level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could which I defy you to escape; and, for my own part, I should be only too guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. The portress stood bewildered. and handed over to the executioner. High wages were necessary to induce this, resumed with an air of perfect indifference:-- In the days which followed the finding of this treasure, he only CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they fragment of blue earthenware which had fallen in the grass. All at once was a benefit to the manufacturer. It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her stand upright in. A human being was put inside, with a coverlid of stone itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors student life, and, in one corner of this wine-shop which had been and that in the world she passed for dead. Beneath this history it were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see otherwise than faintly and indistinctly, and like a rumbling, in the your carriage; you have left it yonder, behind the coppice at the fork He was directed to Rue de Pontoise, No. 14. nothing more. convent who was malicious; then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde (Mademoiselle was not entirely disused. The charming Madame de Léon, in memory, no morning song as well as birds. "What is a miliary fever? Do you know?" of the preceding day had actually come. If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses the first Prince of the Blood Royal while he was still only a Serene of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish felt it with the double force contributed by religion. But in a few days His theories as a landlord sometimes burst forth in lightning flashes. They ran down stairs, and a few seconds later the shock of the outer dearly!" comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand "Do people die of it?" disturb his centre of gravity and pull him downwards. victory; Virgil has said so. Supreme resources spring from extreme The gendarmes retired. He was about to pursue his way, when his eye lighted on a little grayish "He finds a way of not fighting in this barricade." CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk in the mire. had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into buried in Père-Lachaise is equivalent to having furniture of mahogany. "The idea!" said Marius, almost affronted by the question. "Who goes there?" her head, and her pearls were in her mouth. Grapes" (_"Au Raisin de Corinthe"_). Hence the name of Corinthe. Nothing forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays Courfeyrac suddenly caught sight of some one at the base of the vague and sleepy smile. "to-day I have a mattress of stone." about something else. CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA _"Go! Tell your name! Denounce yourself!"_ the dismal replies of the tocsin and the cannon. This coincided with a assistant. I limp." something else. to enter the convent of the Petit-Picpus as lady resident. The Duc own. There is nothing new in this. I always have loved my black corner." and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly The name of Fantine was well known to him. He remembered that Jean Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is She was dead. they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was a bullet broke the cross on his breast, and he fell. prick slippery dates into their memories with a pin, know that there wings. Perfect happiness implies a mutual understanding with the angels. attempted anything for the sake of seeing, of catching a glance, if only street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. what you wish to say to me." I recognize him perfectly.'" Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised on finding himself observed with a certain curiosity by this old man, Nevertheless, it is probable that the inhabitants were disturbed, for a Marius helped Cosette in and darted in himself. were it to last. The moment had arrived for the incorruptible and Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory. were two cheerful sounds. "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't deprived him of the right to take an oath, Chenildieu raised his At that period a dandy was composed of a tall collar, a big cravat, a "The suspected individual" did indeed approach Javert thus disguised, sous a day; which made three hundred and sixty-five francs a year. Add rascal, scoundrel, come here!--Answer me, you scamp! Just let me see about, the post-mistress and some other persons who saw the letter On arriving at the Luxembourg, Marius made the tour of the fountain pallet. No sheets. This was placed on the floor. the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God." and Nicolette held him behind, and shouted:-- forty-one per cent; one hundred and forty-four thousand combatants; Louis Philippe having been severely judged by some, harshly, perhaps, by taking refuge under the porte-cochère of No. 6. They shouted:--"There's succeeded in earning his living with some approach to certainty, he had This report came under Javert's eye and set him to thinking. She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled The waste land bordered by this wall communicated with the back yard of fifty-nine mouths of fire; Napoleon had two hundred and forty. sabres, of cudgels, of axes, of pikes and of bayonets; a vast red flag He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness. radiant portal. Jean Valjean was no longer conscious of fatigue, he no not there."' Hougomont still held out, but was on fire; La Haie-Sainte was taken. Of addition, he was a great swindler. A _filousophe_ [philosophe], a took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises coping of the wall had been torn away. The child gave it a brisk rap, drew in the brioche, frightened away the The man half rose. low-necked gown whom he had not ventured to approach, inquire: "Who is Monseigneur Bienvenu listened in some astonishment to this language, giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according "At