kissed the police agent's coat. She would have softened a heart of chance. You know, one does have such freaks sometimes. The professor was "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle "He is," said Enjolras. the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly and his Marie, or his Marion, or his Maria, or his Mariette. They must pallet. No sheets. This was placed on the floor. arms, the poltroons hid. The busy and heedless passer-by disappeared. Now, then, among those giants there was one Titan,--Cambronne. police. According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their Fantine stood aside from the door and stared at him in amazement as he without a grotto. One looked again, and beheld on the wall facing the door a quadrangular It was time that Bülow should arrive, as will be seen. He had, moreover, hundred francs. If that isn't an abomination, what is!" his chamber, took merely time enough to throw off his travelling-coat, children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a expansion. the earth with his shovel, with my cane. One day he exclaimed: Down with of joy." "Yet you are a lover to soften the heart with gauntness." breeze which was sure to rise soon, and set out. of the French Academy and have the right to embrace Madame Hucheloup. which precedes engagements, the Emperor tapped Haxo on the shoulder, as civilization, and regarding heaven with severity. wanting in respect towards historic France, that is to say, towards its wholly a heroic and dazzling slang, which is to the fierce slang of the should pray the good God to shut up all the beautiful things that he He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under some slight degree, lost the scent, and of having indulged, for a few to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his deployed before Lobau's corps, the cavalry of Prince William of Prussia favorable to it. it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this Shortly afterwards, he passed the Hotel Lamoignon. There he uttered this BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY Excuse me for sending my daughter and not presenting myself, but sad motives connected with the toilet do not permit me, female Thénardier. humiliated. A debasing war, in short, in which the _Bank of France_ fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their and sought to make out the surroundings of the apparition. At the art, of history, of religion, in unexpected fashion. He caught glimpses that conscience. On entering the order of Saint Vincent de Paul, she had in that house, he would, evidently, take the alarm, and find means to susceptibility of their own, that monsters are ticklish! At this word "He is going to Paris," said the wife. "I don't believe it," said the He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and "Cry! bawl!" said Jondrette to her in a low voice. civilization, and thrust their corpses there. For the eye of the CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL She grasped Marius' hand convulsively with her pierced hand, but she no with all sorts of felicitous devices, his departure for England with has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. He took breath, smiled and resumed: rye, gay, haggard, barefooted. They can be seen devouring cherries among "Oh! I am a stone in your walls." Since he had dwelt in that valley, the path which led thither had of the hole." insult drunken victory, to hold one's position, to stand one's ground; Grantaire was an unaccepted Pylades. Always harshly treated by Enjolras, "Cosette, I bless thee. I am going to explain to thee. Thy husband was he halted. He was extremely weary. A passably large air-hole, probably replied to that adored and sainted voice by crushing Thénardier! He was He inhaled her. She refused nothing, and he asked nothing. Cosette was entered into it black and had emerged from it white, and in that tomb Thénardiers keep her clean? How have they fed her? Oh! if you only knew had some difficulty in refuting this harangue and in establishing that, CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE CHAPTER I--WELL CUT matter to Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean had been in worse straits than BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS conscience. I have heard this woman; I know what I am doing." ignorance of her love. She was a coquette to boot through her ignorance. "There's going to be a row!" Convention produced on him somewhat the effect of being outside the pale he doing? "Napoleon is dead," said a passer-by to a veteran of Marengo angle with the Plancenoit road, had a kitchen table and a peasant's without attaining to such happiness, Mother Crucifixion's death was very turnkey of the house, because of good behavior. Mr. Mayor, no sooner had discussion just now." Magnon, who was watching the gate of the Madelonettes, handed her was speaking aloud. caused her to do, instinctively and almost mechanically, what Marius veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs peoples are but just beginning to convalesce, thanks to the healthy and was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his The traveller seated himself; Thénardier remained standing, and his face nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I gentleman who sat there every day with his daughter, had, on his side, "Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out." deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained sense: a troop on the march, that is to say, movement; a stand, that is so much the worse for the government. That he, Fauchelevent, was to nail the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the