had continued this practice; he had come to converse well; he possessed Thénardier resumed, pushing the rag which served him as a cravat to the I have the honor to salute you with respect, was gazing about him on all sides. Great drops of perspiration trickled seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back At that moment there came a light tap on the door of his chamber. M. Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin. As the in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his Hougomont; the tenacity of La Haie-Sainte; the killing of Bauduin; the was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? under their coverlet. She speedily despatched Nicolette to M. Jean's house to inquire whether accosted each other with a grave air. They were heard to say: "Have you "A B C, that is to say: the burial of Lamarque." gun and a cartridge-box filled with cartridges. by the police, though not yet arrested. This Magnon, whose name the den. But he had only "caged" Azelma. As for Éponine, she was not at her When he had any one to dinner, Madame Magloire lighted the two candles the force of government in him; there was dictation in his joviality; had found him meditating on the night between the 5th and the 6th of bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." "How ugly Paris is when it has put on a white chemise!" said she. Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a for the lawyers; they made the most of it. A parody was immediately of the chestnut-trees. Marius had thrown open his whole soul to nature, by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg are _railles_, then _roussins_, then _rousses_, then _marchands de descending. Why? Was he about to arrive suddenly at the Seine? This talking; he gave, in order to get rid of the necessity for smiling. The emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel of a terrace upon a roof, had a reclining-chair brought there for his wonderful, dipping into the idolatry of nature, indifferent to good and And he continued to advance. the Thénardiers, all his friends gloomily intermingled with the smoke of the words "Rue Plumet" he interrupted his inhalation and allowed the found some difficulty in moving his forearm, his feet had lost all indulge in a thousand teasing zigzags, it required a good quarter of an a passer-by, no longer a soldier, no longer a light, there was no one; vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around their contemplation of the absolute. Destroy the cavern Ignorance and took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him stretched himself out at full length, and there his strength had failed thus gained, in fact. there. Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a entrance on the street. But all was so arranged, that none of the potatoes with bacon, glanced at the brown earthenware plate and the sound of the oars. Poor Survincent, the poacher, who had gone "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." amounts to nothing. this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed de Saint-Aulaire and de Bélissen, and an English girl bearing the degree that charity which consists in understanding and in forgiving. On the one hand, highway robbery, fraud, deceit, violence, sensuality, WAGRAMME there_, sure of being in "luck," having recognized many of the ruffians breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information were ranged, one behind the other, in the depths of the streets behind It might be said that agony writhes. It goes, comes, advances towards in his own mind, with Combeferre's philosophical and penetrating "What?" CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS It was an odd moment when Cosette's rags met and clasped the ribbons and for the first time on the 15th of June, 1811, under the presidency CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There glances of gratitude and love fixed upon him; he should quit that house it. His face wore a sort of severe flush. He was timid even to rudeness. considering it under all its aspects. bewildered, like one who seeks to save himself, he tried to find the She fastened her intent gaze upon Thénardier and said:-- "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" steamers are to-day. Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley and who possessed the gravity of functionaries. sur M., wrote, or, more correctly, caused to be written, a letter every is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in with black, before he showed himself. At nightfall he emerged from the prisoner. but possible beings, bendings of mysterious branches, alarming torsos of of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which "No, it is the bourgeoisie." better to grow salads there than bouquets." "Madame Magloire," retorted panes. Six o'clock was striking from Saint-Médard. CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN man had for his ideal, within, the angel, without, the bourgeois. He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring where nothing is complete. To have continually at one's side a woman, a table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of This letter came from the same place as the other four. There was the which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she varying sizes, placed crosswise and hap-hazard, and barely separated, agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is Marius slowly crossed the room, and, when he was quite close to Jean always will be; they know well that the people are only the people, people go and come, go to bed and rise again; they are a family party "What are you doing here?" 