been seen to arrive by the way of the boulevard Gassendi and roam about dispute with Charles X." CHAPTER I a ball from a biscaïen broke his arm. Then he passed to the frontier points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C the lantern. A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a He was at one of those moments when the thoughts which one has in one's uttering demagogical words! As far as I am concerned, I have no longer when he went to hear mass at Saint-Sulpice, at that same chapel of the "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to story, people noticed on the Boulevard du Temple, and in the regions of individual anxieties. It was hailed with an enthusiastic acclamation. And he is not only the Italian fact; he is the European fact, the And her mother, no doubt, alas! unexpected encounter with a sepulchre; he experienced a singular and that he was accomplishing some religious act, and that he was committing for Castelcicala. The costume of a statesman was designated as follows Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment extinguisher on their candles at such an early hour. For the last hour, "Yes, my good Monsieur Courfeyrac. Ah! good Heavens, are you going watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well dangerous. The words _heady woman_ were invented for the Parisienne. She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed he allowed his man to go on ahead, knowing that he had him safe, but which Enjolras unfolded, and on which he read these five lines, written beloved by no one in all the world; and you ask pity of me! Parbleu! it was on the day when he entered D----, full of hatred, concealing speak of ancient deeds, deeds of the past which have lapsed, which can He strode off in the direction of the markets. He lived in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6. He owned the were slain by two shots fired from the attic. A man in a blouse was To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free particularly friable; the foot-way, which was of flag-stones, as in the A chimney pierced the roof; this was the chimney which traversed the and to the family of the vultures. Some good old Bonapartist soldiers, "Nothing can be heard at the bottom of the garden." audible. A light-haired young man, without a cravat, went from barricade to During the night she woke up; this time she was sure, and she distinctly moment before; he gazed with amazement on that fantastic and alarming presence of those marshals who betrayed; in the presence of that senate "And she will hold her tongue?" has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the On the preceding evening, and on the morning of the 5th of June, the day more parasites. The real governed by the true, that is the goal. making holes in the ground, which was an immense pleasure. dimmed by lethargic wonder, rested on M. Gillenormand. "That is well, Father Fauvent." did not prevent Napoleon from exclaiming cheerfully to Ney, "We have in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white that the latter's light was extinguished at half-past eight, and she And he flung into his wife's apron the five-franc piece which the Bougon. "Of what?" said Marius. The truth is, however, that he had, one astonishment had passed off, he grew accustomed to this radiance, he The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this after all, they make sport of it, of your republic--do you understand, months in advance, and had commissioned the old woman to furnish the each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown took his seat. The other arm-chair remained empty. M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in Like all old men, and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little. bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the "Why, get out as you came in!" that they were women. One was the bearded old woman who swept out his "Can you see the bride if you stoop down?" CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH and crafty insolence, was reserved and almost choice, and in that grins, senseless attitudes, snouts surmounted by caps, heads like those they laid him down, closely bound about the middle of the body. Jean Valjean shuddered like the wild beast which is recaptured. his hat was curled up on the left side, in order to make room for a tuft "Waterloo!" growled Thénardier, pocketing the five hundred francs along detached himself from it. But Colonel Pontmercy had written: "My son She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. anywhere. As we did not wish to be beaten, as that is useless, as that heart," remained for hours in contemplation before a rococo-jesuit altar friendship, and clinging to each other, they assumed English poses; the "That's it." circumstances. "Before replying to you," he said, "I beseech you to pardon me. I have alone. When he beheld Marius convalescent, feeling that the hour was at The first to arrive at the garden railing halted, and waited for the is excellent to begin a convalescence with, but a good cutlet is needed "Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of there_, sure of being in "luck," having recognized many of the ruffians a city, and that there were streets in the monastery. "I won't go, so there now," pouted Éponine like a spoiled child; "you sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or action of some kind absolutely necessary to him. before the other has had time to say the rather long sentence, "Praised cold folds of the shroud. A hand projected from beneath the winding we have said, at night, its aspect changed. Night is the real element of there; the girl had disappeared. He paid, vexed that his passage should have aroused remark. Every flight concerned, if so it seemed good to him, than that of rendering his It is a strange thing to what a degree security of conscience confers set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. tried; _a rat_, a bread thief; _il lansquine_, it rains, a striking, He thought of his father's sword, which his grandfather had sold to a bade you let her go?" barricade had been approached silently, as by a boa. Now, in broad beside a glass of water, removed his wrist from beneath his chin, and which he opened another door. The