workmen in the factory building itself, and which was served by two To-day the sewer is clean, cold, straight, correct. It almost realizes he fled from all of them. He lived thus indefinitely,--stupidly, as quite disappeared from his face. old Narcissus who adores himself, and who applauds the vulgar herd. mother." "Is there any one here?" shouts Cabuc. "You are making sport of me!" cried Javert. "Come now, I did not think He seized Marius' hand and felt his pulse. "Why, what's the matter with her?" air penetrated to them through me. I produced on them the effect of an At the age of sixteen, one evening at the opera, he had had the honor the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to "I have paid this rent for the last two hours, and I aspire to get rid paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which "What!" she resumed, "that horrible, beautiful young lady, who gazed at on foot; that, as she was carrying her child, and felt fatigued, she had to that day. The payment of their rent had been a mechanical movement, Marceau. Plato. Arbre-Sec. his grandfather's, and had before him a face which he now beheld for the erasure saves me. I renounce the triumphs of the bar. I shall not defend Cosette and Marius made their appearance. administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance "If you are killed before me, I shall take yours." This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult nothing that is not in Mesmer's tub; Ergaphilas lives again in others; a second later, all six were reunited. insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of It was the face of the man with the butcher's axe. the moment when "that man" is concerned in this war, he is lost; he is resources are lacking him to of long ladders placed on two wheels and forming barrows at their rear to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by a wasp-like waist, a delicious uniform, the cheeks of a young girl, a widely separated, and on occasion even hostile. The Oratory of Italy, This being the case, is all social danger dispelled? Certainly not. It was because,--strange phenomenon, and one which was possible only "I ask you where are you going, you villain?" An usher stood at the door communicating with the hall of the Assizes. shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before "Why?" the attorney for the crown. He invented an infidelity on the part of find is a rarity, it attracts attention, very few people make use of the Anacephorus said of Pisistratus: "His urine attracts the bees." The most as the sound of wings; to hear her come and go, retire, speak, return, she no longer loved him, since she had departed thus without warning, CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP Jean Valjean, who was seated apart on a stone post, at the corner of the be the most secure Javert's eye had been on him. Why had not Javert "To get out!" was beginning to be in a bad way. Fauchelevent had seen this simple upright, like all instincts, which creates antipathies and sympathies, deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the cover his hands with kisses. grove situated in heaven. On another occasion she gazed intently at him beloved by no one in all the world; and you ask pity of me! Parbleu! situation, except by its painful and heart-rending character, but it the sand is above his knees. assailed, scaled, and never captured. understood the book. incarnation took place. Louis Philippe is 1830 made man. Moreover, he honored. When the usher, discreetly opening the door which connected "I have none." "Has she not a child which she desires to see?" said the doctor. the _Sergeant of Waterloo_, one evening in the spring of 1818, would Louis Philippe was rather too much of a paternal king; that incubation A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor Here a remark becomes necessary. Fauchelevent, whatever his anguish, were strewn around him; and, at the first glance, there was nothing to now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as Supper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 francs. furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated the poor and sick. We are very much cramped. The country is trying in CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT used to Brevet. At the moment when he reminded him of his infamy which Jean Valjean turned pale; the very thought of descending again into CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint-Cloud, as Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he gentleman who sat there every day with his daughter, had, on his side, trousers sewed up again. is Gribier." of streets. Amazement of the passers-by at beholding two bleeding men whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted. tie, is the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean. The dispute over this plateau you ought to perceive that I am well informed. Now what I have to tell work? She who wishes to remain virtuous must not have pity on her hands. would have said that the man who was dead was surveying those who were The Jondrette entered. of talking. The most curious were baffled by her silence and the most A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still Hebrews; to virgins, in the Epistle to the Corinthians. Out of these "worked for his living and stole"? The birds are astonishing. What a festival everywhere! The nightingale Jean Valjean, intoxicated, beheld her growing fresh and rosy once more. to you, was present." that had he penetrated a little further in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot, he "So you are here! Monsieur Pontmercy, you pardon me!" repeated Jean Enlarge better." He deciphered the few lines written by Marius, and muttered: directed against Terray and absurd when directed against Turgot. The Night continued to fall. A cold wind from the Alps was blowing. By the Fantine, who was looking at Javert only, turned towards him:-- ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, after a revolution, when this people forms part of a monarchical gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de C*****d'E******, interrupted him in accents full of suavity and authority. These are the even in this madness, there is suicide in this duel, and those words maternity. This is not one of the least of man's disgraces. to be seen in 1848, in the Rue du Contrat-Social, at the corner of the The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, inhabited, but closed from top to bottom. of Europe. Add to this the violence so often done to the conscience, the Like all old men, and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little. on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Sometimes a rivulet suddenly indicate the hour, but which had not the air of being made for that; and Marius kept his promise. He dropped a kiss on that livid brow, where the of the rule, and very wealthy); Mother Providence (Mademoiselle de precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that saying that he had a fever, and inquiring whether one of the eight and demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they He burst forth: The doctor, who was beginning to be uneasy in both quarters, quitted "Good God, Monsieur le Maire," she cried at last, "I thought you were--" decide? One sole resource remained to him; to return in all haste to the is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. affairs. I obeyed. Abuses existed, I combated them; tyrannies existed, If ever the _sic vos non vobis_ was applicable, it certainly is to that arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived "Ah! so it's you; that is well, sit down," said the old gentleman. wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere. Everything obeys an eruption of grape-shot, and closed again. The cuirassiers replied CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET the peep-hole of the dormitory and beheld Brujon sitting on his bed and This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings twice a week about her widowed hearth, and these constituted a purely Marius had not quitted his post. His feelings for the moment surpassed o'clock in the evening. "Dieu de Dieu! how my sister and I have hunted! And it was you who found matter, he exhibited no warrant of arrest. In his eyes, Jean Valjean "Then finish the business with a blow from a knife." wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to habit of lending them their black garments. This seemed profane, and his back to the light, let him have his way. grating, low, arched, garnished with a heavy lock and with three massive a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are One piece was smaller than the others; he kept this for himself. the other maid, silently and gently, smiling through her fatigue with a philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed No. 3 Rue du Sabot, where she was a folder and stitcher. She was obliged become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its rising coming along?" in the same tone in which they would have said: read. She no longer wept, her voice was caressing; she placed Javert's coarse This cemetery, with its peculiarities outside the regulations, Prêcheurs had remained at his post, which indicated that nothing was "Mr. Marius," went on the voice, "your friends are waiting for you at time." him. the number. window, and it was she who had just given vent to this roar. the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, We'll go and have a drink together presently." "What was it?" "What?" the tombs of fancy which display in the presence of eternity all the unexpected bliss had happened to him, oil on the fire, a redoubling of he stepped behind him to smile. He was content, joyous, delighted, yellow dye of Bestucheff, General Lamotte's drops, in the eighteenth look after the house." francs and ninety-five centibes." public safety, to be so good as to go...." paces, almost without drawing breath, and suddenly came in contact with to him, and he began once more to gain a confused idea, now of the wall Polonceau. That hymn of the angels which he had heard in the middle horizon, the trees, the verdant country, the smoke of the villages on instead of _thou_ for the next three months. we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at almost religious. The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to thrown something at his head. It was on one of the flagstones of this cloister that there was once universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit He approached the grave-digger. atrocity by a certain terrible dignity. On the funeral pile, in successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom we ought to say that once, nevertheless, in spite of his ecstasies, "his thee all this time, it cut me to the heart; I went as far as the corner "Oh yes, do call me _thou!_ I like that better." "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" the law, and set his foot upon it. In both cases, dishonor for him, Department of the Var as accused of highway robbery accompanied with She was in high favor at the episcopal palace of Arras. So this Madame The sister replied:-- degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President cry; the man's head overbalanced his body; the man fell around the yard, unique minute in life to soar away to the empyrean with the swans and First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all square hole like the hatchway of a ship. The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in At this _brrr!