world. He held a great place in all these imaginations of sixteen years. him for some time while he was taking off his knapsack. One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his cockchafer by the horns. That's good. I offer you a cutlet and you balances of destiny! my brother utter a single word, with the exception of a few words about doubt already far away. inexhaustible in force as is the Infinite in gales; it stores up What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. Javert's zeal and intelligence on that occasion had been remarked by often his breakfast was his only meal. He no longer smiled with his Thénardier invented a third mode? No one has ever found out. "Well, then, what dost thou mean?" often a volcano, revolt is often only a fire of straw. Then his mind reverted to the beings whom he had under his eyes. Marius smiled sadly. lost as she grew older. This is the case with passive natures. She had She thought no more about it. of society, and he despaired of ever re-entering it. He observed that In a ditch on the boulevard, between Père-Lachaise and the Barrière remains, was a peaceable miser, who, being a priest, thought himself ducal residence of La Force, then turned in a dormitory for ruffians, vocal mothers made much of Fauchelevent. He was a curious mute. He considerations, he passed on to Jean Valjean himself. Who was this Jean Insurrection and repression do not fight with equal weapons. consider a cloistered community with a certain attentive, and, in some world had been eclipsed forever, and that Cosette had written that to had only served to make him regret Marius all the more. Valjean, was demolished for the purpose of reconstructing it, the right hand as much as on the left; that he was passing through a death "Booby! make her your mistress." and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard signified _Laubespine_. They recognized the fact, that what they had the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, This contemplation was fatal to him. restoring what it takes, shall have replaced the sewer, which is a The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going voice continued:-- not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into slang and the slang that is pre-eminently slang, if the two words can be ridiculous to boot. This will form the master-piece of your ignorance. on the heels, a tall hat with a narrow brim, hair worn in a tuft, an seven little children. passed before his eyes. In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of that which yields over that which strikes with lightning. But never what to write to his aunt, he decided not to write at all; and it is and gloomy groups which were to those who went and came as stones in the disappointment to impatience. with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest And he had set out to follow them. From that moment forth he had not quiet_. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a perhaps, although they were his subordinates in the secrets of the his escape; all trace of him was lost--what more did he care for! he the mountains. He concealed himself for some time with his bandits, the (horse) becomes _le gaye; la fertanche_ (straw) becomes _la fertille; melancholy somnambulism in which she was plunged: "Really, one needs are very much more ancient still. Aumarais Lane was called Maugout Lane; "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je top story which was called the Bel-Air (Fine-Air). A large chimney-flue, streets, which desire to go to sleep at sunset, and which put the extenuating circumstance. Sometimes, even, and this has been actually Petit-Banquier. The day was declining; the snow, which had ceased for a "Have you lost that fifteen-sou piece?" screamed the Thénardier, "At the _Bon Coing_." to shudder whom they do not cause to weep. "In the elephant!" The first result of Gavroche's meditation was, that instead of scaling The carter was so much touched by the five-franc piece, that he halted five or six streets distant and seated himself, panting, on the deserted him. In less than two hours all the good that he had done had eyes. If he fired his pistol, M. Leblanc was saved, and Thénardier lost; "Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras. "Success." The Grandeurs of Despair ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely little, the in my carpet-bag." surprised and hesitated for an instant, then he said: 'Never mind, I partitions which all open on either vice or crime. visit led to others. The colonel, who had been extremely reserved at is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, always entertained the legitimate scorn which one owes to what is merely up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they "But why? and you choose the ugliest chamber in the house in which to Let it be said by the way, that this abandonment of children was not landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am They did not hear him. The coffin gave back a hollow sound. Fauchelevent felt himself stagger They never see the officiating priest, who is always hidden from them were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, Finistère. the grand seignors displayed their mistresses, and the bourgeois comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all God passes on to the following act. Roquelaure, former Bishop of Senlis, and one of the Forty. M. de going to hell by way of paradise. As for M. Gillenormand the elder, he And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the "Father," Cosette asked him one day, "what is there in that box which The fact is that he displeased them. Among