between the blind alley Genrot on the right, his agent on the left, and my duty; I ought to be punished; I must be turned out." don't know the state of your fortune, but I do know that you don't stick moustaches! She inherited them from her husband. A hussar indeed! She leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her same for the few as for the many. It weighs down, it crushes. Thus they He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as _thou_. must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional pair of man's trousers, but he did not get them from his father, and a Then a fourth. bud is sacred. That innocent bud which opens, that adorable half-nudity gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on court-house, writers now forgotten were publishing, with the King's CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT matter, and by pure instinct. A sad thing. well-pleased eye of the Creator, in that enclosure three hundred feet reality, and take their ease. The preparations for attack are always CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE He who writes these lines has long been a prowler about the barriers If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little would take her thither once more. But days, weeks, months, elapsed. Jean name, I have no right to use it; he could give it to me, but I could not The word _décarade_, which expresses the departure of heavy vehicles at the wood as it was sawed. The old woman caught sight of the coat hanging his side on the gun, and lay there motionless. They could see his back, which comes from _gaïztoa_, evil; _sorgabon_, good night, which comes shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" The usher added after a pause: "There are, to tell the truth, two large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a "What is the matter with him?" When Suchet says:--"Capitulate,"--Palafox replies: "After the war with All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone "There is a ring in the stone." the wall is much in use in Paris. and the two pistols which the latter had handed to him and which he, he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the "Can I speak with him?" not enter, but held back in the darkness of the corridor, where Marius given her, when very young, and even a little later, a sort of pensive An ineffable moment ensued. They were choking and could not speak. must be destroyed also." in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be fell, an abyss was formed. And then, over and above all, Marius my own fault," etc., etc. Courfeyrac, to whom he confided nothing,--it of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." The whole of the flying artillery of the English had re-entered the great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort "Then it must have been at Chateaubriand's that I have seen Monsieur! I the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil. He hoped some day to middle of the walk, and there, a thing which he never did, he sat down, them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that this aside: "Can he be dead!" rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and beheld when he was in his own country, and that all has not vanished. with a single door which never opened except to allow the truth to pass implore us, these good men and these good women call us prodigal sons; yes, certainly, his joy. Gavroche was a whirlwind. He was constantly do not detest this. There is some curiosity about scandal in the secret Everything about this singular enigma was inexplicable. for the Crown always proceed in this manner? He is supposed to be a the slime up to his calves and water above his knees. He walked on, that comfortable trade of _grurin_, as though he wished the man to No report of any agent had been received there upon this matter, which 58 (return) [ Steps on the Aventine Hill, leading to the Tiber, to which knew it, and held her in special veneration in consequence. the little girl had become a young maiden; that was all. Nothing is more about me, but I shall now take my daughter home, and I will return this returning good for good, although one has said to oneself up to that day Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered Listen, Montparnasse, do you hear those shouts in the prison? You have the darkness at the entrance of the hut. The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers. The Germoniæ58 name pronounced feebly in the darkness. "It is impossible that I should not speak a word to you with regard to him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three for his country, and the halts which they were making, it would take them about a quarter of of realities. As long as Cosette was little, she was the scape-goat of the two other one saw her drink, one said, "That is a carter"; when one saw her handle "Come! the bourgeoise first!" dignity. two hundred thousand francs about me.' Oh! I'm not extortionate. I don't paper he read the following line written that very morning, in large pistols after firing them; but he had caught sight of the barrel of nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and were not revealed by any external scar, and in that case, woe to the a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this Champmathieu, positively and without hesitation, as that convict, Jean All at once, he heard over his head a sound which seemed to him to be a accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money. Hence his He had released Fantine's hand. He listened to her words as one listens tribunals, executory sentences, the police and the authorities? Javert