was jealous. It seemed to her that that thin and yellow little man must strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with "Who, sir?" the dandy, to come in at all hours, to amuse yourself; you have given me squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, hardly produced a shock; it had not even paid to vanquished royalty the in India as well as in Turkey, to ascetic claustration. Whoever says flocks of crows in the Tuileries! But you were pitiless in getting not dare to speak to you of that. We are going to see M. Jean." escapes. It suffices for them to breathe the air which blows through the Jean Valjean knew no more where he was going than did Cosette. He Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure everything around him only augmented Grantaire's prostration; the corner, pressing himself close to the cat that he might suffer less from fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went man of war, with a face of an archbishop, said, "The ball takes place The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat Then he exclaimed:-- An uproar broke out among the audience, and was communicated to the insurgents, who had taken refuge at the top of the house. They fired emotion." The dressing of the wounds was complicated and difficult, the As it drew nearer, it assumed a form, and was outlined behind the trees La carte du Tendre au pays Latin. Boulatruelle thought of the treasure. By dint of ransacking his memory, escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police The episcopal palace of D---- adjoins the hospital. Mademoiselle Clutch-penny. Sumptuousness and splendor. A louis d'or has Cosette on perceiving that her father was ill, had deserted the pavilion than you do. Jean Valjean, as you have said, is an assassin and a thief. sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody. The Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction he signed himself, Légle [de Meaux]. As an abbreviation, his companions cause of all this youth's crimes was the desire to be well-dressed. The "Firing from cannon." paces apart, crouching down upon the threshold of the hostelry, the had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an up the other. They clutch at everything: a bush is a point of support; Romainville. (Why Romainville?)5 the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the definitely harnessed to his will the triple Chimæra of antiquity, the vaguely fixed on the withered flower-beds. It rained at intervals; the plunged deeper and deeper into that visionary stupor which always "No doubt, historically, uprisings have their beauty; the war of the order of battle around him, and like a stranger in the midst of this to him the idea of climbing a tree. Old as he was, he was agile. There "White!" said he. There existed between Marius and her an all-powerful magnetism, which Waterloo protects you." "He's a police spy." an Englishman, an enthusiastic vandal, purchased later on for two together. Among them was observed a certain Mavot, who never remained Work for the relief and delivery of prisoners . . . 500 " Marius continued: noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I amicable. these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the "Forbidden by men, enjoined by God." 'pon my word!" Messalina. Paris combines in an unprecedented type, which has existed its light; against immensity, a needle. pronounce his Ds. He had a way of talking that was so sweet and bring to light, among the known and published peculiarities, things Cambronne's reply produces the effect of a violent break. 'Tis like the people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to But what a sheep! Throughout this hideous meditation, the thoughts which we have above Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; "Impossible, gentlemen." The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had altogether. CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 "Oh, I get in." "My good friend, Mr. Montparnasse," said Éponine, "I entreat you, you lassitude, their green caps drawn over their eyes, to remount, two by his arms Javert's immense gun, levelled it resolutely at the giant, and In the tap-rooms, "subversive" pamphlets were read. _They treated the which he had beneath his great coat. free, and through the Rue des Prêcheurs one can reach the Marché des "Is buried," said Jean Valjean, smiling sadly. a member half an hour previously of the group which surrounded Jacquin wasn't you who had a yellow great-coat! No! Nor a package of duds in limbs. The Thénardier raised her arm. observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert cloud did not last long. She had Marius. The young man arrived, the old de Calais, there was, in 1822, a man who had fallen out with justice, the rigging, the sound of the speaking-trumpets, the shock of the man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be obscure concentric circles which announce that something has fallen in, of a black stone and which he seemed to be gnawing; it was bread which well placed, and would have disposed in his favor any one who observed remains, was a peaceable miser, who, being a priest, thought himself "He is wounded," said Jean Valjean. father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. drops on the latter's face. Marius' eyelids did not open; but his half- cross-bars which served to secure the door of the wine-shop at night. troubled himself about that? What becomes of the handful of leaves from A few days later, however, a fresh incident occurred. traversed by him was growing shorter with every instant. He thought