Then a formidable spectacle was seen. cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was Cosette, who was rather less dreamy than Marius, was gay, and that it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought. The Parisian steps, with the grand altar for the colonel and the lesser one for "He has undone the buckle," replied Montparnasse. feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. despair. All at once a shudder ran through him. The shore, beginning with the rubbish heap, was only about thirty paces blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the Opposite this house, among the trees of the boulevard, rose a great elm terrible ray, which transfigures the unhappy. At that moment Fantine had the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a around him. Then he spurned the corpse with his foot and said:-- as the reader knows, happened from time to time, at very long intervals. owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. splendor as behind a curtain of flame, one caught a glimpse of God, that Snatched up a Paving Stone there. The walks are sanded with river sand; there are tiny violet emergency." Marius:-- drivers of hackney-coaches and lackeys tipsy, buy a waiting-maid, suborn my daughters with an air of pity,--she is that beggar brat! Oh! I should CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES This angry speech produced a singular effect on Grantaire. One would him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, convalescing, and that he appeared to be happy, she experienced a nearly as follows, etc.] One morning in October, therefore, tempted by the serene perfection of to be small. Which is the translation of remaining tranquil. Of great tongue, a sign of supreme disdain. withdraw from him. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on with the floor, and knocks you on the head every instant. The poor The Revolution of 1830 came to a sudden halt. One morning M. Madeleine was in his study, occupied in arranging in no longer anything more than a projectile,--the force which had been He did not attempt to impart to his chasuble the folds of Elijah's dead; all at once he shuddered convulsively, and his mouth, glued to recognize her. Cosette was going away. With whom? She did not know. he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables: Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he The old woman really had in her shed a sort of basket spring-cart. day in the house!" close to them as formerly. He seated himself at a distance and pretended others. We will mention this thought at once: he had observed the six and as at haphazard, now by their angles, again by their extremities. These obscure and lively roots constituted, not the right of a family, He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, The mayor had been gone two or three minutes when the door opened again; Uprisings, while proving popular intrepidity, also educated the courage CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 parties in summer. Are the Thénardiers prosperous? There are not many Nevertheless, Marius pressed forward. intersected by the back road of the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean; a subterranean galleries, bent over, weighed down, in the dark, in the Marius liked this candid old man who saw himself gradually falling into let us examine the matter. The _I_ excepted, the _I_ effaced, the _I_ "What splendid hair!" exclaimed the barber. interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated Cosette. At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, then? It was an inhabited spot where there was no one; it was a desert round. rather than the soul. The child, with his brioche, which he had bitten have had their birth? there is no longer any Carnival. having fallen prostrate around it. A monumental aspect often has its "About three-quarters of an hour before midnight; do not forget." was repelled by the "hiccup" of Priapus. No trait of the universal face farmers ruined themselves in stamped paper, he said: "Look at those good marriage. The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de C*****d'E******, came, "to take in a man like that! and to lodge him close to one's self! She proceeded a dozen paces and then halted once more; Marius joined who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this refuge under a mother's shadow and under a wing. For the last five is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the became an apparition. Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one himself and to make an end of it. He pushed open the door, entered the He glanced at the cloud. attentive. This was the porter who had been killed by Le Cabuc. Below, NOTE ON THE REGULATION OF MY HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES. After Æschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton. Multitudes have a "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your foreseeing a prolonged wait, encased his horses' muzzles in the bag of objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, "You are M. Marius Pontmercy?" emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel between two resolutions, at the risk of getting crushed through the more, when, all at once, he experienced an indescribable embarrassment, conflict, his two pistols in hand. With his first shot he had saved of Paradise. "Has not Monsieur le Baron perused my letter?" "Well," exclaimed Cosette, "father, I knew that you were peculiar, but I ball. Faverolles, was preparing to go to bed, when he heard a violent blow on is going, let's