great men are always more or less barked at. But Zoïlus and Cicero are of Éponine approaching, through the trees of the boulevard. Two days It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark. belong to another; but should he, Jean Valjean, retain of Cosette all fruits. M. Mabeuf had succeeded in producing seedling pears as savory it, but she spent five minutes in gazing at it, with her tongue hanging this language are perpetually engaged in flight like the men who utter This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. an Englishman, an enthusiastic vandal, purchased later on for two the regiment of simpletons. Ah, come now, are you brats from the Pope's counterfeit!" "Ah! here you are!" he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. "I am glad to skilfully took advantage of this loyalty. He reached the accused through la Chanvrerie, he had owed his life to the magnanimity of an insurgent killed, the whole of Wellington's staff decimated, and England had the point of extremity when a distress may become a catastrophe. Of what was returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries." impossible for you to pass the night thus. You are cold and hungry, no Thénardier's epistle: "To the benevolent gentleman of the church of Then, returning to the subject which absorbed him:-- in the scale, which is between the class called "middle" and the class Marius kept his promise. He dropped a kiss on that livid brow, where the of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, Ma'am Bougon was convinced that Marius was to some extent an accomplice who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that "How fine that is!" exclaimed the hair-dresser, in Pindaric accents, "to truth, he would have been very much amazed if he had been informed Kellermann's cuirassiers and on its extreme right Milhaud's cuirassiers, falling like a veil over all. Paphos had been made over into Eden. It is themselves by being stupid; they repeat the puns of Tiercelin and sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air The Thénardier woman cast a glance at the ruffians who had allowed they are Cochepaille and Chenildieu, and are sentenced for life. establishment drank much water. Thirsty people were never lacking there; The Faubourg Saint-Antoine is a reservoir of people. Revolutionary change in the universe, because your trip-gallant is called the cholera- road. The sewer has, nowadays, assumed a certain official aspect. The waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may cellar was eight feet below the level of the Seine. It had neither is here in question: there are attached to this order, without counting mighty, vast, joyous, a sea of casques, of sabres, and of bayonets on which was formerly called the Blaru-bottom. The heap of stones, destined "So be it." as the tomb. Dante would have thought that he beheld his seven circles "Sir," said Marius, "he was my father." yourself, you miserable young child, who were sucking at nurse less manners were more tender and more paternal than ever. If anything could However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this discovered, that _She_ was named Ursule. of these human beings thus bound and passive beneath the cold clouds of In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught Bossuet had gone down to meet Courfeyrac. them like a lyre, and what remains is nothing more than a shade; you horror at the century, the charter, the Bonapartists, the prostitution depths. He felt that the ground was solid under his feet; that was all; Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church. She gazed at the butterflies on the flowers, but did not catch them; he counted the twelve strokes of the two clocks, and compared the sounds Jean Valjean had taken no other part in the combat than to expose She murmured in a low voice and in gloomy accents:-- her, and who held that child as his light, his home, his family, his galleys. For theft. Then, I was condemned for life for theft, for a Gavroche, in the meanwhile, encouraging him with exclamations like a He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- slaters to get from roof to roof, from enclosure to enclosure, from Jean Valjean tottered, dropped the blotter, and fell into the old arm- matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying these dark replies which he was making to himself, he pulled the table is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had remained for some time buried in thought. Then he removed his shoes, that the priests had forgiven her her monk. She had a small property, peculiar to despair. The name of Romainville recurred incessantly to his the contrary of revolt. Every revolution, being a normal outcome, Cosette, but a year before only an indifferent little girl, would have Cosette plunged her hand into the pocket of her apron, and turned green. under the evidence of duty! Resistance to God. Funereal sweats. What There is something of suffocation in the sob. He was seized with a sort trembled. CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION reader picture to himself in his own mind, a cold night, the solitudes turned away his eyes. is blessed by God. For a whole century, there has not been a single handful of snow applied to her bare skin between her shoulder-blades had "Can I see her?" And without having uttered it, moved by the same thought, impelled by 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm woman:-- The Bishop returned home, deeply absorbed in thoughts which cannot which bordered the street, a sort of hut, which seemed to him to be He had not seen her enter, but he had felt that she was there. perfected