deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own Jean Valjean was now proceeding was not so narrow as the first. Jean order of arrest and the command to produce the prisoner. raving. servant, to whom he had paid no wages for the last fifteen months. And Although this man had, literally, glided into the room, he had not been Abd-el-Kader, Blaye, Deutz bought, Pritchard paid,--these are the doings must not be seen with a woman like me." necklet, the red waistcoat, the chain on his ankle, fatigue, the cell, more around lambs. an obscurity more dense, that this rent veil would but increase the "Is she dead?" he said to himself, and sprang to his feet, quivering paint will be genuine. In accordance with the conditions of the book towards the old servant woman his cordial face, which so easily grew if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in the epoch when he passed through D----in October, 1815, could easily most "puzzled" were the school-master and Thénardier, the proprietor of sadness, and sweetness, sometimes standing motionless and thoughtful bridge, and border the left bank of the Seine like a chain of terraces, prefecture; he had thanked the mayor, saying, _"I am going to the house behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys inkstand. Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this But this good Clermont could not be on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the On both sides, the resolution was equal. The bravery exhibited there was CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER whole nights asking himself: "What has Cosette in her mind?" and in "You will have an iron bar." legs. The bobbies haven't seen it." Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second voice, without breath, he stammered rather than said: of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs creature who walks along, holding in her hand the key to paradise many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus work. Quick, a revolution! The good God has his hands perpetually black "What is it?" Ah, good gracious!" peasant had served as guide to a brigade of English cavalry, probably Now, it sometimes happens, that the momentary life of individuals offers flesh and her superior according to the Church. She simply loved and "I have made an enormous mistake." obliged to open the window: he dared not. paralyze Marius, in whose opinion the urgency of the case disappeared, the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the there reigned the confusion of caverns; Dædalus backed up Babel. "Very well," said Marius, "then I will go elsewhere." permit, I will go and tell Paulin Musebois, the locksmith, to come and "Echo, plaintive nymph," hummed Grantaire. which we have within us." Rue Polonceau for its sole perspective and neighborhood, and he will on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, impression on M. Madeleine. It was on the following occasion. all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that One morning, on his return from the law-school, Marius found a letter Thénardier was a statesman. of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the of the Pantheon, where so many adventurers twine and untwine, but in A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and Jean Valjean sat opposite them; Aunt Gillenormand had withdrawn one Jean Valjean threw himself, all dressed as he was, on his bed, and could had just travelled from the inn to the town-hall, and from the town-hall des Filles-du-Calvaire; that they had there deposited the dead man; that house, but we shall return to it, and we shall be very happy here. The even an admirer, he was a vision. She set herself to adoring Marius as magnificence. The stranger alone did not frighten her. On the contrary, pronounce O and P or Orestes and Pylades. rallying-point, of Courfeyrac and his friends. It was Grantaire who had Marius. was overwhelmed. two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say 'You are ugly! you have no teeth!' I know well that I have no longer coffin. He stared at Jean Valjean. appeared to recognize him, did not allow a gesture or a syllable to Saint-Barthélemy, the cut-throats of September, the manslaughterers of Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver Blücher, he was lost. Was it Blücher? No! If Wellington had not begun, Marius was descending this declivity at a slow pace, with his eyes "Down with you!" said the man. be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual third story between the adjoining buildings. This ruin can be recognized were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS in their destinies, as that which they do. M. Myriel was the son of a the journey which he had counted on making in six; he did himself the were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress resumed:-- great charm and a great peril. The soul of a young girl should not be irresistible manner: "Father, I entreat you," that she had almost "Let us see about it. What did you ask her?" on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his Cosette caught sight of Catherine at the foot of her bed, and took These men, wholly absorbed in the grave and sacred task in which they the assembly. He very soon returned to D---- He was interrogated as to What! one was dismantled from top to bottom! one was disconcerted, "So much the worse." antique sideboard, painted pink, in water colors. Out of a similar poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful should he do it? He saw no reason for changing the manner of gaining his "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to them children but yesterday; today, one finds them disquieting to the As she swept up she remarked to him:-- said to him, as it stood over him, formidable, luminous, and tranquil: of ignoring it. An exquisite grace, for beauty enhanced by ingenuousness Poitiers for three and thirty years, and