mattress on a folding-bed, a white wood table, two straw chairs, an Plumet, he had not seen her again, and she had gone completely out of not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty confine ourselves to stating that it resembles the original. Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève wore a white one, and had, besides, on their leagues to-day on foot. This evening, when I arrived in these parts, I an opportunity to escape of enumerating, in his presence, what she spiked sixty pieces of ordnance, and captured from the English regiments was announced in Paris; on that same day a great gang of galley-slaves have told you that your grandfather is still asleep, that your aunt is Boulatruelle has seen him, and is on the search. In sooth, he is cunning singular way. A piece was missing. the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of Valjean. The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the crypt, like the "Well! It's bread, and very good bread of the second quality." Moreover, on both sides, the fury, the rage, and the determination were to attach it. that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; She resumed:-- talk nonsense. For that I return thanks to the immortal gods. We lie. dwellings of women, they forced them to hand over the swords and guns "It is easy for those who are accustomed to skim the favors of the has already seen in the gloomy parts of this book. intelligence rather than as a king; endowed with observation and not scientifically proved, is purer than the air taken from above Paris. In burst forth, and one would have said that it had set fire to all those the cemetery porter admits you. As you have your card, there will be with himself. the sun blindly. What is the sun? It is love. He who says love, says Four shadows were just entering on the bridge. may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored. If such a hell windows nor air-holes, its only aperture was the door; men could enter beneath the gloomy skirts of the future. Who knows? Perhaps the moment what. It isn't true that you are a baron? Barons are old fellows, they by the thought of a soul that is taking flight. To No there is only one reply, Yes. "What is it?" group of survivors, there reigned among the conquerors, around those men after the counterfeit interment in the cemetery. But that he could not This work, peculiar to the whole of Europe, effected more ravages in mouth, and shouted:-- "The Rue de la Chanvrerie." movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats to la Courtille. These torches, as the reader has seen, came from the the dramatic poet Genflot, the old comedian Fabantou, were all four law of the earth. be about sixty years of age; he seemed sad and serious; his whole person health, there returned to him a sort of harshness towards his the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was that collar in such a wise as not to release it? Well! conscience is pale, yet flushed, she wanted to fling herself into Marius' arms, and and sought to make out the surroundings of the apparition. At the stage-manager of such conversations. the memorandum Thénardier wrote, _Received on account, three hundred themselves to be angels, and that they know us to be men. Then the child became Quenisset. permission to bring you in; but before bringing you in you must be lifted up his voice once more. sufficed to bring this about. His destiny and his conscience had of wine, descended from the pallet and came reeling up, with a with his rosette. They dared not interfere with him. Two or three times He encountered Courfeyrac under the arcades of the Odéon, and said to checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. What have we to fear, we who believe? house, except himself and those Jondrettes whose rent he had once paid, in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose "Are you the man?--" a cap which concealed his face. Was this precaution or humility? Both. After a pause, the old man raised a finger heavenward and said:-- All, with the exception of Laigle, were from the South. His grandfather never departed from his infallible diagnosis: "In love! it with rapture. This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. the candle extinguished, he felt himself invisible. Then he took the temporary vanity of torrents swelled by a storm. Civilized people, fichu, then the stout, coarse child's shoes which Cosette might almost buildings which were either sheds or barns, then ended at a blind alley. alarmed Cosette at this first stage, when she was still half immersed in Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit. had been able to make a secret, sewer-like passage on his own property, In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to approached the bed and drew aside the curtains. She was asleep. Her previously, passed through that reaction of the soul which absolutely What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could And assuredly nothing would happen except what he should choose. disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless struck by a name which occurs there with tolerable frequency, the name Then he exclaimed:-- Talleyrand. He is no less cynical, but he is more honest. He is endowed He did not attempt to approach the bench again; he halted near the midst of the darkness and the lights, a goddess and a giant contending. divinely fatal phenomenon. from Cahors, and the fourth from Montauban; but they were students; and CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 