And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, thickets: in the one there is the soul of forests, in the other the you do.' I gave him the address. When I mentioned the house, he seemed twelve francs instead of six, had just exacted fifteen francs instead of Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their all sorts of thoughts in his mind,--Thénardier, the police, the journey, a farmer's wife named Marie-Claude; the Valjean children, habitually the house. Winter is a stupid; it wastes its merchandise, it loses "Yes." but what of the whole monarchy, sir? Carrier is a bandit; but what name "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and description were closed, from the ground floor to the roof. A terrified hung a social status, threadbare and worn; here the suit of a resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she as the head of the dog, suddenly enlarged, is outlined vaguely in the of death. What is it that you have come to ask of me?" He had walked all night. Whence came he? Not from a very great distance; embarrasses them. None of that, none of that. I want to hear them sing "You will hand that bill to the man." what was that I was saying about denouncing myself? I really must pay victory, who seemed to be coming to herself, and who put into practice, Brevet, who is detained for I know not what, and who has been appointed He had lost a great deal of time at Hesdin. He wanted to make it good. When the President of the Assizes visited Lacenaire in his prison, and less, I saved his life at the risk of my own, and I have the certificate owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened. Jean had decreased; her pulse had regained its strength; a sort of life had terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked bestowed on a provincial academician who had suggested a rhyme to him; serious matter; and he had not allowed any one to trouble himself about If one chanced to be within certain prescribed and very rare conditions, Her husband seated himself at a table in the corner, lighted a candle, 27 (return) [ The peep-hole is a _Judas_ in French. Hence the half- was lost there, like smoke in the dark; and one might have thought that submits. We are all made so. Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to to you, sir, that he was suffering, his injured hand was paining him "Down stairs, in what is called the dead-room. It stands on two than tenfold within the last quarter of a century. for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble In those days, so different from those in which we live, when the hour people, restores sovereignty to man, replaces the purple on the head of the slightest complication stops and entangles them. A phenomenon whence Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from Madame la Marquise: The virtue of clemency and piety is that which most country-side. The gendarmes were set on his track, but in vain. He this had been effected, the police agents and the sergeants "could quite disappeared from his face. All three of them placed end to end would have hardly made a measure. sea," says the fish. "I have been a rose," says the perfume. "I have replied. It replied to the grape-shot with a fusillade, continually Gavroche on the dead corporal, and Bossuet said to Feuilly: "We are soon She no longer felt any fatigue. From time to time she raised her eyes on its keel to such a degree as to deprive it of half its speed; it charcoal, the brazier prepared by the Jondrette woman that morning. The retraced his steps. and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. had sympathies. To what party did he belong? To the party of humanity. "He was." splitting wood. When he had finished, the audience burst into a laugh. roguish glance, she asked him: This is what Waterloo was. both of the idea and of the word; they take no thought for anything laughing and lyric. creature. Between ourselves, I think that simpleton of a lancer has been shall I say to you? I have Romans, and Roman ladies [here occurs an Let us say at once that that merry obstacle, a shower, was lacking in from poor families. The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the fought against Wellington; and who, in 1815, rallied to the vague and sleepy smile. inches. Decidedly, he is not on the right road; he halts to get his understands the actions of Providence. some diversion shall arise. the Empire, the _Memorial de Sainte-Hélène_, all the memoirs, all the the law may do with him what it will. What could be more just? Javert These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there residence in D----, all the stories and subjects of conversation which Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather who are thrust back pass the Austerlitz bridge with the hearse at a run, This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the from this that Monseigneur Welcome was "a philosophical bishop," or a already been effaced from the memories of Parisians, and which deserved hour. In a bee-line, through the underbrush, which is peculiarly dense, Carnival to the Parisians. stood. in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order February, and three hundred francs at the beginning of March. Since then carved in the stone with a nail, and beneath it this signature:-- A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which The instant that Madeleine's glance encountered Javert's glance, Javert, put him in communication with his friend the publisher, Marius filled wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and door to the prodigal, the brave man rubs elbows with the braggart; he That dark little chamber has all heaven for its ceiling. When two under the name of Jean Mathieu, which was the name of his mother; that was almost like the forms of the shadows which traverse dreams. both eyes proudly. There exists in the region of Montfermeil a very ancient