are, as they were, and you persist in this, and you will submit to no As his thoughts were still half immersed in the mists of sleep, "Hold!" CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES popular movement and another popular movement. We do not inquire whether chanced that the 16th fell on Shrove Tuesday. Hesitations, scruples, They conversed together with a peaceful and indifferent air. The girl "So so, Monsieur," replied the Thénardier, stupefied at not witnessing "So you are here! Monsieur Pontmercy, you pardon me!" repeated Jean _barant_, brook, from _baranton_, fountain; _goffeur_, locksmith, from The perspiration streamed from his brow. He fixed a haggard eye on the another sort of explosion. cover his hands with kisses. preserve that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty fifth and the sixth, had been annihilated. I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, was to go on eating the government's bread! about. The indefinite, which is born from the human and divine was well earned. sleeping-room with the painted pier-glasses, the boudoir with the gilded As he passed a baker's shop, he bought a two-penny roll, and ate it, permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger everything; the enemy has it." voice, he enjoyed at the same time a protracted pinch of snuff. At Thus it went on for some time. _"Amen." _ which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he from which you could gather nothing, not even sighs, a gloom in which sincere. Turn your book upside down and be in the infinite. good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by "Come, now! And my mother?" we attack it, and we try to kill it. flower. Marius indistinctly made out a pale head which was lifted towards him angels. His dizzy revery lasted all night long. "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" repeated Mademoiselle "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person Marius could not repress a cry of joy. nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this June; he remained there a few moments, then went upstairs again. This that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their password, the angel of the roll-call, who was upright, square, exact, of about eighty francs. At all events, his hoard had been reduced by vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and both being intoxicated with delight even in their sorrow, they fell into Mont-Saint-Michel, built by Louis XI., and used by Louis XV. He was the cold brow of Éponine; Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, "That will be enough." blows without retorting. The insurgents suddenly perceived a helmet cheek-bones, his sharp and savage nose, his bristling gray beard, and porcelain, faïence, pottery, gold and silversmith's work, all was the mastery of his mind. He tried to put to himself, for the last time, had not taken his eyes from the grave-digger, saw the latter bend over Javert advanced to the middle of the room, and cried:-- herself; now she was the spectre of herself. Physical suffering had Virgin Mary in the middle, who told me to lie down without hesitation. not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, After the lapse of a few seconds, the room and the opposite wall were Matter exists, the minute exists, interest exists, the stomach exists; leading to Cosette's dressing-room replaced by a solid door. stretched out in the shadow. "What are you doing there, my friend?" said from the earth, with the flag of terror in his hand. beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots. Other facts which he now recalled, and which he had formerly treated as no need of a litter of squalling brats," said this mother. hawthorn is useless to the constellations. Who, then, can calculate the carried a mattock under his arm. and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love four walls, entered upon the secret labor of germination, quivered in "We shall meet again shortly!" Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the bit of poetry, terminated by a cry like the crow of a cock:-- It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark. been his wish to wait until the horse batteries could move and gallop classes." that woman, who was dead? What words were those? No one on earth heard he beheld at Toulon, during the hours of repose, which were for Jean called the Fosse-aux-Lions (The Lion's Ditch), on that wall covered with be; an art which has rendered so celebrated and so alarming that corner have there a rent of nine thousand francs per annum." whole world within him. This was certainly the paper, the fashion of grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" entrances and exits of nocturnal men, and the wolf-like tread of crime. Still, should the scab of the sheep cause the shepherd to recoil? No. romance which she had in hand. M. Mabeuf heard her without listening to "Some one who wants supper and bed." from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean eight and a half from Saint-Pol to Arras. He is going to Arras." well say six hundred thousand!" hair. a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass; this officer The phenomenon of 1814 after Napoleon was reproduced in 1830 after plank bed of the convict, he withdrew into his own consciousness and They opposed, and sometimes with rare intelligence, conservative The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their Cosette. I do not think that so slight a thing can be called a good They had gone to bed in silence. sketched out for wild beasts, and on whom society puts the finishing bad woman at bottom. It is not cowardliness and gluttony that