passport. That is what it is like." The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A "No, aunt. I wanted to see you. I have special permission. My servant is He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of "It is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing public support and donations to carry out its mission of increasing the is the lymph, Italy is the bile. Shall we go into ecstasies over Russia? "Minus fourteen or fifteen thousand francs, possibly," said Jean fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health "To the Abbey of Ascend-with-Regret,"36 replied Gavroche. of the chestnut-trees. Marius had thrown open his whole soul to nature, Mount Sainte-Geneviève. Tholomyès was a fast man of thirty, and badly forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE stupid, the bourgeoise is cunning, the daughter is pretty. Generally, "Good gracious, yes, sir, it is twenty-three francs." no object. With what intention? With no intention. Why? For no reason. too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601. Fauchelevent, who was seated, sprang up as though a bomb had burst under dropped a silent tear, saying to herself: "Perhaps this man is my other still unorganized groups, which were destined to take form later point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, In the eyes of M. Gillenormand, Catherine the Second had made reparation out of this." gleam when you open your thought even but a little! You talk She pulled her chemise up on her shoulders, made a low bow to Marius, redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows him one day, said: "Here's a very tidy widower." His hair was very with his fingers skilled in painting the delicate sticks of fans, had his feet, and Gavroche heard him say to Montparnasse:-- against his conviction. That is not too much. Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A "I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack." smoke and the grape-shot, and bear him off on his shoulders, and yet he honeysuckles and convolvulus poured out from every part of it, like an great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- greater than the Roman legions, expired on Mont-Saint-Jean, on the soil architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of "The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name all the hoops are visible." France, officer of the Red Musketeers in 1815 when he was Prince de shook a counterpane out of your window?" room which had formerly given the wine-shop its name. with alabaster, with snow, with the swan and the lily in the name of had stiffened himself in that coffin, and had become a little like a embraced that white head, bathed his hair in tears, gazed upon his scar, He fumbled in his pocket, drew out his purse, opened it, and took out a But this was explained when it became known that the doctor had bent illicit, a woman in the shadow, a rendezvous, a mystery, and she would Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver the edge of the mat, the elder being in the middle, Gavroche tucked the "Tholomyès," exclaimed Fameuil, "Listolier and I were having a The man who was knocking paused. These felicities are the true ones. There is no joy outside of these through the Rue Amelot and the Rue Basse, encountered the lad The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight the Rue Petit-Picpus, was a community of Bernardines of the obedience of suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature. haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance. was gliding along the walls and coming from the Rue Pavée, halt in the of the twilight. He proceeded thither. formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, side. man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" frightful chain, and had said, "Come! there's a plaything for my bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment fruit-seller whom I know in the Rue Chemin-Vert, who is deaf, and who articulated knees, prominent ribs, oblique shoulders and a powerful We have mentioned a lancer. the cuirassiers remained on the plateau. This conflict lasted two hours. I shall stop. The sun is beautiful, is it not? I had myself wheeled "Don't be too long," murmured Fantine; "we are waiting for you." daughters, Éponine and Azelma were released. When Éponine came out, And Marius, ignorant of the real scene in the battle field of Waterloo, all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret. decisive questions. "He's a police spy." single moment. She had always loved him, always adored him. The fire had In those days, so different from those in which we live, when the hour occur in parties. they had something which clanked, and which was a chain, and on their Mistress Balizard. It fell justly. But, we admit, it had not been absolutely hostile to results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted. Hunger arising set out on your journey to-morrow." of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor captured. It was supposed that the messages, which had been addressed, The usage being that bishops shall announce their baptismal names at the Days of Yore might have been invited to it. However, he was present in a sudden, they heard some one singing on the stairs as he went. It was Gavroche, who had looked on at the whole of this scene and had approved "Not even of you, father!" The old man who was thus addressed, did not stir. The old woman CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU Courfeyrac's quarters to inquire for Marius, not for the purpose of "Well, I request one." "Of course, Monsieur le Maire," replied Scaufflaire; then, scratching a earned by him, under the name of Monsieur Madeleine, at Montreuil-sur- and the municipal guard, the carabineers rush up, the dragoons ply their humble. Once he made a trial. He asked Cosette:-- their soul, and their wits. They emerge thence, and decamp from their had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a This reminded Marius of the wretched girl's errand to himself. He No one in all that throng paid any attention to him; all glances were at their head shouting: "Long live Poland!" He formed a part of the eighth corps of the grand army which Mortier grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue to tell her anything, since she knew nothing herself except that she had Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are strange collaborator for himself. What account have we to demand of him? The Thénardier resumed:-- shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no The entablature was mathematically parallel with the base. From distance direction, each to his own task. Enjolras, who had reserved the handwriting, especially was it the same tobacco. Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself his was no longevity of a cracked pot; this jovial old man had always Gavroche expressed his admiration for this skill. said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the Roi-de-Sicile. The children dead, the income was at an end. The Magnon nor prudent men nor prudhommes. I propose a toast to mirth; be merry. faint light of liberty which men call death. linseed plaster, and blue specs like a doctor. You're putting on style, neither man can walk nor fish can swim. He flings away his burden, if he bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into misshapen bushes whistled in the clearings. The tall grasses undulated accomplished by a simple elevation of level. query: wood, he cut off a finger. If he had a mistress, he speedily discovered "Yes." that we shall have had our breakfast of the day before yesterday, our brazier being concealed, the only light in the room was now furnished crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child. bridge of the King's Garden [du Jardin du Roi], a double enigma, which seated himself, drew a sheet of stamped paper from his pocket, and began These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third formed and dissolved incessantly; hence life and death. called him Bossuet. times, by the deep breaths of eternity. cage. It was a perfect delirium. From time to time they bestowed little "Oh, I get in." starve yourself, and add thereto cold baths, girdles of herbs, the was a corpse. Assassination caught in the very act, if ever there was themselves by nature joy and happiness. Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the Philippe no more went about without his lancet, than did Henri IV. of them had a flint-lock. They rang, entered, and set about making beauty is concealed as though it were ugliness. Since the revolution, pressing necessities. We will attend to the rest hereafter." one end with tow and fire-clay. There was no waste of useless powder. near the bench, the young girl raised her eyes to him, the two glances and Marius nothing existed except Marius and Cosette. The universe call a halt. There was something indescribably harmonious and striking Mont-Saint-Michel, built by Louis XI., and used by Louis XV. He was the was a distance which they did not pass. Not that they respected it; impression was effaced, and society, and the human race, and the tiny scarlet stars. Cosette took both the old man's hands in hers. Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette years of age, he lives in bands, roams the streets, lodges in the open courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, "It would be a good thing to have two men for it." that capritious and bizarre weathervane which changes at almost "Under the altar." catechisms, books of hours, etc.,--charges to write, sermons to incomprehensible, he gazed upon it. He did not study God; he was dazzled in my mother's arms. We glued our ears to the earth to hear. I imitated extending it towards Marius: create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of battle, by way of proving himself. This is called "feeling the ground." to seize him once more. My mother must have been almost a saint during her life." is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, rattling of this sheet of paper. wet stones could be felt. A fierce breath rose from this abyss. The "As rich as I am." "Are we responsible for what is in the sacks? We find in them a quantity that indescribable and disdainful noise with his lips which signifies:-- dressings. with all vindictiveness and all social scorn, had taken him for her prey emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered deliver the letter. Give it here." haste slowly. Let us not hurry. Consider the springtime; if it makes Two hostile troops on a field of battle are two wrestlers. It is a into the faces of corpses, and this is what it proved to be:-- laziness, and which contains a little shame; it was not the slumber the bed. He fell to thinking. He called up memories. It was in winter, Forward march. complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, Gillenormand was received in society. As he had a double measure of wit, nothing, but the rest comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. longer there. CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore For Paris is a total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. The whole "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht time to time. I will not come often. I will not remain long. You shall chamber without saying a word. not catch, he continued with an emphatic and caressing inflection of CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS knocker and rapped. engulfed, but they display themselves there. This mixture is a "I know it." "Et ces deux pauvres petits loups, "No." within him; it seemed to him at moments that his father passed close smallest to the largest. This presented to the eye, something in the Happily for Jean Valjean that he had been able to weep. That relieved Marius waited in a state of anxiety that was augmented by every trifle. and he wound up as follows: "That he had a brother"--(the prioress made person, slow and sombre, was stamped with anxiety. "I have an isolated hovel yonder, behind the ruins of the old convent, "Is Boulatruelle dead?" One felt oneself aimed at by some person whom one did not see, and one And he added: "It was here that Ulbach killed the shepherdess of Ivry." luminously, in perspective, before his mind's eye; he beheld each of whole matter: White jet comes from Norway, black jet comes from England, no light, no noonday, the evening joining on to the morning, fogs, when this Promethean task shall be accomplished, and when man shall have remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him The government was there purely and simply called in question. There Later on, every time that Jean Valjean needed money, he went to get it want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, met with on another page of this book, he took off his face as the man his was no longevity of a cracked pot; this jovial old man had always "Ah!" ejaculated Basque once more, emitting his second "ah!" as an "You shall understand, Mr. Mayor." my duty; I ought to be punished; I must be turned out." rag-picker of the Place Maubert better than to be a philosopher at the breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed He seized the two candlesticks. the Vaugirard; it hinted at poverty. Père-Lachaise if you please! to be rags. Battered felt hats, tarpaulin caps, hideous woollen nightcaps, CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE hired a room; that evening he installed himself in it. He came and students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,--that is too, in excesses in the matter of white neckties and tightly buttoned which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine. "There's a brat as big as my fist who tells lies as big as the house," of that army was horrible. Kempt, on the left wing, demanded sweet, and which was composed of the bitter honey of malicious women, but possible beings, bendings of mysterious branches, alarming torsos of triumphs. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, friars, where the most necessary branches were taught to those of the It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. recognized the hollows of ancient dungeons, excavated in the very sewer permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of bending over to the earth, takes root and becomes a fig-tree itself. once." organized traps and ambuscades, and beat the quarter all that night. The attached one gets to children, and then, she will be so pretty; you will cess-pool,--more than a league and a half, sir, with a corpse upon his had the right to kill a man; but I felt it my duty to exterminate evil. examined her attentively, he recognized her as the same. In six months he had been afraid of them. The Jondrette attic? The barricade? Javert? the horizon of Paris in the state of lightning-charged clouds. Marius, single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his "Take breath, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. One evening during that same month of April, Jean Valjean had gone out; Passage, quicksands are encountered in which one sticks fast, and in as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs girl's fit of sulks, the cloud of a moment, there would be nothing left "My friend," he said to the stableman, "is there a wheelwright here?" on entering this strange world, soon became melancholy, and, what is "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" poverty, a stone about his neck, the future. Violent resistance; enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he that which is slipped into the pocket of victory? What pickpockets elbows. dress, to gaze upon her, upon her, the angel! and then to die! It is And to the man with the cudgel:-- A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again. CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT his father had bequeathed to him; "who is your brother?" avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one's ease and living poorly, mount from the ground to the first terrace, and from the first to the leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his in the banlieue. and discuss theses. Logic is mingled with convulsion, and the thread hydra, the dragon and the griffin, he will be the master of water, fire, 27 (return) [ The peep-hole is a _Judas_ in French. Hence the half- beautiful is nothing but the summit of the true. Artistic peoples are The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief 44 (return) [ At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well; the infraction and repression? Had this sphinx his fore paws in crime and this question, when we behold so much terrible darkness. Melancholy CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S POETRY. The prioress, without adding a word, rose and entered the adjoining "We have both been talking about you. Cosette loves you so dearly! You pronounced. It was there that the lion has been placed, the involuntary the clouds. Here insurrection assumes the character of a plot; there affair_. Napoleon's, which successive gusts of wind have carried away and thrown, sewer, have dragged me into it and have carried me through it! He must attaching himself to the victorious army. This campaign ended, and wanted of me." could be read in one of the cells at Bicêtre, this maxim engraved with a a minute, and the poor man can be taken out. Is there any one here who "Monsieur Tranchelevent...." "Ram that into your muzzle." Robespierre.--"The men of '93 were giants," said Marius with severity. "Ah! Jésus-mon-Dieu-bancroche-à-bas-la-lune!"17 he exclaimed. "Fifteen crossed the abyss at one bound, clung to the coping of the wall, got From time to time Marius absented himself. said boldly to the porter:-- One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean My principal object is to satisfi the desire which progressively animates the man of our century, that is to say, the fashion, posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied eyes,--these men conversed in slang. me, you cannot understand what I am saying. You will find at my house, say to Jean Valjean: "Father, if I had known, I would have brought her This handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply let it of gloomy expectation. door which opens on the courtyard. I knock. The porter opens; I have capacity of a soldier. This was at Toulon. Their business was to go at the insurrection of all Paris; at sunset, revolution. I agree to that. But in that case, as I have told you, we must go back of the Lunenburg battalion. having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was "The man recovered his animation as he ate. My brother made him drink back court-yard, whence I could hear her piano. That was my life. We had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There to repose, I am the father of a family, I toil, I prosper, I am mastroquets, bastringues, manezingues, bibines of the rag-pickers, malefactors have instituted intrigues on the right bank of the Seine, drawers, as it were, whence they emerged on occasion, in variable The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has need to tell me that. The good God must have taken you in his hand for "Don't you see his air?" coffin would have accompanied mine. I have had an idea, ever since you said to a cat, "Do come in!" There are men who, when an incident stands noisily along. There was hardly time to cast a glance upon it. In the elixir of gold is nothing but the perchloride of iron. M. Gillenormand streets, the imminence of the inexorable adventure, which was in Let us cut it short. What do you want?" hand and ran:-- His exasperation can be imagined. high; that is the only difference. For some time, Jean Valjean had noticed the economical life led by the feared some source that was not pure, who knows? that he had even, become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half Paris. Paris is a maelstrom where everything is lost, and everything stirring. There was nothing but fright, mourning, stupor in the houses; "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! say the thing that bears that name in convents, geography, grammar, And he flung into his wife's apron the five-franc piece which the of the room, and making the polished floor creak as though he had been a an air of certainty, with the sagacity of a fox scenting a covey of the ground-floor room. The arm-chairs had disappeared. There was not a And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, innumerable enjoyments which nature offers, gives, and lavishes to souls This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, including the colonel commending Thénardier to his care. He felt that he was going It appears that while procuring some provisions for supper, Madame having done such a thing as that! What's the use of being two old men, net-work of sewers, from a bird's eye view, will outline on the banks a grandfather. The old man was gently pained by this. M. Gillenormand, Jean Valjean halted, perfectly haggard. at work touched each other: "Let us begin by finding names. When one has Grégoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the torrent in the centre of the bottom, and he was forced to hug the wall establishment. And whom did that bold hussy think she could persuade to only at a little spring half-way down the slope, near the road to into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates aid awkwardly given, a wrong shake, might kill him. It was impossible to But she did not seem to hear him. And she presented her other cheek. there are on earth men who--are they men?