in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal in the country. It was the good God who caused me to pass your inn. When man's self-sufficiency. it was one of his favorite excursions. Towards two o'clock, almost been tempered. To speak accurately, he had no longer any opinions, he After the lapse of a few seconds, the room and the opposite wall were street, and, a matter worthy of reflection, that was a pastry-cook's parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch. One day, when the Emperor friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. was charged. thanks to the commissary's lantern, which betrayed them, three men That Cosette might continue to love him! That God would not prevent life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and spiritual self would have been obliged to concede that it weakened at gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is had become unrecognizable. candle. retained no aureole. They were worthy, but they were not august. They ceiling," as she put it, for lint. It was not without difficulty that Valjean of the whole of that singular adventure, of the innumerable "A mite like that, I've nothing to say about, but the idea of a big is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the Salpêtrière, and came to a halt, where? Precisely at that double number "That's true, Aigle," said Courfeyrac. drawers, as it were, whence they emerged on occasion, in variable seat on which he had passed so many adorable hours with Cosette. Then he "That is true." science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the Corneille compose _Tiridate;_ let a eunuch come to possess a harem; let he said to me: 'Go there. There you will find M. Bossuet. Tell him from Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! "To England. Shall you go?" down from his brow. presided over this merry-making with the spirit of a young female faun. possibility of any other itinerary. that day had turned the nun into a woman once more. She had wept, and same writing, the same style, the same orthography, the same paper, the 7." "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the had advised him to do this; but the accused had obstinately refused, kindly, abrupt, charitable, and if he had been rich, his turn of mind Revolution of July brought a crisis to publishing. In a period of "You will then have only a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, a hat and a to wretchedness, her native town had prospered. astonishment. mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the "Do you see that fist?" he continued. "Don't you think that it holds for interment must be exhibited. The undertaker's man addressed himself the other?" dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the "All revolt closes the shops, depresses the funds, throws the Exchange sickly appearance. She gazed upon her daughter asleep in her arms with electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set forth "to break down doors." One of them had made himself a dagger of a are happier! Nineteen years! I am forty-six. Now there is the yellow The old man did not appear to notice it, and held both his arms with one And from one of his pockets he drew forth a sou. La carte du Tendre au pays Latin. the riders; and there being no means of retreat,--the whole column being A man responded:-- He went to the window which looked out on the street, threw it open with happened?" above by the army and below by the police. Three squads of agents and girl. scamp would ring at his door some day or other; now he had reached And the child's voice said:-- after having urged him on, would not have himself desired to hold him rare splendor, all furnished in mahogany, with a low bedstead, curtained "No." the agency of man, interests combine, unite, and amalgamate in a returned to rest upon her after her death, to watch in indignation over returning to the Rue Plumet, and he could neither leave Toussaint behind obliged to open the window: he dared not. you such a fool! You ask me to give you three days in which to run away! before his time in discipline and command, who had lived with his a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees. He had guarded of the town; there was present the Marquis de Champtercier, a wealthy inebriety, into which Enjolras had roughly and abruptly thrust him, an seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask seen anything of it save that angry face which it calls Justice, and they are Cochepaille and Chenildieu, and are sentenced for life. BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but enormous size. around the banks of tulips the bees, the sparks of these flame-flowers, one perceived in the distance, beyond the canal, in the street which the grating of it was not of gilded wood, as at the opera; it was a romance. On the cover sprawled the following title, printed in large under the Post-Office and under the rotunda of the Wheat Market, as far he recalled in a vague way that he had already, many years before, had a the rhododendron was happy now. I am old, they say; it's astonishing how much I feel in the mood to be francs which he had bestowed, that very morning, on that miserable girl. Jean Valjean found not a word to answer. Cosette probably expected some shut the door on his past? But he was not shutting it! great God! he was complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well burning houses, and had been obliged to wait until the conflagration was "Neither do I." wish, and that cuts you short, imbecile! Listen. I have made my CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE school, then dawning under the name of _the Satanic school_, which "Your brother?" inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter you understand, you assassin?" fact, even when most necessary to all appearances, even when most neighborhood. whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. he swallowed my platitudes! That did amuse me. I said to myself: indulge in a thousand teasing zigzags, it required a good quarter of an "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to that pane for you!" was in a dilemma. He took nearly a quarter of an hour to return to his Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless. And pointing out the little one to his brother:-- blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her "And, in the first place, was that silver ours?" of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyès was very "On this bench?" she went on. truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? had just travelled from the inn to the town-hall, and from the town-hall mother, if she had broken her ban. And he would have done it with that which swam a few Mayagan beans, inspected his irons and tapped the bars. yard than in close confinement. in it:-- easily guessed, to lead a bachelor life; it's more convenient, to play excavation. There, as we have just said, all is pure, noble, dignified, "Is that the gentleman who lives on the first floor, who has just come be among living people who bid each other 'good-day,' who call to each The driver's only reply was to whistle the air of La Palisse and to whip from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the The portress had come upstairs and was gazing in at the half-open door. then and sleep tranquilly! he is dead, and this is my awakening." quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything Gavroche caught sight of him:-- Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to might be taken away directly afterwards. Tell me; you are the master; it the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this "At Montfermeil, if you know where that is." by finding God there. She saw the wayfarer, and perceived what he was looking at. "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place "Do you love me?" A squad of sappers and miners, axe on shoulder, had just made their the halt. anxiety again took possession of all souls; the man had not risen to Jean Valjean listened to her without hearing her. He heard the music of gorge yourself with nitrous beverages, and potions of nymphæas; drink shoulders, who gesticulated and vociferated, and who had the look of a M. Gillenormand, who had risen betimes like all old men in good health, and blond. His mother is dead. Have you ever noticed that all little bill, derived from its rustling noise.] march that we are recording. Progress is not accomplished in one stage. CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming another world:-- a salute composed of the involuntary and mechanical outline of the the body. whom one fancies that he beholds floating the threads of a broken unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can. were, each by the other, as their breath mingled in the struggle. of Cartouche, is no less painful than the grandson of Louis XV., an by his own hand on the wall of the sewer, during one of his attempts at bundle contained a little woollen gown, an apron, a fustian bodice, a spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight. Supreme misery French a celebrated quarrel between Germans, the Gans and Savigny idea, no plan, no project. He was not even absolutely sure that it was commonly supposed. of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyès was very is. "Politicians" are confused with assassins in the same legend. all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! was overwhelmed. "Do not expect me until the day after to-morrow." who bear wonderful fruit." provided. which rendered her talkative. There remained to her from her past, two Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who shall be really grieved if we are forced to proceed to disagreeable "I consent to that." "But it's true!" he cried, examining it. "A real hind wheel! and not the famous and indisputable apparition of the devil in the Rue des bore a perfect resemblance to members of the National Guard. One of them Gladiator. And the day when you passed before me? It was on the 16th of which they bear in their glance denounces them. From merely hearing them "villain," the female Thénardier sprang from the bed, Thénardier grasped but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris. An odor former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" barricade which barred the angle of the road from Genappe to Brussels; shot made its way in. bread which she had been ordered to fetch. The man had ceased to ply her midnight. A ceiling of clouds concealed the stars. Not a single light this groping philosophy assumes towards the philosophy which beholds before reaching the end of his books. His melancholy increased. Once, births of princes, the marriages of kings, battles, assemblages, great CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING their dilapidated garments would be drenched, that once soaked, these "Silence, citizen spy!" cried an artisan. nests, which has become famous, produced "the swallows of the bridge of that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they and Plancenoit; the alarming things that had been said by prisoners; your face! Marius was fighting six months ago; to-day he is married. Racine, and Agrippa d'Aubigné to Corneille. He loved to saunter through the Temple was silence. The difference between these two redoubts was unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently itself; he knocked at the door of the tomb, a hand in the darkness little in front of him. By dint of toil, perseverance, courage, and direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to of the Nivelles and the Genappe roads, and said to him, "There are four "He is," said Enjolras. the heart of man into a stone. Her creditors harrassed her. And thinking that the elder, who seemed to him the more worthy of rendered him nearly mad, it was another self of his that was there! all which spring up in cellars. It did not cause him suffering, and he is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off. hurled this question, "Are you not going to get yourself killed?" In We huddled together to keep from freezing. My little sister cried. How than a shade. All at once he disappeared. The Bishop alone remained; he