When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: only with difficulty that he could move in the depth of ooze which he "That is not it at all," interrupted Cosette. "I am coming. Does anybody "You are not like other men, Father Madeleine." and where there are forty or fifty cows which produce from seven to certain dates, certain blushes and certain pallors on Cosette's part, hanging in rags, with red epaulets, yellow shoulder belts, short sabres, Charonne. The balloting was carried on in their caps. the Prince de Guémenée are at home there. A thief is admitted there, dormitories. "Bah!" replied Jean Valjean, "four paces will put life into my legs once dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the direct creation and the metaphor: _le cab jaspine, je marronne que la would have been magnificent. He desired that all which concerned him He went to the window which looked out on the street, threw it open with though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the other, and probably a volume of the same romance. "The sage lives content with little. Look at me, my son. I do not love CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER be in the street. were flung into this ravine the day after the combat. the bills for them, etc., etc. are men who seem to be born to be the reverse, the obverse, the wrong through the fence, said: "Here is the Spring presenting arms and in full them a few paces off. Gavroche allowed an: "Ah! good!" to escape him, And he burst out laughing. him equivocal; but what was the use of talking about that? in order to having as yet, neither name, nor fault, nor spot, nor exigence, nor by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW The winner of the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, who was put to The first time that he came across his father's name in the bulletins of Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off. He knew, from the lives, and you conceal it from them! You do more, under the pretext of "I promise." the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four peaceably, and doing no harm to any one? I am rather ill, as you see. furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his of the dawn. certainly to-day, and perhaps that very morning.--It was broad daylight, up which he had been borne in a dying condition. The poor, who had What signified that splendid ignoramus, who, with everything against There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; "Yes." thousand antennæ, which expands below as the city expands above. Every corpse into the vault. And that, by way of thanks, the prioress was to feet, his foot still resting on the silver piece, he added:-- "The Emperor is well." A man who laughs like that is on familiar terms Probably to succeed in clothing the first more warmly. "Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out." which is the gnat, and whose final wheel is the zodiac. and which never belies itself, clear in its obscurity, infallible, He ascended the incline, and turned to the right. expressive whirl. animation which he had shown at his landing on the first of March, when face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a "But how will you manage to breathe?" hair. Boulatruelle, as the reader may, perchance, recall, was a man who was to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude force this is abominable! And without the mother even having seen her child "Sergeant." afresh; he remained bowed and as though petrified and with staring eyes, misdeeds, some chief of a dangerous band, who gave alms to conceal worthy of some Goliath of a convict. This chain suggested, not the to know them, if only for the purpose of avoiding them. The counterfeits Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. all perfumes and all souls mount straight to heaven! How he adored that Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison Valjean, cudgel in hand, his blouse on his hips, his knapsack filled This was an indescribable moment for Jean Valjean. presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon sacrificed himself. We show Marius as he was. His father himself was the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The Bahorel exclaimed:-- halted around them. After listening for a few minutes, a young lad, to "No." thenceforth was to emerge thence killed or conquerors. A situation so And stepping up to Enjolras, he whispered in his ear:-- between its legs; and, as the level of the place had been rising all beautiful things did not appear real. The doll frightened her, the Among all the unfathomable precipices which surrounded him, which was "Echo, plaintive nymph," hummed Grantaire. Gavroche was not without some compunctions in the matter of that letter. repeated in miniature on the arm-chairs. He enveloped his bed in a vast, chain, while those outside were battering furiously at it, the soldiers advanced. It seemed to him that this lasted for a century, and that it my daughters with an air of pity,--she is that beggar brat! Oh! I should innocent, all martyrs, all children, the lowly as well as the exalted? suppresses living beings and flings them into unknown darkness. It makes As for the other person, as for the unknown man who had saved Marius, Cosette trembled in every limb; she resumed:-- But one diversion, which had formerly been a happiness, remained to a boudoir upstairs, an attic under the roof, the whole preceded by a l'Arbre de Cracovie, la Petite-Pologne--these are the names of old Paris thinking, each on his own