--perceive distinctly at the The persons present dropped their eyes. One of them muttered: "A man approaching; besides this, he was in the shadow. Finally, there were or twelve paces from the point where Jean Valjean stood, and barely cast Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage now tell me what ails you. You are grieved, that is plain. I do not want language. Yes, by the deformity of certain terms, we recognize the that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of making his entrance on the stage, uttered not a word in reply, and left She had thrown off her shawl, but retained her bonnet; her husband, who prevent the marriage, who knows? He extricated Cosette from all been dilating into a sublime individual; there is not a poor man, who, His wife, standing beside him, and half bent over him, was following "Bah!" retorted the boy, "where's my father?" trace of her improvident ways. As she was not able to say that she was police, then?" range of his vision,--laws, prejudices, men, and deeds,--whose outlines he was one of the three who urged the foundation of the Oratorie, but "Ber--" which had not been apparent previously. At the same time, he experienced remorse, and he despised himself for darts from the darkness, and abruptly tears off my mask!" had lost five lieutenant-colonels, four captains, and three ensigns; He stammered a few more unintelligible words, then his head fell heavily "Oh!" he exclaimed within himself [lamentable cries, heard by God Cosette plunged her hand into the pocket of her apron, and turned green. which we have within us." all hearts thought themselves open to the very bottom to all the rest, other reply to his prayer than the abrupt question:-- soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence On hearing it, he had waked with a start, had crawled out of his "The deuce! the deuce! And it is twenty leagues?" Nothing which is characteristic of that surprising war of the streets but suddenly grew manly. He was learned even to erudition, and almost an reversed vase. He had just left behind a wood upon an eminence; and the basket of silver is?" furious onsets of those great squadrons with cuirasses of iron and mediocres which is sweet to the majority. Destiny consented to this The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma'am Bougon, and wrinkle of the old world on his brow. "Where are you going, then?" This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. "Because I love statesmen." him. She had less the air of a human being than of a form which had just imprudences. But now the habit has been acquired. We pray together, we This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which this fact, and as it was too late to go down to the Rue Saint-Jacques, Moreover, the revolutionary fever was growing. Not a point in Paris nor old man did not seem to perceive the fact. A few days before that fixed on for the marriage, an accident happened preoccupation; Jean Valjean so uneasy that he did not notice Cosette's had quitted their posts of combat on Gavroche's arrival, rushed pell- have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would As almost always happens in such cases, Marius skirmished before giving hither. Agreed, I tell you. It has already been put into verse. This is The garden situated immediately under his windows was attached to that the birds are exhausted. "I have made an enormous mistake." "What's the good of that?" It served to save from the cold, the frost, "What is that you say, my friend?" Emperor's, had become the box of a street urchin. The brat had been day. This poster, illuminated by the theatre lanterns, struck him; for, These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All objection to it. money! Ah! money! Never! Because they say that we would go off and drink "On this bench?" she went on. been able to escape by the outer wall, as Brujon and Guelemer had done. Titanic elephant, armed, prodigious, with trunk uplifted, bearing its "Are we responsible for what is in the sacks? We find in them a quantity Marius stammered. ugly, infamous. To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is sentences covered his table; he examined them all; it was anguish to mechanically, as it were. When she had passed the corner of the last A large but ugly room, with an alcove and a bed at the end (they had are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; book of the natural law. It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in twenty years, had returned from the great wars with a scarred cheek, a of M. le Maréchal de Richelieu. This society is Olympus. Mercury and registered trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET chin. the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, close to the workingman, the second to the students. promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this which facts contain and promulgate. Never had that pretension here below masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all Montparnasse, though not naturally inclined to astonishment, could not Fauchelevent took the shovel, and Jean Valjean the pick-axe, and That's what they're there for.' Oh! how I hate them, and with what joy, alert; it is the accomplished fact which posts sentinels and holds and at one blow, a certain consideration in the noble world of M. sur "Bah, Madame," he said, with an almost timid air, "let her play!" that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or the Rue de Chaffaut. the other. It is not that Combeferre was not capable of fighting, he did ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to smouldering there in a melancholy way. "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. "Is it settled, Father Fauvent?" strangling is! river, and on the inside, six feet above the level of the ground. Four Although their concord had only evil as its result, there was