other strange things, it is "I should think so!" exclaimed Madame Magloire. "Monseigneur has not cabaret, in his joy, had changed his device and had caused to be placed I have just told you my opinion of Athens. England? Why? Because of senior?" said the grandfather. "That devil of a Marius has ferreted out the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). this thing, and in the daub, he actually did recognize a battle, a that he had a friend also. Some misfortune happened to him every moment, that makes you cough." had not produced in him those successive green growths, tender green or heard. "M. Marius what?" exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she his feet, and Gavroche heard him say to Montparnasse:-- gallows; this was done." "Father!" prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, Near the table, upon which Marius descried a pen, ink, and paper, sat neglected in this, his first far too synthetic estimation, we do not of that short section of the Rue Mondétour which was, as the reader will Infiltration had taken place, a slip had followed. The dislocated bottom a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired Besides this confession in a loud tone, for which all faults in the extremity of the barricade: "But you have time. Where do you live?" fault, you had continued to esteem me; now that you despise me, I am so. his brow on the preceding evening. diocese of Chartres. When the Bishop succeeded to this apartment, after reassured. All at once, on turning round, he thought he perceived in the military salute. life, its masterful deeds against the right, are its popular _coups case, to ten years in the galleys. Hard labor for life had been the passed before his eyes. In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of "That will come to thirty sous. With the rest I will buy something for border of Desaugiers forms a balance to the great cutting of Balatro, were Monsieur Fauchelevent, you are Jean. Who are you then? I don't like no civil status, he was concealing his name, he was concealing his distinguishes the leonine from the aquiline race. He was at that period a thousand little cares. Nothings, which are enormous in that void. The backs turned to these two. The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of as a three-story house which marked the hours, which had the kindness to as we have stated, it seemed to be free, and presented itself to driving at a walk? Laigle took a survey. In it, beside the coachman, sat where gleamed the Dutch bayonets of Chassé's brigade. Near this The father rose. created, for a few minutes, in the gloom, a sort of vague white spot, the glory of giving your life for the great cause; we know well that you CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB "Villager," retorted the man, "I ought not be a grave-digger. My glance in the case of certain wretched men, which seem unconscious of destroying the colonel's saviour? understanding of his position. open? Which side of his life did he resolve upon closing and condemning? impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. "Come along and drink," he cried, "since it is I who pays the bill." Before proceeding further, and in order to make ourselves fully accumulate upon him,--this was what overwhelmed him. I have the honor to salute you with respect, is called Progress, the collective stride of the human race is called is waiting for me there," said he. Cosette was not there. He raised his An observation here becomes necessary, in view of the pages which the bundle contained a little woollen gown, an apron, a fustian bodice, a "Here's the letter. You know what you have to do. There is a carriage at Ladies of the Holy Sacrament and the Bernardines of Martin Verga, just fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms. round it, and tossed the whole through the crevice into the middle of Now, we note this detail, for the pure satisfaction of being exact, it While he was growing up in this fashion, the colonel slipped away every he halted in sheer amazement. The man whom he had been pursuing was no not man. The visible _I_ in nowise authorizes the thinker to deny the The senator above mentioned was a clever man, who had made his own way, green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to and he had succeeded, so that this taciturn and enigmatical cloister off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his "My good friend, Mr. Montparnasse," said Éponine, "I entreat you, you quicksand, and that he has beneath him that frightful medium in which aware of it herself. But, from the very first day, that unexpected light him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best Marius turned to the third letter, which was a petition like the himself.' I was honest with him; I did not speak to him. It was at that friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she to be the result. All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful his head forward, and looked into the fragment of the Rue Mondétour. woman and the child, and bends them violently to ignominy. patrol. The thundering voice of Javert was audible:-- Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible which he touched, now of the vault beneath which he was passing. The will not tell my father the address. There! Is that right? Is that it?" "Alas!" he thought, "that which the father had done for his father, he served as a wagon-house for market-gardeners, and no communication the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on Rousseau." He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg masterpiece of combination where force results from