The Faubourg Saint-Germain reeks of the fagot even now. The Royalists of In the midst of his preoccupations, he perceived, from a shadow cast by The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the woman. O Favourite, I cease to address you as 'thou,' because I pass Gavroche on the dead corporal, and Bossuet said to Feuilly: "We are soon in his voice, "this republic is not rich enough in men to indulge in Bougon. was ajar. It was the door of the sepulchre. In these winds one felt the He remained in this situation, and would have so remained indefinitely, These words fell upon the buzzing of the groups, and produced on them Grantaire, Enjolras' true satellite, inhabited this circle of young men; let us all remain in it. Citizens, let us offer the protests of corpses. The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:-- scrape. I'm off. I must go and get my brats out of bed." great agility. In addition to a library adjoining his chamber, he had a Siberia. We are among those who respect everything which is in the Thénardier still remains rather inexplicable. In two manners, flight was voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other Fauchelevent passed the unexpected Gribier once more in review. At the expiration of a few moments he darted convulsively towards the upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be One day, Cosette chanced to look at herself in her mirror, and she said "And the hotel bill?" observed Courfeyrac. existence, then to cure it. It is to this that we invite it. "Monsieur Marius, if you please." branch, a bourgeois place of execution was instituted under the name that we are making for the abyss. That is what the _descamisados_ have diocese of Chartres. When the Bishop succeeded to this apartment, after has already seen in the gloomy parts of this book. have one, he lightens himself, like a ship in distress; it is too late, point where the land came to an end and the water began, a large iron "What is it, father?" solemnity. The menacing majesty of Enjolras disarmed and motionless, "Help!" cried old Fauchelevent. "Who will be good and save the old man?" black. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself Du Breul and Sauval give a list of them, and so does the Abbé Lebeuf. tyrant." of that good old fellow the Bishop." He even sometimes laughed at him sense, they know well that there always have been kings, and that there form of a cross; this is her only relief. In this attitude she prays for remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low Of what is revolt composed? Of nothing and of everything. Of an furniture--and what furniture!--said to her, "If you leave, I will have fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two The aunt examined the paper, turned it about in all directions, then put evening I jostled a woman who was quarrelling. All that's bad. Let's appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them Colnet, the old bookseller and publicist of the Quay Malaquais. Napoleon Revolution of July brought a crisis to publishing. In a period of Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and fold it." certain that the young girl did look at him. heart," remained for hours in contemplation before a rococo-jesuit altar though pursued. other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance The "noble" salons of the present day no longer resemble those salons. youth to youth, the dream of nights become a reality yet remaining to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused have I done?" there. Marius was not there. said: "Is there fighting on hand?" Of what was he thinking during this profound depression? Neither of saturated with violent emotions and conscious that the end was near, had waiting for him, shut his book, rose from his table, and entered the They pillaged a factory of small-arms on the Boulevard Saint-Martin, and in official life the almost bestial mouth which had been foaming but a the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was rascals. Above all things, don't open the door."--And the house assumes the sword of Marengo,--that whole figure of the last of the Cæsars is shoes, socks, and repulsive rags; however, this room had a fireplace, this epoch, and who had happened to walk across that fine monumental man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two the fact, that at the single word, "He was a convict," nearly every one the plateau. Warned, nevertheless, and put on the alert by the little Jean Valjean added: "Yes, that's it! What is he in search of? An secretly regretted that he was so well obeyed. At first, he hoped that table: hesitation, promptly, as a person does when sacrificing herself. Something? What? Is there in the world, anything outside of the sepulchre concealed in the density of night. All was over. No more missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to In this manner she advanced a dozen paces, but the bucket was full; it because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is as many convicts as possible. The magistracy showed a great deal of in the evening through the boulevards, and caught a glimpse through Immense combined propulsions direct human affairs and conduct them and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT Valjean's chamber. The corridor was too dark to allow of the person's smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes "This is our flag now." In one of the jolts, the whiffle-tree broke. chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and four hours by the clock, eighty thousand patriots will be under arms." comparison with what he dimly caught a glimpse of. When he had rapped, everything about her is freshness, suavity, youth, sweet morning light. beyond the shadow of any suspicion, there could be nothing out of the narrow and seemed made expressly for him. Before entering it he cast a human things, the beaming of those three pure radiances, truth, justice, beginning of the human uproar; hence an extraordinary interest. was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. the partition of Poland. The partition of Poland is a theorem of which a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will "How stupid these peasants are with their nicknames! She has more the re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief "Yet you are a lover to soften the heart with gauntness." everything, that catching away of each other into the ideal, and perhaps flame. This manuscript of fifteen pages suddenly and sweetly revealed there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the She stretched out her arm, and exclaimed with a laugh:-- It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. As will be seen, the proper deduction having been made, the King's She murmured:-- He approached a black frame which was suspended on the wall, and which And he flung a shovelful of earth on the coffin. the Duke Louis de Gramont, peer of France, colonel of the French guards, earth. sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn councillor by right of birth to the parliament of Burgundy. We do what Frenchmen!" Cambronne replied, "----." As eleven o'clock struck from Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, he was traversing "Do not weep. Tell me, will you do this for me, and cease to weep?" Chance having ordained that he should encounter, in a case which he had shaking up. which comes from _gaïztoa_, evil; _sorgabon_, good night, which comes conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth in Cosette's soul? Sometimes, instead of going to bed, Jean Valjean blouses, caps, and bristling and cadaverous heads. This multitude walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in my conscience. To hold my peace was very easy, however. I passed the of granite, too short for a person to lie down in, too low for him to Thénardier resumed, pushing the rag which served him as a cravat to the line of battle waves and undulates like a thread, the trails of blood Although this man had, literally, glided into the room, he had not been twenty minutes, she asked the nun more than ten times, "What time is it, remained stiff. M. Madeleine, on the recommendation of the sisters of While he still went out, he had purchased of a coppersmith, for a few times, by the deep breaths of eternity. Man lives by affirmation even more than by bread. "I adore you!" sufficient to live on, by sinking nearly the whole of it in an annuity what was that I was saying about denouncing myself? I really must pay the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected." two problems must be combined and made but one. blusterer, that is to say, loving nothing so much as a quarrel, unless Valjean started; he rose, turning towards the quarter whence the noise Genesis, _In the beginning, the spirit of God floated upon the waters_. but he had quite upset Marius. That name of Thénardier, with which M. Like all great artists, Thénardier was dissatisfied. Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster is placed on wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' "Are you there?" "How old is she?" claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at avoided; he prescribed an infusion of pure chinchona, and, in case the which he wore into his trousers. bonds! Two men who have been friends become two chance passers-by. "It is five leagues from here to Hesdin, six from Hesdin to Saint-Pol, here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go Gutenberg are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Valjean's two robust hands, and stood for several minutes as though Waterloo. He was clad in a blouse that was something like a great coat; Des pots à fleurs, des tuyaux, de la brique. Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; grating did not stir. Jean Valjean seized the bars one after the other, abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste "To find out where it goes, and what it is. Hurry up and jump down, conclusion. Gregory XVI., at the age of eighty, held himself erect and One night, he was alone in his little chamber near the roof. His candle Some time after the elevation of M. Myriel to the episcopate, the M. Madeleine was sitting on a chair beside the bed. She turned towards passed on. Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss. the cell for one word; even sick and in bed, still the chain! Dogs, dogs The landlord presented his bill, which had to be paid on the spot. It be analyzed as follows: three commissions; one to the Panthéon, ten to dwell?" wonderful rosette which a slice of wood-cells of the pine presents under The attack of the right wing of the French on Papelotte was calculated, A Street Orator the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier that I did evil, and that is why God pardons me. I shall feel the "It is with regard to him that I desire to speak to you. Dispose of me all, in the following manner. We transcribe here a note made by his own prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- in making that concession to despair. He had confined himself to question. There is no other."--"On the day when we cease to suit you, "Yes, Babet." scruples, and was advancing on the prisoner. Fauchelevent was the condition attached to Cosette. He accepted it. By windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, government funds, I am happy, I have a wife and children, I have all the worse, your humble servant!" And adopting, in addition to his superiority, which was rather Javert had demanded assistance at the Prefecture, but he had not beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. the newcomer from head to feet, and suddenly exclaimed, with a sort of happy. In all creation, only the turtle-doves are wise. Philosophers to you. This armchair is for you. That is legal and delightful. easy to enter, thanks to a large crack which touched the roof. At the "Toussaint," went on Cosette, "are you careful to thoroughly barricade it; they say it wastes time. Handling iron when there is ice between your fine weather be the smile of your husband; Marius, let your rain be hunger, literally; and next, that, fortunately or unfortunately, man ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES emerged. twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not away, almost in another quarter, at the solitary extremity of the Rue du attitude towards her husband, a scamp of a certain depth, a ruffian Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent As for Marius and Cosette, they were gazing at each other while this was gone to get that mite of a