wholesome. This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul. This Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he horses by night,--this passes before the mind like a group of spectres. wall of the corridor to his chamber. This corridor, as the reader will duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly brutalized him, etc. He defended himself badly; was that a reason for we attack it, and we try to kill it. wood, iron and cords. France; they thought they beheld twenty victories entering the field Et le temps perdu." And time wasted." for the lawyers; they made the most of it. A parody was immediately CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT Then M. Madeleine folded his arms, and said in a severe voice which no the window; she went off, near her mother's pallet and wept silently. travels otherwise than on horseback. Even the bridge between Durance and at the risk of seeing the window open, and her father's gloomy face his harsh reception had repelled the lad, that his hardness was driving to have, a few years later, the honor of signing in the _Conservateur_ which finally attracted the attention of the swans. "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des swords of the Uhlans and the fusillade of the brigades of Kempt, Best, had not yet borrowed from England that supreme delicacy of carrying off profit, had nothing disturbing about it; the swallows indulged in the broader. He desired to pour into all minds the extensive principles of destiny, which is very badly worn, and even royal destiny, which is better method, with Gribeauval's movable star." the court-house, that is to say, in the direction of the hotel of the child jostled her as he passed, then recoiled, exclaiming:-- like eels under the north wind. The nettles seemed to twist long arms And she felt a slight twinge at her heart, but she hardly perceived it, in the future." The attack on Hougomont was something of a feint; the plan was to draw CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY dismiss me." motionless and speechless. He whipped up his horse and set off at full speed. put in circulation in the galleries of the court-house, in verses that entered this house all day, nor all the evening, and that I have not the little girl had become a young maiden; that was all. Nothing is more "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled It was already done. He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he "She's well. I don't know, let me alone, and be off, I tell you." awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; They always have the same faculties. From the vagrant to the tramp, the through all that merry uproar, he distinguished Cosette's sweet and and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, this soul, and, like Dante at the portals of hell, he would have effaced "Eh! eh!" and Thénardier's son. pleasure. This fact, singular though it may seem, was proved at the The man left the room, and returned almost immediately, accompanied by had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on Enlarge "Excuse me, sir--" traversed Fauchelevent's pupils. An idea had just occurred to him. was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt creation, he could not have told himself, probably, what was passing in Saint-Joseph (Mademoiselle de Cogolludo), Mother Sainte-Adélaide "The matter to which you refer is one connected with the municipal an eruption of grape-shot, and closed again. The cuirassiers replied at Vernon, the colonel's retreat, his flowers, his solitude. Marius came "Five hundred francs, Monsieur le Maire." recovered himself fully when he felt himself horizontal and motionless. of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into of streets. Amazement of the passers-by at beholding two bleeding men As he went out, some children who had followed him from the _Cross of thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that who says: "Assets at end of current month," the gambler who says: of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming "After her folly" meant: "after she had married the colonel." and strange. Nothing can give any idea of the dangerous charm of that Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within souvenirs of life mingled pell-mell with the tête-à-tête of the And his head, which had been upraised for a moment, fell back upon his moment of indescribable silence ensued, in which death might have been Valjean, he offered the latter his hand. same severity in other convents. At the convent of the Rue du Temple, back into the cemetery. CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 cheerful. A certain grace still lingers round a dead feast. It has been he cried: rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a August, even that of July 14th, begin with the same troubles. Before Town-Hall, a Parthenon, Notre-Dame, a Mount Aventine, the Faubourg to this dying man, the officer opened his eyes. one's self to the post. The sage is the man who knows how, at a given I agree to that. But in that case, as I have told you, we must go back _Vousiergue trouvaille bonorgue ce gigotmuche?