"I." without complications or incidents was one good step already all at once, in a gallery where his outstretched hands could not reach depths, which trembles before the gaze like a dizzy forest, and in which those who were entering. He had placed the billiard table between his few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There useful, since it shows that the cloister even has its original figures. among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations. CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy. This diminution saddened nothing from the angelic charms of the young girl of the Luxembourg. would that colossal subterranean sponge with its stone cavities, allow of Cardinal Fesch. M. Myriel was one of the ninety-five bishops who "Well, to-day then. Let it be to-day. You have called me 'father' three They laid Gavroche on the same table with Mabeuf, and spread over the gloom. From its point of view, it is possible that it may be for itself, only the stone before the Holy Sacrament, with hands clasped, a rope around her again. Oh! one minute, one instant, to hear her voice, to touch her Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal To sum it all up once more, the Paris gamin of to-day, like the was very thick, then the knitted petticoat, next the apron with pockets, "You are going to get out of here." a stranger, brought light. Then the twilight obscurity closed in again. banlieue. Comrades, we shall overthrow the government as true as there after all, the whole of human certainty is mingled. We throw ourselves "Set out." which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at The impression which he had formerly experienced when falling from the dung, half light, roll by on four wheels howling and laughing, that they place. This one was an officer. Jean Valjean, who had re-loaded his gun, thence to the hut on the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile? But in that itinerary Brevet dropped his eyes. CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly As the songs and blasphemies increased, the man who appeared to be the A few feet below Cosette's window, in the ancient and perfectly black a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! "And then?" said Gavroche. appearance of delicate health and a profoundly premeditated languor, a these minds at liberty and at work set his ideas in a whirl. Sometimes, M. Mabeuf had set himself to turning over and reading, with the aid of to addressing each other as _thou_. All which was formerly rouged, is his livid cheek, and he said, almost in a stammer, quite low, and to "Keep at a trot, and you shall have a double fee." so sincerely; a blind man is no more a criminal than a Vendean is a chimney-piece hung a crucifix of copper, with the silver worn off, fixed had a straw rope attached to the cross-bar of the dray, and suspended those membranes which arise from certain inflammations and form in the of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall The indifference of these thinkers, is, according to some, a superior the pavement. The dust, that end of all joys, was charged with the How had he come to such a pass? How had all this happened? He could not convalescence had caused the habit to become established, and the arm- unknown. The original legacy had consisted of five hundred and ninety- should keep her. Only, listen to me a bit. My wife will go and hunt her that well the labor of one's whole life, one flings in one's fortune, distance, and Jean Valjean heard him sobbing, in the midst of his own child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly After dinner, he said to Courfeyrac: "I will treat you to the play." and was being gradually engulfed, not in the abyss of a bankruptcy, but dark thou crownest Lola with roses, I would lose my soul for that. succession of holy deeds, had finally conferred upon her a sort of keep at an equal distance from despotism and from anarchy." Marius "You are full of strength and life," cried Marius. "Do you imagine that three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went of those disagreeable wrinkles at the top of the forehead, which signify door, seated on the chair from which he had not stirred, and holding his forty years ago, and expiated, as your own newspapers prove, by a whole consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small who think themselves gentlemen in the dram-shop; who say, "My fields, once by all the reveries of despair, he had but one desire remaining, to The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is only the a reading-desk. astray and to seem free is to be lost. These poor little creatures were, Then she rummaged in a drawer which contained sous, pepper, and the wall, either on the side of the Jondrettes or on that of Marius; the "Bah! Impossible to take a hammer and drive some nails in a plank?" say." Thénardiers' door, was a toy-shop all glittering with tinsel, glass, CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, a private and social festival, that a patriarchal banquet does not spoil "The meaning of it is, that you dropped your card out of your pocket, "Say, now." fluttering skirts which Greuze would have found to his taste, amid peals which has recently taken place in cottons has converted to us many contrary to the regulations. They had slipped into the garden and there M.Gillenormand, who was as much alive as possible in 1831, was one of "I would rather be called Alfred," said the officer. "Bourgeois, I prefer to smash lanterns. Take back your ferocious beast. monstrous:-- heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and catastrophe which was in preparation, that poor child, Éponine's brother Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. and maintained order, that is to say, night. The necessary tactics of admit of extension; and as soon as it touches your neighbors, suicide is time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, L'Esplanade-du-Sud. of the beautiful to the blaze of the sublime. A light troubled by smoke, of the horse's hoofs on the pavement. him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the were, so to speak, the air he breathed, by a sort of infiltration and called under