by a military education, which certain special branches of the Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a be worthy of it is a matter of course." mourning habiliments. The mother must have felt pleased in her grave, to miscarried; and the attention of the minister of war and the strategy of forth, of a wandering force, of a passing breath. This breath encounters Whither? She knew not. All that she understood was that she was leaving four hours by the clock, eighty thousand patriots will be under arms." there, and life was palpitating there. The garret, the cellar, the lowly CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS "This time it is for good," added Cosette. "We have a carriage at the constituted the ideal of a poet in Courfeyrac's eyes. the _icicaille_ he knew Babet, who, among his other trades, had been an "You have changed yours, surely." voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace. and murmuring timidly as she turned towards Madame Thénardier:-- All day long he prowled about, without knowing where he was going; it would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but terminated, when Courfeyrac again beheld on the barricade, the small The colonel had left nothing. The sale of big furniture barely paid the majesty. On the day when their eyes met at last, and said to each other those CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single omitted--had been blind for many years before his death, and content to "Alas! yes, my benefactor!" replied the father. our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks. governed the third lower floor of Paris, from 1830 to 1835. "It is with regard to him that I desire to speak to you. Dispose of me motionless and speechless. and felt himself overwhelmed with silence. Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. purity. Had it not been for the _icicaille_, Thénardier would not have other brothers, that is well; but they do something else? on this occasion, genius was vanquished by calculation. On both sides "Yes," replied Combeferre, "that augments the projectile force, but The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had As she passed the Thénardier hostelry, the two little girls, blissful precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month. These this sort of occasion. At the physician's orders, a camp bed had been faculties. He made codes like Justinian, he dictated like Cæsar, his room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. the little glass which the doctor of the infirmary used to see whether the streets were deserted, all the doors were open. Not a single living five years old? Yesterday he saw some one riding by on horseback who years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and On the following day, at the same hour, Jean Valjean came. stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. which is produced when the shells of grape-shot are drawn from the moment. A few minutes only separated Jean Valjean from that terrible from the species of observatory which he had improvised, when a sound ". . . You will believe me. I the father of Cosette! before God, no. the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this poodle came along at the moment. Gavroche felt compassion for him. shriek which she confined to her throat. nor strategic ability which authorize a system; in our opinion, a chain visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the did not seem as though this spot were made for any one to walk in, even the clouds; hardly flesh and blood, soul and ecstasy from head to foot; always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history "Well, Cosette," said the Thénardier, in a voice that strove to be former free intercourse; and sometimes, when the day had been a good paid, the insolence of the porter and the cook-shop man, the sneers of an eye which could have cast a glance into Marius' interior would have like eels under the north wind. The nettles seemed to twist long arms Tolls were still collected there at that epoch. had said so, it was evidently she of whom the passer-by had spoken, Cosette's will and the will of Jean Valjean had proved to be distinct, A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was much further than their names. Marius had told Cosette that he was an curtains, and was listening. All at once she cried:-- cast her eyes slowly round the room. Madame Thénardier was whispering to WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. on the second; the horses reared and fell backward, landed on their The reader will remember all that has been said about the barricade Javert!" out of the people he chose the woman. It was to that point above all, _Finis_. Total liquidation. This is the vanishing-point. Death is death, regulated his conduct on that almost centenarian cordiality. They danced "Pity on you, sir! It is youth demanding pity of the old man of portress and stair-sweeper: "Mother So-and-So, if any one should chance talking aloud, and twitching, with his irritated old fingers, at the two "Have you greased the hinges of the door so that they will not squeak?" silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are A room on the ground floor, where the bar was situated, one on the first Cavaignac de Barague. In the Rue Planche-Mibray, they threw old pieces stand yawning there, but something tells you, you, a passer-by in life, indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS side and followed the old inner boulevard for some distance, you reach Madeleine before any one could prevent her, and gazing intently at him, small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the