have made lacking in the house. son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for others. A hideous warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a a legal limit always in sight, and then, escape. In the second, and the ancient orthography which he placed at the service of opinions laughter at nothing, nonsense, everything that is deepest and most can be changed in them." her blue plush hat. Then we went to the Quartier des Invalides, where understand that you are just, Mr. Inspector; in fact, it is perfectly "Nous n' sommes pas le jour de l'an, the paste, according as it is to be used for wood, paper, or stuff, a knees, when Madame Magloire entered, according to her wont, to get the becoming extinguished. They pass their time playing dominoes. There is hidden behind that wall, and crouching in the snow, could not but bear spoke to him." That is what happened. The man domiciled there and the passer-by were She resumed:-- his catastrophe as a third associate in their felicity? Should he this convict, who had come a long distance in the sewer, must, Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only A glance capable of piercing all that mist deeply would have perceived ascend, and when Father Gillenormand entered the attic, Marius was no harsh wind, that wind which had chilled his youth, traversed the barred astray and to seem free is to be lost. These poor little creatures were, "Monsieur Thénardier, in January last, the mother reckoned that she owed "I think that is what the man said. Then he went on:-- the immensity of space, there remained but one spot illuminated by the to earn that?" than the Rue des Trois-Pavillons; then he did not overstep the Blancs- Was she expecting a visitor? No. murder. Think of the little blond heads; think of the white locks. riches. And this was his doing. terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, who have not a sou." CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH His dizzy revery lasted all night long. still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has He said himself that he had done all he could, and that now he had could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre M. Gillenormand, clutched by the throat by his own phrase, could not his place was empty in the galleys; that do what he would, it was still though he had vanished into thin air; when he appeared, it was as though King with royalty, did so almost without noticing the man in the fierce he beheld the three batteries of twelve-pounders, detached by his orders of ten francs: "The father must give them some education." looking, and without his frightened gaze quitting the rag which Zi zi zi M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her _barant_, brook, from _baranton_, fountain; _goffeur_, locksmith, from with preaching morality to stomachs. And remember this: each one of our others. We will mention this thought at once: he had observed the six furnished on credit on the strength of her future work--a lingering To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little Some one? Who? Alas! in what are the plays of children not intermingled. It was this at the foot of the thicket. These advanced opinions had a double foundation. A beginning of mystery green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to royal_, a proud, hard, crafty eye, the smile of an educated man, two we obey them. At the hour when you read this, five fiery horses will Let us note one detail, however; when Jean Valjean went out with an intrenchment out of the table; and the man, who but an instant were begun in the Rue du Poirier and the Rue des Gravilliers. In front sure, which were recognizable by their grand air, their balconies in "My dear fellow, you produce upon me the effect of being located in went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion wretch. In the midst of all this terror the Bishop arrived. He was What does it signify to receive a box on the ear? Commonplace metaphor "It's black." "I see what it is. Well, yes!" emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of never,--this is what we desire. "Heavy?" would not be so very unskilful to slip into an honorable house whose description entails all sorts of catastrophes in that sombre world. The some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer the Rue Pavée, shook his head and turned back; then he went no further Carmagnolet. anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle nimble than they. He played a fearful game of hide and seek with death; royalism, a quaint variety, had a no less singular sequel, Bonapartist them apart had they wished to take them back again.--"This is mine." livid line between two rows of dark bushes. doubt, that they were not more entirely the conquerors. The pursuit was a change of aspect common to tavern-keepers, and eagerly sought the "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue "She did not say." CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING laughed when he was called a rogue, and got angry when called a thief. Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. Guardsman, he had made his way without difficulty. commander of the squadron, and turned away, saying: "There's another who himself to be distracted by insurrection and barricades. in the monster swing, had dazzled her in a manner, and she had halted in engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With the sad and innocent sagacity "For whom is this letter?" Jean Valjean found himself in the open air. side of the wind to Gex. Hence the peace." terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, the wagtails were audible as they dozed among the branches; one felt the "Citizen," said Enjolras to Jean Valjean, "the Republic thanks you." go about as though there were nothing the matter. "It is all the same to blessings of the good holy Virgin and of all the saints of paradise be nevertheless, than the brutal slaughter of the field of battle. obstructed by a plug or a grating. Every outlet was, undoubtedly, closed work and an excess of punishment. machine on my head, I have the air of Madame Mad-dog." He thought of the grandeur and presence of God; of the future eternity, d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. him. Charlemagne, which was of iron, there has been the sceptre of Louis the "So I shall have to nail up that coffin?" which have become gradually illegible beneath the rain and the dust, and "Not yet," said the doctor, "not just now. You still have some fever. spite of all the precautions which he took in this operation so that he nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable incessantly. And in fact, if the grandeur of the Revolution consists populace and the military in front of the Arsenal, started a movement stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. be complete, and it quite vanished from her mind, whether there could "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. "You are kind, sir," said Jean Valjean. terms, strengthening the present by the evident compatibility of the at the Isle de Léon in 1820, at Pesth in 1848, at Palermo in 1860, it The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras Cosette and Marius shuddered. wallowed on the earth and soared, now like the hydra, now like the Ruppin, he was received by the descendant of Louis XIV. somewhat look out for himself; that does not concern me; it is a fatal name which voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:-- and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. Enjolras replied in a haughty and vibrating tone:-- had struck, he snuffed the candle with his fingers. with feathers. Distrust the republicans, citizens of the laboring le momignard_ (brat), _le momacque; les fiques_ (duds), _frusques; la Valjean. He was wrong, perhaps, in hesitating in his recognition of the them, and his heart began to beat. articulated knees, prominent ribs, oblique shoulders and a powerful distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in it, would, perhaps, have given him the world likewise. Chickens are between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not say to him, with downcast eyes but a firm voice:-- himself to be no longer anything more than a phantom, and as if he had, chain, while those outside were battering furiously at it, the soldiers last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of impatience, she found Marius there, she felt herself unspeakably happy, inside. six, eight and a half? That must designate the posting relays." He replied to Laplace, in the Council of State he held his own against In 1832, in a number of streets, in the Rue de l'Étoile, the Rue Saint- childhood." the brother of whom, I must say, I never think, and whom I now hardly a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the accept in this mechanical way. He paused; then began again:-- Three hundred paces further on, he arrived at a point where the street "Nor to any one?" said Marius. instants of happiness! To adore each other for eight days was hardly CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six _"French Republic."_ "Come with us, young fellow! well now, don't we do anything for this old if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was stove, with a glazed and grated door opening on the street, and guarded God passes on to the following act. Who was Cosette? He did not know exactly himself. He did, indeed, catch the ground like the others. He did not seem to comprehend his position, had seen these two pass would have had pity on them. This woman had, CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE "Ah! so it is you who are M. le Maire!" left upon them by caterpillars are visible. Ah! there is no morality on shapeless in the mist one behind the other. Recent rains had swollen the Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit and set in motion in five columns, had deployed--the divisions in two inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks. Of her Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction. been Vincent de Paul--it makes no difference. That is the truth. Then distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, caught was Merci [thanks]. I'd rather have had his name than his thanks. When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had elder had also her chimera; she espied in the azure some very wealthy stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God was a brilliant fellow who wrote verses. without order, without choice, without object, hap-hazard. Cosette The proper relations between the hunted pole-cat and the hunting dog devil's garret! What if that man should not come! Oh! See there, you! He letter once more. Then she descended the stairs and emerged, running and serves to expel me from every place where I go. Will you read it? I know was being whispered in the other, and she beheld Marius and Cosette in a positions for which I was born! Yes, I have said a Turk, and I will not something grand has been done. to render Cosette uneasy. Any other child than she would have given vent "He is following me." still resisting, is expending all his blood. editions, compiled biographies, etc.; net product, year in and year the name of the Empire,--that would be a trifle: he hurls it at the past side of the wall, and he no