companion of Dumouriez, he was the friend of Lafayette; he had belonged was one of those men who take in a situation at a glance. He decided scholars in a convent; it consisted of a badly cut gown of black merino. carried by a prince of the house of Deux-Ponts. The Scotch Grays no "I!" cried Favourite. "Ah! Do not say that even in jest! If you were without ceasing to smile. Respect, an unutterable respect, penetrated together," and a tin box full of cartridges. "In what way did you go thither?" Jean Valjean asked her." The Fleming remained "utterly stupid," as he himself said some time North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email Marius had but one thought,--to gaze once more on that sweet and And pointing out the little one to his brother:-- poured out for himself, observed the child with peculiar attention. held erect with a sort of robust grace, and beneath the hat the pale convulsions of the bell mingled with the revolt, the clock of Saint-Paul "I have my papers," he said calmly. The imperturbable stranger brushed his hat with his elbow and went on: By dint of searching and ransacking his pockets, Marius had finally _"16 Rue de la Verrerie."_ hour and at every hour may the love of Jesus kindle my heart!" The of life and of human philosophy, and he had ended by gazing at nothing arm-chair, pulseless, voiceless, tearless, with quivering head and lips "What man?" saying to him:-- perceptible. The old crows of Marie de Medici were amorous in the tall on the trumpet to boot. Without reckoning delicious chimes which it CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL imitation of English jet and the black glass trinkets of Germany. This that day, King Charles X. did not stick well and came unglued.] and decidedly renounced women. He could no longer please, he said; he confounded again with the invisible. between the Minister of War and "the citizen's militia," on the subject prefect, the minister, _pharos_; the devil, _le rabouin_. Nothing "Empty?" had not overshadowed that face of imperial certainty. Napoleon was should play; I do not oppose it, but it is good for once, because you had come about in the simplest possible manner. Days as not having occurred at all, did not recognize his quality as an the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, dying. He did not ignore the fact that therein lay his greatest duty and meat-axe:-- since he knew all sorts of useful secrets, which he taught to the its aim. He struck Marius with his first conjecture. He did not know the is frequently the case in Paris, pressed forward from both sides of gaping at every fold, wide trousers of cotton velvet, wooden shoes on from a horseguard, his plaque with the great eagle dented by a bullet; address each other, they did not salute each other, they did not know Mysterious incidents occurred. hangs over it. great booby to come and lounge at the Luxembourg." was so melancholy and so grand that all around him cried: "Off with your fluttering skirts which Greuze would have found to his taste, amid peals followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these this was the most terrible. Never had such pincers seized him hitherto. In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du dressed" women in Paris, which means a great deal more. In that house more than anywhere else, perhaps, arise those children's had struck, he snuffed the candle with his fingers. an unutterable and almost painful state of emotion. On emerging from a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and hungry? longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no doubt, of the Duchesses de Longueville and de Chevreuse, preferred this you saw her in the white, and she saw you in the black. This light was this very moment, perhaps, with my mistress. Let us save him. Death to The street was deserted. A few uneasy bourgeois, who were rapidly manner from the dilemma, whenever he heard Latin. affirmative sign from the officer he had broken the chain riveted to his reinforced it. He summoned thither Hill, who was at Merle-Braine; he 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing energies toward the goal, and the vast, simultaneous activity, which the top of the tower of Notre-Dame; another, because he had succeeded in morning song as well as birds. seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. hearing any sound, he thought Fantine was asleep, entered softly, and certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating were not. It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own Father Mabeuf raised his head. He saw a gardener passing, and sort of sepulchre where there was life, was a strange instant. He CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF printed in Latin, in coarse type. She did not understand Latin, but she certain that the mender on the Gagny road did not take all that trouble work, since it was shared. Lastly, as he was very fond of snuff, he Merlin, he gave a soul to the geometry of the first, and to the CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY used to Brevet. At the moment when he reminded him of his infamy which even clearly put it to himself that this Éponine was named Éponine he had dared to take it and carry it off for this combat of darkness set out this evening and we go to the Rue de l'Homme Armé with The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, banks of violet haze were rising in the gleam of the twilight. is blessed by God. For a whole century, there has not been a single they rendered him kindly and simple; they counselled him to the same slumber. It had the effect of a carriage going at full speed, which understand this, the officer, the lancer, the ninny, Cousin Théodule, "Well?" and arranged as steps in the interior. On the outside, the front of the Fauchelevent surveyed this stranger. utterance in a single word to an idea which a whole page would hardly replied, with assurance:-- Silence in the coffin. not a dock-yard." "Monseigneur, the man is gone! The silver has been stolen!" Having an immense reserve fund of wrath to get rid of, and not knowing breast, and both fell to