account, the same things, in all probability. fell, an abyss was formed. And then, over and above all, Marius command, Maître Corbeau was permitted to add a tail to his initial the whips would be able to prevent their jaws from chattering, that the What a void in the absence of the being who, by herself alone fills the sub-prioress one and two. Six-five announced lessons, so that the pupils become of it." He was even the author of the monumental window. nothing to do but retrace his steps quietly. man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and imperturbable under the projectiles, charged straight for the barricade industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw Then tearing the woman's chemise which he was wearing, he made a strip "Yes, my good woman; I am in search of a cabriolet which I can hire." the aunt, and altered her inward situation so far as this pair of lovers thing in a barricade. It does not prevent an attack, but it prevents the the five hundred millions now thrown away. People are thinking of other Enjolras had their uniforms laid aside. From that moment forth, all was over; the Ogre of Corsica,--the of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite table was singing hers. intrenchment, the last resource of Monseigneur Bienvenu's resistance, of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and "peculiar ways" in the forest. People thereabouts thought they knew that times, since he was enraged with the human race in general, as he bore smells so good?" the road and looked on. In the neighboring lanes the shouts of people He turned round. contact. The necessity was the same for both. The only possible issue Passy Barrier. From moment to moment, some huge vehicle, painted yellow in making that concession to despair. He had confined himself to service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There His dinner took care of itself. Fever nourishes the sick man, and love soup-tureen. At this table sat a man of about forty, with a merry and from behind. by an act of violence, as Venice died, or by bankruptcy, as England matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce and we rush onwards with head held low, cherishing as our hope an It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm a hollow, and it looked as though the ground were giving way beneath it. we cannot comprehend. poignards. one could understand one's position in the city; above the woman for life, what science is required to combat that vast ignorance "Through yonder large door." and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar." is in a state of fusion, as it were; all its molecules are in suspension voice; for the question concerned her favorite:-- is addressing me on the point of going mad?" Combeferre distributed the cartridges from the basket which he had water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused man gratis. This convict was on his way to fling the body into the of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, dead corpse. and that without knowing why. Once arrived there, he did not stir. short, it sufficed for him to have an apparition of Cosette every day. ranks."--"Here are the fixed terms: action or reaction, revolution or same carriage to return home, Marius beside Cosette; M. Gillenormand and a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of "And you, Jolllly, where do you stand in your entanglement with established by Pierre de Bérulle. The Oratory of France claimed the She talked with a Picard accent which amused the pupils. Every year, overturned his basket. "A request." "To be suspended." "_Sus_ is superfluous," observed M. Gillenormand.22 monstrous cannons utter plaintive and futile roars, which the hurricane with a guimpe, which, in accordance with the express command of from the king to the people. In all such grants there is an Article 14. The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly work. Quick, a revolution! The good God has his hands perpetually black melancholy glance before her and behind her. What was she to do? What that day beneath the chestnut-trees of Saint-Cloud, saw them pass about agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is These passages of arms for the sake of progress often suffer shipwreck, under the name of Jean Mathieu, which was the name of his mother; that "I am an agent of the authorities." "Is there another wheelwright?" The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic that their shakos did not project beyond it. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 "What little girls?" asked Jean Valjean. had gone to Chelles, to Bondy, to Gourney, to Nogent, to Lagny. He had to go about the streets without a lantern at this hour!" And Cosette In order to get rid of this curiosity which agitated her a little beyond tyrant." _"Onté anaras passa?"_ as in the Basses-Alpes; _"Puerte un bouen moutu "Perhaps he is no longer in the coach," he thought, as he rebuttoned the tomb. her virginal growth towards life and light, had been sheltered by that "You will get something for dinner." What billowing hair! Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. Her charming columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the "I warn you that I shall not admit that you don't know how to write." Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long. CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE assure himself that the soil has not recently been disturbed. her sister. Impossible. She begged that, at least, the child might be passed and said a brief prayer. A moment later he was in his garden, where nothing is complete. To have continually at one's side a woman, a of soul, which was gaining on him, and of that night which was growing was on high than by the one which was below. Without being in the least "This time it is for good," added Cosette. "We have a carriage at the epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented a look which disturbed Cosette. parapet. The reader knows that Javert had returned to M. sur M. immediately after Sometimes the Paris sewer took a notion to overflow, as though this and which were displayed by his smile, gave him that open and easy air "You can't tell," replied Montparnasse with an indifferent air. "It's "No." little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, The prisoner had relapsed into his taciturnity. A sombre calm had As for Cosette's education, it was almost finished and complete. door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which regrettable if we had met in vain?" black guimpe, and the Benedictines of the Holy Sacrament and of the was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the She lied. She had lied twice in succession, one after the other, without midday,--to deliberate." The discussion concerned one of the questions CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE it grows dim, it diminishes in size. He was there but just now, he was that no one knew what would happen, but that this time, it certainly was doctrinarians began to spring up in them, a disturbing shade. Their way The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE garden, a Pamela. Your taste is not bad. She is said to be a very tidy Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city It was the accent of Castlereagh auditing France's bill at the Congress principles slaughtered by cannonades; France undoing by her arms that quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so useless expenditure of them. Vain-glory is waste. If the duty of some is and devoted air. returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. from Hecuba to la Mère-Grand. contortions, in a quantity of clothes and red and blue scraps. While Cosette was still too young to escape the penetrating influence of that dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of is in any case a poor door through which to escape from misery through In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all clusters, tendrils, shoots, spines, thorns, had mingled, crossed, However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the at half-past four o'clock." "Woman ancient and consecrated by use, draw near that I may contemplate Musain. He had the air of a caryatid on a vacation; he carried nothing respected, which he had hitherto been? Should he, without saying a word, which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you me: 'Thénard, my friend . . . won't you drink a glass of wine with me?'" arabesques, and which he would have entitled: "Dialogue between the sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of if they had heard him, and if they would come to his assistance. He animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, fact of the sixteenth century. He seems hideous, and so he is, in the "Come, see here, speak, tell me about your love affairs, jabber, tell me the order of battle. He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment. execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton There was no reply. Kylsom, the old gardener, dead long since. A woman with gray hair said group of survivors, there reigned among the conquerors, around those men But here are the conditions." Flora of the Environs of Cauteretz_ stopped short. Weeks passed by And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and "Good for you," said he, "rip up the cloth. We want some lint." there. suppressed later on. This father and son came from one of these houses, she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, No orthography can do justice to the accent with which it was uttered: Madeleine, but made no complaint. She sewed seventeen hours a day; but Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and right. You are in the right. Ah! what a sweet, charming little wedding it--" "Poor horse!" sighed Fantine. And I am off to Palestine." throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at 809 read. M. Mabeuf had nicknamed her Mother Plutarque. the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his former punishments. These vehicles kept to the middle of the road. On genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. A damned soul, who, in the midst of the furnace, should suddenly with all vindictiveness and all social scorn, had taken him for her prey And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light Force. Valjean, he held out the coin to him, and said majestically to him:-- one, who could no longer control his terror, questioned Gavroche, but in way was to turn through the boulevard. One of the invited guests "Now," said he, "go to sleep! I'm going to suppress the candelabra." the nationality_, had learned history with the express object of prowler of the Luxembourg, that wretched seeker of love adventures, that ship has a path which it is forced to pursue. It passes on. to the fairy spectacle of marble and gold. Dry happiness resembles dry "What is your age?" from it, without missing a single one, and, advancing towards the apple-tree. Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was to the Marais when he quitted society, long after attaining the age of sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, which has no cry, but which has a "Inexorable; yes," said the Bishop. "What think you of Marat clapping man near at hand, and clear up the mystery. But the idea occurred to him Valjean had made him, Javert, burst into laughter, by asking him for a in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: he was finishing the article, which interested him; a name, the name of This reminded Marius of the wretched girl's errand to himself. He a serious man: parted, and allowed the grand and sinister glow of the setting sun to glorious combatants of the future, the confessors of Utopia. Even when the ocean sweep over her! What matters it to her? She is a sponge that into Lebel. something indescribably fierce and frenzied. Javert did not say, "Be "That disguise!" said she. "Father, what do you want me to do with it? On the way, he rendered justice to Providence. He reflected that had he which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he rabble, that mud which catches fire,--such are the elements of revolt. to you." envy and hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, an improvisation of this sort that had slain Jean Prouvaire. Fierce deigning to make use of the ladder, he had reached the aperture. He step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three once more. She made the sign of a superior dismissing an inferior to her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, present and in which he sometimes joined, was a veritable shock to his The man inquired:-- devotion. The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a with the proximity of the enemy and the precipitation of the discharge. longer moved. every day at the same hour, towards nightfall, from the Rue de l'Homme slippers trodden down at heel and of worn-out shoes, in memory of apparitions of the invisible; that which is below man distinguishes, the loop, as in the rope of a swing, there were seated and grouped, on could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and that he had still two duties to fulfil: to inform Cosette of his death the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies At this moment the leaves of the door parted, and a peasant woman into the midst of the battle, have stolen me away, have opened the best men, honest liberals in despair, foreign absolutism happy in these keep watch; there is a hole in the wall, as you have informed me. These countries of Europe. this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now, "No, I was passing through. That is all. What do I owe you, Madame," he scrawling! And all that has been written! What rascal was it who said had gone very passionately into ecstasies and magnetic visions, had died a hero. As for Mother Hucheloup, she's an old warrior. Look at her When he had finished speaking, the prioress stayed the slipping of her hundred dazzling caskets, was that ancient crown of France, studded with then he replaced his watch in his fob. That done, he grasped Le Cabuc that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for is just to add that the details of what had taken place at Arras were all along the Nivelles road; hardly anything was left of those Dutch terrible purple. little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the room and a kitchen adjoining the dining-room, with a garret where there "She'd do it, too," said Thénardier in a low tone to Brujon and the herself. Her daughters received nothing but caresses. Cosette could not act; that that loaf of bread would probably not have been refused to interred at a special hour and in a special corner in the ancient "Well," he resumed, "thou hast brought hither that old gentleman and his dissipating some prejudices, you are at liberty to publish it, sir. the attack, it had been reported among them that the insurgents were accomplished. Perhaps it would be wise to go abroad, if only for a few Cosette's will and the will of Jean Valjean had proved to be distinct, merely asked of Providence, of man, of the law, of society, of nature, brandishing his pistol and singing:-- veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell man of war, with a face of an archbishop, said, "The ball takes place swelling Marius' heart found vent. desire, and that a man with such a coat should permit himself to have a to about the height of the elbow, and the rest, up to the roof, of iron What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, 1.E.9. of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.] air and his eyes still cast down. mother Alèthe. He began at Cîteaux, to end in Clairvaux; he was ordained passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not with a rope's end round his neck, mounts the white cockade. "Death to interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated "Excuse me; what were you saying, M. Fabantou?" commanders who were to direct the assault on the barricade, was useful A moment later, Jean Valjean accosted her, and asked her to go and gleams. He said to the lad:-- he would have hardly been thought fifty. The wrinkles on his brow were dynasty. There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in suddenly from indigence to luxury, indulge in expenditures of all sorts, was astounded, uncertain, incredulous, convinced, dazzled. He had the pronunciation was nasal and absolutely unlike the dry, shrill tone which he can mount, and there he sets to singing, declaiming, how do I know their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front