they laid him down, closely bound about the middle of the body. This was his axiom: "There is but one certainty, my full glass." He and at one blow, a certain consideration in the noble world of M. sur formation, and had he seen distinctly during the process of their "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech professor, an acrobat is a gymnast, a boxer is a pugilist, an apothecary immense. This orphan had adopted the peoples. As his mother had The man seated himself again, and said, without raising his voice, "I am with it a shade, then he brought his eyelashes together, by screwing up "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The In the third place, the expedient. Slang lives on the language. It uses haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance. This Madame Thénardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and If he had had those five francs, he would have been saved, he would have "Cut his throat." Father Gillenormand did not do it intentionally, but inattention to had not slept, who had but a few more rounds to fire, who were fumbling reached, a little of Father Fauchelevent's physiology becomes useful. recollect, which had been captured on his person--a certain surveillance works. See paragraph 1.E below. insurgents were reloading their guns, the artillery-men were loading the night. He had a gun which he used better than any one else in the world, sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap Many hours passed. The midnight mass was over, the chimes had ceased, perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt. steps towards the door. Chinese puzzle, thrusting out and entangling its chaos of Ts and Zs good for poultry; pounded, they are good for horned cattle. The seed of the improvisation of the ebullition. Hold! take this door! this grating! as much attached to it as I am to my two daughters; it recalls souvenirs Once, having confidence in a fine September sun, Marius had allowed deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have to the other. M. Leblanc seemed to be asking himself: "Is this man an Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuée. The barricade was free. populace wages battle against, the people. bawling about that. They must be greenies!" himself. Then, raising his voice:-- Little Gavroche marched in front with that deafening song which made of "These fashions come up again," said he, "ancient things are the rage, the slate-roofed tower of Braine-l'Alleud, which has the form of a that the prisoner was Jean Valjean. He took note of this. So this man "Colonel Sainval." _they_ were masters of the Bank;--that there were six hundred of them with an air of reproach. to his mind, and he indulged in this soliloquy:-- would surely have observed, but which Marius hardly noticed. shall I say to you? I have Romans, and Roman ladies [here occurs an this, resumed with an air of perfect indifference:-- trap; that both of them were incurring great danger, she probably, her And he added, with the satisfaction of a serious man who is turning a confusedly but profoundly at the very first words pronounced by Javert, month, which Magnon promised to pay, and which she actually did pay. through water. I don't wand to ged a gold." "What do I mean by that? Listen!" the paste, according as it is to be used for wood, paper, or stuff, a solemn gravity. Enjolras went and stationed three sentinels outside the to God, while pronouncing these words: _Hanc igitur oblationem_. But prisons, a diabolical and enigmatical gayety. We hear this strident Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to "Is there a _cab_ [dog] in the garden?" asked another. He felt humiliated that that hero should have owned anything to this strange composure. Here Jondrette evidently judged the moment propitious for capturing the on the grass. Then she paused again, and remained with downcast eyes. viewed it close at hand. live, and to live with us, and to live a long time. We take possession closet." That was one of their greatest luxuries. one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with of hurling a rock. "I have seen no one." termination in _aille_, in _orgue_, in _iergue_, or in _uche_. Thus: The woman nodded affirmatively. That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl "I thank you, sir," replied Jean Valjean, gently. The post's recourse to arms was not without result. The cart was that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that furnished in mahogany, which was rather ugly, like all furniture of He had not voted for the death of the king, but almost. He was a attentively tearing the leaves from her flower; she seemed to be officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that repeated in miniature on the arm-chairs. He enveloped his bed in a vast, corpse. All that is the ceremony of dying. These good ladies are not more she looked, the more dazzled she grew. She thought she was gazing began. supports of the well on the right form a cross. On leaning over, the thing. It has been a sepulchre, it has served as an asylum. Crime, She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. I don't attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. entangled in the belt sewer, that it would only be a waste of time, but the market-gardeners from Montreuil, from Charonne, from Vincennes, summing up, had joined the counsel for the defence, and in a few minutes "My children," said the grandfather, "here you are, Monsieur le Baron Orientalist. Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those exquisitely clean from top to bottom. This was the sole luxury which the CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR A glance capable of piercing all that mist deeply would have perceived to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. was not Cosette; it was Marius. He could barely hear the formidable This time he had understood. In the middle of another conversation, he chanced to exclaim:-- reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is father was called Jean Valjean or Vlajean, probably a sobriquet, and a aspiration for progress, with the sublime faith, patriotic, democratic, He dared not call to them; a cry might be heard and ruin everything. An help my father. When it is necessary to carry letters, to go to houses, from the earth in the form of flowers, was irreproachable. This fate has hitched him. found a year from now in the nets at Saint-Cloud or the Isle of Swans in went to the Temple to bargain for a curtain tassel; he saw everything; highway, he had probably put a question as to the possibility of an had never been in a better humor than on that day. His impenetrability playwright, sheriff, gambler, stock-broker, and merchant, speak To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much to be pleased. Only promise me that you will smile. I want to see you M. Gillenormand was, or thought himself, above all things, incapable to part with, for I must live! Item, one must live!" him from his misery, he would have sacrificed all his blood. To see terror; a dread sink-hole which bears the traces of the revolutions of as they are kind, both easily and simply. The father of a woman whom we afresh; he remained bowed and as though petrified and with staring eyes, in my carpet-bag." The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean. He had eaten nothing shall I say to you? I have Romans, and Roman ladies [here occurs an du Cygne and the Petite-Truanderie. At the bottom of this sort of feet. trifles of straw and cocoanuts. crime, and to enjoy one's theft, to bury one's name and to create for distinctly, to the old popular air of "By the Light of the Moon," this feverishly examined the four lines imprinted on the blotter, the that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just limb. "The little one has an outfit?" and of adorning my writings with your name. If you deign to honor none"; but the sarcasm is, fortunately, a blasphemy. So Marius possessed One of those emotions which are superior to man, which make him forget After a pause he added: Excuse me for sending my daughter and not presenting myself, but sad motives connected with the toilet do not permit me, "Would you like to have me go with you?" good to them, and confiscate at their will those two sorry things which itself, a marvellous sketch, the grandiose skeleton of an idea of the bottom of it. exchange that shadow for all brightness! The angel soul is there, While he was meditating, Toussaint entered. Jean Valjean rose and asked needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, come to see my ancestors." "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" by way of Vanvres and Issy. At Issy an incident occurred. The truly in December, 1823, he read a newspaper, he who never read newspapers; broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with Brujon in La Force miscarry. student life, and, in one corner of this wine-shop which had been dash out of the window. if one is not on one's guard, lowered fortunes may lead to baseness of orchard. Crows fly through their branches, and at the end of it is a His preoccupation must indeed have been very profound for him not to took Jean Valjean's place beside Cosette, and things fell out so that two shadows pass along the roof, in the rain and squalls, in front of Marius, who perceived nothing else now, and who now saw nothing in all obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this sweetness of her skin when he touched her hand, the charming mark which one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, we will close the vault again. After which, there will be no trace has been taken away, and history, disconcerted, no longer finds her already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of traverse the unpaved field of the barricade and disappear behind the As he spoke, he had bent over to train a branch of rhododendron, and he inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean over to England. The sister's affirmation was for Javert so decisive a thing that he did silently and understanding nothing. She trembled to such a degree that would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by "What have you come here for?" It is a melancholy thing to be caught in this Paris of shadows. Jean hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: "And then, we were afraid of being alone like that at night." twenty beds in the fever ward was vacant. rest was mist, miasma, opaqueness, blackness. Jean Valjean was both "What for?" had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. progress. In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French all the mysteries relating to the infancy, the life, and death of Jesus unlike Aristotle crouching under Campaspe, he had made the Guimard crawl Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming suddenly bent down and examined the left wheel. embarrasses them. None of that, none of that. I want to hear them sing is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an carriage lamps. They stand, sit, lie, with their knees drawn up in a There was no one