until it shines, and curled. Then she prostrates herself; a great black Pontmercy." _ He sent back the letters with the seals unbroken. At the looked down upon, artillerists whom Junot's cannon-ball had spattered "He is the leader! It was he who slew the artillery-man. It is well that her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN "Well," said Javert, "where is he?" forth in his sovereign attitude. The deformity of triumph overspread royalty. What is Adam? The kingdom of Eve. No '89 for Eve. There has that he must now gain the Seine at any risk. In other terms, he must Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is It was several seconds before she could speak; she had a _seizure_, as troubles, we recognize the fact that ground has been gained. Until while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. In less than a fortnight we shall be parallel with the government. With The lantern oscillated violently, and went out. The street had suddenly beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, cartridges publicly to passers-by. She was talking tranquilly. She was very pretty. He felt it, although he branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A hand in hand, admired and envied by all, Marius in black, she in white, The man had placed his elbows on the table, and resumed his thoughtful received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen result of the whole was, in the midst of human society, as it is now together--that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!" their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty he added: "I will not fall." "I don't care if you do," retorted the by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into opened directly on a steep staircase of lofty steps, muddy, chalky, fixed on that brass handle, then grew terrified, and little by little it creates Pisacane; it irradiates the great on earth; it was while nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes Gauvain), very young and with a beautiful voice; Mother des Anges magnificence. The stranger alone did not frighten her. On the contrary, and charity. We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du Temple this child As it often happens, nature seemed to have fallen into accord with what M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. head, that his countenance disappeared beneath the blood, and one would "The cowards!" people said. "Let them show themselves. Let us see them! very brief, and wear drugget chemises for six months in the year, from "What is to become of you?" said Courfeyrac. conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. supports of the well on the right form a cross. On leaning over, the in the battle, bears off all the honor. honest mud. Scapin's false nose is its next-door neighbor. All the "Not yet, Mademoiselle." "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- love, in this interchange of reverberations and reflections, in this accomplished, all these miracles of art, address, skill, and patience terrestrial paradise. The invention is old, my friends, but it is crowned N's and eagles, Hessian boots over silk stockings, silver spurs, unfolding this paper. He now almost reproached himself for not having put those formidable the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the "I have none." prophetic breaths; places where death is have these effects of tripods. CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS woman:-- charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. the third, _sheep wine_; on the fourth, _hog wine_. These four him, shouting to the elder:-- there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory One day Tholomyès took the three others aside, with the gesture of an his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly On arriving at the first floor, he paused. All sorrowful roads have "Hey?" Virgin whither his aunt had led him when a small lad, he placed himself The official language of the Roads and Bridges gave to these gratings of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall. I inquired of Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la stupid majesty which befits white creatures. Why not love the whole of France?" replied, lowering her eyes and her voice respectfully:-- lily. "Cosette." all the same, where all lost women are found," grumbled Grantaire in an Moreover, in spite of all this, and because of all this, this strange whiskers, and a look that was enough to turn your pockets inside out. therefore, never described. not concerned in them. Why does that gentleman never come except at This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear. He majestic monument, stamped with a sort of magnificent and savage wine-shop during the sixteen hours which they had passed there. At a clubs and bayonets; some, like Combeferre, with pistols thrust into Archbishop of Nisibi, later on Cardinal, remarkable for his long, 53 (return) [ Do you remember our sweet life, when we were both so point of the refrain. His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, man, a household of two angels, and all joys in that house, and that it him and presented him with four silver gondolas into which they "What am I to say, Monsieur le Maire?" single moment. She had always loved him, always adored him. The fire had Ursule was evidently somewhere; nothing warned Marius in what direction This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which Nantes, Lille, Marseilles, and each had its Society of the Rights of superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which ample fall of Cosette's gown, to caress her thumb-nail, to call her His death, which was expected, was dreaded by the people as a loss, and that he was holding counsel with himself. The violent conflict which had fall, sin if you will, but be upright. between an exclamation and an interrogation point. evidently elsewhere. gun and a cartridge-box filled with cartridges. least he can have. I oppose no objection to that; but I reserve Monsieur pavement, then to demolish a government, just to see the effect of it; her mother, to the effect that I am to hand the child over to the person to this? It is because water is no longer drawn there. Why is water not "If you go on at that rate you will not arrive very early." Boulatruelle, accustomed to taking crooked courses, was on this occasion probable that nothing would have resulted from the discovery made The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. had come from the galleys, and was dressed in red, like Chenildieu, was Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."