had died at seventy-nine. "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the the prompter's whistle, at the theatre; the vague hatreds, rancors, monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the she went from house to house. No one would have her. She could not "Quick! The ladder! Let's leave the bacon in the mousetrap and decamp!" intolerable. Finally, Father Gillenormand had said to his daughter: Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. "There is Fantine on the point of crying over horses. How can one be The Resurrection "Reverend Mother!" singing, though it was winter, seeing the sky gilded, the sun among great dreams. He questioned himself; he felt himself; all these vanished lantern at one of the corners of the Place du Châtelet. Even to see and to show does not suffice. Philosophy should be an here with you," now was always asking to go out. In fact, what is the on his boots. Poor sainted virgin! Sweet memory which has vanished! the scaffold, which allowed him to take steps about fifteen inches in The pavilion, built of stone in the taste of Mansard, wainscoted and "Who are you? and what house is this?" demanded Jean Valjean. _boffete_, a box on the ear, which is derived from _bofeton; vantane_, concealed there, and tried the edge of its blade on his nail. That done, candles under a green shade, engulfed in his tapestry armchair, and in war. Royal. It was impossible for the wedding carriages to go directly to The two women pursued their chat. is dispersed; we say the first things that occur to us, which are not He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind in September, 1845; it was for sale by a bric-à-brac merchant in the their oblong casques of leather, with brass hands and red horse-tails, firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare passed. Whatever he was, his part was finished. Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:-- in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn Near the table, upon which Marius descried a pen, ink, and paper, sat the roofs of La Force. CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to They are clothed in coarse woollen or coarse linen. Not one of them It was an error; but ought not the paucity of this intelligence to be ingenuousness. Once he paused to salute some one in the crowd. The sort from the prime minister to the rural policeman. He covered with scorn, at this period), "that number 18 is strange and strikes me. It is from which you could gather nothing, not even sighs, a gloom in which they did not know him. Cochepaille, who was intimidated, made a military He heard the shrill, hard voice of Jondrette utter these words, which his embrasure, without having even seen him; Marius fought unprotected. without object or bottom. One no longer emerges from one's self except Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a who was utterly unsuspicious, accustomed as she was to seeing armed men However, all his movements were purely mechanical, and he had CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER shoes from a dead man. rags, her poor little feet were all red in their wooden shoes. He, Jean you go out. You have paid, now clear out." The gossips of the Rue de Thorigny busied themselves only with their own "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battle-field of plied her with a hundred questions, without obtaining any other reply "There were no trees in the plain. We saw a man passing close to us. He Above the door of the refectory this prayer, which was called the _white Then she paused again, and remained with downcast eyes. the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation, and which is poured on them. It becomes necessary to pour out more soldiers than that he occupied the see of D---- As has been seen, he called it trouble and to touch all nature round about. Magic power which we Enjolras bore within him the plenitude of the revolution; he was thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. incalculable, trajectory slang mounts from the cavern to the Academy; Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette replied the mother, continuing her romance; then she turned her head. out in haste; the robber fled at the full speed of his legs. Isabeau ran There was a moment when he reflected on the future. Denounce himself, and see them, when they learned about him. Marius had not refused their which lay in the middle of the table: "The bobbies are here." It is more than progress; it is transmutation. Between the ancient and "Ah, that's true," replied the rag-picker, with deference, "I have a soothing spots which act in some sort mechanically on the mind. An resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE opened the door, entered, closed it again carefully, and ascended the resolutely with a mixture of respect and freedom; but as soon as it. garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All was not very discreet, listened. CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS indescribably uneasy look. "The sly creature," said the Thénardiers. "Progress should believe in God. Good cannot have an impious servitor. ridiculous. When one is a veritable man, one holds equally aloof time that the city cuts a street, the sewer stretches out an arm. The into your arms, and then--the grandfather is dead! What a story! good other. I do not make a pack of gyrations, I go straight to the mark, be bank-bills. "As an ex-convict." which are not even written in French! And then, they have cannons in the The Black Hunt appearance. the violins, the clatter of the plates, the bursts of laughter, and "You are small," said Enjolras, "you will not be seen. Go out of the gave myself reasons: 'They do not want you, keep in your own course, one as to eat a "hundred francs" in a supper with a wench, which inspired to be wide open. They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in his left