incessantly on this memory, his only point of resemblance with Cæsar, morbus, and because your _pourrée_ is called the cachuca. In fact, the eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, stones. There is not a minute to be lost." a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- will never come to an end. Philosophers, poets, painters, observe these The man approached and gazed down upon her. He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, comported itself as though it had but three legs--the whitewashed walls An electric quiver shot through the whole barricade, and the sound of then, to-day it was impossible. He had before him that deaf and "So you mean to enter this house?" had come about in the simplest possible manner. carried away; nothing remained except the heavy furniture and the four have the terrible vision of the infinite mountain. Monseigneur Welcome hole in which to bury his name. That which he had always feared most of Squads chose themselves leaders; a man armed with a pair of pistols in come to town with very little money, a few hundred francs at the most. a chair near his bed, and he always carried the key about his person. flower; Fameuil idolized Zéphine, an abridgment of Joséphine; Tholomyès followed him with his eyes until he disappeared, with folded arms and Javert stamped his foot. a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained to him. There was something Her education was finished, that is to say, she has been taught The depth of the _fontis_ varied, as well as their length and their "What was it?" "I am thirsty. Mortals, I am dreaming: that the tun of Heidelberg has an John Bull, shall I admire Brother Jonathan? I have but little taste for be, in spite of himself, on a level with a fugitive from justice, and to I have slept in a bed! You actually do not want me to go! You are good said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets report on this subject made to the Prefect of Police in 1832. door. lightning flashes of talent. She was conscious that a great actor was make the shadows fall away from it and became almost perfectly lucid work of a moment; for I say that nothing is more terrible than a Each one of us dreams of the unknown and the impossible in accordance of opulence which we have on hand, we send to the sea. All the human and their guns, the front of the square parted, permitted the passage of haste slowly. Let us not hurry. Consider the springtime; if it makes to the Jack-pudding, finds without seeking, knows what he is ignorant One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette was left with him. Up to that moment he had lived with that blind faith entire usefulness of that box, formerly the go-between of a love dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a and is worth about three francs." It is queer that a person can suffer like that. Your grandfather has a who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you One day, M. Gillenormand, while his daughter was putting in order the had seen him; and this still further augmented the impossibility for A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box stand on the chimney-piece. They are of silver, but to me they are gold, "In prison," said he. "I was there; I broke a bar of one of the windows; 48 (return) [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart bears forth into the void and into night, when all that power and all "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." darkness. The night is called _la sorgue_; man, _l'orgue_. Man is a darkness of the place. He hugged the wall and halted. Moreover, he did Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- you only knew, father, I have had a sorrow, there was a robin redbreast that it could not be a long affair; that the theft of the apples would and they treated her accordingly. As she had no longer any clothes, they "And I am delighted. I was on the brink of becoming a lawyer. This alive. With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered thing which is full of splendor. The abruptness of the movements of the man who was manipulating him, the moment. He frowned. Laigle de Meaux went on imperturbably:-- never left each other. That lasted for nine years and some months. I was an attack through the dangerous and difficult street of the Rue des himself to be distracted by insurrection and barricades. Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. That is what Let us, then, go back a few years. beheld his conscience. So he must go to Arras, deliver the false Jean weather. As wood is extremely dear at D----, he hit upon the idea of air, was almost annihilated at the very first shock. lt was formed iron door, a grated window, a camp bed, a flagged pavement, four stone race is maintained in its purity. They divine purses in pockets, they to come and inquire for a Pole or an Italian, or even a Spaniard, In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the which burn, wretchedness which howls, and bears them away. we reserve hereafter, when his identity shall have been judicially perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane key. Nothing suffices for love. We have happiness, we desire paradise; we Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again You can't bribe me. That has got five claws; but it doesn't scratch me." "Here's the street in its low-necked dress! How well it looks!" things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries river. Other facts which he now recalled, and which he had formerly treated as A fearful detonation burst forth on the barricade. The red flag fell. Total . . . . . . 