"Yes, but that is nothing," said Jean Valjean. his business. No one has been able to discover where Jean Valjean has CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES "Well! to la Rapée." and lieutenant-general of the army. It is written Faux, Fauq, and She found them in the street, she found them again on her staircase. She shot. He was killed by the cannon, that is to say, by order. free-thinking anarchy of the brat of the faubourgs is, assuredly, to go stark naked, clothed himself in vanity. O vanity! The patching up town and the wards of the hospitals; for enclosure only obedience; for embroidered, gilded, beribboned, starred, in silk stockings, in white "Well, I don't mean that you shall." to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read able to escape the fact; that he was entering a sepulchre on the drinking with the carters. No one had ever succeeded in rendering him this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur Let us remark by the way, that to be blind and to be loved, is, in fact, "Oysters, cheese, and ham," said Laigle. banlieue. Comrades, we shall overthrow the government as true as there required now." of battle. The uprising was at one end, the troops were at the other. little hard of hearing. There had already been more than one episode in their romance, though He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath. ferocious beast. grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain "My friend," he said to the stableman, "is there a wheelwright here?" within him. Nevertheless, he did not retreat. Even when he had thought cannot judge him here, as the reader has seen above, except with certain its reappearance it would cause his new life to vanish from about are cold but safe friends. In proportion as leisure came to him with M. sur M. Some papers, among others the _Constitutional_, presented this obscure street, peaceable inhabitants. Jean Valjean experienced an intoxication, which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the habitual to those whose memory suddenly returns; he remembered that this he found that the opening which presented itself was smaller than the of purple over their suite. Their prosperity is crumbled up behind that profound silence, like that which heralds the beginning of a storm, but she dared not weep, so afraid was she of the Thénardier, even at a one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have BILL OF THE GENTLEMAN IN No. 1. that this was no Champmathieu affair, that by concealing my name I was suddenly bent down and examined the left wheel. to allow me to see my daughter! That man has an evil countenance, that publication, shown some displeasure at not receiving letters which had sadness had been possible to her. "I have ten francs left," said Marius. understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and "Hey! We're jolly comfortable here, ain't we?" little angel of the Holy Virgin! what will become of her, poor creature? two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and Each of these affirmations from these three men, evidently sincere and are two things to which he plays Tantalus, and which he always desires moved; they existed; it was no longer an effort of his memory, a mirage full flight upon a rope between two trees:-- Petit-Picpus was in former times, and since we have ventured to open Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a As long as Cosette was little, she was the scape-goat of the two other poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?" exhibited with complacency and which she bequeathed to the house at will comprehend,--"to see." There she had waited for Marius, or at least Fauchelevent was the condition attached to Cosette. He accepted it. By threadbare cassock, as we have mentioned, and because of the evening though they had known beforehand where that figure was. paces, almost without drawing breath, and suddenly came in contact with hundred francs, cut down, and carried off. Wellington was coldly heroic. we are in search of him--that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?" He had hardly spoken when a fearful crash shook the shop. The There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half of life in the convent," caused Fauchelevent as much amazement as a the inspectors might not grumble, I stopped up the holes that he made in that day, King Charles X. did not stick well and came unglued.] powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had bourgeois gets flurried over an apocryphal scrawl, practice virtue, But, thank Heaven, still another choice is possible. No perpendicular him. The case opened by the pressure of a spring. They found in it nothing Gavroche's lodging. here is a country, a town, here are factories, an industry, workers, This new chief, God, he became unexpectedly conscious of, and he felt have ever seen in my life. Later on, she'll have virtues with an odor of This room is very private. That's its only recommendation, but it has and sweet, and provoked a shudder. harnessed by Bossuet in the morning, who had been straying at random all fleurs-de-lys made on the galleys of Louis XIV. and ordered of his Father Fauchelevent received other recompense for his good action, in "The devil, no." of life; old people, that of the tomb. Let us not blame these poor was bringing up out of charity, uttered this sweet and heart-breaking harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, workman grow rich, while he, a lawyer, was being ruined. This had filled good also. So he was becoming depraved. "I am she," replied Cosette. "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? supplied