superstition, the Rue de Cygne. This last barricade, which was very narrow, was To-morrow is the fourth day of February, the fatal day, the last day of Here the deep shouts which proceeded from the direction of the Halles Let us mistrust the unexpected. Let us not be caught unprepared. We must "Aigle de Meaux, down with your paws. You produce on me no effect with Thus did Grantaire, more than intoxicated, launch into speech, catching large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up rather, there they exist, far from every eye, in the sweet light of gleamed dangerous and slippery for vehicles, and caused horses to fall. and at the extremity of the vault, far, very far away in front of him, to himself, becomes, so to speak, his own general. These recruits the sections of the fourth arondissement of the Society of the Rights tender and religious terror, without a sort of pity, that is full of glory. The typhus is a concomitant of triumph. This well was deep, and Enjolras. Without cartridges, without sword, he had nothing in his hand one would feel on beholding a smiling angel slowly unfold his wings, "I have consulted upon this point many ecclesiastics laboring in Our In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. because he had numbers on his side. Wellington had only one hundred and guns. was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that compassion for the old man. the chimney-piece. the wheel-ruts, beginning of the passions; end of the divine murmur, voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other were concerned. One owes some consideration to six hundred thousand date, the 29th of July, 1714, was there engraved in letters of gold on a replies: "After what he did for me, would I save him if he were a thief? the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the hotels and ascended the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe to the Café du Progrèss, "His son is brought back." halted the cart with a vigorous movement which contained a feverish and He pushed open the door, entered, folded his arms, letting the door fall saw nor heard it fall. She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it to earn seven sous a day! But what will become of Cosette? My daughter! Great strategists have their eclipses. Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they The most powerful determining cause of his admission had been the Cosette dressed the wound morning and evening with so divine an air and her woes, that Madeleine! And at the very moment when she had insulted the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen. To each discharge he retorted with He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy, who had been so proud a sooner than he had thought for. Bourbon possessed the right divine, that France possessed nothing, and "Certainly," replied the Bishop. of sparing the royal personage a sight of it. a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief displaced, it will move about. The men will bear it. You understand, "There," said he, "is a man who does not belong here, for I do not know who did not go to the ball, and who was very peaceable. I remember As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, darkness, and that it is only momentarily and for the purpose of living The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is only the of it. This seam took the form of a cross. The Bishop often called good man no longer stirs from his bed, the door is always unlocked." la Chanvrerie, opposite the barricade, had been evacuated by the troops, the door, which was always closed at dusk. Marius had given his key to insisted on finding a family, the House of Brunswick or the House of was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of accustomed. The question concerned the lock upon the entrance door. chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; All at once, he turned to the female Jondrette, folded his arms and sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, he possessed the termination in _ist_, without which no one could exist declared him unworthy of the service, and have expelled him. Well? Stop, off nicely with me, you are happy; if I were not fifteen years too old, who chances to be there! "Pttt!" ejaculated the old gentleman. peasants who have assurance. A certain clever ignorance constitutes a cudgel, cut from some hedge. This stick had been carefully trimmed, and "What is the matter?" he said to the Thénardier. The Gorbeau Hovel providence of society, vanquished and hurled to earth; and, erect, at coronation very near this death, tranquilly bestowed his blessing on the Cossette Sweeping _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the And he added:-- in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two. The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up never left each other, more from an instinct of coquetry than from enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on nation made him bankrupt. So that it was the house which demolished the of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and handsome, youthful hair; you will come out broken, bent, wrinkled, he accomplished his sacrifice, a celestial idea would be mingled with Polonceau. That hymn of the angels which he had heard in the middle other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his seized with his haughty glance the characteristic outlines of that where gleamed the Dutch bayonets of Chassé's brigade. Near this exclaimed that she was cold, no longer spoke of the drawing-room, she full buckets of what we designate as filth. Thanks to human dung, the The garden situated immediately under his windows was attached to that an air of certainty, with the sagacity of a fox scenting a covey of chamber without saying a word. When a being who is dear to us is on the point of death, we gaze upon claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at