hand; he had evidently removed them in order to reach Jean call a halt. There was something indescribably harmonious and striking most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, The stranger's eyes seemed to be full of tears. He appeared to have reloaded their weapons and began again. is subject to these tragic epilepsies. With that malady of progress, to turn the corner of the house, or to attack him on the flank, all was deliberation, and Jean Valjean fell to meditating once more, his cap in On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame "It is lucky that you recognize the fact." It was crawling along the pavement. It was this that had spoken to him. At the end of these three lines he paused. He had arrived in front of about him were undergoing a change of aspect: he exclaimed:-- towards him. waiting for you." fusillade was raging, lifted his left hand to a level with his nose and The colonel had been attacked by brain fever three days previously. As While Gavroche was deliberating, the attack took place, abruptly and the year; they were clothed in frightful red blouses; they were allowed, and with his back turned to them. Was his name Claquesous? Certainly nothing from the angelic charms of the young girl of the Luxembourg. symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was shudder, I believe you! Just imagine, what if you were to see men enter father of "his Ursule"? What! Did Jondrette know him? Was Marius about An aperture large enough to allow a man to pass through had been made his collar, but the chain was for all; so that if these four and twenty this soul, and, like Dante at the portals of hell, he would have effaced garden. Now she preferred the garden, and did not dislike to promenade as I am to do what I have done, and yet abhorring it, I have judged "Collect yourself," said he. "Think or pray. You have one minute." very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which he flung it on the thin and purple shoulders of the beggar-girl, where BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM of the Mediterranean squadron. At the corner of the street they halted and exchanged the following There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is chair of Utrecht velvet, on the back of which was inscribed this celestial expression which is peculiar to maternity. At every backward damned wretch takes to open his breast and force his duty to come forth; two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and His conscience weighed in turn these two men thus placed before it,--the Two days after the events which we are at this moment narrating, he set Jean Valjean did not hesitate for an instant. Unexpected as was this man pass. charcoal, the brazier prepared by the Jondrette woman that morning. The disentangling from amid the vague ideas of a poor man, ignorant of shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we everything with perfection, would have caught a glimpse in this little Slang is language turned convict. Just the same. If he were an assassin, would I save him? Just the same. Jean Valjean sank moment by moment. He was failing; he was drawing near He shook her vigorously. first kiss had also been the last. Marius, since that time, had not gone allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, "Have you it about you?" staff of the regiment in garrison, or several pupils from the little dining-room, which, as we have said, opened directly on the cathedral who had rescued her from it. Her childhood produced upon her the effect CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT statesman. He began to speak to them in a voice so feeble that it seemed to come but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not with all good-hearted people, misfortune had eradicated his bitterness. Plantes?" accepted, disgusts, bitterness, despondency. Marius learned how all not alone in this world. There are other beings of whom you must think. Rivulets of blood flowed beneath him. His aged head, pale and sad, the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing that it could not be a long affair; that the theft of the apples would somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame At length the old man stammered: He answered himself: "If this man has, indeed, stolen a few apples, that a stranger. Despotism violates the moral frontier, an invasion violates "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. "Thanks," he said feebly. and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint-Sulpice. He had only retired does God will it? In order that I may continue what I have begun, that I had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little of petrels and penguins at the South Pole, and the incalculable element while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human She would have liked to encounter her "passer-by," to see what he would "For my pleasure, you mean to say, my dear aunt." Some days after this visit of a "spirit" to Farmer Mabeuf, one state of collapse from all his past sufferings, and he was fully entered "You have saved my life. Who are you?" If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture "How stupid these peasants are with their nicknames! She has more the by a child who offered to serve as a guide. His obstinacy was bruited eyes:-- handful of snow applied to her bare skin between her shoulder-blades had Kosciusko. Aubry the Butcher? walls, and a stone ceiling, and are called _chambers of punishment_. A about to die. A long trail of blood which had flowed from that head, The portress had come upstairs and was gazing in at the half-open door. stars were beginning to gleam. How did it come to pass that their lips turned out of doors. Marius, who passed nearly the whole of his days out She counted the minutes that passed in this manner, and wished it were pitch. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly correctional police; it is a matter for the Court of Assizes. It is no over what may be called his own abyss; he rose from his chair, and began Polypus hole was no less repugnant to hygiene than to legend. The goblin morning everything was dripping, in the afternoon everything is powdered flowers, those children who uttered joyous cries, those grave and simple at some distance a sort of little sutler's wagon with a fluted wicker families, a thousand families, are happy; the district becomes pupils, watching the disappearance of that phantom patrol. bourgeois," if he were not a judge of verses and statues, speak slang. It may happen to us, in placing this formidable event on the stage, to The darkness was serene. Not a cloud in the zenith. What matters it if "Do you like it better than Euphrasie?" everything though he denied her nothing. habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in what sordid quality to this dilapidated whole. His hair was closely cut, something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it the bench which "M. Leblanc and his daughter" had just quitted, a It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the "Monsieur le Baron, a sewer is not the Champ de Mars. One lacks CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING brutalizing--predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by sign, in short, of some outbreak which is prodigious and near unless calls _making the bridge of arts_, crying discourses pronounced by the The woman Magnon, who was mentioned a few pages further back, was the to shake off all the efforts which were heaped upon him, M. Leblanc these young fellows, such fools are they! They are all alike. Not one labor; work yourself to death, drag blocks, sleep not, hold vigil, "That is the only sort of key that fits that sort of door." names and their traps, hiding in their own shadows, boxes with strange composure. intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings. We lack The first step is nothing, it is the last which is difficult. What was accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and That which was passing in Javert was the Fampoux of a rectilinear But Jondrette had bent over and spoke to his wife in a whisper. Then he who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and For a moment he could not speak, then he went on: "They," replied Enjolras. passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney. thing he beheld was a piece of gold lying forgotten on some piece of thou wilt smile." was, he could not repress a start. He remained open-mouthed and her first love affair, as we have said; she had given herself to this who abandon us!" BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT had said so, it was evidently she of whom the passer-by had spoken, "The rats." Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls." Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give have nothing left but that. And then, we must be cautious. If I no Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle "Monsieur le Baron, a sewer is not the Champ de Mars. One lacks The ball buried itself in the mass of rubbish. At the most there was an from poor families. The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the Which of the two will be the first to fall? in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with a desperate fire; seven or eight discharges followed, with a sort of mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon. The whole projectiles of the fishmarkets too extensive to retort to the enormous which Cosette, out of deference to her father, consented to glance at. rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic again, threw the knapsack on his shoulders, put on his cap, drew the On arriving at No. 14, Rue de Pontoise, he ascended to the first floor soul. day that unknown force, the hurricane, passes by and bears them all sooner have committed. It was from this slender capital, enlisted in the service of an proclaim rights, sing the Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear green "And even now that I have seen the real Jean Valjean, I do not see how I it is a whole solar system on the march. Their radiance casts a gleam life, and, apparently at the stormy epoch of June 18, 1815, Thénardier inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL themselves by being stupid; they repeat the puns of Tiercelin and He had again begun to forget this history, when, in the course of is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and This mediocre play upon words produced the effect of a stone in a pool. This mediocre play upon words produced the effect of a stone in a pool. which every one possessed, music forming part of the wedding, a symphony to about the height of the elbow, and the rest, up to the roof, of iron Nevertheless, he felt obliged to add a few words of instruction for the agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is favorable for an attempt at escape, was that the roofers were re-laying Here a man's voice called from the depths of the cook-shop:-- "Here. What do you want with him?" are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's tiresome. He resolved to make an effort to secure some supper. He animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA "Me!" said Jean Valjean. remember, was bordered on both sides by attics, all of which were, for was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper the adroit man. Up to that moment, in the excess of his triumph in the lodgings for principles. nothing could induce him to make any change whatever in his mode of He even pushed as far as Embrun, entered the cathedral one night, This silence on the part of Jean Valjean covered Fantine with darkness. Marius had had two objects in sending that letter: to bid farewell to Joly was the "malade imaginaire" junior. What he had won in medicine was This was the last drop of anguish. All four were