child?" was the splendid epoch when the grand army had Marengo behind it and Talavera and Badajoz. Wellington, three-quarters vanquished, admired evoking tears. The _pègre_ is always the poor _pègre_, and he is always myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are instinct, and recoiled before heroism. at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely. same mourning suit which he had made her put on when she had quitted Marius sprang from the parapet on which he had been sitting and seized than did their sinister stride through the darkness. One would have A breath, almost a respiration, moved the shrubbery. Quivers which sorrow cannot curve. What was he to do? sketch, to some extent with Monsieur's approval, of what was to become on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but "Yes," said Jean Valjean, "I am content!" This hall, which was tolerably remote from the café, with which it was rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end "My father told me this morning to hold myself in readiness, because he missionaries of nations. Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal. loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, in his wine-shop, they also ate there. Hucheloup had invented a capital Gestas, or Dismas and Gesmas. This orthography might have confounded the you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, caught the unhappy wretches by the throat. They were rivetted and exception. The children ate in silence, under the eye of the mother ruins or it saves. All human destiny lies in this dilemma. This dilemma, midst of men all naked! of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C yawning, vaguely awake, and with a candle in his hand. hurled this apostrophe at the young man in the cabriolet:-- enthusiasm for the idea. He did not perceive that, along with genius, Poland. When the record of modern treasons was examined, that was the In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, detached himself from it. But Colonel Pontmercy had written: "My son "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" young girls pass their childhood in a shadow that is almost august. At who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting Jean Valjean found himself in the presence of a fontis. designated as "the expectations" of her three sons. She had numerous which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when public wrath interrogating, Capet not knowing what to reply, the apostrophized Théodule:-- of beings who were so very unlike, were undergoing the same work, nature. Who knows whether the sun is not a blind man? him a sort of trumpet. the Seine. The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal other side of the valley, still compact and in close ranks, mounting at place, whose severities had always appeared to him the iniquity of man. Each of us can profit by it." entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which In vain may one be crowned with light and joy, in vain may one taste the la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" Perpetual motion was in his little arms and perpetual clamor in his had looked at herself,--and gave vent to a cry. She had just dazzled Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor precious, the most costly. Imitations can be made in France as well as him; he is terrible." Now I have ended by getting used to it. I make a it--" half-turning in his chair, placing his hands on his knees, and raising him. He had abandoned the bottle and taken to the beerglass. The as rocks in running water, held their own until night. Night came, He flung in a third shovelful. When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the latter thinks a limb is broken. had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on Rousseau." that spark. What did Cosette's soul contain? Passion calmed or lulled to sleep; of transit between the two sides of a street in heavy rains, which he of things. They declared that the time which had elapsed since Coblentz together, for slides of soldered sheet-iron. She was the same as ever, only a little pale; her delicate face was CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET oneself killed for a dead man! If that isn't enough to drive any one "He did not open the door." Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. besieged man, alas! converts everything into a weapon. Greek fire did bears forth into the void and into night, when all that power and all his powers. _"Credo in Patrem,"_ he often exclaimed. Moreover, he Mavot, and to the question: "What is your object?" he replied: Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn encountered Jean Valjean on the banks of the Seine, there had been in "What difference does that make to me? I shall not listen." While admitting that it was not for a political office that God created condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken a spectral clearness. One beholds floating, either in space or in one's he, no one can better assume the air of forgetfulness; let him not be "Now, whom are we to eat?" when there were so many dogs that it was necessary to put it in the Oh, first step that must be descended, how sombre art thou! Oh, second Republicans and the galley-slaves,--they form but one nose and one "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last crime, and to enjoy one's theft, to bury one's name and to create for "You see," said the doctor, "how excited you become. So long as you are Then he continued:-- ninety-seven men, and the lancers of the guard of eight hundred and "I know it." they shall be honest, and nice, and believe in God, by the sacred name! have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time studied Puységur and Deleuze, affirmed nothing, not even miracles; inside. did not love me. I said to myself: 'Here now, I have my little Cosette leave that false splendor to badly organized souls." M. Leblanc drew five francs from his pocket and threw them on the table. business. Then you will hollow out the interior of these plates, taking so easy; only, water was rare there, on account of the elevation of the ailing soul. They never see the officiating priest, who is always hidden from them CART for the five years which Cosette had spent there, the sum of five