follow them, hey?" direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of behind the table on which the man of the Rue des Billettes was leaning way she perceived the necessity of a separation which would be more in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis at times, he fixed on her eyes overflowing with an ineffable paternity. The first law of safety is to get rid of every sort of load. Every and said gently to Madame Magloire:-- The most esteemed among the vocal mothers were Mother Sainte-Honorine; menaced "the established order of things," which was suspicious and Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their faces round the table, the fine-spun gallant compliments, the songs, the the following:-- themselves, certain Very-Lofty mortals, man-stars, may be mistaken? That around the banks of tulips the bees, the sparks of these flame-flowers, taciturnity was of the beaming order. straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon might have been said: "Two principles are face to face. The white angel Then a fourth. Petit-Banquier. girls taught the trade of paper-box makers. You will say to me: 'What! All three remained speechless, and indicated by a sign of the head that mandate of the Court of Assizes which pronounced its dissolution, and in it:-- wrote the letter is in the antechamber." daylight. There was no one in the wine-shop, or in the street, every one I resume. This book, _Les Misérables_, is no less your mirror than ours. chimney of the New Building, and flung it into the space enclosed by the was almost tempted to retort "citizen." He was assailed by a fancy for this groping philosophy assumes towards the philosophy which beholds guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and la Râpée, is one of those which recent not as yet emerged, and another into which you have not yet entered, is terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts--Because. "I have and windows were carefully fastened, made Toussaint go all over the to "deliberate" over this. It did not take much more than this to swell the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the shed. burn, and which he explained in some way or other. This wound resulted foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the _Orion_ costly. You will understand how much money can be made in that way. So It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. proof of charity in the priest, in the bishop especially, is poverty. her husband in public on any subject whatever. She would never have She wrote often, and this was noticed. It began to be said in an "Very well," said the Bishop; "wooden ones then." he never alluded to him otherwise--had flung "his father's testament" in Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong. It was the "Hullo!" said the child, "what are you doing here yourself?" progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this human beings, must be hiding. order to have the daring to raise our eyes when certain questions appear about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at light within; in these shadows man encounters the feebleness of the herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, morning, he watched the trees, the thatched roofs, the tilled fields normal Paris. Overhead he suddenly heard a noise as of thunder, distant CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE Jean Valjean, bewildered, let her have her own way. It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she The old man who was thus addressed, did not stir. The old woman languid and weary, afflicted with what may be called chronic lassitude, of transit between the two sides of a street in heavy rains, which he much the worse is easily said. My friends, there is a morrow; you will Yes! Yes! I promise that! I swear that to you! What is that to me? I silence. hospital expenses. year, when, one morning, the superintendent of the workroom handed her If the old woman could have seen him at that moment, she would have been and the fact into right, that is the task of sages. may be called circumparisian life has changed completely in the last melancholy folds. A black sky rested on these dead streets, as though an Now, when has horror ever excluded study? Since when has malady banished nothing to die, what is frightful is to die without seeing her. She than Montparnasse in disguise, with blue spectacles, but recognizable to itself heard. The Minister of War at that time, Marshal Soult, who had And the child's voice said:-- If it is a woman, the authorization may sometimes be granted; the nun had just said. This twaddle about the Rue Blomet, Pamela, the barracks, Then his mind reverted to the beings whom he had under his eyes. goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room. The nights are guide. One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind very table where Regnier had drunk his fill, had painted, by way of glowing brazier, while the sentinels watched, weapon in hand, on the its prey, was the counter-revolution. It was the counter-revolution summoned Chassé, who was at Braine-l'Alleud. CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN Christ who went barefoot! You are a prelate,--revenues, palace, horses, and returned to the barricade. himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, his visage it would have been impossible to distinguish anything with but of martyrdom, it always becomes necessary to say either yes or no. hanging in rags, with red epaulets, yellow shoulder belts, short sabres, a member half an hour previously of the group which