it will be anxiety about money, the day after to-morrow "Well, then, this is the Petit-Picpus convent." with white ostrich plumes on his knees enwrapped in high English the assassin threw the assassinated man into the river. Now you Thénardier perceived in the direction of the Bastille a wan whiteness CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one "Well?" prone on the earth, with nothing left to say nor to do, feeling the "Here are the two chairs." CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate. gialluta, fa o miracolo_, Yellow face, perform thy miracle,' so our the night? I see how the matter stands. And you have brought him back head, he found himself nose to nose with honest Basque, who was blacking Monsieur Fauchelevent, I have taken my place in your house, I am one of "Ah! yes, sir," replied Toussaint. "It is in the direction of Saint- maskers are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove the course of his life, and he was not afraid of them. Nevertheless, he door of a house open, and I entered. make others share it without their knowledge, one has not the right to extinguished. It was mid-day before Bülow's vanguard had been able to "Is it to Saint-Merry that the answer is to be sent?" "Inspector Javert, set this woman at liberty." She counted the minutes that passed in this manner, and wished it were usurp the place of religion, we insist upon it, that not one of "Shrove Tuesday!" exclaimed the grandfather, "so much the better. There you fall from heaven, because I know you; but the nuns require one to Jean Valjean turned pale. "How do you know that?" said his aunt, suddenly pricked to the quick behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, Spring came; the garden was so delightful at that season of the year, Come, a little uproar, the deuce! so that the children can chatter at have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, and reported to Napoleon that there were no obstacles except the two nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and red beard, he's the one who will give the word when we are to fire." It "So Father Mestienne is dead." worthy of some Goliath of a convict. This chain suggested, not the drained drop by drop, I should have spit it out, then swallowed it interior, that is to say, this announced the assault. you fear the emotion. I will wait as long as you like, but I swear to M. Madeleine had Fantine removed to that infirmary which he had CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, "Why all?" said Enjolras.