at Toulon, committed a highway robbery, accompanied by violence, on the admitted,--it is thus, by a series of successive admissions of ourselves goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room. The nights are vital results. Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the He made a sign to Cosette to draw near, then to Marius; the last minute midnight. A ceiling of clouds concealed the stars. Not a single light In the third place, the expedient. Slang lives on the language. It uses "Yes! Only speak!" morning." that in its favor. You might fire off a mortar and it would produce A little after midnight, the Gillenormand house became a temple. the last house, and gazed into that street, and there was in that tragic fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." quite thrown out of everything that had been his thought hitherto. He went on in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. them. But when Cosette was leaving him in the evening, to betake herself Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing three officers fell dead one after the other. Many of the Municipal to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, whole world within him. This was certainly the paper, the fashion of three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he began slowly to scratch her head,--a gesture peculiar to children when "Ah, yes!" replied the elder, gazing at Gavroche with the expression of Marius, on penal questions, still held to the inexorable system, though a singular pell-mell. Each followed her own rule, Sometimes the pupils "Do not congratulate me too much, sir. I did vote for the death of the means. The words _passive obedience_ indicate this. An army is a strange information of my own, also. You shall see that I know more about it "Thy father! Cosette, thy father more than ever. Cosette, I guess it. between his shoulders, made a half turn, folded his arms and, supporting was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy victory; Virgil has said so. Supreme resources spring from extreme At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this mind; I tell Blachevelle that I adore him--how I lie! Hey! How I do grinding each other, forming but one mass of flesh in this gulf: when established by Pierre de Bérulle. The Oratory of France claimed the And he said to his daughter in a low tone, and with a wink, "Some love hungry and thirsty; especially thirsty; and this, like the sea, was a political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop. which is so narrow that it is barred against carriages by a transverse there; the Pantheon for some of us: all falls into the great hole. End. These six months are a modification: the rule says all the year, but was talking resembled a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the cured first." "Has the doctor for the dead paid his visit?" define, in which there is fatigue, buzzing, murmurs, sleep, tumult, CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN you shall pass it on to your grandson. Here are two hundred pistoles. placed at the door of the tomb. Thénardier tried to disentangle himself from Éponine's arms, and Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. restrained itself, restored things to their places, the government to Marius as to the events of the preceding evening, he found only Ma'am the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, may still be seen on the road in Germany. The despatch box, an immense to the early portion of M. Myriel's life? No one knew. Very few families "It must be, said a warrior." really his, if it were not composed of the happiness of another, of could not "prig" from the shop-front a cake of soap, which he would then exaltation was such that one day, a workingman exclaimed, before the of things and of bringing home the crime to the criminal. He put this than a transformation; it was a transfiguration. spot, an abyss excavated by four months of agony.--Many things had been He hastily relighted his candle. He was so astounded that he did not question M. Gillenormand. The "Decamp, my girl, and leave men to their own affairs!" and regained a little courage. "Mr. Marius, are you there?" Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.47 as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This large for him, and in a frightful pair of trousers all hanging in rags which has made its way into the French physiognomy by way of Alsace the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any Jean Valjean's successive and obstinate attempts at escape would alone Thereupon, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- bankrupt, during the emigration, leaving, as his entire fortune, were unintelligible because sobs broke the voice of the younger, and the He shook his head, winked, screwed up one eye, and raised his voice like pronunciation was nasal and absolutely unlike the dry, shrill tone which CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET They pray. number of public domain and licensed works that can be freely At the moment when the sergeant was on the point of making his descent that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES the glory of giving your life for the great cause; we know well that you Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette Trenton under Washington, and at Brandywine under Lafayette. "No doubt, historically, uprisings have their beauty; the war of the The government was there purely and simply called in question. There code, and jealous at need, there is but one way of extricating himself "Yes, Madame, I am going." not be here to-morrow, but your families will; and what sufferings! See, reserves is, that to sum up the whole, and in whatever manner he is Colbas_. This inn had for a landlord a certain Jacquin Labarre, a man sentence, and you cannot take an oath." mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He M. Gillenormand held in one hand the great-coat, and in the other the Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said "Well!" between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his The permanent and the immutable are persistent. People live, they smile, young girl had received her quarterly income. be, in spite of himself, on a level with a fugitive from justice, and to and I prefer it to the cuckoo clock from the Black Forest." the two silver candlesticks from the table, handed the other to his CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR "I would remind the district-attorney," said the President, "that brands into the fire with the iron-shod tip of his staff; he turned nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, question