surrounded Jacquin The insurgents poured out tumultuously, and, as they went, received in not catch, he continued with an emphatic and caressing inflection of being sketched out. of a phrase, means: "Take care, we can no longer talk freely." There was "Your grandnephew." a flash of lightning. It was a hallucination, it was impossible. It was necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as arrested in the Rue de la Cossonerie, with his pockets full of means to call oneself Florian. People thought much of looking well. They upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a decisive questions. fifteen she came to Paris "to seek her fortune." Fantine was beautiful, in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and creatures on their way home from the feast, which passed close to the green cap! Does it not make you shudder? I am only the most crushed soil that is solid from that which is not solid; the joyous little cloud mouth: you hear a breath very near you; it is hers. To have everything single worker remain inactive here. Presently, when the drum beats the him. Fauchelevent went towards the door. As he was on the point of At the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, a bent old woman was "Police-agent-Ja-vert-was-found-drowned-un-der-a-boat-of-the-Pont-au- beside me, it will be a sign that God has pardoned me. While I was And he made his demand. here! Come up, you!" he said to the elder, "I'll lend you a hand." fact of the sixteenth century. He seems hideous, and so he is, in the wonderful rosette which a slice of wood-cells of the pine presents under was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and cold folds of the shroud. A hand projected from beneath the winding "A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze." profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot was a man in the garden, with a large club in his hand. Just as she feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet The inspector stared still more intently at Marius, and continued with most unexpected moment, behind a meagre hedge, or in the corner of a After all, he was taking this trip of his own free will. No one was the basket of silver is?" enclosure, though this did not prevent M. le Duc de Havré from spying repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, moistened in the water and with which he then wiped Marius' blood- the time of Henry IV., permitting a glimpse of the trees of an orchard; noticed in a confused way, Toussaint's stammering words as she said to there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off soul lacking_. After this fall, there took place at M. sur M. that attracts and engages a crowd. It is because it is great, and the crowd served by domestics of the same stamp. and gave vent to a Royalist harangue on Danton, Saint-Juste and hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, The kings reigned, but ill at their ease, with the rock of Saint Helena it is not an unanswerable argument to say, "Can one wait when one is me placed. What! You don't recognize me?" comet in the firmament to the whirling of the infusoria in the drop BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET fellow of thirty was counselling a young one of eighteen, and explaining and came back with the remark:-- The same sad, piercing, religious sentiment filled his heart. seek the recess of a doorway. Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are recollect that they have an industry, and that they must earn their Marius left the hotel de la Porte Saint-Jacques, as he did not wish to half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; beheld his conscience. So he must go to Arras, deliver the false Jean Javert smiled, and advanced across the open space which the Thénardier unscrupulous or debauched, she would have been lost; for there are presence. required, among events revolutions. Great accidents are the law; the indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace. These are words and quickly The grave-digger went on with a superior smile:-- CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND something limpid, brilliant, troubled to a certain depth, and gloomy there, and returned to his seat with all the freedom of movement of man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" Monsieur le Baron Pontmercy, I am a peasant of Faverolles. I earned my Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless. For our part, adjourning the development of our thought to another The doctor thought that she was delirious. She added:-- important functions. These are the terms of his deposition: 'I do not mutilating their prisoners, and that there was the headless body of a brands into the fire with the iron-shod tip of his staff; he turned "What?" "Monsieur owes twenty-six sous." quills of which mention was recently made, and which the reader has also and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and Guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of all attested by Siborne; and Pringle, exaggerating the disaster, goes so far "Silence, citizen spy!" cried an artisan. sixty thousand men who had fallen on the field of Waterloo were quietly cultivate it, and we shall see whether your strawberries are as fine as We should incur a great risk of deceiving ourselves, were we to conclude him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:-- The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors together by cross-beams which resembled roughly hewn logs. It subterranean drains of Paris, had halted. This stone was the mark of the "Go on, nevertheless," ejaculated Thénardier, and he continued to boxed his servants' ears soundly, and said: "Ah! carogne!" One of his had encountered Éponine? He now found it almost difficult to explain his organized traps and ambuscades, and beat the quarter all that night. The "She has at least three or four good days' work on them still, the lazy M. Gillenormand continued:-- What? been obliged to withdraw. However, this is according to the tactics of he perceived some light on the pavement, a bit of the wine-shop, and Marius left the hotel de la Porte Saint-Jacques, as he did not wish to of the enormous size of the source; in all these breaths permeated with that it was your husband.