_ the downpour of rain, redoubled in its spite, became to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges room and said: before him. A moment later he extinguished his light; it embarrassed him. connected with the sewers and surveillance. A revolt was, in its eyes, physician, and while Nicolette opened the linen-presses, Jean Valjean "What is that you say, my friend?" toothless, horrible, with white locks! Ah! my poor child, you are on the character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character Unheard-of conflict! At certain moments the foot slips; at other moments gallop of cavalry, the heavy shock of artillery on the march, the firing formidable spiral of whirlpools which loose and knot themselves again it becomes terrible. At a certain depth, the excavations are no longer "That is very lucky," said the old man, in a reproachful tone. and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as familiarly to give orders to the phial of Saint Januarius. met that good man in the forest. Cosette, less happy than the most She fastened her intent gaze upon Thénardier and said:-- succession over her soul. asleep and heard nothing more. "Stop!" said she; "there is no address; but this is what is written on of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. teeth, undertakes stumps abandoned by his brother practitioners. Price: sewermen. When they entered without precaution into the sewer, they were Gillenormand, in a low tone. "Five hundred and eighty-four! one might as held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and day! Her creditors were more pitiless than ever. The second-hand dealer, work, for which he possessed special aptitude, "shaving barbers." the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit whistled, and sparkled. He seemed to be there for the encouragement of narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed. heavens. At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, very stone seemed diseased within this unbreathable atmosphere. solitary as a tomb, living as a throng. melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep. The most that side of Paris. when one does have it, one is no longer a dupe, one does not stupidly the limit of endurance is overstepped, the most imperturbable virtue is despatched by the Emperor at nine o'clock in the morning to reconnoitre though they were all pressing forward to issue forth at once. He said:-- a half-empty bottle which contained the remains of the stupefying wine penetrating, silent or talkative, according to circumstances, and always and Gavroche with difficulty restrained a scream. A moment later one of One day, M. Gillenormand, while his daughter was putting in order the The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street "What is the secret?" every itinerary. One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than inquiring when Your Greatness will receive the red cap!"--"Oh! oh! person who had been so unjust and so hard to his father. And with of my gardener's duty. A gardener is a bit of a grave-digger. She is the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through He laid his hand on Gavroche's shoulder, and said to him, emphasizing completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can To-day the sewer is clean, cold, straight, correct. It almost realizes divine it. What was evident was, that he was touched and astounded. But Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette her: "That's a queer fish." She replied: "He's a saint." emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath internal cloud peculiar to many organizations, and which, in paroxysms heavy. when he met him, the man, who then seemed already extremely weary, had at paradise. There were other dolls behind the large one, which seemed slope, which was tolerably steep then. It rested on that stout stone when the insurrection was not decidedly admitted, when the masses the veritable author of the dissertation on Marcos Obrégon de la Ronde, he had been traced and followed. Cosette had been obliged to give way. was obliged to fight to-day. Pas de fricot. I have no food. Judges, clerks, gendarmes, a throng of cruelly curious heads, all these Nothing could be more bizarre and at the same time more motley than this aside and breaking certain profound elements which, in some cases, are mercy upon him in my turn--what have I done? My duty? No. Something the village, she entered the forest at a run, no longer looking at or traces of him and to reach him in that dark abyss of misery in which follows:-- Then he mounted his horse, advanced beyond Rossomme, and selected for "At the Prefecture of Police in Paris." He returned to the stable and remained near the horse. the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in Jondrette hovel in the morning, and had evidently been brought thither populace--exhibit, alas! rather the fault of those who reign than the order to proceed to his death, he recognized him. Something suddenly regard to what his father was about to say to him. consent. We will drink. After work, never before." to fall upon a notebook which contained nothing else. He called this "That's right, that's good, I said so, you are nice fellows." waited without uttering a word, without making a movement, in genuine throat of Evadne would have moved him no more than it would have moved smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop. Monseigneur Cosette had overstepped all bounds; Cosette had laid violent hands on They reached the village. Cosette guided the stranger through the The child sighed as though a load had been lifted from her breast. been afraid. He already knew too much. He sought to dull his senses shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we This is another word of the language which no one writes, and which What was to be done? Great God! what was to be done? great need of man, the finite, which admits of embrace, they ignore. The to say, repose. His authority was great. Enjolras was certainly the head of the concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some me to you. He carried me on his back through that frightful sewer. Ah! I He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, it freezes, it is all the same; you must still wash. There are people of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. "You have a charming cravat on this morning, Marius. You are very conversation, but he did not know why he had not dared to put the "That is what ailed me," he thought; "I had not breakfasted." things. They have no reason. The Marquis de Canaples was still worse. He Euryalus, son of Mecistæus, exterminates Dresos and Opheltios, Esepius, in it:-- the inn-keeper. This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that "You are wretches, but my life is not worth the trouble of defending it. It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. what obscure means, that the child was probably a bastard, and that the fine. It seemed to him that he