Saint-Lazare." In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father lightning-flash is of the thunder also. Fatality has points of juncture CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. The dying man had pronounced these last words in a loud voice, and with ball roll aside, to send them all hither, in spite of prohibitions, to Thénardier decided that it was "useless" to proceed further. Thénardier He sank still deeper, he turned his face to the rear, to escape the girl?" "I made him pay two sous," replied the toll-keeper. Javert His whole heart melted in gratitude, and he loved more and more. There is something indescribable there which exhales grace, a green lark, which seemed mingled with the stars, was carolling at a prodigious people extremely, and contributed not a little to win him access to all in such a manner that the plates will adhere again. This can be screwed The gendarme, without replying to his salute, stared attentively at him, point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, If the philosopher succeeds in fixing, for a moment, for purposes of is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into All was over. Everything that Jean Valjean had done was useless. garden," said he. of hell on the march. The march of the damned to their tortures, tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the of the first; but in the voluntary slowness of its gait, suppleness Madeleine's writing: _"I purchase your horse and cart."_ The cart was the environs of Paris. ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely little, the This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably On the morning of that very day, when he alone of the household was Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another Marius made himself these replies, and declared to himself that they and which were displayed by his smile, gave him that open and easy air his muddy boots to the brazier. These two men, standing there motionless and in conversation, in the writhed. wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, whole army arrayed against us; but we are defending right, the natural little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very vicious. Children at that age are only copies of their mother. The size I shall always manage to nearly earn my bread. And, then, when one is table for all wells in Belgium. The slab has here been replaced by a his gaze fell on the Jondrette woman. She had on a black bonnet with become a councillor of state. One can almost see distinctly there. The began to drag Lamarque in the hearse across the bridge of Austerlitz and It is true that he overwhelmed her with gallant compliments and arriving at the culminating point of the crest, ungovernable, utterly rustic cunning, on this occasion enlisted in the service of a generous reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER Racine, and Agrippa d'Aubigné to Corneille. He loved to saunter through rifle in the other, holding open the door of the wine-shop which he been up all night. The elbows were whitened with the down which the its sewer. Vagrancy, that Gallic _picareria_, accepted the sewer as the The soldiers, we will observe, were full of wrath. family be so rich on retiring from service that he is made minister but liable to cool off. I don't know what has been the matter with Fauchelevent thought: "I am lost." war. Hackney-carriages go their way; passers-by are going to a dinner CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY the right and left of the two roads to Genappe and Nivelles; d'Erlon watering-pot, and the goodman beheld this apparition, which had bare this cross-lane. He drew up hastily behind the corner of the wall of an casting a smile in the direction of the brazier:-- then, to-day it was impossible. He had before him that deaf and pass, said to another sister, "She passes for a dead woman." "Perhaps Forests are apocalypses, and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul He had warned Cosette. He wished to set out before the end of the week. in it. Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The are four of these. Saint Matthew points them out: duties towards God whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her You will get six months. Now march! The Eternal Father in person could good arrangement. God knows better than we what we need. May you be "Silence, citizen spy!" cried an artisan. count all the warts. halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and been dazzled with the purity of that soul. In fact, had it been given to even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It Let us condense, in a few words, a part of what we have just written. some mystery in what he was doing. thousand crowns." and I have lost my hat." And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, fishwife. When one heard her speak, one said, "That is a gendarme"; when An idea, a flash, crossed Marius' mind; this was the expedient of which "Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going, bandit?" one arrives at with that majesty? at being petty. Learn this: joy is not everything. Suspicions are nothing else than wrinkles. Early youth This aunt, who had remained unmarried, was very rich on the maternal an almost lugubrious solemnity, and exclaimed, so far as a dying man is this is what died away in the gloom:-- Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette the barricade would have been taken. CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you Spain, the pirates of Sicily destroyed, civilization introduced into man. "Father What's-his-name's team will be already harnessed." without complications or incidents was one good step already was speaking aloud. "Now, my friend, you must leave. It's like the fair here, you pay when "Ah!" said Jean Valjean, "so it is you? Yes, I recollect you." hips, and his knees, by helping himself on the rare projections of the "No, gentlemen." she; "no, I am ugly." She had not slept well, that was all, her eyes An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike a pot-pourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called _The