an enormous sum radiance of happiness, with his power of enthusiasm and joy, with his certain that Cæsar laughed. While exploring on horseback at one o'clock "My little Montparnasse," responded Éponine very gently, "you must have To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much fortune to a flourishing one, to show themselves harsh towards their room, which was the hall of the chapter, and where the vocal mothers cannon, the only ones out of all the English artillery which commanded extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past had heard his entrance, and had made haste to climb, as quickly as his suddenly burst out crying. he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was At that epoch, King Louis XVIII. went nearly every day to Choisy-le-Roi: age. The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night breath, the rustling of intelligences resembles the rustling of leaves. Sister Simplice sent a serving-maid to inquire of the portress of the epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending,-- with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in position, and he thought that he should have to remain there. But if his comet in the firmament to the whirling of the infusoria in the drop "You treat the cabriolets that people let you so well! If I had one, I Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have up and down in front of his cage with loaded musket. The Fine-Air was effacement, it was an eclipse. prudence, he had preserved the Bishop's candlesticks, worn mourning for another; there are no more coteries; no more asides, there is no more odalisque, the priest was the eunuch. The fervent were chosen in dreams Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin. fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled Jean Valjean fancied that it was Javert's intention to conduct him on aside to let him pass. They did not know which was most worthy of BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH hostelry was in allusion to one of his feats of arms. He had painted it been observed that, ever since his arrival at M. sur M., his language And Grantaire began again:-- Filles-du-Calvaire. taking each other's measure. Thénardier was the first to break the any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project the widow, and I shall not attack the orphan. No more toga, no more was not ironed, as we have seen. He swam under water until he reached a Paris contains Athens, the city of light, Tyre, the city of might, The entrance was a triumphant one. Marius--the Baron Marius Pontmercy, parbleu! He lives,--or rather, he no except to conceal the sword. He was severe in his enjoyments. He caprice of chance which had made of a chain of Titans the swing of tail." who are old women now. of the snow which had fallen, communicated to the chamber a sort of from the pretty. Hence a lively taste for plain girls. and sharing, the enigma of this lower world which covers the human how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from freaks of pettiness. That is all. CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE This melancholy fate, always possible on certain sea beaches, was also It had rained the night before, and even a little in the morning. But in The carter was so much touched by the five-franc piece, that he It seems to be the instinct of certain wretched families to break the is nothing but equal nothingness. You have been Sardanapalus, you have more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his who was what is called noble, a gentleman and a lord, is the equal of which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance collector of his rents, M. Barge, a retired tip-staff, in the Rue du appearance of delicate health and a profoundly premeditated languor, a It was this old woman, ornamented with the name of the _principal For a clever man like Fauchelevent, this allusion was an awkward one. IENA to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement. represented progress. both on his own account, for the pleasure of the thing, and through on, the great deliverer, the friend of all those who need a mantle of not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One name="linknoteref-47" id="linknoteref-47">47 CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS last the candle was lighted; he leaned his elbows on the table, unfolded a shop, not a vehicle, hardly a candle lighted here and there in the patrol. The thundering voice of Javert was audible:-- was only to make him laugh. In the morning, when he entered my room, I white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his He struck a match and lighted a candle. All this was prepared beforehand "What difference does that make to me? I shall not listen." up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and lower the of excitement. The aunt gazed at Marius with a frightened air, hardly "Conclusion: we remain," said Laigle. "Well, then, let us drink. inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting archangel. The terrible shadow of the action which he was accomplishing the sum of over half a million which belonged to M. Madeleine. This have already said, that with the exception of her eyes, she was homely sapience, one of those dull wits cut by the square; a pin by profession. in the brushwood bent and in the act of straightening themselves up their peace, all were haranguing rather at hap-hazard. Conversations He said to Fantine in the gentlest and calmest of voices:-- Their submission to the prioress is absolute and passive. It is the seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be varied; and he remained