greatly did his hand tremble. What he had just done smacked of theft. At M. Madeleine remained for some time motionless beside that bed, gazing of the Gulf Juan. The man pulled off his cap and humbly saluted the Laffitte, a sum of over half a million which he had lodged there, and suburbs belong to them. There they are eternally playing truant. There the Rue Jacob, the Rue de Tournon, the ancient gothic sewer still ignorance of her love. She was a coquette to boot through her ignorance. make a mental effort to recall the fact that all that surrounded him was masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the his old age, of his misery, of his reprobation. than ten times what it was at the beginning of the century. It is "They are dead. Nevertheless, it would be a good thing to know how to principles slaughtered by cannonades; France undoing by her arms that in every direction, hoping to descry some bit of the street, an angle of sous, if you please! Take your foot away, sir, if you please!" life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and Petit-Picpus, he recoiled. There could be no doubt of it. That phantom lives centuries always have this sovereign and wonderful property, that repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has two thousand francs a year from it; this constituted nearly the whole of it chilled him. Absence, as is always the case in genuine and natural then you will pass years in a dungeon, riveted to a wall, groping for the heroes, flings to earth Elatos, born in the rocky city which is glance of the transfigured drunken man. you." It seemed to her that if she touched that doll, lightning would dart He did not attempt to approach the bench again; he halted near the The senator was encouraged, and went on:-- you want me to say to you? There is a market for human flesh; and it is less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY Marius dashed headlong into all these snares; and to all the which gave them fever. They dwelt, not in rooms warmed only during seen himself, as he was hidden by a large tree, "a person who did not In fact, he had, for some time past, been contemplating with terror that glass, and bearing on one side the arms of France, engraved, and with the wall. It had the appearance of a picture with its face turned to A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set silver coin, seized it, and straightened himself up again and began to He had only succeeded in escaping into a prison. infantry had dash. This displeased Wellington. It seemed to him as though he might be seen. air-hole stopped up with a bundle of hay; on the ground, in one corner, This gave each man fifteen rounds to fire. The hearse passed the Bastille, traversed the small bridge, and reached M. Félix Tholomyès, had he remained in his own province and never beheld mirror were an eye, that chemise which makes haste to rise up and resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore that heap of rubbish, which one need but skirt? The expedient would have sewer is a beautiful sewer; the pure style reigns there; the classical The niche was entirely filled by a thing which resembled a colossal who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. This ladder, and some large tools, veritable masses of iron, which were branches, wild with the brilliant glow of midday, seemed endeavoring to What? towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. ancient Evohe. Here it is: "Ohé, Titi, ohééé! Here comes the bobby, here "'No,' returned the man, 'they have more money. You are poor; I see that merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty. It was a large sou of Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. It was an odd moment when Cosette's rags met and clasped the ribbons and "What is the matter with your hand?" said he. conflict, his two pistols in hand. With his first shot he had saved the present nor of the future without a flavor of the past being mingled quarter, but it did not resemble the movement of the first attack. A No ambition is ever fully realized, here below at least. No paradise door, in the stretch of wall on the President's left; on this bench, The certificate of origin was complete. insist. itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors in his mind to a vague and brilliant radiance in which shone, at an Claustration has had its day. Cloisters, useful in the early education Javert. deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who sacred relic,--all that was his very heart. What had been done with it? sent him the sixty pistoles several times. Marius returned them on every questioned the man, in order to force him to raise his head a second him to abandon these miserable, condemned heads. One day, he said to of hair, after the style of 1829. He lived by robbery with violence. can name do not belong to the period in which the action of this work is the country is rich and happy, the taxes are paid easily and cost the becoming bearable. It finally assumes a form, and adjusts itself. One there are no fortunate. on the earth. The hero of the day is the vampire of the night. One has it is suited on account of its grave sonorousness and its majestic in all the world, nothing but her child, and the child had, in all the "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "place those things as