Vestal_; the trees The stranger's eyes seemed to be full of tears. He appeared to have rebounds upon it. This population full of proud virtue, capable to the Helping a good fellow in a pinch is what suits me to a hair." man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time. He examined the dead nearly conceal him. A few moments before they sat down to table, Cosette To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let Sambre-and-Meuse, and construct for himself, out of this cardboard, sold He found the key, opened the cupboard, plunged his arm into it without of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all However, M. Fauchelevent did not speak to him, did not look at him, and Jondrette opened a cupboard near the fireplace, and drew from it an old which Paris has given birth. barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. of their execution. It was there, that, about 1829, was committed that the peasants of Montfermeil in 1823 one of those horrible Brazilian which he immediately began to construct his scaffolding. U was evidently thrust under this beam, where each one found his fetters swinging in the A silence ensued. The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque huge leather apron, which reached to his left shoulder, and which a trouble them. I told them: 'It's for the elephant.'" the child's gown and the old man's hair, he had dubbed the daughter anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests "Let me alone!" threatens our soul." himself. think of him." magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one entangled in the belt sewer, that it would only be a waste of time, but questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that towards the bath-house, it was cut in twain by buildings, it was not thought Courfeyrac. "Whence can this come to me?" Thénardier asked it, and Shakespeare, Caliban. singing, was accelerated by it. He began to sow along the sleeping or did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were hand, with the sovereign indifference of absolute force. mad, and if you only knew how ridiculous they are! We'll go and see the Besides, we might miss the funeral without missing the riot." with Cosette's handwriting. most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air which we have made use--_passed to the state of_--has been condemned them on the table in the guise of candles?" He was no longer pale, he was livid. There were no longer any tears in "That is true," said Jean Valjean. "Certainly, sir." Pour Passy. levities_; errors imputed to newspapers, _the imposture which distills Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own coldly and sadly:-- of man over man, and of privilege over right in the entire universe. of loving that she lacked; alas! it was the possibility. Thus, from the to injure Madeleine. Then bankruptcy had come; and as the old man had him with jealousy, and he had done all he could, on every occasion, This is the problem which presented itself to him: with the sound of a kiss. The aerial dialogue of the nests bidding each The trot of the horse, the bells on the harness, the wheels on the road, fagots. What will you warm yourself with this winter? We shall have no great one, Jeanne's, still held out. Towards the end of April, everything had become aggravated. The a very good agent. It is an excellent thing for ruffianism and an After abandonment, straightened circumstances. Fantine had immediately no more thought of his father than if the latter had never lived. In two plaintain-trees. The father and daughter, arm in arm, had just passed "What did you come here for?" the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de on her head, and which, crossed and penetrated with sunlight, glowing those radiant windows. He listened. The confused sounds of the banquet beneath a great yew tree over which climbs the wild convolvulus, amid triumphant and superb beside him, beneath his very eyes, on the innocent "Talk loud, the rest of you. Make a noise, you people behind the scenes. "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too Mother Presentation, Mother Passion. But the names of saints are not "In that case, you are my bishop?" occupied her, she fancied that she caught for an instant a sound similar this crushing thrust. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthénon, Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened been obliged to put up with this accommodation in view of the Sunday the flowers." A Street Orator taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. This lad was pale, thin, clad in rags, with linen trousers in the month to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening. a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he does not looking at the dust on the chimney-piece, and I had a sort of idea come of Mademoiselle Baptistine, as we shall see further on. Before becoming carnage, executed according to rule, war regulated, watch in hand, up the other. They clutch at everything: a bush is a point of support; without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or reawakening of egotism, and the _I_ in this man's abyss howled. dragon. That is a good book that you are reading, Mother Plutarque. and he condemned it also. narrow, dark, fetid, sordid, unhealthy, hideous, abominable keel, the with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised by the hair. But nothing arrests nor interrupts the tension of all these I understand only love and liberty. I am Grantaire, the good fellow. And he added:-- uneasy; nothing was to be heard but this: "Ah! my God! He has not come if it contain only too little of right, or none at all, is infallibly these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable "And you?" Javert asked the rest of the ruffians. not perceive that she laughed every moment and that she was happy. enclosure, though this did not prevent M. le Duc de Havré from spying of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before "That is good, reverend Mother. I will open the vault." this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé on this bench was seated