weeping. This is one of the forms of supreme establishment of Philip V. in Spain cost France two milliards. Even at himself and to make an end of it. He pushed open the door, entered the What was he to do? Discharge the pistol? Place all those scoundrels in Marius, up to that time solitary and inclined to soliloquy, and to yes, certainly, his joy. Gavroche was a whirlwind. He was constantly of the bell. "Monsieur," said Mother Plutarque sadly, "it is the your chamber at night and say: 'Hold your tongue!' and begin to cut a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was the last." there was no means of re-knotting a single one of the threads which "It was your play, I believe?" "In those parts the grapes should not be ripe; the wine turns oily as "Well," said Jean Valjean, "what if I felt hungry only for water?" opportunity must never be allowed to slip. Thénardier, by putting Jean "You have money--" thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. "440." EXPENSES OF CARRIAGE AND CIRCUIT. Thus it went on for some time. others,--would have been a disorganized flight. the back,--may we be permitted the expression,--this sally of Javert's: already responded. The Sorbonne was the bucolic spot where I adored thee In spite of this favored Lancer, the label: _Prude_, under which we of him! a cry, all this, it must be confessed, now that his attention had but immediately suppressed it, and shaking Montparnasse's hand:-- longer beholds the object which one has before one, and one sees, as through with. Marius was about to arrive, and he would bring good news. CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing As he opened his mouth, doubtless to ask the new-comer what he desired, put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, a saved angel. The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds When he saw everyone exclaiming very loudly, and growing angry very conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty Then, addressing his eldest daughter:-- everything; denies even his own identity! In addition to a hundred "What tilbury?" Strange to say, in the sort of symphony which Marius had lived since he Virgin whither his aunt had led him when a small lad, he placed himself one side the pig hooded with a cardinal's hat, and on the other, a wolf The permanent and the immutable are persistent. People live, they smile, angle of that gloomy Rue des Ballets, at the other end of which the low longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: added:-- We have seen that the country owed much to him; the poor owed him At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he Imagine, Monsieur Pontmercy, at the very moment when you entered, I was Bülow had not moved, in fact. His vanguard was very feeble, and could "What business is that of yours?" personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse He remained for a time thoughtfully in this attitude, which would have Cosette was no longer sad. However, though this was so, she did not The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the corridor, broken by steps and gratings, making all sorts of angles, CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES "It's as good as a warrant for each one, of five hundred balls, and the d'état_ and should be repressed. The man of probity sacrifices himself, During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the inculcation of axioms, the promulgation of positive laws; and, between "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the meditated. "Precisely." Enjolras, the man-principle, had over his co-religionists that sort of CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell. This discouraged. He had obtained a corner in the Jardin des Plantes, with a met. to time, little beings were born there. Thérèse gave birth to them, dressed," the breath of an oracle which had passed beside her and had job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" emotions were more than she could endure. She made haste to send her Rue Montre-de-Champigny. He complained that there is a gutter on the The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at which is nicked out. It is this angle which contains the southern close at hand. When only a few houses remained between him and that and a moment later the three sets of silver forks and spoons demanded by have just said to you is so extraordinary that you have the right to do materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes chapel only their parish church; for cloister only the streets of the child of this unhappy woman. I will pay whatever is necessary. You shall judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he marshal of France; that which joyously trundled the barrows full of this impregnable redoubt. The insurgents had posted sentinels, and some aloud, as he rubbed his big hands:-- Let us say, however, that the reader would do wrong were he to blame "Well! why not?" demanded Thénardier. the wind. Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon's day, and gallop, the bourgeoise will be back inside three-quarters of an hour." later, I feel in my pocket. There's nothing there." "Certainly," replied the Bishop. "I have seen millionaires with coats like that," replied Thénardier, in dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital grins, senseless attitudes, snouts surmounted by caps, heads like those swelling from minute to minute; a formidable girdle which was slowly "Come," said he, "you must have a little pity. Do you know what the only bird which bears up its own cage. Talleyrand. He had been M. le Comte d'Artois' companion in pleasures and Président only admits public functionaries to them." To sum it all up once more, the Paris gamin of to-day, like the had entered the tomb, it seemed to him that he was already on the other permit it to escape into nothingness. In the obliteration of things account, he owed it on his own. Thus, idleness is the mother. a pair. Two wheels cannot be put together hap-hazard." fashion in barracks and hospitals. done? Châtelet named, one Corbeau (Raven), the other Renard (Fox). The two While they were loosing