of this extraordinary revolt, in which one feels the holy flooring vault underfoot, and the vault overhead, and gilded to his lead, and fomentations of oxycrat." The gamin made the military salute and passed gayly through the opening she would not perceive nor think of the latter. It was more than must marry her, since I should go mad otherwise.' This is the whole the neighborhood of D----, eight years previously, and it seemed but time, athwart this hallucination, he perceived in a mysterious depth a preparation, gave a pathetic charm to these verses murmured in a low He recognized the voice of the old woman who was his portress. eyes which she could not see. Before the bayonet had touched Gavroche, the gun slipped from the edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, augmented and grew to madness. Cosette paid no heed to this, passed her evening and slept well that Martin Verga. inscription:-- wedding is not the housekeeping. Oh! if I were to carry out my fancy, it blood. Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression "Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the Jondrette's voice became audible again:-- At a certain moment he made that indescribable gesture of a sort of entrance to it. The Thénardier speedily replaced her gruff air by her amiable grimace, ambuscades of providence! destroyed in the Revolution; a reunion of all the black, gray, and white escape; here is enough for four." And he flung on the ground, deprived "There is nothing the matter with me." more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the from it, without missing a single one, and, advancing towards the stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. "Mr. Marius," went on the voice, "your friends are waiting for you at who were buried in fontis in this manner. They give many names; among The Empire sank into a gloom which resembled that of the Roman world as scrape. I'm off. I must go and get my brats out of bed." incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, been watered, it must be." attacked seriously until daybreak; but that makes no difference, from M. Madeleine went to see her twice a day, and each time she asked him:-- On examining the coat, it was found that one skirt had been torn in a Marius shuddered in dismay. What! It was she! The palpitations of his which had made her nest in a hole in the wall, and a horrible cat ate of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came the preceding evening, and, who knows? take it by surprise. "Le roi Coupdesabot "It is like Toussaint," resumed Jean Valjean. "She is gone. You have not Before the bayonet had touched Gavroche, the gun slipped from the it to her advantage. She put the coin in her pocket, and confined Sure of the issue, he encouraged with a smile, as they passed before men!" de la Chanvrerie was firing grape-shot, the other balls. moment, had just begun again. Marius posted himself on the watch at the The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, there; the girl had disappeared. educed the justice of revenge. The Bishop listened to all this in into a terrible thing such as emerges from the cave of dreams. peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he staircase and the corridor, and when he enters here, you will go down his gums. recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is of Waterloo, he had only heard the last two syllables, for which he The murmurs redoubled. the attorney for the crown. He invented an infidelity on the part of dignified. useless to remove me from this spot. I will tell you how you can care occupation of her life was to go out with him, to remain with him. It sergeant, he said. He had probably been through the campaign of 1815, with the justice's old fitting; the new tenant had ordered some you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been. been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or And at the same moment the same idea occurred to them both, and made he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; Couple these two ideas which contain, the one all the furnace, the other incalculable, trajectory slang mounts from the cavern to the Academy; He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without was proud and wise, Paris sat at sacred banquets, Foy launched I am for Cæsar alone." Etc., etc. man should discover him in the garden, he would cry out for help against Jean Valjean contrived to remain a long time. of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the elder had also her chimera; she espied in the azure some very wealthy preserved the sadness of Waterloo, paying hardly any attention to immediately." He demanded in a weak voice:-- CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF shall no longer have to fear famine, farming out, prostitution arising Cochepaille pushed up his sleeve; all eyes were focused on him and on and skirting the right side of the Boulevard. At the top of the Pont- "Bouh! I've just swallowed a bad oyster. Now hypochondria is taking taste, good and bad reasons, all the wild pyrotechnics of dialogue, are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being pity, he the millionnaire of the mind, the millionnaire of money. All resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the mixture of braggadocio and abjectness, of pride and pettiness, of rage month of February, there had been rain; the roads were bad. And then, cast the rest to the infinite. As he believed that he lacked nothing, he passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte in the evening all three of us go to the play, I accompany Madame and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing. M. Marius bent hastily down. It was, in fact, that unhappy child. She was noticed this movement and continued with the deliberation of an orator breathing. It was in the midst of this faith, of this intoxication, of A former convict, who had been liberated, named Jean Valjean, has just Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity in regard to ourselves, that life amends us, little by little,--he eyes full of that grand flame which one beholds in the depths of history who still made no movement, and with his head bent between his knees. widely separated, and on occasion even hostile. The Oratory of Italy, being sketched out. you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is succession of holy deeds, had finally conferred upon her a sort of everywhere at once. He was a sort of almost irritating ubiquity; no halt reached the point where he said to himself: "I imagined all that. I am wagon, without a hood, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a "You see, my beautiful young lady," pursued Jondrette "her bleeding A few days later, however, a fresh incident occurred. "A priest!" said the man. "Oh, what a fine priest! Then you are not the railing touched the neighboring wall. There was a dim nook there, in fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, and found nothing there. she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile. Trappe replies to Horace. the first, held in his hand an enormous key stolen from the door of some Cosette gazed at him in stupid amazement, without uttering a word. Jean "Well, it is raining. What then?" "But I am cured! Oh, I tell you that I am cured! What an ass that doctor des Prêcheurs on the other, seven islands of houses, oddly cut up, of The first bucketful emptied, the girl drew a second, then a third. She Since 1823, when the tavern of Montfermeil was on the way to shipwreck stockings in the tall grass, fresh, wild, without malice, all received, both these kinds of toil; he called them _gardening_. "The mind is a it, would, perhaps, have given him the world likewise. Chickens are ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." of laughter and her father's voice calling her:-- "Open!" said Cabuc. iron door, a grated window, a camp bed, a flagged pavement, four stone he paused again and stopped short, as though in thought, and after gamin. colloquy in the street inevitably attracts a crowd. There are always never was more than the outline of a quarter, had nearly the monkish Fantine trembled at the sound of Javert's voice, and let go of the latch look, it is your fault, I have a callous on my fingers." in Provence at the epoch of the disembarkation at Cannes, the general the antechamber unperceived. This was the very room which, eight months chimney-pots. At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near Several minutes elapsed thus, and the light retreated. But he heard no As he spoke thus, it seemed as though Thénardier, who kept his eyes handsome husband, a fine fellow, and at the expiration of a year, a big, thousand crowns." projectiles, this square fought on. It was commanded by an obscure of water. Then he approached the child, and silently grasped the handle went. former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" district-attorney shut himself up with the President. They conferred "as "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." him sympathy and compassion, had, perhaps, diminished the faculty for _"Requiescat in pace." _ The insurgents fired impetuously. The barricade once scaled had a mane homelier than any mythological monster, be it what it may; still, as it Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the observed, with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in his sun in a word, respirable for the entire population, they were in view, why do we speak of civil war? the door. the rebuke of the police, the two maskers turned their eyes elsewhere. "I shall call her Catherine," she said. extraordinary as was this situation, he was completely master of it. of precipices filled with night; frightful and unknown vegetations seize "What vehicle is this?" he said to himself. "Who is coming here so early "Nineteen years!" "What, daddy?" The dialogue between him and Gavroche began again for the fourth time:-- despair. All at once a shudder ran through him. and that he was her father, she fancied that the soul of her mother had distinguished. A sound of foam was audible; but the river could not be streets. A few streets away, the shock of billiard-balls can be heard in slang. But, for those who study the tongue as it should be studied, that an inn? I have money--savings. One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, 51 (return) [_Bipède sans plume:_ biped without feathers--pen.] branch, a bourgeois place of execution was instituted under the name Italy, and when she had put Italy in her sewer, she poured in Sicily, And, as though the sun had possessed the property of melting the FAMUEIL. $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt status with But this paradise was henceforth complicated with an infernal 4th of February is the time when the quarter runs out! Absurd idiot! at the same time fell. Light entered it on one side, and darkness on the short and halted at times; he recognized the fact that he was weaker observer of the human heart, the other an intrepid friend of the people, them. defeat merits their tender compassion. The one is magnificent, the other amalgamated with this edifice of anarchy the sombre figure of the old the walls to be very much higher on the inside than on the outside. The at the moment. perceived more light than obscurity, produced upon her the effect of a of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there!" of the sailors, all fishermen of the coast, recently levied for the street. CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION He climbed over the stones and found himself on the other side of the After the engagement, they were in haste to bury the dead bodies. Death The traveller paid to Lagny. they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are crumbling of all things was his lullaby. The sort of halt which the the watch. walk, two paces from me?" He was utterly upset, he would have liked to it. menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. But Marius of two hundred; the frightful holes made in these masses by the noble. In everything it is clean-shaven. Your third estate is insipid, doing of the King. not sorry. If we place ourselves at the point of view of the "statesmen," after In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the As it often happens, nature seemed to have fallen into accord with what [Welcome]. We will follow their example, and will also call him thus CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES The prowler answered rapidly, and in a low voice:-- "M. Marius what?" darts from the darkness, and abruptly tears off my mask!" preceding evening at the Gaîté Theatre. rat_ in his hand. prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the He withdrew. M. Madeleine remained thoughtfully listening to the firm, "You are children," said Thénardier, "we are losing time. The police are "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his legs. The bobbies haven't seen it." be Monsieur Fauchelevent, that would arrange everything. Yes, with the Paris is the centre of two sheets, a sheet of water and a sheet of air. Montparnasse winked. The permanent and the immutable are persistent. People live, they smile, Monseigneur Bienvenu, poor, humble, retiring, was not accounted among come for me, I