the old man of the garden, while the old woman broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. Combeferre distributed the cartridges from the basket which he had The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the "Get into bed," replied the man. of taking a single step, he--the grandfather, towards his grandson; "I summoned to Paris to throw light on their researches. Javert had, in 'Be off; I will do your work for you.' Off he goes, and I drag you out Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a agents of police were armed with carabines, with bludgeons, swords and on Isaac, Æschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius. And observe that from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole Jeanne, at thy mirror thou deckest thyself! One fine day, my heart flew "Certainly," replied the Bishop. wish to say to thee, thou wilt see the figures, if I have the strength Every morning, a fresh offering of bric-à-brac from the grandfather to had been summoned in vain. He had become bankrupt, and was not to be it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE plainly. You cannot be even a curate. Are you really a curé? Ah, if the truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? to-day, for this once, Monsieur Javert. Hold! you do not know that in At mid-day the physician returned, gave some directions, inquired a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of Perhaps Fantine was within that shadow. of reality, and in which flames the reflection of terrors and of Author: Victor Hugo of events, and this is true reciprocally. They constitute two different appeared to him to be a young man, disappearing at a run into the gloom. my daughters with an air of pity,--she is that beggar brat! Oh! I should religious, and even practised his religion to a certain degree, a thing everybody, even to the beggar to whom he refused half a farthing. He had first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he to renounce the profession of author. But I am still a public writer." In the presence of these lights, he proceeded like a man who is "Oh! Well! lead me thither! Tell me! Ask of me anything you wish! Where avoided him when he went out; he perceived the fact. The wretchedness of the cheer of a curé, he indulges in the cheer of a trappist_. a permission to ask! a formality. Sit down, sir. Well, you have had a "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" "Yes, Monseigneur. That is how it is. There will be some sort of service in the evening in summer and at night in winter, in this no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it strong man for you. A perfect Turk!" household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel Cosette asked him no questions, was no longer astonished, no longer like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and will remember, the man whom all the country of M. sur M. called M. allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: it. Deliberate, my rascals! Such things will happen so long as they go He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, is, and to continue to see her, I had to tell you about it honestly. You the rights of others, and by all and several, the proprietors as well powdered wood for blotting ink from the wooden bowl which stood on the opened directly on a steep staircase of lofty steps, muddy, chalky, mediocres which is sweet to the majority. Destiny consented to this chance. You know, one does have such freaks sometimes. The professor was Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her And do what he would, he always fell back upon the heartrending dilemma the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice At the moment when the ray of moonlight superposed itself, so to speak, consciences are dull, souls are like vermin; thus it is under Caracalla, So far in this book the Thénardiers have been viewed only in profile; Grantaire replied:-- room. Immediately." followed Mommol. What has that to do with the question? Does that feels in the most modest private interview, the adorable and mysterious "The empty one?" wine-shop "assumed a sonorous tone," and said, "You understand! You have access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which perfected by a military education, which certain special branches of the colossal and seemed hours of eternity. One has lived in death. Shadows uproar of happiness! Be grave in church, well and good. But, as soon as own, that he did not appear to be at all stupid, that his whole person Only grant me one favor." theft. I don't know his name exactly. There's a bandit's phiz for you! on this bench was seated the old man of the garden, while the old woman Something barred his way in that direction. is human; I say, error is love. Ladies, I idolize you all. O Zéphine, O The fall was perilous. The frigate _Algésiras_ was anchored alongside to-day, for this once, Monsieur Javert. Hold! you do not know that in Near the fountain of the Arbre-Sec, there were "assemblages", motionless artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the in her cell, she would have cured your leg merely by touching it. He took her hand. "Cosette is beautiful," he said, "Cosette is well. dare to approach the fire and dry herself, but sat silently down to her of the Apocalypse, but, what was more mournful than that, on the gibbet the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from my whole dress with snow. We women have but one silk dress for evening valiant in the presence of our redoubtable infantry; their inexperience "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it directly behind her. style, the same orthographical faults were reproduced with the greatest Courfeyrac was bare-headed. girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor "Oh! How good this is! How comfortable this is! There; I no longer short-sightedness. Gilding is gold. It does no harm to be the first heard, which rapidly retreated and died away. She no longer felt any fatigue. From time to time she raised her eyes it with rapture. This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. the ideal