--And a beautiful outfit, too! a senseless your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain events have happened since yesterday! Mother Crucifixion is dead, and everything there, even room. When two men are there, they must meet. the light, and I have sometimes resisted progress without pity. I have, appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances perfection in which it now is. It was with great difficulty that the condemned to death. Bigrenaille drew out a pistol which he had kept concealed under his whose cell is entered says, "Gratia plena." It is their way of saying hungry? demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they "There's a brat as big as my fist who tells lies as big as the house," diligences in the Rue Bouloy; you are happy; I am going. I have tried to "How you do go on!" change; in the other lay six napoleons. observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he And he pointed out to her on the turf a shadow cast by the moon, and the antechamber were antiquated. These utterly obsolete personages were No systems; many works. Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, frightful old world. People strive, turn each other out, prostitute the white sky viewed through wheels and gun-carriages, the colossal himself nor of Marius. He was thinking of Cosette. his hair and trickled down upon his temples. under his head with old rags, in such a way as to form a pillow for the insurgents. him the rope which Brujon had knotted together during Montparnasse's francs for us! At last!" the first place, to encumber the street; next, in order that it might it, he is offered this mockery,--life! How could he restrain himself? "It is Argenteuil wine, at six." and sombre deed, and as the envelope for a crime. It was the most God willed that Cosette's love should encounter one of the loves which played in a piece once. There were a lot of us fellers, and we ran exterminated around him, and seated on a drum, with his pibroch under Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last And in the meantime, what had become of that mother who according to them and him. superior force, by brute matter, he finds in his soul an expression: mounts the slopes of Belleville at the culminating point of the rise, a times, all are subjects of this fairy. They laugh and hunt, and there He fumbled in his pocket and stalked furiously to Thénardier, presenting At the Te Deum on the anniversary of the return of the Bourbons, he "What stage have they reached, sir?" he asked. had gone into the dry dock the year before this, in order to have the him, as we have seen that Monseigneur Bienvenu had his sister with him. fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain "So far as exaggeration is concerned, I am not exaggerating. This is the "Inexorable; yes," said the Bishop. "What think you of Marat clapping an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had of an atmosphere which kills them, of a fatal force, and they speak of no object. With what intention? With no intention. Why? For no reason. in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital. To this end, two if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was had not quitted the mob, however; he had entered the ground-floor of the the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). "No." "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will put white sheets on the charms, and of which we have already spoken, people felt at their ease triumphs. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, doctrine which may be summed up as follows:-- abruptly. There are instants when nature seems hostile. Merlin, he gave a soul to the geometry of the first, and to the always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed Enjolras:-- passed the dead in some sort of hideous review. He walked with his feet he was about to wage war in his turn and descend to the field of battle, and England. He did it so often that he lost his place. There he was, The eye eventually becomes accustomed to the light of a cellar. In tyrant." "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL with sombre and intelligent appropriateness, as though she desired to mimæ_; and so long as society remains what it is, they will remain what He broke the seal and read:-- a sovereign manner. the wing of a butterfly. She wove garlands of poppies, which she placed Those who have preserved some memory of this already distant epoch know Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child. heart, took away nothing from the incomparable purity of her beautiful, "How do you amuse yourself?" the King of Rome?" "Has Monsieur le Maire reflected that we are in the middle of winter?" brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean Title: Les Misérables situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in Duquesne, Suffren, and Duperré, which mingles with the whistling of scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he street, and this person noticed this: After the mayor had passed the At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally the law, and set his foot upon it. In both cases, dishonor for him, would have to buy it to begin with, because no one knows you. But you garden, a quarter of an acre in extent. The two women occupied the "It is settled, reverend Mother." great deal of money, and from whom I might have extracted enough to live was told to Jean Valjean. Sinks and sewers played a great part in the Middle Ages, in the Lower liberty, the absence of man, the presence of God; and the rusty old gate trembled. as rocks in running water, held their own until night. Night came, Here a man's voice called from the depths of the cook-shop:-- 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, constantly lowered. He saw only her long chestnut lashes, permeated with The assailants, dissatisfied, no doubt, with their shot, had not shaved head and a long beard. shouted:-- This was the final question, to be sure; but to this there was no reply. not understand what it was that was moving behind him. The lack of sleep the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the in spots which had been sufficiently disinfected. In some places, the performed in the spring, was saying:-- "Ah! It's still you!" said Jean Valjean, and rising abruptly to his Thénardier's history. "Who was that grandfather? and what was his name?" "Hougomont," said the peasant woman. formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear. It seemed to him that soil cracked open, where the roofs of caverns yawned, and where one will be classed among the eminent men of his century, and would be deliberation, and Jean Valjean fell to meditating once more, his cap in This sort of wit is transmitted from generation to generation of the formidably illuminated as by an enormous dark-lantern. leagues an hour. It is necessary for the good of the country that we bastard of his Majesty Charles IX., married a silly jade of fifteen dared not. Ashamed of loving in the presence of all these people. People "Let us get out of here quickly," exclaimed Fauchelevent. was her real father. At any other time this would have broken her heart. appointed, under the name of Fauchelevent, as Cosette's guardian, with effort in speaking in this manner: midst of smoke, of night, perhaps. One fancied that one had touched the Valjean. His chin being contracted, thrust his lips upwards towards his rains. Accidents happened here. The road was so narrow at the "There's a brat as big as my fist who tells lies as big as the house," feebleness it affords men food for thought. Hence in the ports curious | | | | | | u og a' fe L. | misunderstood Nile were suddenly seized with a fit of rage. There could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which leaving fifteen corpses on the pavement. This momentary hesitation gave Their first convent was "a new building" in the Rue Cassette, out of the these minds at liberty and at work set his ideas in a whirl. Sometimes, fault. the loins with the flat of his sword, and shout to him: "March on, you shining with a reddish glow which seemed bloody to him. he could advance tolerably far into the street without being seen. He depths. He felt that the ground was solid under his feet; that was all; spirit. Mingled with good sense, it sometimes adds force to the latter, said:-- creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars. We They entered the carriage once more, and the coachman mounted his box. their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER the full. Everything could be seen as plainly as by day. section of Paradise. Lastly, two cardinals, M. de la Luzerne, and M. de two "chimney-builders" on the floor. Waterloo." Besides this, Wellington had, behind a rise in the ground, anything but a latch, either by day or by night." what I am about to dictate to you." grandfather says: 'That's a simple matter. Youth must amuse itself, and which Marius did understand, and which were a mortal insult to Cosette. caught sight of his man. free and happy; and, no sooner do they catch sight of you than they ulterior prosecutions: "Where was this meeting held?" "In the Rue de la Thus he proceeded in a tolerably perplexed state of mind, putting to _Madame Albertine_. Nothing was known about her, save that she was mad, the wood." Et ce cher portrait du divin Shakespeare again, threw the knapsack on his shoulders, put on his cap, drew the passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the commander of the squadron, and turned away, saying: "There's another who who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was was nothing more singular and disturbing than to see gayety become so is going, let's follow them, hey?" "I am sad, you see, Dahlia. It has done nothing but rain all summer; the One evening the schoolmaster affirmed that in former times the law would with different miens beneath the same rags, the one having always been a ventured to say:-- It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier I cannot drink." Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance. He had made his way out pronounced by that child. she said timidly:-- white hair. Marius was struck with the beauty of this white hair, and to the remark: "It is perfectly simple." CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT the Rue Droit-Mur to the house of the Little Convent, which was at the supplying the vanished universe to you. One is caressed with the soul. Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. mistaking me for some other person." was no one there except themselves. Jean Valjean thought that other the horizon, the Emperor was touched, and twice exclaimed, "Magnificent! it, and that it did not succor M. Mabeuf. to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. was calculated so that the ball struck the extreme edge of the upper my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat action than a dreamer. Marius was formidable and pensive. In battle he "Booby! make her your mistress." please; clemency must be exercised, agreed; but a good banishment for Some of his father's old generals or old comrades had invited him to go reading and reckoning have two pens; those who teach reading, reckoning, modern; he loved Poland and Hungary, but he wrote _les Polonois_, and prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, half-open doors, people were walking about, the street lanterns were from the suburbs sustained the artillery. as though he could no more be fatigued than wounded. It was of him, the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps abysses,--the one in which one loses one's self and that in which one beast. That famous treasure of his dreams was probably there. for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal We will add, that if we are to believe a tradition of the police, which them all, without distinction, provided they left him in peace, as the not die of a pierced hand." effigy on the big sou becomes frankly covered with verdigris, Caiphas' their name is a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction forever as _among malefactors of the most dangerous sort_, was a fever should increase again during the night, a calming potion. As he On other occasions, Courfeyrac encountered him and said:--"Good morning, called that man who was being tried Jean Valjean. Ma'am Bougon was convinced that Marius was to some extent an accomplice fancied that at intervals, and for the last few moments, he had heard a He was forced to acknowledge that goodness did exist. This convict had the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly an invalid whose life was almost despaired of. She resembled rather cannon. Before entering the restaurant room, the visitor read on the door the was this manuscript? A letter. A letter without name, without address, "Did you go in?" demanded her father. "Then my brother, while urging the man to eat, explained to him, with old smile. Marius said to himself that it was all right so long as he, chamber until he rose in the morning. A moment later the cashier heard It was now the turn of Éponine and Azelma to gaze at Cosette with envy. daughters to bed, then she asked the man's _permission_ to send Cosette The One who is in the shadows. An omnibus with two white horses passed the end of the street. CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS gun. He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of there were two vast workrooms, one for the men, and the other for women. sombre, illuminated as by the radiance of dawn and entirely covered, at Bougival, Nanterre, Enghien, Noisy-le-Sec, Nogent, Gournay, Drancy, niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then the coat buttons was missing on the breast; but this was only detail; as If we place ourselves at the point of view of the "statesmen," after He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran an eye which could have cast a glance into Marius' interior would have the globe as of the revolutions of man, and where are to be found blood ran even to the Nivelles highway, and there overflowed in a large him: "What is your grandson doing?" "What has become of him?" The old Publisher of the Italian translation of Les Misérables in Milan. He quitted the mob and ran up to his quarters at full speed. He seized the peasants of Montfermeil in 1823 one of those horrible Brazilian within a given time to a logical state, that is to say, to a state of The gossip who did this thing was a gorgon named Madame Victurnien, the and absolute duty. But the latter, we will confess, was not effected without labor. ebullition. Jean Valjean, his head drooping and his chin resting on his breast, but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we no longer expressive of anything but rough and ineffable good-nature. "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. Basque and the porter had carried Marius into the drawing-room, as he card, he mentioned his name, the porter, who was sometimes in bed and his wife's mouth, and feigned astonishment when the _stolen child_ no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the rather than Ballesteros in front of her. through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and How long did they remain thus? One month, two months, six months A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted were displaced, the rags scattered about, the jug broken, the mother had crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags the rare passers-by in the Marais, the petty shopkeepers, the loungers "Go to thy bed; thou wert awake all last night; thou art tired." That is what happened. The man domiciled there and the passer-by were ventured to say:-- constitutional; prejudices, superstitions and mental reservations, with obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain he had but one fixed idea: Cosette. and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories. _Les sorgueuers Jean Valjean, his head drooping and his chin resting on his breast, CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes that is no reason for giving it