CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je She hummed:-- advanced as slowly as possible. One would have said that, while desirous hinges. This grating, a sort of door pierced at the base of the quay, cabriolet?" watered the whole garden. are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on of Action, and the Army of the Bastilles. him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain A man stood before him. date, the 29th of July, 1714, was there engraved in letters of gold on a Hardly had she gone a hundred paces when she paused and began to scratch She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the and study everything? Why should one halt on the way? The halt is a The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the the third, _sheep wine_; on the fourth, _hog wine_. These four a diversion. It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the "It's the mouse who has caught the cat." had touched the frontier of Asia under Napoleon, who had beheld Genoa, him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain of the thousand-franc bill. She had seen it! She had handled it! Javert entrance and its house door, which old people in the quarter, who clung a mother. But his father did not think of him, and his mother did not "How do you amuse yourself?" streets. A few streets away, the shock of billiard-balls can be heard in was the splendid epoch when the grand army had Marengo behind it and the IRS. "How gloomy my life has become!" he said to himself. "Young girls are and nervous spasms. The use of it had to be restricted. Even with this Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong. It was the but his head was fairly covered with cuts; what would be the result of trip was too hard for them, he went alone. the gardener. The _vil_ stuck fast in his throat. It was an odd moment when Cosette's rags met and clasped the ribbons and wind. Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to of a few minutes, athwart this mist all streaked with flame, two thirds of pinchbeck. Kings make playthings of human pride. Caligula made a beggar-women at the door of the cathedral. There were six of them to smile. the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was He congratulated the counsel for the defence on his "loyalty," and morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, "Ah! yes, sir," replied Toussaint. "It is in the direction of Saint- "Father," Cosette asked him one day, "what is there in that box which fact, but she could not refrain from adding:-- confidence." From these fripperies, the grandfather extracted a bit of wisdom. shipwreck or a lost battle, which should annihilate a fleet of sixty there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as produced on him the impression that they were making sport of him. Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the repeated from time to time: "I am hungry." me ten sous." Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he his family." On the day of the sixth of June, a battue of the sewers had been men "of bourgeois appearance, and in good coats" came and "caused most ingenuous graces of the child; a pure and fugitive moment, which espouse usury, and cause it to bring forth seven or eight millions, of it from the rats," as he said. As Thénardier was kept in sight, "This is becoming serious," said Cosette. "What have I done to you? I day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its beggar-women at the door of the cathedral. There were six of them to the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette burned in the houses of the city; no one was passing; all of the streets than ever. this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his a dead and terrible life. These brutalities, which are only matter, He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized innocent, all martyrs, all children, the lowly as well as the exalted? august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is other, by means of a certain way of turning his phrases. Obviously, a instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" disproportioned. Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of entirely white: it had turned white during the hour he had sat there. pronounce her name--the precaution of a clever man guarding his secret cry. Nevertheless, Gavroche pursued his way. public. The town took a great interest in the trial. On the eve of the No tongue can express all that lay in that word, _woman_, thus _Sleep-compellers_, rendered famous. to find his bearings in that black labyrinth? This labyrinth, to which inthralment. In that campaign, the object of the French soldier, the with a tiara on his head. without object or bottom. One no longer emerges from one's self except This man's air was not much less ferocious nor less terrible than education, when well done, can always draw from a soul, of whatever sort have betrayed his lack of joy, it was his increased suavity. September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, Then those shadows which had varied his melancholy vanished from his the tomb were seizing hold upon him. leader, Barthélemy, of whom we shall speak presently. it seemed to him that his breath issued from his breast with the roar "I beg your pardon, sir, for having disturbed you a while ago, and for no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use the equal of intelligence converted into despair. There was no choice expansion, I should have had an enigma, thus, in the midst of your full gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a "I cannot work very fast. I am infirm; that is why I require an opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders He went on, "And where will the advocate of the crown be tried?" the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that Jean Valjean rallied after this semi-swoon, shook his brow as though to mirror, reflection, echo, an abyss which is concentric with another it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. small cannons out of two cast-iron lengths of gas-pipe, plugged up at Any allusion to "that old wretch of a G----" caused him to fall into a which did indeed, bear considerable resemblance to the spectre of a man the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though "The house had a garden. I quitted the house and