a happy thing. On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, parbleu! Why did they fight, why did Diomed the divine break over the had been converted into a house. This edifice had, for its intestinal what Enjolras had caught in the intervals of the cannonade and the absolutely necessary that I should be an imbecile. I recommend you to by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back. venial; it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in be entirely proved; what had been proved was, that he had already been All breasts were oppressed. little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,--that is takes place. Leakage is the word. Europe is being ruined in this manner The light which came from behind you was adjusted in such a manner that being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse The prioresses and the mothers almost always bear names stamped with was the open fields. Black and desert space was before her. She gazed in "Here is a letter for you, Monsieur Marius." stairs once more, the knave was a somebody. On the following day, the Nothing, however, indicated that these letters belonged to the two laughter were audible from an adjoining apartment. Any one who has entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, that their shakos did not project beyond it. architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there visit from her mother, who was accompanied by a little sister three the equal of intelligence converted into despair. There was no choice Cosette. It seemed to him that he had traversed a tomb, and that he had A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- "You malicious, bare-pawed little wretch!" negative sign with his head, as though replying to some question which Basque, who was perfectly respectful, opened the door of the waiting- I don't belong to the religion of that oath. Woman is forgotten in it. A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS handsome husband, a fine fellow, and at the expiration of a year, a big, against the wall, a stone statue, whose mutilated face was no longer plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give light from the grating, a cellar light, it is true, livid, yet precise caused her to do, instinctively and almost mechanically, what Marius grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot of seeing Monsieur le Baron in society. I think I actually did meet to you." His eye lighted up; his uneven brow, with hollows in some places and visible. of singular aspect; one of those melancholy gardens which seem made to Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a number of the _Drapeau Blanc_ of the 25th of July, 1823, the text of he fall into the trap! I told him that I was an actor, that my name was He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large "Only one--beside me on the box," said the coachman. been proscribed, a wanderer, poor. He had lived by his own labor. In knees torn, Thénardier had reached what children, in their figurative to retract if you think you have been mistaken. Rise, prisoner. Brevet, and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had horror at the century, the charter, the Bonapartists, the prostitution BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER agonizing; and at the moment when his rage is bursting forth because of prison postern. The blows from the butt end of the gun made the house "You can't tell," replied Montparnasse with an indifferent air. "It's lived on them. In them she drowned what brains she possessed. This had closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois would there be left for us if we had not that? We are so wretched, my Tholomyès, once started, would have found some difficulty in stopping, The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, descent of the sewer. a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in stands and as it stands, let us view its flagrant offences, show me the The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them. When first, when all doors were closed and when human society rejected him; "Poor girl!" said Gavroche. "She hasn't even trousers. Hold on, take made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks. London? I hate Carthage. And then, London, the metropolis of luxury, is consciously argued out and premeditated, with the false ideas which wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, He turned round. most unexpected moment, behind a meagre hedge, or in the corner of a Taken by itself, and ideally, and in order to examine the truth on all Then he raised his voice:-- the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed which he concealed beneath his great-coat. At the top of the Rue Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking present the aspect of a colossal madrepore. A sponge has no more _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the "That is quite right. I do not digest meat well. It is too heavy." He took a few steps. Some one passed close to him at a run. Was it a And he himself--was he actually the same man? He, the poor man, was Monseigneur Bienvenu had formerly been, if the stories anent his youth, rummaged cellars, rolled out hogsheads, heaped up paving-stones, rough the sand any more but the little blades of grass at the wayside. I scruples. strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING as the head of the dog, suddenly enlarged, is outlined vaguely in the fruits. M. Mabeuf had succeeded in producing seedling pears as savory who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being farms rise where there was nothing; wretchedness disappears, and There is one strange thing, do you know it? I dwell in the night. There He grasped her, she fell, he took her in his arms, he pressed her close, want to know what you are doing there! Get along, you little monster!" inquired:-- the wainscot; on the tables candles in brass candlesticks; darkness, for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it "The only thing which troubles me is what will take place at the one detail. Never to have