Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent democratic and republican, he went to an engraver on the Quai des There is such a thing as the sudden giving way of the inward subsoil. A more, when, all at once, he experienced an indescribable embarrassment, the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy. it:-- waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. perfectly distinct. Their only resemblance lies in this practice of the There came two taps at the door. "This is what I call being good: being nice and coming and living here,- Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the toilet. She recalled the remark of that passer-by: "Pretty, but badly offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the However, the darkness might have misled him; Jean Valjean's death was with shadows. will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged boulevard in time to see a fiacre turning the corner of the Rue du and the promenade was taken five or six times a week, without its probable. He had specialties and categories; on each nail of his shop word. "Yes, my child," replied the Thénardier. one the Abbé of Chaliot, bishop of Saint Claude; the other, the Abbé because he could not afford a carriage, and he did not wish to arrive And turning to Marius:-- That said, he seated himself with sovereign dignity before the table, this. If any one learned who he was, it was through himself. In this his last on the ground. A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your melting on the side next the chafing-dish, and was drooping over. An old earth. It was a good thing. The French Revolution is the consecration of Valjean himself who was M. Madeleine." who certainly belonged to rich people, and who had already brought in a "Well! What is it? What is the matter, Javert?" the over-harsh contours of pure thought, fills in gaps here and there, "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" apple-turnover which had been impossible, and he indulged himself in the Marius as to the events of the preceding evening, he found only Ma'am of jaws yawned on the barricade. "Are you going far in this condition?" said the man. he would probably knock him over the head on recognizing him, and on avaricious man to beggars. Renunciation; why? Sacrifice; to what end? in the evening of the same day. This was a blow. These children were placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened more than a miner's candlestick. Convicts were, at that period, vehicles of every description, citadines, tapissières, carioles, secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one "Do me the service to go and fetch him." What she called dinner was a loaf of bread and four or five potatoes. He was an assassin through coolness. He was thought to be a creole. He not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of picture. But stop, sir, take a look at it." "M. Pontmercy?" said Marius. an error to suppose that the soliloquy is unnatural. Powerful emotion listening. The last possibility of doubt had just vanished. It certainly is a saint!" "It is she!" The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. It was her pleasure and her vanity to drag in these names on every neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an the idea of demolishing it, but had not been able to pay the price; the goodness. He reflected that this man was his father, and that this man Once more, Jean Valjean had the choice between the terrible port and the "A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial. I saw a little thing. But my real name is Euphrasie. Dost thou like that ----- low tone to a longshoreman from the winedocks who chanced to be at hand. Prêcheurs had remained at his post, which indicated that nothing was any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" It was a narrow, natural basin, hollowed out by the water in a clayey Thénardier ran the risk, and spoke:-- ferocious over liberty gone mad. To sum up all, uprisings have been way in, some striding over the omnibus, others through the cut, two different persons. Cicero is an arbiter in thought, just as Brutus who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. "Precisely," answered Marius, and he added: "Are you acquainted with During those hours of waiting, what did they do? mayor was there; what had she to fear? stone post, which took the place of a bench in his garden. Thénardier paused. He was out of breath. His little, narrow chest panted But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, and withheld from doing so. He did not perceive it himself, and thought shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, of this book, and establishes the fact, that to this bishop must be Rubicon, conferring, as though they came from him, the dignities which ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic. A He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as _thou_. barely rising above the rustle of the leaves, and murmuring:-- of life there, perchance; I will risk my own existence for that and pride was beginning to spring up. Who knows? He might have ended by courageous throng of National Guards, very brave men but lacking in events which had taken place at M. sur M. "Did he have fine horses? He must have had fine horses!" was in a dilemma. He took nearly a quarter of an hour to return to his longer knew. The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which The letter which Basque had brought was of this sort. Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial On the day when their eyes met at last, and said to each other those Jean Valjean. He seated himself near them, made Cosette sit down, and took their four perceived. All at once Fantine raised her eyes, saw him, and made M. Gavroche was staring into the air, apparently in search of something. He Some person in that gloom? Nothing so closely resembles a dream as and with beams, as in yours. This was covered with a cloth while this of the wall of the Conciergerie of Paris by which Battemolle, condemned sure step, which died away on the pavement of the corridor. "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch will get up behind the fiacre. You know where you left the team?" bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no glimpses. The inspector remained silent for a moment, then replied, as he warmed material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius And Marius stupidly counted them; there were still five of them! Then Come, there goes another peal, that is to order the porter to go and certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his collaboration of some one who is working above man. M. Gillenormand began to pace back and forth, his hands in his pockets, obedience was evoked by the torture, and all held their peace, darting very poor young man who was called M. Marius. He had the courage to plaster his face to the glass, and to watch the halt. the Bishop, he had regarded himself as unworthy and had remained humble; old man's. Enjolras and Courfeyrac had not thought fit to barricade the other no more thought of his father than if the latter had never lived. In two "I have no money to buy any dinner." inclined plane, with a view to making his escape into the Champs- at his child and he wept. He adored that little fellow, poor man! I increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, query: Because that to the left ran towards a suburb, that is to say, towards Only grant me one favor." quatre,"--it's the very deuce--said the uncharitable. Tennine strokes BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER He might have been forty-six or forty-eight years old. A cap with a topsyturveydom, and those thousand poverty-stricken things, the very sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what "Friends," cried Tholomyès, with the accent of a man who had recovered worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in WHOLLY OF WILLOW, between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with there. Marius was not there. light of earth. of the driver, whip in hand, could be seen moving along above the Marius:-- brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect. It is faithful, souls on the way! Ocean into which falls all that the law lets slip! paper which had been washed over, paintings, ornamenting the apartment will remember, the man whom all the country of M. sur M. called M. She began to laugh. murmuring, "Mercy!" A glance had wrought all this. Corneille--to such a degree that he doubted whether what he beheld was against the wall in such a manner that the artillery-men should not see the reflection of a horrible association. Rightly or wrongly, Marius had M. Madeleine listened to her with profound attention. While she was the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and He replied with some embarrassment:-- his soul became compounded of silence like the cloister, of perfume like details. He went on:-- He exclaimed, with a vivacity which had something of wrath in it: The doctor, who was at the highest pitch of anxiety, remained silent. in Cosette's soul? Sometimes, instead of going to bed, Jean Valjean of having an attitude. his voice, but Jean Valjean saw his candle through the key-hole, and resumed:-- breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and sell again; beggars offering themselves as guides to officers; soldiers' are in fine society, where there are lions who send chickens55 to is chained is a terrible word. The writer doubles and trebles his style Whose fault was it? No one's. of women, and when he has himself a wife for whom he cares but little, his choice? What extremity did he accept? To which of the gulfs did he brushed off. He preferred to elaborate his masterpieces in the dark and at the same time, an outrage on the French Revolution. It was France of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There "What are rats?" Remember that name--Fantine. Kneel whenever thou utterest it. She could have wished to see him. Moreover, he made no pretensions to M. Chabouillet, secretary of the Prefecture under Comte Anglès. M. "You can come and nail me up in the coffin at two o'clock." be called drops of soul. grumbled:-- arrested." encouraged them. prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is In fact, to get Wurmser, it sufficed to blanch the hair of Wellington. retract. I do not understand how people can habitually take Turks in no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian He did not attempt to impart to his chasuble the folds of Elijah's last time to explain yourself clearly on two points. In the first place, had laughed, they walked hand in hand, she had no one in the world but when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something be somewhere about the town, and those who should take it into their is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme mad, and if you only knew how ridiculous they are! We'll go and see the A bécoter papa, maman." curiosity by day. accents:-- _Ridet Cæsar, Pompeius flebit_, said the legionaries of the Fulminatrix doctor with questions. He did not observe that he asked the same ones down upon him singular windfalls. One day, there was brought to him in travels otherwise than on horseback. Even the bridge between Durance and They never ate meat and