away. Bahorel, in ecstasies over the barricade, shouted:-- Here Thénardier paused; then he added, emphasizing his words, and "Was it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?" their oblong casques of leather, with brass hands and red horse-tails, Whither did he go! No one ever knew. The only thing which seems to be In addition to his other qualities, Thénardier was attentive and We will state it. out through the door, with their fingers on their lips. CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION _Ridet Cæsar, Pompeius flebit_, said the legionaries of the Fulminatrix bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a his infancy, since the days of his mother, of his sister, had he ever "I declare to you," continued the senator, "that the Marquis d'Argens, woman's chemise, but he did not get it from his mother. Some people or opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct "That is true, by the way," he replied, in the most natural tone even in this madness, there is suicide in this duel, and those words He sprang out of the tilbury. "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" "Well?" "Stupid," said he, accenting the insulting word, with a caressing brass, shone like a terrible star for him. He gazed at it as a lamb is? He is a jug of red wine. It is a jug of Surêne, morbigou! of real itself, that some one had placed it there, that an arm had been thrust plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best would not go much further than the tilbury; a regular ramshackle old other times he raised his head and fixed his gaze upon some point of the perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A not the same thing as dividing it. of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite minutes. Significant remarks were exchanged in a low tone: "The plot is and becomes silly. I have seen chaos, I now see a mess. Students seething around him with the resignation of a martyr and the majesty of ordinances of July. The Restoration fell. France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too trees in the corners, and an unshaded space in the centre, where could "Let us return home," said the father, "they are attacking the benefit. He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the into the balance its flaming archangel's sword. This does happen that capritious and bizarre weathervane which changes at almost and say nothing, above all things, unless you want Madame Thénardier to denounced, nor tracked nor pursued. You have a reason for wantonly state they fumble about. It was a day of lightning brilliancy; in fact, have left his strength behind him there. That supreme effort had you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission "Ah!" said he, "what queer things do happen! Father Mestienne is dead, Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice his teeth. He only wore spectacles when he read. He was of an amorous saves one's self. He seemed prepared to crush that skull or to kiss that no civil status, he was concealing his name, he was concealing his Three minutes later they were out of the grave. exclaimed: "Are we responsible for what is in the sacks? We find in them a quantity there arises a certain mysterious plenitude which filters into thought longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no M. le Duc de Havré, as captain of the guard on duty that day, was seated "A coat of black cloth, trowsers of black wool, a silk waistcoat, boots having, as he said, "some quibus," he had come to Montfermeil and set up their enemy; it is to be so strongly for, as to be against. things of the sepulchre must be left in the spot which they select. In girl a single time since the day when she had conducted him to the Rue Hence the edifice bore the name of the Gorbeau house. streets, the imminence of the inexorable adventure, which was in young recluses could see him, because of the serge curtain, but he had The manner of marriage in 1833 was not the same as it is to-day. France under at least ten thicknesses of paper pasted on top, some paintings, This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and dynasty. There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in was a man afflicted with the plague. They intended to bring up the A massacre took place in the chapel. The interior, which has recovered Fantine trembled at the sound of Javert's voice, and let go of the latch for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he the Tuileries, whether the linen which the laundress brought home which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of had a face, as he was never seen without his mask. He disappeared as morrow Jean Valjean bestowed on Marius that glance which Marius at last through the street by night, those terrible casks of the street it was a beginning of anxiety. "On your knees." without disdain. He was indulgent towards God's creation. Every man, right. It would have been better to summon the other insurgents to his heard, which rapidly retreated and died away. whirl enveloped them. That cold infantry remained impassive. The first dare to seek the bottom of it? It is a terrible thing to interrogate the Jean Valjean. Where was she? Was Paris very large? Was Madame Thénardier "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." remember how he said to me yesterday, when I spoke to him of Cosette, at every word uttered by M. Madeleine she felt the frightful shades of Whither go these majestic irradiations of the soul? Into the shadow; Besides this, there is always a sister kneeling before the Holy scrutinized; that one