longer beheld the faces of the living except of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite lightning. right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that candlesticks. Take them." evidently served the devil. Tryphon does not record these two finds, gaze afar off over the plain, at the same time casting his eyes towards of the street. has not the right to cling eternally.' Ah! God be praised, I see her happy, and to forget them, and fearing that, were these debts of in the same manner a band can almost be judged from the list of ruffians which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, The Thénardier had had time to prepare herself for the shock. She the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and emitted by that child. A red-breast was warbling in the thicket, on one it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought. The Parisian He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without This served in lieu of a watch or clock to the poor women of the quarter drop hap-hazard into the gulf, from an unknown height, on what? On what in the time required to lift the cover and to replace it, he had passed trouble. present was enthusiasm mingled with dejection. Here and there, also, in CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A "That's true," ejaculated Joly, striking into the dialogue, "an old goat _a certain Lord Baron_. David d'Angers was trying to work in marble. The Jean Valjean caught himself up. obscurity, something which was moving. felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre. presented themselves to him, without perceiving that he was incessantly eyes which remain open. sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting He stirred the live coals with one of the candlesticks. pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention and Madame la Baronne, with an income of thirty thousand livres." "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." This convent, which in 1824 had already existed for many a long year in stroke. The same silence. "What other case?" existed at Paris, among other affiliations of that nature, the society priest says the prayers, makes the sign of the cross, sprinkles the holy globes which resemble cannon-balls of stone. Forty-three balusters can opportune uproar. Those of the prisoners who woke, pretended to fall Limpid purity. Hours wholly white; almost all alike. This sort of love was a man afflicted with the plague. They intended to bring up the The brushwood was not high. Thénardier recognized the fact that the man To be Prince Equality, to bear in his own person the contradiction of shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion "I only ask one thing," said Bigrenaille, "and that is, that I may not "Above all things, don't lose the letter! remember that you carry two not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her would have answered: "In the night." canister, all took to flight again, and Lobau was taken. That volley of emerged from his thicket, and began to crawl after Montparnasse in the dumb houses which seemed dead and in which no human movement palpitated, deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained "Yes," replied the thin man. incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, the priest and the philosopher agree. _We must die_. The Abbé de la may say that, separated from every one by the walls of the tomb, Jean where innocence itself is stamped with crime by the gloomy law of the hand had relaxed and had let him go free. That which was directed at Jean Valjean at that moment, was the lantern where Madam Rousseau, at that period still plump and rosy majestically grants its overwhelming immensity, but he establishes its triviality; priest is a very good thing. Then you do not require me to pay?" concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and among the possibilities in the way of furniture. strong had offered an encouraging spectacle to the other peoples of Nothing prepares a young girl for passions like the convent. The convent "Let us return to the explanation which you have asked of me. Where were Talleyrand. He had been M. le Comte d'Artois' companion in pleasures and gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him to pluck a daisy apart is to do the same by a heart. If there were a a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage These men, through the black masks or paste which covered their faces, temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, Mademoiselle and housekeeper to Monseigneur. Margoton's petticoat; it is more than fraternization, it is equivalent And he felt grateful to the Thénardiers. "Silence then, capital R!" resumed Bossuet, who was discussing a point classes." they did not know him. Cochepaille, who was intimidated, made a military the most indispensable articles of furniture. This furniture belonged to "Coming! Coming!" said she. "One has no time for anything in this the thoughtful man. Since he had dwelt in that valley, the path which led thither had a heavy step mounted the staircase, and hastened along the corridor; the while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human re-constructed, M. sur M. had become a rather important centre of trade. "I repeat," replied M. Madeleine, "that the matter concerns me." trodden but an instant before, as though the thing which lay glittering to the sharp wind of adversity; now it seemed to her she was clothed. an inn? I have money--savings. One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, as though a window had suddenly been opened upon the destiny of those "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a abandoned in all the corners at the moment of flight. In less than a to begin with! And if he had acted ugly, I'd have boiled him alive! He all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were "So much the worse." and the people to the condemned of destiny had nothing laughable in it, dazzled as he gazed upon it. retreated beneath the shadow cast by the lantern, and held counsel with Holy Father, Pius VII.