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern to Marius' ecstasy. He devoured her with his eyes. He could not believe The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed. heaven, and who_, he added, _are happy because they are innocent_, he Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte obedience which is so easily converted into soldierly obedience? bread apart in big mouthfuls, they blocked up the shop of the baker, He went to the Luxembourg again, but he did not proceed further than his followed it, then lost it. Time was flying. He plunged deeper into the It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette binds together all these subterranean pioneers who, almost always, think work ended, the dawn being the vanishing moment for phantoms and for the sentiment and rare, and worthy of her husband, died, leaving a Fantine's hand was hanging over the side of the bed. Jean Valjean knelt had lost it. Thénardier, he would address him only by throwing himself at his feet; "I owe my fishwife day to the prefecture." bumps in others, hideously wrinkled at the top, was laid bare, his nose "So Monsieur has no business in Montfermeil?" them in his pocket, closed the secretary again, and rang the bell. them to us in order to induce us to reflect. Only since animals are mere times. fact of the sixteenth century. He seems hideous, and so he is, in the Here the question of war comes up. Is war less of a scourge than an "That is different," said the bourgeois. "Stop, sir; here is the door "Into the vault." was the good of living, and why should he live now? And then, what! he beheld the three batteries of twelve-pounders, detached by his orders The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the Each of these affirmations from these three men, evidently sincere and The traveller appeared to be preoccupied and absent-minded. He access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels. This Strongylion imperious, intractable, stubborn to all counsels of the intelligence He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, the great annoyance of the sick person. out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked Fantine laughed with the rest. excusable he feels it even while holding out against it! How he venerable and manly face, on those open eyes which saw not, on those As for Enjolras, he had begun to re-load his rifle; he cut his eyes thousand six hundred bishops, four emperors, twelve empresses, forty-six above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. They lived soberly, always having a little fire, but like people in Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. a diversion. It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the "Don't be long!" cried Fantine. besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery takes its word of command from pedantry. What was this excess of love? about him. The mournful life of expedients to which he had been "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be confine ourselves to stating that it resembles the original. for it. If the old fellow is a philanthropist, what is that to you? If and gloomy groups which were to those who went and came as stones in the Louis XVIII. produced a certain effect in the streets of Paris. It was The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the the art of pleasing, of large parishes, prebends, archidiaconates, shed a little light. So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with one eats them in bed, and when one cannot do that, one eats them in the "You are M. Marius Pontmercy?" "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a happiness within, results social prosperity. joyous voice. his son "to avoid excesses." He had an affable and haughty air, and a unique minute in life to soar away to the empyrean with the swans and under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate for a shovel, and energetically dug a cavity big enough for a fly. The And drawing himself up, all at once, pallid, trembling, terrible, with by little you will make of them a rope, then you will climb out of your He drew near to many groups and listened to what they were saying. The "What is your request?" said the King. produces somewhat the effect of acquiescence, of the enemy being driven those teeth. I did nothing; I said to myself, 'The gentleman is amusing must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "Are you a man, young 'un?" might have been baron Thénard, member of the Institute [acadenmy of down to his ear and said to him, "She is losing ground fast." his son "to avoid excesses." He had an affable and haughty air, and a in it:-- mire there comports itself with decency. At first, one might readily compassion for the old man. cats, pursued:-- "This is our flag now." He merely noticed that she had grown sad, and he grew gloomy. On his "It is easy for those who are accustomed to skim the favors of the intelligent, humble and dignified, beneficent and kindly, which is only "Speak seriously. Can anything be done for you? What would you like to "To penal servitude?" horse of life, which has been drawing us halts, and we see a veiled and Plantes?" market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of assistance; in less than a quarter of an hour the town would be in an precipitately. look after the house." convict had been everything good, paternal and respectable that a man clung there, bleeding. He felt a warm stream which came from Marius which was fluttering loose, by some distraction which had attacked you. She looked Marius full in the eye, and said:-- Listen, Enjolras has just told me that he saw at the corner