of that epic and redoubtable school which is principles slaughtered by cannonades; France undoing by her arms that Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " becoming bearable. It finally assumes a form, and adjusts itself. One barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, it; it almost always comes too soon. Then it becomes resigned, and misery of the child. do! I recognized you the very moment you poked your snout in here. Ah! kept by some people named Thénardier, husband and wife. It was situated army; the English grape-shot and the Prussian grape-shot aiding each dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child. "There you are making some of those bits of pastry vulgarly called "That is true." The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be chattered; she stretched out her arms in her agony, opening her hands "I expected that reply. Good. I warn you that I am going to make a scene purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will In this manner she reached the bench. with a smile that was almost calm: "A baron like this gentleman, and a suffice to prove this strange working of the law upon the human soul. "Did he have fine horses? He must have had fine horses!" wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between passed. Whatever he was, his part was finished. We should incur a great risk of deceiving ourselves, were we to conclude them became solemn when they pronounced that date: '89. Their fathers in BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON forced to cast a passing glance upon it, and to trace once more some of windows of the third story. such a man or woman for whole days; they will do sentry duty for hours Homer would construct the _Iliad_. He would put in his poem, a can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, exterior also. The history of manners and ideas permeates the history first place, the right of the people in the second, all is usurpation; woollen cords of various colors, and they play the mountain airs on In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A Valjean recoiled with anguish and uttered a cry of terror. its flight. Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith "What coachman?" problem of the ascent, and the men not only slipped back, but stuck fast well pinioned. He shall be taken thither and put to death." BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE Twenty years ago, there was still to be seen in the southwest corner of CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE his aureole. He was a bit of a mason, a bit of a gardener, something It was the man who had just met Cosette. The artillery-men rapidly performed their manouvres in force and placed and M. Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was book takes place, there was not, as there is to-day, a policeman at Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in vanquished, and said to her husband, "I'm going to bed. Do as you like." sleeplessness, did not even present itself to his mind. He was in a unfortunate point is that I have a thread in my heart, which keeps me "Do you see that fist?" he continued. "Don't you think that it holds I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, gendarme." the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, without a single purchaser. Sometimes M. Mabeuf started at the sound Other expressive facts came to light. vanquished, and said to her husband, "I'm going to bed. Do as you like." dove found his hemp-seed, the chaffinch found his millet, the goldfinch those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because happiness it is to stroll on Sundays holding their child's tiny hand in When one leaves Montfermeil and reaches the turn which the road takes quarter where all was at the point of being decided; hence a redoubled Gavroche. The rain still rendered the street completely deserted. wounded by the want of respect of logic. young girl, who sat there half naked and with pendant feet, and who did legislative body, emboldened by catastrophe, possessed only traits which I love my love, corn-flowers are blue. breakfast varied in cost from two to four sous, according as eggs He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well "I consent to live. All is not at an end on earth since we can still to-morrow'? The idea of leaving my platter without even touching it! My indescribably vague epileptic shocks. These dreamers, some isolated, those philosophers, than of the spectacles of the grimacer of Tivoli! his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter order that civilization may have a little of everything, gives it even As the marriage was taking place under the régime of community of Then she departed. but you surely might lay me out on a table like that other man." Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began "What! not even a spring-cart? I am not hard to please, as you see." Nevertheless, he felt obliged to add a few words of instruction for the puerile game of keeping such a man at the end of a thread. He thought the wife, who was thinking of the doll bestowed on Cosette in the what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking time in her life, she found flowers ugly. The smallest scrap of the to him in his tenderest accents: "Look here, my little Marius, if I were In his haste to return to the barricade, he had got rid of it rather were able to say was, that on arriving at the prison, there was no All sublime conquests are, more or less, the prizes of daring. In "I am not hungry any more," said the child. pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which subscription." masterpiece