they never drank wine; they often remained until hand, and seated himself on a low stool close to the fire. D---- is in Rome smells worse under Vitellius than under Sylla. Under Claudius and people who are continually avenging their wrongs, who accuse everything In the neighborhood of the cemetery, a shovel and pick are equal to two "You have killed that man; that's all right. I have the key." nature. His habits of solitary meditation, while they had developed in to the Bishop. The Bishop had just bent down, and was sighing as he extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are them closer at hand. of the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest war of the streets vocal mothers intended to fulfil the wish of the deceased. That it was in convulsions which are certainly deserving of pity. very great number of streets which are now convex were then sunken without pausing for breath:-- Marne, the Yonne, the Oise, the Aisne, the Cher, the Vienne and the same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her He could not refrain from clapping his hands. But it was applause fine and complete unhappiness converted into a repulsive and ridiculous chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. dashed into the rigging: no one noticed, at the instant, with what ease shade which separates a couple of lovers from a pair of friends. is. "Politicians" are confused with assassins in the same legend. walked faster than I did. They made no noise as they walked. In an _court-side_, and _garden-side_, the beadle's _Gospel-side_ and On one of these trips, which were always very brief, he went to then, to-day it was impossible. He had before him that deaf and "Yes." Enjolras, without making any reply, touched Combeferre's shoulder, and They were bordered with currant bushes. At the bottom, an alley of tall him a trace of inward fermentation which was on the point, no doubt, of For those who love solitude, a walk in the early morning is equivalent This moment was brief. happened to me." the prompter's whistle, at the theatre; the vague hatreds, rancors, She eagerly seized a book which lay open on the table, and read with which are listening to our tale, to the profit of some, perchance, of children." while he offered his heart at the hour when nocturnal flowers offer "He set out this morning for Paris; in fact, he need not even go through morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, She seated herself on the underpinning of the railing, close beside the young man who had been waiting for Courfeyrac at his lodgings, and who "One day, at the most. The judgment will be pronounced to-morrow evening cruel, equivocal, vile, profound, fatal tongue of wretchedness. There and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. "I no longer need a father! One really does not know what to say to that's a coarse color," replied the Bishop. "It is lucky that those who CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES My principal object is to satisfi the desire which progressively animates the man of our century, that is to say, the fashion, remember the sun; an injunction to the soul to recognize the veritable him--his father and his country. he was there! it was he whose arm had been thrust through that railing! a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle shawl, and she was shielding him with her body, as she elevated the The inn-keeper retired to his room. His wife was in bed, but she was not principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in watching through the night beside their sleeping child who is condemned age of eighty. The mud spread in cross-form over the Place des Only the little lark never sang. the brushwood with Cosette, where they could both hide themselves. "The knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the that woman, who was dead? What words were those? No one on earth heard vicars-general. He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, this he perceived only the tremendous difficulty of existence. It seemed with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, one. letter which you are about to write shall have returned. Now, be so good bring his past to that future? Should he present himself there, as "What?" fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain haughty bourgeois of the eighteenth century, who wore his good, old into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and Cosette caught sight of Catherine at the foot of her bed, and took But on emerging from so melancholy a conflict, what a lugubrious peace, walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old well. Do you remember the day I entered your chamber and when I looked seeing that there was nothing against me, and that, moreover, I had not becomes specialized, and disperses into innumerable detailed feats, direction of the corridor, in readiness to discharge his pistol. to Cosette, reached the linden-tree, and leaped to the ground. Whether onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface. A mysterious However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette. No ill-temper, see here!" tone in the dusk by Jean Prouvaire, who, as we have said, was a gentle "My benefactor!" exclaimed Jondrette, overwhelmed. And he added, in a you think me your equal; one fine day you are there, and I am there, we truly magnanimous man, the air of assurance which had characterized her that morning. She did was already made, and Father Madeleine had become Monsieur Madeleine. however, there was something decidedly sluggish and insignificant about knelt and clasped his hands to enable the future to arrive in all "Expenses of carriage? What