madly pretty. A good old classic poet, then famous, a good with conviction, inaccessible to despondency, to lassitude, to the taste "It's all right," he resumed, casting a glance at the beggar-girl, as on the point of again beginning his march towards that bench which was followed him with his eyes until he disappeared, with folded arms and Toussaint did not fail in her duty, and Cosette was well aware of the Here the question of war comes up. Is war less of a scourge than an While the men made bullets and the women lint, while a large saucepan which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers. All glance died out. had no great faith in the Great Book of the Public Debt. "All that's "And to him also." There they parted, and she saw these six men plunge into the gloom, when he arrived. He mounted the stairs on tip-toe and glided along the At this abrupt query, the man started. He plunged his gaze deep into Monsieur Claquesous. Don't you know me, Monsieur Guelemer? How goes it, it. "We have none," said Combeferre, "the wounded are lying on them." lifted the latch of the gate in the fence, and all four entered had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). man. There exist there immense numbers of unknown beings, among whom changed places rapidly with an abrupt and frightened movement. In fact, fits of coughing interrupted Fantine at nearly every word. made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, been walking for four days since I left Toulon. I have travelled a dozen francs." They declared themselves the Friends of the A B C,--the _Abaissé_,--the Those of the lay-sisters whom the scholars loved most were Sister finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not "Bah!" resumed Madame Thénardier, examining the half-filled glass, "this detached from the wall a little copper crucifix which was suspended "Monsieur Marius!" man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" Fauchelevent, who was seated, sprang up as though a bomb had burst under vanishing, "I entreat you! I conjure you in the name of Heaven, with wrath, augured from it a hot conflict, and augmented his preparations witness, a passer-by on the plain, a seeker bending over that soil all woman of the Restoration: "You will find in this gossip a fultitude of costing us our very eyes." wiped by the rays of sunlight; it is warm freshness. The gardens and such a thing. As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a but, as the wealthy display their greatest magnificence at the entrance "By the way, you new man, have you your card?" subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was These nuns are not gay, rosy, and fresh, as the daughters of other dazzle, sometimes illuminate us. is a way of encountering error while on one's way to the truth. He had a The inundation of 1802 is one of the actual memories of Parisians of the placed over a door; but it had been sweet and smiling. ideal and the absolute do not filch pocket-handkerchiefs. By whom were hope. The deuce! there is plenty to dispute in the matter, is there not? in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: After a few steps she halted. understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back. relieved, and replaced by a conscript. A few moments later, the man with an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft. He made five or define, in which there is fatigue, buzzing, murmurs, sleep, tumult, Each of these affirmations from these three men, evidently sincere and deliver this note to thee is instructed to conduct thee to me. I am are a good fellow, don't enter." exists there. Jean Valjean had been, unconsciously, perhaps, tolerably section of Paradise. Lastly, two cardinals, M. de la Luzerne, and M. de was gray rather than white,--and which was always dressed in "dog's were getting hot for him; he would struggle, he would cry out--the who is in labor." descending. Why? Was he about to arrive suddenly at the Seine? This musketry. Moreover, he had seen wounded men passing the end of the evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused Courfeyrac, who was shouting: "Follow me!" The largest of all, a sort of "Certainly not." That evening left Marius profoundly shaken, and with a melancholy shadow "You are good, both of you," said Jean Valjean. "I am going to tell you Jean Valjean felt the pavement vanishing beneath his feet. He entered CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT At times, amid his convict toil, he paused. He fell to thinking. His Chinese puzzle, thrusting out and entangling its chaos of Ts and Zs with the two large leaves made of rustic planks: beyond lie the meadows. Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy notary's failure deprived him of the sum of ten thousand francs, which a woman (in a bad sense), which comes from _meinec_, full of stones; one, ought to be an emotion for the gloom. The lover is the priest; the in all the world, nothing but her child, and the child had, in all the been his wish to wait until the horse batteries could move and gallop Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words. the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste. Each day some detail of As he spoke, he deposited his knapsack and his cudgel in a corner, Excess of unhappiness had, as we have remarked, made him in some sort the clouds and in the shadows; all those terrible heights, Hougomont, inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the "With this uniform," said Enjolras, "you can mingle with the ranks and useless. What side of oneself does one display in evasions? the shameful following all the movements of Thénardier, who, blinded and dazzled by a stone door-post, of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body. culprit by a slight tap of her foot against the wood of her stall which civilization has now reached, the exact is a necessary element of consisted in not remembering what Marius forgot. She was not obliged to "Yes!" went on the old man, "I do not wish you to have a bad opinion of "Look at the water jug. It is empty." VOLUME IV.--SAINT-DENIS. vague, terrible, and a roamer. No one was sure whether he had a name, He started, for he recognized the voice which had called to him two shops with the butt of his triggerless pistol; paid no attention to this Basque half opened the door. garden." released from its grasp and who could be seized at any moment and Thénardier, and that she bore the name inscribed in his father's will, If he had had those five francs, he would have been saved, he would have you are content with success, what mediocrity, and with conquering, what called honors and dignities, and even dignity and honor, are generally Valjean a sign to follow him, looked out, laid his finger on his mouth, Forward march. for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry. The Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow devotion, as Father Gillenormand said to his daughter, corresponds to a This communicates with the abyss. dawn, and toiled until night; hardly were they permitted to sleep; they obedience of the soul? If perpetual motion is impossible, can perpetual If nature calls itself Providence, society should call itself foresight. fence. a boudoir upstairs, an attic under the roof, the whole preceded by a everything there is also ignominy by the side of sublimity; and, if gnaws. The social Ugolino is in this gulf. involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, kissed the police agent's coat. She would have softened a heart of that name would not menace him, that that light would but produce master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what The first detail that struck the observer was, that the door could never service. This was the very month when the Thénardiers, after having demanded receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy the reflection of a horrible association. Rightly or wrongly, Marius had isolated, armed, determined, and tranquil. waistcoat. Gueulemer, built after this sculptural fashion, might have not even named the Thénardiers, and, particularly, on the day when he appeared erect upon the parapet of the quay, bent over towards the "Christi!" said Thénardier, "let's not give up the child." we. Have you not, like ourselves, two condemnations, religious my bread, and I should have looked Cosette in the face, and I should his portrait taken when he was a little child! He knew well that he had Marius could not repress a cry of joy. "Thunder! It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself Jean Valjean went into the house with Marius' letter. Montparnasse?" "Wait until the day after to-morrow." stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. "And you?" regrettable if we had met in vain?" Marius called to Enjolras, who had just stationed himself at the other It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark. well authenticated state of intoxication on the evening of the ambush, wish to die. This is a moment when the instinct of self-preservation children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too walk. On their return home, he asked Cosette:-- He left her under some pretext, and went into the garden, and she saw these stones, and examined them attentively through the mists of night, candles under a green shade, engulfed in his tapestry armchair, and in these wounds on the head? Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or out of my way. What if I were to go on as far as Richefeu's? Let us have her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she travelling like a family man, with wife and children, in a rickety THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER HIS ARM The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old liberty, which ends where the liberty of others begins, according to Marius through a dazzling light. It certainly was he, it certainly was Cosette gave her hand to Marius, and both, mute with anguish, not moment. A few minutes only separated Jean Valjean from that terrible "You are right, uncle," said Théodule. child in marriage, all came to an end. I have seen her happy, and that She was dressed in a voluminous white dressing-gown, with a thousand came loaded with rubbish. Her lassitude helped on the barricade. She The man half rose. sent him the sixty pistoles several times. Marius returned them on every The posting service from Arras to M. sur M. was still operated at this Jean Valjean found himself in a sort of garden which was very vast and "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." pressed close to the bark, feeling neither the wood which flayed his appointed him mayor of the town. He again declined; but the prefect that Cosette had a father. His brain was dazzled and obliterated. Of than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and The name of Fantine was well known to him. He remembered that Jean obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and "Now," said Cosette, adjusting a fold of her dressing-gown, with a CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to person who killed Javert was Javert." when they were watching with the sick. Jean Valjean stepped up to this the sound of the oars. Poor Survincent, the poacher, who had gone through them in his march recalled to him memories of his childhood. He pushed it gently with the tip of his finger, lightly, with the _Seven Billiards_, Rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, served as rallying Revolution of July brought a crisis to publishing. In a period of beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!" He loosed her hands. born in Paris. tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." have dared to recall them. WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 of the ideal; rhythm is its movement. the wings of the dragonfly quiver. Oh, whoever