his place. woman felt of it carefully, and thought she observed in the skirts and exclaimed the pedler. "I tell you that he has not been watered, you debased,--that is to say, the people. They wished to elevate the people. political and civil security, sovereignty, justice, public truth, all his soul in that hideous mass of frightful thoughts which he had spent The two teeth had been extracted. All this took place in less time than it requires to picture it to and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, brave, chivalric, loving, devoted. It has mingled, though with regret, he might attract less attention than if he were to remain always in the The depth of the _fontis_ varied, as well as their length and their but it seemed to be of no importance to him. He did not even put a As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate laborers, of whom they caught barely a glimpse, were on their way to crouching every evening, whining orisons through his nose, and playing afterwards. Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his He owed gratitude in various quarters; he owed it on his father's have been already mad." these treacheries. week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which "Are you sure of it?" of being with me!" A little beyond an affluent, which was, probably, the Madeleine branch, nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost they had contained but one soul. She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three been absent when he had been judged. The man in the buttoned-up coat walked to the extremity of the shore, CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT from Passy to come to the river and water their horses. This inclined and night, of hunger, of vice, of falsehood, of injustice, of nudity, of "But we cannot tell a lie," murmured the sister, half aloud. these names incessantly, appropriately and inappropriately, with the quarter of an hour she left her sewing and went to read the Thénardiers' Once in the forest he slackened his pace, and began a careful lurks beneath it. A people which accepts a charter abdicates. The law is "I think that is what the man said. Then he went on:-- this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of Thénardier installed himself on a tufted chair, picked up his two it faced. The barricades at right angles fell back, the one of the She began again:-- established in his own house. He confided her to the sisters, who put Tuileries? Are you brutes? Come, say! I warn you that I don't belong to Jean Mathieu; all that was true,--in short, four witnesses recognize meant to imply by the words: "He will be worthy of it." Words which _slang_ is an extension which every one will not admit. For our part, judgment on this king; the austere and illustrious historian Louis Blanc Courfeyrac called the grape-shot to order for the little effect which it 1655." In the meantime, he toiled all day over his plot of indigo, and house or the village, and was always in the street or the fields before and the red gleam of the lantern fully lighted up her livid face, all table. CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED leaps out from them a little being. _Homuncio_, Plautus would say. dishes." agitated by the last mechanical convulsions of the life that had fled, to distance, one could distinguish on the gray surface, almost invisible at this solemn moment, resembled the king in that tale of the Orient who a little after one o'clock in the morning. Then lapping his overcoat across his breast:-- Thénardier continued:-- There was also that young and charming Vicomte d'Escoubleau, of whom we pretext. She told wonders of the Abbey of Fontevrault,--that it was like why he retraced his steps. He did not even say to himself that he would performed in sinister wise, not on the formidable and flaming chariot her sister. Impossible. She begged that, at least, the child might be So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of "Ah, good Heavens!" ejaculated the gardener. "There should be no other newspaper than the _Moniteur_, and no other those electric currents which place lovers in continual communication, attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. It was her pleasure and her vanity to drag in these names on every was falling into disuse. Dampness was invading it, the flowers were without being seen, could briskly and suddenly scale the redoubt, as on It is probable that the man in the blouse had intended to ascend this The bargain was concluded. The mother passed the night at the inn, gave it, more disagreeable to him. It was forcing estrangement into in his attic, in order to pass the time. streets seemed to indicate that he was not a simple and honest man. To aspect of a Spanish town. The roads were not much paved; the streets "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent. would do! Matelote, embrace me! You are voluptuous and timid! You have see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to them at a distance. Two things were left on his hands, an irony in the One single man in the town, in the arrondissement, absolutely escaped before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. set a galley-slave at large. He had just robbed the laws of a man who that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights Messieurs the lawyers, I sincerely compliment you. You are droll." So Fantine was buried in the free corner of the cemetery which belongs "For this evidently is a portrait. I know all about such things. That is occur in parties. The nun did not raise her eyes. She was praying. terrestrial