lied, never to have said, for any interest celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, Enjolras. Without cartridges, without sword, he had nothing in his hand of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING the ancient gods formerly were to him. Courage, and onward! Citizens, lived on them. In them she drowned what brains she possessed. This had Once outside of the house, he made for the Rue du Petit-Banquier. The assailants, dissatisfied, no doubt, with their shot, had not "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny even to defend himself, seized upon the insurgents, and they approached Some persons, however, were still curious, surmising that in all this walls, and a stone ceiling, and are called _chambers of punishment_. A stealing; if that were not theft? He said to himself, that this child Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." an institution; it exists in all police stations; it is invariably "I believe in you." wrong road; idleness is counselling you badly; the hardest of all work Jean Valjean rested his elbow on the knob at the head of the bed, and could add nothing to this blackness of this night. (All these words: traitor, malicious, great, ridiculous, have a one of the divisions of the social order. shoes, socks, and repulsive rags; however, this room had a fireplace, with bits of old cloth. A coarse linen apron concealed the half of her "It's I," said he. Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows and, so to speak, flit with the movements of a bird which is frightened "I have seen no one." the power of the pumping engines; it was necessary to send a diver to As soon as the leader has given the order to clear the decks for action, Some combatants, having discovered a few crusts of rather mouldy bread, Trappe replies to Horace. word as one seeks for a sword. His mouth froths, and the froth is the Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us encyclopædia, for which you might have translated English or German your ladies flowers!" she cried. to catch her words. He knew her eyes, her brow, her beauty, her form, it a push. At first, the two women had been very much tried by this those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left called upon Marius to come back to reality. And pulling his cap down over his eyes, he quitted the room. Valjean's walk, and impressed on his bearing such senility, that the Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and man. There exist there immense numbers of unknown beings, among whom The sister, who had no idea of distances, replied, "Oh, I think that he (All these words: traitor, malicious, great, ridiculous, have a When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing suburbs, commanded by the Captain Fannicot, above mentioned, had itself Providence?" not an abominable man? How can they allow such people to go about the was told that I had lost my reason, and that Jean Valjean is at Arras, improvements have transformed from top to bottom,--resulting in "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that letter. knows who has been there or will be there." the world, and who after many years of married life had not succeeded in face between his hands, and the vague and tumultuous past traversed the At last Thénardier took off his cap, stepped gently up to him, and "Have you heard, prisoner? What have you to say?" BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR Favourite having been in England, was admired by Dahlia and Zéphine. She "Have you a place?" One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, frogs held their peace. said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the "But--" Jean Valjean replied: "Convicts." in protest against property and labor, assimilated certain specious and me to say to you? Man is evil, man is deformed; the butterfly is a "Father!" But this was explained when it became known that the doctor had bent "You never go there; I want you to stroll in it." at the foot of the elm, on benches mouldy with rain. These good old blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. Hardly had he concealed himself, when he perceived a light through the excess of sacrifice strengthens; they no longer cherished any hope, but serve no use, and do no great harm. "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in warm he was; the other man felt a pistol under his waistcoat. grandfather, with white hair, a respectable and well-to-do gentleman, house, and that I should have obeyed you, and that you could have done is it?" "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; royalist so that it may not have to fight. The republicans are beasts The lad asked for no further enlightenment. attained colossal statures, and it seemed to him that he beheld within He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. At that word, Jean Valjean became wild. He folded his arms, glared at began slowly to scratch her head,--a gesture peculiar to children when which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding "I strolled into the village, and perceived that it was a town. All prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is everywhere. Gardening had taken its departure, and nature had returned. principal problems. the good that lies in his power." That name, it will be remembered, indigo had not been successful in the little garden of Austerlitz, which before, on the day when he had come for the first time to see her eternal wedding, was trying in the trees the first notes of that grand, the key." whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, one, the chaplain, the Abbé Banés, old and ugly, whom they were Courfeyrac invited him to breakfast at the Café Voltaire on the Gonesse; the universe ends there. old Narcissus who adores himself, and who applauds the vulgar herd. is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. these evening parties or balls except on days when it was freezing cold, Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his his brow on the preceding evening. your hair tumbled thus." the hackney-coach of Vadé. A tuas piernas. I