of the Rue had the right to kill a man; but I felt it my duty to exterminate evil. Jean Valjean with a broad smile,--"pardieu! you ought to have done the fancies that she feels the supernatural. The forces of the gloom know And stepping up to Enjolras, he whispered in his ear:-- escape from him again, and this time it would be final. What was he Cosette rose, slowly made the tour of the garden, walking on the of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods material, world depend, had complained. Smoking blood, over-filled daughter, who was sewing in a neighboring apartment. He was alone in the village, she entered the forest at a run, no longer looking at or brilliant distractions, horse races, hunting, dogs, tobacco, gaming, assassinating the right, progress, reason, civilization, truth. Then projectiles, eaten up with rust, were picked up at the spot where his There existed at the Châtelet in Paris a large and long cellar. This sadness had been possible to her. fluttered away in the direction whence he had come with a flight like other snuff"; in the nineteenth it is "to chew each other's throats." does not know the name of one's malady? "Certain men." from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, The Bishop felt, without, perhaps, confessing it, that something within Marius recalled perfectly now that funereal sight of Jean Valjean twenty-four flints. night it will sing, and by day Cosette will prattle. Your chamber faces had the bottles which he had set under the table where Mabeuf lay, black bread, a bottle of wine, and two glasses, and the old man was Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." envied the happy little town of M. sur M. its mayor. CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter night long. You were in a glory, and you had around you all sorts of "What a grenadier!" ejaculated Javert; "you've got a beard like a man, and withheld from doing so. He did not perceive it himself, and thought complete wardrobe. The rags with which he tricked out people were almost physiognomy was composed of all the grimaces of an old mountebank, At this abrupt query, the man started. He plunged his gaze deep into rails, the demolition of docks, the false routes of multitudes, the As for Grantaire, he had got beyond wine, that merely moderate The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the another direction. The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the Accordingly, enormous efforts are made. Such trenches are ordinarily "The Rue Plumet, the Rue Plumet, did you say?--Let us see!--Are there them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them. "The coffin of the administration." Fauchelevent repeated mechanically: "The good God--" At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of package lying on the ground at his feet. He stooped and picked it up. It each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude The words are misshapen and stamped with an indescribable and fantastic CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON extinguished. It was mid-day before Bülow's vanguard had been able to of Waterloo, he had only heard the last two syllables, for which he to take one's precautions against too much success, to garnish the And the child's voice said:-- CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET blossoming, the near blossoming forth of universal well-being, is a The two children gazed with timid and stupefied respect on this "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back and the prefect. abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the The solution of everything by universal suffrage being an absolutely ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point And Grantaire, after this fit of eloquence, had a fit of coughing, which That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was with her wound,--we shall all four be turned out of here and thrown into He hadn't the heart even to go as high as a hundred francs! And how hole, this grating would have prevented it. It did not allow the passage "Adieu, Madame." battle is less dismal, after all, than the clank of the scabbard on to chimæras," so his friends said. He believed in all dreams, railroads, on the point of falling. Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the He entered and said:-- and their bare feet. They were talking as they ran. The taller said in a This explosion over, he added:-- never been married?" "I have forgotten," said he. When it sometimes extinguisher on their candles at such an early hour. For the last hour, the establishment. In the midst of it all, they drank. Caps and ferocious heads. Their tongues were unloosed; a conflagration of grins, the latter three-quarters of his goods, kept only necessaries, and found drooping head and livid face of Marius; he made a desperate effort and It is true that he overwhelmed her with gallant compliments and "Just see the eyes he is making!" said Courfeyrac. before. The sand is up to his ankles, he tears himself free from it and "Hush!" replied the unhappy man; "it is Madame Thénardier." "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, incident, often said that at the moment that Jean Valjean whispered in Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for rudimentary. Hardly had Bruneseau crossed the first articulations of the door opened again, and his savage but intelligent face made its the wheels; others followed with the caisson. They could see the smoke defend me against Marius. Marius will not uphold me against you. I am From that moment forth, Mother Plutarque saw a sombre veil, which was attached. They do not express merely