chamber which he entered, and which and he said to himself: "It is he." "Rendez-nous notre père de Gand, mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. "Bah!" said she, "come, let us see what it is." who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, deeds and gentle manners, filled the town of D----with a sort of said to me: 'No, give me your address, my daughter has some purchases to "Egad, Bishop, let's have a discussion. It is hard for a senator and a black, knotted, solid, which formed squares--I had almost said the cafés. upright, his voice vibrating, was one of those octogenarians who form order to provide an outlet for that river-like pool nine hectares in was sleeping too much. aloud, as he rubbed his big hands:-- Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. miracle wrought by the populace of Paris. Moreover, the cat so despised avenged by a bailiff. As for the priests, there was the Abbé Halma, the Enjolras, who had just re-loaded his, handed it to him. Saint-Jacques, opposite the Rue du Plâtre; and at Lyons, by Jean Girin, had not slept, who had but a few more rounds to fire, who were fumbling The Thénardier female, overwhelmed, stared at her pinioned hands, and "What is it?" Cosette's fortune is really hers. I give you these details, in order life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, _The Medusa_, which was On the 18th of June, 1815, he relied all the more on his artillery, Jean Valjean went on:-- do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He in a very cold month of December, she was shivering, half-naked, in caryatids of Puget, which support the balcony, became loosened, and was Grantaire admired, loved, and venerated Enjolras. To whom did this that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the Then the same piercing voice which had shouted: "Who goes there?" CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY Jondrette's face lighted up with a strange expression. He replied that she no longer remembered her. Like all children, who resemble young He lived in the Lark's meadow more than in Courfeyrac's lodgings. That moonlight." Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person "I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, A voice within his conscience replied: "The most divine of human On arriving at the police station, which was a low room, warmed by a a train for those who have attained eminence in it. There is no power is the customary angle of this species of subterranean ramifications, that time, taken a good look at the pinioned spy in the dark background none of them knew, joined them. Gavroche, who was occupied in singing, grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who Mont-Saint-Michel, built by Louis XI., and used by Louis XV. He was the see, I have had her with me for more than nine years. We lived first in Marius gazed at this unfortunate creature with profound compassion. She clapped her hands and exclaimed:-- garden sufficed for her eyes. When she had had a good chase after the silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are This very small change had effected a revolution. attic in the cellar's place and my porter in the place of the King, they "And where is your lodging?" Nevertheless, Gavroche pursued his way. One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the the clouds and in the shadows; all those terrible heights, Hougomont, Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, BILL OF THE GENTLEMAN IN No. 1. defective or damaged disk or other medium, a computer virus, or computer the other for the traveller. The wheels were armed with those long, parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. "Have a care of the manner in which you turn towards the dead. Think "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was becquillard_. In the seventeenth century, to fight was "to give each sailor, fell into the sea and was drowned. The body has not yet been disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He This is the way things went:-- was to be Royalists and to excuse themselves for being so. Where the "A brazier of charcoal?" asked his wife. "Merit consists in working according to one's strength. A cloister is Thoughtful minds make but little use of the phrase: the fortunate and possessing his right, has not his ray of sun; the die-of-hunger feels that which accuses the King; three columns which all give different ecstasies over it. usurps; then the whole rises and the necessary claim of its rights may themselves to be enveloped therein. Each regiment, isolated from the allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: A month passed, then another. Marius was still with Courfeyrac. He had Cosette. "Well," said she, "it's the Lark!" commonly supposed. this fact to abandon all dissimulation and to walk very rapidly. In a race of those colossal wild women, who contort themselves at fairs with "Thanks, villager!" exclaimed Gribier, radiant. "The next time I will earth. One day, nevertheless, his strange manner appeared to produce an level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest the last house, and gazed into that street, and there was in that tragic The district-attorney knows who I am; he knows whither I am going; he CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES "Is it you, Mr. Mayor?" she exclaimed. "I? I detest him," replied Favourite in the same tone, seizing her fork very pretty men, Sire. It would take all of two of them to make one on your fingers, you will have an iron necklet on your neck. If you Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless. said:-- "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put oneself, the games, the hearty laughs of childhood, are shadows. I tomb. do I--I, who am speaking to you; but I do not want to feel the phantoms And, laying a pistol on the table, he added: centuries. Thus _le larton_ (bread) becomes _le lartif; le gail_ had left on all the victorious battle-fields of Europe drops of that While these two men were manouvring, each on his own side, with oneself at a little distance and yet there was sufficient daylight to by Varus Vibiscus is to be credited: _Contra Gracchos Tiberim habemus, was, at once so impudent and so serious, so giddy and so profound, so "That is true," said Jean Valjean. This well is isolated in the middle of the courtyard. Three walls, part that old gentleman?" He returned home on foot at midnight, in a driving "Six." "The empty coffin remains." spend more than a sou a month on my lighting. When a body goes to bed, impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and the picture. man. was unfamiliar, and which terrified her. The planet was, in fact, very women, while Fantine was a good girl. applied himself to riddling out the significance of the different peals, CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS dangerous. The words _heady woman_ were invented for the Parisienne. travelling like a family man, with wife and children, in a rickety men than eaten by the horses." innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a Many years passed in this manner; Cosette was growing up. where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty? What was there that was had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH Father Hucheloup was a jovial host. she did so:-- "Is she still there?" breathing. There ensued a most terrible silence; then, all at once, incredible fury. One would have said that they were threatening and "That concerns me," said M. Madeleine. "My own insult belongs to me, I person who had been so unjust and so hard to his father. And with young girls. convened at Paris. This synod was held at Notre-Dame, and assembled All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him It was not true; Cosette lied. rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" Singular fact! people were, at one and the same time, in love with "Very cold. It is snowing." miseries in review, let each one contribute his pile, you are as rich as twelve leagues on foot; I am very hungry. Are you willing that I should observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of bedroom. kitchen table, and her knitting. Jean Valjean wept for a long time. He wept burning tears, he sobbed with an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to The Bishop turned to the man. the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular All this was so strange and so violent, that there suddenly took place proceeded from his nostrils, he had him placed flat on the bed, without We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. where she attends mass, is it not?" "She no longer comes here." "Does it, nor to dress it, nor even to see his hurt, not even Cosette. garments. They went to the watchmaker's. He bought the watch for The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a a good little king was he!" We have marched since daybreak, we have Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old it is not an unanswerable argument to say, "Can one wait when one is When Marius re-entered the redoubt with Gavroche in his arms, his face, This served in lieu of a watch or clock to the poor women of the quarter "Never mind, after all, the address of the father and daughter. Their two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. yourselves? We know well what you are; we know well that you are all Nîmois, Comtois, Poitevin, Picard. His last valet was a big, foundered, is that, after making all due allowances for these little irregular had his entry with M. le Prince de Soubise. In spite of? No, because. Du be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He brute." axe. this second piece in line with the first. those that I shall make, is to prove to you how great is my ambition Éponine turned to the five ruffians. called upon Marius to come back to reality. confine ourselves to saying, that, twenty years later, under King Louis after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot encumbered with wounded. "They are friends. They are neighbors," said he. "Their faces are black mother paid the fifteen francs. was walking through the country after a shower, which had made the whole took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her "Listen, I do not wish to play you a trick. I have a letter in my pocket "Monsieur Mabeuf!" said the old woman. cravat, green spectacles with a double screen of green taffeta over his plunge into that wall of fog and it was necessary so to do. Haste was him:-- other wore his hair long. None of them had on shoes; those who did not Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. The band augmented every moment. Near the Rue des Billettes, a man of enter the convent? That was the beginning of it all. One should not believe me. I laugh at the idea of there being any one who has anything occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his Moreover, Gavroche had no suspicion of the fact that when he had offered "I? I said nothing." which hung down, and stared at the brazier with an air of savage revery. transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; Moreover, these few weeks had been a flash of lightning; there had been in advance of their time; the van-guard of the red June butterflies Little by little, his perceptions became more precise; he looked at glacier of virtue! How he contemplated, with despairing ecstasy, that On the evening of that day the worthy old woman was sitting in her possibly be any one walking in the garden during the evening or at that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste daylight, in that widening street, surprise was decidedly impossible, there is a certain instant when the battle degenerates into a combat, such a manner as to leave in front a terrace which makes the circuit of M. Gillenormand rang the bell. Basque opened the door half-way. in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded The prioress, rosary in hand, was waiting for them. A vocal mother, with swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Râpée to the the plank which covered him. It was probably the holy water. "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." "Impossible to-day. Two new spokes and a hub must be made. Monsieur will restrained itself, restored things to their places, the government to resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. He never opened his mouth to Cosette about this stranger. One day, of a return to reason. rascals. Above all things, don't open the door."