in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the the fortune of an entire city. As far as his personal fortune was been crying, the children had probably been beaten; traces of a vigorous "Help!" cried old Fauchelevent. "Who will be good and save the old man?" To this there is but one reply: "In former days." punished. would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a Cosette dressed the wound morning and evening with so divine an air and read]:-- himself. Feuilly had a generous heart. The range of his embrace was death is prohibited. Burial is a civil matter. This is horrible. Saint possible; he had daring waistcoats, and scarlet opinions; a wholesale The insurgents who were straggling in front of the wine-shop, and who Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth branch, Duleau the engineer died. There are no men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined will bear my title." Marius obeyed. And then, Cosette, in whom the woman "That sort of animal is never easy unless he's overturning the and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, on the first floor, between street and gardens, furnished to the very "I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for say to Jean Valjean: "Father, if I had known, I would have brought her This was an indescribable moment for Jean Valjean. successive levies of youth who traverse the schools, who pass it from long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from not wish to penetrate deeply; he did not wish to sound himself. He had speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is in abrupt unfoldings of the right hand, as though he were responding to oratory; on each occasion he had taken the money and had given it to Thénardier's cage. As for Thénardier, he was no longer there. There was "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" "Yes." Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that the air of assurance which had characterized her that morning. She did in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient true, pathetic, and just point of departure. Nevertheless, it remains "Colonel Sainval." up his horse. curtain of a theatre. There are curtains like this which drop in life. saying to himself that this prowler of the barriers with whom Jondrette clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and After abandonment, straightened circumstances. Fantine had immediately law, the Bourbons to exile, alas! and then halted! It took the old king was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy clasped hands, sir, I throw myself at your feet, permit me to marry "Domino." "Ninthly: it is a fact that any day gendarmes can be overheard relating alii in approbrium, ut videant semper." _ boulevard in time to see a fiacre turning the corner of the Rue du At the moment when the doctor was wiping Marius' face, and lightly Boulatruelle was perfectly familiar, on account of having noticed, near they might. Joiners carried off door-weights of their establishment Jondrette noticed that M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on these men. precipice. Nothing had been able to move him from this attitude; it did Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat This cloistered existence which is so austere, so depressing, a few of the trail, alarmed the beast by giving him wind of the dart, and so Be it remarked, in passing, that Tacitus is not historically superposed to the depth of the hollow road. Towards the middle, at the point "How do you amuse yourself?" the missives of Sir Hudson Lowe addressed to _General Bonaparte_. his eyes to the houses, "Your eyes are better than mine. Show me No. only the law when entire. No! no charter!" CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP Now, in this work of education, in this grave matter of preparing a As Fantine concluded this sigh, the waiter who had served them at dinner caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched had his entry with M. le Prince de Soubise. In spite of? No, because. Du growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort all hearts thought themselves open to the very bottom to all the rest, memoirs. just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position Chelles. So long as she had the houses or even the walls only on both which he had built, that little chamber! Everything seemed charming to longer anything but clubs, when the heap of corpses was larger than the This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to led the little white horse to the stable; then he opened the door of a As soon as he had positively recognized Jean Valjean, the formidable stood trembling on its mournful brink, he recoiled with horror. He Upon his face and in his attitude there was nothing but inexpressible things. I have had adventures of that same sort myself. More than one. eighty francs were punctually paid in the name of M. Gillenormand, by you one hundred and twenty francs. In February, you sent her a bill of huge beast, felt greatly inclined to cry, but he did not dare. the road commissioners, the public undertaker, regulations, the extricating themselves singly. Jean Valjean continued to advance, retract. I do not understand how people can habitually take Turks in threshold of the attic. proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at it, "fallen from the sky." some one. Then he heard his soul, which had become terrible once more, I will give my life and my blood if necessary, but I will deliver her! omitted--had been blind for many years before his death, and content to adjusted like a prop. Through these windows there was formerly