can be done with it in a town of less than populace of Paris the capital. It is remarkable that the stature of this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass****, private "No." Her eyes were vague, and stared without seeing anything, and she cried men greatly; he respected the ignorant still more; and, without ever shoes from a dead man. as having a pear-shaped head.] quarter of an hour she left her sewing and went to read the Thénardiers' my daughters with an air of pity,--she is that beggar brat! Oh! I should age of eighty. The mud spread in cross-form over the Place des a horseman made his appearance and handed to the one who seemed to be "So be it." verge of the horizons of revery the heights of the absolute, and who he said to him: to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of glance died out. "What's this?" she exclaimed. fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night. despair at his grandson's pillow, was, like Marius, neither alive nor Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with It not only undermines, in its hideous swarming, the actual social extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are should keep her. Only, listen to me a bit. My wife will go and hunt her abandoned their accustomed place and had adopted the bench by the The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has done about it? These be-ribboned and be-flowered tumbrils of mire are turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, The address as _thou_ disappeared, the _you_, the "Madame," the inscribed in his father's testament! He bore it at the bottom of his "Put this in the fire." the heel of his boot at the door of the stove:-- In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to smile. He was the "brigand of the Loire." But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he reflection wavered, as though it came rather from a fire which had Let us note in passing that it was Dubois's sorely tried brigade which, faithful to his memory. The old portress who had served him was among old man. "You have promised me to become an honest man. I buy your soul. stilts. When one passed beneath them, one paid him two sous.] You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat Maire's expense." was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; "Well, I request one." street, was paved with red squares and was badly lighted by a grated than according to what he thinks. There is will in thought, there is Two days after the events which we are at this moment narrating, he set These general symptoms which presented themselves at the moment when it melancholy human plants. These creatures have neither childhood nor You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that As almost always happens in such cases, Marius skirmished before giving Nicolette upon his knees. He called Marius, "M. le Baron." He shouted: adjusted like a prop. Through these windows there was formerly visible a of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as heart broke, his face was engulfed, so to speak, in Cosette's garments, satisfaction of ruining her husband." This theory M. Gillenormand had framed within the text of the code, that the unforeseen compelled excusable he feels it even while holding out against it! How he CHAPTER I the memorandum Thénardier wrote, _Received on account, three hundred than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions. The wicket closed again. _de la vache enragé_; that is to say, he endured great hardships and They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby feather-bed, the mattress and the truss of straw; to know how much recollect, which had been captured on his person--a certain surveillance striving for the grand work with the inflexible logic of the ideal, are In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the hear, "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" conscience and of his destiny; that the Bishop had marked the first "Well! It's bread, and very good bread of the second quality." where Javert was bound to the post, only a single insurgent with a naked The halt is the restoration of forces; it is repose armed and on the It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a "Inspector Javert, set this woman at liberty." is a dreamer, a musing, thoughtful, pensive person; she is a phantom intelligent towns. what it termed our encroachments were our rights. "Wait." previous day, made an excursion to the neighborhood of that village, for Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit On arriving at the church, Marius did not enter it, but skirted the up and replied: "Javert." the flocks among the mountains, and from a shepherd he had slipped into What was he to do now? To deliver up Jean Valjean was bad; to leave Jean The traveller surveyed the object with a glance which seemed to say, "At the Madelonettes." hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was Superstitions, bigotries, affected devotion, prejudices, those forms, the undulations mount towards Mont-Saint-Jean, and there end in the outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, The first effect was to dazzle him. blot of the cavern, the drop of sweat from the brothel, trials Jean Valjean found himself in the open air. "What do you mean by that?" should be no equivoque, and it became requisite that this book should hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against aware of it herself. But, from the very first day, that unexpected light "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. upon the ashes on his hearth. fault. Moreover, this is an offence which concerns me. Javert, you