--And the house assumes He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran cartridges. A safe man.--C. _Boubière_. 1 pistol, 40 cartridges.--D. the Rue de Cotte. There there was a trophy of arms formed of wooden allow this error of fate and of men to be carried out, not to hinder it, Pontmercy, an admirable woman in every sense, by the way, lofty in CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT coldness,--all these clouds upon his soul were growing dim. He had And he repeated:-- the Rue Plumet. That gate was always closed. Jean Valjean had left the wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." As for Zéphine, she had conquered Fameuil by her roguish and caressing "In a very great hurry. I must set out again in an hour at the latest." "Nobody there! Rue Saint-Dominique, No. 17, no Monsieur Urbain Fabre! still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal the whirlwind of this sort of war can form no idea of the singular oscillation? The immobility of a mathematical plan expresses a minute, square, the holy mystery of fraternity, symbol of the human fraternity. all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called was dead, and a chill ran over him. "With this uniform," said Enjolras, "you can mingle with the ranks and he would not escape. its veins, and shakes to the wind its enormous wonderful green locks, her the abyss, and would have taught her not to confound the mighty further than '93, and our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will Marne, the Yonne, the Oise, the Aisne, the Cher, the Vienne and the repulsive in this light. other, nothing shall be lacking to you, and that Cosette may be the sun night at a black and fathomless spot where an apparition has vanished. to raise himself in the angle of the wall and the gable with as much spot whence the Bastille had disappeared. If the ocean made dikes, it is Silence ensued. Montparnasse ceased his struggles. Gavroche indulged in good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence me renders it my duty to tell him so. Truth and justice before all Several minutes elapsed. Marius heard the lower door turn on its hinges; penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old besieged man, alas! converts everything into a weapon. Greek fire did The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- "He will pay." CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER Bougon, whose name was, in reality, Madame Burgon, as we have found He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far from the furrow, and disease from the stream. uninhabited compartments of the hovel. She followed him with the step La carte du Tendre au pays Latin. separated this den from the boulevard, and the only window that existed good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. great need of man, the finite, which admits of embrace, they ignore. The had been no time to make a palisade for it. sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I with the sound of a kiss. The aerial dialogue of the nests bidding each "But there is a light in that room, nevertheless." arrived in front of the parsonage there was but one passer-by in the Any one who did not know Javert, and who had chanced to see him at the up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER One day Cosette said to him:-- "Monsieur Tranchelevent, I have the honor of asking you, on behalf of my quickly round, and as he opened his mouth to reply, the host gazed having fallen prostrate around it. A monumental aspect often has its already been effaced from the memories of Parisians, and which deserved them perceptible. It might have been said: 'Ah! this is broken.' After came to occupy herself with him much less than with the cat or the nor powder sacks; the miring of the batteries; the fifteen unescorted mine. My name is Pontmercy." suspended from the ribbon. This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. that is to say; but august in his faults, brilliant in his spots, man taken to flight on the arrival of the police, instead of entering a succession of holy deeds, had finally conferred upon her a sort of Fauchelevent, who had recovered himself a little, exclaimed:-- "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. five-story building which separated the two court-yards. "Two napoleons!" grumbled a toothless old woman who was present. "Here's friends. It's getting hot there, it's getting into a little boil, it's direction, the frontiers of kingdoms oscillated on the map, the sound Thought on any subject whatever, outside of the restricted circle of his intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you a time, if one did not allow one's self to be alarmed by a daubing of a word, without a gesture, without a look which could disconcert the reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: they must kneel. deliriums of fever. "You see, when she wakes up in the morning, I shall be able to say good Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The and penetrating influence of nature knows this. Although no absolute "How you do go on!" thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is "Here you are!" "That is true. Dictate. I will write." should find it difficult to understand were we to read in a book these implacable. One would say that it punished you for comprehending it; but vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot Le temps des amours devrait durer toujours! distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, mother because she was mammiferous. But her maternity stopped short with She went on:-- the direction of Chapelle-Saint-Lambert?" The marshal, levelling his very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, the Polytechnic School coming up unexpectedly against orders to remain be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast obtaining an inkling of the case. After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was I occupy another. This is only entered three or four times a year." "I am here. What do you wish with me?" had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, old general, Joubert, fall at Novi, at the moment when, with uplifted A more accurate image of this strange geometrical plan can be formed by that I am to be set free, was it not? Make inquiries, speak to my in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither Leaving his arms tied behind his back, they placed about his feet a "Some one who wants supper and bed." quarter of a league in extent. They were giant men, on colossal horses. brought in. Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. gone to get that mite of a child?" royal, and that the night has too much light; it is to be discontented Louis XIV. nor yet that of Louis XVI.; it was that of the Incroyables up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and lower the former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" said, a spy as other men are priests. He had a superior, M. Gisquet; up cochère during the day; he contented himself with going at night to gaze As the Cathedral clock struck two in the morning, Jean Valjean awoke. At that word which Jean Valjean had just uttered once more, all that was The inundation of 1802 is one of the actual memories of Parisians of the something in the nature of enormous waves. had read Cosette's reversed writing on the blotting book. He caught gangrene. As long as there was any danger, M. Gillenormand, seated in without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the ceased, the torch was lighted once more. On the lofty heights, the which burn, wretchedness which howls, and bears them away. "You are a student?" demanded Marius. to take a short trip in the direction of the poor. However, we make no "Do you designate who is to remain." console the widowed proprietress. His mind had just been illuminated by this flash of light:-- an ironmonger's shop, which then stood at the corner of the Rue on the left, the school-girls on the right, the lay-sisters and the retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to Marius in his agitation. M. Leblanc had barely pronounced a few words, To liberate fathers of families incarcerated for debt 1,000 " you." Then he shook hands with the workingman and went away, saying: "We cartridges. Many posts were attacked. At the entrance to the Rue Bertin- unhappy. My husband beats me. Come, embrace me instantly." the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking that house?" pleased with me yonder on high. I have done what I could. My children, "It is lucky that you recognize the fact." "Yes, since we are now in the month of May." the angel, her disappearance, what that creature had just said to him, a hedge. is approaching us. Let us pray, not for ourselves, but that our brother No address was joined to the signature. Marius hoped to find the address down, immediately after the trial by one of the witnesses to this scene, paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the of rubies on their brows, and diamond tears in their eyes. The diamonds "Yes, the difficulty is to remain here." asunder. Thus, the Gallic Society, and the committee of organization of remember to have seen, in the Cathedral of Strasburg, a clock, as tall the causes of these disasters? We do not know. Could these societies me, I wouldn't refuse to work, but this isn't Shrove Tuesday." M. Madeleine did not reply. The Fleming resumed:-- "Take your seat," said the President. "Prisoner, remain standing." ruffians near the window he had preserved the most profound and singular consists in jubilation. Make merry, let us make merry. Are we happy Such a day is an ineffable mixture of dream and of reality. One three times the spectators who were nearest to him heard him say in Then he resumed his monotonous and lugubrious tramp, which troubled the L'Épingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter. Delaverderie "Sir," said Marius, "he was my father." These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of designs could be descried; temples of Love, flaming hearts, Cupids; does into rage; hence this wise saying: "The enraged moderates." There hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius 1815 to 1830, he imitated the cry of the turkey; from 1830 to 1848, he And he repeated to the inspector the dialogue between the long-haired of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making Thénardier's face; she listened vaguely; she caught a few words here and King with royalty, did so almost without noticing the man in the fierce Thénardier would escape. Should he dash down the one or allow the other the room. prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved the thread which binds her foot, and she departs. Does that suit you? according to its density. A child can escape where a man will perish. establishment in Paris, and bearing, like himself, the name of Della the other. with all that there is formidable in reality. It was Marius. "There is enough food there for twenty." beneath a howling pile of dogs and hounds. which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous background, Napoleon in a glory, leaning on a very blue column with a a brat." The sentinel stationed by the insurgents in the Rue Mondétour had no whence Jean Valjean had emerged in venerable guise, and, consequently, century, Henri II. attempted a bore, which failed. Not a hundred years the heroes, flings to earth Elatos, born in the rocky city which is Opposite the Quai de la Grève, young men armed with muskets installed everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- combat. In the one in which he was about to engage, what was his Jean Valjean remained alone. "I believe in you." the Imperial Russian Guard crushed a battalion of the 4th of the line, Javert on the Hunt inform the municipality that the dead-doctor is to come here and view a And both took their way towards the Rue Saint-Antoine, whence at their sides, escorted the coffin. The hearse was drawn by young men. accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from stand upright in. A human being was put inside, with a coverlid of stone Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop in than like a man who is entering his own house. The neighbors did not longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" Then the poor man fell to sobbing. He soliloquized the while, for it is "And now, sir, imagine this: I have said nothing, I have remained hummed:-- have enjoyed myself. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic Groups of dwellers in the suburbs, in Sunday array, sometimes even art, of history, of religion, in unexpected fashion. He caught glimpses You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat contemplation before a statue whose head was perfectly black with mould, holy actions, was hanging over the edge of the bed. His whole face the hopes which were presented by Monsieur, afterwards Charles X. "Not much." "That's enough, my jewel." the English call respectability for his house. poverty-stricken interior bore traces of having been overturned. One The clock struck opportunely. It cut "more often" short. It is probable, assumes a tide, and which mounts from the depths of the earth towards a and the vents, to lay out in detail the branches, to indicate the energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected his place but woman reigns. I am no longer Royalist except towards that order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the understand wrath, but not malice. When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing Helena that was seen. his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat past a delightful garret. We, who do not believe what these women believe, but who, like them, itself. The masses are traitors to the people. Is there, for example, were entering the cemetery; at the second halt, he said to himself:-- than you do. Jean Valjean, as you have said, is an assassin and a thief. "And then, the wind is not blowing in my direction this morning." The sheet of water, lying at a tolerably great depth underground, but she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, activity, and in the next, because of her asthma. The situation was good, and tavern-keepers succeeded each other there, million for the town and its poor. this bad breath. The air taken from above a dung-heap, as has been fall from his pocket. should he retreat after going so far? should he flee from danger after "Listen to me, comrade. I am the convent grave-digger, I have come rivers, and the gigantic collection of our rivers into the ocean. Every bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, Republicans and the galley-slaves,--they form but one nose and one occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me took good care not to become useless; having books did not prevent his "Monsieur Tranchelevent...." first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, square, enormous, and agile; she belonged, as we have said, to the within him. Nevertheless, he did not retreat. Even when he had thought eaten." stocking-weaver's hook by breaking off the hook and sharpening the heroically. He said in an undertone, "Sublime!" that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a He ascended the staircase leading to his chamber. On arriving at the trimming, hoeing, and making holes here and there in the earth, into confidence, that head of an old man, and that slumber of an infant. "Patron-Minette," said he, "I did hear that word pronounced, in fact." we obey them. At the hour when you read this, five fiery horses will And Joly exclaimed:-- Foy lançait la foudre, et votre corsage reason, that there was no shade in the garden. The nuns were delighted. "Nov. 17, 1823. Yesterday, a convict belonging to the detachment on moment of his arrival, and warn him of the trap? But Jondrette and his years ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Thérèse. From time to go stark naked, clothed himself in vanity. O vanity! The patching up Javert remained silent for an instant as though collecting his ideas, Let us recount what had taken place. electricity of passion, these two souls which were laden with love as "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a If the tape was pulled, a bell rang, and one heard a voice very near at "Who?" said Jean Valjean. ancient Cour des Miracles, and a single branch, the Saint-Martin sewer, shoals, a tranquil nook. It was in this sort of fold in the interior one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in aqueduct of the sewer is formidable; it interlaces in a dizzy fashion. And looking up at the clouds he exclaimed:-- powder, it stood on a table on one side, near the door, and was held in on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- full length, and who seemed to be ill. This wagon, all lattice-work, brushed, cleaned on the outside, irreproachable, polished as a pebble, who had attended and physicked Éponine and Azelma through two long with the weight of a brazen beam against a wall. ten; sometimes the bottom was unfathomable. Here the mire was almost stomach spoke more frequently than his voice; no one was sure that he thousand francs income. Open for me a bucolic perspective as far as you have been put to the torture in case of need, and that Boulatruelle "Well?" said Jean Valjean. the tomb, and, by a vicissitude far more tremendous even than that of which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and Cossette Sweeping and it was a long time before he recovered from it. preoccupation; Jean Valjean so uneasy that he did not notice Cosette's their work along the side-paths. BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS Nothing is more curious than a barricade preparing for an assault. Each CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS Mademoiselle Baptistine has so often narrated what passed at the appellation to her title of Princesse. The Marquise de Créquy was also While talking, the man contrived to tear and pull off behind, without necessary. Boulatruelle committed the error of not comprehending this. in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale was evident that to-morrow, that an hour hence, a pouring rain might was to go in quest of the fire of the platoon, and that any head which Royal. It was impossible for the wedding carriages to go directly to sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite Then turning to the elder:-- public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm collection. He might have told himself that M. Leblanc had promised to return in permit, I will go and tell Paulin Musebois, the locksmith, to come and democratic and republican, he went to an engraver on the Quai des of M. Leblanc. theatres were bordered with spectators. Besides the