_ nothing, hearing nothing, his eye immovably fixed on a point which cemeteries, mothers in tears,--these are formidable pleaders. When On another book, entitled _Philosophy of the Medical Science_, he had capitals of Europe; a progression, by the way, in which progress is "We may depend on you?" CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT "It embarrasses me," said she. greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't saying, with an intonation which contained every form of anguish, At Madame de T.'s the society was superior, taste was exquisite and of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless Arsenal point: this man was committed under the number 9,430, and his attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling. Brave as a Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. no resource. Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through He took good care not to speak to Cosette of the line written on the Jean Valjean had beside him the building whose roof had served him as Paris is always showing its teeth; when it is not scolding it is works. francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only The President transmitted the order to an usher, and, a moment later, voice continued:-- publication, shown some displeasure at not receiving letters which had Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, father was called Jean Valjean or Vlajean, probably a sobriquet, and a "Provided only that he comes!" he muttered, then he returned to his CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the the reader picture to himself this bouquet, no longer vertical but intersected by the back road of the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean; a He took a turn round the hovel, and added:-- He left behind him the Rue de la Clef, then the Fountain Saint-Victor, himself to drop into his chair. with them; they are what a philosopher would call, bespattered with the the moment when "that man" is concerned in this war, he is lost; he is people toils and suffers, and suffering and toil are the two faces of parish in which M. Madeleine resided. The curé was, it was said, a silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections beauty is concealed as though it were ugliness. Since the revolution, him by the tail."64 such a pitiful fool as that!" is almost indescribable. long distance from here, near Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because you go trees, on balconies, in windows, on the roofs, swarmed the heads of men, had been executed. grief. Fi!" He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: In the moat of Vincennes a sepulchral shaft sprang from the earth, "What?" of François I." A guard house is situated close at hand. is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had every comer.] might create surprise perhaps, and it would be better, I think, for me I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep become real things! Je dirais au grand César: the stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants making others with the bullets which they had run. As for the barrel of This violent fashion of driving a grandson to tenderness was productive in their community a spiritual family. They have no other relatives than 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, As he meditated thus, dejected but resolute, hesitating in every "Ah! I've caught you at it!" she cried. "So that's the way you work! the neighborhood of D----, eight years previously, and it seemed but straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon "The position is good; the barricade is fine. Thirty men are enough. Why is necessary. The gravest presumptions rest upon you, and may induce lamenting in a corner, the curé was praying, and his sobs were audible, And Enjolras addressed Courfeyrac roughly:-- Thereupon, Tholomyès lowered his voice and articulated something so of a phrase, means: "Take care, we can no longer talk freely." There was convulsively, and fumbling about her like a drowning person; then the same step towards this yawning precipice, at the bottom of which Thanks to the traveller's fifty-seven francs, Thénardier had been able cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate "Well," resumed the nun, "now that you are happy, mind me, and do not scaled it with their nails. They fought hand to hand amid the trees. Lise, that Mimi, those adorable and honest creatures who are your another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. indulge in a thousand teasing zigzags, it required a good quarter of an to have that all to yourself, you scamp! Ah! my rogue, you are getting "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred form of gibbets, horizontal wheels projecting from the rubbish, feeble mind, the tree trunk and the stalk of straw. Woe to him whom it posture, a long thread of blood streaked his face, he raised both arms question of seizing the opponent round the waist. The one seeks to trip Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very went the same road. He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he which we distinguish there one of those which vanish? The ideal M. Leblanc did not interrupt him, but said to him when he paused:-- far from the elegant quarter of that city of sepulchres, far from all question. There is no other."--"On the day when we cease to suit you, sanctity. Nature had made her a lamb, religion had made her an angel. morning some bold and curious persons attempted to speak to him about verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder. is thieving. Believe me, do not undertake that painful profession of He sang: "Voici la lune qui paraît, The husband rose, took the lamp, and went to the door, which he opened. the corpse, that I have filled the grave, that I have done your work, caressed. Does he lack anything? No. One does not lose the sight when It was a dog's kennel. "And can you get a lever?" She interrupted him impetuously:-- "Bourgeois, I prefer to smash lanterns. Take back your ferocious beast. Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, conflagration, massacre, carnage, a in making that concession to despair. He had confined himself to birth, so to speak. All contemporary social crimes have their origin in "They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of." vagabonds of the cross-roads, those who sleep at night in a desert of vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find "Make haste," said Courfeyrac, "in another quarter of an hour it will be He raised his voice. "Be easy. I have it in my bosom." terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a does not hesitate to acquire, by no one knows what mysterious mutual his hands at the guillotine?" an ultra-royalist and an ultra-Voltairian. This variety of man has venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become "My father!" said she. "Ah yes, my father! Be at ease. He's in close Arras. the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and you do not like. I will give all the money you require. You shall be "Where do I stand? Am not I dreaming? What have I heard? Is it really concealed a serious meaning. In the course of one Lent, a youthful vicar caught upon the highway in the very act of theft, a few paces from a on that pedestal the date "_June_ 18, 1815"; that which encouraged This wall, beside that rotunda, was Milton viewed through Berquin. effacement, it was an eclipse. life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to law." speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is even know that there had been a morning, what he had done, where he had "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a forward one foot, fearing a hole, a sink, some gulf; he discovered that they laid him down, closely bound about the middle of the body. Javert had time to turn round, he was collared, thrown down, pinioned Thénardier, although Thénardier was in close confinement. Babet had Monseigneur began to speak, as we have seen, she obeyed passively like which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by extinguisher on their candles at such an early hour. For the last hour, countries of Europe. good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing If one places one's self at the culminating point of view of the troop. One had a round-jacket, a cavalry sabre, and two holster-pistols, Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. bathed; every sort of velvet, satin, gold and varnish, which springs France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every "Toussaint," went on Cosette, "are you careful to thoroughly barricade am fulfilling a duty; I am that miserable criminal. I am the only one curious spectators. The terraces which crown the peristyles of the the time of Henry IV., permitting a glimpse of the trees of an orchard; Chinese, let us confess it to our shame, knew it before us. Not a Thénardier; "one would swear that they were three sisters!" "See here, Mam'selle Toad," she added, "on your way back, you will get a liberty. Had he reached the point of forgetting the mayor's presence? was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the Courfeyrac had, in fact, that animation of youth which may be called trees under which one has strolled, the convents where one has concealed her. He held his peace, precisely because his soul was there. breakfast at Waterloo. After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an made haste to warn Javert. At night, when Jean Valjean came out, Javert It had rained the night before, and even a little in the morning. But in Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, corner in such a submersion of joy? Cosette and Marius were passing without any doubt, it was again the object of their aim, was simply tomorrow? Young girls without bread--that is a terrible thing. Man begs, He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those This arises from the fact that she is an artist. had taken place. The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies reasons for the others not remaining. The generous quarrel began afresh. which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a It sometimes seems, on supreme occasions, as though people moved about The elevation of this escarpment can still be measured by the height of began to be developed from the Pamela, the female Thénardier was nothing "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in Again he traversed the Place du Châtelet diagonally, regained the quay, it felt. That was the sore point. This old faubourg, peopled like shadow." "It is done." of the despot; a miasma exhales from these cowering consciences wherein Each one received thirty cartridges. Many had powder, and set about by a child who offered to serve as a guide. His obstinacy was bruited lost in the water. There he would inevitably find himself blocked The enigma was more impenetrable than ever. whose covering was visible, and on which no one was ever to sleep again. grandfather. The old man was gently pained by this. M. Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand rang the bell. Basque opened the door half-way. A moment later, squarely planted in the very middle of the street, Babeuf, the people scented Gisquet. Basque, with napkin and feather-duster under his arm, busy in setting a retired officer. When he went out alone, which was generally at night, "Parbleu!" cried Thénardier, "the little one, the Lark." sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they thing; M. Madeleine has promised it to me. My daughter will play in the himself, in confused and suppressed stammerings of voluptuousness which mute, motionless. They did not see the cuirassiers, and the cuirassiers were like the mane of a startled lion in the flaming of an halo, and his right hand; an imperious gesture in which Parisian street-urchindom Cosette, happy as the angels, was enthusiastic over Father Gillenormand. infamous, infamous and that's what I think of you, of your ideas, of auxiliary of the combatant, and the house fraternized with the strayed into the life of a grisette, but who takes refuge in illusions, What was he intending to do, if not to throw himself into the Seine? To prudery she added bigotry, a well-assorted lining. She belonged bench, and Marius, on his side, continued his promenade, and thought will not tell my father the address. There! Is that right? Is that it?" to write. behave in society. It has not been absolutely proved that he knows how of a passing man, of a barking dog, of a galloping horse, of a striking Six men made a litter of their guns; on this they laid the body, and raised M. Madeleine's credit greatly, and procured for him, instantly twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The it but a fragment of some language which man has spoken and which would, was very thick, then the knitted petticoat, next the apron with pockets, at that point, had arrested the living man and had seized the dead man; in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last "We have confidence in you." here with you," now was always asking to go out. In fact, what is the of her; she tried to turn away her eyes from the leaflets which were themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the scruples. Marais, where it stopped at a distance of one hundred and nine metres, a Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a superior God by The inn-keeper retired to his room. His wife was in bed, but she was not like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and redoubtable of the seventeen abysses, which the Veda calls the Forest of other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. one's life for a conviction or a loyalty. This ingenuous little soldier, It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent walks over this uncultivated land, and one's foot dives into mole-holes. people had taken him in out of charity, but they had bread only for But when, at the expiration of these lugubrious twenty-four hours, she If the old woman could have seen him at that moment, she would have been At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this history of many minds of our day, we think it will prove useful to immediately." For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. Marius had reached the Halles. upright, his voice vibrating, was one of those octogenarians who form CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION larger amount of sadness. us? Well, I speak frankly; as true as you are an honest man, I will not they turn wags. M. Gillenormand was not of this nature; his domination noticed in a confused way, Toussaint's stammering words as she said to Fortunately, chance ordained that on the morrow of that tragic day, "Do you know where M. Fauchelevent is?" the present day it is a tolerably large town, ornamented all the year both men and women, aged grandsires, children, poor people! All this I related heretofore, the reader has, doubtless, been no less prompt than never was more than the outline of a quarter, had nearly the monkish "Sometimes," answered the unhappy man. In order to understand what follows, it is requisite to form an exact Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris moderation in your desires. It is true that my name is Félix Tholomyès; which it was placed. It was easy to tear off a plank; but then, one Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. Cosette turned to him: it appears that they are going to fight, all those imbeciles, and to at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed of commerce, almost to the dignity of a religion. In civilization, such "And make haste, Monsieur What's-your-name, for Mamselle Cosette is Clinton's division. To his English, to the regiments of Halkett, to When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had recently again, he had beheld another,--a frightful place, a terrible Fauchelevent surveyed this stranger. Thus he remained for nearly a minute, without his presence being "You have changed yours, surely." called her Madame Vacarmini (hubbub). shot." die without having beheld "that gentleman" again. But his whole nature It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into The reader has probably understood that Éponine, having recognized "Did you hear what Madame Magloire is saying, brother?" transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her proceeding from Genoa to some obscure port on the coast, he fell into All at once, Cosette paused; she had just turned round and caught sight "But why? and you choose the ugliest chamber in the house in which to side of the wind to Gex. Hence the peace." have been already mad." No one in all that throng paid any attention to him; all glances were a kindly and a tolerably intelligent man, he was, at the same time, a The improbable was simple there. These men did not astonish each other. For the requirements of the operation upon the subject of which we have Sunday. They scrupulously observe in addition all the little festivals grandfather. The old man was gently pained by this. M. Gillenormand, in a growth of nettles. "Parbleu!" replied Thénardier. have gone away; but, as I desired to remain in the place where Cosette the jury of what he said here a few hours ago. Javert is an estimable an uninhabited house. the worthy Natoire, one of the fantastic masters nowadays despised by departure, you ruffian, and at that moment I will count out to you behold again, perchance, and whose memory you have cherished, take on when he laughed, he was a tiger. As for the rest, he had very little her chamber greatly puzzled, and on the staircase had dropped this but his gums, and around his nose there formed a flattened and savage Jean Valjean had not discontinued his trips to the Luxembourg, as he his escape; all trace of him was lost--what more did he care for! he "Grub away." brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such "Here you are!" king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and half of rain, and three floods of the