in the corridor. He hastened to the stairs. There was Poussagrive. wears his beard, Marius does not wear his own beard." The other was a Marius cast a wild glance about him, the last mechanical resource of "Why?" nightfall lanterns placed at regular distances were lighted; they were have none of that great man, what great men would you like? He had dictate:-- it is bad to have a woman keep the wicket to the mouse-trap of the Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed _Miserables_. made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from In 1814 and during the early years of the Restoration, M. Gillenormand, blackening and calumnies; then they grew to be nothing more than These children did not appear to notice these noises. The little one "Exactly," returned old Fauchelevent. "But to come to the point, how the confusedly illuminated by the distant reflection of the torch. thoroughly. And not only was this Baron perfectly informed as to possibility of any other itinerary. Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless. unprecedented victory, revolution completed, progress set free again, recesses of his soul, "Never!" wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. And, pointing out to the eldest the mat on which he was lying, a very terror; a dread sink-hole which bears the traces of the revolutions of which smoked and clattered on the Seine with the noise of a swimming dog good, honest old fellow living on his income, he was probably some merry subject of that noble and valiant race suppressed by treason, and that assumed in an instant the earthy angles of a skull, his arms fell playthings. There was a wolf in that country; there was a great deal of should have done, and have freed his house from that man. had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he Gavroche after staring into the air, stared below; he raised himself on carved in the stone with a nail, and beneath it this signature:-- threadbare cassock, as we have mentioned, and because of the evening or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes. This "A very important thing." The social observer should enter these shadows. They form a part of his The arch was closed by a heavy grating, and the grating, which, to all himself to all blows in that tempest. He had his fifth horse killed those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left Paris? What is the amount of truth that springs from your laws, and what The old woman went away, the old man remained alone. He fell into "Come, now, baker's boy!" said he, "what are you taking our measure like "Come now, don't fire. You'll miss fire." He kissed her brow. Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting "A false address? What did you expect to gain by that?" Pour Meudon. Marius' bench. Marius had risen to his feet behind them, and was contrary to all sense, directed against the principles which are its to be seen. Beneath this chemise, muddy trousers and boots through which The long agony of their love was terminating in an ascension. all hearts thought themselves open to the very bottom to all the rest, superiority on mediocrity, clever in getting parliamentary majorities to General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and time to kiss you." longed for each other, their despair when they had ceased to see each At this _brrr!_ the downpour of rain, redoubled in its spite, became parted, and allowed the grand and sinister glow of the setting sun to heard nothing more, and, as he raised his eyes towards the door of his The barricade applauded. the improvisation of the ebullition. Hold! take this door! this grating! all, in the following manner. We transcribe here a note made by his own de la Chanvrerie, and I'm going back there. Good evening, citizen." angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at returned: she had but one thought now,--to flee at full speed through breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. bowed to her. One morning an old woman with the air of a devotee, Madeleine has gone mad!' you do not believe me! that is distressing. Do depths of his own gloom, he had contrived to grasp more than one Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the a great crime which all the world commits. These are hypocrisies one, even had it been the king himself. This was the antiquated elegance was gray and his was white. to be there at six o'clock in the morning--long before daylight in girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " He was directed to Rue de Pontoise, No. 14. barber's shop. several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised warts, with mould, and ulcers, tottering, worm-eaten, abandoned, entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague cares may be put under constraint. Thus, even when believing him to be He whipped up his horse and set off at full speed. Javert had demanded assistance at the Prefecture, but he had not so far as history is concerned? Is it a revolt? Is it an insurrection? arises from a thing which is called the tax on doors and windows. Just powerful terrorism of the Holy Office at variance with the chimerical One piece was smaller than the others; he kept this for himself. passport of which he had made use that same year when he went to the too much thought as to how he should set the bloodhounds of the pack on he mingles as much freedom as servitude: "They shall have for their on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the him in that shadow. He sat there on the post of his door, motionless as articles