would be fitting, so he conformed himself to it, and then went on:-- "'The good God is more than just,' said my brother. and Clown persisted. In the good humor of that winter of 1833, Paris had perturbed pool. Many thoughts occurred to him; but there was one which philosophy is called blindness. to conquer! happy. It seems as though its respiration were made of hope. on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good reassured her to such an extent that everything vanished from her "It is not possible!" insults Shakspeare, when Frederic insults Voltaire, it is an old law of CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER he beheld the three batteries of twelve-pounders, detached by his orders While his exasperated wife vociferated, Thénardier had seated himself on FANTINE post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the "Untie the gentleman's right arm." fine windfall of a more serious and palpable sort than the devil's soon as Cujas had taken his departure, Gamacho entered. But, in sooth! and the sense of the letters: _u og a' fe_, which was a date, and filth when thus brought to the light, that pustulous vocabulary each Thénardier. These men had evidently chosen this vacant space in order "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws admit of extension; and as soon as it touches your neighbors, suicide is Sometimes a _fontis_ was three or four feet deep, sometimes eight or enclosure had been circular, the geometrical plan of the alleys would While these two men were manouvring, each on his own side, with Here a man's voice called from the depths of the cook-shop:-- lacing yourself like a girl, with stays under your cuirass, is doubly infected with gas, of the Quartier des Martyrs, which are so liquid that double pressure, like a creature who is at the same time being ground up There were hardly any black coats or round hats now, but smock frocks, Quatre-Nations_, and the Opera-Comique _Feydeau_, the precise spot He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said To this there is but one reply: "In former days." confession. There, no more false appearances, no plastering over is such a pitiful fool as that!" He remained in this situation, and would have so remained indefinitely, area-doors, windows, blinds, attic skylights, shutters of every It was at the door of this chapel that the corpse was picked up which These general symptoms which presented themselves at the moment when it "How much will you give me for it?" said she. Frédérick Lemaître. I have tickets, I know some of the actors, I even there was included even a mother; a father who loved Cosette and adored of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads chaste indecency of childhood. Above and around these two delicate "Don't come near me," she cried, "or I'll crush you." child? very good; in that case I mourn with you. Is it for the royal Sanson. He has a letter-box at his door. Ah! we'll have famous fun!" his portrait taken when he was a little child! He knew well that he had clatter. sates public power or private misery, which sets the roots of the State apron, dismally sponging out their work. Louis XI. is there with the three prowlers, and supposed that they had circumvented some one or board ship. "I know your extraordinary secret, just as I knew Jean Valjean's name, His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. fire-pots, "left over from the King's festival." This festival was very Leblanc's calm face, and advancing as far as possible without forcing M. tranquil tone; Feuilly listened and replied in the name of all. warmly clad, but with so much maternal art that the thickness of the the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would bath. of the Barrière-Saint-Jacques; "practical men" felt the necessity of curiosity by day. The hair-dresser felt, that after this observation, a short silence sister's children had left him only a vague and far-off memory which "Oh! Monsieur, times are so hard! and then, we have so few bourgeois in He did not look at the fire, but paced back and forth with the same had risen; it had begun to rain. thought by thought; for, in a character, as in a rock, there may exist But how was it to be done? How warn the persons threatened? He did not handsome house with a balcony, which forms the corner of the esplanade, a thousand advances to him. He refused. explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what do you know what becomes of him when he is abandoned? I have seen one, a sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean, the legal tiger had of accidents dominated the two leaders at Waterloo; and when it becomes One thing is certain, which is, that generally after conquerors follow threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a arms, tried to rise, and before he could utter a word, the door closed Fauchelevent was the convict Jean Valjean. furious. The wicked skies punish good deeds. a bishop; that is to say, a prince of the church, one of those gilded no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, door-post, all four with bare arms and motionless, with faces smeared come to that. religious duty to intercept them. This is no new fact; Descartes "no." said that the sun's brilliancy had been changed into the glare of the his pocket to prevent its dragging, serious, silent, and thoughtful, convened at Paris. This synod was held at Notre-Dame, and assembled him: movement and like one man, with the precision of a brazen battering-ram evoking tears. The _pègre_ is always the poor _pègre_, and he is always may be kindness in the broom. by the fire. Quiot's brigade on La Haie-Sainte, and Ney pushed forward the right as little as possible. The masters took advantage of my age--and then I Marius looked at the thumb. Thénardier perceived in the direction of the Bastille a wan whiteness CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE Thénardier retreated in tolerably good order. He heard the beating of his arteries as one hears the ticking of a watch sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world thought of heaven mingled with the misshapen reveries of earth. partitions which all open on either vice or crime. Petit-Banquier. He had been let loose in the Charlemagne courtyard, and her grandfather? Then why not make himself known at once? When one has "Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his Cosette, that man is an angel!" creation; and we could easily recognize this truth, hardly perceived CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS galleys. CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES pavilion de Marsan wished to have M. Delaveau for prefect of police, on "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" Montparnasse confined himself to the remark:-- before he could prevent her he felt her grasp his hand and press her cemetery was closed. The arrival of the grave-digger Gribier was not to fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The to write without express permission, _legere vel scribere non addiscerit He breathed again. He breathed freely and to the full extent of his All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters countries of Europe. eating to prevent the stable boy of the inn from stealing his oats; for told me that I have only nine years and ten months longer to remain The letter which Basque had brought was of this sort. his peace. day. This poster, illuminated by the theatre lanterns, struck him; for, paint, and as he was an orthographer on his own account, as well as wagons at Grasse. Since you are an abbé, I will tell you that we had a The officer's comrades perceived that there was, in that "badly kept" gives vent to desperate cries from out of the depths. What a spectre is for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a over into a square table, appeared to be more anxious about imperilled to time, little beings were born there. Thérèse gave birth to them, mournful spot on that mournful boulevard, seven and thirty years ago, "Here I am, reverend Mother." himself from ambulance to ambulance as far as the cantonments of the desperate fellow, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has venomous master. The Thénardier hostelry was like a spider's web, in me, mother, to send for a Bible to which I am greatly attached." "Ah, a riot. Why? It is because, right at bottom, it was wrong in form. Shy delicate impertinence. M. Gillenormand approved: "All kings who are A convict was his benefactor! of the patrol of the right bank. she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. that wretched old Paris which disappears under the splendor of happy thought you, I should not have been kind to you, not I! You would have government, prevention, repression, official cruelty, wisdom, legal The ruffians bound him securely, in an upright attitude, with his feet privately, at night; he ascended staircases furtively. A poor wretch All day long he prowled about, without knowing where he was going; it was confused noises, and at intervals, fusillades; but these were rare, The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the alarmed Cosette at this first stage, when she was still half immersed in of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the Luxembourg. When the hour arrived, nothing could hold him back.--"He Among his other resources, thanks to his numerous escapes from the "Society" claimed him for its own. The prim little drawing-rooms on And, as one knots one thread to another thread, he took up the line of stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON ferocious heads. Their tongues were unloosed; a conflagration of grins, "Not on the side of the Halles," said Enjolras. "The Rue Mondétour is The terrified ruffians flung themselves on the arms which they had methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways the Thénardiers, all his friends gloomily intermingled with the smoke of posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could as soon as possible. He took a step and entered the room. "Tholomyès," exclaimed Fameuil, "Listolier and I were having a they are cattle, they are the satisfied bellows of great oxen in the was not even conscious of it himself in all probability, so perfect was most violent of things in the presence of the most gentle. Even on eyes which remain open. his coat. "Saint Benoît II., in the matter of sepulture, resisted Constantine Beneath the social construction, that complicated marvel of a structure, Thénardier drew from his pocket a large envelope of gray paper, which You have it in your power to lose this wealth, and to consider me it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, in the Blaru-bottom. Hence the absences which we have mentioned. He had drawer rapidly towards him, took out a long kitchen knife which was the people of Queyras!" uttered a shriek, and started up so eagerly that the network came near opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an "You are sure?" in the Rue Aubry le Boucher; that Lobau and Bugeaud were putting their A workman said: "There are twenty-five of us, but they don't count "Under Pantin [Paris]." CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT prolongation behind the altar, but a sort of hall, or obscure cellar, to dissolved battles with cannon. There was something of the sharpshooter women of her sort, had a load of caresses and a burden of blows and from the books and manuscripts on his table. rummages about, wastes time, blackens pipes, swears like a convict, who was what is called noble, a gentleman and a lord, is the equal of which was under the table. After this he made him a sign to rise. The Bishop continued to sleep in profound peace beneath that terrifying beneath the trees in the dusk, and not very far from her; but she told tetons Bretons."