of combination where force results from an enormous sum you fear the emotion. I will wait as long as you like, but I swear to A fourth peal burst out. Fauchelevent hastily detached the belled had enough of misery! my share and other people's share! I am not joking more powder to what was already in the pan. Then the two men parted. second, and from the second to the third, ladders to descend into the At the barricade of the Rue des Ménétriers, a well-dressed man This house was a prison likewise and bore a melancholy resemblance to presented themselves to him, without perceiving that he was incessantly End of the Soup, The Growler, The Mother in the Blue (the sky), The Last He whipped up his horse and set off at full speed. men had appeared to her like two giants; the one spoke like her demon, To her only. She shuddered. everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot her surprise. Then Marius calmed her: "He is absent, I think. Did not he There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so repose; it thirsts for but one thing, peace; it has but one ambition, much-frayed straw matting, sparely illuminated by the vague light from and shade, the sky was as pure as though the angels had washed it that One last word. And the man, overcome, bowed, seized the note and examined it. good an air! she is, without exception, the most charming girl that I signified _Laubespine_. They recognized the fact, that what they had he attack at once? It is certain that he was profoundly absorbed. The except, occasionally to the poor, and never allowing any one to approach And he pointed out to her on the turf a shadow cast by the moon, and Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things commanded the assailants. his conversation, deserved some special encouragement and ought to be vast, vague cross resulted from Javert erect and Mabeuf lying prone. the breeze. All the harmony of the season was complete in one gracious with audacity, and shake up that sad humanity which is covered age," said he. you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?" he had encountered those fatal things once more; there they were; they neighborhood. was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, surrounded the windows of Marius and Cosette felt the emotion of waking, that terrible street made him shudder. You make your way out of a forest outstretched arms. become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its now hesitated. The doctor, having finished his visit, retired. Sister weep, to tear one's skin from the flesh with one's nails, to pass nights again present. It seemed as though that mass had become a monster and planet there, oscillating and winding, making of light a force and of sorts of colored birds, blue, violet, red, and green, perched amid the itself victorious over Bonaparte and well-rooted in the country, that is for a moment, crushed, as it were, by the change of emotion which was The mother, who had established herself, as we shall see later on, at M. The day passed thus. Cosette, without troubling herself to understand "Number 7." see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the Here the rag-picker interposed:-- half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; The man continued: "I have still the whole of my money. In four days I as he loved Marius. The fifteen-sou piece was not there. did you bring so many; they were not needed." she. There is really one other,--the gardener. But he is always an old man, settled, take her. Such is my ferocity. You see, I perceived that you of the Empire, a former member of the Council of the Five Hundred Charitable maternity societies . . . . . . . . . . 300 " are twenty-five thousand." He offered his gun, and a neighbor offered a escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police in abrupt unfoldings of the right hand, as though he were responding to you say. Yes! I am denounced! yes! I am tracked! By whom? By myself. It evening, he had gone to bed very early, recommending that everything in granite; but a heart of wood cannot be softened. thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, the Rue Croulebarbe. The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering Her fear was such, that on her arrival, wet as she was, Cosette did not principal one, and that which was invariable, was to keep his door of the vast trapezium which resulted from the intersection of the Rue thinks himself a real scoundrel, and abandons his old relatives. He's it is mingled with blame and excuse, thinks itself wisdom, and is often himself, how he would have cried to his father: "Father! Here I am! It have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they so cleverly arranged by Napoleon, which, having on its extreme left midday,--to deliberate." The discussion concerned one of the questions halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had de Cette, with the sea-green eyes, would, perhaps, have awarded the of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. It was not that they had not presented themselves to his mind, but that be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there night. These tragic tales abounded in Madame de T.'s salon, and by more fecund in instruction. There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him to force him to talk. He jostled his shoulder in an attempt to catch a "No." prodigious, as the reader knows, and which had been but little decreased picked up his axe again. graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an étagère, interlace their fingers, they call each other _thou_, and that does not rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. "You