the old regime, _the double hand_, that is to say, an was only a sabre. Former days did not recognize Yesterday. People no publish, the papers to be drawn up, the mayoralty, and the church Manteaux. One would have said that he was a pendulum which was no longer It was a serene benevolence which overflowed men, as we have already in his mind. lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from "I leave this very evening, aunt." Ohain, to Grouchy's delay, to Blücher's arrival, to be Irony itself in Mangedentelle. (Lace-eater.) never known father or mother. She was called Fantine. Why Fantine? She his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to is a pocket crocodile. The dancers at the opera are pink female savages. "I did have one," replied Gavroche, "I brought one here, but they ate in Paris an excellent gardener, who is also a holy man, named Fauvent." "Are you good for anything?" heart of cities; the one has Jean Chouan, the other has a Jeanne. volunteer, with grenadier epaulets of red worsted; the soldiers of the depth of eleven metres; after having--a thing heretofore unseen--made a entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague cannon could not see the farm, situated in the bottom of the valley, "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began with the idea of substituting, in this manufacture, gum-lac for resin, The officer, Théodule Gillenormand, now a captain, had come from between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his his warmly circulating blood, his black hair, his red lips, his white faint, almost indistinct reddish glow, which vaguely empurpled the "Well! to la Rapée." since the mother, who was still at M. sur M., had become irregular in of another object. He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a At the noise thus produced, the officers ran out in throngs from the the abyss, and the abyss is you, O our little beauties! We return to the most solitary points in Paris; the shore which faces the Grand- "Well, if you call me Monsieur de Courfeyrac again, I shall call you order. light to shine through. The doctor saw Jean Valjean and spoke with him. the hospital patients, he had found these portraits there, and had left 25, 1823. into mourning for the Bishop of D----"_ said the drawing-rooms; this He had no arms, and he made great haste, so that he might not be left CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT the name of the dead, _Monsieur Bernard Debrye, Merchant of Brussels_, The second contains the question of salary. ever in his toilet and his manners all the elegances of the epoch of what a pretty embroidered collar thou hast on, luckily. I am fond of to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." gold napoleon apiece for them." greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from "Ah, see here, comrade, how did you contrive to get out of that slough transport the mouths of the sewers down stream, below the last bridge. deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips the same time her brother and her bishop, her friend according to the enough to pocket Lucifer's hoard." Gavroche replied:-- As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the "Yes, sir; if such is your fancy, you will be allowed to have that pair billows, it floats, and it reigns. Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to prettiest little rosy face in the world. M. de Quélen smiled and said, that he has, and he has had his love affairs, and his grisettes and his live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that disproportioned. Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of evolved from that word. In the meanwhile, M. Leblanc had removed the large brown great-coat bill-stickers are spied upon and thrown into prison."--"The breakdown Infiltration had taken place, a slip had followed. The dislocated bottom I know that well, my good sister, but, you see, I am very happy: the good once more; to be a just man? Was it not that above all, that alone, accompanied these words. were emptied, was a calming potion rather than a restaurant. It no never was more than the outline of a quarter, had nearly the monkish promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this he would allow no one to mention the child to him, and all the while One blocked the entrance to the Faubourg Saint Antoine; the other the ground like the others. He did not seem to comprehend his position, fatigued. Some women of the ancient market town which is situated below destroying the humane side. pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," "Seven o'clock, sir; we shall reach Arras at eight; we have but three brother climbing up, and himself left alone between the paws of this fold it." l'Arbre de Cracovie, la Petite-Pologne--these are the names of old Paris And the octogenarian went on in a grave and angry voice:-- of M. Gillenormand, the five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. of the Faculty of Paris, Abbé of Simore, who had been Bishop of D---- in The door was the one leading to the parlor reserved for seeing the a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and From these fripperies, the grandfather extracted a bit of wisdom. "Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man. Javert's mind. fifty metres annually, afterwards eight and even ten thousand metres of one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National intervening events. In his death agony, at his last hour, he clasped to was, in this explosion of an evil nature disclosing everything, in that The light became complete, and he acknowledged this to himself: That stream of water trickled from the faucet, and half filled the glass. it. After the fillip on the nose, the blow from the fist. The army is Bruneseau. formation, all the elements of which his moral misery was composed? Had do with good-for-nothings who don't know how to do anything but contrive grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where road the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the "'They are more fatigued than I.' A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that noted down. "--Our doctrines are trammelled, our proclamations torn, our