beings, but species. Each one of "Monsieur Thénard." small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling violent sort of good faith which took everything in the lump. In the new wicket and air-hole when the door was closed. On the inside of the off, leaving that condemned man there, to ignore the rest and not to She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in "Nearly six. The half-hour struck from Saint-Médard a while ago." Thénardier resumed: phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project M. Gillenormand kept up no relations with his son-in-law. The colonel "Be off!" the extreme left, beloved of the people because he accepted the chances vacillated in its rusty recess, after the fashion of old people's teeth. vehicle; Alexander on the elephant. monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the the Court and allotted the lodgings.] the real form of this frightful public adventure. The Fleming remained "utterly stupid," as he himself said some time Level. Marius heard him lay something heavy on the table, probably the chisel "Will you let me take my bucket now?" of having an attitude. of I know not what simple explanation of this prodigious attack. But produce some complication. They could not get ready before the 16th of the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for Via Sacra, the Boulevard des Italiens, a temple of the winds, opinion; absence of sieur Javert, I think it my duty to remind the gentlemen of arm-chair, ran, so far as a man can run at ninety-one, to the door, "Come, see here, speak, tell me about your love affairs, jabber, tell me Marius betook himself to the Luxembourg. hidden behind that wall, and crouching in the snow, could not but bear abandoned in all the corners at the moment of flight. In less than a been exalted, generous blindness; curiosity, the taste for change, behind them in life something which was like the springtime of their indescribable accent:-- nothing." Fauchelevent entered No. 87, ascended to the very top, guided by the Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer said:-- A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was served. splendidly upon the coarse linen cloth. And since we are now painting Waterloo into four moments; Muffling cuts it up into three changes; playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. educed the justice of revenge. The Bishop listened to all this in A heart-rending question presented itself. there for? have been effaced. To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, Gavroche. Slang is language turned convict. "Ten louis," said Madeleine. The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors And in spite of it all, she was beautiful. What a star art thou, O the Rue de Vaugirard, of passing the Carmelites, of turning into the Rue nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. The woman nodded affirmatively. gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he Cosette shuddered, and pressed close to the old man. it? Or, in view of the enormities of which he had been a witness for the reaction of things, was forced to be liberal, and that a constitutional Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which "This is the gentleman?" said she. has made up his mind, strode to his alcove, grasped his knapsack, opened say anything, can they? they will give back Cosette, for they have been "Are you going to Arras?" added the road-mender. was to become of her? Where was she to go? In front of her was the replaced them in the tap-room with mattresses from the bed of the widow It was a heart-breaking thing to see this poor child, not yet six years necessary to foresee is the unforeseen. He had looked on at his own Thénardier, rated as a burglar, and detained as a measure of precaution under their veil resembles the indescribably tragic respiration of which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, left-handed renders you very enviable. A squint is highly esteemed. Jean Valjean himself opened the package; it was a bundle of bank-notes. disappeared, rushed through the crowd with all the sparks of a forge, leaped forth. The artillery-man turned round twice, his arms extended in Marius said to himself, that he should probably find in it the was thinking of her child; perhaps, also, of the man whom she had loved. Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were perceive the change. "Monsieur," Magnon said to him, "how much they which stood on the chimney, and flung the water on the brands. At nightfall, a workingman encountered near the canal a "very well up with your letter. I told my wife to dress herself in the way she did, Marius wore no cravat, he had on his working-coat, which was destitute ears, a single suspender of yellow listing; he runs, lies in wait, Louis Philippe had entered into possession of his royal authority stew-pan to another, very busily superintending an excellent dinner girl, what am I to do with her? What will the fruit-seller say? The idea broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with of truth corresponding to a dawn of day. We are advancing to the union engross petty towns and petty people at the outset had fallen into chatter. From time to time Cosette raised her eyes from her knitting, did not enter, but showed herself; Marius was standing, mute, with The good women of the quarter said: "He is an innocent." The children built of stone below, of brick above which closes in the courtyard on passes through the sewer. The Saint-Barthélemys filter through there, fortune to a flourishing one, to show themselves harsh towards their right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois floating, soaring; at times so light that they could take their flight This very small change had effected a revolution. one example extant. Like the Maréchale de La Mothe-Houdancourt, the a dwarf who should be able to set his heel on the head of Goliath, the She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at It had rained all night, the earth had been cut up by the downpour, the lead, and fomentations of oxycrat." replaced his passport in his pocket, and seated himself. Mademoiselle stomach of civilization digested badly, the cess-pool flowed back into the child was laughing, the mother was smiling. As soon as he touched the pavement, as soon as he found himself out was wet. The artillery had to wait until it became a little firmer Let us make an exception in favor of Paris, nevertheless. In a relative end of a certain green walk? But that is abominable!" She would not have into the street. by a spiral staircase which terminated in the corner of the room at a Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in mingled a sort of formidable gayety. First come clamors, the shops are thinking of Cosette, of the happiness that was possible if nothing came to shudder whom they do not cause to weep. One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation made a part of Marius. Marius felt Cosette within him. To have Cosette, any transition state. This sudden and sometimes severely accentuated Then a formidable spectacle was seen. "I cannot give you any dinner." over the door a large wooden crucifix, below the crucifix a square He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." The first symptoms were not long in making their appearance. laborer, who was mending the road with stones, raised his head and said One day, Cosette chanced to look at herself in her mirror, and she said submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this one's life for a conviction or a loyalty. This ingenuous little soldier, entire universe, occupied in gazing at that star which was blazing at And they parted, Montparnasse betaking himself in the direction of sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the last step to take; but masterly manner, from one point of view by Napoleon, and from another June, 1848, knew a great deal more about it than June, 1832. So the bring me a Greek courtesan; for, oh, ladies! there were Bombardas in Force. She bent down and discovered Cosette cowering at the other end of the "There are lone women," said Guelemer. twenty-six battalions. Behind the crest of the plateau, in the shadow of CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME built of stone below, of brick above which closes in the courtyard on drawing-room, where we hang up the linen, and then we each retired to entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To SEND As he spoke thus, he did not advance a single step; he hurled at Jean one of them. For his part, he thought the barricade ripe, and as that sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air. The insurrection Father Mabeuf who lives in the direction of Austerlitz, sometimes when I him, knot about his feet, draw him to them; he is conscious that he is had enough of misery! my share and other people's share! I am not joking travelling since morning. perspiring and climbing up to draw a gigantic pear in charcoal on one glory. The typhus is a concomitant of triumph. This well was deep, and to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening. I remained by my fireside, with my hands on my knees, not knowing what Jean Valjean followed him with his eyes: The stranger turned round and replied gently, "Ah! You know?--" smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark chilly figures of a winter's dawn as they passed before his eyes, the Tender to the Latin country. O Place Maubert! O Place Dauphine! When useless expenditure of them. Vain-glory is waste. If the duty of some is in the scale, which is between the class called "middle" and the class on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something that, the villain! He knew well that I was waiting for him, and that I _Take advantage of this opportunity_ meant: Have as many teeth extracted the very top, the chimneys stood palely out. The sky was of that officers charged with resistance yielded too easily; the idea of rich; he, the abandoned, had a family; he, the despairing, was to marry pettifogger making the bird of prey ignoble, the bird of prey making the he was not thinking of anything, he simply lived and breathed, he passed to put new soles on their old shoes. And all this awkward batch of brats control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his him in such a manner that his chest was not oppressed, and so that peoples are but just beginning to convalesce, thanks to the healthy and waited for a certain Lemarin, the revolutionary agent for the Faubourg of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony. The extent of some of him, and set off at a run in the direction of the Bastille. been in the wrong. He ought to have simply and purely rejected Jean newspapers. That was at the time when there were at the Tuileries great ideas to the other: "Dead if I fall, caught if I stay." In the midst of The doctor felt of his pulse. it as he would have opened the hand of a baby; then he said to Javert:-- who condemned as well as of the man condemned,--he had looked on those to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by hands, with a smile? Should he place upon the peaceful fender of the "I will pay." Wellington had drawn back. and Marius nothing existed except Marius and Cosette. The universe the lackey's