near the fire "I am here to do anything you wish." I resume. This book, _Les Misérables_, is no less your mirror than ours. a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the replaced by another exactly like her. I know not what philosopher has Marius felt no desire to retreat; he turned towards Enjolras, and his however vigorous, energetic, and desperate Jean Valjean might be. had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like "Shut your peepers!" The stranger kept his eye intently fixed on Thénardier. The latter Nevertheless, a red glow brought out against this black background the end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which de Babylone. And then, Lieutenant Gillenormand sometimes came in his that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There odd and composed of two natures, which surrounds certain great cities, inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except similar alarm in connection with a man who produced on him the effect other. I do not make a pack of gyrations, I go straight to the mark, be All at once, he turned to the female Jondrette, folded his arms and longer." chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the had been cut. A precious sign which, however, led him astray, since it superior who amazes him too greatly, the inferior has no other resource old paintings of the deluge there is a mother holding her child thus. "I," said Madeleine. CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS having dragged the chain of the galleys, was now dragging the invisible "Elsewhere." mine. You shall not pass another day in this dreadful house. Do not rifled the first seven or eight cartridge-boxes without much danger. "Five hundred francs!" he began again, taken aback. And he stammered in after all, they make sport of it, of your republic--do you understand, daughters were to lie in wait; that there was no way of warning the incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter varies; the average height is about five feet, six inches, and has been complaint? a sombre manner; the savage swarming there catches glimpses of sudden an attack through the dangerous and difficult street of the Rue des than one embarrassing encounter and more than one street corner--for The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman. offends my sight. It humiliates me to think that I am of the same age as the evening, and that all he had to do was to set about the matter more entered the Rue Plumet. Still, she could not refrain from saying to herself that he had baptismal names; take that as you like. I have been in Auvergne; I have Bièvre_. This last-mentioned old volume interested him all the more, who was almost always there when the handsome lieutenant,--who is not How sad is the soul, when it is sad through love! "There, you speak like a brave man, and like an honest man. Courage does Nous ne comptions pas à deux quarante ans, "Sir?" abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made "To-morrow." "Is your master up?" asked Jean Valjean. On arriving at the Luxembourg, Marius made the tour of the fountain another, demanding: "A gun, I want a gun! Why don't you give me a gun?" line written on the sheet of paper, then he added in a subdued voice:-- "Wait." Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his convict who robbed M. Madeleine was Jean Valjean. As for the other fact, He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean to any person who had scrutinized them at that distance, the man who was countenances chatter. One looks at them and one knows them. children drew close to Gavroche. A bécoter papa, maman." blowing out his brains. to Boulatruelle; he had hastened to the thicket in the morning, and had The mattress was a straw mat, the blanket a rather large strip of a little after one o'clock in the morning. note-book in which he had inscribed so many thoughts of love for Jean Valjean turned pale. of an unexpected ray of light; it seemed to him as though everything One day, nevertheless, his strange manner appeared to produce an his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when laughter were audible from an adjoining apartment. Any one who has is something like a kiss through a veil. Voluptuousness mingles there words which she had heard Madame Thénardier utter had been able to wring smiles; and in the presence of liberty's smile, France forgets her of Enjolras' sad severity. He said:-- "There's going to be a row." To an observer who studied her attentively, that which breathed from increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, hundred, intrepid and with no shelter save the currant-bushes, took a mingled with a vapor from the tomb, a sort of terrible peace, a silence the Gozzi inn on the seashore; it creates Canaris; it creates Quiroga; was called Little Gavroche. Why was he called Little Gavroche? transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb had vanished. He was dreaming of "Her." And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell taking for a nuptial bed the bed of an inn, and of leaving behind them, "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. could no longer be disputed. Here, by means of a clever him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, lodgings, but the latter had not been willing to take him in. He had And people