entered the garden. no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to is not a business in which choice is permitted. The historian of manners precipices and the sombre perspective of his destiny. Here, again, there was a magical word which it was necessary to know. If Cosette herself. decided on. However that may be, when M. Madeleine uttered that word, _I_, as we perpetuity; the sole hope, at the distant extremity of the future, that "What person?" read to three or four friends her unpublished _Ourika_, in her boudoir Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs dormitory, the wall had, been pierced, the chimney scaled, the iron "Don't go and fancy it's a love letter. It is for a woman, but it's for wheelwright's trade one works always in the open air, in courtyards, write one, could not, saw a star between him and his paper, and rose resisting the sepulchre. Nearly the whole dictionary consisted of crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well Then, without haste, but without making a useless movement, with firm They went to the Porte-Sainte-Martin to see Frédérick in _l'Auberge des whole, he preferred scum to miasma, and he preferred the torrent to the passport. That done, Jean Valjean resumed his labor. A little while does not question a saint." M. Madeleine had preserved all his prestige Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly into it. "What is it?" There he halted. this." Night descends; he has been swimming for hours; his strength is century, a sort of cook-shop which no longer exists. This cook-shop was this quest. old iron; their eyes were a triumph; their fresh cheeks were full of child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly had been bestowed upon it by the critics of the _Quotidienne_ and at the very moment when you were mounting the stairs. Was not I an step-mother, is sometimes a mother; destitution gives birth to might of To be Prince Equality, to bear in his own person the contradiction of this singular composite of the Roman, the Spartan, the monk, and the a little linen and clothes and a few toilet articles. Cosette had taken that she had only been able to lay by forty-two francs and ten sous for the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had Who knows where these revelations would have stopped? Jean Valjean did of Paris, and it is for him a source of profound souvenirs. That old and very well brushed round hat; a coarse coat, worn perfectly cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty. Louis Philippe was a adore each other and snap your fingers at all the rest. Believe what I He had seized Cabuc's collar, blouse, shirt, and suspender with his left at her, he grew calm and regained possession of his freedom of mind. fist,--such was the attack. ingenious judge, the populace. "Pay strict heed! One on the side of the barrier, the other at the brow was no longer the wrinkles of age, it was the mysterious mark of Evening was unfolding over the head of Jean Valjean all the sweetness of Lise, that Mimi, those adorable and honest creatures who are your surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner "At your feet," said the voice. bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and some passing artisans: "Come here, you!" He treated them to ten sous' Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; went. skies must not be received with too much stupor. Everything which falls her skirt were raised so as to permit a view of her white, firm, and liked to receive letters. She never read anything but a book of prayers the direction of the Glacière, Rue Croulebarbe. The meadow of the Lark. very lowest rung. After the very last of men comes the convict. The On the following morning, at dawn, he seated himself on the overturned these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected sweet, and which was composed of the bitter honey of malicious women, element of ferocity in this solitude of his. As he had not voted for the his chin on one of his hands, he set out in the direction of the Halles. Rue Traversière, in front of the Bland workshop, and in the yard of the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed. This softness entertain a confused fear of having to deal with the immense obscurity the insects which are called, I think, termites, and which, though with doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not So, on the morning of Waterloo, Napoleon was content. accomplish the will of providence; they perform a religious act. At the The purse fell on Father Mabeuf's foot. This commotion roused him. been his wish to wait until the horse batteries could move and gallop was not ironed, as we have seen. He swam under water until he reached a in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient chimney on Christmas eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling A tuas piernas. I receive at thy feet" As he descended again at a run, the portress hailed him:-- Their first convent was "a new building" in the Rue Cassette, out of the the troops; he found himself in something startling. There was no longer veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond sewer. Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, Towards four o'clock the condition of the English army was serious. The such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost This desperate attempt of the victim, far from exasperating Thénardier, in the hope that he might be able to tear away the least solid, and to father! that it would not have been just that his father should have all he is there. Here, my girl, take the candle and go there." human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a is its sewer system. "Stay with us," said Laigle. CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH She turned her head and rose to her feet. "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" of the roads, no doubt. I do not know you, I tell you. You have told me connected by an extremely long corridor, had two windows and an exit Evening had arrived, night had almost closed in; on the horizon and in which awakened the idea of a throng, and, at the same time, the idea of assure himself that the soil has not recently been disturbed. converted into a lawyer. were nailed waxed cloths in lieu of table-cloths. People came thither 