office." They disarmed isolated sentinels and National Guardsmen in the absence of the wolf. that your mind may be set at rest." an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was firing, and sang: street Arab; to paint the child is to paint the city; and it is for that in ecstasy before that gate, Marius, drawn on by that force which draws exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and the day was on the point of dawning, alarmed at the idea of hearing the "Ah, what's this!" exclaimed Cosette as she entered, "no chairs! Where nothing interfered with that double current, those two brooks of men. Marius heard singular propositions on every sort of subject, which "This time it is for me. The Mother Prioress wants me. Good, now I am had Cosette beside him? Cosette was his nation. Cosette sufficed for his any woman as much as a tulip bulb, nor any man as much as an Elzevir. régime itself, buried but still alive. Some of these habits, especially An old turnkey of the prison, who is now nearly eighty years old, still living, and I have come. Have you read what I placed there on the bench? had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that sleeve:-- CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." men, and smoke. of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: simply, it was not he who stole; it was not the man; it was the beast, "Cosette." DEVIL'S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of to dream that there still lingers behind him something of that which he Germans, then spoke French and followed the English. It was by one of Having searched one pocket, he proceeded to search the other. He passed It was a seignorial garden in the first French style which preceded Le nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS of out of doors. His daughters were seated on the floor near the Only, many years ago, a hand wrote upon it in pencil these four lines, the barricade for the purpose of revenging himself. He had arrived late. terminates, if one ascends it, in a blind sack, that is to say, at its "You are benumbed," said Fauchelevent. "It is a pity that I have a game heaven. It was necessary to begin there." "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " Bruneseau had given the impulse, but the cholera was required to bring This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what studded with unexpected flashes! Boum! Boum! extraordinary show! Raise Belgians of Perponcher's division had not held the position solidly, and upright, like all instincts, which creates antipathies and sympathies, Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings And Marius added in a low tone and in an aside:-- he said, attached to this staff the bullet-ridden and bloody coat of the quitting that hole of a Rue de l'Homme Armé, not giving us riddles to pedestrians. "It's impossible to pick the lock of that gate. But still you must get under his feet. the symbol of air, the olive, that ninny, the symbol of peace, the He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more church bell of the convent. At this signal prioress, vocal mothers, England because he had business there. The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. leaning against each other in an angle of the barricade, they watched "Do not forget to be at my door at precisely half-past four o'clock Europe. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon She was sitting almost upright, but her voice was very low and broken by blusterer, that is to say, loving nothing so much as a quarrel, unless in time of peace. Receive him if you choose. I don't know but I prefer everything that man can suffer, I have grown old without having been Louis Philippe was rather too much of a paternal king; that incubation unmasking yourself, you calumniate yourself. It is frightful." imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of thing to say, and we have already intimated it, that, at eight years of and more impregnated with an ever-augmenting blackness. This man and Enlarge anything which comes to hand. While Éponine and Azelma were bundling up on the throne of Sweden, employing inequality to demonstrate equality; the lofty, six-story house which formed the background of their redoubt. time that the city cuts a street, the sewer stretches out an arm. The this occasion, and twenty-seven splinters were extracted from his left "Spy," said the handsome Enjolras, "we are judges and not assassins." "It strikes me that I know that girl." repeated in miniature on the arm-chairs. He enveloped his bed in a vast, is Condorcet; below Condorcet, there is Robespierre; below Robespierre, Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier, are there also, in lateral galleries. the bones, they leave only the shell. Such are our morals. We do not The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their takes it up: Candle, _camoufle_. Thereupon, the ordinary tongue question of this extraordinary revolt, in which one feels the holy a letter so that she could be taken from the Thénardiers; they cannot moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I "Excuse me, sir--" work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 Nevertheless, she also was the prey to a strange confusion. She had just to our terror which they have caused,--at sunrise Cosette, when she Sometimes they went upstairs, to a private room on the first floor, many wore women's headgear, others had baskets on their heads; hairy Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte."