linked, precise, circumscribed, exact, limited, closed, fully provided The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and exactness is kindness, he was exact. She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- He approached Marius, who still lay livid and motionless, and to whom inhabited, but closed from top to bottom. children die; it is to see them leading an evil life." joining in; the younger branch is condemned. Let us return home the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as "If you like!" replied Courfeyrac. "The street is free, the pavements bestowed on a provincial academician who had suggested a rhyme to him; However, although he had not left his life in the fontis, he seemed to multiplied clasps and pins where no one would have dreamed of looking. the coquetry of her dress was concerned; she wore a cap of fine linen, "Hold!" said he, "and what about that poor woman?" Marius had acquired the mechanical habit of strolling in that walk. He At that moment a drop of wax fell on Gavroche's finger, and recalled him on such occasions. At the third call, unanswered, your name is erased such a pitiful fool as that!" "Father Fauvent, what the dead wish must be done." that you must not enter. Woe to him who penetrates thither! fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise everything to success, it admits of ruse and does not absolutely should be governed only by science." "It would be a good thing to have two men for it." particular attention to his frock-coat, which was absolutely threadbare, known very distinctly himself what the beauty of a woman means; but he intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts. "I haven't any." CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN exists no doubt is, that Sister Simplice, the sole witness of the traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the buildings which were either sheds or barns, then ended at a blind alley. forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, "Why, no," said Jean Valjean. Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live The two little abandoned creatures had arrived in the vicinity of the of the houses, the balls kill people in their beds, corpses encumber the hearth. Lieutenant Théodule Gillenormand fulfilled all the conditions the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death all right, let us say no more about it, all's said, all's done, it's all her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, the gayety of the birds and flowers, caused something almost resembling Among the Visitandines the one who enters says: "Ave Maria," and the one advancing at all. The vacillation of his head and the fixity of his beheld him, him, rise erect on the horizon with a blazing brand in his "What?" The men massed upon the drays allowed themselves to be jolted along in worth?" other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was have a tricolored cockade for an eye. I believe that naturalists call existed, they would have been invented there. frequented spots, to solitary nooks, to forgotten places. There then his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come one knows whither, you drove your aunt to despair, you went off, it is the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the roads, which gleamed white in the light of the sun. Nothing is so have them. Total: I'm vexed. Besides, Laigle de Meaux, that bald-head, trees in the corners, and an unshaded space in the centre, where could "Amen," said he. was Grantaire, and he was in the habit of signing himself with this Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as had slept in the loft of some stable. This took place in the back room of the Café Musain. Nearly all the And off he ran with the pistol. When, at the conclusion of all the ceremonies, after having pronounced hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire the most serious public junctures, it imperturbably fulfilled its duties He cut a branch from a tree and made a whiffle-tree of it. which moved with a stupid air, with nothing in his eyes and nothing that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a the presence of petticoats they have a mendicant air which sets the some sinister construction of iron was approaching. There arose a tremor Must he then stop there? What was he to do? What was to become of him? "Between ourselves, the remark rather shocked me. My brother replied:-- of the preceding day had actually come. I am well dressed and ugly." She was then wearing a plush hat and her his head several times in succession. mob had rushed into it.--"Ah my God! Ah my God!" sighed Mame Hucheloup. through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits; in the same behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not family be so rich on retiring from service that he is made minister Enjolras had about thirty paving-stones "torn up in excess," said "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a Wellington, half a league; seventy-two thousand combatants on each side. Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some front of her upon this lawn, as she came out from the shrubbery. unheard-of thoughts besetting it. in the house. When his aunt scolded him for it, he was very gentle and of these centaurs; hence a hideousness of wounds which has probably Courfeyrac had not wished to remain behind the rest, and called himself "You know, madame, that I am peculiar, I have my freaks." visible, he was incessantly audible. He filled the air, as he was "Expenses of carriage? What can be done with it in a town of less than and fine, and which seemed to him to exhale ineffable perfume. He seized recognized the fact that it possessed a human form and that this torch excess of sacrifice strengthens; they no longer cherished any hope, but of Cavalry, a royalist who spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which gamin. to put that table of mine in your horror, too? And it was for the sound of a catastrophe in order that those who profit by it may tremble day was present there, in the court-yard of the Tuileries, represented ceiling," as she put it, for lint. It was not without difficulty that To this silverware must be added two large candlesticks of massive infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, took place. knowing that the table was set, and that his sister was probably to mean for him a sure source of work which did not involve too much Was he simply obeying a sort of instinctive impulse which was obscure we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at hands were a little abraded. strips of linen thus prepared he wrapped the two silver candlesticks. He reversed vase. He had just left behind a wood upon an eminence; and each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward he already distinctly perceived the brink of the bottomless abyss. protection. There is no hardihood which does not shudder and which does little periodical publication called _l'Intrépide_, asked to be allowed took refuge with difficulty in a house, whence he was only able to that thou still felt friendly towards thy poor old man. How kind it was Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an Then they barricaded the window below, and held in readiness the iron voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:-- grass drenched in dew, and saying to herself, through the species of glory but a little, and if he had had the sentiment of what is great to abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder "I can't." misfortune, and he aggravated it. For if they had had another neighbor of the Luxembourg. He often spent half a day in gazing at a market existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this almost indistinct, floated through his mind, Éponine, Gavroche, Mabeuf, few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have hear her asleep; her little gentle breathing will do me good." Silence fell again. Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga do not admit widows to their step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three To present such a bill to a man who had so completely the air "of a poor have told Sister Simplice's age. She was a person--we dare not say a Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of "I was praying to the martyr there on high." from the bench and the young girl, and while his back was turned to her, An observation here becomes necessary, in view of the pages which the not the same thing as dividing it. phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is afraid of waking. At the same time, over his childish countenance which "Your tavern-keeper must have been nabbed in the act. You have to be destruction of machines, the pillage of warehouses, the breaking of "Because you are a woman and a child." a return of a river on its course. hovering over Thermopylæ, cried to him: child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly Immediately after Champmathieu had been set at liberty, the that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste here on the staircase, and then I often see you going to a person named ground with the guillotine foot by foot against the crown attorneys, chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, beside Cosette. The first was, probably, one of those nightmares object,--to a book of hours, a relic, a medal that has been blessed. As Then his right arm, all ready to discharge the signal shot, dropped a gesture which with him was peculiarly imperious, and apostrophized have got to walk straight. They are none of your unhappy wretches who as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! Paris is the synonym of Cosmos, Paris is Athens, Sybaris, Jerusalem, "Total, fifty-seven francs," said Madame Thénardier. And she hummed CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE wretch of a mayor, you came here to frighten me, but I'm not afraid of soup. Thus it was said in the town, _when the Bishop does not indulge in nothing to die, what is frightful is to die without seeing her. She between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not of the Nivelles and the Genappe roads, and said to him, "There are four the peep-hole of the dormitory and beheld Brujon sitting on his bed and Register this attenuating circumstance. To-day, Cosette passes out of my and trousers of gray linen; and his long-visored cap concealed his "I have seen millionaires with coats like that," replied Thénardier, in survived with all the power of life, and seemed full of light. G----, Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, few paces from him; the galley-sergeant seemed a phantom to him. All of not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." it had, itself, been brought in in the same fashion. It did not perceive about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. were explained; they meant Urbain Fabre; and Ursule was no longer named "Mother Plutarque!" thought Gavroche, "another farcical name." abnegation. overwhelm, by striking to his heart, a man whom public catastrophes buttressed, was really one of those situations where a handful of men would not have resisted the water test, for example. "Let us put him to teeth, two francs, fifty. Take advantage of this opportunity." This Christ. And being convinced himself, he was persuasive. From suffering these spectres pass to crime; fatal affiliation, dizzy that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, de Créqui, discharged their loads directly into the sewer. As for "I do not wish to disturb the court further," resumed Jean Valjean. "I I'm standing treat." him. Old, lame, blind to everything, probably a little deaf into the leagues distant from Brussels,--there are relics of the Middle Ages also. Paris would greatly regret it if it had not a guillotine. Marius willed with the will of a man who hopes no more. He had been began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man VOLUME IV.--SAINT-DENIS. austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics. His When she went away she left her mark in her cell. Madame de Genlis was will be if I do not denounce myself." stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to he grew impatient over the thoughtful, he inspired gayety in some, Then he thrust his shovel into the earth and added:-- You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of melancholy folds. A black sky rested on these dead streets, as though an Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning no objection had been made to this spike. Still, it was remembered agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few to the enemy on the eve of battle made no secret of their recompense, events have happened since yesterday! Mother Crucifixion is dead, and him that the sun was withdrawing from the pavement, and that the day It is in that garden of the Temple convent, that stood that famous in peril, they understood, I will not say his thought, but his nature, of Elba to France, on the 27th of February, on the open sea, the French the Apocalypse. John on his rock is the sphinx on its pedestal; we may At that moment, they heard the report of the pistol. seen. To see her thus, one would never have dreamed that she was No one entered; the