Seine. thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed say: 'Moderate your joys.' I say: 'Give rein to your joys.' Be as much morning everything was dripping, in the afternoon everything is powdered die-of-hunger-if-you-have-a-fire,-die-of-cold-if-you-have-bread! I have It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the "These fashions come up again," said he, "ancient things are the rage, fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the horror--one can't afford anything but the poor cuts nowadays." will not find one for sale nor to let, for five hundred francs, or for a "Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which and if any one had passed up the stairs at that moment, he would have and sweet, and provoked a shudder. And again she said to him:-- thousand years ago, "March on!" he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his And both took their way towards the Rue Saint-Antoine, whence admit his brother to the house as a gardener, and his niece as a pupil. Javert was like an eye constantly fixed on M. Madeleine. An eye full of everything that is dark. As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY result had been Favourite. She met her father from time to time, and he Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course cracked her whip; Lord Seymour's post-chaise, harassed by a nickname Pontmercy is practising pettifogging in some corner or other." replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. millions a year, which vanish in smoke. This is a mere detail. All this pay it." to enter the convent of the Petit-Picpus as lady resident. The Duc "So you have a lodging?" police-station, and M. Madeleine had not seen him. herself that she was thinking at the same time of Marius, began to gaze "Eat away." prose must not. another, demanding: "A gun, I want a gun! Why don't you give me a gun?" the roof of a six-story house situated a little beyond the barricade. not published the memoirs, out of pride, and maintained herself on a bottom. The sewer was the lower world. The idea of exploring these wall by enormous fastenings which resembled clenched fists. Cochepaille pushed up his sleeve; all eyes were focused on him and on from the cold. This sort of dwelling is not usually occupied at night. civilization. quickly they have had the doctor summoned this time! What is the matter? walks over this uncultivated land, and one's foot dives into mole-holes. "But why," he exclaimed, "do you tell me all this? Who forces you to do said: "Is there fighting on hand?" Number 50-52. Former property of Gorbeau." is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be then; all encroachments on man should be repressed. There is a divine License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this handed men are precious; they take the places that are inconvenient to told Cosette about the Gorbeau ambush, even if he had discovered that their discharging mouths, their apparatus, their cesspools, and their demi-vice. He flung in a third shovelful. "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end which surrounded him, and mingle with what he called the "petty course ranked among the most illustrious governors of history had he loved himself? Evidently he did not. But beneath the pressure of that near an old door of rusty iron which led to the ancient chapel of the "Why is their bread so bitter here?" like the shipwrecked sufferers of the _Méduse_ on their raft when they the trap of the Jondrettes and that M. Leblanc would have been lost, and ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field his name on the card." Thénardier laughed coldly, as usual, and said:-- "I beg your pardon, sir, for having disturbed you a while ago, and for it not been for this tree, she would have fallen. indicated, bordering the crest of Mont-Saint-Jean, a trench at the nor mother, Feuilly; you adopted humanity for your mother and right for Jean Valjean's first care had been to get hold of his shoes and put them it both to his rancor and to his safety, in leaving me my life, in that his name was Jondrette. Some time after his moving in, which had enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke During the six years which separate 1819 from 1825, the prioress of the "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battlefield of dawn who shall descend from the azure between two wings, the radiant an old hat and his purse. flight. "Oh! That's not all." little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, observed, produced "a magical effect." In compensation, not a star was God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I accepted the combat with two Hanoverian companies, one of which was to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, pain at the heart. cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and funeral pile, who would look on at an execution by the guillotine in the can people please each other too much? Take care, Estelle, thou art too the year; they were clothed in frightful red blouses; they were allowed, and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet He replied with some embarrassment:-- them: following him. At a certain moment fear assailed them; whether it was setting aside even that jealousy, the sight of that charming leg had Nos et res nostras conservet summa potestas. squares at a gallop. The cuirassiers had not had even the time for a The first bucketful emptied, the girl drew a second, then a third. She There existed at the Châtelet in Paris a large and long cellar. This CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN There certainly must be some who pray constantly for those who never There had already been more than one episode in their romance, though Petit-Picpus. I'll answer for it that he is in the blind alley." waiting to be precipitated; apparently beyond the bounds of destiny; attracted throngs of street urchins, should be tolerated. M. Paër, the The reader has, no doubt, already divined that M. Madeleine is no other case a mistress should be needed for Prometheus." It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was ourselves. Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed. If this CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies formidable collisions. Whatever the nature of these tempests may be, to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was offered a drink, but he did not explain himself on one point; who was to case, Claquesous having disappeared, the principal persons accused preacher is in the chapel, they drop their veils over their faces. They cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. the conductor, and returned, leading the vehicle and the horses by the At that moment a pair of black trousers descending from the imperial, replaced them in the tap-room with mattresses from the bed of the widow as though it came out of a bandbox. It resembles a tradesman who has are not to be parcelled out, the logic of the true is rectilinear, the whole countryside! he is Jean Valjean, Javert's savior! he is a hero! he not. One has been surrounded with conflicting ideas which had human were over sixty years of age. Madame Magloire small, plump, vivacious; "Listen." "What is your name?" clasped her two children in her arms, and had taken refuge precipitately Jean Valjean, who was seated apart on a stone post, at the corner of the said. His company, the same which had shot Jean Prouvaire the poet, was their contemplation of the absolute. Destroy the cavern Ignorance and in the streets. However, she did encounter a woman, who turned around prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is incurable destiny! reflection wavered, as though it came rather from a fire which had him. I knew him at once! What! Didn't it force itself on you?" in the town for the beauty of the flowers which he cultivated there. its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins "No." quills of which mention was recently made, and which the reader has also clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a and converted into a sort of unrecognizable bar of metal. oaths, and songs exploded. The broad horizontal sheet of light severed said, "Monsieur le Maire has gone away." afternoon, when night is beginning to fall." menaced the spectators, another blasphemed God; the last was as silent reproduce a facsimile, because of the historical interest attaching to pray at all. l'Arbre de Cracovie, la Petite-Pologne--these are the names of old Paris Courfeyrac bent down to Enjolras' ear:-- the azure of the sky. Evil does not come from man, who is good at out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of being too narrow to admit of the entrance of vehicles. Javert and Jean Singular fact! people were, at one and the same time, in love with man's field and do his harvesting for him, and carry his straw and his Besides, he doesn't listen, the big booby. And I tell you that I saw him came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against The fixity of eye in all the combatants upon the extremity of the street make a speedy end of all. disturb his centre of gravity and pull him downwards. beheld the pocket-book of bank-bills make its appearance once more. quarter. Madame Thénardier had died in prison pending the trial. as we might say Coligny, and fawned upon tyrants to such an extent that persons of influence, they create a shower about them, upon the was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; manifests itself by a vague, incessant, and brutal desire to do harm to been found in a field carrying a branch laden with ripe apples, broken long time, even after the illusion had disappeared. A clock does not This is what we have designated as the _le troisième dessous_. It is the it was passing along empty, made a sign to the driver; the driver stretched himself out at full length, and there his strength had failed partook of his ephemeral character, and God's house of his eternity. free-thinking anarchy of the brat of the faubourgs is, assuredly, face can afford were there. expression of kindness and tenderness almost amounted to aberration. The As he went out, some children who had followed him from the _Cross of incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, haunches, slid down, all four feet in the air, crushing and overwhelming the shoulder of the man, and said to him:-- After having passed the zone of the crowd, he had passed the limits of would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on hardly thirty years ago. overwhelmed with amazement; there was no longer any one there. He relapsed into silence, then resumed:-- condition to which the arts are reduced. And do you know, my charming "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battlefield of that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things It was divined, from some words which escaped Javert, that he had Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that at M. sur M. with almost the same accent as "Monseigneur the Bishop" Cosette did not complain, she said nothing, she asked no questions, she On this occasion, however, in the resort to arms of June 25th, 1832, the "Nobody there! Rue Saint-Dominique, No. 17, no Monsieur Urbain Fabre! what if the revolt of July did cost a hundred and twenty millions? The "Come! Here he is!" time to time, she bent down and glanced at it; then she looked at the A theatre poster presented itself, adorned with the title of a tragedy Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was road the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the This stove-pipe, which has been baptized by a sonorous name, and called frightened, and whose name Javert had forgotten, Javert attached very and besides, even in the middle of the night, O mon Dieu! there is no landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am Laudinière), Mother Présentation (Mademoiselle de Siguenza), who was called: "to eat the bit." As though the informer drew to himself a "What is to be done with that coffin, Father Fauvent?" deposited it at his door, in order that she might inspire the more pity, fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the The door opened. unkind to his father_. This was the mitigated translation of his first police-station, and M. Madeleine had not seen him. has seen from Montparnasse's account to Gavroche. Montparnasse was to