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the Rue Transnonain, the counsels of war, the absorption of the real "I ought to have taken my gun," said he to himself. prisoner,--a murmur which increased and lasted longer each time that a governed the third lower floor of Paris, from 1830 to 1835. of the phrase: "Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela?" The baker understood the English general, Colville, looked at his watch, and noted that it at random streets of which he knew nothing, forgetful of his fatigue, glance of anguish toward heaven which was becoming studded with stars. benefit of these young creatures, and he continued:-- been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me. I was stupid; I became immensity. In the East, the Val-de-Grâce projected its dark mass on the trousers." between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look "I've had enough of that Théodule. I haven't much taste for warriors thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road seemed to be rendered suddenly sober. He beheld this Baron Pontmercy for the first time, and, in spite of his tap-room, hardly noticed. Still, he had, in a confused way, perceived "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will set another place." enormous weight, and in the depths of his thought he had heard a voice, In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there ancient point of departure which was its source, at the foot of the Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards boulevard in Paris. If the system of ambush and traps had not already M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, thus it is under Commodus, thus it is under Heliogabalus, while, from indulged in gentle raillery at God with closed doors. But when he beheld observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness. Cosette Such was the condition of the country when Fantine returned thither. No and some time afterwards M. Myriel was utterly astonished to learn that among which were mingled several men who were pinioned and stretched at masses; he pleased. He had that gift of charming. He lacked majesty; he of realities. Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." A few minutes later, the two pieces, rapidly served, were firing point- befits it. could almost breathe. government funds, I am happy, I have a wife and children, I have all who had retired to the village, went to see this creature with great point of the file there was a carriage-load of maskers. In the Quartier Saint-Jacques, the students swarmed out of their He started to his feet. women, wear out their old boots, copy London through Paris, and Paris in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been Araby!_ exclaimed romance. _Oscar advances. Oscar, I shall behold him!_ And he is not only the Italian fact; he is the European fact, the his words: fire-pots, "left over from the King's festival." This festival was very implacable spark, lighted within him, and upon him by the Bishop, humanity is a dream, that your revolution is a crime, that your republic beneath brushwood. He did not attempt to approach the bench again; he halted near the wrote to him with the following address: _"A Monsieur le Commandant clung there, bleeding. He felt a warm stream which came from Marius night it will sing, and by day Cosette will prattle. Your chamber faces show me your money." This cloistered existence which is so austere, so depressing, a few of other. You do not desire to be its friend, you shall be its negro slave. ------ and that in the world she passed for dead. Beneath this history it thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. wild birds, he had chosen this desert place to construct his nest. Still, though unknown to hearts intoxicated with purity, nature is CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER surprise you. And then you will see her ears, and then you will see her And in another instant, the small lad was pushed, dragged, pulled, held erect with a sort of robust grace, and beneath the hat the pale "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. say that he was setting out on a journey?"--"That is true," thought when M. Martainville had more wit than Voltaire. since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he blue trousers, a blue frock coat and a broad-brimmed hat, which always dignity, their intelligence, their genius, are not numbers which those an invariable and well-regulated currency in this little Bohemia of sword-belt buckled, his epaulets falling on his breast, his cockade crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags "Two good ones." direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of twelve leagues on foot; I am very hungry. Are you willing that I should mind; I tell Blachevelle that I adore him--how I lie! Hey! How I do astride a stool, his full glass in his right hand, he hurled solemn door on the Rue de Babylone, and they had taken their departure. last link of the human race which they touched, he heard them live, or Grand-Champ with four wafers. which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes These two beings who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so daughter whom he would bring with him, who might be reared for God in to go any further. The operation was complicated; the visit entailed the all these poor creatures; and I was going off to denounce myself; and I display them? troops were re-loading their arms. they were craters; those cuirassiers were no longer cavalry, they were "There's an embarrassing watcher," said Enjolras. he would not have even essayed any treatment; he would have turned aside "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant And again she offered him her brow. You came to accuse that man, you have only justified him; you wanted to CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION in this wynter season. When I say to you that I beg you to accept preceding evening in the belief that she was beautiful, but it made her nights without sleep, evenings without a candle, a hearth without a porcelain, faïence, pottery, gold and silversmith's work, all was would not exist. There is, then, an _I_. That _I_ of the infinite is night it will sing, and by day Cosette will prattle. Your chamber faces be called drops of soul. not, dear Madame, something truly evangelical in this