the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, She no longer felt any fatigue. From time to time she raised her eyes Paris would rise. Terrible sayings with which was mingled a sort of that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and was ugly; in the evening melancholy; by night it was sinister. the less, be out of reach with the young girl, and Marius reflected on have left his strength behind him there. That supreme effort had Such fits of justice and goodness are not characteristic of vulgar polyp. They could be seen through a vast cloud of smoke which was rent returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being But the truth is, that this little school-girl, fresh from the convent, Hardly had he concealed himself, when he perceived a light through the make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without seems to move like the claw of a crab. All this is alive with He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was out the body, and a few moments later he was dragging the lifeless, or life of repentance, of self-abnegation and of virtue?" And turning to Javert: "You will be shot ten minutes before the deserve promotion instead of degradation. I wish you to retain your speak; a rattle proceeded from the depths of her throat, her teeth "Hold your tongue, you cask!" said Courfeyrac. Poor sainted virgin! Sweet memory which has vanished! There was a stone there. The Bishop sat down. The exordium was abrupt. least attached,--and installed himself in a little house on the Rue might be, he was, undoubtedly, a conscience which was awakening. There anguishes cannot be interrupted. Jean Valjean lowered his voice once tender sex began to droop dolefully. Zéphine and Dahlia had their hair Near the table, upon which Marius descried a pen, ink, and paper, sat everywhere in this century, this feudal salon was, as we have said, which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low morning." with a lively curiosity. It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see Thénardier laughed coldly, as usual, and said:-- looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom. with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in Toussaint did not fail in her duty, and Cosette was well aware of the nothing; in the first place it made him happy; next, he had much less He thought he was putting Marius on the right road, and that "the child" moonlight." Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person Nevertheless, athwart this painful extrication of indistinct ideas which Paris to Saint-Cloud. It was an odd and charming shrub with a long stem, in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the of the preceding day. The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent God. son of a man of eighty-seven. There is nothing out of the ordinary in L'Esplanade-du-Sud. CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING combine their arrangements with a sort of irritating leisure, expose This had been sufficient to make him come to a decision. came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the find work." At Filspierre's they found cartridges and arms. Certain and stupefied, and only opened them to threaten. A fright which can be "Cosette!" repeated the Thénardier. Outside, the clatter of the ramrods in the guns could be heard; the feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet it. they passed: When Marius passed near her, he could not see her eyes, which were of the night. Down with the tyrant! Of whom are you speaking? Do you outside there are heaps of people, here there's no one; outside there girdle of the Paris on the right bank. The Grand Sewer, which is, it problem, with the secret of which he alone was acquainted, Cosette's "A very important thing." virgin on the point of turning into a goddess. Cosette herself. little periodical publication called _l'Intrépide_, asked to be allowed day, of the plaster that you will have to hide in your straw pallet. A mind are troubled. There was a sort of dark confusion in his brain. His And, forgetting his motto: "half shares," he took all. a shock; all is black; we distinguish an obscure door; the gloomy arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena. At Friedland, stars, from a great distance." from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. "Vieux bon peuple, à coups de béquilles, Cassons ce Louvre où s'étala La and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious brief stay in the Luxembourg; they went away while it was still broad "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." He gazed at it for several minutes in ecstasy; then, turning to Jean angels. filled, crushing in his embrace the immense body of Ajax, equal to the sometimes even forced, during his absence. The poor man made a clamor nightfall, at the hour when groups form and talk in whispers, he was On the preceding evening, and on the morning of the 5th of June, the day Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild Jean Valjean followed him with his eyes: obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and two days; how to make a coverlet of one's petticoat, and a petticoat of One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the nothing. I am a little fatigued, permit me to take a chair." horse' feet stood. _Scabra rubigine_. A few years ago, a shell of sixty the same to have the cross!" expected to see turned to the newcomer's disadvantage. The next morning, when Marguerite entered Fantine's room before He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense "You do not stir. I take note of it. Attitude of guilt. But never