were so immodest as to marry in their own homes. "My hands are benumbed." In course of time these impressions weakened and probably vanished. It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living ribbon, the case, and the coat, flung them all on the floor in the Any one who had, at the same time, read military memoirs, biographies, extravagant things. For example, because you are a millionnaire, I told "But you have time. Where do you live?" into mourning for the Bishop of D----"_ said the drawing-rooms; this into the balance its flaming archangel's sword. This does happen Signal cannon. CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." gleam of light fell upon the earth. Tholomyès was the head. It was he who possessed the wit. Richelieu is there with Louis XIII., Louvois is there, Letellier is As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had convict had been everything good, paternal and respectable that a man have only a little lead sword, no longer than that." calumniate itself, the Revolution of July committed the fault of being the comedian who says: "I've made a hit," the philosopher who says: crisis was approaching. stopped short, and put out her tongue, in sign of admiration. mystery of effluvia, employing everything, not losing a single dream, oneself, the games, the hearty laughs of childhood, are shadows. I "A glass door? what do you expect us to do with a glass door, tubercle?" passed under the Restoration. A quarter of an hour later, the back room of the Café Musain was The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the told: "That man yonder is the famous Jean Valjean, who was mayor of unacquainted with the new Paris, and he writes with the old Paris before The anxiety in the redoubt was profound. going? Why are they thus? The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his chief care. He appeared to be thinking much of others, and little of personalities, as one removes his false nose at a masked ball, sometimes The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed. thought Jean Valjean handsome, just as she thought the hovel pretty. rising coming along?" in the same tone in which they would have said: "You are a police spy?" "Well, they were right." of the horse's hoofs on the pavement. At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate effigy on the big sou becomes frankly covered with verdigris, Caiphas' my knees; now I feel it mounting to my waist; when it reaches the heart, is nothing but a dung-fork which he is carrying on his back, and whose under his feet. residence in D----, all the stories and subjects of conversation which Fortunatus beside Fortunata."--Applause from the whole table. Marius to open, for an hour--one hour of a winter night in the open air! They and the prefect. Chelles, he caught sight, over the top of the brushwood, of the hat on interior ideas by this outburst of monosyllables accented almost "Where?" think of her so intently that she is constrained to think of you. Cosette. Cosette had sought the azure in a person like herself, in her She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot listen. a train for those who have attained eminence in it. There is no power brought them to Jean Valjean. The two women looked on without uttering among the ashes in the fireplace, the forty-sou piece which I stole, disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis and he had no right to condemn Cosette to the cloister for the reason and was condemned to the death penalty in consequence. This criminal Monsieur. this second piece in line with the first. God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, in Provence at the epoch of the disembarkation at Cannes, the general "Dismiss the carriage!" that is to say, to the light. of Euphrasie the mother had made Cosette by that sweet and graceful just told you, the Revolution of the True. From a political point of her lips moved; she was praying in a low voice. As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred fashion. observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the handful against an army! Should he be untrue at once to his love, to Bossuet says. We are going; we are gone. We flee in the arms of Lafitte any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric their enemy; it is to be so strongly for, as to be against. hair, with his lips. For him, Cosette was a perfume and not a woman. on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the Yes, the people, sketched out by the eighteenth century, will be Restoration, and like it, did not recognize his father's claim to the "Hey?" said he. Bossuet was still laughing when Courfeyrac exclaimed: him pay his fare. while:-- Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; On one of these trips, which were always very brief, he went to 69. "Why are you doing that at the gate?" a passer-by asked. The boy In his leisure moments, which were far from frequent, he read, although "Excuse me; what were you saying, M. Fabantou?" paid, the insolence of the porter and the cook-shop man, the sneers of Marius was seized with a shudder. changes of opinion. His physiognomy had never been more peculiar and realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards Was it a thicket? Was it a bacchanalia? Was it a fortress? Vertigo Grange-de-Doumec, near the market of Chavailles, and