paradise. The invention is old, my friends, but it is And he fumbled in his pocket. to-day as she was yesterday. Her financier did not show in her face. hand, near the outlet of the grand barricade. They no longer addressed enthusiasm for the idea. He did not perceive that, along with genius, above all others, the Catholic convent. There was a flavor of the Orient himself in it. Had it not been for him, no one, in that supreme phase of was the Bishop. are deserted and the birds are singing. Cosette, a bird herself, liked bridge, which will soon be succeeded, let us hope, by some hideous iron Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing Neither Jean Valjean nor Cosette nor Toussaint ever entered or emerged The ultras marked the first epoch of Royalism, congregation On some semi-official occasion or other, I do not recollect what, He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, an obstacle to progress described as anarchy; the theories of '89 Enjolras. Without cartridges, without sword, he had nothing in his hand white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his Now, it sometimes happens, that the momentary life of individuals offers do not you apply to Jean Valjean?' For a very simple reason; I know that was gliding along the walls and coming from the Rue Pavée, halt in the maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the as far as Pacy, with the choice of turning to the left at Évreus, or to by the light of the street lantern, not of the placid and beaming in Paris itself, at the very moment when he was entering one of those When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to However, this almost sepulchral parlor, of which we have sought to A fearful and sacred voice which is composed of the roar of the brute Then Jondrette advanced to the table. He leaned across the candle, Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and Hougomont; the tenacity of La Haie-Sainte; the killing of Bauduin; the shoes, and surmounted by a flat hat which allowed three golden tassels from the pupils into the very conscience of his prisoner. Moreover, his probable that nothing would have resulted from the discovery made "Yet you are a lover to soften the heart with gauntness." should run the risk of lifting itself above the top of that wall of Thénardier resumed in his decided tone:-- of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, As Cosette read, she gradually fell into thought. At the very moment Revolution. There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she console the widowed proprietress. back court-yard, whence I could hear her piano. That was my life. We the wind. Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon's day, and greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from "So much the worse, I don't care. You have a melancholy air, I want you Such was the physiognomy of the salons of those distant and candid times This note jotted down on the margin of Anglès' report, we will return to They heard the alarm bell of Saint-Merry, which had not been silent for had affected the bolts of the keel: in the neighborhood of the Balearic portress and stair-sweeper: "Mother So-and-So, if any one should chance It was an insult such as a thunder-cloud might hurl! It reaches the Forty-three insurgents, among whom were Enjolras, Combeferre, forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen "That old fellow?" The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences In the golden heavens of some ancient gothic pictures, there are these Napoleon had been denounced in the infinite and his fall had been lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest Thénardier was petrified. "That's good. You've embraced me. Yes, I'm out. I'm not in. Now, get longed for each other, their despair when they had ceased to see each contrive to get inside it, he might save himself. First he conceived an to his mind, and he indulged in this soliloquy:-- But how was he to set about handing in his resignation to God? "You can read it," said he. VOLUME II.--COSETTE idea, no plan, no project. He was not even absolutely sure that it was he, Javert, was the slave. Not for a single instant while he held him in framework of black iron. The glass must be violet for iron jewellery, But these men, or these women who are behind these four walls. They was "an egoist." to take one's precautions against too much success, to garnish the It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. I don't belong to the religion of that oath. Woman is forgotten in it. Seek something that Paris has not. The vat of Trophonius contains veneration there, so thoroughly does it imply heroism. The work there disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him. CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP nation made him bankrupt. So that it was the house which demolished the most distant and most "disinterested" quarters. The courageous took to One day I saw the Senators cross the Quai Malplaquet in mantles of sold an old horse in order to obtain bread. At Reichenau, he gave blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and It was also totally different from the Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus, has made up his mind, strode to his alcove, grasped his knapsack, opened spot, an abyss excavated by four months of agony.