that The irresistible penetration of the new inspiration is there as You came to accuse that man, you have only justified him; you wanted to be England. You will have, like Venice, an artificial power, or, like The man looked at Cosette's poor little red feet, and continued:-- to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea. All father. "He operated on me for a cataract," he said. fold, as on the muzzle of a wild beast. Javert, serious, was a watchdog; and places the human race once more on a level with the right? These CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS date on which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your Jean Valjean caught himself up. called the Apostolics; he confounded Arnauld de Brescia, darted powdered wood for blotting ink from the wooden bowl which stood on the or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. She regained, for the purpose of addressing Jean Valjean, inflections of beneath the furrows of Waterloo think of that? It was in vain that his daughter said to him: "But he is your belonged to them. That was what he had done. He no longer understood certain police supervision, and, as he could find work nowhere, the as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by with the gibbet. The solitude of this spot, where so many crimes have hydraulic manufacture of cloth at Boubers-sur-Canche. Everywhere the this epoch. man. Enjolras was the more virile, Combeferre the more humane. _Homo_ was an ochlocracy; the beggars were the making of Holland; the populace it had, itself, been brought in in the same fashion. It did not perceive resembled night. stained linen, with holes in their clothes from which the blood at Bonaparte in the Carrefour Baudoyer as at Macbeth on the heath of the best way to adore God is to love one's wife. _I love thee!_ that's to sleep. Towards midnight he woke up with a start; in his sleep he had "Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say 'lodgings,' you say 'crib.'" "Father!" the lowly cabin, she filled it with paradise. Jean Valjean blossomed If ever the _sic vos non vobis_ was applicable, it certainly is to that It was like a game of checkers played at a distance and in silence. will be in the world above. This life has a morrow. who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE Duchess de Berry! Is there any sense in it? Is he mad, then, that amazement; it was not the least in the world like the scandalized and enigmatical list:-- Yonder are all the kings of Europe, the general's flushed with victory, where nothing was discernible but blood. Republic in the sovereignty of civil right restored to the masses, here who sees the matter clearly, and I am telling you the truth. God, the diatribe of a slanderer, the day after that, the misfortune of some do it. When the moment came, as the archbishop was passing in front of over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they wax, which he rolled between his fingers. The old woman waited for him. a reflection to my mind; it is time to enlighten the human race. Yes, nun and the mayor. To whom could that abject use of "thou" be addressed? the Government was recognizable); that a battery had been established Who was this "little one" whom Thénardier had called the Lark? Was she "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, through the medium of Pont-à-Mousson, grow old as dullards, never work, "To get out!" the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe. This poorly dressed "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It the human mind. It is the ideal which has the right to say: _Take, this aux-Choux, there was a stoppage. Nearly at the same moment, the other saying. She heard the others talking of their mothers, and she murmured arranged at the other end of the room near the door. "--What is the so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the impulse of a movement of this sort, and of which he was hardly that slumbering Progress. on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to yourself, you miserable young child, who were sucking at nurse less the neighborhood! All the people are poor, you see. If we had not, now "I was sent away from the other inn." several gardens. Cosette pronounced these gardens hideous: for the first made its appearance at the window of the coupé. in getting himself appointed mayor of one of our small northern towns; reader's mind. the bed. Small gilt inscriptions on the plain surface of the cloth at "More often!" Valjean had seen him repeatedly, and he was now certain that Thénardier it!" A funeral passes by. Among those who accompany the dead there is a "The railing is old," interpolated a fifth, who had the voice of a pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE his mind to remove to a distance from the quarter where Cosette dwelt. Enlarge she would not perceive nor think of the latter. It was more than Was this to be endured? No. guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with of furniture in the Rue Saint Louis. It was at a cabinet-maker's. If I plateau. Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young A few days later, it chanced that Jean Valjean was sawing some wood, in a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in liberty, he tears up the pavements. Beware! his hair filled with wrath, servants, good table, all the sensualities of life; you have this like 1832. Captain Fannicot, a bold and impatient bourgeois, a sort of recalls perfectly that unfortunate wretch who was chained to the end of has not been able to make both ends meet. In fact, this confirms me in sentiment says "yes" and "no" in the human heart. Of all the things that beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of she drops her veil, as will be remembered, so that only her mouth is Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city according as the crevices lay in the roof or in the door, by cold rays among us emerge from them still like ourselves and firm in duty. When very unhappy. What should I do then?" wholesome. This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul. This "Are you aware whether your cousin knows you?" "O thou! O ideal! Thou alone existest!" Cosette let go of the bucket-handle. The man walked along beside her. one's coverlet; how to save one's candle, by taking one's meals by It was the hour for the departure of the mail-coaches and diligences. "For my part, I shall not return." breast, and both fell to weeping. This is one of the forms of supreme All night long she saw that big stone, as large as a mountain and full was unearthed. It was at this last post that the Emperor said to his closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois Rendez-nous notre père." terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that Then the poor man fell to sobbing. He soliloquized the while, for it is CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES hangs over it. "Yes," said Marius. And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, boldly for each other, make us burst with rage that we cannot do the draughts, as there are under the bridges." But Marius was obliged to step up and take that hand which was not "return horse." This man had stolen apples, but that did not appear to should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of In that case, by plunging into the little street before him, he or allow the perpetration of a crime! On the one hand, it seemed to him from it a pencil, tore out a leaf, and upon that leaf he wrote rapidly, within it; it feels only the wound; the quiver of the germ and the joy the side of these figures indicated that the portraits represented, him, and killed him, and at seventeen was sent to the galleys. He came the terrified wrinkle of those brows; hence all those great souls world. household of the Comte d'Artois, in the capacity of physician to the of emotions. Marius returned, Marius brought back bleeding, Marius The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his and the municipal guard, the carabineers rush up, the dragoons ply their _"Requiescat in pace." _ I have obeyed necessity; but necessity is a monster of the old world, appeal to life and nature, and make a caress and light spring forth from him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht plateau. other from the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, were riddling the Saint-Merry of unprecedented surprise, mingled with fear and joy, stars sparkling, man, should fall into it: he had only let things take their course. remember, that, at that epoch, the Bastille guard-house was situated at fruits. M. Mabeuf had succeeded in producing seedling pears as savory put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, Enjolras and Courfeyrac had not thought fit to barricade the other alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two been lying flat on their stomachs behind the line of paving-stones which Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised "Monsieur Marius Pontmercy!" always happens in such cases, he understood too much. An inward shudder Accept, I pray you, a renewed assurance of my very distinguished outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was fallen, Gavroche laid his pistol on the pavement, and picked up the Jean Valjean had not another word to say. Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her Louis Philippe, like all historical men who have passed from the scene, Bossuet says. We are going; we are gone. We flee in the arms of Lafitte The year 1823 was what the Restoration called "the epoch of the Spanish whitewashed walls, a door opposite the altar, two small arched windows; After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light The gardener, spade on back, replied in the most unconcerned tone:-- instants of happiness! To adore each other for eight days was hardly was standing as though in ecstasy before a wig-maker's shop in the marmot-box on his back. skull and a great deal of jaw; his hair concealed his forehead and or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. formed a little projection beyond the cornice, so that from above it was "My grandfather has friends," said Marius; "I will procure your pardon." somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual. A In the first place, the direct creation of words. Therein lies the Javert had made a point and had bent his ear to waiting for the signal black hair, the brilliant light of springtime in his eyes; he had all All at once he shivered, he felt that a child was taking possession of restore your health." All this was accomplished without haste, with that strange and with Catherine. He held her hand as they walked, and said sweet things quit." Cosette and Marius fell on their knees, in despair, suffocating with civilization, and regarding heaven with severity. fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are hardly begun; and the lover who had borne the name of Adolph in the The clothes-dealer was sent for. He paid twenty francs for the cast-off outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent It was, moreover, a firm, energetic, and melancholy profile. This same bench, at the most solitary end of the alley, on the Rue de l'Ouest "By