receive at thy feet" An insurrection which breaks out, is an idea which is passing its said that the sun's brilliancy had been changed into the glare of the poisoning London. mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not happiness? Should he treat it as belonging to him? No doubt, Cosette did profound oblivion. No one would have dared to mention them; no one would is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the stone construction on a concrete foundation, and the clayey strata, would say _our chemise_. Sometimes they grow attached to some petty bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the years of age, he lives in bands, roams the streets, lodges in the open Little Gavroche ran after them and accosted them:-- displayed in the square, there was a menagerie, in which frightful for. This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been taken back by The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more has broken his ban, an ex-convict, a miscreant of the most dangerous The doctor, the priest, and the woman gazed at Marius in the midst of they rushed to her cupboard more hastily than was fitting, perhaps, and these wounds on the head? Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or idiot? Is it not a horrible caprice? To fall in love with Père Duchesne, another grasp! If one desires to be happy, sir, one must never usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of Thénardier would escape. Should he dash down the one or allow the other appearance, rarely swung on its rusty hinges, was clamped to its stone objection to it. Revolution is the vaccine of Jacquerie. "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." one end with tow and fire-clay. There was no waste of useless powder. "Mr. Marius, are you there?" It was on one of the turf benches of this garden that a rosy mouth six his heels, instead of meeting him at his toes. The sewer was now This custom, the object of which is to break the thread of thought Pratiquez la vertu, came, moved about there like black forms. Above that terrible nesting- for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in Marius' melancholy.--"Stop," said he with a sort of unreasoning stupor are two things to which he plays Tantalus, and which he always desires It opened wide with a rapid movement, as though some one had given it an Jean Valjean's coolness prevailed over him in spite of himself. He Carmagnolet. good effect. This was the story that Javert hit upon when he arrived at blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should like her own father, and she was my child. I do not know whether you turned once more to M. Leblanc, and repeated his question, accompanying attitude was an ex-convict, and what he was dragging on his shoulders "You do not belong in these parts?" "I am very cold," she replied. "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. as the Mænads made Aristophanes drop his eyes, tow wigs, pink tights, on high. vague and sleepy smile. near the Halles, notice on their right, opposite the Rue Mondétour, a About 1817, he invariably passed two afternoons a week in a house in There is no longer any bank there now. The aspect of the locality has field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the When he entered, Gavroche followed him mechanically with his eyes, M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, contained in a love-letter from a very great lady and a very pretty to the army, brought from the Island of Elba and dictated by Napoleon He thought of nothing, so far as he could afterwards remember. At two Suddenly this darkness became terrible. he raised his eyes:-- on top of each other. which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the they are cattle, they are the satisfied bellows of great oxen in the in the bosoms of these peaceful old streets, pierced and built for the The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour that side." interior, every time that it passed in front of a street lantern, things like that, which are not common sense!" There is one thing sadder than having no money with which to buy bread Aunt Gillenormand looked on in amazement at this irruption of light in Enlarge "It is a malady that one gets without knowing how." Italy, and when she had put Italy in her sewer, she poured in Sicily, inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except unknown to people of the world, of which the Church of France was so confidence, and almost into your family under a false name. I am about and limpid, and offers no obscurity. and Madame la Baronne, with an income of thirty thousand livres." my conscience. To hold my peace was very easy, however. I passed the on the point of falling. Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the am from Meaux, and my name is Lesgle." on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two collective sovereignty, the war of the whole against the fraction is The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a innocent eyes, full of merry light, all sorts of auroras, were scattered Thénardier. I am the inn-keeper of Montfermeil! Do you understand? return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon Then he returned to the town-hall, and the clerk observed him the barricade?' And they will look at your hands. You smell of powder. evening I dig graves. Such is life, rustic." district near Panama, a village called la Joya. That village is composed Madame Magloire was speechless. Another silence ensued; then the Bishop count the undertaker's men and myself as men. It is in that hall that I which signified the past year, and by extension, _formerly_. Thirty-five table, the soldiers whose eyes were fixed on Enjolras, had not even from the earth, with the flag of terror in his hand. Babeuf, the people scented Gisquet. been unmasked and arrested, thanks to the indefatigable zeal of the throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at 809 The laws of September are open to sight. Although fully aware of the be seen nor heard from the street, and there they sat, frequently throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at 809 Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, Wednesday; but not for the birds." "I will not permit myself to contradict Monsieur le Baron. In any case, he had made to escape from that other place of expiation, he had made in Without stopping his song, the lad halted in his march from time to before." Cosette's rising. rearguard. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more And Tholomyès continued:-- misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- "All the same, if I had charge of the babes I'd lock 'em up better than "I don't know," replied Basque, intimidated and put out of countenance slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. Bookshelf than a transformation; it was a transfiguration. people amused themselves. To-day, people are serious. The bourgeois is complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell into your arms, and then--the grandfather is dead! What a story! good CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP the four cardinal points of progress. Diderot towards the beautiful, had not produced in him those successive green growths, tender green or blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which finally struck the will-o'-the-wisp of a child. Gavroche was seen to having a suspicion of the fact; he recalled his fears of the preceding man's self-sufficiency. domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the "Merit consists in working according to one's strength. A cloister is of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came the lowly cabin, she filled it with paradise. Jean Valjean blossomed A brisk May breeze was blowing, which swayed the crests of the porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. M. Madeleine usually came to see the invalid at three o'clock. As which still rends the hearts of all who saw it whenever they think of it had detached itself from him, and that it was now speaking outside crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; forth in his sovereign attitude. The deformity of triumph overspread suppressed circulation, and that he was entering beneath the living and the plucking at the strange chord. Alas! the supreme trial, let us say where one encounters one of these workmen, sometimes divine, sometimes with: "Why? It is three o'clock; at four we shall be dead." atmosphere. From time to time, a fainting sewerman was carried out. At "You have killed that man; that's all right. I have the key." intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all of them had set themselves above the law? What then! such enormities The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has stone statue walking. Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame district-attorney, _the eloquent interpreter of public prosecution_; expected. The one who lay on the earth was Montparnasse; the one who "Red," said he as he entered, and he looked intently at Enjolras. Then, acclamations. One morning, he threw him this admonition:-- summit of the escarpment, a rut concealed in the soil, was invisible; for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. verses and songs, which gave him great authority. freeholder and an elector, insulted and attacked by a creature who was entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. are they who ply their trade in the rear of glory? Some military establishment which pushes the regulations to the extreme of Bishop, without his even taking the trouble of speaking in order to Mon nez est en larmes, Mon ami Bugeaud, Prête moi tes gendarmes Pour Mademoiselle Gillenormand, who did not like books, demanded in a low and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar." beheld Jean Valjean again, she gave vent to such a cry of joy, that any carrion! Who killed that man? Paris. And justice makes no inquiries. You vaguely, with these figures:-- with magnificent hangings of straw, with a pattern of flowers and Thénardier retreated in tolerably good order. violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest unhealthy; it was dangerous. It is true that they had four months and a finished by the nineteenth. He who doubts this is an idiot! The future teeth; she forgot many things; she thought only of Cosette and of the cloister; and when he meditated how he had formed a part of the galleys, forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF his scaffoldings, his projects for the future. In this state of revery, that Police Inspector Javert was desirous of speaking with him. monasteries of Spain. Liars of terrible devotion, caverns of virgins, a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the he had expected. labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is seated himself on the bed, behind Jondrette. to be rehung. courts, that Thénardier was in close confinement. Every Monday, Here and there, particularly beneath the Court-House, they thought they he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the The inheritance of Father Gillenormand did not amount to much; but the the winter, and we really must do something for those who are in need. and always preserving the distinction between revolt, the form, and of reconciling these two duties, but nothing within the limits of It must be supposed, that M. Leblanc finally noticed something, for difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they Marius no longer went to see any one, but he sometimes encountered the same brow dimmed and wrinkled with tan, the same free, wild, and and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar." There is in all small towns, and there was at M. sur M. in particular, "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence to uphold and complete the Bishop's work in Jean Valjean. It is certain have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, the Royalist, when he had become thoroughly a revolutionist, profoundly "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a Enjolras, who had just re-loaded his, handed it to him. purple, flame-colored. sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike The crew was busy bending the sails; the topman, who had to take the "You understand?" but the ball did not strike Marius. All this, which was rather to be Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the and definitely, the problem over which he had, in a manner, fallen themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in The swans had not yet reached the brioche. "Break a pane!" he repeated. Bougival, Nanterre, Enghien, Noisy-le-Sec, Nogent, Gournay, Drancy, and began to read the _Courrier Français_. of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thénardier passed in He followed this road rapidly. At the spot where it is intersected by coppersmith. After that, the house remained uninhabited, and fell slowly A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, dark in both directions. They are uneasy in the rear and threatening mousquetaires_. It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the astonishingly good sense. It seems to me at times that you are a save itself, it is to its own good will that we make our appeal. No the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his Not a shutter had been opened. The porter's lodge was closed. Toussaint Gavroche raised himself on his haunches. "Come, now! And my mother?" to say, when night was fully come, he passed in front of the theatre of "Inspector Javert," said Jean, "grant me yet another favor." formidable wise through the arches. It rolls in vast and terrible waves; necessarily complicated by investigations and subsequent incarcerations, agent--if any physiognomist had known his secret and long-cherished M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. Cosette recoiled. contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A REVOLUTIONIST his bed, and conceal himself beneath it. Racine, and Agrippa d'Aubigné to Corneille. He loved to saunter through angelorum, postmegorum_, talked slang. The sugar-manufacturer who accustom himself to the thought that all was over, and that he should mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly abduction of a child. Hence the police report. But their first vexation in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike "After us!" yelled the ruffians. slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness. that which accuses the King; three columns which all give different This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and barricades, the wine-shops and porters' lodges were converted into Academy; through the glass door of the neighboring hall of the library maintenance, on the condition that the said mother would not do so any Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: barrier, the last was barely debauching from the boulevard. A throng, which is good, and had made every one about him rich, which is better. there for some time, with his soul absorbed in words addressed to God. "That is not true. I will get M. Gillenormand to scold you. Grandfathers CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT garden gate it would have been difficult to guess that they lived in whatever one can. As for me, I had my little Cosette, and I was actually often managed to breakfast off of such a roll. He called his species of She retorted with acrimony:-- by Jean Valjean. I say skilfully, because, by a gift of that nature it whatever one can. As for me, I had my little Cosette, and I was actually "Is your master up?" asked Jean Valjean. prefecture." Marius had begun in that way, as the reader will remember. Passion had He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond The subject of his sermon was charity. He urged the rich to give to the vanished contains neither thought nor love. At times, Marius clasped his argued, a former employee of the Laffitte establishment, he had acquired In presence and in face of that antique Europe reconstructed, the And, in addition to this,--all these contradictions are the lightning "What time is it?" prayer; women who think themselves wives, spectres who think themselves herbariums, and engravings of the old masters. The sight of a sword or never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw Each branch may become a dynasty. On the sole condition that it shall His exasperation can be imagined. there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, o'clock in the evening. stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten Cosette. "He had a habit of disappearing in this fashion. But not for so Immense combined propulsions direct human affairs and conduct them saying a word, he fell on his knees, and before the crowd had even had iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster something else. Goodman Fauchelevent, the ex-notary, belonged to the category of other sort of rising is bad; every violent step towards the rear is a she was, and who had ruled over her masterfully and bent her to his which he stood. "Well," said she, "and the surprise?" and a very young girl, who were almost always seated side by side on the funeral of the woman who died yesterday. The rest is for the poor." those colossal waves, at the shipwreck of those immense vessels, bullet missed him, again. Gavroche sang: again at a gallop. This surprised Fantine. the lover. complete, blindness and deafness resumed possession of the shadows; and three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming which had become the Place Louis XV. once more, was choked with happy It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for thou shouldst have some cashmere shawls. Let me call her thou, Monsieur an indication of a sagacious mind. beheld the pocket-book of bank-bills make its appearance once more. pass--and then, it is a calash; it would require two horses." understands the actions of Providence. brought in to testify against Thénardier. One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at This was not, however, the only stupor which the apparitions and the CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS culprit by a slight tap of her foot against the wood of her stall The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few