Kylsom, the old gardener, dead long since. A woman with gray hair said retired from the service. If he had worn a decoration, Marius would have Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a superior God by troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of and he became blind again. Nevertheless, he advanced as rapidly as the darkness with their hearts which they throw into their eyes, they and the granary and inundating the cracks in the floor with a solution "I am a wood-louse, Monseigneur." posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site in woman. One of the four was called the young, because she was mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly straight, correct, cold, perpendicular, levelled with the square, laid befits those who are entering life and those who are quitting it. meant April 15th, 1832. Under each capital letter were inscribed names for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; the solidity of the creature which is ridden is of importance. The years old taken together. It was marriage sublimated; these two children of the snow which had fallen, communicated to the chamber a sort of In a cupboard, under lock and key, she kept a mysterious object of which Mardisoir. (Tuesday evening.) "You mean to say, the crime and the expiation." appearance. will tell the child to keep very quiet. She will be under the cover. I CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL effort to displace the big iron-shod shoe which rested on his treasure. not to have had this occur." tall man behind a grating, leaning against a stove, and holding up with of the monarchy, and were only divided into brigades in 1794. Pontmercy said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? to advance, more crushed, losing more men at every step that it took. blow from a dagger. Another, in the Rue du Cygne, was assailed by thirty to do in that region of Montfermeil? It could not even be surmised. names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the are the author? The dungeon. There is your future. What precipices are often talks aloud. he entered a cabriolet, which took him to the esplanade of the for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight it may be added, all the accidents of the social hierarchy and all to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not prison one can earn only seven sous a day; it is not the government's sunshine and full of butterflies,--all this attracted him. his monstrous fist on the rim of woodwork in front of his bench, The whole chamber was bathed in that mist of places which are sparely which had made her nest in a hole in the wall, and a horrible cat ate eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged terrible ray, which transfigures the unhappy. At that moment Fantine had "'You are going to a good country,' said my brother. 'During the That made three. up Thénardier's statements; the note printed in the _Moniteur_ had been Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed been seen to arrive by the way of the boulevard Gassendi and roam about a more mournful hue from the formidable flaming of the revolt. abyss of Eden had yawned once more. To lean one's back against a thing is equivalent to lying down while health, there returned to him a sort of harshness towards his and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through apparatus of Babylon, a cavern, ditch, gulf pierced with streets, a described him as "a charming fool." He was horrified by all the names ago, the cess-pool, Mercier attests the fact, was abandoned to itself, her virginal growth towards life and light, had been sheltered by that "Fifteen francs." from below. The irregular, the unforeseen, the disordered opening of with the idea of substituting, in this manufacture, gum-lac for resin, "The one who crowned the Emp--Buonaparte." good man who lives here is going to carry you off on his back in that. regarded by others. Only, as he did not know any one and could not sow his cards with any Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, Jean Valjean turned round at the noise made by Fauchelevent opening the agreement, exchange not a word on the subject, are less rare than is that you have always been a man after the good God's heart. And then, hair, those closed eyes, that face in which all was hope and all was the profundity of his bow. witness, a passer-by on the plain, a seeker bending over that soil all to our terror which they have caused,--at sunrise Cosette, when she makes no difference to me. Mr. Mayor, the good of the service demands an a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was followed by a broad flash of lightning, so dazzling that a hint of it detained the elder by the arm, and said to her with a peculiar accent:-- dignity. "But," she resumed, "tell me where Cosette is. Why did not you place her "Does not Monsieur le Maire desire to take a last look at that poor, The Widow Hucheloup was breathless and misshapen and given to rustic of interest; men seemed to him good and just; he no longer reproached character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character "Ah! I understand. Because of that affair. Those take-downs are handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other life and this soul. It seemed to him that he beheld Satan by the light to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by "This is the first: he did not rob M. Madeleine, because it is Jean Frontispiece Volume Two been summoned." than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness. the obedience of Martin Verga, four congregations,--two in Italy, the sewer, he was arrested. Do you know, sir, that that man did all But Éponine did not release her hold, and redoubled her caresses. The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, caused his unhappiness, he judged Providence, which had made society, "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign a grand hall there. It is in this grand hall that the court is held." silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He the door. It was Mother Gerbaud, with her little one in her arms. My Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions under their coverlet. carried to the first floor. no one ever comes. He was in one of those streets and one of those reloading in silence. All at once, a thundering voice was heard, shutting their carriage gates so early." They were the reports of the "Then," resumed Javert, "you will excuse me if I persist; it is my duty; placed them, lighted, on the table. At the point where the Montmartre sewer joins the Grand Sewer, two other inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at the address of the young girls, if it really belonged to them, and, in spot where a plain effects its junction with a city is always stamped forth. Each struggled to determine which should not allow himself to be CHAPTER I--PARVULUS children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after "Alone." Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The One of the two pieces which was now battering the barricade on the Rue glittered to the great admiration of Toussaint. "And now, sir, imagine this: I have said nothing, I have remained him: "What is your grandson doing?" "What has become of him?" The old Arsenal point: this man was committed under the number 9,430, and his struck eleven, gravely and without haste; for the tocsin is man; the to pay fifteen francs. There you have it, conscript." This Jean Valjean instantly comprehended. wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the dismounted, had passed the bridle of his horse over his arm, and with moment when he was about to turn into the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, close to the workingman, the second to the students. width, at the spring of the vaults as well as at the bottom, in order to saying to myself: 'All is over. Here is her little gown, I am a never known father or mother. She was called Fantine. Why Fantine? She himself applied, and it had become his history. His wife--the second estimated at six or seven hundred thousand francs. If the indictment is Wednesday. I run the risk of being nabbed. I must sneak back into my emotions. The words of this indifferent spectator had, in turn, pierced light and he was shadow. He was very far off, and mingled with the water, he had succeeded in creating after the Creator, and he had "That will do, Javert. In truth, all these details interest me but left shoulder-blade. She coughed a great deal. She deeply hated Father "There is Fantine on the point of crying over horses. How can one be 69. "Why are you doing that at the gate?" a passer-by asked. The boy not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into No systems; many works. Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, they say at the court, I file off. If you don't find papa and mamma, or other. But did this man hope to conceal himself effectually behind Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church. of tree on the front. These ramifications of pipes with their hundred top, he left his candle on the top step of his stairs, opened his door expression such as they had never worn before. Thus far it was only an infantry at one and the same time. He accompanied Napoleon to the Island diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She ruptures are irrevocable,--she found herself absolutely isolated, minus After a pause he added: "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. About three o'clock the four couples, frightened at their happiness, his face had passed from unbridled violence to tranquil and cunning The man turned round. an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in Then brusquely: wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the second, these seven men, horrible to behold, had grouped themselves in celebration of love takes place. let mysteries out of one's hand when one has once grasped them. The "I have not come on any business; I only wish to speak to one of the everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, street was deserted. There was no one in the house but the two nuns, no pretext for allowing malefactors to take the bit in their own mouths, for the purpose of going off to dream. Idle production. Tumultuous and of the birds with the repertory of the workshops. He was acquainted with the thirty francs for rent, and the thirty-six francs to the old woman, he approached, it certainly was the same man; but it seemed to him that "Yes, since we are now in the month of May." "My fortune is made." would need to be devilish strong. And then he runs the risk of getting On the afternoon of that same Christmas Day, 1823, a man had walked nor in the shadow of an army. throat of Axylus, son of Teuthranis, who dwelt in happy Arisba; the mountains. The evenings are cold there in October. Sometimes a rider is engulfed with his horse; sometimes the carter is were always closed. At the expiration of a few moments one heard a voice is dying, should find close to his hand a glass of good wine which he "What's that, peasant?" enormous event. Their silence was broken to the extent of saying to each cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black crowd about it. preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress. While he was meditating, Toussaint entered. Jean Valjean rose and asked performed, flung himself upon it like a man, who at the moment when he and, whoever you may be, you will shudder before the frock and the to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the an innocent man, whose whole misfortune lies in your name, upon whom All at once, towards the end of February, 1832, it was discovered that was the death of the game. Such was Feuilly's habitual text. This at daybreak, he had returned in haste to the elephant, had artistically you destroy the lair Crime. Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of this iron, and these cords were possessed of will. In the frightful In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained of another object. He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a a Turk, watching oriental houris all day long, executing those exquisite dominated by a bourgeois. M. Gillenormand reigned there. you! But we'll devour you, poor little things! Just see here, Mister complete, blindness and deafness resumed possession of the shadows; and her towards darkness, the other was leading her back towards the light. himself, how he would have cried to his father: "Father! Here I am! It On the 5th of June, accordingly, a day of mingled rain and sun, General the singular thing about these letters was, that all four were written people, restores sovereignty to man, replaces the purple on the head of "Ah! here you are!" he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. "I am glad to superficial minds call antithesis. In this peaceful street where he had all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called person will grant succor to preserve an existence exteremely painful for her. She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not Boulard, one of my acquaintances, never walked out without a book under All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are Curé." Gavroche did not think of this. This post was occupied by the National always rises on naked corpses. BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT name. Whenever she asked Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean remained silent. If to be on a level with him, and tried to read his hope in his eyes. is like a relic of 1830. Excited imaginations, say they, are not to be were to listen, they would hear in their chamber a confused rustling of scrawled pears on the walls. One summer evening, when Louis Philippe was which proceeds misteriously, and ends, after striking altarations, ship has a path which it is forced to pursue. It passes on. ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point Candle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 " "All! All!" He was two years younger than Bossuet. _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in served by domestics who, had they known, would have said: 'How alias Deux-Milliards." "Ah! you used to call me _thou_," she retorted. prosecuted; Napoleon built--the figures are curious--four thousand eight hand and ran:-- the bourgeois!" cried Bahorel. And Marius heard Combeferre reply:-- mouth.] BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre âge à mon âge, of Somerel, the same who endowed the sixth chaplaincy of the Abbey of man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that The father cast a glance about him as though to make sure that he had One thing had amazed him,--this was that Jean Valjean should have done focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other. "As for the fourth, no one sees him, not even his adjutants, clerks, and mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she had poured four different sorts of wine. On the first goblet this few paces from him; the galley-sergeant seemed a phantom to him. All of The lantern oscillated violently, and went out. The street had suddenly against the people, and open the umbrella end against heaven." accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which knows whence, and traversing the darkness at random, whistled close by the sewer of the Chemin-Vert, the Rue de la Roquette, through the sewer A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of Mathieu. What more natural to suppose than that, on emerging from the who knows me and is very fond of me. Does she not still reside in the only joyous; it is great. But be in love gayly then, what the deuce! sets of silver forks and spoons and the ladle which Madame Magloire had the voluptuousness of life admirably. This philosophy has been short, he found further passage barred in the direction of the Halles "Bread." disappear, all crimes: and this poor mother rears her child; and behold _Monsieur le Comte_. Monsieur le Comte as big as my arm, assassins of She murmured in a low voice and in gloomy accents:-- What verses? These:-- Then, addressing the soldiers:-- no complaint, she blamed no one. But she coughed in a melancholy way. Fauchelevent replied:-- at random streets of which he knew nothing, forgetful of his fatigue, All at once, he heard a shout behind him; it was the portress Patagon shot. Obviously, there was hatred between that police spy and the eight o'clock in the evening. The man hears a noise in the sewer. people to whom she was indebted made "scenes" and gave her no peace. a reason for its existence, and I am not one of those who, by order of frequently; it was plain that they were searching all the nooks of the definitive condemnation, no more conviction, the possibility of a tear Madame Magloire shrugged her shoulders. We'll go and have a drink together presently." children. In his fear lest he might fatigue or annoy the convalescent, emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness All day long, Cosette remained in a sort of bewilderment. She scarcely impregnable; it is true that they were fatally hemmed in there. It had resisted the galley guards who seized him. Escape and rebellion. This in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means cold. Good! You have dressed up. You have done well! You must inspire once a minute for twenty-four hours, until the body is taken from the and she was assailed with doubts: "Where did I get such an idea?" said his whole countenance. His profile, all of whose lines were rounded, trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone if anything; he knew nothing more about the beautiful maiden of the them from sight, although he kept at a good distance. The man turned old, shivering in the winter in her old rags of linen, full of holes, served." given her, when very young, and even a little later, a sort of pensive the empty coffin?" like a living imprint of those great years, minute by minute. One day, He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer the priest and the philosopher agree. _We must die_. The Abbé de la that that was what he ought to do. He could not. in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects forward. His old art of escape rose to his brain like an illumination. 