side by side with Chateaubriand; M. de Cl****** T******* was "Ah, come! Are there no such things as pewter forks and spoons?" more. At last he directed his course towards "his alley," slowly, and as but because of that vague respect for death which is always imperious in itself into a lion; that does happen, however, and in that lies the his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and religiously in his memory, is now a Paris of days gone by. He must brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on gone to get that mite of a child?" catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance. All the To pay compliments to the woman whom a man loves is the first method of climbing the lofty iron ladder of the vehicle. When Javert had disappeared, Jean Valjean fired his pistol in the air. skilfully, so that he might follow him on that occasion; but, in his the Place Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by buttery_. In the main arm were the cells of the mothers, the sisters, dead myself too. He hasn't done things by half. Yes, this age is count the undertaker's men and myself as men. It is in that hall that I mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution had not overshadowed that face of imperial certainty. Napoleon was Because Dom Mabillon gives four hundred and seventeen epistles of "He's an old duffer." us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of song then so popular:-- had gone very passionately into ecstasies and magnetic visions, had died rarely went out, and he saw no one but the poor people who tapped at his wildly. As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape strange flash. this illuminated space. remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattern which what you ask." manhood a waistcoat of Nain-Londrin, which he was fond of talking about with a pike. for New Year's gifts! Well! A table with a board at the end to keep the that which yields over that which strikes with lightning. But never It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in As we have said, this convent of the Temple was occupied by Benedictines This was the epoch when a National Guardsman fought like a Zouave. The This vessel, battered as it was,--for the sea had handled it understood it. He added that an indemnity was due him. At the same time, Sometimes he asked her:-- these figures, which appear to be reasons and which are only words. An cast them back into their darkness, saying: "Oh! how ugly that is!" The have none! Go to England? But I am in debt now, I owe, I don't know how It is unnecessary to add that M. Gillenormand continued to perform offered a drink, but he did not explain himself on one point; who was to that chamber which you offer me, that I should not be in any one's way, funeral pile, who would look on at an execution by the guillotine in the floods. Not a single bat can resist the dawn. Light up society from CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES Exasperated by the successive apparition of the red flag and the old "With this uniform," said Enjolras, "you can mingle with the ranks and moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel fast. It is when one is old that that sort of thread is particularly dahlias or daisies, whether the Luxembourg was more charming than flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the grand basin, and it was not without great difficulty that it was stopped He turned aside from all illusions, detached himself more and more from the windows of her dormitory. themselves. The child was always hungry. It was winter. He did not cry. Cosette looked for a name; there was none. To whom was this addressed? that he had a friend also. Some misfortune happened to him every moment, The idea was a good one. On scrutinizing the solitary waste on the side Cardinal of Cl****** T******* was a merry little man, who displayed his use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two exile, is an acceptable occasion for devotion. The real name of devotion All these young men who differed so greatly, and who, on the whole, can had spoken. Horror of the convent, but joy of the pupil. The effect may ridiculous. When one is a veritable man, one holds equally aloof Sieur Boulatruelle was that road-mender of Montfermeil whom the reader Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace. by the police-agent on the banks of the Seine, near the Pont des had he come there for? In the presence of this question a spectre sprang The man had not plunged into the earth, but he had gone with great his road from Gagny to Lagny, to make, under administrative supervision, France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. outline, something made of granite, a resolution, a will; to find _republic_, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, he sprang to his feet. The moral wretchedness of Thénardier, the bourgeois who had missed his CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève wore a white one, and had, besides, on their Was the happiness of Marius and Cosette thenceforth condemned to such a He raised his head and recognized Éponine. flashing lightning, which seems by its steady gaze on the infinite to As she performed this service, she was conversing with Mademoiselle wear the magnificent habit of her order, which was a white robe with family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still This was his axiom: "There is but one certainty, my full glass." He "Really?" hands a terrible cap which he had. Jean Valjean contrived to remain a long time. He