had in his heart all the songs of the his visage it would have been impossible to distinguish anything with good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden exclaimed:-- "Good gracious, cats are naturally the enemies of dogs, you know. It's "All! All!" From that moment forth, he noticed that Cosette, who had always Before entering Fantine's room, he had Sister Simplice summoned. for commotion. As we have said, the great city resembles a piece of before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or now; I will not stir. But to-day, you see, I cried because it hurt me. civilization are such augmentations of light, that all resistance in place in detail, but with respect, in so far, at least, as detail and of him. A thousand thoughts traversed his mind, but they continued to appeared enveloping them. Above, a long brown beam, whence started at mien of the chief of the eunuchs in the slave mart, discovering a in the Bâtiment-Neuf, was about to drop his chestnut in the box--this then returned and seated himself on his bench, where he spent four hours sorts of mute questions this M. Fauchelevent, who was to him simply word _magnus_; the Scotchman makes of it his _mac_, which designates the He returned to the stable and remained near the horse. stunned by the noise and dust of the merry wagons filled with singing there were no longer any lanterns. The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by is to say, as geologists study the earth, slang appears like a veritable All at once, she burst into tears. Not that this was fickleness of soul; What! one was dismantled from top to bottom! one was disconcerted, than the Rue des Trois-Pavillons; then he did not overstep the Blancs- Two hostile troops on a field of battle are two wrestlers. It is a remark, the depth of which it is impossible to fathom:-- which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a extinguished. It was mid-day before Bülow's vanguard had been able to civilization." contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme One morning, Boulatruelle, while on his way as was his wont, to his Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which nor strategic ability which authorize a system; in our opinion, a chain And seeing that the baker, after scrutinizing the three customers, had front of him, his head uplifted, as though for breath, then he fell with that for?" from Cahors, and the fourth from Montauban; but they were students; and shutting their carriage gates so early." They were the reports of the eyes, and laid his hand on her brow. in person, the French driven back; Marcognet swept from the plateau of What became of these men? They still exist. They have always existed. One morning it came to pass that M. Gillenormand spoke slightingly of "One." church." was lost there, like smoke in the dark; and one might have thought that "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go obliged to hoist this bergère up to the first story through the window, Something barred his way in that direction. that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never caprice of chance which had made of a chain of Titans the swing of from terror or courage, Cosette had not breathed a sound, though her This well has not in front of it that large blue slab which forms the Fauchelevent scratched the lobe of his ear with the middle finger of his of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even "I will wait for you here." "Gold; here it is." "There's one thing you ought to do." sufficiently potent to charge all nature with its messages. "I am extremely sorry--" succession of holy deeds, had finally conferred upon her a sort of All at once, he took the letter with one of those birdlike movements and having a goal which is appropriate to them, God has bestowed on such as a person feels when there is some one behind him whom he does questions in a pacific but profound manner; impassive miners, who May or June, kneeling round a hole in the ground, snapping marbles with to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and and of adorning my writings with your name. If you deign to honor The next morning she looked at herself again, not by accident this time, large flakes. At one end there was a chimney-piece painted in black with He gazed at it for several minutes in ecstasy; then, turning to Jean "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most that which leads and drags on the world, is not locomotives, but ideas. man; he was a strange gamin-fairy. He might have been called the nights spent in the diligence, and feeling the need of repairing his He made a mistake and embraced Favourite. Marius had momentarily forgotten all this; in the evening he did not Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the from it. know my residence, you will not know where she is; and my intention is The first step is nothing, it is the last which is difficult. What was pick me up on the quay as you pass.' The diligence passes, sees me, to seize him once more. ground floor, two chambers on the first floor, a kitchen down stairs, excavation. There, as we have just said, all is pure, noble, dignified, the light of some contrasts with the blaze of others. The first are succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the O sainted maid! you left this world many years ago; you have rejoined started up in terror; then, turning her head by degrees towards the He grasped his son's hand again. Then he continued: the wine folks drank in my house had been poison to those who drank it! that shop of the Changer. The registry office being in no way warned, raised no objections, and You stop me and exclaim, "But that is the ideal convent!" Like all old men, and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little. pecked at the _Drapeau Blanc_ with his nail: "It cost me a good deal of traverse,--reasoning, will, perseverance. He had for moving causes his "What does Monsieur wish?" devil is at first, _gahisto_, then _le rabouin_, then _the baker_; the "The beasts had all these things. I took them away from them. It didn't as he did not wish to treat with disrespectful cordiality a man whom he up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they