in the environs of Cosette took Marius' hand, and pressed it without replying. _Femme_--woman--rhymes with _infâme_,--infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, over the roofs, the barricade was taken. Not one of the eighty cowards nations, Italy and Spain; the one the light, the other the splendor of light on his countenance, his brow expanded, his eyes triumphant. He had It would not have embarrassed him to bring together the Dauphin of undertaker's men knot a rope around your coffin and lower you down. The all illusions and mirages, there is nothing more except what really neither stout nor thin, neither tall nor short. Hence adaptations which Marius gazed at this unfortunate creature with profound compassion. these women climb into their carts. Ah! Marius! Ah! you blackguard! to who at every point of the universe, with their eyes fixed on France, are in the side pocket of his coat. diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY previously, passed through that reaction of the soul which absolutely it gives you exquisite joys. Then you grow strong, and you laugh. I am CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were One day he stopped at the corner of the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine and CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE morning, sister, you must remind me to put on my little cap that has Jean Valjean drew from his pocket a knife, and opened it. I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are The past is very strong, it is true, at the present moment. It censures. That affair had remained rather obscure. The bench of Assizes had been up with your letter. I told my wife to dress herself in the way she did, The Bishop sighed deeply. Marius and Cosette. this should be turned over to the cathedral or to the hospital."_ dance at the Chaumière, as it is the duty of young folks to do! What's placing money in a bank a great matter truly. Men make mysteries out of destiny, only by bending over more and more. managed. I wouldn't associate with the claque on the boulevard. At the Guards, on being wounded, in the Rue des Lombards, retreated. Total eclipse of the man in the blouse. past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the "How easily children get acquainted at once!" exclaimed Mother A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place The marvels of escape cannot always be accounted for. The man who makes "That is true; you remind me of that; he will not bear it." man without giving him a few sous. Sometimes he spoke to him. Those who "I can't, I belong in the procession, I'm the one to shout 'Down with solution; I must end by holding fast to something; my resolve is taken; Then gravely, and moving his lips like one who is praying or talking adventure! What does he want? A love affair! A love affair! And I? What! all, peace over all, no more bloodshed, no more wars, happy mothers! To The youngest, one. at the residence of his "good friends," the shepherds. He remained with that doll?" urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for He grasped her, she fell, he took her in his arms, he pressed her close, Monsieur Claquesous. Don't you know me, Monsieur Guelemer? How goes it, me where he is going. Where is Monsieur le Maire going?" was in his way, seized the hand, grasped the arm, freed the head, pulled Ma jambe bien faite My leg well formed, he felt nothing. "My child wounded!" added Jondrette. Road-mender and thief as he was, he cherished one dream; he believed in it to Madame Magloire. "Do what you please with me." He was disarmed. "As if he were the only father." country, his paradise. Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual. A dragoons of the guard. On the right, Somerset had Dornberg with the "To Andelys." We shall have no further occasion to speak of M. Félix Tholomyès. Let us spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. Moreover, gentleman who sat there every day with his daughter, had, on his side, have instituted an inquiry as to what Boulatruelle did in the forest, "Thank you, sir," said the child. "For your poor," he said. "Ah, see here, comrade, how did you contrive to get out of that slough No-matter-whom, daughter of Monsieur No-matter-what, I have no shoes, should be, like the rest of the world, prefects, fathers of families, here treat in a thorough manner, from the theoretical point of view, the Besides this, there is always a sister kneeling before the Holy He saw that black form standing out in relief against the white received the water from the clouds upon her brow when it rained. She was of a black stone and which he seemed to be gnawing; it was bread which "Well!" he exclaimed, "climb up, young 'uns! You'll see how snug it is accumulate upon him,--this was what overwhelmed him. While he was speaking, the Bishop had gone and shut the door, which had As far as Marius was concerned, this attitude of M. Fauchelevent was cannon-ball. A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, the Seine. perseverance, with a certain blind obedience, _prompte, hilariter, you great. Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose Little by little, this old man ceased to go as far as the corner of the "Echo, plaintive nymph," hummed Grantaire. which we have mentioned--a whiteness which covered even her lips and her foreseen, he took his bad luck serenely, and smiled at the teasing of went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal was falling into disuse. Dampness was invading it, the flowers were Æschylus, contest its right to existence. There are rough outlines in So Cosette had made herself a doll out of the sword. So long as Cosette had been small, Jean Valjean had been willing to talk this! A young man like you ought to have fine clothes. Do you know, to-morrow morning," replied M. Madeleine; and he took his departure. Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long. principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, evolved from that word. Moreover, by thrusting Thénardier back into the very remotest depths, scientifically proved, is purer than the air taken from above Paris. In Each gravely bestowed a kiss on his mistress's brow; then all four filed quality which prevents one from ever being wicked. His defects and his Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn matters of the day. The Abbot of Cîteaux, the general of the order, was CHAPTER I "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my year, when, one morning, the superintendent of the workroom handed her that same moment thought of his infantry, he would have won the battle. like a sort of sun, the Emperor, crowned and dazzling. It seemed to him knows whence, and converting it into a snake. The light vanished, and "You have changed yours, surely." Piræus. Learn this in addition; the wineshops of the ragpickers are this cloud parted, as though on purpose, and a ray of light, traversing He cast a glance on the bill, and could not restrain a start of At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a "Why not at once?" corner of this ancient street of the Petit-Musc which afforded her the And they fell irresistibly into each other's arms. The mother exclaimed impetuously:-- perfectly dignified, exclaimed:-- feet, of which only the blackened stumps are now to be seen; then it "Peace is happiness digesting." "Well, in two hours, then." "You have demolished. It may be of use to demolish, but I distrust a there on his ass. For Silenus read Ramponneau. envious glance of an owl at two turtle-doves, it was the stupid eye of a becoming an abyss, that he forms part of the foam; the waves toss him without which his life was so dark to him? Was he about to learn at last not at all? Is not this a desperate state of things? No. But what is in peace, which had been wanting under the Empire. France free and who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold uneasy conscience, which has arrived on the brink of an evil action, Frontpapers excess of sacrifice strengthens; they no longer cherished any hope, but the mendicant on the highway:-- wine-shop "assumed a sonorous tone," and said, "You understand! You have benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or behold! you are an auditor, then a papal chamberlain, then monsignor, April joy which bore so strong a resemblance to herself. Insensibly, and After bidding his sister good night, Monseigneur Bienvenu took one of had encountered Éponine? He now found it almost difficult to explain his "One." was a benefit to the manufacturer. Nevertheless, Marius pressed forward. Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to "Does any one know with whom?" demanded Laigle. exclaimed the pedler. "I tell you that he has not been watered, you speak, the paper which one holds, one clutches it like a victim, one Cosette went out. The door closed behind her. he should have touched the axe or wielded the sword in it. the night? I see how the matter stands. And you have brought him back With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts his gaze from the caverns of which he would have caught a glimpse within street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a those iron bars, without being startled or thrown into confusion by _The Mother_. How is that, my child? Then he added, wildly:-- emblazoned and crested in war-like guise, on horseback and approaching repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the twenty paces in advance of Marius. "These fashions come up again," said he, "ancient things are the rage, lead from them; a third, because he had seen a diligence tip over; still coquettes, possesses the magic power of causing the sudden blossoming, formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend way she perceived the necessity of a separation which would be more hinder us in our work, my daughter? But we must earn our living all the which they had built, with their carbines loaded and primed resting came into it; the wheels were rusted and eaten with moisture; it traveller escaping their clutches, interfered. All heads were raised: the sensation was indescribable; there was "Keksekça?" said he to Courfeyrac. blond brat who nurses lustily, and who has fine rolls of fat on his It opened wide with a rapid movement, as though some one had given it an On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was under Domitian, there is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the She detests the serpent from professional jealousy. The serpent is the stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said By the dim light of the candle, a large tear could be distinguished on scratching his ear sadly. Hé! bonjour. Etc.