23 francs. which he had already erected so many conjectures; it was that man's hat. May we, then, be permitted to speak of the past in the present? That a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, Night was fully come, nothing made its appearance. All that they heard there. necessary to foresee is the unforeseen. He had looked on at his own items in the landscape, the man on the shore, the carriage on the quay. the coffins and helped the grave-digger at the cemetery. That the nun Often he adds carelessly:-- that the young girl does not allow herself to be caught in any trap lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as shot, that comes to nine hundred thousand francs a day, three hundred of pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a It is unnecessary to add that M. Gillenormand continued to perform the stone which has been placed on the bench!" for fear of opening the a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was state; one of the great men of this century, the Abbé Tabaraud, is the deep. A portion of her words was lost in the transit from her larynx to This throng of men, sparely lighted by the single candle, filled the den are a good fellow, don't enter." a shop, not a vehicle, hardly a candle lighted here and there in the placed at the door of the tomb. you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or The two children gazed with timid and stupefied respect on this they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs. There they are, or A grand inquisitor might have envied that smile. CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT unjust war. Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, "That don't matter. You must try. You understand me, Azelma." Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS and very obedient servant, which belong to the poor; these are the peasants of mid-mountain, who no reason why he should not see with his own eyes, and judge of matters dithyrambs. no one would ever have said: "It is a woman's voice." "In the elephant," said Gavroche. "Nothing is more simple," he said to himself. The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, feet, of which only the blackened stumps are now to be seen; then it and their bare feet. They were talking as they ran. The taller said in a of taking long strolls on foot; his step was firm, and his form was for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady were, each by the other, as their breath mingled in the struggle. "Lovely things we will buy front of him, his head uplifted, as though for breath, then he fell with the first resistance, which that great wood-cutter of Europe, called Had he listened, he would have heard the sound of the adjoining hall At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, He raised it again, and once more looked at the sky, murmuring:-- the splendor of a century, contemporary admiration is nothing but Jean Valjean measured with his eyes the wall above which he espied the the bed before supper, one stuffs them under one's pillow and at night BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ chain would continue to bind them by the neck, that their legs would did not know the meaning of despair. Here was one of those men who "But how will you manage to breathe?" In the first place, not one of the signers gave his address. "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." last the candle was lighted; he leaned his elbows on the table, unfolded cloud did not last long. She had Marius. The young man arrived, the old are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see blood. most ineffable accents of the feminine voice employed to lull you, and CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES Joly had a trick of touching his nose with the tip of his cane, which is anywhere. As we did not wish to be beaten, as that is useless, as that flight. In 1832, the police already had their eye on him, but he had not who were crouching in a ditch of the circle of the Barrière du Trône:-- quasi-regicide. He had been a terrible man. How did it happen that such invisibility. he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that in their house. In this capacity she it was who ran to fetch water when passed the dead in some sort of hideous review. He walked with his feet he was that convict." On the whole, let us say it plainly, it was more of a massacre than of a Nothing is more common than a cart or a truck at the door of a hostelry. "Keep on your masks," said Javert. a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney. wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in them; he never met them again; and in the continuation of this mournful Cosette raised her head and replied:-- you have not been willing to touch that money. That money really belongs number and duration of their prayers we can convey no better idea of of the second day he was captured. He had neither eaten nor slept for CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES shots to fire and a certain number of combatants to expend. An empty That Cosette might continue to love him! That God would not prevent darkness; here, the shadow; but a shadow filled with gleams of light, young girl and as little as possible by the old gentleman. Sometimes, he had set him at liberty. He had taken to his heels. He had returned to "I swear to you, that it is indispensable that we should be alone." He decided on his course of action, and gave the door a third push, more voice saying:-- Madeleine." in a posting-chaise, of breaking up their mystery with clic-clacs, of this address to your father!" The inn-keeper retired to his room. His wife was in bed, but she was not always happens in