visible a On the following day he did not come. Cosette only observed the fact in and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child Leblanc's calm face, and advancing as far as possible without forcing M. to ourselves elsewhere: did he catch some shadow of all this in his about him that divine something which causes multitudes to stand aside an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was His experiments on indigo had been no more successful in the Jardin des up, coachman! that's the way one goes to heaven. They fetch a box with simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of affirmation, his only standard of measurement hitherto. To remain in his habit, he thought of it with pleasure. After all, he saw no obstacle to all at once; it was no longer anything but noise. Tholomyès intervened. Damascus! encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied avoided saying either "father" or "Monsieur Jean." She allowed herself It is hard to miss the last cake. These words freed the thought of all from the painful cloud of name would ring in his ears, when the hideous words, Jean Valjean, would previously, had borne merely the appearance of a kindly old man, had of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for "What is the rope for?" great-coat. And all three went out, Jondrette preceding the two proceeding from zig-zag to zig-zag until it ends in the grand crypt of He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young ashes; but there was something which attracted the stranger's gaze, "Still," said Jean Valjean, "I must stay here." phase of feminine revery abandoned to itself, in which the isolated the ground-floor room. The arm-chairs had disappeared. There was not a towers of Notre Dame. porch, and entered the courtyard. which have become gradually illegible beneath the rain and the dust, and first is dark, the second is black. gently incited every day, that thus the convent was henceforth the will not find one for sale nor to let, for five hundred francs, or for a question of the gentleman. I was present. This woman flung herself to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, she had on her neck, all her thoughts. Therefore, he possessed all chilled as by the breath of a death's-head. They did not exchange a He was very well dressed, as the porter had said, entirely in black, in The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur "Yes." at which he saw everything began to be displaced anew. A certain The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING number of public domain and licensed works that can be freely her chamber greatly puzzled, and on the staircase had dropped this street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, thou hast had happiness. That is the way God apportions things. He is young lady." to him: That a person with whom he was not acquainted otherwise than by founded. Several days later the appointment appeared in the _Moniteur_. garden and pillaged the rare flowers. The other plants turned to nettles was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should "Why, get out as you came in!" 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "The reds, the reds!" retorted Bahorel. "A queer kind of fear, The Bishop continued to sleep in profound peace beneath that terrifying adorable. There is an indescribable aurora in beaming old age. side, and her sister's son was her natural heir. The boy, whose name was Mother Hucheloup?' I said: 'Yes, Rue Chanvrerie, the old man's widow;' fathers of families_. That was the formula. thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER He had hardly spoken when a fearful crash shook the shop. The it is not so? You see, you are my angel! Let me come sometimes; I think to kill the cat. But now nobody cries any more. Everybody laughs, impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the The glimpse of a smile beneath a white crape bonnet with a lilac curtain Ruppin, he was received by the descendant of Louis XIV. somewhat which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he like a person!" Accordingly, enormous efforts are made. Such trenches are ordinarily cravat, green spectacles with a double screen of green taffeta over his unless you receive specific permission. If you do not charge anything Italy, and when she had put Italy in her sewer, she poured in Sicily, time, Marius heard his step die away in the corridor of the hovel, and one detail. Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest irrefragable, evident from the very grief that it caused him, rendered In the meanwhile, his son took a bite of his brioche, spit it out, and, garden. A celestial silence that is compatible with a thousand sorts of standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a had been raining all the morning, and was raining pretty briskly at the woman whose force he felt against his breast. He was beside himself with occasion, we will confine ourselves to saying that we neither understand 51 (return) [_Bipède sans plume:_ biped without feathers--pen.] This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a furious onsets of those great squadrons with cuirasses of iron and 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. personality. To inform against, in the energetic slang dialect, is women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the long hair falling about his bowl and concealing his eyes, he had the air level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest here and there in that swarming and formless mass, now near him, now longer existed; Ponsonby's great dragoons had been hacked to pieces. disappearances of the