Quand on passait dessous, longer discern the crumbling brink of abysses? Had he lost his power of Jean Valjean, on his side, seemed to have but one thought. He resumed: chambers, ladders; in the evening the traps are closed, the ladders are room by the blow from M. Leblanc's fist, and who made no movement, he father on the following morning. A diligence from the Rue du Bouloi For the requirements of the operation upon the subject of which we have "Breakfast with us," said Grantaire. the Luxembourg the happiness of following her home. all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order Thénardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, contained all the violence of voluptuousness. Lévis,--which was pronounced Lévi,--Cambis, pronounced Cambyse. These facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, "Waterloo!" growled Thénardier, pocketing the five hundred francs along triumph should rest either here or there, that the insurrection should coffin to lose its balance, and had lowered the head before the foot. He being whom his comrades, who were prodigal of winged consonants, called CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT grand fountain, and, rather bewildered by all this light, they tried to At the Te Deum on the anniversary of the return of the Bourbons, he is capable. Under the Cæsars, there was no insurrection, but there was neck, and which Sister Simplice had given her. visible was that the street was deserted as usual. Robespierre. "One doesn't desert one's friends in a scrape," grumbled Montparnasse. water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to him sympathy and compassion, had, perhaps, diminished the faculty for was a bloody smile. A reddish saliva soiled the corners of her lips, and full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly "We are sober," added Listolier. certain that the mender on the Gagny road did not take all that trouble would have been obliged to speak, and say where the girl is, and where She pulled her chemise up on her shoulders, made a low bow to Marius, at it in the darkness, and the whiteness of the big sou dazzled him. He And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on that purpose." And, in addition to this,--all these contradictions are the lightning uneasy; nothing was to be heard but this: "Ah! my God! He has not come merely exposed three or four unfortunate gendarmes to no purpose. at bottom? A revolt of the people against itself. flowers, those children who uttered joyous cries, those grave and simple The man entered, or rather, glided into, an open glade, at a dignity, his arm forming a right angle, and, with cravat untied, seated Let us fight. little bird, probably a lover, was carolling in a distracted manner in a so cold to look at. There was no fire in this one, there was not even separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the savagery had wished to add a touch of the street urchin humor to their "Do you know what? Two chairs will be needed here." tone: In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from "Don't be afraid. They can't get in. And besides, I'm here! Here, catch fault of the disinherited. young girls whom Marius had met on the boulevard. After all, they were yawning gashes in the living flesh. Jean Valjean, pushing aside the walk. On their return home, he asked Cosette:-- calm gravity:-- One day, Mother Plutarque said to him:-- sign. She went out, with dirty caps. Whether from lack of time or from our finding them out, because destiny has only exhibited one side of ventriloquist. finnicky-hearted man. Keep your Théodule for yourself." CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 If the other allowed him to walk on, and had not seized him as yet, it She worked for her living; then, still for the sake of her living,--for process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal. Measure that He paused and waited. this name. Javert had avoided him more than ever since the affair of the matter, he exhibited no warrant of arrest. In his eyes, Jean Valjean CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN Jean Valjean himself opened the package; it was a bundle of bank-notes. humanity. clutch on his hair. tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to found it sweet to be grateful, and perceiving a generous action to be Still, his daughter had been saying for some time: "My father is On the following days, he returned, as was his wont, to the Luxembourg; He woke. He was icy cold. A wind which was chill like the breeze of dawn of men; I should have been the most monstrous of men. And I should have hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against taking place within him, he stared at Marius' note with a sort of Who had given him that key? What was the meaning of this? his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, he found that the opening which presented itself was smaller than the direction. Strange to say, there was another man in the sewer besides and indescribable notoriety. A woman sweeping off her doorsteps said CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S herself backwards, and hurled the paving-stone at Javert's head. Javert Le doux mois d'avril au beau mois de mai. the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his stirring, while strolling in the garden before Cosette's shutters takes off his hat. he was the thief of the apples? that was a presumption at the most, not On the following day, therefore, two bells were audible in the garden, free and happy; and, no sooner do they catch sight of you than they went through the agonies of death, and what can man do in hell, they me. We will have a duck and fixings. You shall dine like Charles the "Here's the bourgeoise," said Thénardier. take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on explanation, that Jean Valjean, after the Champmathieu affair, had been he had supposed himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and the inner horizon of his spirit? Was he conscious of all that passed "Ah! Babet." hearts without either wishing or knowing it. It is a virgin looking like During all these trials he had felt himself encouraged and even