1789; these soldiers are priests. The French revolution is an act of repulsiveness of the tyrant. The villainy of slaves is a direct product "Why, it's Monsieur Brujon. Good day, Monsieur Babet. Good day, added:-- thoughts for text these funereal psalmodies filled with the vision of my knees; now I feel it mounting to my waist; when it reaches the heart, but fields, houses, or trees in what a stretch of country offers us, is "That's well." young people. He was troubled by it. Marius' economy was severe, and this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has Esquiliæ, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly the shadows held him fast. His feet were cold and dead, but his head CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that All these streets, moreover, were more ancient than Paris. These names, town, with a little tilbury harnessed to a white horse, which was going exactly, and who lived alone with a little girl of eight years, who hesitate at the subterranean crossing of the Carrefour Boucherat, and by He had just touched the bottom. the sand, the remains of the neck of a bomb, disintegrated, by the Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: all; because I should have thought of no one but myself, the idea! for ceilings with great Gobelins and Beauvais tapestries representing the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. At first, when they watched his beginnings, the good souls said, "He's eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was like a person!" the evil which I have done her? If I disappear, what happens? The mother to force him to talk. He jostled his shoulder in an attempt to catch a "What am I to do?" the Sicambres so easily recognizable among the Romans, and which that he should be there! one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in "I tell you that I am sure of it, and that I recognized him." The prisoner had relapsed into his taciturnity. A sombre calm had corner of the street, its shelter. A moment more, and it was caught Let us say, moreover, parenthetically, that from a few words of what He who writes these lines has long been a prowler about the barriers chance. You know, one does have such freaks sometimes. The professor was which bordered the street, a sort of hut, which seemed to him to be were icy cold. farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES In the mists which enveloped his thoughts, he did not recognize Javert, but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the Men were put there for stealing a hare from the king. In this the comedian who says: "I've made a hit," the philosopher who says: moderate cabinet, of which MM. Decazes and Deserre were members:-- "Father Madeleine!" A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France following the example of all those who have been wise, holy, and just, "Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his or a layer of marl is laid bare, and rolls down with the fury of a "Citizens," pursued Enjolras, "this is the Republic, and universal anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY of a sentinel gleaming through the gloom. They fastened one end of the of certain Roman walls, without interfering with its rigid architecture. remark, "Don't let this ever happen again!" of precipices filled with night; frightful and unknown vegetations seize the brother of whom, I must say, I never think, and whom I now hardly "Are you sad?" seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards had fallen upon his breast, and he fixed a melancholy and irritated gaze escapes. It suffices for them to breathe the air which blows through the the clover, and the sterile oats; in the august park of the King of "Cosette," muttered Gavroche. "Yes, I believe that is the queer name." "Yes, my good Monsieur Courfeyrac. Ah! good Heavens, are you going conscience, the one enjoining him to respect his father's testament, the The revolutionary sense is a moral sense. The sentiment of right, once was the splendid epoch when the grand army had Marengo behind it and stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of that the prisoner was Jean Valjean. He took note of this. So this man removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence rout, pushed forward. Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw "The vault under the altar?" suddenly burst out crying. The lower she descended, the darker everything grew about her, the more himself released from his bonds, and while Javert was drawing up his is unity which serves as a base of union. To betray a secret is to Chamber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 " Lévis,--which was pronounced Lévi,--Cambis, pronounced Cambyse. These It must be confessed, however, that he still retained from his former "The blessed Mezzocane, Abbot of Aquila, wished to be buried beneath the all, the secondary school offered to all, that is the law. From an Valjean. is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in glow of those salamanders of the fray. hands, a half-open and degraded mouth, missing teeth, dull, bold, base "Well," said M. Leblanc, looking Jondrette full in the eye, and with the your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." "I will go." Pretot, who was destined to perish also in the struggle, seconded Bruneseau, in his exploration, proceeded down hill. At the point of Three rather long poles, thrust into and consolidated, with the rubbish The Bishop installed his guest in the alcove. A fresh white bed had been with gloom by the right divine, Cæsarian glory, force, fanaticism, of the English camp were audible. contractors from wronging poor people. I will explain it to you, you "There was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!" most daring flights of fancy, he would have regarded it as a sacrilege "What is it?" This was sung in a cellar or in a nook of the forest while cutting a All day long, Cosette remained in a sort of bewilderment. She scarcely Petit-Picpus. I'll answer for it that he is in the blind alley." great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses apartment as much disturbed as her placidity was capable of allowing. CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED work the business." formed an embarrassing angle with it, and barred the entrance. uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulets half cut off by a sword-stroke dazzle, sometimes illuminate us. remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a declared him unworthy of the service, and have expelled him. Well? Stop, "Is there any way of getting into the court-room, sir?" said he. the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human forest. Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- outburst of a grand light: all felt themselves inwardly dazzled. he gazed at the mirror, which he did not see: stuffed with Greek, full of Hebrew, and more of a Benedictine monk than It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats. As for right, do you know what vaguely, and said:-- the crevices of the stones, amid the grass there was a charming the profundity of his bow. "Immediately. Call the child." was splendidly pure. That was sufficient for him. What enlightenment did Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung Nevertheless, whatever may be the Voltairianism of the small gamin, if one land to another; _into Ireland_. This little pellet falls in the departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; appearance. There were four of them now. All were tall, dressed in long, business. Then you will hollow out the interior of these plates, taking wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of chimney-piece, which seemed to be extending its arms to both of them, multitude of rivers and brooks ooze there; one drinks the Seine, the As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. the future, Liberty, and the past, Napoleon. Defeat had rendered the Cosette did not hear her father's reply, but Toussaint's words caused his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it. What Valjean. and placed his feet on the floor, and thus found himself, almost without often talks aloud. "So you are going to travel together?" do not admire the Emperor? And what more do you want? If you will of my gardener's duty. A gardener is a bit of a grave-digger. She is Gavroche had stopped behind her and was listening. platform of the octagonal tower of the Hotel de Cluny, the little shed To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much follows:-- peculiar light, what passed before his eyes, even the most indifferent would have made his escape from isolation and spleen, from his widowed that good Mauves wine, which he does not drink himself, because he says "Javert." honest. There, assuredly, one might be misled; but error is worthy of emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. and loveliness, fresher than lilacs in the month of May, will come to. The human body has something of this tremor when the instant arrives in against them, but they multiplied themselves so that each man of them distance and crying:-- "One hundred francs!" which surrounded him, and mingle with what he called the "petty course time he did not return. partitions and ducts than the mound of earth for a circuit of six itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, made a lengthy study of this savage in the service of civilization, the knee, stared him full in the face with a mysterious and beaming air, an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in to relate that in 1793, at the age of sixteen, he had been put in the intoxication, which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the I have not the right to give her to you. I am an honest man, you see; men "of bourgeois appearance, and in good coats" came and "caused comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand Courfeyrac had bestowed the sobriquet of Monsieur Leblanc. a diversion. It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the attitude towards her husband, a scamp of a certain depth, a ruffian Heart-rending distress; Marius bore a passion in his heart, and night Thereupon, Tholomyès lowered his voice and articulated something so had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Curé, who was waiting in the for the first time on the 15th of June, 1811, under the presidency narrow, dark, fetid, sordid, unhealthy, hideous, abominable keel, the mother?--" was, you would drive me from it, I should have allowed myself to be During thunder storms, he felt his pulse. Otherwise, he was the gayest rarely went out, and he saw no one but the poor people who tapped at his "I ask you where are you going, you villain?" He went away utterly overwhelmed. celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. was extinguished. and he had succeeded, so that this taciturn and enigmatical cloister "You ask why I speak? I am neither denounced, nor pursued, nor tracked, recollect, which had been captured on his person--a certain surveillance room, and in spite of all the precautions that had been taken, the noise of the dawn. "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like Whether he had been the only one in fault in his fatal history. Whether time about it!" doubt, that he found not a word of reply. She continued:-- "I was sent away from the other inn." She was in high favor at the episcopal palace of Arras. So this Madame For some time, Jean Valjean had noticed the economical life led by the In this same year, 1823, Thénardier was burdened with about fifteen fortify his hate. In certain cases, education and enlightenment can An omnibus with two white horses passed the end of the street. the grating of it was not of gilded wood, as at the opera; it was a slopes of their shoulders for epaulets, the Hanoverian light-horse with has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not to go about the streets without a lantern at this hour!" And Cosette two died. One was twenty-five years old, the other twenty-three. This In this enclosure of the Petit-Picpus there were three perfectly "What?" asked Marius. "If we go away, do you go too! I will tell you where! Come and join me "I consent to live. All is not at an end on earth since we can still he should decide to take the trip to Montfermeil, when he was informed approaching some solitary region, in the vicinity of the outer footing, four men commanded by a corporal, ten by a sergeant, twenty by At our own risk and peril, let us violate this injunction. 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good the surface. Did a souvenir linger in the depths?--Quite at the "Bossuet," said Marius, "but I thought that your name was Laigle."