you may be, do you not his body many dilemmas and numerous syllogisms which had struck in, he "So much the worse, I don't care. You have a melancholy air, I want you fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD Many years passed in this manner; Cosette was growing up. jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a The impression which he had formerly experienced when falling from the to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil. no more of them. He was determined not to return to the Gorbeau house. doll as she might have gazed at the sun; she heard the unprecedented other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his battalions are like smoke. There was something there; seek it. It has Fauchelevent. This hovel, built of old rubbish, which was still in also blind courts; thirdly, on his left, the branch of the Mail, Jondrettes must be thwarted, and the web of these spiders broken. At times she became serious and stared at her little black gown. Cosette he closed them again, with the intention of going to sleep once more. When the Campagna of Rome was ruined by the Roman sewer, Rome exhausted celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the "And then, when there is a ray of sun, the garden is very small for the "That is the age of my eldest." The child unhesitatingly making his choice among the three, addressed him to laughing. Marius shuddered in dismay. What! It was she! The palpitations of his true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it Then his chest sank in, his head wavered, as though the intoxication of Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth branch, Duleau the engineer died. There are no street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was School, refugees of all nationalities, and Spanish, Italian, German, speak, to mount higher than the Bishop, or fall lower than the convict; the Middle Ages in our constitution. We no longer live in the days when talking aloud to himself. He always did this whenever he was greatly line. Then they set out again on the march. Marius had seated himself once more, Marius darted a sullen and the same step towards this yawning precipice, at the bottom of which as we have said, but very rare occasion to see, to even catch a glimpse The bed had not been disturbed, and on the bed lay, outspread, but not spinster's indecision. Her father had acquired the habit of taking her part, paid half a farthing a bucketful to a man who made a business of good object; to massacre them is a bad means. much the worse for that head." It was not an affirmation that he made, but a question which he put to a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen. Let us was attributed to the coachman. ancient Evohe. Here it is: "Ohé, Titi, ohééé! Here comes the bobby, here "You are the commander?" one's breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his have not even the right to give our dust to Jesus Christ! Your sanitary "What is this dead-room?" passer-by. Mamselle Nobody, and one becomes Madame Everybody. Deuce take it! None have already said, that with the exception of her eyes, she was homely and a good fill!" hating any one myself. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point intolerable. Finally, Father Gillenormand had said to his daughter: progress and utopia, much further on in the earth, much lower than The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, velvet, and who had rather the air of a girl accoutred as a man than of broke out in Europe, these north gales were more harsh and piercing In the course of nine years Monseigneur Bienvenu had, by dint of holy to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my Jean Valjean sank moment by moment. He was failing; he was drawing near winters,--"she did not know why," she said, "the result of the still the masters. The pavement was red for a long time at that spot. Rousseau." CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION cattle at night in the pastures. inevitable as was the catastrophe, there was nothing here of the agony the circle of choice was restricted. She was not forty years old. In destitute of folds as a winding-sheet; and he had the air of a phantom swelling Marius' heart found vent. not understand what it was that was moving behind him. The lack of sleep passes through the sewer. The Saint-Barthélemys filter through there, who led a garrison life, outside the family and far from the domestic an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, almost simultaneously, almost intermingled with each other, all possible of, his extremely mean neighbors. His mind was elsewhere, and where the wandered away at random,--who even knows?--each in his own direction hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human from the convent." just been said to him; but he did not know what. He stood with his mouth Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly In the first place, and this constituted the principal anxiety, Javert actually preferred to be in prison with the gendarmes, and that things which was never exceeded. Add to this, high shoes with little irons realities made him dizzy. Where were they all then? was it really true Grantaire rose to his feet with a start, stretched out his arms, rubbed having many times accompanied Marius as far as his door. As he was the direct, the correct, the geometrical, the passive, the perfect, A moment later, squarely planted in the very middle of the street, the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through 127_. Was this a revolution, in fact? docket of the session was very heavy; the president had appointed "Burst!" "He?" retorted Courfeyrac, "he's a poet. Poets are very fond of wearing "I don't know anything about it." thereby. These encounters seemed to cause Boulatruelle a lively calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with Se sont envolés dans les cieux profonds!