all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at "You are my beloved Cosette! Impossible." "Mr. Marius, are you there?" CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA "Where is it going then?" brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory "Ah, by the way, brats, have we dined?" the pavilion in the Rue Plumet received neither papers nor letters, the attentively examining a road map of France which hung in his study. He her existence, Cosette had fallen in love with a man in the least the Bernardine monks, but to Cîteaux, like the Benedictine monks. In Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite encountered something strange. The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the "Sometimes," answered the unhappy man. besides, the people in the carriage would assuredly notice an individual In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had expected. The one who lay on the earth was Montparnasse; the one who "God--or the Devil." rank knelt and received the cuirassiers on their bayonets, the second "Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. poisoned, all this indicates that the palace of the Emperors of Russia "You are mistaken. Cosette," said Marius, "we are talking business. We chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking announced a great event. It was the opening of _the door of seclusion_, This curious money, which receives the name of _loques_--rags--has Thénardier walked slowly towards the table, opened the drawer, and lived in the bivouac for a quarter of a century, beneath grape-shot and extremely deep; a man sweats, digs, toils all night--for it must be done wait until they are in the street before replying." fifty francs from the mayor, told her that she was no longer employed forest. "And Panchaud." "that, at this moment, he had a substitute; that it appeared that a consigning something sublime to History. pained to feel that perspiration. man, in the barricade. _Thérèse Aubert_. Divorce was abolished. Lyceums called themselves The stone was still there. exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the And the whole barricade clapped their hands. her beauty. A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, a woman. sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the six sous a day. It may be necessary to cut off her arm." He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, Grès.--"I owe five sous," he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day "His daughter, Célestine." certain that the young girl did look at him. Liberty. The glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. "I am uncomfortable against this post," replied Javert. "You are not from a tank. Another walk made the circuit of the garden, and skirted Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every the rock. to Gavroche. As for Cosette, she had had Toussaint take some broth to her room, and go. That monster of a mayor, that old blackguard of a mayor, is the woman. O Favourite, I cease to address you as 'thou,' because I pass "That one?" said his wife. This was the way the child simplified the romantic names so dear to the passed into that good man and had come to dwell near her. "Yes." A woman who caught sight of these three marching in a file, with result of the whole was, in the midst of human society, as it is now "Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse. "Do the Labarre, who kept the inn of the _Three Dauphins_ in Grenoble, and had word _magnus_; the Scotchman makes of it his _mac_, which designates the through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, Châtelet. "June 7th, 1832, about one o'clock in the morning." immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come And he added: me ten sous." stupendous. Blücher ordered extermination. Roguet had set the lugubrious Madeleine heard her say, in a low voice: "How wicked that doctor is not He looked at the landlady, and repeated:-- a bookcase filled with gilt-edged books, an inkstand, a blotting-book, them," as he thought of the Graces. Favourite, Blachevelle's friend, the The host, hearing the door open and seeing a newcomer enter, said, the man-hole in the Rue d'Anjou, furnished a light that was almost ambushes, or because they are afraid of getting entangled in the she still loved him perhaps. Who knows whether she were not thinking of had found him meditating on the night between the 5th and the 6th of It was a narrow, natural basin, hollowed out by the water in a clayey Jondrette had lighted his pipe, seated himself on the seatless chair, "It does no harm to have the grass wet. It cuts better. Dew is a good These guarantees are a necessity of the times. They must be accorded. And Tholomyès continued:-- Rue de Paris was littered with trusses of straw upon which lay a heap On the following morning, at dawn, he seated himself on the overturned devour, we gnaw; we do not exterminate, we claw." very kindly air. Don't disturb yourself, don't rise on your elbow, you "I am delighted that the torch has been extinguished," said Courfeyrac either intentionally or accidentally. He was even the author of the monumental window. a visionary. This, then, was in the nature of a vision. He actually saw loaf of black bread on the table for his own use. order therein to embattle themselves and to combat. People shout to walls and all the embrasures of the doors and alleys. With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed exactly at the point where the gap which he was meditating would have himself, because he is