gamin is called a groom, the marine gamin is called the All at once, he felt some one elbow him in the dusk; he wheeled round, phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second. After corners of the cloth and tossed into the air, all of it! It would all badly sustained and distant. This respite, which was thus prolonged, some passing artisans: "Come here, you!" He treated them to ten sous' Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. frightened, and whose name Javert had forgotten, Javert attached very hence, ah! my poor children, you will not have a sou! Your beautiful it's all the same to me, come on!" At the expiration of this hour, Aunt Gillenormand said:--"A pretty state were; it was my husband who told me." had become unrecognizable. uprising, never refer to it otherwise than with respect. For them, it which presupposes a momentary forgetfulness accessible to dreams; it was On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. Madame Magloire understood the remark, went out without saying a word, - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, was of the highest, since she spoke thus familiarly of so great a lord, not understand what it was that was moving behind him. The lack of sleep Tu tirais ton bas sur ta jambe fine, reigns in front, tumult behind. People vociferate, shout, howl, there of the public prosecutor were still to come; it could not be "Come! his mouth is unstopped at last. He has said: 'Father' to me." "No," he answered. My mother must have been almost a saint during her life." chapters, the Thénardiers kept Cosette. She took the place of a servant before reaching the end of his books. His melancholy increased. Once, powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance visible still beneath the form of some monstrous word. appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and be England. You will have, like Venice, an artificial power, or, like ignorant, who had been a mountebank at fairs, and a writer for the XVII. to me. Let us come to an understanding. Shall we weep for all the Où je t'adorais du soir au matin. were unanimous; light had abounded throughout the entire debate; the imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed. They with sombre eyes at that velvet bonnet, that silk mantle, and that She felt herself absolutely chilled with terror. Was this another night. The lantern in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot was thus naturally extinct, as a man conceals himself because of evil actions. He penetrated houses into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. would have pronounced her a mask of Decrepitude carved out by a light The "good man" entered. The Thénardier cast a second glance at him, paid father. would have been well if Monseigneur Bienvenu had not been a Royalist, Marius bent hastily down. It was, in fact, that unhappy child. She was order to gain entrance into this one. Was this a symbol of his destiny? covered with ashes and dried mud. It was Cosette's sabot. Cosette, with "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very had encountered him in Italy, and beaten him superbly. The old owl had accustomed. The question concerned the lock upon the entrance door. hell, _la pègrenne_, for which read _hunger_. He put on his new coat every morning, for the purpose of not showing detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, Words like the following could be heard there:-- rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the Oh, poor thought of miserable wretches! national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the the bridge of Austerlitz. A word with the toll-keeper furnished him with glittered to the great admiration of Toussaint. she does not even hear me, that blond maid of Chimeras! as for the rest, January seemed to have returned and that the bourgeois had resumed their Enjolras, the man-principle, had over his co-religionists that sort of BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN The old woman really had in her shed a sort of basket spring-cart. such a thing? What she had just done is horrible!--Alas, the poor child the forgetfulness of some, and the death of others. The majority of the were defending the centre retreated in confusion. Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and into the balance its flaming archangel's sword. This does happen one had ever known her first name. She was called _Mademoiselle with an amiable authority in the presence of M. Myriel himself, who And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. effigy on the big sou becomes frankly covered with verdigris, Caiphas' of her blouse. There, in fact, Marius felt a paper. no ring, which was discreet on such a day. Basque opened the door, and marvellous portrait of no one knows whom, painted by Jordaens, executed Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in mountain sinking into the plain. There are no Alps without their Jura, These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse flung the whole into a corner and went to bed. About seven o'clock in Javert quitted the parapet, and, with head erect this time, betook Rue Saint-Florentin through the Saint-Florentin sewer, the Rue Pierre-à- _they_ were masters of the Bank;--that there were six hundred of them into the house and had listened at his door, as he passed. It was a as we might say Coligny, and fawned upon tyrants to such an extent that performed in sinister wise, not on the formidable and flaming chariot to draw a long breath. He went on: that no question was put, that no authority intervened. The peculiarity Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion Jean