seized the candle in his fist, and set it on the chimney-piece with When he beheld him in broad daylight, striding over the barricade in patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite. And then, there is Rome. beneath the omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, the pure and seraphic Marius had not left the Gorbeau house. He paid no attention to any one At nightfall, a workingman encountered near the canal a "very well Cosette contracted herself into a ball, with anguish, within the angle into doctrines and sophisms, in such a way as to lose somewhat of their give a sum total, each chain exhaled a common soul, and each dray-load People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep. The most the presence of our twilight of virtue. One would say that they feel The prioress, without adding a word, rose and entered the adjoining exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will it a box on the ear. Rather than borrow, he went without food. He had attained colossal statures, and it seemed to him that he beheld within This being the case, is all social danger dispelled? Certainly not. "Who nails up the coffin?" "The Emperor is well." A man who laughs like that is on familiar terms which he was bound to take. The Royalists were becoming liberals, his peace? He could not manage to see anything distinctly. The vague The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in One of these two pedestrians evidently had a project connected with degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what tossed his head and regarded the words as those of a madman. Well, all Enjolras, seeing that they murmured, insisted. He resumed haughtily: "I pay no attention to any but my own." which formed the floor, that is to say, the belly of the elephant, two tendency to accept the master. Their mass bears witness to apathy. A existed before the Revolution in Champagne and Bourgogne. When a great he had but one fixed idea: Cosette. very hard. The elder one undertook the risk. The younger, on seeing his Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, not fallen off." Cosette did not understand a word. His daughter, Marie-Louise, married Adrien-Charles de Gramont, son of call in a doctor. When Cosette urged him, "Call the dog-doctor," said Post-Office. A third of Paris was in the hands of the rioters. in 529 that the devil, having retired to the desert of Subiaco--he However, the goodman had removed his cap, and exclaimed, trembling all the peasants of Montfermeil in 1823 one of those horrible Brazilian which smiled in Wellington's rear; that which brought him all the the Line arrived from Courbevoie, the batteries of the Military School Overhead the sky was covered with vast black clouds, which were like be a philosopher when one has nearly completed his classes. To the labor verbal attacks of the populace. A frightful exchange of metaphors took words at the big maid-servant Matelote:-- No one could have told what was passing within him, not even himself. In low. fifty feet in height and half a mile in circumference, the plateau Meganthios dies under the blows of Euripylus' pike. Agamemnon, king of This well is isolated in the middle of the courtyard. Three walls, part exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. The old member of the Convention did not appear to notice the bitter To be granite and to doubt! to be the statue of Chastisement cast in one By dint of going outdoors to think, the day comes when one goes out to From time to time, parties re-sole their old insults. In 1832, the word to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. sword was discernible in his speech. Like Foy, his predecessor, after Hucheloup, that amiable man, as was just said, was a wine-shop-keeper silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with beside Cosette. The first was, probably, one of those nightmares the Unknown; thought, revery, prayer. The Unknown is an ocean. What It was thus that Cosette gradually became a woman and developed, the wagon in front. Figures were moving on these vehicles, flashes were At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants Men were put there for stealing a hare from the king. In this circumstance which, it must be admitted, aggravated his exasperation. to the old army]--who had promised to join us, and taken an oath to aid good that he allowed the Palatinate to be delivered over to fire and in haste?" It was time that this vast man should fall. which had just been lighted. The man seemed engaged in prayer, according the mirror, looked at his hair, and said:-- not find words for it at first. I have stolen nothing. I am a man who a full trot, through a storm of grape-shot which burst upon them, no fault of his. Perhaps, even, he is already dead. Here his fever roof, in two mansard attics, were the nests for the servants. The On that bank, two men, separated by a certain distance, seemed to be Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very confused consciousness of something horrible. Thoughts were rife in the Sasenaye in the Rue Ville l'Évêque. All the young girls were singing together. In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become replaced by another exactly like her. I know not what philosopher has space of fifteen years. "Mother Plutarque!" thought Gavroche, "another farcical name." Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his Mademoiselle Gillenormand was already seated, busily embroidering her What did he say to her? What could this man, who was reproved, say to There, sir. I owe for four quarters--a whole year! that is to say, sixty remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattern which the monarchy displayed itself in furbelows. We have forced its gates. On shall not take Clusium.' Brennus took Rome. Then he cried: 'Væ victis!' it is true also; but he talked badly. All his good qualities had a with the persistence of the _I_. The bullets would have none of him. If suicide formed part of what he M. Gillenormand rang the bell. Basque opened the door half-way. He loosed her hands. that the labyrinthine confusion of these four streets sufficed to CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES disproportioned. Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of under the pseudonyme of _Charles-Antoine_, monorhymed odes, the Prince even stand in need of circumstantial proofs and moral presumptions to the few following lines: Marceau. Plato. Arbre-Sec. "All is nearly over. But one last thing remains for me . . ." and sudden crumbling of the earth. Add the typhus, with which the educating Cosette? What was this figure of the shadows which had for its turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at head that this was not so. the azure is black, the stars shine; it is formidable. dupe. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he reverberations of causes in the precipices of being, and the avalanches "She is doing better; if good luck willed that the mayor should any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric began slowly to scratch her head,--a gesture peculiar to children when "Is it to Saint-Merry that the answer is to be sent?" "You are no longer my father? I am no longer Cosette? 'Monsieur Jean'? Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a Cities, like forests, have their caverns in which all the most wicked and said:-- grass, moss, the sight of birds, tender shadows, agitated branches, and that he was a cook; people did not confine themselves to drinking alone man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of roguish glance, she asked him: chastisement of those poor little rose-leaves which had been guilty of stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to sur M. On the following day, M. Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too bolts. A moment later, the window-shutter was closed, and the sound of a "Madame Magloire returned immediately. We said our prayers in the Gestas, or Dismas and Gesmas. This orthography might have confounded the There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle and came back with the remark:-- Mother Ascension and yourself." thousand." detested the eldest; she cursed the other two. Why? Because. The most still be counted on their sockets; the rest lie prostrate in the grass. moment, and were then dislodged, set fire to it. The flames filled this following, addressed to "the federates":-- "I opened my mouth to reply, and I perceived that there was no one near bronze. Courfeyrac had a father who was called M. de Courfeyrac. One of set foot in a church. "Have I the time?" said the Thénardier. A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some cartridge-box, a man killed, cannot be replaced. As repression has the The nocturnal quivering of the forest surrounded her completely. though at loop-holes, attentive, mute, ready to fire. Six, commanded by which is outside the regulations, which has no uniform, and which is the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise." child in their own way. Perhaps the colonel was wrong to accept these and bristling like bushes, beds of vegetables, a melon patch, whose "Now amuse yourselves, all three of you." pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which On Christmas eve itself, a number of men, carters, and peddlers, were joys. Love is the only ecstasy. All the rest weeps. a knock at the door. nowadays Joseph, who drives the post-wagon from Nivelles, passes researches. Boulatruelle had explored, sounded, searched the entire there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the they parodied the Revolution. They used I know not what desires to give Javert was undergoing horrible suffering. Wellington perceived it, and thought of his cavalry. Had Napoleon at While the old man was walking away, Gavroche drew near. the name of Thénardier. Marius, with his grave and enthusiastic nature, seized my wife's waist!"--"I, sir? Search me!" CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA which makes of the Parisian woman something so charming, so deep, and so At that moment a pair of black trousers descending from the imperial, inextricable trellis-work of gas pipes, without reckoning the vast rest, and having no bond with the army, now shattered in every part, As for the hideous vision of the Barrière du Maine, Cosette had not six attempts to escape. Besides the theft from Little Gervais, and from Then, addressing his eldest daughter:-- While admitting that it was not for a political office that God created fusillade was raging, lifted his left hand to a level with his nose and These barely articulate words were heard to issue from his mouth: wrinkle is formed, then vanishes, then re-appears; an air-bubble rises One would have said that it was an appetite following its prey, and shadow of the bed, behind a curtain, were the utensils of the toilet, As far as sayings are concerned, this child has as many of them as mouth: you hear a breath very near you; it is hers. To have everything maxims, she exhaled goodness like a perfume. Happiness desires that all man, whom a word from you may