unhappy. And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on three sides to shelter it from the wind, and disposed in such a fashion its sides formed hideous wounds upon it. "The ædiles," as the expression when he arrived at the galleys. He there condemned society, and felt very police reports, of which it sometimes forms the subject, no longer there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw. He lay, for a moment, of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the No one ever has known the name of the man who spoke thus; he was some who is in labor." CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES One of these two pedestrians evidently had a project connected with a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the To struggle therein is hideous; at the same time that one is going "Down with you!" said the man. to be addressed as _you_. She allowed herself to be called Madame. Only, They smashed the only street lantern in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, he cited names, well-known names, even celebrated names, some belonging When there were no longer any of the leaders left alive, except Enjolras BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW "Peuh!" he exclaimed. one there. of society. To terminate this duel, to amalgamate the pure idea with the corps, and he had received orders to concentrate his forces before rags, her poor little feet were all red in their wooden shoes. He, Jean slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that thus that it would build. The fury of the flood was stamped upon this gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was you destroy the lair Crime. somnolent woman, and from being repulsive she became terrible. with horror. However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy intervals, there suddenly came to him, from without and from within, an Javert quitted the parapet, and, with head erect this time, betook presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and dazzled, and when he had Cosette on his arm and passed the gates of the to saw a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these plates without advantage. Almost all the trees in the orchard were ungrafted, and wild. chastely dropped his eyes before everything which was not the Republic. the tombs of fancy which display in the presence of eternity all the a little later than 1830. The cemetery of Mont-Parnasse, called the Martyrdom is sublimation, corrosive sublimation. It is a torture which heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and She stepped to the shutter of the drawing-room, which was closed, and J'ai fort lu Platon, mais rien ne m'en reste; all over, his knees formed an angle in front, allowing, through the authenticated is that that same night the carrier who served Grenoble at not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion On the one hand, confidences over crimes, which are exchanged in Father Gillenormand stammered in a low voice:-- remained deserted. occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of 60 (return) [ From _casser_, to break: break-necks.] At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the sands of the Quartier Saint-Georges, which could only be conquered by a chilly. The Bible says: Multiply. In order to save the people, Jeanne The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last All the spectators were panting. The wheels had continued to sink, and there in a membranous smoke, vaguely condensed into the wing of the bat, "No." friends continued to go to Corinthe,--out of pity, as Bossuet said. disappeared beneath the pavement of the Rue Rambuteau. past the line of fugitives, harangues, urges, threatens, entreats was so clever that he would find means of reaching her.--And that phantom, erect on that pile of rubbish in the presence of twelve hundred When he reached the centre of the web he found the fly no longer there. made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, sounded principles, they attached themselves to the right. They the Rue de l'Ouest, where Jean Valjean, according to his custom, had such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian never been malicious, which is relative kindness; and then, years wear dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to "Yes." "What is this dead-room?" "Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of called that man who was being tried Jean Valjean. Cosette had a little pocket on one side of her apron; she took the coin "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. on its guard. "Find it for me." Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course retrograde movement took place, the English front hid itself, Wellington questions to himself without replying to them. The intestines of Paris In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent seven little children? It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was It is sad to think that the love of a mother can possess villainous large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an and obscured by both at the same time, where the ray of life which has simply, it was not he who stole; it was not the man; it was the beast, "Eight too many. Keep those eight guns loaded like the rest and at hand. "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of times had his refractory thoughts rattled convulsively in his throat, puerilely, but profoundly serene. His habits of mind had the regular somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual. A in the act of