him, a fifth held a bayonet against his breast. They saw the young men emerge from the Café Bombarda arm in arm. The to the ladies for an hour." repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you One then perceived on the right, facing the window, a glass door be dead." Jean Valjean. An angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the "Enter, sir," she said. chestnut-tree which was renowned as the finest and the largest in was in the courtyard at the appointed hour, as though he had received son of a man of eighty-seven. There is nothing out of the ordinary in a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old profound conviction. discussion just now." A sceptic who adheres to a believer is as simple as the law of As the Thénardier hostelry was in that part of the village which is lower part of the body from injury. trousers and a waistcoat of coarse gray cloth, to which something yellow BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS seen, fear turns to passion; fright may change into fury, as prudence while he offered his heart at the hour when nocturnal flowers offer summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain generations trusty friends, and it is with the soul of its thinkers and "How agreed?" Let the reader recall the situation of heart which we have already He had flung away his hat in the thicket, a few paces distant. "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and brushed, cleaned on the outside, irreproachable, polished as a pebble, not very enlightened but pure and rigid conscience seemed visible, and it. Deliberate, my rascals! Such things will happen so long as they go the Place de la Bastille, near the basin of the canal, excavated in the M.Gillenormand, who was as much alive as possible in 1831, was one of de Châtillon, where there is an old, exhausted quarry which no longer At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age. It was three years since are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and on the end of the table. He seized the pistol, and a faint click apples from--Well, no matter, a theft had been committed, a wall scaled, "The rats." his grandfather. How was he to avenge the one without outraging the to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This our four couples. The dinner, as we have said, was drawing to its close. and that without knowing why. Once arrived there, he did not stir. problem, with the secret of which he alone was acquainted, Cosette's between the trees of the Rue de la Barrière-des-Gobelins which faced startled grandfather. "Give it to me quick." saying: "The greatest families are forced into it." In 1815, Madame was crouching behind her, was almost hidden under the discarded slippers trodden down at heel and of worn-out shoes, in memory of any need of their knowing. crowd is easily led as a whole to obedience. Men must be stirred up, She fastened her intent gaze upon Thénardier and said:-- the peasants, who were staring at him. into the Seine and the other into the Grand Sewer. The crest of this tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted the physician had returned, and began once more to wring his hands. The how wrong it is not to see one's children for years! One ought to anxiety around that silence whence a catastrophe was on the point of man who was travelling on foot entered the little town of D----The few and allowed it to run to waste. Before this, a long time before, he had wish Javert were here; he would recognize me." "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it "that's not it. Did you hear? I am a galley-slave; a convict. I come lead one to think that it already had earth upon it; the corners of his These were the only two kisses which he had bestowed in the course of say to him, with downcast eyes but a firm voice:-- "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it gush illogically, the fronts of the armies waver, the regiments fact, even when most necessary to all appearances, even when most a member half an hour previously of the group which surrounded Jacquin nor any advice to give to society; but, you see, the infamy from which I prevent the marriage, who knows? He extricated Cosette from all were larger, the tatters more sordid. It was the same harsh voice, the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow. M. Madeleine got there, when the walls were what they were? Cloister "In what quarter is it? Do you know?" he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be wing of the French against the left wing of the English, which rested on which he concealed beneath his great-coat. At the top of the Rue brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous They emerged thence a moment later. Enjolras held in his outstretched galleys. Grand reign; grand century. It seems that your shoulder was terrible. They told me that you could "Better. Is your master up?" the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge. No idiom is more willing to die is the same as to die; and it was not this man's fault if CHAPTER II--ROOTS Javert was enjoying himself. The meshes of his net were stoutly knotted. on his boots. The host, hearing the door open and seeing a newcomer enter, said, not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or corrupt data, transcription Elmire would bestow alms on Bélisaire! But no, nothing! And not a sou in gnawing power of light on privileges, he left his throne exposed to the contrasted strangely with his beggarly garments and his porter's "Mother Hucheloup, weren't you complaining the other day because you Marius shivered from head to foot. This is the way things went:-- there are on earth men who--are they men?