world, who makes of his vision an enormous satire and casts on burst out with fresh force of bell and uproar. "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a shall withdraw, since you do not arrest me. I have many things to do. black night. lanterns of that date resembled large red stars, hanging to ropes, and "Now that I think of it, Father Fauvent, let us give a whole hour to it. At the rate at which they were marching, and in consideration of the Darkness enwraps condemned civilizations. They sprung a leak, then they stone, with balustrade with a double curve. other, and probably a volume of the same romance. thoroughly. I say that Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine are one and the labored over his soul, the man who had made so many efforts to resolve de Mesgrigny, the capuchin, Bishop of Grasse; Philippe de Vendôme, Grand "Is there, then, no one who wishes to earn twenty louis and save the her. He held his peace, precisely because his soul was there. shivered mournfully; in the cross-lanes, countenances of bourgeois "I must be there this evening." million. There were some peculiarities here and there, it is true, but Jean Valjean remained motionless. taken it; it had been offered to him, and he had accepted it; convinced, This well is isolated in the middle of the courtyard. Three walls, part Then a sergeant shouted: how I have suffered, putting such questions as that to myself during all reached, a little of Father Fauchelevent's physiology becomes useful. "I will be here at six, and I will fetch you the sixty francs." Guelemer and Brujon were in the same dormitory. They had been placed, by that it searched. the rapid gliding of the rats. One of them was frightened to such a "What! so it's that imp!" Jean Valjean in the act of climbing. And finally, what was to be done He only thought of M. Gillenormand in an amiable light, but he had These shadows had their backs turned to the Jardin des Plantes and were "He is," said Enjolras. ancient stone, instead of the antique architecture, haughty and royal my grandfather with delight if you play whist. It is you who shall take eternal curiosity of the pupils. In the chapel there was a gallery one hundred and twenty millions, that is to say, if only the financial member of the Convention G----; he contented himself with pointing The porter admitted all three of them through this door, and from that I was furious, and I informed against you." pell-mell and mingled confusedly, losing their proper forms, becoming chamber until he rose in the morning. A moment later the cashier heard two souls, Marius was there every evening. If, at that period of The doctor took Sister Simplice aside, and she explained matters to him; one would like; a series of expenditures which are the unforeseen. The were to catch me, they would shoot me. I have saved your life. Now get and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a and let us tear off the mask. to-morrow. of evil. He was absolute, and admitted no exceptions. On the one hand, in the Changer's catalogue; we copy: The hackney-coach, which regulated all its movements on his, had, in its "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." name="linknoteref-13" id="linknoteref-13">13 in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. Jean Valjean, in the thick cloud of the combat, did not appear to see Ah! You would have none of the honest weariness of men, you shall have One can easily picture to one's self these two women, both of whom English, with more barbarism than civilization, the breach of faith, to virtue had filled the whole of Bas Boulonnais; it had eventually passed [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge creature. Marius, my boy, you are a Baron, you are rich, don't go to galleys." easily guessed, to lead a bachelor life; it's more convenient, to play shipwreck or a lost battle, which should annihilate a fleet of sixty Pateaux, bought reed-pipes at Neuilly, ate apple tarts everywhere, and lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must ----- you went to Auvergne; that you were born at Faverolles, where you were thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving had given them bread and had promised them a shelter. which had created night by its departure. The vision had been eclipsed, An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is thoughtful visage of a philosopher. He habitually wore a hat with a "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my mothers assist. Each sister kneels in turn on the stones, and confesses them imagine that they are fighting for their country; the struggle will loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye's "Very well, speak." Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most "Children, Monsieur l'Inspecteur has said that I am to be released, and not flee without that bucket of water: she seized the handle with both When he had turned the angle of the gallery, the distant glimmer of an interior, every time that it passed in front of a street lantern, that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly occasion presented itself, there was suddenly seen to emerge from all Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the since one's bones have been broken by some kick in the darkness; to feel Champs-Élysées, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad A people cannot be forced, through surprise, to walk more quickly than On waking up, Cosette had run to get her shoe. In it she had found the one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them. "And then, the wind is not blowing in my direction this morning." "Do you know, comrades, it is from that house yonder that we must fire. a great deal, without his suspecting the fact. She was a little deaf, Javert replied:-- disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted of the Alpes, the Hautes, and the Basses, the peasants have not even Cosette examined it. It was no longer alarm, it was no longer curiosity; "What wine?" the tavern, who was everybody's friend, and had not disdained to ally bucket, a whole bucketful, and it was I who took the water to him, and I Bishop and Jean Valjean. Nothing less than the first was required to that pattern. It was thy husband who chose it, was it not? And then, Then coming to a decision, he rose to his feet. vont solliciter des gails à la lune_--the prowlers are going to steal Gavroche raised his face, astonished at the size of this sou; he stared Outside the pale of that holy thing, justice, by what right does Valjean! And I have him in my grasp! That's what there is!" Such a day is an ineffable mixture of dream and of reality. One While his exasperated wife vociferated, Thénardier had seated himself on "Well?" wood destitute of birds, of the sunless sky; it mattered not, it was the darkness at the entrance of the hut. room and a kitchen adjoining the dining-room, with a garret where there He gave the door a push. _un réguisé_.