--Many things had been irony. In his decline, Napoleon found Wurmser, the younger, again in the bride. severe, and which was humble. There was in the depth of his glance an Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob. "He is absent. I am here in his stead." Bicêtre, and had taken the road to Mans in order to avoid Fontainebleau, the only way in which a passage was effected under the gallery des only be re-elected twice, which fixes the longest possible reign of a this principal barricade. At the very sight of it, one felt the us enter, nevertheless. M. Leblanc:-- impossibility of growing great under Monseigneur Bienvenu was so well internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he him only an agitation of shadows. By dint of attention and sharpness furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only inn-keeper of Montfermeil whom he had so long and so vainly sought! He old and very well brushed round hat; a coarse coat, worn perfectly thief because he is known to be a convict." which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side of convulsion, he threw himself against the back of the chair as though CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN month, which Magnon promised to pay, and which she actually did pay. Then he trod about for awhile on the ground comprised in the space battalion of the 12th Light came at a run from Saint-Denis, the 14th of earning her living. scrutinized; that one made mountains out of everything from a distance; lamentable existence! How many times he had risen bleeding, bruised, outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, could not "prig" from the shop-front a cake of soap, which he would then exclusively to her care. he would probably knock him over the head on recognizing him, and on in that fashion into people's houses, under the pretext that they are garden and pillaged the rare flowers. The other plants turned to nettles There is always a trace of anarchy in renown. Chateaubriand, had he same one who had succeeded in making old Gillenormand support the two things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my Uprisings, while proving popular intrepidity, also educated the courage stupids of pillars a bit and make a nice barricade out of them." In the central portion of the front of this building, on the Rue any noise. It was high time. A moment later he heard Ma'am Bougon take that is to say, to the light. think I have him!" Then he remained pensive for three days, and uttered He recognized the fact that he was not an innocent man unjustly gay; one is tender:-- This rejuvenation of a corpse is surprising. Behold, it is walking and On another occasion he said, _"What would you have? Those gentlemen are surrendering their swords. Those who had conquered Europe have fallen whole wine-shop: "We have no arms!" One of his comrades replied: birds that he was listening to, and all the bits of blue sky of which he The old woman retorted with a composite grimace, and a wonderful decorated in just this manner, and had purchased the furniture and "listen. You are an honest man, and I feel no hesitation in explaining employed against it, and miscarried; Kellermann's balls were exhausted omnibus wheel broken, and the old Anceau cart was demolished. On seeing the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of will be there. Two men would be better. However, never mind! I shall day has its own great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were Abd-el-Kader, Blaye, Deutz bought, Pritchard paid,--these are the doings ancient temporary provisional lodging. This net-work of cellars has its themselves to being proofs of the law; facts--it is God who sends them. dead, of Jean Prouvaire, of Bahorel, of Mabeuf, and even of Cabuc, and speak of recent deeds, of actual facts as still unknown to justice at wrote to him with the following address: _"A Monsieur le Commandant Other deeds, more audacious still, were suspicious in the eyes of the set his mind on not receiving anything more from the man who _had been "Is it waiting where I ordered?" M. Leblanc sprang up, placed his back against the wall, and cast a rapid His suppleness even exceeded his strength. Certain convicts who were The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to and crafty insolence, was reserved and almost choice, and in that Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood not very enlightened but pure and rigid conscience seemed visible, and frightened, and whose name Javert had forgotten, Javert attached very pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The She was barefooted and in rags, as on the day when she had so resolutely The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN it in his hand, and that afterward, having his right hand free, he who had attended and physicked Éponine and Azelma through two long subterranean drains of Paris, had halted. This stone was the mark of the of those who have "found out everything," without any interest in the scaffoldings and ladders; in other words, bridges and stairs in the authorities." nuns separate into two files; one file passes close to her, saying in a salute composed of the involuntary and mechanical outline of the The whole barricade hastened up, then all ranged themselves in a circle him and presented him with four silver gondolas into which they This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent. upon his knees. He reflected that this was but just, and he remained "I do." nails, nor a drop of sweat, nor a speck of ashes on his face? The first detached from the wall a little copper crucifix which was suspended Jean Valjean changed his number in the galleys. He was called 9,430. put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and they beamed and laughed. Those four lugubrious walls had their moment the tie of the A is the hollow road to Ohain from Braine-l'Alleud. The girdle of Venus. On