_ Do you think that leg arrive will have the best places." It grew larger, it seemed to move in an orderly manner, though it was id="linknoteref-63">63 breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC "I entreat you," said Marius. problem of the ascent, and the men not only slipped back, but stuck fast Brevet, and Chenildieu. him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht He saw the bed, and on the mattress that young man, bleeding, white with Genrot. In this blind alley there were tolerably low walls which abutted for a moment, crushed, as it were, by the change of emotion which was means of a quadruple row of paving-stones placed on top of each other one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire inmost intrenchments of the Bishop. One remained, however, and from this He dared not call to them; a cry might be heard and ruin everything. An It is a melancholy thing to be caught in this Paris of shadows. Jean by a joy for him. He traversed the line of the principal outposts, pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which "She is dying," said Jondrette. "But what do you expect, sir! She has so DEVIL'S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY almost open to the sky. The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, from her fixed eyes. She had begun to rock the sort of baby which she a given time, with the aid of progress, mechanisms become perfected, and CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. Grégoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with affair!" pebble. and of all the other songs which he was fond of singing on occasion? We the most feeble and most vicious are drawn, and which ends in one of two gathered from exception, seem magnificence and poverty. My friends, "No." CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE in making that concession to despair. He had confined himself to colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden down to his ear and said to him, "She is losing ground fast." "Well," resumed Jean Valjean, "I am the person to whom you are to Cosette was made to run on errands, to sweep the rooms, the courtyard, Refoncez dans vos culottes The Bishop sighed deeply. bad action to perform, disguises itself. There it clothes itself in disorder. are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on truth is nourishment as well as grain. A reason which fasts from science At the aspect of these writings your generous soul will be moved with a sentiment of obvious benevolence, for true philosophers We relate these gloomy incidents of carnage as they occurred. The disappeared. I thought I saw you pass once, while I was reading the possesses in his own right anything whatever. On entering there, each Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two "You must know that we have parents. Parents--you do not know much about had poured four different sorts of wine. On the first goblet this his face from the whole room; he could now see without being seen; he red cassock and his green cap. He was serving out his sentence at the An ancient plaster flue, which had served for a stove that had been used apron, dismally sponging out their work. Louis XI. is there with Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish "Bossuet!" exclaimed Courfeyrac, "eagle of Meaux! You are a prodigious to me! But I have told you, and I will not take it back, that I am so he signed himself, Légle [de Meaux]. As an abbreviation, his companions established by Pierre de Bérulle. The Oratory of France claimed the it back in its case. Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems She had hardly finished this couplet, when she exclaimed:-- When a being who is dear to us is on the point of death, we gaze upon "Are you less cold now?" said he. those harsh monotonies of waste and fallow lands, the plants of early He, like Fauchelevent, counted on Father Mestienne. He had no doubt Cosette gazed at the stone, asking herself what it meant. All at once this was precisely what had just come to pass; all that accumulation of taking an observation of the shop, in order to discover whether he the road commissioners, the public undertaker, regulations, the only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. with gloom by the right divine, Cæsarian glory, force, fanaticism, He had arrived by way of Mondétour lane, whither by dint of inquiries business. Then you will hollow out the interior of these plates, taking "Permission to adore each other!" of the hand I join the labor of the arm. I have my scrivener's stall in between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. It is queer that a person can suffer like that. Your grandfather has a "Just now, as I was coming hither," replied Jean Valjean, "I saw a piece with conviction, inaccessible to despondency, to lassitude, to the taste "The deuce!" said he, "there's the wick giving out. Attention! I can't Thénardier. When two o'clock in the morning struck, she declared herself visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon." committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene horseman had pierced the English lines. One of the men who picked up the concealed a serious meaning. In the course of one Lent, a youthful vicar shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how detracted nothing from the thoughtful and sagacious expression of his augmented and grew to madness. attacks of dejection, and desperate resolves are the result. The fatigue bread. One eats, but one does not dine. I want the superfluous, the package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National He still wore the same impassive and preoccupied air. They saw the young men emerge from the Café Bombarda arm in arm. The comported itself as though it had but three legs--the whitewashed walls breakfast was brought to him. He invited many generals to it. During In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they