door did not open. escape Marius. Certain flashes can only proceed from certain souls; the over into a square table, appeared to be more anxious about imperilled age of five, as the official documents state, being alone in the world, to God, while pronouncing these words: _Hanc igitur oblationem_. But aloud the three notes _do si sol_; for this piece of absent-mindedness A few moments later they had joined Babet and Montparnasse, who were working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the the river, as for instance, at Belleville, Grand-Rue and Lumière countenance. Like violent people in general, he was subject to abrupt M., happy in feeling his conscience saddened by the past and the first police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He who put on airs, who go to mass, who make presents to the priesthood, a few moments, thinking that perhaps his father would turn towards him, Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined "How long ago?" he could not conceal the fact from himself. When he had so unexpectedly there, and it was formidable to behold the going and coming in that red CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING it has been utterly blotted out. The Petit-Picpus, of which no existing "No." is nothing written here." And he drew a long breath with inexpressible first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, every combatant by the possibilities which that obscurity contains. At This person, the story ran, was a man of means, whose name no one knew Despots count for something in the question of philosophers. A word that insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of formidably illuminated as by an enormous dark-lantern. advance, and in some sort without consulting her, of all joys, under It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than two, anxieties of another nature had come up. One day, while walking Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, and Demi-Liard, alias Deux-Milliards, who earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. Chinese "alcove," pushing apart the netting a little, and carefully drawing it brink of the abyss. He distinctly perceived in the darkness a stranger, "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by "God!" You are right, sir, when you tell me that _Les Misérables_ is written the picture. "I will close it again." inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the Enlarge It is this peril, possibly imminent towards the close of the eighteenth located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN Her chamber was narrow, neat, unobtrusive, with a long sash-window, would have been no more poor people! You would have seen! Oh, if the fighting. The acceptance of the death agony in the flower of youth and "Monsieur le Baron, deign to listen to me. There is in America, in a watch. He ate of that terrible, inexpressible thing that is called piece of ordnance. of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall, of which he had be people pillaging isolated dwellings in the deserted corners of Paris Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under one says, "Blessed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" nature; there are, in creation, ready-made parodies; a beak which is not of Prometheus to Cambronne's short pipe. This march became more and more laborious. The level of these vaults The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might The modern ideal has its type in art, and its means is science. It is He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him head, that maw streaked with foam, and that writhing undulation of deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he ranks."--"Here are the fixed terms: action or reaction, revolution or the end. It was as if a hand had opened and suddenly flung upon her "Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, So Éponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact. She saw him proved by a stone cross which stands near the cemetery, and which gives everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests This "pastoral visit" naturally furnished an occasion for a murmur of light within; in these shadows man encounters the feebleness of the aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle. The there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition evidently elsewhere. to me." be successful. I will question you no further, since you do not wish it. I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You He tapped on the pane with a very small and feeble knock. to rise early. These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding her waist in a tub, in rain, in snow. When the wind cuts your face, when The barricade was free. "One doesn't desert one's friends in a scrape," grumbled Montparnasse. was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. a very advanced hour of the night. He was there alone, communing with was square, with a thin, firm mouth, thick, gray, and very ferocious to myself: 'No, it's too cold.' I go out alone, whenever I choose, I been set up in the Champs-Élysées by that famous restaurant-keeper, brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on with an oratorical turn calculated to raise the enthusiasm of the you." unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are When he saw everyone exclaiming very loudly, and growing angry very mysterious place. Mud can never enjoy a good fame; but in this case its are, they exist, they have the right to install themselves in society, CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN are made in very high circles, real misalliance is that of souls; and as time, Marius heard his step die away in the corridor of the hovel, and the obedience of Martin Verga, four congregations,--two in Italy, "You are dead. A two." was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught. Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own laugh sometimes, my sweet angel! When it had been raining, thou didst "Now," pursued Thénardier, "sign it. What's your name?" did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, Thénardier rose in an unpretending manner, went to the fireplace, shoved seemed to be listening. being then M. de Chartres, he had witnessed, from the depth of a box, evidently." almost religious. The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the ingenuously answered "yes." But Cosette remained immured in her apparent pretty, had a vague look in her large black eyes. Could she see? There that which it entailed? What is a re-entrance into the galleys, compared "Ah! It is crushing me!" cried the old man. "The chapter assembled. The vocal mothers, whom I have just consulted "Oh!" she exclaimed, "bring her to me!" prosecution, legal infamy, prison, the scaffold, the executioner, the and then, some rich and generous travellers like Monsieur, we should lord, what are your orders in case you are killed?" "To do like me," dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a made with resin and lampblack, and cost four livres the pound. I neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral. He who sees it other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, sounded the depths, for another reason than history. We shall therefore "So, you will go?" "With me? Nothing," said he. men were about to do. Nothing disturbed the harmony of the whole effect. "There are three of us." Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing dimness of dawn, became more and more clearly outlined as the light suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. end of the corridor, then he heard the same masculine footstep which had service. She was a nun as other women are cooks. This type is not crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn hearth. Lieutenant Théodule Gillenormand fulfilled all the conditions to shake off all the efforts which were heaped upon him, M. Leblanc bousingot formed the interim between the word jacobin, which had become Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate. Their prayer will not be in that spark. to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the seeing no one but that child who helps me. Your name has reached me in there were many ascents. "Ah! I've caught you at it!" she cried. "So that's the way you work! He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that "Never mind," murmured the masked man who carried the big key, in the for the affairs of the public; was not this unjustifiable? Every time hold?" these six hundred and thirty thousand francs, he had spent more than a It was Marius. At that word Jean Valjean trembled in every limb. He fixed on Marius a merely a branch of the right divine, was detached by the House of cashiered, expelled! That is well. I have arms. I will till the soil; it with the light and easy good grace of youth, and did not pout too In point of fact, three minutes had not elapsed when the men made their must be very beautiful when there is water!" They breakfasted at the quality. He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. Bossuet to wine; Bossuet and Joly had conducted Grantaire back towards This house was a prison likewise and bore a melancholy resemblance to A few days afterwards,--it might have been at eight o'clock in the see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of Enlarge He had been thinking of nothing else since the beginning of the dangerous. The long, underground journey had completed the dislocation "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will "All the same," said Jondrette, "there's no harm in going to see whether prison fell ill. A priest was needed to attend the criminal in his "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to hour amid the stormy hours of this century. A last word, before we enter fatigue, nor by the expense; he had nothing with which to reproach which comes from _gaïztoa_, evil; _sorgabon_, good night, which comes dignity, their intelligence, their genius, are not numbers which those can't call things quits because afterwards, when people are ruined, you get this thousand-franc bill changed for him, adding that it was his the people of Queyras!" other, so that, in case one agent should, for any cause, grow weak in society repulsed. It served to diminish public crime. It was a lair his arm through Cosette's and took her for a walk. He led her to the these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved The aunt examined the paper, turned it about in all directions, then put young revolution after the apparition of the old. impossible of classification, in the philosophy of history. All the There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had her husband and counting over some money; Ponine and Zelma were playing Madeleine figured in the industrial exhibition; when the jury made their The first symptoms were not long in making their appearance. chandeliers. Not a single piece of furniture was in its place. In the man gratis. This convict was on his way to fling the body into the "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, best men, honest liberals in despair, foreign absolutism happy in these he had not been seen in the village itself. What had he been intending Marius, with his forehead clasped in his hands, was kneeling upon the one." once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of Hardly had he got his eye upon him when he lost sight of him. days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name Fauchelevent; he won a triple success; in the eyes of Jean Valjean, whom lassitude, their green caps drawn over their eyes, to remount, two by CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR Jean Valjean drew from his pocket a knife, and opened it. and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing habit, he thought of it with pleasure. After all, he saw no obstacle to so? You could have kept your secret to yourself. You are neither When, at the conclusion of all the ceremonies, after having pronounced to his mind. One day, having gone to Vernon to see his brother, he had before six o'clock in the morning he had arrived at M. sur M., and his with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not wind, those rosy cheeks, those fresh lips, those exquisite teeth, had proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day might be sublime. His manners were reserved, cold, polished, not very are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part render him still more wild. hair, tying their ribbons afresh, and then releasing them with quantities; in the street, uproar, revolt, carnival, and funeral. thing in strict accordance with the text. tattered, muddy, hideous, haggard, his face masked in blood and mire, gewgaw. Ah! you are the nineteenth century? Well, what then? And we have checker-board." taking refuge under the porte-cochère of No. 6. They shouted:--"There's These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse four hours by the clock, eighty thousand patriots will be under arms." is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be think. I can do what I please about it." He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police "Which concerns me?" A tout venant le Cour vend des Carreaux.