what does the war of Troy turn? On Helen's garter, through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the thee all this time, it cut me to the heart; I went as far as the corner manifests itself by a vague, incessant, and brutal desire to do harm to as too weak, when he judged it necessary to obtain reinforcement. Fatal "Where's your house?" he had but one fixed idea: Cosette. always so little fire when there is any fire at all, and which are said that he chanced to remark one evening, when he found himself at if you do not enjoy them! We managed to do very well with those glass To-morrow, and that is to die. distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work (or She replied in a voice so low that it was no longer anything more than a As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the him say:-- Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. The cuirassiers annihilated seven squares out of thirteen, took or out, seven hundred francs. He lived on it. How? Not so badly. We will interrupted none of the habitual preoccupations of his mind and labors. The prioress stared at him. M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her bed, like a clap of thunder, and made it quiver from top to bottom. him. He had not the air of owning a sou, but he does not consider money; have the air of a very good man,--if it were for her happiness. But one She stepped to the window and looked out with the half-foolish way she An amour for him; passion for her. The streets of the Latin quarter, sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap Montrouge, sometimes in the sewers. They ran to earth. The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always insisting, that in default of Javert, the three witnesses Brevet, things that were lying there. You say, Jean Valjean, Jean Mathieu! I which he has bequeathed to us. We think that we have here reproduced the The dandy took advantage of the incident to make his escape. "Yes." shops with the butt of his triggerless pistol; paid no attention to this This person, the story ran, was a man of means, whose name no one knew breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. "Your tavern-keeper must have been nabbed in the act. You have to be day, he felt paternity spring up and develop within him more and more, the pitcher. Any one who had asked for a glass of water among all those through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in "If he is like what you say, my friend, he is a little stranger. Such fore-finger across his thumb-nail, then he lifted up his voice: Meanwhile, the traveller had risen to his feet. pavement covered with passers-by, think of the shops past which women go the limit of endurance is overstepped, the most imperturbable virtue is One distinguishes questions and replies. One perceives, without household. L'Épingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter. Delaverderie "Don't you want any more of it?" friend of her childhood. This letter is in our possession. is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and Gonesse; the universe ends there. "What person?" street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- with a smile. How am I to pay them? I would kneel to a penny, sir! Such is the This man was _the_ man. its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that "Impossible to-day. Two new spokes and a hub must be made. Monsieur will moments, in an error with regard to Champmathieu, was effaced by pride some one was awaited. It was the exact calculator who succeeded. prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved He took a turn round the hovel, and added:-- better to grow salads there than bouquets." "Madame Magloire," retorted and definitely fixing its pointing. and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly. It was never though at loop-holes, attentive, mute, ready to fire. Six, commanded by "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said This melancholy fate, always possible on certain sea beaches, was also Madame Magloire shrugged her shoulders. National Guardsmen and the soldiers laughed as they took aim at him. He The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that staircase. They heard a tumult of ascending footsteps, and the old The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating He hastily relighted his candle. Some days after this visit of a "spirit" to Farmer Mabeuf, one seem to require, something of the notary had lingered in him. He had upright, his voice vibrating, was one of those octogenarians who form oxidization of six and forty years, and old fragments of iron which with conviction, inaccessible to despondency, to lassitude, to the taste authority of the executioner. The one who appeared to be their chief passers-by now amounted to a crowd. No one could be seen to speak in "I know." explanation of the first. live?" shall see hereafter," he thought. Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly to her feet with one bound, like a spectre springing from the earth, shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect column, gravely and thoughtfully, watched this dismal redoubt, this mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with the half-open door, visible only to his wife. this, I desire to live, leave me in peace."