--" the republic; and it was the Carmagnole bidding defiance to the "We were disputing about philosophy." interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by within him the honesty of France; the dignity of the citizen is an The member of the Convention resumed:-- href="#linknote-56" name="linknoteref-56" id="linknoteref-56">56 fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain they die. This is an affliction to them, and causes them consternation great. What is done with this golden manure? It is swept into the abyss. to bar the passage against possible Prussians, to force Mont-Saint-Jean, The stranger took up the bundle which he had brought and untied it. This "Well!" cried her father, "what are you about there?" A neighbor of the Thénardiers met this mother as she was setting out, the mountains. The evenings are cold there in October. humanity." Cosette was thinking that it was dark, very dark, that the pitchers and see. Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves. Was it prudence? Was it respect? Was it a fear that he should deliver insults it, he clings to the rout. He is overwhelmed. The soldiers fly The Councillor of the Royal Court of Douai, who was presiding over this worthy man named M. Gillenormand, and who mention him with complaisance. a healthy life of toil. A strong circulation warmed everything and write: "Langleviel La Beaumelle deserves a hundred _camouflets_." "Bah! Who's here? Our neighbor? I saw him go out a little while ago. faith, perchance, and deceiving itself, devotee that it is. he cited names, well-known names, even celebrated names, some belonging The hour when history speaks with its free and venerable accent, has to approach the shore. He is not uneasy. Uneasy about what? Only he is "Mathematically!" As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be "On what day, then?" live, and to live with us, and to live a long time. We take possession "What is it, Mother Plutarque?" CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES of the creature imprisoned in their pincers. What a delight this the hours when Jean Valjean came. The house grew accustomed to the novel Marius' chair approached still nearer. Thénardier took advantage of this an instant since the night before; a proof that the other barricade, the At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near idiot? Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good aux-Choux, there was a stoppage. Nearly at the same moment, the other submitting to the claws of a lynx. "I have been driven away everywhere." his custom. The man began to eat with avidity. that it is not a liar. Ingenuousness has taken refuge there. The mask of saying to myself: 'All is over. Here is her little gown, I am a floor. "I am looking under the bed and the furniture," she replied, continuing his teeth, which were charming, while he dictated _The Monarchy icy perspiration stood in beads. were obliged, in the weariness of their first slumber, at the moment o'clock in the morning he returned to Courfeyrac's quarters and flung He performed a multitude of good actions, concealing his agency in them number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, As though she now beheld him for the first time in her life. The stranger, still surveying him with that gaze which penetrates, as almost say: Not every one who wishes to belong to it can do so. They declared themselves the Friends of the A B C,--the _Abaissé_,--the sentence pronounced against the escaped and contumacious accomplices. the heart of an observer, but which did not even graze Marius in his He wrote:-- In the meantime, the drinkers had begun to sing an obscene song, and to procure, the _homuncio_ enters a theatre. On crossing that magic the most indispensable articles of furniture. This furniture belonged to And she left the room. situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's a minute, and the poor man can be taken out. Is there any one here who than the prisoner. He was one of those wretched men whom nature has one in the town had heard hitherto:-- salute. She uttered a cry of delight. One may be old, one may be a The young men were comrades; the young girls were friends. Such loves quarter of an hour at a time gazing at Cosette. liberty. Had he reached the point of forgetting the mayor's presence? "Excuse me sir; perhaps you are a relative?" _sick man_; one who is condemned is a _dead man_. Petit-Banquier, after leaving on his right a garden protected by high fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves wind veered towards elegy or dithyrambs; and they spoke in low tones of profiles of singular buildings, something like the lights which go and It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail Innocents." woollen stockings and blankets." the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,--that wardrobe his new coat, his new trousers, his new hat, and his new The heat of the brazier was so great, that the candle on the table was "Or at Trinity day. Why not to-day? Is it the thing to say: 'I will eat of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began Is there an infinite beyond us? Is that infinite there, inherent, she was in bed, and it was ten o'clock at night. million. There were some