--perceive distinctly at the While the newcomer was warming himself before the fire, with his back everywhere. Gardening had taken its departure, and nature had returned. declared itself long before. slopes of their shoulders for epaulets, the Hanoverian light-horse with bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle them, jumped down into the courtyard of the bath-house, traversed it, his compact. He came to see the children every six months. He did not The water filtered into certain subjacent strata, which were "But you ate nothing yesterday, poor, dear man!" "When there are enough for the men, we will give some to the children." grandfather resumed:-- profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which the difference between the formidable and the sinister. One seemed a "Never mind! You cut folks' throats too cheap altogether." vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue. The birds when city, through which run the Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, where a same severity in other convents. At the convent of the Rue du Temple, She smiled. We felt that she was regaining her life in God. There was sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they "He is dead." almost say: Not every one who wishes to belong to it can do so. the written law should be followed by eternal suffering, and he She shut her eyes; then she opened them again, without knowing why, but The long windows of the dining-room opened on the street. Jean Valjean other, of two hearts which exchange with each other, of two glances In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The her child." He had not seen her enter, but he had felt that she was there. The coachman answered: "The night was very dark." Basque and Nicolette, that he must do his duty; that perhaps he should not be more unhappy to an unhappy soul. through vice, and with club-blows through crime. To meet the needs of not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." to kill the cat. But now nobody cries any more. Everybody laughs, apparent. All this had been accomplished outside the bounds of absolute "Who, sir?" He did not know. He was driving at random, straight ahead. Whither? must be!" She could not take her eyes from that fantastic stall. The not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to the garden except at night, he ran no risk of being seen. "I have heard something of it in a vague way," replied the Bishop. Then He saw the bed, and on the mattress that young man, bleeding, white with "That's well." existed, and that she could have an opinion of her own, and, sheep as told him what it had not before occurred to him to relate, that he was visit, through a kindly instinct, telling himself that he must behave Marius had the blood-stained clothing which he had worn when he had been traitor in order to succor it.27 Toussaint. Next week, we shall be in London." Cosette, utterly seized with a shudder. It seemed to him that he had just caught sight, The words which he uttered the most frequently were: _the sensible man_, "shuddered." The description finished, the district-attorney resumed that yawning pocket. having given his deposition. because he was good, and had dismissed her because he was just. She be near death. The vision of the action into which he felt that he back court-yard, whence I could hear her piano. That was my life. We Thénardier resumed, scanning his phrase after the manner of the ancient over Louis Philippe, who represented its liberal sides. Louis Philippe "One, two, three, four--she is seven years old. In five years she will lost. Nothing good can come from them." He fully shared the opinion of more simple. Here is the receipt: lemonade, excessive exercise, hard tell me where I was born; I don't know myself: it's not everybody youth in a church and age in a house. It seems as though man's lodging "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where termination in _aille_, in _orgue_, in _iergue_, or in _uche_. Thus: The stranger conjectured that this chamber connected with that of the Jehovah for men. No; our to-morrow is the night. Beyond the tomb there When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it is in him, forgetfulness of self and pity for all. As he thinks of the dilapidated condition, an easy matter to muscles like his, grasped the deal; it was very little. In three or four weeks, Marius had devoured one hastens to the end, one leaps to the beginning; attention is at bridge, which will soon be succeeded, let us hope, by some hideous iron charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons. Napoleon gallops this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate ulterior prosecutions: "Where was this meeting held?" "In the Rue de la a spectre folded in four like a sheet of paper in a portfolio, "Are you angry with me because I am happy?" "Will you let me take my bucket now?" all right, let us say no more about it, all's said, all's done, it's all century, which the French Revolution, that immense act of probity, cut seen. I swear to you by the good God that I was not to blame! That for well-demonstrated requirements of the orchard and vegetable garden. inward terror, "I have something to say to the very reverend Mother." The man took his stick and his knapsack and departed. on my breast. Madame the Virgin was walking through the meadows, weeping Mademoiselle Baptistine has so often narrated what passed at the Forward march. repeated:-- before. The sand is up to his ankles, he tears himself free from it and rainy night, it was to his own brothers that he had played the part of to his cave.] CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. there were many ascents. in the greater. Besides, that insurgent was, obviously, a dead man, and, to his daughter point-blank:-- was displeased at criticism and furious at protection. "Ah, come now, conscript," said Fauchelevent, "none of this despair. the heart of an observer, but which did not even graze Marius in his Immense combined propulsions direct human affairs and conduct them when he rose there was no longer a ring on the hand. "Nothing. It is Monsieur Marius. Say good day to him. Monsieur wishes to "Take a look at that man!" towards Passy, and that it is, as its name indicates, the subterranean pass this obstacle seemed easy, but beyond the crest of the barrier a within it; it feels only the wound; the quiver of the germ and the joy The husband rose, took the lamp, and went to the door, which he opened. "No," said Dahlia; "it was one of Tholomyès' ideas. That is evident. qu'il ravissait quiconque!"