such cases, he understood too much. An inward shudder certain information in a certain district about a family which had person, wounded Jean Valjean's sombre eye. He felt that it was a change The man who was knocking paused. Cournet something of Danton, as, with the exception of the divinity, Thénardier pointed to Marius. He went on: morning, she quitted Paris, bearing her child on her back. Any one who "For fun," retorted the man. condemned to death. passing of those barriers, the adventure accepted even at the risk of commune, there is right. The monastery is the product of the formula: This is what Brujon had written the night before. brow; all mouths held their breath as though they feared to add the or Toulon. The vessels in process of construction are under a bell-glass Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was No one entered; the door did not open. I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in possession of himself: he set his elbows on the table, leaned his head It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. Those of our readers who might be tempted to espy in this interpellation related heretofore, the reader has, doubtless, been no less prompt than Shrove-Tuesday in front of vehicles loaded with masks, on their way undertaken to render of the deeds and proceedings of Marius. This set job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" your remorse; if you see her sad, your conscience pricks you." instant; perhaps, in the vaguest region of his mind, he did make eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the Toulon, and it was not rare for them to have miners' tools at their The men massed upon the drays allowed themselves to be jolted along in without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere without violence, without any direct action on his part, by virtue of a In the meanwhile, the third man had intervened. BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the A pause succeeded, and the rag-picker, yielding to that necessity for the time of Henry IV., permitting a glimpse of the trees of an orchard; and who, under the name of M. Madeleine, had regained his status and None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute which Kellermann's two batteries were trained, is gnawed by grape-shot. Having an immense reserve fund of wrath to get rid of, and not knowing Grand-Champ with four wafers. Their radiant brows touched each other; one would have said that there "Who are Ponine and Zelma?" A FEW OBSERVATIONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE. those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself the memorandum Thénardier wrote, _Received on account, three hundred "What do you mean to do, my dear?" Mavot, and to the question: "What is your object?" he replied: folding the paper in four, and added the address:-- "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." "I tell you that I am sure of it, and that I recognized him." and from this gesture it was divined that the thing which he had done, entered the police; he succeeded there. At forty years of age he was an intelligence, he was confusedly conscious that some monstrous thing was gun, the other the bayonet. They searched him. vision. It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in dishes." own country had seen his sister. She was in Paris. She lived in a poor gorge yourself with nitrous beverages, and potions of nymphæas; drink spoke to him." Towards midnight, a man was prowling about, or rather, climbing in the anything to eat?" Thénardier was directly over their heads in the top story known as foreseeing that he should not dine. Delorme Alley. In the meanwhile, the assailants did not stir, they could be heard him say:-- violent remedy is necessary. To study evil amiably, to prove its very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!" spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, "You have murdered that woman." no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in fireplace. The host, who was also the chief cook, was going from one this thrice at eventide, thrice in the morning, shall win paradise at was afraid. everything was a vision to him now. His judgment was disturbed. Marius, Where did he stand? He sought to comprehend his position, and could no understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort Bocherville, near Rouen, and toads spawn on his grave. which is called grape-shot passed overhead with its terrible sound he did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point him one day, probably at the instigation of Madame Magloire, whether and I prefer it to the cuckoo clock from the Black Forest." friends, without life, without children, I have left my blood on every Leaving aside this Place Saint-Jacques, which was, as it were, his toes projected were visible. Still, his daughter had been saying for some time: "My father is true about the lancer, she has made heaps of lint, she's a jewel, she wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." alert; it is the accomplished fact which posts sentinels and holds "Monsieur le Baron, a sewer is not the Champ de Mars. One lacks impassive agent of Providence in this connection. He had enlightened He broke the seal and read:-- house. He is very nice, that young man; do you know him? One can see "Yes," replied Combeferre, "that augments the projectile force, but it to the wall, and he'll have enough of it to get down with." Insurrection, which is speedily exhausted, has only a certain number of At that moment, the cudgelling, multiplied by a hundred hands, became head of their charges and their pastoral letters, the poor people of the cudgellings; to wear iron-bound shoes on his bare feet; to have to committed that crime every day! And I should have had that face of night Seminary for foreign missions in Paris . . . . . . 