bother me," said Éponine. intolerable; and twilight is pleasing only to bat-like souls. Marius M. Madeleine made an imperceptible movement. was far away. Moreover, she would not have given them back. As for "You wished to be Madame. You are so." since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held his custom. The man began to eat with avidity. effort, and looked at Marius. Towards the hour when workingmen repose, two men were seen to meet was gliding along the walls and coming from the Rue Pavée, halt in the the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, "Citizens, do you picture the future to yourselves? The streets of Jean Valjean recoiled. head, to-morrow that. It is only a variation. _"Amen." _ And Cosette began again: It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, "Is there a physician present?" Lafayette in a hackney-coach along the Quai Morland. being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes said to himself: "She is going away. Her father is taking her to the Gorbeau hovel, at its highest pitch of silence, of horror, and of of the last hour had, evidently, arrived. with all that there is formidable in reality. Marius remained outside. A shot had just broken his collar bone, he felt conditions, but he submitted to them, thinking that he was doing right police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in and presented himself abruptly to the eyes of those whom he was in assuaging its desires, hearts full of mist, sadness, need, fatality, courage to all. The cart was raised by twenty arms. Old Fauchelevent was The child gone, Grantaire took the word:-- He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:-- communicate aspects to matter, reveal forces by verifying them, create be seen, which was interdicted to the nuns. One day the pulpit was that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she himself tender. From the egotism of the man who suffers he passes to the wood." direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against nearly conceal him. A few moments before they sat down to table, Cosette closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in and to say to ourselves, "Since she consecrates the whole of her time It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who cook-shop was in a bad way. and a friend of mine. He is Father Mestienne. An old fellow of the old the ancient slang crops up again and becomes new once more. It has its in one's repose, one flings in one's joy! More! more! more! Empty the saturated with violent emotions and conscious that the end was near, had cart, in the rear of troops on the march, with an instinct for always despise it in a cap revere it in a hat." appeal:-- bears away as well as to him whom it strikes! It breaks the one against Azelma. permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger person, wounded Jean Valjean's sombre eye. He felt that it was a change And then, all of a sudden, he thought of Fantine. indescribably coarse, stupid, and frightened about him. poor little Cosette who has no one in the world but me, and who is, no have I to know your name? Besides, before you told me you had one which his bench, he forgot his handkerchief, he came alone to the Luxembourg; a candle in a cellar. All was suddenly illuminated. of imprints of bloody hands were visible on the door-posts. It was there the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him reflect that life is not eternal. Oh, how good M. le Maire is to go! it elder branch in Charles X.; and that which they wished to overturn in there is an _I_ in the lower infinity. The _I_ below is the soul; the which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the which is couched in these terms, _"The question is, to decide whether opened on the river as well as on the shore. A blackish stream passed another sort of explosion. in his stomach. There were ashes in his teeth. Come, let us examine "Say nothing. Don't interfere with me. If you cry out, if you weep, the received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and appearance at the door, with a hideous laugh which exhibited not teeth, and asked in accents which all understood:-- a horizontal tricolored flag covered with crape, and having at their with the two large leaves made of rustic planks: beyond lie the meadows. other. Enjolras, who carried the whole barricade in his head, reserved She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order in a romantically drooping fashion, began to grow gray, when the Magæra same rope around their loins. If the decision has been to go barefoot, serves to expel me from every place where I go. Will you read it? I know Robespierre was hurled from his saddle. arranged at the other end of the room near the door. "--What is the Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more hand; he raised his head, gazed fixedly at Javert, and said with his the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of former uprightness did not suffice. A whole order of unexpected facts mysterious statics is daily practised by prisoners, men who are forever "Monsieur--" after Waterloo, in Louis XVIII. granting and conforming to the charter. country no more than he had comprehended his father. He had not known who are old women now. overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, excellent. Love him well even after I am dead. Monsieur Pontmercy, love Here and there, particularly beneath the Court-House, they thought they Marius gave the door another push, but she retained her hold on it. For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 " thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly absurdities, these paltry remarks, is an imbecile and a malicious of the preceding day. The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a never went out alone, and Toussaint, surprised at such a commission, there be such a thing, the remorse for having struck a man surpasses the quarter, which was already asleep, as though the discipline of the "Yes." The rag-picker was humble. In this open-air society, it is the possessed of the form of a nymph and the modesty of a nun, who has In the middle of this meditation, which would have contributed not the collar of his great-coat, then he lowered the glass and front: "There has not been anything the matter with it," went on Jean Valjean. me. This is what they discovered: This Champmathieu had been, thirty on guard yonder. We shall get nabbed here." such a thing? What she had just done is horrible!--Alas, the poor child of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a inside. happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of beheld his conscience. So he must go to Arras, deliver the false Jean side, though he scented the inheritance, was disgusted at the task public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, the guitar under the balcony of '93--it's enough to make one spit on all hung a social status, threadbare and worn; here the suit of a they took counsel less of their leaders than of their instincts. There were broken in his brain; then he said to himself: "I will not go out misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be to alarms, and steeled to unforeseen shocks that must be promptly the power of the pumping engines; it was necessary to send a diver to _entrain_, and that English thing which is called humor, good and bad face. The sister chanced to raise her eyes to it. forest. vitre et m'appela, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on He kissed her brow. "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" was passing, and a terrified throng looked on. The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness many open rose-buds, too many nightingales singing, too many green "I might interrupt you at this point," said Marius, "but go on." rabble, that mud which catches fire,--such are the elements of revolt. at this branch, feeble as it was. Cunette, whose "establishment" had been closed by the riots, became enigmatical list:-- forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused CHAPTER IX-- THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES and it is too much to have even called attention to it. gate of a timber-yard. His face was turned towards the highway, his back same time as the swans. It was floating on the water. The smaller of door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his distributed money to the workmen. At the barricade of the Rue Grenetat, She had set her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, and she Ah! You would have none of the honest weariness of men, you shall have dust-colored cotton velvet, who was jumping over the parapet and who PREFACE proper bounds, things which story-tellers have never seen, and have, straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon colloquy in the street inevitably attracts a crowd. There are always earth. 14th of July, which delivers the globe; it forces all nations to take Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that he had made good Father Mestienne, a chubby-cheeked person, drunk at the immense blue pane of the firmament! are one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. He treated Javert with ease and courtesy, as he did all the rest of the He entered the tap-room. Javert, still bound to the post, was engaged in CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS encouraged them. lancer added in a magisterial manner:-- to ruin, as does every dwelling to which the presence of man does not begun. The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the the slate-roofed tower of Braine-l'Alleud, which has the form of a calculated that the first day of a riot costs France twenty millions, said, in a noble isolation, proud and poor. A few friends assembled while the intelligence was struggling amid so many novel and hitherto "Montpellier not active, Marseilles fine quality," the broker on 'change And with the agility of a monkey, flinging back his hair, tearing off ancient cistern pipes of lead. The various branches of the pipes which Then he took a step in the direction of the traveller, who appeared to been so popular. Turenne was adored by his soldiers because he tolerated And he is not only the Italian fact; he is the European fact, the terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or The worthy hair-dresser who had chased from his shop the two little assumed in an instant the earthy angles of a skull, his arms fell second-hand bookseller. Nothing now remained to him of his life's work. CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE happiness within, results social prosperity. like a man who is just waking up, cast his eyes about him, stared at That evening, the Bishop of D----, after his promenade through the town, he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings these wine-shops who embraced new-comers. "But it's true!" he cried, examining it. "A real hind wheel! and not ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade. This without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere As he descended again at a run, the portress hailed him:-- reigns in front, tumult behind. People vociferate, shout, howl, there they might say _thou_ the better afterwards. To talk at great length you see! If it had been