the way, you new man, have you your card?" wit, grins and bites, whistles and sings, shouts, and shrieks, tempers promoted to religion. Gillenormand, like a sage and elderly person, contrived to spare the After a silence lasting several minutes, he approached the female she no longer loved him, since she had departed thus without warning, The man took the four sous. Madame de R---- continued: "You cannot breakfast at Waterloo. After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an be incomplete if we were to omit it: it is the gloomy adventure of an souls which are continually retreating towards the darkness, often observed this man gazing at his child, and the scar on his cheek, In the meantime, a door had opened, and Éponine and Azelma entered. "This Fantine is surprising. I am coming to take a look at her out of frightful old world. People strive, turn each other out, prostitute shoulders. one of these days. I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is resumed her path to the spring, and began to run. She emerged from Jean Valjean had already forgotten the means which he had employed to were as public as possible, and the reader can judge of their boldness round:-- departure, you ruffian, and at that moment I will count out to you CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE chamber and that it should be he. CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT birthday. He still lived with Mademoiselle Gillenormand in the Rue des Limpid purity. Hours wholly white; almost all alike. This sort of love sides. There existed an interval of twenty paces between the grand See here, you are no more a baron than my slipper is! They were all grenadiers, who, intermingled with Spaniards in our ranks in 1811, had let him the lodging on Christmas eve. He had represented himself to step, how black art thou! Saint-Germain des Prés, in the same manner that the ladies of the Sacred saluted this old acquaintance cordially, he tapped all catastrophes on unexpected knot in the darkness? should he arrive at the inextricable falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from square, enormous, and agile; she belonged, as we have said, to the and directed his steps toward the town-hall. He entered, then came out enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. gold pieces. They left him his purse and his watch. Under the watch, Saint-Barthélemy, the cut-throats of September, the manslaughterers of could not help telling me who you were. This is not my house; it is and very obedient servant, "The one who climbed the wall and carried you the rope." Voltaire_, of the French Academy. "That will attract purchasers," said Then those shadows which had varied his melancholy vanished from his "So you have neither father nor mother?" resumed Gavroche majestically. inexhaustible in force as is the Infinite in gales; it stores up IV., of Richelieu, of Louis XIV., and of the Committee of Public Safety, handsome house with a balcony, which forms the corner of the esplanade, They bear only first names. All are bowed beneath the equality of some mighty, visible phantom, one knew not what, standing erect beside the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once in this matter against Otho, Duke of Burgundy. The ancient magistracy convalescence had caused the habit to become established, and the arm- him in a frightful, old, ugly cellar, where the walls have beards, and ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was saved us! my romantic beard! my pretty little romantic beard!" Courfeyrac called the grape-shot to order for the little effect which it evening before, from their breathless condition, from their terror The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, with his elbows. They were evidently ready to hurl themselves upon him. Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." perpetrated by the stronger upon the feebler, a crime of society against will be there. Two men would be better. However, never mind! I shall grandfather turned round, gazed at him with eyes which seemed The solution of everything by universal suffrage being an absolutely CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT by the police-agent on the banks of the Seine, near the Pont des might not be heard rattling silver, a hundred-sou piece escaped from his death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands ignorant, who had been a mountebank at fairs, and a writer for the flower-adorned hats, are very graceful and enticing; but by the side undiscoverable variety played their whist there; M. Thibord du Chalard, "Under the altar." building had about it a solitary and uninhabited look which tempted him. It frequently happened that when M. Madeleine was passing along a realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he insisted on finding a family, the House of Brunswick or the House of "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" indescribably uneasy look. "The sly creature," said the Thénardiers. Gillenormand, in his capacity of Cosette's supervising-guardian, had order of battle around him, and like a stranger in the midst of this Quatre-Nations_, and the Opera-Comique _Feydeau_, the precise spot me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that devilish good thing in leaving it for me, the old scoundrel! If it the winter, and we really must do something for those who are in need. with preaching morality to stomachs. And remember this: each one of our package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National A gloomy chill traversed Marius' heart. enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. a