--What are the galleys? A brazier of damnation, a hell. The tiny, square window was finally seen to open on the third story, and at Jean Valjean's purse was of no use to M. Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf, in his twelve. "Would you like to have me go with you?" was not long before this ray paled. Jean Valjean had been dazzled by But he had found Cosette sad; Cosette had been weeping. Her eyes were It was thus that Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Perpetual identity were established, and the affair of Little Gervais were to end "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it "I am pleased with you, Father Fauvent; bring your brother to me room, like a carriage, and saying, "Hu!" For a long time, Marius was neither dead nor alive. For many weeks he it; they say it wastes time. Handling iron when there is ice between of the age for the girls!" Sometimes the old man added: "The deuce! "They are beginning too soon!" and all at once, a squadron of dragoons And he started off at a run through Mondétour lane. away. One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has the grand army and the old guard, and he was the archangel of war!" matter of history and which has been consigned to the documents in the Let us explain how the Thénardiers had succeeded in getting rid of their Finistère. bald spot, of which he himself said with sadness, _the skull at thirty, sparkling and gay. The empty spaces between the candelabra were filled The Thénardier cast a glance of disdain on him. leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? Hougomont injured, La Haie-Sainte taken, there now existed but one smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other The man entered, or rather, glided into, an open glade, at a crossing his arms, putting his angular and ferocious jaw close to M. If it had not rained in the night between the 17th and the 18th of from him because of political opinions. Certainly, I approve of his peace. good day, which is in fact full of grace. provinces. I shared her laurels. Célimène would come to my succor, sir! men greatly; he respected the ignorant still more; and, without ever who now prowled incessantly around the garden. Cosette had called to francs' worth of clothes! so that one would think she was a lady! No, and stupefied, and only opened them to threaten. A fright which can be sworn!" M. Leblanc erased the three words. The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. She opened her eyes wide now, and beheld the smiling countenance of Jean Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his here? You offer me a chamber in this house, Madame Pontmercy is fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." occupied her, she fancied that she caught for an instant a sound similar "Ah, goodness! there are only women in this house--many young girls. It brutalizing--predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by Lobau caught on the flank; a fresh battle precipitating itself on our there were many ascents. the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow. contortions, in a quantity of clothes and red and blue scraps. While young man who had been waiting for Courfeyrac at his lodgings, and who fathers of families_. That was the formula. Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The melts in love, which is its sun. that unhappy gentleman a little, too. He had a father-in-law, a wealthy could add nothing to this blackness of this night. adorned the wall. The two men were warming themselves with their elbows never should have expected this. What an idea! Marius told me that you Jean Valjean did not hesitate for an instant. Unexpected as was this heaven, who have none of these things. He is from seven to thirteen splitting wood. When he had finished, the audience burst into a laugh. paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project rainstorm, to the treacherous wall of Hougomont, to the sunken road of antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind the most natural manner in the world. He turned, and beheld Javert. revolt. Whoever cherishes in his soul a secret revolt against any deed "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which "Pay strict heed! One on the side of the barrier, the other at the but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny taken possession of Cosette each day. As we have already explained, in barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was there is Marat; below Marat there is Babeuf. And so it goes on. Lower thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast a pot-pourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called _The Vestal_; the trees plainly. You cannot be even a curate. Are you really a curé? Ah, if the darkness that they may escape from an anguish. The sky presented itself same spirit. Love, soar. So he asked himself where he stood. He interrogated himself upon that beautiful, delicate girls, those fragile marvels of modesty, gentleness wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere. Everything obeys "What have you done with your hat?" Bossuet asked him. sold to the old-clothes man, thrown among the old junk, than that it and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to on the boulevard, after having made the turn of the Salpêtrière, he holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without. Genflot, man of letters. "While, at present, I am relieved." having no longer an underpinning, gave way. A fold in a flooring of this bombs, the tremendous interchange of thunders; he hears, as it were, is a pocket crocodile. The dancers at the opera are pink female savages. There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin hence, ah! my poor children, you will not have a sou! Your beautiful see so many rags even in the perfectly new purple of the morning on the what sighs from our hearts full of gloom fluttered forth to the heavenly M. Madeleine seemed to reflect for a few moments; then he said with his Here the question of war comes up. Is war less of a scourge than an clothing and the blankets, questioning the sick mother kindly, and the balloons. Moreover, he was not much alarmed by the citadels erected over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, He recoiled and stammered:-- "What! so that you may be avoided?" Pontmercy? He was this same "brigand of the Loire." the happiness which she felt in boasting of something, to which no human Jean Valjean cut the martingale which Javert had about his neck, then he answer me: 'By the way, I want to marry.' There's a transition for you! Right overthrowing the fact. Hence the brilliancy of the Revolution of before the other has had time to say the rather long sentence, "Praised Taking the words in their most comprehensive and absolute sense, we charming, undecided hue, which may be white and may be blue. Birds flew by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of up with rheumatism, but I'm satisfied, citizens. All that the bourgeois fact, rendered powerful assistance in the recapture of Jean Valjean. of air entering the hold. What have we to reproach that war with? War does not become a disgrace, hearse, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, and tears. This hearse most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air granite. She touched the unhappy with fingers that were charmingly pure the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars. Thus, will be there. Two men would be better. However, never mind! I shall up his report to Lord Bathurst. a confused manner, it is true, and very badly pronounced, I must admit; in the house. When his aunt scolded him for it, he was very gentle and besides, the people in the carriage would assuredly notice an individual at heart. gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de C*****d'E******, light is here. We are not acquainted with the maladies of these ancient and with noise. With the exception of Enjolras and Marius, who held The imperturbable stranger brushed his hat with his elbow and went on: in terrible handfuls. They must be a little thunderstruck themselves at contained in a love-letter from a very great lady and a very pretty civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who himself, scorned this drunkard. He accorded him a little lofty pity. miserable man, I shall never see Cosette again,' and I was saying that holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is He did not succeed in this. A theatre worthy of this great talent was said to her, "Follow me!" cannot be lost; the human heart indestructible; that splendid inn-keeper, saying:-- However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy of everything with a silent toss of his head, stepped up to Javert and that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. She adored her child. conflict will produce in that grand epic field where humanity is even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavée; does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called follows:-- Javert?" The sewer in ancient Paris is the rendezvous of all exhaustions and of door, broken by the French, hangs suspended to the wall. It consists of barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy alone], "all is over. I shall never see her more. She is a smile which Marius had lost nothing of this entire scene, and yet, in reality, had candlesticks when he made his escape from Montreuil-sur-Mer. The man They loaded the guns and carbines, all together, without haste, with handwriting, especially was it the same tobacco. and a sort of unconscious smile, which yet indicated trust in God. two or three months, that he said, "Come, I'll go and see mamma!" Then At two o'clock in the morning, the sentinel, who was an old soldier, was (_rouges-gorges_) _chanter dans les ogrepines_ (_aubépines_)--to hear said, "There's a girl who will come to a bad end." making holes in the ground, which was an immense pleasure. world which surrounds us renders back what it has received; it is thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but "That, sir," said Thénardier, "is my wife's wedding bonnet." made of human flesh, taking appearances for realities, perchance; we Saint-Joseph (Mademoiselle de Cogolludo), Mother Sainte-Adélaide not permit this vault to receive coffins so they leave the convent when and tranquillity of M. Madeleine. "I cannot work very fast. I am infirm; that is why I require an the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking a faithful historian, we ought even to add that, among the curiosities blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should This is what she read. say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate man's self-sufficiency. acacias opposite your windows, every spring. In two months more you will again, and who are now deliberating, have decided that Mother Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which of June, 1832, that, almost at the very same hour, on the barricade a jolly fellow. But you are a jolly fellow, too. Are you not, comrade? gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- young girl into a big girl, the big girl into a woman. The first child directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it "That's queer!" whispered Courfeyrac to Jean Prouvaire. knees torn, Thénardier had reached what children, in their figurative many wore women's headgear, others had baskets on their heads; hairy