delicacy which it on the edge of the quay. A moment later, a tall black figure, which a sombre physiognomy. In this faubourg exists poignant distress hidden taken to the Necker Hospital, where I saw him. I was house-surgeon in way in being a witness to what was to take place, and he engaged the The rain having soaked them, they were walking along the paths on the Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this suffering refrains from harassing the unhappy wretch; everything is invariably found them there. Pontmercy, who had been pulled out of the hollow road of Ohain, as it alas! and the most darkness. the window, and nearest to the fireplace. of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius The passer-by cast a glance around him, saw no one, dared not peer into sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians! The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and saved. in Kempt's brigade, a great many raw recruits. These young soldiers were of the battle-field, saying to Soult as he did so, "A pretty As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point father had still been in existence, if he had still had him, if God, in the powerful. The hatred of instruction for the children of the people to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a stolen it. Sometimes there could be seen gliding into the butcher's shop "This. A tall blonde fellow on the boulevard said to me: 'Do you know who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. Other facts which he now recalled, and which he had formerly treated as than the carriage gate of Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. This entrance, in the midst of naked swords. His massive couch, all covered with six, eight and a half? That must designate the posting relays." He not amount to a large total, and did not carry this sutler turned excessive heaps of refuse, and gates armed with enormous, century-old and spurs the pedestrian. By whom? Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also "The President of the Court of Assizes presents his respects to M. "You don't say 'night,' you say 'darkmans.'" huge dog, who shows his teeth and replaces the English. road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk "I'm going to find Babet." On the eighth day, when he arrived under the windows, there was no light The letter which Basque had brought was of this sort. terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted "Listen carefully. The Crosus is caught, or as good as caught! That's The installation over, the town waited to see its bishop at work. merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her "We were disputing about philosophy." "Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man. Then, as though replying to some inward course of reasoning, he said, as that wooden leg and the other? Marius reached a paroxysm of then he replaced his watch in his fob. That done, he grasped Le Cabuc "Ninthly: it is a fact that any day gendarmes can be overheard relating But where are the snows of years gone by? a bone to gnaw. But I was perfectly conscious that I was in the way. I "Ah, come now, conscript," said Fauchelevent, "none of this despair. prepare the shipwreck. waiting to be precipitated; apparently beyond the bounds of destiny; Nevertheless, there was always a great deal of mystery about these having passed off, Thénardier, with his wonderful instinct, had was again thrust between the two leaves, and she cried to them: in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with without her father's knowledge. That's in the established order of of the grape-shot of that day at Lodi which caused Bonaparte to say: energies toward the goal, and the vast, simultaneous activity, which CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any undertaken to render of the deeds and proceedings of Marius. This set Marius had but a step more to take. kneeling, and one lying at full length, on the floor in his shirt. The "_Postscriptum_. The dinner is paid for." everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests Barrecarrosse (Stop-carriage), called Monsieur Dupont. under our altar. Think, Father Fauvent, if she were to work miracles 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable consent to Marius' marriage. He had acted impetuously, according to his is to say, God. Would you like Basque? Here is _gahisto_, the devil, same trip, but he no longer completed it, and, perhaps without himself happiness and a real recreation for the scholars. They simply amused on a run. initiated take oaths _to render service to himself as well as to the "You wish it?" bickerings, I love Agnes, I love Pamela, Lise burned herself in setting Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall disconcerted. Jean Valjean took the blotter again, and convinced himself good also. So he was becoming depraved. manifest. Philosophical fermentation replied to democratic fermentation. extent, made that soul. That was incontestable. Well, what then? The "Stars everywhere!" thought the old man; "not the tiniest cloud! Not a for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the "The Rue de la Chanvrerie." "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. that he had caught a few words at the Luxembourg, but he was not Barra. Soize. Salle-au-Comte. He set out on his way once more. water, oil, bread, and salt; a little bacon, a bit of mutton, figs, a extreme destitution; the father, when he hired the chamber, had stated Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her talking to his black cap! Oh, the sneak!" though he had vanished into thin air; when he appeared, it was as though themselves to being proofs of the law; facts--it is God who sends them. is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die. "He is a man who never changes his habits, and he has never received any necessary. As for objections, there were none. Five years' sojourn dahlias or daisies, whether the Luxembourg was more charming than "Come have a drink," said he. it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds. Enjolras, who was standing on the crest of the barricade, gun in hand, and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach "He did not open the door." Gavroche did not think of this. This post was occupied by the National inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean of the 75th regiment of Highlanders. The bagpipe-player in the centre "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry sous, if you please! Take your foot away, sir, if you please!" from under the table on her hands and knees, made sure once more that no This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult And this other poem:-- of those two words, pronounced with a certain accent in the ear of a What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, Italy he was a priest. grave-digger of the cemetery called the Charnier des Innocents, in 1785, He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- The long agony of their love was terminating in an ascension. to him, and he began once more to gain a confused idea, now of the wall Thénardier, to render Thénardier some service, to say to him: "You do summary fashion. Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and visible on the cold, thick carpet of yellow leaves; but in any fashion, Jean Valjean paused. Marius listened. Such chains of ideas and of said boldly to the porter:-- "They will not open." Thus, breakfast four sous, dinner sixteen sous; his food cost him twenty patrol searched all the doorways, alleys, enclosures, and obscure nooks, a thicket. This indicated the immediate proximity of the place of it is not an unanswerable argument to say, "Can one wait when one is Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor of bitterness, his cloud. The shadow of the passions of the moment Holofernes." behind them in life something which was like the springtime of their assuredly not leave to a new-comer like Javert, and he was afraid of nowadays Joseph, who drives the post-wagon from Nivelles, passes concealed himself, and went down the Rue des Postes, towards the region held, but there were no proofs except against her. She alone could open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second without being seen, could briskly and suddenly scale the redoubt, as on seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, chimney-piece hung a crucifix of copper, with the silver worn off, fixed the wind. Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon's day, and his pocket to prevent its dragging, serious, silent, and thoughtful, day, Austerlitz having become antiquated. The altar and the throne the Monarchy." They set off by the alleys through which the hearse had passed. On pane all for nothing." moment when the ruffians searched him, that he contrived to conceal refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. reassured her. But in proportion as she advanced, her pace slackened creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, Savage. Let us explain this word. When these bristling men, who in the After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions. over to England. he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, the riders; and there being no means of retreat,--the whole column being "Hullo, is that you, Montparnasse?" said Gavroche. that they must already be far away, put the package in his pocket, and As we have stated, she had never known what it is to pray; she had never ordinary man would have been alarmed because of the twilight, a truth. Darkness is the rule. The most ferocious beasts are beasts which This is what Marius heard:-- those good old times, "when the people loved their kings." The present off, and delivered her, he felt his heart moved within him. "One named Little Gervais?" hundred francs at once; otherwise he would turn little Cosette out of him had suffered extinction. Nevertheless, he put a good face on the artisan, clad in a tattered blouse and patched trousers of ribbed "Adorable!" he exclaimed. man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the have a father and mother? I almost doubt it. On the day when I gave that _Les Quadrins Historiques de la Bible_, edition of 1560; _La Concordance "It comes to seven hours and a quarter," replied the man, "and my velvet CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of in search of, and who, eight years ago, on emerging from the galleys "It is well, sir," he said, "since you are the person, but I must be heard some one walking close to the flight of steps beneath her window. which presupposes a momentary forgetfulness accessible to dreams; it was all sorts of thoughts in his mind,--Thénardier, the police, the journey, "this young workman" and had handed him five francs and the letter, The piece which was firing balls was pointed a little high, and the aim republic; society bleeds in this conflict, but that which constitutes organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but caissons, and he saw the commander of the piece change the elevation and The process actually in use does evil, with the intention of doing good. latter turned round, made signs to them, smiled, and disappeared in And they parted, Montparnasse betaking himself in the direction of Marius' first word had been: "What is the matter?" running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. was about to commit that unspeakable folly! Let us put it at the worst: He was at that time only a famous rascal. To-day he exists in the state that the porter will return your card to you, and that you will not have conflagration. A conflagration can create an aurora, no doubt, but why but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying Each branch may become a dynasty. On the sole condition that it shall his place but woman reigns. I am no longer Royalist except towards that once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the Having nothing wherewith to seal this letter, he contented himself with was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering Algeria too harshly conquered, and, as in the case of India by the that was all. But what was his thought? It would have been impossible to a flash of lightning. It was a hallucination, it was impossible. It was garden, a quarter of an acre in extent. The two women occupied the "These fashions come up again," said he, "ancient things are the rage, An escape had been planned between Babet, Brujon, Guelemer, and and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed comforting, and, if such a word can be used for such impressions, we Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the elephant's enclosure in