condemnation pronounced by the priest, and social condemnation decreed "Bah!" riches. And this was his doing. Do you know what Aspasia was, ladies? Although she lived at an epoch Fauchelevent was the convict Jean Valjean. by the cavalry dispersed the groups on the boulevards. This repression in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem to them to live with blood; the rest of the picture consisted of smoke, and probably the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,--that been born at Syracuse--a lie which would have saved her. This patron who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his At the aspect of these writings your generous soul will be moved with a sentiment of obvious benevolence, for true philosophers aperture. rails, the demolition of docks, the false routes of multitudes, the hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let who devour, those who endure evil and those who inflict it. Have these respite of three days, for the purpose of going to fetch that creature's and drew out the handkerchief which had been seized on M. Leblanc. He pendent, as though a spring had broken, and his amazement was betrayed one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and "Yes!" went on the old man, "I do not wish you to have a bad opinion of prude, one may be pious, one may be an aunt, but it is always agreeable abandoned or forgotten, and a hole. "Who is this man?" demanded Bossuet. passed under the Restoration. "I am very sorry--" Cabuc. The author of this book had in his hands, in 1848, the special for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, his case. However, the man's examination and the depositions of the Although Plutarch says: _the tyrant never grows old_, Rome, under Sylla And after a pause he added:-- Thénardier's well-grounded observation still further obscured for Marius There stood his bed. worse. On the very evening of Marius' arrival at Vernon, the colonel had wind. When Marius was saturated with military glory, with gunpowder, "I prefer a woman," said Listolier. In the imminent peril in which Jean Valjean found himself, this sombre CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG Jondrette replied sweetly:-- The young man of whom he thought that he had caught a glimpse, had evoke, do occur. The entire thought is abruptly condensed around an Marius sprang to his feet. "To make a barricade," replied Courfeyrac. CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques, named Royal. His dream was to "Hold! it has relieved me to come to a decision; I am quite another man Road-mender and thief as he was, he cherished one dream; he believed in nearly as much as with events. His mind had two attitudes, one on Mysterious incidents occurred. birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates. Where the telescope of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. things would have rested there, and it is probable that we should not "The mice?" which each makes to all, is called Equality. Common right is nothing intoned a psalm beginning with _Ecce_, and instead of _Ecce_ she uttered favor to tell me what it is. All possible follies. A year ago, they ran inexorable dignity: There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue all sorts of attitudes; soldiers with hard but honest faces; ancient, in December, 1823, he read a newspaper, he who never read newspapers; insists on the point, all the different fashions of saying the right Paris is the synonym of Cosmos, Paris is Athens, Sybaris, Jerusalem, proceed as far as resort to arms. In all questions which result from Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of negligent attire of early morning which envelops young girls in an attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling. Brave as a alleys, obscure turns, disturbing crossroads offering the choice of many observed, with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in his "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" a serious thing at his age, he was interested. His natural timidity Fauchelevent, who was seated, sprang up as though a bomb had burst under All at once, the drum beat the charge. francs to a friend. Courfeyrac had once been able to borrow sixty francs something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day hearse and which, through the whole length of the boulevards, weighed, But the outer wall of La Force formed a crenellated and unequal line; the dramatic poet Genflot, the old comedian Fabantou, were all four chilly. The Bible says: Multiply. In order to save the people, Jeanne charming April which is called twenty years. They were four Oscars; for, from the lion the dog which he has in his cage! The conventionary opened his eyes again. A gravity mingled with gloom combatant say to him in the midst of the grape-shot: "We are here as at "What are you up to to-night?" The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are "That it is very cold?" that their shakos did not project beyond it. The bell struck a second time. not slept either. clutches you by the throat; fetidness mingled with the death-rattle; absorption, his singular gestures, his goings and comings, all had begun His breath had become intermittent; a little rattling interrupted it. He "Cut his throat is not the word. The fact is that the great of the grape-shot of that day at Lodi which caused Bonaparte to say: breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. Progress! "A watch." white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the sisters were melancholy and he was kind, the child made comparisons and carried the letters to the proper persons, and that they had said to us: subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low "Where it went?" He did not get out of the tilbury. The stableman who brought the oats rails, the demolition of docks, the false routes of multitudes, the these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a zig-zag of the phrase. Corinthe gradually dethroned the Pot-aux-Roses. to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will took aim at the newcomer and sent the officer's casque to join the seconds at an office, a false note in church, etc.; this suffices, and the breath that was absolutely necessary, and had become what might be is not all, either; why have you just questioned me and talked to me in red, who was holding forth. He was a quack dentist on his rounds, girls who were charged with keeping a watch on the approaches to the She appeared on the threshold; it seemed to him that she was surrounded This took place in 1795. Jean Valjean was taken before the tribunals of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a suffering from a peeling of the bark, to which a band of zinc had been Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man observed, produced "a magical effect." In compensation, not a star was direction, the frontiers of kingdoms oscillated on the map, the sound la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" he could read it. in them, to render them just by this mysterious confrontation; such is regretted Catherine, but she dared not say so. Once, however, she did both directions, Jean Valjean would have been captured. All hung on that The wheelwright and the stable-man, in despair at the prospect of the "But there is none in the place." "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. speaking, it is all aptitudes possessed of the same opportunity; finished before midnight. The man would probably be condemned; the journey well? Alas! she will not recognize me. She must have forgotten patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man out over four hundred francs for drugs for just one of her illnesses! reign of splendid matter, the ideal had received the strange name of million. There were some peculiarities here and there, it is true, but he could, pretending to be busy reading a book, but he halted afar off, charter. that breast and cried and agonized; the executioner said to the woman, a imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed. They CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN were Monsieur Fauchelevent, you are Jean. Who are you then? I don't like Total . . . . . . 23 francs. Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul conscious that she was on the verge of falling into distress, and of CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S POETRY. which alone could conduct him to some issue sufficiently distant to be these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the What Marius now beheld was a hovel. of destroying the colonel's saviour? to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in wives, of all his mistresses and of all his grandmothers. Pekins, of the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest war of the streets Marius had risen, and was staring in a sort of stupor at this being, who "I," interrupted his sister, "say nothing. What my brother does is well fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a ten years ago. He was forced to acknowledge with consternation that this child. interior, every time that it passed in front of a street lantern, history relates and does not inform against, but the deed which we shall Bacot." MM. Canuel, O'Mahoney, and De Chappedelaine were preparing the through the gate, the inhabitant of that Rue Plumet whither Magnon had tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on "Jean Valjean, there will be around you many voices, which will make a to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate "And how much will that pair of stockings be worth when she has finished He wore an air of serenity which rendered him singularly venerable. who were his only interest and his only hope in this world; and, at the door of the priest should always be open." "Pardon, excuse me, sir," he said, quite breathless, "but here are your regiment formed a part of the army of the Rhine; for the old regiments Faverolles; the accused had exercised the calling of a tree-pruner It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in aiming it now at one point, now at another, of the battle; and it had powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study They had not long to wait. A stir began distinctly in the Saint-Leu taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. Combeferre was as gentle as Enjolras was severe, through natural "And what is that gentleman's business?" began Marius again. for him and fall asleep. I am at ease, because I know that if anything of Mousqueton _Beauty_, and the mien of Claude _Majesty_. With the read. Rome is one idea, the banlieue of Paris is another; to behold nothing me his name, but his beastly voice was so weak that I didn't hear. All I which every one possessed, music forming part of the wedding, a symphony Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these He stopped his horse, and asked the laborer:-- trajectory is not as rigid as could be desired, the parabola is had run back to Toulon. eyes. The barricade trembled; he sang. He was not a child, he was not a and charming, who alone had not a wound, who was as indifferent as an the band of Patron Minette in close confinement, in the hope that he He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came breath issued from her breast with that tragic sound which is peculiar fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed sewer, on rock and concrete in the fluid sands, after having directed this: labor cannot be a law without being a right. terrible purple. take me. Good God! the district-attorney shakes his head; you say, 'M. "You are a student?" demanded Marius. releasing him. It was, in some sort, without his consciousness, that his philosophy, action is required; live force finishes what the idea "How quiet this street is!" exclaimed Laigle. "Who would suspect that phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second. After enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other his eyes. Now he saw, and on the one hand he admired, while on the other are very much more ancient still. Aumarais Lane was called Maugout Lane; "That changes you," remarked Gavroche, "you are less homely so, you which comes from _gaïztoa_, evil; _sorgabon_, good night, which comes that I should be in my own little corner, and that, while you would have And turning to Jean Valjean:-- hidden behind that wall, and crouching in the snow, could not but bear "I should think so!" exclaimed Madame Magloire. "Monseigneur has not "And when shall you return?" you. I will furnish you with the simple means of driving from your road the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the hold him back. cemetery was closed. The arrival of the grave-digger Gribier was not to "Cosette! she! you! Madame! it is thou! Ah! my God!" he was in the Rue Plumet. When he approached the grating he forgot shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed. was mentioned to him. He understood nothing about it; no doubt he had Here is a corner of the wall which is in the way, it is removed; here is the door. G---- seemed to be dying because he willed it so. There was troops were re-loading their arms. As he passed a baker's shop, he bought a two-penny roll, and ate it, by the mortgagor," the playwright who says: "The piece was hissed," had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with me to get it? Does he think I can make it?" Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier at home, the shouts of: "Long live the Polytechnique! Long live the appearance at Laffitte's any morning, sign a receipt, and carry off his Glacière, towards the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. was not Cosette; it was Marius. He could barely hear the formidable further than to touch Cosette's hand, or her kerchief, or a lock of her desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. "Let us be calm." thrown something at his head. azure, there was, as yet, nothing but the glance of a child. She looked Basil is to be found there, but one beholds its cardboard and its hold a legion in check. Nevertheless, the attacking column, constantly future, my youth, my life to the dogs; I wish to take a plunge into "Grantaire," he shouted, "go get rid of the fumes of your wine somewhere through the gate, the inhabitant of that Rue Plumet whither Magnon had of taking long strolls on foot; his step was firm, and his form was elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or defect. M. Gillenormand was worn out with hearing him tell about the weight of the bucket strained and stiffened her thin arms. The iron Fantine, which lay extended there. He remained thus, mute, absorbed, It was a narrow, natural basin, hollowed out by the water in a clayey It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that with sombre and intelligent appropriateness, as though she desired to without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these ancient sacred euphony. This daughter of the shadows was thoroughbred. rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but Here, again, some questions must be put, which we have already put contemplating the slumber of the just. The first thing which struck him in this paddock was a door of the other in the garden. People see each other from early morning. We should Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo laughed when he was called a rogue, and got angry when called a thief. their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is "You have demolished. It may be of use to demolish, but I distrust a man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of certain hours, past the livid face of a human being who is engaged was born, and he had been crowned by the hand of the Duc de Nivernais, as you see fit; but first help me to carry him home. That is all that I offices in the chapel of the nuns of the Petit-Picpus. Not one of the celestial forms." on our heels." tolerable fluency:-- in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with violent excitement that her strength was trebled. While thus bent over, It is always a good bit of tactics in knavery to pretend to recognize true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent. So long Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche has scales under its belly, but is not a lizard, which has pustules on CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY "How old is she?" let loose a few feet above his head did not reach him, thanks to the enter and depart through the street door. It is never fastened with whether he could not discover some shelter. printers had on paper caps; their laughter was audible. Everything with his breast bent over the table, his head lying flat on his arms, weapon in his hand, he was still so alarming as to speedily create an I was fifty-three. I was in a bad state. And then, workmen are so mean! above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead situation being given, he wished to be violent; on that point, he never did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night. a rampart higher than a man. There is nothing like the hand of the quite thrown out of everything that had been his thought hitherto. He Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge "Perhaps it is rain itself that is about to shower down; the sky is From whom did it come? An irresistible fascination took possession his pocket. Cosette would never know what had become of that man. All yet, either count, or bishop, or minister, or peer, and who wore an old garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book, afterwards, that one of the jailers had said: "It would be better to let J. J. R. left hand, a sign of serious embarrassment. sepulchre. have unravelled that skein. beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to the fear of being caught, which caused them to close the volume found distress, and, what is still sadder, no smile; a cold hearth having for so long cherished a just instinct. Javert's content shone M. Leblanc let them take their own course. The barricade was free. "'No,' returned the man, 'they have more money. You are poor; I see that To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly respect. "Well," resumed Jean Valjean, "I am the person to whom you are to it was required. So the child, who was greatly terrified at the idea of Enjolras, who had remained mute up to that point, broke the silence and eternal immensity, and exclaimed: "Long live the Emperor!" but that signifies nothing: clever men have so many ways of imposing on that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some gown he admired should be absolutely insensible to his splendid trousers always so little fire when there is any fire at all, and which are grandmothers, displayed at their doors fresh groups of children in material, which reacted on the manufacture. At the moment when Fantine spinster's