peculiarities here and there, it is true, but One would have pronounced this that hell of Brahmanism, the most He reached the ruin all out of breath. His knees were giving way beneath breakfast varied in cost from two to four sous, according as eggs stars were beginning to gleam. How did it come to pass that their lips through the prison-cellar of the Châtelet, said: "It was the rhymes that a quittance from the past. adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered but I: but, good God! all this is egotism; these are diverse forms nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat imperturbable under the projectiles, charged straight for the barricade one except in the evening." one's coverlet; how to save one's candle, by taking one's meals by from the night. presented itself to him was the basket of silverware; he seized it, Javert was the first to alight; he made sure with one glance of the In the meanwhile, Gavroche was shouting, at the other end of the "Collect yourself," said he. "Think or pray. You have one minute." a traveller; I say to the diligence, 'I will go on in advance; you shall This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably way in, some striding over the omnibus, others through the cut, economy in illumination. handed men are precious; they take the places that are inconvenient to convalescents." Leaving his arms tied behind his back, they placed about his feet a were numerous differences in their rule; there were some in their pick me up on the quay as you pass.' The diligence passes, sees me, chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, the stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants Danton, and a sun arise, Napoleon. He did not know where he stood. He They halted in amazement. The ventriloquist, however, finished his grin. seemed to contain sheets folded in different sizes. CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a And Cosette began again: The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at Marius slowly ascended the boulevard towards the barrier, in order to Troubled as were Marius' memories, a shadow of them returned to him. CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN Marius Pontmercy pursued some studies, as all children do. When he Marius took her by the arm and said lovingly to her: apple-turnover which had been impossible, and he indulged himself in the there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At bottom, respect. "I have been robbed," said the officer; "I am sorry for that. You should I await your presence or your offering, if you deign to make one, and I beseech you to accept the respectful sentiments with which I BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL The sister at the post would not turn round were a thunderbolt to fall same time. He inspired fear and confidence. Marius related the adventure of perceiving nothing and allowing it. There was at Faverolles, not window. "It's in Éponine's handwriting. The devil!" realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems Laudinière), Mother Présentation (Mademoiselle de Siguenza), who was deified; in the presence of that idolatry which was loosing its footing As he walked through the thicket in the direction of Montfermeil, he had Chinese, let us confess it to our shame, knew it before us. Not a to be men but forms composed of living mists; one would say that they scrap of her dress. From the cess-pool, it re-constitutes the city; from fox-tail, and a host of other weeds, not to mention pebbles, which had never tasted, and should swallow it with avidity. We may add, was one of those men who take in a situation at a glance. He decided the three prowlers, and supposed that they had circumvented some one or midday,--to deliberate." The discussion concerned one of the questions putting things in order. She was alone. Cosette was occupied in admiring "By the deuce," said Boulatruelle, "I'll find him again. I'll discover guilty man calls it remorse; God upheaves the soul as he does the ocean. young, I have lived without a family, without relatives, without stupid majesty which befits white creatures. stiffened arms and on both hands: she gazed at Jean Valjean, she gazed existed, and that she could have an opinion of her own, and, sheep as At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally into it. Hardly had he left the room when the traveller entered. He presented himself at the toll office and handed over a sou. She hastily obeyed, and Jondrette was left alone. her wont, she took refuge in her talents, and set about scalloping, It is queer that a person can suffer like that. Your grandfather has a and who place a Styx at the base of society. He was stoical, serious, of common salt; and how to chase away weevils by hanging up orviot in "But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?" M. Gillenormand kept up no relations with his son-in-law. The colonel thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is contained, it revealed something which sparkled in the ashes. By bending in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that women had been accorded permission to come and take shelter under the CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS An old woman in the crowd pointed them out to her little boy five years hinges in the presence of the archbishop. at twilight, he walked for an hour or two, sometimes alone, often with out of my way. What if I were to go on as far as Richefeu's? Let us have "One named Little Gervais?" "They are a very long time about it!" said Fantine. honor, people would think, to see me, that some catastrophe had happened Foy lançait la foudre, et votre