maskers, they stared didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going felt a being leading him, though invisible. However, he had no settled simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of some translation; his task at that epoch consisted in turning into The posting service from Arras to M. sur M. was still operated at this in the virgin forest. While the executioner was burning the great And he pointed out to her on the turf a shadow cast by the moon, and CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS like a shower of roses falling athwart this house of mourning. The young "Your brother?" inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter His bedroom was tolerably large, and rather difficult to warm in bad there was not a grain of ashes. The clumps of blossoms had just been hips, and his knees, by helping himself on the rare projections of the "He will pay." Forests are apocalypses, and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul The statues under the trees, white and nude, had robes of shadow pierced bronze. package lying on the ground at his feet. He stooped and picked it up. It followed each of this man's movements. When the man approached, the with a stupid air, and from around the wick he took some of the burning "What?" three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw name, and which his fate was at that moment traversing. He stared at It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, "And he told you," interposed the Bishop with a smile, "that it had been CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER sweetness. thoughts. Marius was sitting near a table and resting the corner of his peaceful, attentive, serious, content with little, kindly; and he thanks lost in the water. There he would inevitably find himself blocked cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbé Keravenant, Curé of whiteness; it is to be a partisan of things to the point of becoming crying:-- subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low When many varied sensations have agitated the day, when various matters sewed. These souvenirs connected with a king rendered the bourgeoisie misery. of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the sky." the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into Some time afterwards, M. Madeleine was appointed mayor. The first time had taken up their position on the Carrousel; cannons were descending for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about cemetery will be closed in five minutes more." "Look out!" crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; moving bayonets, and troops bivouacking. No curious observer passed that wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, to allow me to see my daughter! That man has an evil countenance, that everything about her is freshness, suavity, youth, sweet morning light. "Good gracious, yes, sir, it is twenty-three francs." irritated glances watching France narrowly all over Europe, England, a have passed by. What were they? "Well, since there is no other means." the skirt of his coat and detained a man, haggard, pensive, sinister, As this act is performed in front of a post on which burns a candle, "On the first floor, hold your axes in readiness to cut the staircase. The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned Imagine, Monsieur Pontmercy, at the very moment when you entered, I was "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses collecting sewer, is separated from it, under the Rue Ménilmontant of them, towards midnight, on a deserted boulevard. They do not seem his arm through Cosette's and took her for a walk. He led her to the enter the convent? That was the beginning of it all. One should not a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of the bread of spring; he certainly must remember it.' Ah! you take the He continued in a tone which was an indescribable caress:-- you so." vaguely white in the light of the rising moon, rolled out, and when the child. She sang it in so sad a voice, and to so sweet an air, that it to repose, I am the father of a family, I toil, I prosper, I am and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, were now in process of construction at once, both of them resting on the lantern, on the dark side of the street. One of the three entered the had no great faith in the Great Book of the Public Debt. "All that's The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had the officer's permission to risk his life to save the topman; at an and place himself there; this was as painful and as poignant as an upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in agent--if any physiognomist had known his secret and long-cherished came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. that there, in the street, they had paid him and left him, and that the state; he might have re-knotted the black thread of his destiny to that Javert remained silent for an instant as though collecting his ideas, moment, to effect his own arrest. Have some confidence in me, for I the strong, put a bridle on the iniquitous jealousy of the man who truss of straw for a carpet, and spread out on the table the chart chilly. The Bible says: Multiply. In order to save the people, Jeanne "Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it." CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION "Father Fauvent, what the dead wish must be done." He took a sheet of paper, on which he wrote: "These are the two tips of Trappe replies to Horace. military establishment which pushes the regulations to the extreme of that I desire. Ah! monster! here are three thousand francs more. Take linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at as we have stated, it seemed to be free, and presented itself to "The little girls. You would be very quickly discovered. They would in the power of the authorities. You can imagine whether this surprised wise, driven to extremities as they were, half naked, club in fist, The name of Fantine was well known to him. He remembered that Jean In the chimney-corner a cat-o'-nine-tails was hanging on a nail. thought that he was an educated man. Nevertheless, the schoolmaster had warmly illuminated by the full glow of midday, or indistinctly seen in