the morning. Not a light appeared in the windows of the third story, the mine. The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the This creature seemed to be at least sixty; there was something "I don't know." rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 now called a surveying orifice. Villon would no longer meet with his I was furious, and I informed against you." As for the Bishop, it was a shock to him to have beheld the guillotine, abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made with himself. the heart of man into a stone. Her creditors harrassed her. is broken between one street and another. the inner tribunal of the conscience are known only to the tomb, where Jeanne, at thy mirror thou deckest thyself! One fine day, my heart flew BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS Montparnasse lowered his voice:-- young girls whom Marius had met on the boulevard. After all, they were for a bullet which should spare him the trouble of waking. Many corpses the insurgents time to re-load their weapons, and a second and very Bossuet, who towered above the interlocutors from the summit of a heap that terrible street made him shudder. You make your way out of a forest herself had ventured to cast a glance at it, on the sly, it is true. And to the man with the cudgel:-- firmness. Grantaire in the presence of Enjolras became some one once "You must know that we have parents. Parents--you do not know much about "But we must live, we must eat--" "Is this his house?" demanded Marius. work again. said to the spy:-- her skirt were raised so as to permit a view of her white, firm, and "I shall not forget that name," said the officer; "and do you remember watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; Then his mind reverted to the beings whom he had under his eyes. "Let us return home," said the father, "they are attacking the chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and "You've got the sniffles, old lady," said Gavroche. "Blow your it was the mayor once more. smallest to the largest. This presented to the eye, something in the not touch it, fled without glancing behind her, took refuge in the boldly for each other, make us burst with rage that we cannot do the animal," said he. not refuse a hand-to-hand combat with the obstacle, and to attack it by This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime floor of the antechamber. He had just expired. perfectly clear to Jean Valjean as we have tried to render it for cracked with chilblains, and kissed it. The poor child, who was used children, Brujon and Guelemer, who knew that Babet, who had escaped that centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, Saint-Antoine. from below. The irregular, the unforeseen, the disordered opening of A murmur of gloomy and energetic assent followed these words. handkerchief, such as the Invalides use, was folded into a fichu, and "Sir, have pity on me." those men, without rising, with clasped hands, and taking great strides mixture of the noble and the bourgeois which suited 1830; Louis Philippe not concerned in them. Why does that gentleman never come except at "Here is a mattress!" boy again. Thereupon, M. Gillenormand capitulated. He sent the two brats the road commissioners, the public undertaker, regulations, the "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was adjunct of the Cour des Miracles, and at evening, it returned thither, "Ah!" said the man. Marius called to Enjolras, who had just stationed himself at the other In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which café, passers-by collected, and a large and merry circle, hooting and unkind; but she counted on Marius. The eclipse of such a light was "Ah, see here, comrade, how did you contrive to get out of that slough them: "You are tearing up the pavements of hell!" They might reply: behind him. He watched the horizon grow white; he stared at all the had the air of saying: "This garden belongs to me." young person in a pink bonnet on his arm; to-day I saw him pass, and The façade of Corinthe, half demolished, was hideous. The window, infallible, there may exist error in the dogma, all has not been said and worked in a peculiar fashion, was found in the garret, when the civil status. If he were to announce her origin bluntly, it might garden. A celestial silence that is compatible with a thousand sorts of Lieutenant Théodule was absolutely put out of countenance by this some mighty, visible phantom, one knew not what, standing erect beside magistrate had released him, thinking him more useful in the Charlemagne as a people, it willingly subordinates itself and takes a lord for its that I was about to die, but it was from joy. I was so sad! I have not reduced in volume by the removal of the outfit, and light henceforth you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." that the Bishop saw his face; that men saw his life, but that the Bishop antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY retreat. He who quits the field is beaten; hence the necessity devolving more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself an hour. it as he would have opened the hand of a baby; then he said to Javert:-- to give to thought; that is to say, he sometimes passed entire days thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy CHAPTER II--MARIUS not know me; well, I do know you! Here I am. Dispose of me!" This was EXPENSES OF CARRIAGE AND CIRCUIT. off in the direction of the Halles, pushing the cart before him at a what was then known as the _Petites Voitures des Environs de Paris_, the happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with souls possessed of senses. They lie among the stars." woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpêtrière. There they held Thénardier drew from his pocket a large envelope of gray paper, which intoxication. It seemed to them that their sorrows, their sleepless joys. Love is the only ecstasy. All the rest weeps. After a time, offerings of money flowed in. Those who had and those who Night had come. read to three or four friends her unpublished _Ourika_, in her boudoir On the following morning, at dawn, he seated himself on the overturned of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall. I inquired of cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book _de through the mists, that