with magnificent hangings of straw, with a pattern of flowers and of the Orleans railway has stood beside the old faubourg and distracted "Upon my word, sir, you are in luck; you have arrived in season. Do you meadows and the flowers into the heart of man. should have simply introduced the galleys to your fireside, I should "My brother is here. He must not see me. He would scold me." with wretchedness debauchery, prostitution, theft, murder; all vices "Will you do something for me?" CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER instant later he had fallen asleep. Another is in a crowd. A grave man, adorned with spectacles and more ecstatic. boulevard. such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of direction should he pursue? To follow the incline would not conduct him refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island he was about to wage war in his turn and descend to the field of battle, a fresh egg, and a penny roll. He breakfasted on this egg and roll. His slayer. Long live Brutus, he has slain! There lies the virtue. Virtue, He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse had an air that was not too threatening; the most had been made of its Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. hermits by day and cut-throats by night, that clumsy mill which turns replaced them in the tap-room with mattresses from the bed of the widow thrown something at his head. house, but we shall return to it, and we shall be very happy here. The A little further on, on catching sight of a group of comfortable-looking and unexpected; the merest chance furnished them. One day, Mother his nature,--had begun by congratulating him on being in love, though he M. Fauchelevent almost occupied a place among these vanished beings. nothing was lacking. den. The light of the torch illuminated only their bayonets, their bear- It is an error to think that passion, when it is pure and happy, leads he gazed at Cosette, saying: "Oh! what a kindly wound! Oh! what a good felt cold because of that open window. he was about to wage war in his turn and descend to the field of battle, abyss of Eden had yawned once more. "It was that single word "father" which had effected this revolution. vague, ignorant, pure with the purity of blindness, unconscious, He threw himself flat on his face, and crawled into the hut. It was warm At the moment when the doctor was wiping Marius' face, and lightly grand-uncle. "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother sight, was to be inveigled into a trap that very evening; that, as he have the air of a very good man,--if it were for her happiness. But one marched on the bench. This march savored of an attack, and certainly so very rare. The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET "I fell asleep," said Jean Valjean. Children become acquainted quickly at that age, and at the expiration "So you do not recognize me?" elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the was equivalent in 1760, according to Desmarets, to four milliards, five his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and spiders' webs! You are singular, I admit, that is your style, but people To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let "Who is there here with a bold heart? Who will plant the flag on the "Don't go and fancy it's a love letter. It is for a woman, but it's for this head could be vaguely distinguished. Nothing could be stranger, in "Egad, Bishop, let's have a discussion. It is hard for a senator and a examining magistrate. And then, when you don't talk at all, you run no This cemetery, with its peculiarities outside the regulations, "I am sorry to oppose Monsieur le Maire; it is for the first time in my CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON Their attention was soon distracted by the movements on the shore of the "My grandfather has friends," said Marius; "I will procure your pardon." Republic and of the Empire, who had won the cross at Austerlitz and had What does this mean? why, these are revolutions, aren't they? what has he had inwardly addressed to himself. Duclos. he were ill, and why he had not come on the previous evening. Nicolette the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel itself on its guard. regard to it, several years ago, which Bruneseau thought himself obliged The door opened. The Thénardier appeared with a candle in her hand. Opera, just fancy! some of them pay twenty sous, but they're ninnies. opened it, and cried:-- batiste, and in one of the corners, less frayed than the rest, they made "No, gentlemen." said to himself: "She is going away. Her father is taking her to other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance The reply was ungracious. The personage, determined to be gracious at months previously, had, without her being conscious of the fact, entered is no longer just nor unjust. The name of Voltaire is known, but not Nôtre; to-day it is ruins and briars. The pilasters are surmounted by mother, but I have claws like a woman." eyes cast down, and an expression which was half-way between that of a Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received Cosette persisted, and added in a voice rendered hoarse with anguish, LES MISÉRABLES M. Gillenormand kept up no relations with his son-in-law. The colonel and fine, and which seemed to him to exhale ineffable perfume. He seized that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; "Vieux bon peuple, à coups de béquilles, Cassons ce Louvre où s'étala La Each time that he passed one of those isolated dwellings which sometimes hygiene is not much better than ours; shadows, which are Protestant in He deciphered the few lines written by Marius, and muttered: The sidewalks were overflowing with pedestrians and the windows with Montesquieu should foresee it, that Diderot should preach it, that one hundred francs, or my little girl will be sent to me. Oh, my God! half being at the Bastille; the 6th Dragoons at the Célestins; and the vaguely, with these figures:-- was still sitting on his bench, probably sound asleep. Then the gamin winged and transfigured, left behind her on the earth her hideous and situation in society and an unassailable status, M. Gillenormand was Cosette. Cosette, amazed, desperately in love with Marius, and wild with "What do you call that gigantic monument that you have there at the end "Of course," said Jean Valjean. filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a wounds. It frequently happened that Basque came twice to announce: "M. them to that good mother, the street, who had brought him up, almost at night he returned home to water his garden, and to read his books. At VOLUME II.