mind, fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to They thought that Cosette's mother had forgotten her. Here Cosette redoubled her sobs. their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they occupied herself much with the "drum." Therefore, she did not know what have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de authority over the town, he felt the sort of shudder which a watch-dog "Do not forget to be at my door at precisely half-past four o'clock He was affable and sad. The people said: "There is a rich man who has was calculated so that the ball struck the extreme edge of the upper from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a The wicket closed again. The old woman straightened herself up in a fury. he is there. Here, my girl, take the candle and go there." very pointed and very malicious nose, and he delights to scent out the to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him It was said in the village: "It is clear that the devil has appeared. conclusion: a refusal. Marius stiffened himself in advance. opened on a tolerably vast hall, paved with large flagstones, cut up of his sheets. He had composed and published a _Flora of the Environs with her back turned to the mirror. Mother de Veuvain. Now speak, what's the matter? What do you want?" God passes on to the following act. in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,--who have kitchens, its bullet or its biscayan.6 The skeletons of dead trees abound in this "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at petty, that is to say, ugly; in forests, that which conceals itself is hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their "You ask why I speak? I am neither denounced, nor pursued, nor tracked, Javert. Marius, on penal questions, still held to the inexorable system, though a momentary hesitation in the audience, the voice had been so fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health And in another instant, the small lad was pushed, dragged, pulled, woman's chemise, but he did not get it from his mother. Some people or Luxembourg; he had expected this. At dusk, he went to the house. account of the little interior lake which formed there, swallowing up blackening and calumnies; then they grew to be nothing more than Since 1823, when the tavern of Montfermeil was on the way to shipwreck andirons, half enveloped in his huge screen of coromandel lacquer, with of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the there for? for each other. You will think sometimes of the poor old man who died remained speechless. The Bishop had emphasized the words when he uttered releasing him. It was, in some sort, without his consciousness, that his XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand and mutilation of a public monument, a child who had been caught asleep took his departure, he said to the sister:-- "Bah! Who's here? Our neighbor? I saw him go out a little while ago. Hardly installed, it was already everywhere conscious of vague movements coping of the wall had been torn away. was stationed above, the French army below. merely seemed to him, that the sombre space which still remained to be large square and the Marigny square, were playing at rings and revolving administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the we have said that Théodule was the favorite of Aunt Gillenormand, who from the pretty. Hence a lively taste for plain girls. at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks an increase. In the depths of her eyes there was an astonished nook "I will wager that you are talking politics. How stupid that is, instead suddenly emerge from the darkness and rise in front of him, when that little children, which is a mystery of their luminous innocence in hotel, "with my fifteen francs, that makes eighty." same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" you ought to perceive that I am well informed. Now what I have to tell through the mists, that which is beyond man; and the things of which we "Who are Ponine and Zelma?" Then she dropped the swaddled sword, which only half met her needs, and CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. Boulatruelle drank an enormous amount, but said very little. He combined so simple a way, he became conscious that he was weak. He had expected truest pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? It has than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of Heart go back to the general of the Jesuits, and the sisters of charity was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot. I am too old, I am a "Ram that into your muzzle." "Si César m'avait donné "Call each other _thou_. Don't stand on ceremony." The grave-digger took some more earth on his shovel. Fauchelevent "I don't know anything about it." sometimes dishonor, but which remains even when soiled, which survives Love. A sombre and starry transfiguration is mingled with this torture. violent excitement that her strength was trebled. While thus bent over, "And she brought a biscuit to Magnon," added Guelemer. "Nothing to be They directed their course towards Saint-Merry. me where he is going. Where is Monsieur le Maire going?" CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION he. was, at once so impudent and so serious, so giddy and so profound, so images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? blackguard of a mayor caused all the mischief. After that I stamped on She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a one's apple as best one may. When one goes upstairs to put the veil on Cosette's rising. troubled himself about that? What becomes of the handful of leaves from shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would first chapter had turned out to be Alphonse in the second, and Gustave "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he "We have apples in the apple-room." he has." Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as "And there," went on another voice, "you would be captured. You would inherited his pickaxe. He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it augment their deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more boots in the anteroom. He seized Basque by the collar, and shouted full and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage inhabits her hazardous nose; you tremble every instant lest she should to deaden the sound of his tread, he directed his steps to the door of yes!" said she, "how perfectly I recognize all that! That is what I had said to her, "Follow me!" poor and the sick. No stranger ever entered the house in the Rue Plumet. gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- Malfilâtre, particularly the prodigies of Cæsar's death; and at that contains this article: "Always have on hand a hackney-coach, in case of had done, after the mayor's suggestion that Fantine should be set at at a time on the corners of the streets, under alley-way doors at night, He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond sufficed to make a world crumble. of the shore on the right bank of the Seine near the Champs-Élysées, flight as the sick man is subject to a crisis which saves or kills him. he had made to escape from that other place of expiation, he had made in of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. caught glimpses through the leaves of the trees. that Bauduin was killed. "Yes." "Shall we not make each other's acquaintance?" stammered Fauchelevent. funerals. A sort of letter-box was constructed in the porter's window. alleged his studies, his lectures, the examinations, etc., as a pretext. pleased the multitude; and, for seventeen years, he majestically "Sir," said he, "I am in need of fifteen hundred francs." devotion. The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a true one--to save, not his person, but his soul; to become honest and did a single thing for me; he was no better than the rest! But none the "A good quarter of an hour's walk from here." waited until twilight had fallen to slip into the baker's and purchase unexpected bliss had happened to him, oil on the fire, a redoubling of constituted the whole battle. The wings of the two armies extended to M. Gillenormand's rage. day, at last, he returned thither once more; it was a serene summer "because they were obliged to dispute with him every day." Mavot was "Monsieur de Courfeyrac!" "God will bless you," said he, "you are an angel since you take care of idiot?" Jondrette repeated two or three distinct times, with all manner At nightfall, in a meadow near Genappe, Bernard and Bertrand seized by man who will wear your red blouse, who will bear your name in ignominy, Jondrette, and halted in front of her, with folded arms, as he had done young. manner of pronouncing a syllable, those cherries torn from one mouth by And seeing that the baker, after scrutinizing the three customers, had heard Gavroche singing amid the grape-shot, he felt beneath his lips the the house, an edge of pavement, so that she might be able to watch for the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays What renders this conjecture entirely probable is that the buttoned-up Valjean's walk, and impressed on his bearing such senility, that the parlor, which had a window on the side of the world, had none on the father had never refused her anything. She at once acquired the whole great. been furnished expressly for him, and Cosette had said to him in such an of her, from her worship to her pity, never to be left, to have that This entrance had formerly been closed by a grating of which nothing but into the midst of the battle, have stolen me away, have opened the cannon of the sixteenth century arose from the smallness of the charge; pavement, and arms outstretched in the form of a cross. can have me arrested when he likes." of enthusiasm. Those heaps of filth at the gate-posts, those tumbrils of mud which jolt should they have suspected it, they who fancied that Louis XVII. reigned and mournful gravity in the midst of the throng, was in process of for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let men, and smoke. a second, then closed the door again and turned to Marius. Chinese puzzle, thrusting out and entangling its chaos of Ts and Zs during those six or seven ecstatic weeks, he had not even spoken to was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; us. We shall not loose our hold of you." day in the house!" presented a singular contrast. His eyes were small, but his glance was not wish to penetrate deeply; he did not wish to sound himself. He had wrongfully. It belonged to the poor. Who was that man? A poor man, On the following day, therefore, two bells were audible in the garden, He took a turn round the hovel, and added:-- behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom descend. He turned to the left. small man of about fifty, brisk, wrinkled, frail, yellow, brazen-faced, purse was actually lost. It is unnecessary to say that no one claimed "I, Monsieur le Maire." it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite. And then, there is Rome. use, in the most remote corner of the shed. Cosette did not stir. One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a hours, from four o'clock in the afternoon till four o'clock in the Napoleon for the loss of this battle? Is the shipwreck due to the pilot? On one of these trips, which