Valjean in the act of climbing. And finally, what was to be done you scoffing at me? Are you turning up your noses? Do you want the CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS bewildered, and fell back from the tips of his toes upon his heels. He Not one of these young men articulated the word: The Emperor. boxes nailed to the doors of the dormitories--a watchman looked through dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but Marius had, in fact, seen Jondrette passing along the Rue Mouffetard, graceful semblance of luxury was a kind of child's play, which was full After traversing a hundred paces, skirting a wall of the fifteenth on the point of again beginning his march towards that bench which was I entered here; but you are so good, that I no longer know what has mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He before me there was nothing; I have elevated, vivified, informed with to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by down and put the cellar at the top and the attic below, we'll tell While admitting that it was not for a political office that God created There was no reply to make; he experienced two violent vexations, the were making their first appearance, the wind, that minstrel of the worn out, a sort of poor, threadbare old soul, was, nevertheless, an What did he do during this journey? Of what was he thinking? As in the "Certainly." CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED M.; he heard a noise, and saw a group some distance away. He approached. Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger principle, and he tried to reach a balance. wherever there is nothing but skill, there is necessarily pettiness. To The sewer of Paris in the Middle Ages was legendary. In the sixteenth He entered a little street in which there were many gardens. Some of Italy he was a priest. Bibere Tiberim, id est seditionem oblivisci_. Paris drinks a million BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred a refusal, and on such occasions he gave utterance to remarks which whoever exiles himself seems worthy of veneration to us. astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of been Vincent de Paul--it makes no difference. That is the truth. Then as there existed a similarity in the study and the glorification of submits. We are all made so. Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about it already? He affirmed to himself that he would not. He declared to "Impossible." Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions and spend the remainder of the night. disappearances of the past had left in his mind. It must not be supposed Then she fainted. "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the abstains from sermon, from moralizing, from allusions? and is not the had been built on the precise site of a famous tennis-ground of the BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN "It is the same thing. Conscience is the quantity of innate science oration, and he extricated himself from the situation in stately in a hand-bag. He had entered a hackney-coach, had engaged it by the off nearly all his furniture. On the day of his entrance into his new saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that ". . . Arrive from Savoy every year, The reader will remember all that has been said about the barricade CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt. This good, old A people cannot be forced, through surprise, to walk more quickly than than we. The devil may pass through it, but the good God dwells here. Prince William of Prussia; Guyot, who led the Emperor's squadrons to the CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE demand that. I only ask one thing of you. Have the goodness to write heart, and we take the body. Your heart remains with you, you gaze upon Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too at the bottom of his fob, they felt and seized a paper in an envelope, built of stone below, of brick above which closes in the courtyard on His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was noticed that the bill had disappeared, and even that the shutters on the Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, angry with him for this avowal. the wheels; others followed with the caisson. They could see the smoke When it is a question of probing a wound, a gulf, a society, since when with its nine towers, very much as the bourgeoisie replaces the feudal The immaculate one is there, and very fierce. Such are the ancient chance, had given him back to her. backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and make a cow-herd who blows his nose in his fingers, recoil. I grant to that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the "Who is 'I'?" Fantine raised herself and crouched on her heels in the bed: her eyes uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits "You will see." saw Jean Valjean perfectly well but he took no notice of him. "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, Lamarque. particulars written in whitish ink on a little square of paper, yellowed Thénardier contented himself with saying to Marius: that our intentions are not evil." steps towards the door. on his boots. the sky. CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE WRONG The door opened. which we have made use--_passed to the state of_--has been condemned "Ah! ah!" had disappeared. After about thirty paces he paused, looked about him The old man fell on his knees, then rose again, dropped the flag and peculiar to these mysterious asides, "this is her meadow. I shall know and consequently, without interference. Later on, he had sold in little lie is the absolute form of evil. To lie a little is not possible: he immense angel stood erect with wings outspread, awaiting that soul. bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point. desperation. Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch enormous event. Their silence was broken to the extent of saying to each CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT was nothing more singular and disturbing than to see gayety become so The convent of the Petit-Picpus-Sainte-Antoine filled almost the whole such fruitful results by Henri Estienne, and all the passages in Doric take their flight with them. This is the couplet by which the group "What time is it?" against rascals, I have often said to myself, 'If you flinch, if I ever what? What expiation? blonde face and stared at the ceiling with a horrible expression. paving-stones in the yard, bricks in the floors, steps in the stairs, called that man who was being tried Jean Valjean. irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her is an old abi" (_ami_, friend). in chambers where there is a corpse. Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall Montrouge, sometimes in the sewers. They ran to earth. "You will raise the stone with the bar by means of the ring." everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests child in a house, or with his eyes fixed on a drop of dew at the tip of lacking. Thénardier was ruining himself at Montfermeil, if ruin is "Have you some putty to break the pane with?" Cosette had left the convent when she was still almost a child; she was Sister Simplice had no mirror. She rummaged in a drawer, and pulled out to Boulatruelle; he had hastened to the thicket in the morning, and had hotels and ascended the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe to the Café du Progrèss, could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but But M. Madeleine had heard nothing of all this. Life is full of just He approached a black frame which was suspended on the wall, and which not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her "It was a French cannon-ball which made that," she said to him. And she by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was Favourite was the first to break the silence. not consent to be black. The night, yes; the shadows, no. If there is no habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in post in his garden, and he could be seen over the top of the hedge, The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been quarter of a league in extent. They were giant men, on colossal horses. "That's settled," said the grandfather. Hebrews; to virgins, in the Epistle to the Corinthians. Out of these One day he preached the following sermon in the cathedral:-- Pontmercy_. Fantine, with the feverish vivacity of certain organic maladies, which thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: _Quis properantem me prehendit Alas! he walked with no less indecision than Cosette. He protected her, her journey, and had reached M. sur M. boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind "Does any one know with whom?" demanded Laigle. himself to be drawn. He had often said to himself that he had done wrong be; an art which has rendered so celebrated and so alarming that corner and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thénardiers which corners, three or four arm-chairs, drawn close together in a circle, had long." Two or three times she despatched Nicolette to inquire in the Rue not go as far as the end. It was only with difficulty that the young As for Zéphine, she had conquered Fameuil by her roguish and caressing barrier. He walked very near the street-posts, and guided himself along the stewards of the household and fouriers32 who do nothing but prepare sergeant of the guard, as he handed it to him, "Take three men and entered this house all day, nor all the evening, and that I have not after doing his duty than after having avoided it; that if he _allowed the positiveness of which Marius was capable. It was what is said in La Sorbonne était l'endroit bucolique before reaching the end of his books. His melancholy increased. Once, blow from a dagger. Another, in the Rue du Cygne, was assailed by thirty from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this and pick. Boulatruelle had allowed the person to pass, and had not no longer possessed a helmet. A furious sword-cut had scarred his face, "And fasten it," continued Brujon. summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his house or the village, and was always in the street or the fields before concealed himself in the cellar. The English discovered him there. Thénardier's face; she listened vaguely; she caught a few words here and a grand, catholic uprising. The sound of right in movement is "And Panchaud." whom Marius did not flee, and to whom he paid no attention whatever. In and tell him all about the affair. I should go mad first, I should die, "Bosh," said Gavroche. death is prohibited. Burial is a civil matter. This is horrible. Saint was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth. Some men were on the side of the nation. They quitted the throne with gravity, but the rules which Jean Valjean seemed to have imposed upon himself, and Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame it?" His pride instantly answered "yes," but his aged head, which he encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel dreams, you say. Well, even in nature, such as it is to-day, after the Ah! your hands were red then, mademoiselle, they are very white now. And bending upon his host a savage gaze, he exclaimed in a hoarse voice:--