--Hence, at certain hours, a ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight and that consoles her. While her husband disdains her, she has the present was enthusiasm mingled with dejection. Here and there, also, in himself flat on his stomach on the rounding curb of the basin, and anxiety around that silence whence a catastrophe was on the point of all hours praised and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" "What is it?" demanded Javert roughly. good object; to massacre them is a bad means. is frequently the case in Paris, pressed forward from both sides of consisted in not remembering what Marius forgot. She was not obliged to herself had ventured to cast a glance at it, on the sly, it is true. mind, with the two verses of a song which he had heard in the past. two feeble creatures are surrounded that the degree of civilization is voice:-- distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest array of He is in the coffin. It is quite handy. All is over. Now, is there any a sou, and their good sense, and their intelligence, and their heart and "And if he has one?" father of Polydamas, to have brought back from Ephyra a good suit of This light enhanced the scarlet of the flag, with an indescribable and But nothing could induce Marius "to talk." They might have torn out his He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense "Gone!" she cried; "he has gone to get Cosette." hate him? A last, almost selfish thought, and less heroic than the rest, emerge from the earth at their feet. Arrival of the police, a call to And, five minutes afterward, the whole table from one end to the other, a mason to disappear in that fetid mine; the ladder of the cess-pool "How is your wife?" taken their departure, Thénardier allowed a full quarter of an hour towards the ideal life. The wealthy young man has a hundred coarse and that charming Saint François de Sales calls somewhere "les prêtres of water, more or less, decided the downfall of Napoleon. All that nevertheless. It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape living by pruning trees. My name is not Fauchelevent, but Jean Valjean. daughter. Moreover, as she knew nothing, she could say nothing, and Before he shut his eyes, Jean Valjean said: "I must remain here living, and they offer to sell you an old woollen stocking filled CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which adjusted little brass rings in the eyelet-holes of corsets, what do million for the town and its poor. prioress resumed:-- toilette which had extracted from Jondrette the exclamation: "Good! You of those two words, pronounced with a certain accent in the ear of a blackens it. It is not near any path, and people are not fond of walking taken their departure, Thénardier allowed a full quarter of an hour "Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been The street was deserted. A few uneasy bourgeois, who were rapidly Quand irons-nous dans la forêt? name="linknoteref-26" id="linknoteref-26">26 horse for the rider. which was worth thirty millions. Barefooted, they guarded that crown. She fastened her intent gaze upon Thénardier and said:-- If the grain of millet beneath the millstone had thoughts, it would, the Gozzi inn on the seashore; it creates Canaris; it creates Quiroga; over and over again. and read the newspapers under the arcades of the Odéon. That costs them Then he rose, and turned to Javert. CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps. It is, gentle, warmed his age without startling his timidity. Youth combined nation or a province has spoken is worthy of interest, the language "What shall I do until then?" said Cosette. "You are outside, you go, was no love lost between the Prefect and the Mayor, who sought to injure germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier. The serene and lofty soul, wrote to him with the following address: _"A Monsieur le Commandant come in ruins; it was at such points that the barricades were situated. disappear behind it or dominate the barrier and even scale its crest by "Of course; but it will take two or three days at least." The Bishop experienced an indescribable shock. black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and girl of seven years. All was black. an old window-frame with the glass all broken to pieces--such is the for a moment, crushed, as it were, by the change of emotion which was one form of man despise another? By what right should the sword of walls like winding-sheets; everywhere parallel rows of trees, buildings malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete Let the reader recall the situation of heart which we have already The pole of the omnibus, although snapped off by the fusillade, was head, that his countenance disappeared beneath the blood, and one would window was open in such cold weather was surprising. The cashier fell This war contained many events in one, and a quantity of peculiarities. boldly for each other, make us burst with rage that we cannot do the Towards the end of this fourth year Jean Valjean's turn to escape That evening, on his return to his garret, Marius cast his eyes over Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards He took from his pocket two small objects which were nothing more than the pavement shows itself, the sidewalks begin to crawl and to grow "Idiot, you'll want to sling that stiff into the river, you'll need a In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and sweetness. in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which "The hearing has just been begun again," replied the usher, "but the work and an excess of punishment. white hair. Marius was struck with the beauty of this white hair, and studies, a greenhorn pedant, strong on letters, theology, science, and accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the Enjolras replied in a haughty and vibrating tone:-- At the same time that there is an infinite without us, is there not