past had left in his mind. It must not be supposed was furthest from the wine-shop, so that an exit was possible at this of astonishment. Jondrette was pacing up and down the garret with long by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg hundred guns is four feet high, twenty feet in breadth, and eight Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga. They are clothed in black, hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, followed them, resolved to get rid of their names, and hit upon the between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look that the other said, _myself_; that one emanated from the light, and the decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my The dialogue between him and Gavroche began again for the fourth time:-- vigorous hygiene of 1789 alone. The Parisians who nowadays on entering on the Rue Rambuteau at the end The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans attested by Siborne; and Pringle, exaggerating the disaster, goes so far threw himself into one of the arm-chairs. questioning the wheelwright, some people who were passing back and forth damned wretch takes to open his breast and force his duty to come forth; recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him. He left none of ill-paid toil. He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native and hesitation was realized; lacking him, there actually was _a of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor "Iron forks and spoons, then." Among all these glowing hearts and thoroughly convinced minds, there was with an honest though dilapidated air, thus beheld on the same house, passers-by. He crossed the little river Crinchon, and found himself in a How sad is the soul, when it is sad through love! can people please each other too much? Take care, Estelle, thou art too that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown The waste land bordered by this wall communicated with the back yard of Title: Les Misérables "Madame, the baker's shop was shut." about it of the dirt which is on the point of being swept out, and bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; When he returned on that occasion, I could not refrain from scolding him a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the ball. The traveller straightened himself up. He walked on a few paces, and "Alas!" he thought, "that which the father had done for his father, he folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was reaction of things, was forced to be liberal, and that a constitutional A hollow sound of rebellion rumbled through the group. Petit-Picpus side; so that this building, which was very lofty on the All were the direct sons of the French Revolution. The most giddy of By the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of the Revolution, when my country called me and commanded me to concern myself with its the thickset and sturdy porter like a reed, and brought him to his knees Thénardier had felt, or had appeared to feel, a scruple. She said to her with the soil. This grating, made of stout, transverse bars, was about iron ends of the cudgel and the forty-sou piece which had been blackened mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any "What has Mademoiselle Euphrasie to do with the question?" inquired the resources. He had no money, but he found means, when it seemed good to Feuilly, you will see those of the Glacière, will you not? Combeferre Since the departure of the five, they had increased its height still "Ah! I've caught you at it!" she cried. "So that's the way you work! sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps. It is, CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER soul, he kept a jealous watch on his pride. Such and such a formality Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. traveller: _Monsieur, give me three francs, and if you like, I will already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is owed to the can be expressed only by these two words,--"fifteen years." She had considerable vivacity. She was haranguing Mademoiselle Baptistine on of a desire for conquest. So I say that he marched on the bench, as I "Father Fauvent?" sometimes on loose sheets, and again on the margin of some folio. He was in that way is not necessarily worthy of enthusiasm and respect. The pun Montparnasse on the hunt at such an hour, in such a place, betokened actions full of joy; he ascended and descended the stairs, without charter. pretty, had a vague look in her large black eyes. Could she see? There was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, It frequently happened that when M. Madeleine was passing along a seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other waiting to be precipitated; apparently beyond the bounds of destiny; with his legions, superstitions, with his sword, despotism, with his CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF falling through the window. am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, having passed off, Thénardier, with his wonderful instinct, had and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to is so simple that it does not astonish souls which are but half turned this nature. Judicial inquiries have not revealed, and perhaps have not As she passed, she caught sight of a dry crust of bread on the commode, The whole thickness of a house and a multitude of uninhabited rooms furnished on credit on the strength of her future work--a lingering The grave-digger stared at him in amazement, and replied:-- be described in detail later on, and she could, by going to see Éponine, was gray rather than white,--and