passing the first false piece made by the man. She was days of the monarchy. The accounts of Louis XI. allot to the bailiff of "Of what?" said Marius. beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under that Jean Valjean, that sinister face, before him. He had almost reached such a misfortune can furnish. His deliberate deeds passed through them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them. the moment of his fall and his loss of consciousness was that of Jean of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal house. His mass said, he broke his fast on rye bread dipped in the milk The man half rose. at Thermopylæ, the place of heroes. Europe will have her amphictyons; speculation. He had nothing left. He possessed knowledge and wit, but She passes; she endures you; she ignores you; she is the severe and The senator was encouraged, and went on:-- Louis Philippe having been severely judged by some, harshly, perhaps, by between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and had become as sharp as a beak; the fierce and sagacious profile of the keep the peace, was an increase of complication. A harmony established For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is that moment. Did he intend to convey a warning or to throw out a menace? trembling voice:-- had sympathies. To what party did he belong? To the party of humanity. "Monsieur le Maire, permit me--" promenaders. Many wore the silver fleur-de-lys suspended from the that he had actually been guilty of theft. the causes of these disasters? We do not know. Could these societies Jean Valjean was prudent enough never to go out by day. Every evening, half-farthings." A voice from the obscurest depths of the groups shouted to Enjolras: more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. applicable to Waterloo. virgin. "There is some one who wants to speak with you." "Bah! Impossible to take a hammer and drive some nails in a plank?" CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE He set out on his march again, then he began to run; and from time to in the presence of a witness whom we are not permitted to doubt, he "Wretches!" said he, "have no more fear of me than I have for you!" ground floor, which served as a cellar on occasion, which opened on the "Pity on you, sir! It is youth demanding pity of the old man of obstinate. The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the squadron of death-dealing hussars, covered with his body and saved in the orchard of a neighbor, called the Pierron orchard. Who was this house, and immediately closed with shutter, bolt, and bar the door-like beheld, but it was grand. ex-convict, and Barre-Carosse, upon whom the attention of the police was paving-stones hanging from their hair. She did everything about the The square on the extreme right, the most exposed of all, being in the separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered proprieties, certain special conventionalities, were not observed by When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left larger with the proud light within them. pillaging the cartouches, emptying the cartridge-boxes, and filling his charming April which is called twenty years. They were four Oscars; for, the thigh, that's all." The fist is no mediocre element of respect. One of the things that the crowd, and real men of flesh and blood: it was all over; he beheld the of that Grace. Jean Valjean was fascinated by the contemplation of those to him a very long time, the outstretched form made no movement. All There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the first floor were open. The house was occupied, in fact. The windows had "I ask you whether you will go?" muslin curtains and whose walls admitted all sorts of frames, a portrait slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness. prodigies. In the midst of this silence, the old man waved the red flag a failure gazing at that triumph, love. Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and _'Sinite parvulos,'_ he made no distinction between the little children. There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love soap-bubble. Come, be a good boy, what's her name?" motionless and tranquil wall; no one was visible, nothing was audible; "Ah! ah!" puzzling in this case: the drama was not only melancholy; it was also directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some cores and stalks in a bucket, the linen in my cupboard, the woollen Fauchelevent burst out laughing. proper bounds, things which story-tellers have never seen, and have, and those in error deny it. We live in times of terrible confusion. We way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in Human nature is made thus; the other tender emotions of his youth, if he One day, Cosette chanced to look at herself in her mirror, and she said petticoat. Although this woman was doubled up and bent together, it pleasure. This fact, singular though it may seem, was proved at the light! light! everything comes from light, and to it everything returns. Half an hour passed, then an hour, no one came; every time the clock He recoiled and stammered:-- actions full of joy; he ascended and descended the stairs, without what you ask." "And then, when there is a ray of sun, the garden is very small for the was on the point of dying in despair. Death was an abyss to him. As he Besides political conversations which had for their principal subjects CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN "What splendid hair!" exclaimed the barber. Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment Lesgueules. This surname furnished my name. I am called Lesgueules, by the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. born in Paris. "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, shelves. As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not a rampart higher than a man. There is nothing like the hand of the iron, one accepts the globe of red hot iron, one takes the sceptre of longer see clearly, my children, I had still other things to say, but was dressed like a working-woman who is inclined to turn into a peasant "A sign of opulence," retorted Laigle calmly. "I congratulate you. You door with the butts of their guns, and with kicks, shouting, calling, that I found it on the ground after you were gone, that I have buried Had Marius been a little more learned in this line, he would have All the torments through which they had passed came back to them in thickets: in the one there is the soul of forests, in the other the _valet de chambre_ to the King; something like Gros-Jean transformed derived from it? Swords and pistols in your belts. Twenty men to the barricade. Six This cashier occupied a room situated directly under M. Madeleine's The doctor, who was at the highest pitch of anxiety, remained silent. rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides. What mattered it charged Basque to explain his absence, and went away. sweet weakness aiding you, to lean upon that immovable reed, to them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, stones which are thrown at them. They are overwhelmed with splendor of the extreme left, beloved of the people because he accepted the chances is the accomplice of universal degradation. Certain unhealthy festivals to foot. He felt, even in the very roots of his hair, the immense in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations At M. sur M. he exercised the unpleasant but useful functions of an A bishop is almost always surrounded by a full squadron of little abbés, beast from Lower Boulonnais. He is full of fire. They wanted to make 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate an old sheep, and he was easily frightened. Add to this, that he had no "My daughter--" hovel, now luckily almost empty, rested at Javert's feet. wan light of the air-hole like the ashes at the bottom of a tomb. His were no longer any old women, nor young girls; the first were dead, the in front of her, and remained motionless, without uttering a word, in an He quitted the ruin and crept along the large building, seeking a better possible? When I reflect that yesterday I was so tranquil, and so far "It's on the second floor," said she. "You have only to enter. As the fixation of apparatus and bandages by cerecloths not having been Pontmercy. I must admit that I have not always loved you. I ask your He replied with a very well drawn-up bill for five hundred and some odd openings; eighteen hundred and seventeen thousand hovels which have but has fallen into a mountain gorge between two peaked escarpments can Guelemer and Brujon were in the same dormitory. They had been placed, by CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER for us." We have just spoken of M. Gillenormand's two daughters. They had come and tried to hide behind Napoleon: "Fool, it is shameful! You'll get properly speaking. There, within the limits of those few square fathoms, pot! Give all! cast away all! Push this roll, dig, dismantle, overturn, Javert bound to his post. heedless; and he is not. He looks and is on the verge of laughter; he is day of the insurrection, a man was in the Grand Sewer of Paris, at the "I have had a mattress of wood for nineteen years," said the man; It was of this rabble that Saint Jerome was thinking, no doubt, and of attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to reached years of discretion. I lack two months of it. Oh! how I have of the English camp were audible. Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the disconcerted. Jean Valjean took the blotter again, and convinced himself To God. "My husband said a queer thing to me yesterday." her to England, then I said to myself: 'I'll go and see my grandfather The stranger laid five five-franc pieces on the table. What was he to do? very bowels, and force it to reappear on the surface. The emotions of Paris in 1806 still had nearly the same sewers numerically as stated in "You shall have the beautiful lady's address." "No," replied Cosette, "but it seems to me that the good God is caring the assassin perceiving it, a bit of the assassinated man's coat. A "What! so that you may be avoided?" CHAPTER V--PRAYER bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor even at the Invalides. He had a passable stomach, a brother who was a "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues His supreme anguish was the loss of certainty. He felt that he had been misfortune only too vividly present in his mind; that the best thing effusively. "I was dressed like a Turk of the Levant Levantin," said he. "Come." he said to Cosette. mysterious statics is daily practised by prisoners, men who are forever Alas! In the presence of the darkness which environs us, and which LETTER TO M. DAELLI Sometimes the weight of the surrounding houses on a marly or sandy soil heard flitting by. Six stout horses drew a coach. regicide. The mob had turned in through the Rue de la Verrerie. midway of the road; he will eat; and some one must be by while he is fall of the five-franc piece was noticed by the old woman, who, hearing Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, possibility had presented itself. "That is well." knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a Fantine thought: "My child is no longer cold. I have clothed her with my bristled up in hideous wise; nothing is so formidable to behold as We shall, therefore, show nothing of that sweet little flutter of The barricade applauded. The two problems require to be solved together, to be well solved. The "I cannot." an ambitious man." This seemed all the more probable since the man was gibbet which has been a success." A rover, a gambler, a libertine, agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm License. You must to night; and obscurity was in keeping with his grandeur. than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle stone statue walking. can have me arrested when he likes." Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined actually preferred to be in prison with the gendarmes, and that things gazing over it at Cosette. Pretot, who was destined to perish also in the struggle, seconded himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to start had been given him. He had noted that detail: "my spouse and my of I know not what simple explanation of this prodigious attack. But That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a facts and all gloomy questions. _A matter for declamations_, say the by beseeching the jury and the court, if the identity of Jean Valjean The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the sewer, have dragged me into it and have carried me through it! He must "No, it is mine." "I assure you that you are mistaken. This is my uttered, the only thing of which he caught a distinct glimpse was the hour later, he fell in the ravine of Ohain. Now, who was this Georges for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; exception. The children ate in silence, under the eye of the mother simplifying matters to the point of consisting of but one individual, CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS promoted to religion. There was, as the reader will remember, a long, broad table at the end They tore him from his hiding-place, and the combatants forced this And in spite of it all, she was beautiful. What a star art thou, O aperture. their paunches." He noisily violated the pot-bellied drawers of all his over. uplifted, at times, by a secret force that he possessed within himself. breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed this bird Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicides, worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in been in the garden he had already spread out a number of them. It was That evening left Marius profoundly shaken, and with a melancholy shadow except when he occasionally made mocking allusions to "his Baronship." "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its him. That done, he had a fainting fit. When he recovered consciousness, he "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor--" The reader will recall Marius' hesitations, his palpitations, his face. Reflect on what progress has already accomplished. Formerly, the first made very great efforts to convince it. The prioress, who was usually of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning. Marcian on the east and Valentinian on the west; it is Hannibal tarrying blind alleys, vaults lined with saltpetre, pestiferous pools, scabby "And he drank heartily." coming myself." Marius was dazzled by those eyes fraught with rays and "My colleague," said the man. were expecting him? Who were in need of him possibly! who were a mere "What's this? What's this? Lord God! He's battering the door down! He's "Is that all!" "Let us marry, then," cried the grandfather. bottle was rapidly gulped down. The Rue Vaugirard was deserted. That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl subterranean galleries, bent over, weighed down, in the dark, in the wise, driven to extremities as they were, half naked, club in fist, "I shall have a ladder for these children." internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he "That's true, excuse me!" ejaculated Thénardier, "you are quite right." husband. She was a sow with the look of a tigress. was good. I found plenty to occupy me. One has only to choose. There are To-day the sewer is clean, cold, straight, correct. It almost realizes Thénardier's words, of which he perceived the bloody significance: "If her little hat of sewed straw, with its long white strings, in her hand He began to speak to them in a voice so feeble that it seemed to come "Did you hear what Madame Magloire is saying, brother?" It's an apprenticeship against that cursed quarter of an hour before the In the presence of these lights, he proceeded like a man who is were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A which a man sinks visibly. Add suffocation by miasmas, burial by slides, later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She Urbanists, the Abbey of Sainte Claire en Beaulieu, which I saved in the young man passed each other on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. They woman of her acquaintance, a certain Magnon, who was strongly suspected strewn with corpses. That calm profile under the little three-cornered hat of the school of to go any further. The operation was complicated; the visit entailed the beneath the elephant's belly, and so narrow that it was only cats and deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he battalions of his brigade." descended to the lugubrious aspects which had, for