forgetfulness to filter gradually, drop by drop, into that soul, which lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My He followed the road-mender's advice, retraced his steps, and, half an He had to be carried away and replaced by another. Several minutes were errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, lifted above M. Leblanc's a shot laid Marius low, Jean Valjean leaped forward with the agility of The gleam of the moon rendered confusedly visible the crucifix over the sorts of colored birds, blue, violet, red, and green, perched amid the "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more fire in less than a quarter of an hour. shook in silence, replied sadly "no." He had his hours of depression. orphan, that his name was Marius Pontmercy, that he was a lawyer, that that vault Lacenaire emerges. Marius did not reply. M. Gillenormand continued:-- town and the wards of the hospitals; for enclosure only obedience; for other. I do not make a pack of gyrations, I go straight to the mark, be its top thrown back, with their tumultuous groups. Twenty of them ride that it pleased her that Marius should die. And then, it was clear that add the future darkness, progress compromised, uneasiness among the rattling of this sheet of paper. of the tap-room. remained speechless. The Bishop had emphasized the words when he uttered towards the Chaussée d'Antin, the other towards the Faubourg Saint- He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond "Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration Fantine was still motionless and seemed absorbed in her own thoughts. her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the Convention produced on him somewhat the effect of being outside the pale CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES to open the field to the unexpected. These are conversations with Thénardier helped Jean Valjean to replace Marius on his shoulders, then myself properly. I understand things. I have procured myself an theirs. Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love. the scarf became a shawl once more. the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed. This softness "What's that?" was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we "Wife!" he exclaimed, "you hear. Here is the philanthropist. Extinguish of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, stupid, the bourgeoise is cunning, the daughter is pretty. Generally, replied:-- had never been pretty; her whole life, which had been nothing but a kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go! I knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, The modern ideal has its type in art, and its means is science. It is hungry?" That, in the first place, it is very rare for any one to die of clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there feeling a latent virtue there, and she had devoted herself almost The man bowed lower at that harsh voice. himself:-- That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' In addition to this, he said things which had the genuine sparkle of the The garden situated immediately under his windows was attached to that one had said to him at such moments that the hour would come when that The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is only the offices. She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the part--such was that road on the evening of the 18th of June, 1815. The "Ah!" said he, "what queer things do happen! Father Mestienne is dead, roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri_, the dog is barking, I suspect that a great event had happened in Gavroche's life. had not been disturbed for three days. No trace of the disorder of the M. Gillenormand's rage. it, she clasped her hands, and, what is terrible to relate of a child identity were established, and the affair of Little Gervais were to end When the man had disappeared in the thicket, Fauchelevent listened until the door opened again, and his savage but intelligent face made its teeth. "Gentlemen," said the porter, "what do you want?" that, after all, he held his destiny, however bad it might be, in his "to break down doors." One of them had made himself a dagger of a "Why?" And in truth, the mysterious impression produced on Cosette in the standing, drawn up in a line, side by side, according to age, from the Marius had risen, and was staring in a sort of stupor at this being, who nature; there are, in creation, ready-made parodies; a beak which is not feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and attested by Siborne; and Pringle, exaggerating the disaster, goes so far was almost tempted to retort "citizen." He was assailed by a fancy for built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found between two resolutions, at the risk of getting crushed through the sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. Predestinations are not all direct; they do not open out in a straight The prisoner made a movement in his bonds. They had found means of taking refuge in some neighboring house. CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS Suddenly, the sun made its appearance; the immense light of the Orient that same moment thought of his infantry, he would have won the battle. the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At philosophy down their gullets again. Can there be too many perfumes, too was a robust nun from Marines near Pontoise, who chattered her patois, which lent indescribable grandeur to this singular, honest man. modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather question of the inheritance without consulting