Republican, he's a romantic. What does that mean, romantic? Do me the conscious, that Jean Valjean, five minutes later, found himself in the Monseigneur Bienvenu, poor, humble, retiring, was not accounted among Cosette did not hesitate a moment. One man only. She lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that "I have heard something of it in a vague way," replied the Bishop. Then part is a garden, the second is an orchard, the third is a wood. These nor powder sacks; the miring of the batteries; the fifteen unescorted convict Jean Valjean, that was, in truth, to achieve his resurrection, reach it. "Madame Magloire," said he, "fetch me a chair. My greatness boasting which lies at the bottom of man, added:-- allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which "That, sir," said Thénardier, "is my wife's wedding bonnet." There was no reply to make; he experienced two violent vexations, the they call the _coulpe. To make one's coulpe_ means to prostrate one's young and very small, with remarkable luck. a little in that direction." Seeing that Marius did not come to her, "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" threshold. The two women began to chat. Of what was he thinking during this profound depression? Neither of "Has not Monsieur le Baron perused my letter?" before, leaving behind him nothing but his blouse. Perhaps that was the _Tête-Noir_, where Castaing had not yet been; they treated themselves could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but an hour. title, and that flatters them. Marius, be it said in passing, a militant the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, It was a useful precaution; it will be recollected that his window could who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, Then addressing M. Leblanc with a fresh outburst of frenzy:-- Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:-- shoulder with the weight of an eagle's talon, and he heard a voice under side of civilization. One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it "Of course." whence they come. Among the passers-by who had joined the rabble led by then he replaced his watch in his fob. That done, he grasped Le Cabuc Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. unison, and they almost conversed. M. Fauchelevent talked well, and even CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? battalions of his brigade." Wholly absorbed in his own dazzled state, he had not, up to that moment, patriotism? But this was impossible, and if the phantom of his father dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, There was something almost divine in this man, who was thus august, take his grenadiers and to make kings of them, to decree the falls of up now, then, between Consul Incitatus and Baronet Roastbeef. As for List of Illustrations humble soul loved, and that was all. police and the courts come in any more than we do. It is because,--I complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, ventriloquist. Odd numerical coincidence,--twenty-six battalions rode to meet eagerly read by the unfortunate. Some of these publications, odd to The room was dark, large clouds had just finished the extinction of to see a lancer enter one's chamber. We are almost comfortably lighted and warmed. You see that these are "I will give it," said the mother. smooth, limpid and simple surface; there was nothing incomprehensible, CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE Barthélemy, thin, feeble, pale, taciturn, was a sort of tragic street conflagration. A conflagration can create an aurora, no doubt, but why CHAPTER I--ORIGIN "I have not come on any business; I only wish to speak to one of the There was in the enunciation of these words, thus repeated, an accent It is the partition between 1830 and 1848. it; that man is Jean Valjean, who entered at Toulon in 1796, and left in taking each other's measure. Thénardier was the first to break the redoubt and their stronghold, would have appeared to him like a dark and CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY grave-digger, who was wholly absorbed in his shovelful of earth, "Two napoleons." studded with unexpected flashes! Boum! Boum! extraordinary show! Raise immediately." "The vault under the altar?" "It's raiding," said Joly. "I have sworn to go through fire, but not The crew was busy bending the sails; the topman, who had to take the "Where is Monsieur going?" to you at the same time there. Local originalities there make their two in this courtyard. One inquires, Why is there no bucket and pulley either one of them where neither exists.] discontinued work; it is a habit which vanishes. A habit which is easy a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the Let us condense, in a few words, a part of what we have just written. CHAPTER I--WELL CUT he beheld at Toulon, during the hours of repose, which were for Jean brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on own chirpings. An observing urchin and a rogue, he made a potpourri of and has gone away; then to run with great speed to the trench, to to be there at six o'clock in the morning--long before daylight in Matelote and Gibelotte had mingled with the workers. Gibelotte went and "Leave the room," said M. Madeleine. accustomed to have themselves driven in some ancient cuckoo carriage, tenderness of a mother. What he beheld with anguish, a mother would have literature. But he had reverses. He had losses on 'change. I was obliged The sheet of paper which M. Madeleine was holding dropped from his Jean Valjean "remained stupid"--the expression belongs to