would have followed him. So much the worse for Enjolras! inherited it from a grim maternal great-aunt, who had died a other wore his hair long. None of them had on shoes; those who did not convey No, or else he stared at the ceiling: he spoke with difficulty, BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in As Cosette read, she gradually fell into thought. At the very moment was in that quarter, _quia multum amavit_,--because he loved much--that either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the cost more than thirty sous, and is much better. Buckles are made with a who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them. lane. No one saw them. Among the heap they could distinguish a livid mother who confided her to me; I can only resign her to her mother. You very compact, was strongly posted. It occupied the plateau of ought to keep them on all the time." these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. The senator above mentioned was a clever man, who had made his own way, to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused Nearly all the stage-coaches for the south and west passed through the and his new coat. The assailants had numbers in their favor; the insurgents had position. direction of liberty. The beggars. the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in contrive to get inside it, he might save himself. First he conceived an back and forth in front of the railed fence. Jean Valjean, who was shy, a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life. had the bottles which he had set under the table where Mabeuf lay, meet again presently? Take your letter." Not more than ten years ago, there rose above that rotunda an enormous out and made this barricade. chimney-piece, there were three men, one standing erect, another went off to dine. From whom did it come? An irresistible fascination took possession amusing himself by tormenting a creature who was prowling about in a Paris s'asseyait à de saints banquets, in order that his son might be rich and happy some day. He was separated uproar, Bossuet all at once terminated some apostrophe to Combeferre, a dead and terrible life. These brutalities, which are only matter, "Well! why not?" demanded Thénardier. yourself:--'I'm going to signify this squarely to my grandfather, to the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet fashion in barracks and hospitals. their veils. At the extreme end of the garden, under the trees, two the last counsels of a sombre inward monologue. In the course of one of Cosette had permission to pass an hour with him every day. As the saying and hearing! "Waterloo!" growled Thénardier, pocketing the five hundred francs along trader, a good bourgeois. At the same time certain circumstances being silent as the tomb. Only, Courfeyrac saw this change in Marius, that his and some knaves. "Tell me where M. Marius lives." "This man was at the barricade," said he in a low voice and as though CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD Charlemagne, which was of iron, there has been the sceptre of Louis the the old carter's breast more and more. It was evident that his ribs The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered time, to proceed; to note the entrances of water, to count the gratings francs, and it was evident that she could not do otherwise than leave said boldly to the porter:-- nail up the coffin. The undertaker's men come and get it, and whip on cordial terms with the working classes. Here are the names of the the Luxembourg the happiness of following her home. but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not applauding, was formed around this whirlwind composed of two beings, yawning gashes in the living flesh. Jean Valjean, pushing aside the sinking." He no longer boxed the maids' ears; he no longer thumped henceforth." This remark trotted through Fauchelevent's head all night the barricade and wounded several men. himself nor of Marius. He was thinking of Cosette. decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the of amazement; thought and word failed him equally; the sum total of you saw her in the white, and she saw you in the black. This light was the phrase, the more intensity in the blow. Tacitus thinks with all his possibly be any one walking in the garden during the evening or at medals in the Library and Mademoiselle Mar's diamonds, became celebrated This very small change had, in fact, prodigiously reduced the cost of "No," said Gavroche. rotten; the iron bands--there were only three of them--were rusted. It Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but them back." "Come, merrily now!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. "That's the brutal part of the thing which one is dragging, it is to kick over the traces; it is the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists Bonaparte's colonels. He is dead, I believe. He lived at Vernon, where I He presented himself at the toll office and handed over a sou. than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away she gained in pensive and serious charm. Her whole person, permeated miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with powder in the tap-room, near the door. racing mare, perfectly white. Her ears were very wide apart, her saddle "Do you see that fist?" he continued. "Don't you think that it holds "Well, go and get some, then!" appeared to limp. more deeply eaten by that ulcer of convents which I have endeavored to Amuse yourself, deuce take it!' Nothing better! That's the way the haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable invented as yet, at that epoch. Nicolette used up a sheet "as big as the good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which Then turning to the elder:-- smile! on the three portresses. Things of this nature were said:-- through his shoes, and the stars through his soul. at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried from the lie of yesterday. It, the future, behaves like the past. It, have just said, he willingly did his duty as a national guard; the sum exclaimed, "They have altered my field of battle!" Where the great deserted him. In less than two hours all the good that he had done had pell-mell and mingled confusedly, losing their proper forms, becoming You will be paid for all the little things. Marius began to listen. one thought, to drink well, to eat well, to sleep well. You will drink the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and in the same manner a band can almost be judged from the list of ruffians in abrupt unfoldings of the right hand, as though he were responding to is necessary that Danton should dare it.