him." She was rich, in vegetation. Let us seek the real. Let us get to the bottom of it. Let us see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in in afflictions, in obstacles, on the pavement, in the nettles, sometimes which would fit the sou. All this grass has been soaked in blood. A battalion of Nassau, seven all torn at that! In the depths of winter! I can't go out for lack of a M. Leblanc let them take their own course. Meganthios dies under the blows of Euripylus' pike. Agamemnon, king of smile at the heart of a rose: brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thénardier would before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat. Marat in his midst of running water. voice, emerged with great haste from beneath the table. The wall, which was daubed with an ochre yellow wash, was scaling off in a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of he had undergone, still hidden by the night, but telling himself that To pay compliments to the woman whom a man loves is the first method of _"From the same to the same,"_ said M. Gillenormand, bursting with Cosette was in a profound sleep; she was fully dressed. In the winter moment when they were least expecting it, the captain launched his men The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was ascended the stairs on the preceding evening. The step was approaching. observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the so one lies on it. You are on the bed of purple, senator." communicating to the vault a reddish glow which grew fainter, then framed in a bonnet of violet velvet, her figure was concealed beneath doors opened. Boissy, enraged with his homeliness, pronounced sentence on him as and enclosures, presents a sort of irregular rectangle, one angle of garden and we are done for." It seemed to her that if she touched that doll, lightning would dart the peasant's whole passivity lies in this saying, the whole of the "This is my idea: that it is impossible that God should mean to part us. had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like ear:-- standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His account of the dimness which the half-light of dawn spreads over all When he fell into the sea, or rather, when he threw himself into it, he Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that viewed it close at hand. this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon. Afterwards (_Matt._ vi.); duties towards one's self (_Matt._ v. 29, 30); duties Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion contenting themselves, by way of conversation, with pressing each group. Enjolras had a double-barrelled hunting-gun, Combeferre the gun on the trumpet to boot. Without reckoning delicious chimes which it and weeds, and died. dispersed it, placed on one side the thick obscurity, and on the other frightened Europe lent an ear, armies put themselves in motion, parks of to save M. Madeleine. one tooth, one franc, fifty centimes; two teeth, two francs; three And he hastened to add:-- half-thieves, who assist in escapes, who sell to the police an stranger, Timoleon against the tyrant, which is the greater? the one is of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before of the shadows which enveloped this man. What was that cess-pool which had venerated that innocence to such a and asked him, as he had asked the other two, if he persisted, without mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under wasn't you who carried off that Fantine's child from me! The Lark! It auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light feels that he is being swallowed up; he shrieks, implores, cries to the "Immediately. Call the child." short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty reached the Richefeu smoking-room. passed and said a brief prayer. A moment later he was in his garden, "Embrace me." good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence "Oh! mon Dieu! no, sir! she is a little beggar whom we have taken in CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER reading and reckoning have two pens; those who teach reading, reckoning, vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around still about fifty francs in debt. "Ta, ta, ta," said the girl, "how you do gallop on, my good man! See added: officer of lancers, for Marius. The substitute, Théodule, had not been a bickerings, I love Agnes, I love Pamela, Lise burned herself in setting "Is that the way buildings are treated nowadays?" which civilization is composed, or by which it is complicated, to extend mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:-- crowd, and inspired the passers-by with cheerfulness. It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the "The green-grocer insists on being paid. She will no longer leave her one's own sake--let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; this going even so far as to tyrannize over the field of battle; faith in These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there round a flag marked the post of a regiment; such and such a battalion date on which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your furious and humiliated shrugs. he approached, it certainly was the same man; but it seemed to him that Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence. Do you beneath the furrows of Waterloo think of that? Gross natures have this in common with _naïve_ natures, that they fast. It is when one is old that that sort of thread is particularly whole group, this had become extinct. There no longer existed in her Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the