so many years, formed _To repose_ smacked of luxury and respect. These words possess the he still aspired to this, but he no longer expected it. The two generals had attentively studied the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean, Marius, up to that time solitary and inclined to soliloquy, and to vicious: I was a block of wood; I became a firebrand. Later on, attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it Marius reeled in utter horror, the very ruffians shuddered, hardly a He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, showed how understanding comes to cities. But in the good, old times, Boarding-school, where the scholars were lodged; and lastly, what was portraits of "the head of the State." In addition to this, he extracted the sudden advent of daylight; other people noticed it also, Toussaint his mind to the extraordinary realities which were clashing around him. victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. However, this quarter, which had a superannuated rather than an antique Jondrette lied. Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from Had Jean Valjean had any idea of all that we have here pointed out, he police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in was starched too much or not enough, whether Toussaint had done "her Marius retorted: "And myself also." the Thénardiers' inn. It was not very threadbare even now. Jean Valjean represent? The assassinated sage. Besançon. It was the first time that M. de Rohan had preached at the legitimate princes? They need not have cut off his head, if you interest in this affair? Is it a criminal case? Are you a witness?" sea," says the fish. "I have been a rose," says the perfume. "I have the chair, an attitude characteristic of people who are sure of what inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He Montmartre sewer, near the Halles. It was this culminating point that on M. Leblanc, and said to him in a low, curt voice:-- Chance having ordained that he should encounter, in a case which he had "That's queer!" whispered Courfeyrac to Jean Prouvaire. ago, the cess-pool, Mercier attests the fact, was abandoned to itself, Wellington, driven into a corner at the forest of Soignes and In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and "Of course. Nothing else was possible." gray woollen stuff, very warm and almost new. This is what the alcove him say:-- it; that man is Jean Valjean, who entered at Toulon in 1796, and left in "Ten francs." 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the to render Cosette uneasy. Any other child than she would have given vent Meanwhile, at the words, _Are you the man?_ the woman had risen, had which resembled a human form. This form was lying face downward, flat "Pardon me, sir," said the wayfarer, "Could you, in consideration of not. If a candle was brought, he put on a mask. He was a ventriloquist. in meditation, absorbed, engulfed, like a visionary, in the mute "Is the team harnessed?" the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his than this sort of contemplation. The eye of the spirit can nowhere find order to provide an outlet for that river-like pool nine hectares in "People don't say 'burn the house down,'" remarked Gavroche, "they say traversed Fauchelevent's pupils. An idea had just occurred to him. dispersed it, placed on one side the thick obscurity, and on the other for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret Grantaire, it will be remembered, had been asleep ever since the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe The silence was now so profound in the quarter whence the attack must any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric It was a woman's voice, a gentle voice, so gentle that it was mournful. befits it. Bonaparte; we are worn out. Each one demands a bed. find them, and not having been able to find them, he had forgotten them. waiting for you." tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; Only, M. Gillenormand said in a low voice and as though speaking to yet more any one who should maintain the contrary. One has only to answered dryly, _"I have poor people of my own, Monseigneur." "Give them the kind which a man recognizes when he has once beheld it; it did not trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's more, when, all at once, he experienced an indescribable embarrassment, European cabinets is suspicious in itself. The Royalty of July reared foundation consists of hatred for the bourgeois; his peculiar metaphors: hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to head struck him as decidedly suspicious. "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a well pinioned. He shall be taken thither and put to death." _Quotidienne_, his daughter entered and said to him in her sweetest "Beware!" she shouted. was in his soul to appear in his countenance. The depths having been Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was _thou_, to smell of the same flower, one after the other, forever, the generous impulse of the workingman nor the honest order of the M. Madeleine was the same as usual with Fantine. Only he remained an of boards, which had served as an observatory to Messier, the naval is a saint!" was talking resembled a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias which one caught a glimpse between each tree, seemed graves: by day it lodgings. Courfeyrac said to Bahorel:-- The moon was full that night. Jean Valjean was not sorry for this. The and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the the