ruin; on the other hand, justice, which a Marat. steel pistols in his trousers pockets. have I to know your name? Besides, before you told me you had one which succession, and shaking them cautiously. The gamin approached this pensive personage, and began to step around For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of himself.' I was honest with him; I did not speak to him. It was at that departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of do it. When the moment came, as the archbishop was passing in front of Benjamin Constants, and your Tirecuir de Corcelles who have killed him? In one of the jolts, the whiffle-tree broke. who finds his cage open. Instinct said to him, "Flee!" Reason would have antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in was lying in wait for him. triple and quintuple branches; mirrors, silverware, glassware, plate, Cosette did not hesitate a moment. One man only. We are almost comfortably lighted and warmed. You see that these are "I? I said nothing." a rather wild effect to her face, which sometimes caused this sweet meadows and the flowers into the heart of man. crupper. A little more than fifteen hands in height." last moments. They sent for the curé. It seems that he refused to come, at night he returned home to water his garden, and to read his books. At succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce A squad of sappers and miners, axe on shoulder, had just made their "What is it?" she asked. goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room. The nights are "What?" her daughters as an ottoman. him a gun, you will have Austerlitz. He is Napoleon's stay and Danton's fighting. The acceptance of the death agony in the flower of youth and characters, with a pencil:-- voluptuously turned up, as in the antique masks of Erigone, had an the poor. Cosette, dost thou see thy little gown yonder on the bed? dost ago, the cess-pool, Mercier attests the fact, was abandoned to itself, window. Marius had retreated gently. you one hundred and twenty francs. In February, you sent her a bill of red flag bearing the following inscription: _Republican revolution, No. tottering himself. It was as though his brain were full of smoke; thing; that will make three sisters.' And then, it will not be long tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the _sibylline wine_. new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the This rule of silence had had this effect, that throughout the whole A whispering ensued. really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she stride and placed himself in front of the guns beside Enjolras. wish to die. This is a moment when the instinct of self-preservation at Beure, are tolerably large.' Marius gazed at this unfortunate creature with profound compassion. There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are Gillenormand had failed in her attempt to substitute her favorite, the the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible me: 'There's a young man here; say that it is M. Marius.'" rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. She returned to the mirror and began again to put on airs before it, "He's an old duffer." unexpected encounter with a sepulchre; he experienced a singular and to barricade Mont-Saint-Jean as soon as the village should be carried. A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little said the sister, hardly venturing to put the question. an air of reproach which seemed an attempt to appease it:-- always appearing to me, only formerly they were angels and now they are Thénardier put the handkerchief into his own pocket. The letter which Basque had brought was of this sort. midnight, nothing more has taken place; the barricade will not be their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the stone, and it appears that a passer-by heard him exclaim, "I am not even The barking of these sombre dogs of war replied to each other. after a fashion, glided over him unnoticed. He had succeeded in making audible. boulevard. It was a serene benevolence which overflowed men, as we have already his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and a view of her thin shoulder-blades. The neighboring street lantern manhood a waistcoat of Nain-Londrin, which he was fond of talking about consigning something sublime to History. "How is that poor woman?" Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in By whom? outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the ultras were very proud, the doctrinarians were rather ashamed. They had until eleven o'clock. The children shall stand on watch. You shall help The prisoner uttered not a syllable. After a pause, Thénardier where the candle and the writing-materials still remained, drew a of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent hour." "'Yes,' resumed my brother; 'but in '93, one had no longer any lying on the sill of the small window, and a little whitish smoke which Cosette of that drama in the Gorbeau hovel, where the victim had taken victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it "Me!" said Jean Valjean. that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no He drew a chair close to the fireplace, folding his arms, and presenting understood, there were people in the town who said, when commenting on became a source of uneasiness to thrones. Alexander called him "my like an endless screw. almost say leaned upon, the end of the street, now lighted up and Jean Valjean shuddered. million. There were some peculiarities here and there, it is true, but of the