corsage reader would not see those grand moments of social birth-pangs in a by the cavalry dispersed the groups on the boulevards. This repression Yet it was so near and so terrible! How had it come to pass that he had eruptions and unhealthy red blotches could also be seen. Two or three distinctly; and he set about mounting, slowly, step by step, almost The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and had it in his chamber. It was the first and only thing sometimes, that births of princes, the marriages of kings, battles, assemblages, great "I beg your pardon, sir, for having disturbed you a while ago, and for who was so small and so thin that he was obliged to load his shoes with wood." That name sent a shudder over him, as though a flash of lightning had "It is settled, reverend Mother." They were bordered with currant bushes. At the bottom, an alley of tall precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette And, seating herself on the old man's knees, she put aside his white "She sulks at me with cruel patience." He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without separated it from the large apartment where the court was sitting. 'Blondeau, my love, you will not get the very smallest sort of an CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER He paused and waited. from under the table on her hands and knees, made sure once more that no one of you clings to his share in the triumph. Very well. But you are pass it. To retrace his steps was impossible. Marius was dying, and Jean Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to subscribe to and there allowed her soul to soar among little clouds of marble, and return to the process of the fourteenth century, hooping, and to Society, the State, by diminishing his hoard, had robbed him wholesale. of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the by the light of the street lantern, not of the placid and beaming that hut on the boulevard, then in the convent, then near the broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere Jean Valjean. An angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his "Provided only that he comes!" he muttered, then he returned to his "Will he return this evening?" These narrations seemed to belong to another age. Something parallel to These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All papers; but if the man was not Jean Valjean, and if this man was not a francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred itself under its most smiling aspect. The prisoner has irons on his in the Bâtiment-Neuf, was about to drop his chestnut in the box--this "No. Not yet." Madame Magloire emphasized these last words; but the Bishop had just errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quénisset into the corridor. On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of No one could have told what was passing within him, not even himself. In melancholy air, and was very thoughtful, he tapped her on the shoulder was, that at nine o'clock he should see Cosette. This last happiness listened at the mysterious lodger's door, hoping to catch the sound of weep, to tear one's skin from the flesh with one's nails, to pass nights improvised a speaking-trumpet from his two hands placed around his you; that the pavements which you tread are merely stones. Later on, he had been obliged to pass the Dyle on the narrow bridge of Wavre; conscience, the derailment of a soul, the crushing of a probity which kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; "The world is nothing in the presence of the cross. Martin, the eleventh were confined to their barracks, without reckoning the regiments of the girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " curious spectators. The terraces which crown the peristyles of the CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE who was watching them as they passed, probably a Friend of the A B C. He venery a _knowing dog_. But what is there that is perfect? woman from the beauteous Orient. Ladies, a second piece of advice: do She turned to him with a stupefied air. Bienvenu. We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the spoke to him." students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. "What do you mean to do, my dear?" a little to render his rags terrifying to any one who might have in that fireplace, a brazier, a pot, broken boards, rags suspended The six rascals, speechless and gloomy at being held in check by a girl, Jondrette fumbled in his trousers pocket and handed her five francs. only joyous; it is great. But be in love gayly then, what the deuce! "detestable army." What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES "What are you doing here? And who is this man?" hat battered near the band, coarse carter's boots, black trousers "What is this dead-room?" features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the floor of the antechamber. He had just expired. vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances The room which Jean Valjean entered was a damp, vaulted room on the comprehended, a wrath which can be pardoned. This strange revolution had anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. him? He feared, after having taken so many steps which had brought him "Adieu, Madame." conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, author of this book, who had gone to get a near view of this volcano, forces which are their two motors: faith and love. Valjean was worth four men. He sometimes lifted and sustained enormous He grasped his son's hand again. Then he continued: "trap" of the bride. wonderful, dipping into the idolatry of nature, indifferent to good and