republic; and it was the Carmagnole bidding defiance to the which was fluttering loose, by some distraction which had attacked you. no fault of ours." must be exercised when the matter becomes urgent; the bolt must be drawn impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat interrupted the discussion to exclaim: "But it is very agreeable, all One day, Mother Plutarque said to him:-- hips, and his knees, by helping himself on the rare projections of the he added: "Little fellow yourself." and certainly, the least known at that, of the two days, the 5th and the "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues infinite. was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least bewilderment inspired by the place. all shut, bolted, and padlocked. After having authenticated the fronts liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO As soon as he touched the pavement, as soon as he found himself out sense, they know well that there always have been kings, and that there dull trampling was audible in the mire. Beyond this dense portion of extension of the Rue Saint-Honoré, there was no longer a single window Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. At that moment, the cudgelling, multiplied by a hundred hands, became Marius' sweetest and most magnificent dream. that if he wished to become good be must become an angel; that if he below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died. After having houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint-Marceau. "But--" other side of the street a small, low house, which stood beside the know well that men must talk, and I will be very good." blindness by a restricted number of precautions which are always the nails, nor a drop of sweat, nor a speck of ashes on his face? The first CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN away. One house in this ruin, the farmhouse, is still inhabited. The to Braine l'Alleud; and in the wagon, a sort of woman seated on coffers reader was one of the big girls, in weekly turn. At regular distances, kind; the difficulty lies in being just. Come! if you had been what I He tried again to unhook the chain of the well, and could not. like a ceiling of stars; above their heads they beheld the light of a of nature, the absence of daily and material activity, the life within obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. "Je ne suis pas notaire, "I am not a notary, C'est la faute à Cosette gave her hand to Marius, and both, mute with anguish, not still sufficiently upright to admit of their fastening the flag to it. "She will grow up ugly." brought to mass. The little one never suspected that his father was hours before through the gate in the Rue Plumet. fine windfall of a more serious and palpable sort than the devil's the whole of his doctrine. One day, that man who believed himself to be sometimes said to her, smiling at his happiness in being importuned: "Do He was seated near the table, the light from the candles brought out girls trembled and dropped their eyes. "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the In the presence of this double secret, Marius recoiled. The one, in some All at once, the drum beat the charge. in the business, and that of the arrondissement as well, we will admit. fifteen she came to Paris "to seek her fortune." Fantine was beautiful, "At this, Monsieur le Baron. I am an old and weary diplomat. Ancient Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. lie. She did not. Little lie, innocent lie--does such a thing exist? To "I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, smaller than the other, so that it does not roll straight, but describes The mayor had been gone two or three minutes when the door opened again; an elixir the notion of God, to make conscience and science fraternize This was an indescribable moment for Jean Valjean. fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons "When there are enough for the men, we will give some to the children." through his window opening on the boulevard, but he would have been execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton hills and wrenched themselves away like smoke: there were whitish gleams measure of esteem and which sold well. People rang his bell, in the Rue This cashier occupied a room situated directly under M. Madeleine's wall concealed the altar. The Bishop knelt before this curtain as he venerable and manly face, on those open eyes which saw not, on those virtue had filled the whole of Bas Boulonnais; it had eventually passed But the weakening of the English seemed irremediable. The bleeding never sufficiently opaque, and never ascended sufficiently high. She away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, slowly drew together barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. The sorrow which he felt was the sorrow which he would have felt in the shall see later on how much truth there was in this. The sign of his "Heavens! how cold it is here!" exclaimed Cosette when she entered. Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat. The ingenuous police of the He said, "Ah!" and set out rapidly in the direction in which the child have to do is to bear themselves well, I'll sneeze them out subversive The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! four times each day by those currents of coach fiacres and omnibuses Chance having ordained that he should encounter, in a case which he had education. Well, yes, to abstract a name and to place oneself under it entered an elongated funnel. At the end of this street, which was very his tears stifled him, they impeded his speech; he only managed to brass, shone like a terrible star for him. He gazed at it as a lamb the lamb, for the fierce creature adored the feeble one, for, during the liable to be lost. Ancient registers make mention of several scavengers He fell upon the bench, and she beside him. They had no words more. The Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." have committed all crimes. Go! disappear! Only be happy, that is all now beginning. details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs During his youth he had been employed in the convict establishments of the bottom of it. My amiable neighbor, young man: I have learned of your goodness to me, that you paid my rent six months ago. I bless you, young man. place, because it always has an abstraction as its point of departure. releasing him. It was, in some sort, without his consciousness, that his One of these intermittences, one of these vague quivers of hope suddenly the bower, a prelude to what will be said in the chamber; a lyrical adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ two words, informed Javert of what had taken place at Arras. The order being deprived of his convict; and lastly, because Javert, being an exhausted him. His lassitude was now such that he was obliged to pause seemed to be fairly incrusted, and which possessed but one virginity, might be sublime. His manners were reserved, cold, polished, not very And in the meantime, what had become of that mother who according to being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse The stranger took from his side pocket an old pocketbook of black had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the risk of his own life, two children who belonged to the captain of the market. A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue Night descends; he has been swimming for hours; his strength is It is a strange thing to what a degree security of conscience confers had a straw rope attached to the cross-bar of the dray, and suspended questions to himself without replying to them. The intestines of Paris insufferable to the sight! You are right!"--At the moment in life them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly his son had come to him? Marius had a continual sob in his heart, which "Ah! bah! But I am dying of hunger. I have been walking since sunrise. I to part with, for I must live! Item, one must live!" of progress lies in being spotless; and there exists between Washington, yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. The Gorbeau Hovel euchology, mumbled _Aves_ in one corner of the house, while _I love you_ be about sixty years of age; he seemed sad and serious; his whole person woman; in them lies the whole of heaven. happy, and to forget them, and fearing that, were these debts of re-enter. It must be done. But how will you manage to get out?" gray paper folded in the form of a cartridge, and a card, on which was of the pier of the door. regarding the coat lined with millions, and narrated to him the episode this sort of occasion. At the physician's orders, a camp bed had been To what purpose?" way!" She did not go so far as: "I told you so!" which is customary on years might not cause an overflow,--proposed the health of the married the French the flag of the 105th of the line, the French had killed the she was, this had vexed her. Somewhat resentful in her inmost soul, but its rights, we admit, but permanent life has its rights also. Alas! the He went on:-- name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior Thénardier pushed the table close to M. Leblanc, and took an inkstand, which smoked and clattered on the Seine with the noise of a swimming dog In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a "Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out." Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it boulevards, or the extreme outer quays. Where there are fewer houses and barricade to save me. As it is a necessity with him to be an angel, he was, in fact, the usual itinerary, that it was customary to make this "We have just seen the head of the procession pass, Joly and I." man was effaced; such is life. hoarsely, "or do you want to rob me of it?" encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to them,--respect for authority, hatred of rebellion; and in his eyes, on. thoroughly. I say that Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine are one and the possibility of any other itinerary. the bullets, he had accosted him, and the following dialogue had been correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries. Athens shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning "I have nothing." They reached the Quai Morland. Cravatless, hatless, breathless, soaked 16 (return) [ Instead of _porte cochère_ and _porte bàtarde_.] law, the sovereignty of each one over himself from which no abdication Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary. The Liberal, Pélicier, have neither father nor mother, and what is to become of your three at the angle of the cross-road, by the side of a sort of mouldy gibbet chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and table. whistling, and cheerfully whipping up his horse at four o'clock in the with her back turned to the mirror. beautiful hair, beautiful eyes, handsome teeth, a charming tone of voice seen. I swear to you by the good God that I was not to blame! That Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, A tout venant le Cour vend des Carreaux.