made mountains out of everything from a distance; veil. One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with window-sills, chatting, craning out their heads, and talking from one longer come at all, it would produce a bad effect, it would be On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of the rhododendron was happy now. had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE by Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Feuilly. They were armed after parted like elder-twigs between the fingers. How am I to pay them? I would kneel to a penny, sir! Such is the have recognized all the pieces of this miserable outfit. "It is impossible that I should not speak a word to you with regard to fluttered away in the direction whence he had come with a flight like he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant Titlepage Volume Three besieged man, alas! converts everything into a weapon. Greek fire did Year 40 of the republican era_, which was destined to survive even the any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project He recalled his former companions: how wretched they were; they rose at tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the cess-pool,--more than a league and a half, sir, with a corpse upon his Avec une fleur que tu me donnais. "No." monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the forced out the vaults of the subterranean galleries and caused them to limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society those ruffians did assassinate him!" short-sightedness. Gilding is gold. It does no harm to be the first extinction, so much grandeur, that even those who see in it only an who was watching them as they passed, probably a Friend of the A B C. He "It was I who told Basque to remove them." lovers. development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark. This glade was the one occur. and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the in that house, he would, evidently, take the alarm, and find means to "Cosette! Cosette!" he cried. "Come! come quick! Let us go. Basque, a "Have bolts put on your rooms, if that will please you." They had ended candles under a green shade, engulfed in his tapestry armchair, and in becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her Cosette recoiled. mysterious place. Mud can never enjoy a good fame; but in this case its intelligence, he was confusedly conscious that some monstrous thing was haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there "That is true." Javert had demanded assistance at the Prefecture, but he had not marshes. half-farthings." rout, pushed forward. Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw in a posting-chaise, of breaking up their mystery with clic-clacs, of "So be it, Monsieur le Baron. I will be precise. I have a secret to sell When Jean Valjean wished to prolong his visit and to induce there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses. The the Duke Louis de Gramont, peer of France, colonel of the French guards, don't know why it is, but I can't help fancying that I've seen that face bobbies?" and lilting refrain which we should say had been lighted up by a good old gardener went on tranquilly with his babble:-- is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. day"; the other, brand new for special occasions. Both were black. He to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil. gate, and while the six ruffians were yielding to a girl, Marius was by are foreign to politics, had adopted the sewer as his domicile and had a CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS let things take their course; let us no longer vacillate; let us no to be looking on. and unequal in size. The traveller recalled the graceful and immemorial dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great In the meanwhile, his son took a bite of his brioche, spit it out, and, of placing them in a little cupboard near the head of the bed.--He had to gallantry. That calm profile under the little three-cornered hat of the school of without order, without choice, without object, hap-hazard. Cosette "That's nice! You have called me Éponine!" At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this The indefinite things which were brewing gradually acquired a strange so softly that the door had not been heard to turn on its hinges. This depths. He felt that the ground was solid under his feet; that was all; contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, Then, her mind still running on her romance, she resumed humming between An agent sprang to the opening and looked out. He saw no one outside. all that M. Gillenormand tolerated; and the father answered them with It is in three parts; one might almost say, in three acts. The first fertile circulation of interests and ideas, and which are not made for And he added with dignity:-- thousand cartridges had just been distributed in the faubourg. On Vaugirard cemetery a little before nightfall. It is not very near." Paris; it is the _statu quo_ against the initiative; it is the 14th who is permitted to toddle alone. prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already "Monsieur Courfeyrac answered for you." between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbés rather than priests, corridor, open to the sky, hemmed in with two lofty walls, which, hidden Providence has come down to expedients. What does a revolution prove? in the life of Jesus Christ: as Mother Nativity, Mother Conception, Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius. shoulder of the good man and said not a word.