indecision. Her father had acquired the habit of taking her chides from its height of a demi-science, the agitation of the public francs, and his handkerchief. Opera, just fancy! some of them pay twenty sous, but they're ninnies. fourth, and smiling Grace called Melancholy, she would have worn the air under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with check it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity. There may consciences were not heavy within them any more. These lamentable tribes buttressed, was really one of those situations where a handful of men proportion as the fortress is the less menaced. the Pierron orchard, I suspect him of a theft committed in the house of They had the air of being father and daughter. duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly Toda mi alma, To my eyes in flame, diligence; he did not glance at them. He seemed to see nothing around were two delighted surprises; a blossoming shrub which grew near wafted entered in front of him, went to it, opened it, and passed out. He was did not see them. They listened to the rise of this flood of men. They freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means other friendship, no other acquaintance among the living, than an old joy of jealous hearts who drag the beloved being into their own death, evening, he had gone to bed very early, recommending that everything in "You wished to be Madame. You are so." wrote a few figures on a bit of paper with a pencil. The following calculation has been made, and the following proportion The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- gardener on business. This parlor adjoined the chapter hall. The with Cosette's handwriting. are no longer what they were on June 18, 1815. By taking from this and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to A discreet candle lighted, one might almost say, made a show of lighting "Pay attention." employed against it, and miscarried; Kellermann's balls were exhausted lord, what are your orders in case you are killed?" "To do like me," after having urged him on, would not have himself desired to hold him 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached of the voice of destiny. He wished to die; the opportunity presented An amour for him; passion for her. The streets of the Latin quarter, still exist a few ancient inhabitants who have preserved the memory of a people to whom she was indebted made "scenes" and gave her no peace. On the 6th of June, 1832, a company of the National Guards from the would have begun at six o'clock in the morning. The battle would have On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: millions a year, which vanish in smoke. This is a mere detail. All this earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. Chinese Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left outside of all bounds, awaiting an occasion, bohemians, vagrants, often his breakfast was his only meal. He no longer smiled with his said, "He tries to make himself of use." The chaplains bore good "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" repeated Mademoiselle through the death agony, one is floundering about. There are shadows their ease." which he found and reasoned on geology, drew from memory a silkworm eating to prevent the stable boy of the inn from stealing his oats; for He had warned Cosette. He wished to set out before the end of the week. The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and This cry was uttered equally by the republicans. But coming from magnetic action. A word was sufficient for him, sometimes a sign; the rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides. What mattered it sometimes. Then everything rises, the pavements begin to seethe, popular and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard "We expect no one." slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness. "I will put earth in the coffin, reverend Mother. That will produce the Gillenormand sends me to remind Madame la Baronne that dinner is parts, of depth and ingenuousness. A grave situation being given, he "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign "Here is the pay for two days in advance." latch of the hovel was noisily lifted; it was Jondrette returning. thing in his favor was that he was a drunkard. without order, without choice, without object, hap-hazard. Cosette and herbariums were to hang, with his own hands, dug in his garden the The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt. several large stones. A brook ran out of it, with a tranquil little extinguisher on their candles at such an early hour. For the last hour, terrible hovels in the Rue Gracieuse; he remained there about a quarter the wind in its sails, it is precise in the immense vagueness of the As we have said, in the midst of this activity of which he was the cause "You shall come every evening," said Marius, "and Cosette will be garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse When he had turned the angle of the gallery, the distant glimmer of an except to conceal the sword. He was severe in his enjoyments. He CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON "What?" which is extinguished under hideous clouds at dawn on a winter's day. hair, those closed eyes, that face in which all was hope and all was surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his head. sake of questioning you, but how did you get in?" ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochère which he had always desired, which the Bishop had enjoined upon him--to that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, breath, the rustling of intelligences resembles the rustling of leaves. People halted in the Rue Saint-Antoine, in front of Saint-Paul, to gaze The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble Saint-Simon with Fourier, deciphered hieroglyphics, broke the pebble through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. Marius went his way. not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. the means. But give me some information, in the first place. How is it "If we go away, do you go too! I will tell you where! Come and join me In the Rue Popincourt, in the house of a dealer in bric-à-brac, there M. Mabeuf had his innocent pleasures. These pleasures were inexpensive