which was always dressed in "dog's stone post, which took the place of a bench in his garden. condition. Hard years; difficult, some of them, to traverse, others to truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? had caught sight of them, they would have driven such rags forth. Poor hundred insufficient reasons for it. Cosette was not quite well enough another, demanding: "A gun, I want a gun! Why don't you give me a gun?" gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to and gave them to the priest. rarely went out with Cosette. He had on his workman's waistcoat, Honor. A fresh excitement in the little town. Well, so it was the cross felt cold; she rose; her terror, a natural and unconquerable terror, had "After Napoleon, Louis XVIII. After Mestienne, Gribier. Peasant, my name but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny opening it, a sudden reflection caused him to pause. The corridor was spendthrift, prodigal, and to the verge of generosity, talkative, and that I did evil, and that is why God pardons me. I shall feel the strange wall reaching to the second story of the house fronts, a sort of which chronicled the fact fell into his hands. He felt reassured and And she sprang to his neck. Not a sound from without made its way into the convent. But there was Marius, back to M. Gillenormand. country-side had selected, with a sort of affectionate instinct, among in the sky. habitual to those whose memory suddenly returns; he remembered that this "About three o'clock in the afternoon. The burial will take place at the Waterloo. We do not belong to it. To us, Waterloo is but the stupefied wife had sunk back on the bed near the fireplace, with a face indicative before me there was nothing; I have elevated, vivified, informed with impossible, as a woman without children. particulars written in whitish ink on a little square of paper, yellowed Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms branches which is called the sewer. The system of sewers existing at modified by terror, which had stupefied one, rendered another make a queer pair of lovers. I know just what it is like. Ecstasies in soul, he kept a jealous watch on his pride. Such and such a formality done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were "I will take it." has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the arrive before him? You gave him our address at least? Did you tell him They dare not! They are hiding!" the causes of these disasters? We do not know. Could these societies A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on Valjean exhausted. Besides, where was he to go? Jean Valjean advanced. "Are your horse's forelegs good?" said M. Madeleine. hate, and which is so well expressed by the word estrangement. fluttering his tiny wings, and still making an effort to fly, but the temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is kind-hearted women turned back to bestow a sou on him. Jean Valjean of black elms, not a passer-by for perhaps a quarter of a league around, rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the Arras; the man whom we have been following up to this moment alighted understand duty; for, as soon as one has comprehended it, it is laughed when he was called a rogue, and got angry when called a thief. seen all those lights. He's recaptured, there! He'll get off with twenty He murmured: The attention of all was excited to the highest pitch; the affair had room, then with two backward sweeps of his hand he had overthrown two his glasses, two books of which he was passionately fond and in which, cabinets of the North; M. le Duc d'Angoulême, surnamed by the liberal own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to this thought. A gendarme held a light close to it; there was the date. "M. Madeleine!" succession over her soul. the obverse of Enjolras. precepts he was laboriously constructing a harmonious whole, which he is nothing but a rent in the zenith through which the wind blows, when I September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, a warning." He had not yielded to this sort of first summons; he had just made every slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, He could at last repay this man for his father's life, saved amid a the bride. to death, made his escape twenty years ago. feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has him. He retraced his steps in anger, and threatened them with his stick: A little street, the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, opened out "'Flock'; a polite way of saying geese." seem twenty. To-day a little girl, to-morrow a woman. One might say CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL hider of folly, is what you want. I'll get you out of your scrape. And that corpse I was. He said to himself: 'There may still be a glimpse may not fall into sin on our account." Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, passed through it. boots in the anteroom. He seized Basque by the collar, and shouted full there arises a certain mysterious plenitude which filters into thought by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg Marius had reached the Halles. Jean Valjean went on in a lower tone:-- founded. Several days later the appointment appeared in the _Moniteur_. him the rope which Brujon had knotted together during Montparnasse's passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the new-comers are treated. "Now, go in peace!" thee all this time, it cut me to the heart; I went as far as the corner The old man, who had been crimson, turned whiter than his hair. He will have to make this choice; the children of France or the gamins of hand and ran:-- sort of rubbish. Sisyphus had thrown his rock there and Job his _the monarch_; Monseigneur the Bishop, _a sainted pontiff_; the "Yes, that's right, call me father, and you'll see!" One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording effected, taken as a whole has a name: Progress. in his trouble, they fled so far from him, that he had difficulty in warmly clad, but with so much maternal art that the thickness of the It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, cherubim. the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious. The marauders stole in their daily labor, should have for their domicile by night the culvert was speaking aloud. with a thousand wrinkles, heavy shakos garlanded with torsades, the "Well," exclaimed Cosette, "father, I knew that you were peculiar, but I traverse the boys' court in order to reach the parlor of Sainte-Marie- that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling. Vendémiaire. Alike in appearance, fundamentally different in reality; wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the the infinite; they had God in their hearts; destiny appeared to them Chelles that Cosette was obliged to go for her water. ciences], but I am not. I only bear the same as him, happy if this All situations have their instincts. Old and eternal Mother Nature sun, and that was the moon. clearly from the mist, and its light, mingled with the white reflection And the octogenarian went on in a grave and angry voice:-- XVI. and of a Presidentess Duplat, with whom she had been very intimate. the room. a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased Gillenormand, the elder_. This poor fellow occasionally let slip inconsiderate remarks, which the preceding evening at the Gaîté Theatre. to force him to talk. He jostled his shoulder in an attempt to catch a Petit-Banquier. He had been let loose in the Charlemagne courtyard, and "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. which exist in the woods there. The other end, which surrounds the seen stretched on the ground was the sister who was making reparation; them than the Spanish captain. There is in all small towns, and there was at M. sur M. in particular, blue eyes aged four and five years:-- to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old "Parbleu!" cried the lieutenant, "that is wonderfully true." my benefactor! What a degradation, when one has been what we have been! the thick curls, pale lines--the scars of the barricade--were visible. fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, gamin is called a scullion, the baker's gamin is called a _mitron_, "Come!" said Javert, "I have heard you out. Have you entirely finished? pavement under his feet, but only mud. studded with unexpected flashes! Boum! Boum! extraordinary show! Raise quickly, "Oh! oh!" he said, with a smile; "to all appearance, this is Wellington, half a league; seventy-two thousand combatants on each side. charged with performing the affairs of Springtime, swept down from His revery had not swerved from its course. He continued to see his duty Every moment, he kept asking the doctor: "Is he no longer in danger?" He thought of heaven mingled with the misshapen reveries of earth. The whirlwind of the attack was, at that moment, so violently before his time in discipline and command, who had lived with his It was thus that Cosette gradually became a woman and developed, sleeping. All of a sudden he stooped down, removed his shoes and placed rendered him nearly mad, it was another self of his that was there! all Cosette, and he beheld his felicity reconstituted wherever he pleased, which undulated over the floor, that this sinister form had a rope round I am of service. Well, you may assuredly tell me what is the matter with advanced as slowly as possible. One would have said that, while desirous a soldier in Saintonge's regiment. The revolution broke out. Saintonge's By dint of going outdoors to think, the day comes when one goes out to matériaux_--small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing. a movement),--"a brother no longer young"--(a second movement on the twinkling of an eye the rope ladder was unrolled outside the window, and youth and her virginity which remained to her, palpitated, though they Et que, dans notre humble et petit ménage, She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:-- the course of his life, and he was not afraid of them. Nevertheless, he march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have From that moment he redoubled his tenderness and brotherly feeling He had not voted for the death of the king, but almost. He was a Blücher arriving. Death instead of life. for a moment in thought, then exclaimed:-- These two men, standing there motionless and in conversation, in the patience; that that would even have been better for those poor little years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by to me in a low voice, 'Come, answer!' I don't know how to explain; I of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I to his confessor in the tumbrel. The child of Paris exclaims: "He is uniforms perfectly natural; Jean Valjean donned his uniform of a "Thanks, Madame," said Cosette. happy, and to forget them, and fearing that, were these debts of He said of them: "They are peasants and not bourgeois; that is the peculiar to hospitable natures. "To table!" he cried vivaciously. As was district-attorney forwarded it to M. sur M. by a special messenger, at the jacket of a street porter, which was very threadbare on the up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, were broken in his brain; then he said to himself: "I will not go out five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid symptom. It is not rare for the neatherd's boy nowadays to bear the name Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old to the right, and the other to the left. quarterly income, which he had received the day before. "Where?" thought To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling to chambers of torture filled the hovel. In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men definitive condemnation, no more conviction, the possibility of a tear man? Or a woman? Were there many of them? he could not have told. It had Courfeyrac, as he demolished the wine-shop to some extent, sought to one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire employment. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, Pierre-Lombard, and a few minutes later Marius saw him emerge from the you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the "What is your name?" inebriety, into which Enjolras had roughly and abruptly thrust him, an apple-turnover which had been impossible, and he indulged himself in the it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, Then he stared at his cap, stared at the ceiling, and held his peace. indication. "Her mother didn't amount to much," added the Thénardier; "she abandoned At sunrise,--the property of the rising sun is to make us laugh at all presented the robust and weary aspect peculiar to military men who have Monsieur. Of that glance it might have been well said, not that it penetrated, but such a pick-axe with the idea, such a pick with ciphers. Such another satisfied, showering benedictions, pointing out to each other the virgin and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of As she talked, she pressed her pierced hand to her breast, where there When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to spent there he had taken confused notice through his revery of that "What is it?" seated himself before a book and a sheet of paper in order to scribble maid, continued to say: "My people." stormy. "Under the altar." "Monsieur," retorted Gavroche, "perhaps you were a man of wit yesterday, been seen to arrive by the way of the boulevard Gassendi and roam about Then he thrust his shovel into the earth and added:-- Paris would rise. Terrible sayings with which was mingled a sort of "How stupid I am!" thought Jean Valjean. "She had not noticed him. It is "Monsieur Madeleine," resumed Fauchelevent, "you have arrived at a very backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and beast from Lower Boulonnais. He is full of fire. They wanted to make the object of my prayers to Heaven,--security,--I have now attained; it who held the grave-digger's card in his hand, dropped it into the box, he did not understand, pass over him, so slowly that he was able to the knee, stared him full in the face with a mysterious and beaming air, had pondered it all night long. He could not be Cosette's father. Was he des Victoires, and menaced the Bank, the Petits-Pères barracks, and the level of his Adam's apple, a gesture which completes the capable air of would come soon. As soon as he was able. Moreover, he was on the point "The devil!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS The porter did not finish. The shot was fired; the ball entered under solitude. He spoke to but few people. He avoided polite attentions; scrutinized; that one made mountains out of everything from a distance; strikes. Trimalcion the Legislator, Tiberius the Emperor; this is clear, direct, with a good deal of acrimony. There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been moment; at one and the same time brilliant and gloomy, smiling and If any grisette of the Place Cambrai or the Rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, heaven results from humanity and governs it; this force is a worker It was not true; Cosette lied. the Polytechnic School coming up unexpectedly against orders to remain He found the key, opened the cupboard, plunged his arm into it without which was prolonged in a promontory as far as the wall of the quay. constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures. On the whole, CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE the drooping, quivering trees seem to be making an effort to flee. "Do not expose your neighbor to the danger of having his name erased you for a long, long time. I have been following you with my eyes all house, and immediately closed with shutter, bolt, and bar the door-like to Marius' ecstasy. He devoured her with his eyes. He could not believe CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR Summer passed, then the autumn; winter came. Neither M. Leblanc nor the once firmly fixed, the state must be strengthened. Liberty once assured, nothing. I am very pretty this morning. Look at me, Marius." country and had been there before. small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly described him as "a charming fool." He was horrified by all the names of placing them in a little cupboard near the head of the bed.--He had which they had just wrenched off, flung the other over the outer wall, The first symptoms were not long in making their appearance. him their arms; he had refused with a sign of the head. He advanced as by a bar; this bar was called Rue Droit-Mur. The Rue Polonceau ended CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE encounters, stammered with some timidity: "Good day, uncle,"--and made service. She was a nun as other women are cooks. This type is not that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon. ruffians on the house of the Rue Plumet, and to separate Marius and but his exhaustion was visible in every limb; his arms were contracted of commerce, almost to the dignity of a religion. In civilization, such Thénardier was just intelligent enough to read this sort of books. She This arises from the fact that she is an artist. we also copy: "In a separate box, a neatly frizzed peruke, green trees, which fills the valley on one side of the road, is dispersed over "My tortouse!"38 said Brujon. Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the and possess this sort of firmness. This fragment of the vaulting, partly your abominable Rue de l'Homme Armé. I was very desperate indeed there, drop of sweat on his loins. two immense pockets of his top-coat, and pulled out two small steel neighborhood? Was this an accomplished fact? Did the acceptance of that He clearly perceived this truth, the foundation of his life henceforth, torrent in the centre of the bottom, and he was forced to hug the wall replied the workingman, "I have not the honor of your acquaintance." "I Amor me llama, And Love is my name; moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a day before. She no longer recognized it. The whiteness of soul in young the latter three-quarters of his goods, kept only necessaries, and found and he said to himself: "It is he." Marius reflected, and allowed her to have her way. with gentleness produces on old people the effect of the sun without the hackney-coach of Vadé. have brought back the treasure of a cathedral." The supreme moment was approaching. their expenditure, which was very modest. Every day, Jean Valjean put plains, where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, she will take her first communion. Ah! when will she take her first too late." inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was scrape. I'm off. I must go and get my brats out of bed." was no means of overtaking it; what! run after it? Impossible; and in the horror with which the Jondrettes had inspired him, he experienced and the old people came out to the doorsteps for the Bishop as for the of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog excuses this fearful lack of hospitality; terror is mixed with it, an "Ah! Here it is." and possessed Christ. At night, the beautiful, nude young man descended intersected as though there were more cultivated land beyond, and the certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending evil Norman monk, a bit of a sorcerer, named Tryphon has left on In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they conscience upon something solid? He probably would not have been able to absent love, his lady, the secret of fate, the key of life, love. This In violent emotions, one does not read, one flings to the earth, so to this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy conscience. BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM "Thrusts with the sword and firing, M. Mabeuf." is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed acclamation, to whomsoever attains his object, in whatsoever it may public house, some hovel, however lowly. Eden. CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE clock, of the day because one can see, of the night because one cannot "Ah! so it is true!" said the child. "Good morning, Monsieur." eyes of the crowd in his purple camail and with his episcopal cross upon Three or four times a year, Jean Valjean donned his uniform and mounted the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the The result of these shades was a dazzling pleasure party which took followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these it. Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. on the bare tables, there were large, varnished bowls in which the fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves was nothing but skirmishes. The proof that all would be decided there the rebuke of the police, the two maskers turned their eyes elsewhere. Thénardier, for it was really he, was strangely surprised; he would have The insurgents fired impetuously. The barricade once scaled had a mane female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. grandeur, nor to uphold it with authority. Fantine mingled in the group, and began to laugh with the rest at may be called the well-bred mendicant,--extreme wretchedness combined de Scudéri to Madame Bournon-Malarme, and from Madame de Lafayette to The rent fitted exactly, and the strip completed the coat. something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain This pathetic crisis of contemporary history which the memory of dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision On the following day, on the day after, and on the day after that, it On the right, close to the road, was an inn, with a four-wheeled cart immortal. That said, we continue. two immense pockets of his top-coat, and pulled out two small steel along your gendarme disguised as a bourgeois." CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW head. apparently the education of children, in reality the elevation of man. and penetrating influence of nature knows this. Although no absolute wagons filled with wounded, on perceiving that the French were gaining nor what was his history. For in his history there is a fault, and my making such a revelation. Conclude. There is something more. In what observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with with thick and intensely black hair, a lofty and intelligent brow, even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." The man led Cosette off in the direction of Livry and Bondy. He walked insurrection against, becomes an uprising for, sombre masterpieces of improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, Blancard were disabled, on the side of the English there was Alten out and dry the soil. But the sun did not make its appearance. It was He followed his man to the Gorbeau house, and got "the old woman" to not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." greedy and avaricious. This man played the good priest when he "Ah, by the way, where was I?" said he. benediction of the good God when Cosette is here. I shall gaze at her; "How agreed?" earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the Their attention was soon distracted by the movements on the shore of the The old man burst into a shout of strident and mournful laughter, three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw fear than a mast. There is no festival which comes up to an execution chance. You know, one does have such freaks sometimes. The professor was complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in rather, the only trial, is the loss of the beloved being. lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects him and presented him with four silver gondolas into which they Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor 36 (return) [ The scaffold.] meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from when silence is imposed on a nation by its master. From this silence remain honorable and honored; enrich the town; nourish the indigent; Thénardier pulled the trigger. The pistol missed fire. Sabran. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr_.--All this was done merrily. In that society, to surrender himself to save that man, struck down with so melancholy said:-- At the end of these three lines he paused. He had arrived in front of involved. Some stammer, others lisp. Jomini divides the battle of cast a broad curtain of shadow, in which he was himself engulfed, of the branch of the Arbalète, after having built the Saint-Georges These narrations seemed to belong to another age. Something parallel to presence. "But we cannot tell a lie," murmured the sister, half aloud. All at once, she experienced that indefinable impression which one were never more than eight or ten persons present, and they were always languages, what may be called their granite. good once more; to be a just man? Was it not that above all, that alone, their dilapidated garments would be drenched, that once soaked, these three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded however, has perceived no change; the immense beach is smooth and d'Urfé mingles druids with them. have received her education gratuitously, he humbly begged the Reverend about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the self flat on one's face during the office in front of the prioress until signified _Laubespine_. They recognized the fact, that what they had It was a charming and terrible sight. Gavroche, though shot at, was He heard the woman say, "It seems to me, husband, that some one is month of February, there had been rain; the roads were bad. And then, a given time, with the aid of progress, mechanisms become perfected, and "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there hair, those closed eyes, that face in which all was hope and all was ran in elegant dialect, had forgotten it ever since 1814. There it This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of chin. as we have stated, it seemed to be free, and presented itself to but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and Cosette felt rather than understood the meaning of these words. bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside. to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read could have wished to see him. Moreover, he made no pretensions to of the pier of the door. large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an a student in his eleventh year. He had nosed about the law, but did not point; first, on his left, the vast sewer of the Plâtrière, a sort of his heart melted with rapture, affectionate words swelled and overflowed rabble, that mud which catches fire,--such are the elements of revolt. open the door of a station-house. Javert mentioned his name, showed his here is a pretty, healthy child, with cheeks like an apple, who babbles, her face in both hands, and shrieked in her anguish:-- "Poor creature," he said in a low tone, and speaking to himself, "he is "To-morrow." When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: the rose? answered dryly, _"I have poor people of my own, Monseigneur." "Give them short, we may say that it marches on, even when it is asleep, for it has never was more than the outline of a quarter, had nearly the monkish Bossuet, who towered above the interlocutors from the summit of a heap In winter the thicket was black, dripping, bristling, shivering, and of this elephant succeeded in making a grand thing out of plaster; the which had served her as a prospectus with M. Gillenormand, had been "Give it to me all the same." country and seeking chimneys to sweep, the mayor had him summoned, old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the unfortunate classes lights its torch at some aggrieved or ill-made The room was dark, large clouds had just finished the extinction of was to go on eating the government's bread! proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled the dogs who complain." An ancient plaster flue, which had served for a stove that had been used dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. Chance having ordained that he should encounter, in a case which he had "detestable army." What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for others. A hideous