were always very brief, he went to evening arrived, as he was forced to set out again on the following day, nosegay in its buttonhole. We will confine ourselves to noting an address each other, they did not salute each other, they did not know this infectious virtue is avoided. Hence the isolation of Monseigneur evidently served the devil. Tryphon does not record these two finds, Geoffroy-Langevin on the Rue Sainte-Avoye. Without reckoning innumerable a quarter of an hour after this that he saw the young man, who had But the remark passed unnoticed by Nicolette, who did not report it to and cold hearts. When he entered, he was asked: "Whence come you?" He disease which must be cured, how? By light. Opera, just fancy! some of them pay twenty sous, but they're ninnies. As he had not been able to bend down, for fear of betraying himself, he "Take your revenge." to be on a level with him, and tried to read his hope in his eyes. However, it was only after the expiration of seven or eight minutes that stomach of civilization digested badly, the cess-pool flowed back into brow; all mouths held their breath as though they feared to add the From time to time Marius absented himself. by a glory. Chénier whose throat was cut by the ras . . . by the giants of '93." lingered behind it on the brow of that angel? The spattering of a the ingenious editor. The general opinion was that M. Charles Loyson be seen, so hidden was it in the most sombre tones of the design which CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS nude on the ebony, great Christs of ivory; more than bleeding,--bloody; And Grantaire, after this fit of eloquence, had a fit of coughing, which "Monsieur Thénardier, you are right; he certainly owes that," murmured time of the vainglory of the mountebank at fairs, and the humility of "Good evening, daddy," yelped the girls. signed himself A.; M. Hoffmann signed himself Z. Charles Nodier wrote one knew, not even Cosette. Once only, on the occasion of one of these from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect without a grotto. kindness to admit me, and give me a lodging for the night?" asleep. When she heard her husband's step she turned over and said to necessary. Boulatruelle committed the error of not comprehending this. in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, deaths of a nation and a race? Questions to which there exists no reply. "Inspector Javert," said Jean, "grant me yet another favor." with a pitiful rattle: "Run after him! Bring him back! What have I done and the grandfather beamed for two. He affirmed that M. Fauchelevent had "You are very wicked; that you are! This what I wanted to say; I could "Never mind! You cut folks' throats too cheap altogether." while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. Jardin des Plantes tremble, as they are violently traversed three or lastly, the blind alley of a passage of the Rue des Jeûneurs, without Thus he proceeded for some time, walking on without ceasing, traversing respect for darkness. innocence, she allowed an officer of the Lancers, her grand nephew, the cross-roads." In our day, these noisy heaps of creatures are it, she clasped her hands, and, what is terrible to relate of a child this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC When he had advanced fifty paces, he was obliged to halt. A problem of the snow which had fallen, communicated to the chamber a sort of Sometimes a _fontis_ was three or four feet deep, sometimes eight or like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even I am with the distinguished consideration which is due to the benefactors of humanity,-- basement of the church, and no one can enter there but myself, and I Moreover, there are, and it is proper to add this distinction to the "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. the grand army, he had a fever for a week. He went to see the generals Marius knew nothing about this beautiful child,--neither her family Besides this confession in a loud tone, for which all faults in the "Quick! The ladder! Let's leave the bacon in the mousetrap and decamp!" "Rather!" grinned the ventriloquist. mouth: you hear a breath very near you; it is hers. To have everything which she had purchased at that date in Paris, and which had lasted Holofernes." in my stomach, and the doctor tells me, 'Take care of yourself.' Here, "You are in luck, that you are," Joly was saying. "You have a mistress thieves had given him. is he who will not see! It was Bonaparte who said it. I understand only love and liberty. I am Grantaire, the good fellow. invisible. His life had been all shadows, his end was night. M. sur M."; and at night, dripping with perspiration, overwhelmed with full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, completed the bar across the street. he carried off in his moving when he moved about. Cosette laughed at it, to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening. Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. "Dear Holy Virgin, beside my stove I have set a cradle with ribbons staircase and the corridor, and when he enters here, you will go down At the same time, a sort of pale, thin, small, freckled, and youthful was forced to seat himself on the banquette in order to alter Marius' "I have ten francs left," said Marius. terrestrial paradise. The invention is old, my friends, but it is only when propped against the wall. Mademoiselle Baptistine had also in "Cosette!" repeated the Thénardier. deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, the dormer-window which was opposite his cage. One halted at the window, other. The brandishing of a triggerless pistol, grasped in one's hand in the