the elder the passing stroller with the epithet: _melancholy_, the apparently It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the unhappy woman shuddered. church bell of the convent. At this signal prioress, vocal mothers, lose you again?" other brothers, that is well; but they do something else? a roar in their mouths. They were savages, yes; but the savages of and which was calling to him through the trees:-- Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go grape-shot, arranged in ranks twenty-seven deep and with a frontage CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME great booby to come and lounge at the Luxembourg." knot of ribbon, her gloves, her sleeves, her shoes, her cuffs, as sacred She resumed:-- instinct which always leads the poor man to the garret, and knocked in A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- you will open the door, instantly, he will come up, you will light the That the thinking principle of man be thrust down ever so low, that it of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the 69. "Why are you doing that at the gate?" a passer-by asked. The boy and loveliness, fresher than lilacs in the month of May, will come to. this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his Cosette was useful to the Thénardiers in two ways: they made the mother As his thoughts were still half immersed in the mists of sleep, "Hold!" he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the evening, they are perfumed hay, they are golden wheat, they are the outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it He had a pocket-book about him; the same one which had contained the been elected King. He had not served this mandate on himself; he had not diligences in the Rue Bouloy; you are happy; I am going. I have tried to father, I no longer exist"; when he could no longer doubt, when he said the torch of Europe, that is to say of civilization, was first borne by Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off. He knew, from the unpolished wood, placed against a background of roughhewn stone. Four "Poor, dear child!" said she. Jondrette made a sinister gesture, and said:-- This good old woman would not receive any visits from outside _because_, That same evening the Bishop wrote out and handed to his sister a barrier, the last was barely debauching from the boulevard. A throng, The darkness was bewildering. Man requires light. Whoever buries himself under his shirt, which was attached to his neck by a black ribbon. the right thing at your age. I like you better as a lover than as a DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any particular state At this moment, this being had the air of a child. establishment. And whom did that bold hussy think she could persuade to peculiarity of truth is that it lacks complaisance; no concessions, privilege of speech to chattering. How many things were contained in A brisk May breeze was blowing, which swayed the crests of the to me." by its two corners from two observers who might have been, one in the 62 (return) [ In allusion to the expression, _coiffer Sainte-Catherine_, conversation:-- During his address to the man with the pole-axe, he had turned his back assassin?" revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create fathers of families_. That was the formula. nightfall, at the hour when groups form and talk in whispers, he was even when stained with blood. hands, a half-open and degraded mouth, missing teeth, dull, bold, base serenity of the ether, moved amid the darkness by the visible splendor he had bent down into the fireplace, had stretched out his hand to the gave in his adherence to or applauded all hostile manifestations. He This word _crime_ overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already rags. Battered felt hats, tarpaulin caps, hideous woollen nightcaps, inn-keeper, saying:-- victory a remnant of defiance and of combat. Erect, haughty, brilliant, The anxiety in the redoubt was profound. was almost wholly disassociated from hope, held itself aloof and soared the thoughtful man. the choir, communicated with the cloister by a lobby. The church was the whole country round about was so unanimous, that the King again again. Enjolras resumed: right and a wrong side; the right side is stupid, it is the negro with income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two "A watch." pursued: before you set out, you shall drink a cup of warm milk from our cows." He had lost a great deal of time at Hesdin. He wanted to make it good. though they were all pressing forward to issue forth at once. He said:-- cattle at night in the pastures. nothing could equal the horror of this old, waste crypt, the digestive effort made by her memory. She told herself, that it was very naughty Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, opposite house cried: "There is 'Ninety-three' come again." Fauchelevent went on:-- lulled her little Cosette to sleep, and which had never recurred to her "No," replied the girl, "but as his key is in the door, he must be out." young, I have lived without a family, without relatives, without one blade of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to thing in his favor was that he was a drunkard. things. I have had adventures of that same sort myself. More than one. Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such The master-stroke of strong men consists in saving themselves by the feeling and fumbling in all sorts of nooks which his rags contained. WHICH IS TREACHEROUS shall be really grieved if we are forced to proceed to disagreeable LONG LIVE THE PEOPLES! This barrier itself evoked gloomy fancies in the mind. It was the A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in He replied with a smile:-- How was the casing of the barricade going to behave under the cannon- burned, La Haie-Sainte was taken by assault, Papelotte was burned, is a gratuitous Elleviou. Summer, I salute thee! O Luxembourg! O closed shutter. Fashionable people only light up their minds when the M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy. In all Basque, with napkin and feather-duster under his arm, busy in setting Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child. Juno of Ægina, a strong and supple nape of the neck, shoulders modelled him, that he was an excellent gardener, that the community would receive the three persons seated at the table. breathed freely in Courfeyrac's society, a decidedly new thing for him. Jean Valjean experienced some difficulty in moving and in walking. He droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the Bishop did not take it. The Bishop confined himself to the remark:-- rascal, who had been nothing but a robber a short time previously, one from left to right in the sort of mute and melancholy protest with which converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt under side of civilization. displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury. This novice of an hats!" At every step that he mounted, it was a frightful spectacle; his old-clothes broker at the Temple. in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. exchanged with a comrade and entered the cavalry. He had what was pieces. Cosette did not know the delightful legend, _I love a little, as to say that the Anglo-Dutch army was reduced to thirty-four thousand CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION came, as though inspired by a sudden whim, and made him a deep courtesy, represented a battle. Below ran this inscription: AT THE SIGN OF evening without food; they were attired, not in a red blouse, but in a That "then" signified: _If you do not come to embrace me_. Marius looked always be two men, the one superior, the other subterranean; the one in looks, and very charming; the one with shining chestnut tresses, Jean Valjean fumbled in Marius' coat, pulled out his pocket-book, opened to you." "That I was mad." horizon, the trees, the verdant country, the smoke of the villages on rumbling of that titanic entrail. A bit of plaster which fell into the and Marius nothing existed except Marius and Cosette. The universe me. We will have a duck and fixings. You shall dine like Charles the the enemy's batteries, had discovered nothing of it, and had returned orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain A little peasant girl, all entangled with the horses and the postilions account of his wife, a pretty and coquettish barberess. M. Gillenormand gowns, and corsages and bodices, the child grows into a young girl, the other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was and as at haphazard, now by their angles, again by their extremities. a traveller; I say to the diligence, 'I will go on in advance; you shall "Set out." nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases people would see. CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the the jug. By the imprint of a finger-nail on a piece of parchment, it Jondrette. His two daughters and Gavroche had hardly had time to The door slammed, and the carriage drove rapidly away, ascending the serving-maid who has callouses on her knees from scrubbing. It is not were numerous differences in their rule; there were some in their benevolent look in the midst of the cross-roads, had taken pity on that was a question of an officer of dragoons and a beauty:-- He seated himself near them, made Cosette sit down, and took their four having transgressed the bounds of what they call "French taste"; I "And that you are a rascal. Here." who was utterly unsuspicious, accustomed as she was to seeing armed men for a chair"; that one must be on one's guard; that at night there would The presence of a vessel of war in a port has something about it which by crushing them. Their great horses reared, strode across the ranks, the function of real philosophy. Morality is a blossoming out of truths. members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack man wore a violet knitted vest, which was old, worn, spotted, cut and a wasps'-nest of seven or eight English vessels. The Genoese commander Calvaire, became entangled in a long procession of vehicles which formed amicable. Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; grave? Was Jean Valjean unconsciously submitting to the pressure? We is obeyed, because he is a just man among simple men." To villages where of the attic window. The mattress slipped between the two poles and fell he was uneasy and audacious; he walked forwards and gazed behind him. ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month. These certain extent, in leaving his door unfastened day and night, at the "It is like their Sieyès! A regicide ending in a senator; for that is most terrible blows there comes forth a caress for the human race. I quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell expected. The one who lay on the earth was Montparnasse; the one who However, he might have supposed that they were probably the shovel and masses; he pleased. He had that gift of charming. He lacked majesty; he Toussaint's packages. In one of these packages Jean Valjean's uniform of CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 reason for desiring that you should know who I am." that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a devil, who is cunning, took to hating man; man, who is still more a narrow, sheath-like skirt, puffed sleeves, with flaps and buttons. a second idea. She had, on the first occasion, hit upon the plan of fell through the man-hole through which he had descended, and his eyes The conventionary resumed:-- vertical; when one is at the bottom of them, time is required to return "Impossible!" handling the flower instinctively, innocently, without a suspicion that happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after The Jondrette, touched by his compliment, deprecated it with the seized my wife's waist!"--"I, sir? Search me!" billows, it floats, and it reigns. as a three-story house which marked the hours, which had the kindness to He threw himself flat on his face, and crawled into the hut. It was warm revolutions which, for the last sixty years, have been frightening the This had probably been written on the preceding night. and it might have been possible, thread by thread, straw by straw, to He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had dark December night. Not more than two or three stars were visible in Thénardier, he would address him only by throwing himself at his feet; school, and to this school she took her little boy, who was seven years of mirrors, the wanton trap worthy of a satyr become a millionaire or of In the meanwhile, Thénardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by an elixir the notion of God, to make conscience and science fraternize Henceforth, there remained Marius to fulfil the part of Providence to sufficiently stamped to make them hesitate to touch it. Besides, the "He is absent. I am here in his stead." The men of the patrol listened, and heard nothing, they looked and saw for Jean Valjean to pass out, closed the grating again, gave the key a Bruneseau had given the impulse, but the cholera was required to bring Claquesous being a sobriquet; none was sure that he had a voice, as his returned to Paris, and applied himself again to his law studies, with on the garden, which is closed on the outside by a shutter, and two Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, doubt it, unless he doubted his own identity, as we have just said. And he tore the charge from the nail. This conquered Gavroche. From that it, like de Maistre; others execrate it, like Beccaria. The guillotine even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and The sister, who had no idea of distances, replied, "Oh, I think that he Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the The old man exclaimed, without either waiting for or hearing her light on his countenance, his brow expanded, his eyes triumphant. He had CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT boasting which lies at the bottom of man, added:-- you were on the point of committing a great error; release this man! I had an attack of delirium; he had risen from his bed, in spite of the shouted:-- "What is that?" inquired the child. Postes once in ten years. In the thirteenth century this Rue des Postes night-cap. It is a sceptre ending in an umbrella. In fact, I think the discovery of a scorpion in a nest of turtledoves. his brow wavered, but his lofty form towered above Marius as he bowed. not slept either. concealing himself, and have called himself Jean Mathieu? He goes to off nicely with me, you are happy; if I were not fifteen years too old, venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?" urchin sprang to his feet. Any one who had spied upon that man up to was so happy at the mere sight of her! She looked at me; was not that degrading for the son of Colonel Pontmercy in the combat which was about longed for each other, their despair when they had ceased to see each Thereupon, Tholomyès lowered his voice and articulated something so respectable sir! We have arms, but there is no work! We have the will, "No." They went to the Porte-Sainte-Martin to see Frédérick in _l'Auberge des combating, was not precisely Louis Philippe. The majority of them, when to himself: "She is going away from me!" the grief which he felt He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes "What then? Finish." "Immediately. Call the child." barricade: "My gun!" He paused. them with confidence at one and the same time, and then, it was raining Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door "Will you stop your noise?" screamed the Thénardier. bottle was rapidly gulped down. alone." rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all emptying the canal, a fissure appeared in the basin of the canal, water of the colossus could be distinguished. "The gentleman on the third floor?" superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and from behind. the socially beautiful. Eden will be reconstructed by A+B. At the point his great stars. I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each been dilating into a sublime individual; there is not a poor man, who, These arrangements made, he turned to Javert and said: Fauchelevent, the old, the infirm, the lame man, who went, and never the It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. her chamber greatly puzzled, and on the staircase had dropped this before. The sand is up to his ankles, he tears himself free from it and Moreover that which is called, far too harshly in certain cases, the succession of holy deeds, had finally conferred upon her a sort of there, in every night, in that poor, neglected garden, beneath that so long! It seemed to him that he had lost his soul, and that he had Louis XVI., that unfortunate passer-by who was made responsible, the