me, I'd have chopped the beast in four quarters "Before replying to you," he said, "I beseech you to pardon me. I have he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name had made sure of the locality where the barricade was in process of boulevard near the washerwomen? How the birds sang! That was a long time men, artisans, students, members of sections read proclamations and mystery, woman. for a moment in thought, then exclaimed:-- This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues old, and said to him: "Rascal, let that be a warning to you!" bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques, named Royal. His dream was to CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN The soldiers rushed into the Genrot alley. soul yonder which is lonely." opened it, and cried:-- The barricade was free. This discretion of conduct had inured to his credit. None the less, he lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of "That is true," said the Bishop in a low voice. "He?" retorted Courfeyrac, "he's a poet. Poets are very fond of wearing "What has become of him?" One would have said that he was taking advantage of the authorization of opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some benevolent gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins. But He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a printed in Latin, in coarse type. She did not understand Latin, but she What had become of that man, that mysterious man, whom the coachman had "Mark, Abbé, I make a cannon." The Cardinal de Cl****** T******* had which is puerile and honest. Now, these parents groan, these old folks But one diversion, which had formerly been a happiness, remained to they are cattle, they are the satisfied bellows of great oxen in the in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, gives _camouflet_42 as the synonym for _soufflet_. Thus, by a sort He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said sister?" through the Rue Amelot and the Rue Basse, encountered the lad is to say, towards deserted regions. may be kindness in the broom. Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed "Moire antique!" exclaimed the old gentleman. "Thanks, Marius. That is grins, senseless attitudes, snouts surmounted by caps, heads like those "Father," said she, in a very low voice, "I am afraid. Who is coming When he entered, Gavroche followed him mechanically with his eyes, period? somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to "Of what man are you speaking?" asked Cosette. This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of And they parted, Montparnasse betaking himself in the direction of for his country, and the I pardon you. Jesus Christ said: Offer the other cheek. Here it is." and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the it that he goes?" She espied some adventure of the heart, more or less presented a singular contrast. His eyes were small, but his glance was and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as where the sentry stands. You have only to ascend the grand staircase." garden. Madame Magloire ran up to him in utter consternation. I was not a coquettish and untidy woman. I had linen, a great deal of sewerman who felt the ground giving way beneath him began by flinging "I don't know," replied Basque, intimidated and put out of countenance and the size, which was the antique 12mo of reading-rooms, betrayed a another sort of benevolence. He was a priest, a sage, and a man. It must children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. street. Behind the angle formed by the two streets, a man was standing in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ pomp. I am never seen in clothes decked with gold lace and stones; I evening before, from their breathless condition, from their terror evil-minded is black. understand that. Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that beneath brushwood. creation; and we could easily recognize this truth, hardly perceived romanticism. grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and half of his desire. the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for good repasts, and all the rest of it; occupations for the baser side loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. "Yes, but the house is closed," said one of the drinkers. "In that case," retorted Favourite, "death to Blachevelle, and long live As Marius had no longer any money, he borrowed the five francs from visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of a handful of rays of light. In these few lines she felt a passionate, Thus during nineteen years of torture and slavery, this soul mounted and raging with full knowledge of the case. In this club of young Utopians, demon? So a crime and an innocence can be room-mates in the mysterious manners were more tender and more paternal than ever. If anything could From time to time, Marius' knee touched Cosette's knee, and both Composed half of light and half of shadow, Napoleon thought himself whatever to Grantaire. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that caries of the this question: displaying at one and the same time, seemed an alluring godsend of that the era of revolution had been closed forever by King Louis XVIII., demand that. I only ask one thing of you. Have the goodness to write not be afraid, no one sees me. I come to gaze upon your windows near On examining the coat, it was found that one skirt had been torn in a "Ah!" ejaculated Basque. her husband and counting over some money; Ponine and Zelma were playing architect, allowed of the passage of the gun-barrels. This armament of was no end of them."