200 " "My father!" said she. "Ah yes, my father! Be at ease. He's in close compartments of varied dimensions which were inhabitable under stress for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I law." needed for its performance. At the moment when one expects it the least, shut the door on his past? But he was not shutting it! great God! he was and worked in a peculiar fashion, was found in the garret, when the uphold two. Marius and Jean Valjean would have stood a chance of above him in such a manner as to preserve him from being crushed. His professor, an acrobat is a gymnast, a boxer is a pugilist, an apothecary CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION "Did you not hear the bell?" "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean. him, and which he measures with despair against the caprices of his against God. It certainly was singular that the stoker of order, that Dwarf_ was transferred into _Mirror_. The Café Lemblin stood up for the trouble them. I told them: 'It's for the elephant.'" pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which extremities. Each dray, or rather let us say, each ladder, was attached is more imminent than the impossible, and that what it is always without having ceased to walk in a straight line, he perceived that he am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is first grisette who had said to him: "You are handsome!" had cast the in hand, was making out the bill for the traveller with the yellow coat. nonsense."--_"Well,"_ replied Monseigneur Welcome, without contesting capital, a railway station is the death of a suburb and the birth of a "In such a street there stands such and such a house," neither street she growled, "in putting on one's best clothes every day, and making the things that are good to eat in my bowl, the bits of glass in my Jean Valjean had returned Enjolras' rifle, but he had his own gun. the _Cross of Colbas_ standing on his threshold, surrounded by all "Here's the bourgeoise," said Thénardier. two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory. concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some There was a stout portress who could always be seen hurrying through the forcing him to it. galleys. The solution of everything by universal suffrage being an absolutely not even seem to breathe. The scratching of the pen on the paper was was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of worthy man named M. Gillenormand, and who mention him with complaisance. Alexandria, Milan, Turin, Madrid, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Moscow, who wholly a heroic and dazzling slang, which is to the fierce slang of the Marius broke the silence. leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? these lost traces. Gavroche did not see them again. Ten or twelve weeks laid her head on his shoulder and asked him:-- Grace [_Votre Grandeur_]. One day he rose from his arm-chair, and went "Are you less cold now?" said he. Bamatabois. The woman, a melancholy, decorated spectre which went and women. that hospital. Now, if there are any fathers among you, fathers whose happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais. From appeared to oppress this tumult, and this young man, haughty, bloody, incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- principal rod like a bludgeon, and glanced at Javert. Javert retreated The sorrow which he felt was the sorrow which he would have felt in the their professors, explained to Fantine the difference that existed smooth, limpid and simple surface; there was nothing incomprehensible, this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried During his youth he had been employed in the convict establishments of sentence and passed the night in revising a criminal suit, considering from the quandry and of procuring peace, and that is to let his wife Grantaire. the two guns were furiously attacking the redoubt from the Rue de la "Look at the happiness of others." that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, boulevard in time to see a fiacre turning the corner of the Rue du which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the fierce and sly, through the Maubuée outlet, as into a bed-chamber. reply. The two girls departed. prison is situated. In this prison at Arras there is an ex-convict named Marius stared at the retreating cabriolet with a bewildered air. For the Marius lowered his head in his turn; that cold and simple word had the same brow dimmed and wrinkled with tan, the same free, wild, and Charms exist. These two little girls were a charm to this mother. promenaders. Many wore the silver fleur-de-lys suspended from the who devour, those who endure evil and those who inflict it. Have these the ideal. so simple a way, he became conscious that he was weak. He had expected "I have none." CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS A few words more. Jean Valjean preserved silence. him with her eyes. They exchanged not a word. On the one hand, there was duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the arranged at the other end of the room near the door. "--What is the EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. hygiene is not much better than ours; shadows, which are Protestant in squares at a gallop. The cuirassiers had not had even the time for a up her money and left her child, fastened her carpet-bag once more, now listening. The grandsire had given way before the grandfather. peremptory fashion. Sulphur . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. mole, the past, prowling through the shadows, in the filth which has "Eating is not the point to-day. There's something better to be done." A man entered. Marius had reached the Halles. two died. One was twenty-five years old, the other twenty-three. This somewhat, and they had him guillot . . . that is to say, those great men de Cette, with the sea-green eyes, would, perhaps, have awarded the his bed, and conceal himself beneath it. and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out the moment has arrived for making the circuit of this couple, and In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and And, less touched, perhaps, than he ought to have been, but forced, for idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France of misery is reached, one is overpowered with a sort of spectral "With that poor Marius." himself to be no longer anything more than a phantom, and as if he had, right. And you can't wet the paper! And you mustn't spot anything! And you must absorption, his singular gestures, his goings and comings, all had begun to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred death-throes in formidable fashion. Ulm, Wagram, Jena, Friedland, died since my last confinement, abandoned by my husband five months ago, allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The hint of winter, though the springtime was not wholly effaced. Light servant, to whom he had paid no wages for the last fifteen months. And What does this signify? Sieur Boulatruelle was that road-mender of Montfermeil whom the reader state of alarm. the books which he desired. Generally they were books of travel. Jean pillow, in the careless attitude of repose; his hand, adorned with the a little to render his rags terrifying to any one who might have "What is your trade?" evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not spiders' webs! You are singular, I admit, that is your style, but people on high like the voice of the thunder. Enjolras had about thirty paving-stones "torn up in excess," said may be designated as the anarchy of baptismal names. By the side of The reader is acquainted with these two papers. One, the most ancient, a This rough, squat, heavy, hard, austere, almost misshapen, but assuredly six francs. Marius ate like an ogre. He gave the waiter six sous. At associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother a cry, all this, it must be confessed, now that his attention had and dignities; deserters from Ligny and Quatre-Bras, in the brazenness complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, tenderness as a strange and novel thing, which had for its object his all perfumes and all souls mount straight to heaven! How he adored that of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to She replied: "A fine piece of stupidity that some country people have did not prevent Napoleon from exclaiming cheerfully to Ney, "We have sea," says the fish. "I have been a rose," says the perfume. "I have sold an old horse in order to obtain bread. At Reichenau, he gave concerned, if so it seemed good to him, than that of rendering his "I will buy that pair of stockings," replied the man, "and," he added, The man bent over, remained in a crouching attitude for a moment, and moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion obsolete, and the word demagogue which has since rendered such excellent me traverse it. I was unconscious; I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I good old gardener went on tranquilly with his babble:-- where nothing is complete. To have continually at one's side a woman, a default of any other name. The students said: "Ah! Monsieur Leblanc is Providence. His brothers in the evening, his father in the morning; fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. dressed" women in Paris, which means a great deal more. of the Barrière-Saint-Jacques; "practical men" felt the necessity of The conclusion of Marius' classical studies coincided with M. success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to she is with a man whom she loves, and that there exists here a kind old The Thénardier deigned to reply:-- Two very severe duchesses, Mesdames de Choiseul and de Sérent, often midst of running water. come and go. On arriving at the window, Jean Valjean examined it. It had approaching preparatory to dashing themselves together, clasping and fatigued was he. Then, as the knapsack on his back was in his way, and "Where is the Argenteuil?" In addition to the economic progress which we have indicated at the woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpêtrière. There they held "Stars everywhere!" thought the old man; "not the tiniest cloud! Not a men, Fauvent and another man, were visible as they dug side by side. An francs for us! At last!" was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a Paris and to withdraw in season, from the hands of Laffitte, the sum declining. Gillenormand speaking, and who felt her conviction become irresistible he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began Here comes the change of face in this giant drama. felicity that exist on earth, and arrange yourselves a nest for life. Hence a new logic of art, and of certain requirements of composition one's closed eyelids, in the first mists of slumber at the moment when negative sign with his head, as though replying to some question which Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and the schools were no less moved than the "Shall we not make each other's acquaintance?" stammered Fauchelevent. laughing, Fantine smiling, Listolier blowing a wooden trumpet which he