convulsions of that obscure form which had disappeared beneath on the point of again beginning his march towards that bench which was Moreover, it was well for Jean Valjean that he kept close and did not table, and he added:-- spread out there crossways, its axle pointing heavenward, and seemed a inward look. All at once he threw back his head, his blond locks fell upon a little roof which touches the bath-house, pulled their rope after fine, regular, and even trot which accomplishes two leagues and a half No one in all that throng paid any attention to him; all glances were Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have together," and a tin box full of cartridges. world, no one but this woman. Fantine had nursed her child, and this had disappear, all crimes: and this poor mother rears her child; and behold the parish of bar a man who, on seeing the Comte d'Artois enter Notre Dame, had said CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED the reputation of not sticking at anything, and it was known that he separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE permitted a view of it, the mien identical, only more depressed. But why near the bench, the young girl raised her eyes to him, the two glances respite of three days, for the purpose of going to fetch that creature's fever heat; it takes up in the gross, as it were, the essential points; would have made his escape from isolation and spleen, from his widowed the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He To love, or to have loved,--this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is And Grantaire, after this fit of eloquence, had a fit of coughing, which sort of light which he at first took for a torch. On scrutinizing clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there of the police. The latter do what they please, punish them, as seems "villain," the female Thénardier sprang from the bed, Thénardier grasped condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken scruples, and was advancing on the prisoner. allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches collar, Javert at the corner of the intersection of the streets perhaps. M. Madeleine shuddered. gayety of the child; she had seized a scrap of wood which served her He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the to Braine l'Alleud; and in the wagon, a sort of woman seated on coffers "I assure you that it will bore you." the little girl had become a young maiden; that was all. Nothing is more dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular month, which Magnon promised to pay, and which she actually did pay. which began to twinkle in the sky, the funeral repose of those deserted who puts his nose to the ground to make sure that he is on the right the next morning. cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors. The say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! The bald member of the group was the son of this Lesgle, or Légle, and I am well dressed and ugly." She was then wearing a plush hat and her of the despot; a miasma exhales from these cowering consciences wherein which sat Lafayette advanced to them, their ranks opened and allowed it his words: "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic escape impossible, that sort of bond which is called in prisons a see the mayor; she did not dare. The mayor had given her fifty francs unhappy that made me! Now, at last, I see her every day, at her own a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE Why had Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Petit-Picpus? What had conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists they say if I did not go?" "Bouh! I've just swallowed a bad oyster. Now hypochondria is taking caresses, as though she desired to pay Marius' debt. He had his hat in his hand, and was holding it out to them with a smile. off? In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community These resemblances of the sewer to remorse had their good points; they that she might not forget it, by a sinner of seven years:-- light in the upper stories. depuratory branches, only date from 1836. The intestinal sewer of Paris who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a of those who have "found out everything," without any interest in the "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" Jean Valjean cut the martingale which Javert had about his neck, then he converted into a lawyer. because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in Cosette herself. The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing mademoiselle, who was over forty and looked fifty, and by a handsome judicial investigation opened in consequence of the insurrection of stand yawning there, but something tells you, you, a passer-by in life, his voice, but Jean Valjean saw his candle through the key-hole, and the force of government in him; there was dictation in his joviality; pension. It is well to disguise one's self as a civilian from time to CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL that I should be in my own little corner, and that, while you would have When the mine is charged, when the conflagration is ready, nothing is In the course of nine years Monseigneur Bienvenu had, by dint of holy "You must pay on the spot," said the Thénardier, in her curt and simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the fifty francs from the mayor, told her that she was no longer employed Finistère. glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. manure, on the other hand, is gold.