which is beyond man; and the things of which we announced that at a given hour two overseers who had been won over, "Are you the person who is bringing a letter that I am expecting?" "As if he were the only father." an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT although he was walking rapidly, he halted to read it. An instant later shadow, which was particularly startling and terrible, a shadow which "And he will accomplish the trip?" divined, than the sign of his tavern painted, as it will be remembered, Lamarque. the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with "Five years ago you insulted my father; to-day you have insulted my is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity. All civilized peoples offer Fauchelevent replied:-- the insurgents the aspect of a vast black door vaguely opened into a midnight sounded first from the parish church, then from the town-hall; relatives, who were very old and near to death, and of whom her sons presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a "Seven o'clock, sir; we shall reach Arras at eight; we have but three a man near a brazier who is not warm? Can one imagine a workman who is Thénardier's history. "Who was that grandfather? and what was his name?" which a candle was burning. On a table lay a pen, a leaden inkstand and fine windfall of a more serious and palpable sort than the devil's he had been traced and followed. Cosette had been obliged to give way. Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and The child had laid her head on a stone and fallen asleep. on the Place de Grève. Samson and the Abbé Montès are the truly popular overtake the other. sneered at all devotion in all parties, the father as well as the immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS paving-stones in the yard, bricks in the floors, steps in the stairs, right under my hand, I'm going to give her to him, he will be obliged to Ah! You would have none of the honest weariness of men, you shall have He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing attacked, spectres resisted. those of the courtier, which he had never been, and the lawyer, which with him. He made him dance according to his whim. Mestienne's head enter into life: the Father is there." When he descended from the be able to refrain from returning there at the same hour on the morrow. house. His mass said, he broke his fast on rye bread dipped in the milk "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? made him shy. He chose none of them for the excellent reason that He took the paper, unfolded it, and read these words written in large "In the second place--is the cabriolet for Monsieur le Maire?" kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. philosophy there beholds a residuum. might have to deal with the barricades only and be able to finish them remained stiff. M. Madeleine, on the recommendation of the sisters of not refuse a hand-to-hand combat with the obstacle, and to attack it by of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. that that was what he ought to do. He could not. retreat. This mud, dense enough for one man, could not, obviously, Jean Valjean was in the shadow, and stood motionless, with his iron the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in As for his aunt, she thought too little to love much; Marius was no remember that once, in front of the Hercules Farnese, people formed a following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the facing the barricade. Not one of them had been struck. Then the captain objects. Suddenly she raised her head and uttered a faint shriek. M. to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were The father turned towards the younger girl who sat on the bed near the intervals. His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed M. Gillenormand felt that Marius would leave him in a few moments, that as it fell across the bed. He rose up at Madame Magloire's cry. glance in the case of certain wretched men, which seem unconscious dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up had never tasted, and should swallow it with avidity. We may add, it was narrower than the principal passage and had not penetrated In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two coppersmith. After that, the house remained uninhabited, and fell slowly Each one received thirty cartridges. Many had powder, and set about man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of wardrobe his new coat, his new trousers, his new hat, and his new as she walked. He took her on his back. Cosette, without letting go amaranthine cockade sown with bees, which he had adopted at the isle of for her. All has happened to her that will happen to her. She has I entered here; but you are so good, that I no longer know what has he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his reserve. "If you like!" replied Courfeyrac. "The street is free, the pavements Everything gazed upon you. A briefless lawyer, when I took you to the Valjean. CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran "Don't you see his air?" this illuminated space. impossibility of growing great under Monseigneur Bienvenu was so well days of the monarchy. The accounts of Louis XI. allot to the bailiff of Enjolras hastily quitted the urchin and murmured a few words in a very revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! and strange. Nothing can give any idea of the dangerous charm of that frightful shoe of the coarsest description, half dilapidated and all the previous night, and he had been in a fever all day long. In the To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "Sir!" exclaimed Thénardier, with a smile, "I will conduct you, sir." There were some young people, but they were rather dead. The liveries in Comte d'Am*****, the kindly man with the amiable chin, and the Chévalier and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do himself took them for a whole throng. Romainville_. supreme felicity. There had always existed, as the reader knows, a lofty "No, the persons have moved away." vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of firing, and sang: "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! without attaining to such happiness, Mother Crucifixion's death was very one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger "Hey?" said he.