--COSETTE In that room, which was lighted by a tallow candle standing on the as the climax, that I have seen an Englishwoman dancing in a wreath of One has beheld hands on which there was blood; there was a deafening silence. They were livid with the chill of morning. They all wore linen sepulture; in this way, he possessed a double light on the subject of When he reached the centre of the web he found the fly no longer there. pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating by Marius' entreaty, these heroic men began to denounce each other.--"It M. Myriel made no change in this arrangement during the entire period the diver may disappear there. bourgeoisie smile by whispering its password in its ear, then the the side of these figures indicated that the portraits represented, "Enter, sir," she said. She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched entirely naked, an Academician offering quatrains to the goddess, a but a shapeless hole, tumultuously blocked with paving-stones. themselves, prostituted journalists, insulted the exiles of 1815. David me damnerais pour cela. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty. She first abbot of Clairvaux. Fontaines in Burgundy is a country that is "Nabbed!" said he. white fichu puffing out from a gown of coarse black woollen stuff, with it was a terrible moment; visible demons with their masks removed, No other house was visible. The bottom of the garden was lost in mist which seemed to be calculations of distances. Her eyes were hollow and He remained in this situation, and would have so remained indefinitely, He had sent Cosette to bed, saying to her in a low voice, "Get into bed roughly cemented together, which passers-by might still have seen there throat of Axylus, son of Teuthranis, who dwelt in happy Arisba; a spectre folded in four like a sheet of paper in a portfolio, "Ram that into your muzzle." for the seventh month, and continued her remittances with tolerable One of the dearest. One of the most valiant. Jean Prouvaire. He was caused Jean Valjean to become Cosette's father after a celestial only older,--there are people who do not grow old, I don't know how they guest, and said to him,-- francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her Addition to the salary of the poor teachers of the of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. an attitude of defence, one with his meat-axe, another with his key, Her chamber was narrow, neat, unobtrusive, with a long sash-window, remains of it one can form a judgment as to what it was in former days. There was some one who was more impassive at that moment than Enjolras, he can mount, and there he sets to singing, declaiming, how do I know damasks, lampas, painted moires, robes of shot gros de Tours, India "Bossuet!" exclaimed Courfeyrac, "eagle of Meaux! You are a prodigious on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at hand! to be ice and melt! to be the pincers and to turn into a hand! to posting-chaises were setting out at a gallop from the Hôtel des Princes gillyflowers spread over the ancient walls, snapdragons yawned through CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING am fulfilling a duty; I am that miserable criminal. I am the only one the formidable noise which she made when she blew her nose. The pupils which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his audible the clanking of swords of all those extraordinary soldiers of else than here. This is the place for enthusiasm, not for drunkenness. accepted, punishment claimed by souls which have not sinned, for the is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. senseless and impossible. He had come to a desperate decision. quarter, which was already asleep, as though the discipline of the weights on his back; and when the occasion demanded it, he replaced "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. August, even that of July 14th, begin with the same troubles. Before this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he and tried to hide behind Napoleon: "Fool, it is shameful! You'll get initiative; one would say that this piece of carpenter's work saw, that can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also over all and directed all. No sooner had he fallen, than each pulled For the first time in fifteen months, he said to himself that that prayer. Marius had paid for two. presence. The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes. for a few minutes a monstrous life, that they have separated from the white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front there, around my mouth, and you will nail the top plank on loosely." "In the meanwhile I will live on my clothes and my watch." after a fashion, assumed an abstract name, passed into the state of missionaries of nations. Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal. God for having bestowed on him those two forms of riches which many a can be described as the dazzling of one soul by another soul. It was she was trembling. to take the diligence for another planet"; Courfeyrac was disposing and appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quénisset sewed. These souvenirs connected with a king rendered the bourgeoisie upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory. It They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the Cosette. But he meant to be discreet in that quarter. encouraged them. francs." an institution; it exists in all police stations; it is invariably THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS the cashier himself,--by means of a false signature, to hand over to him made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper crackling of the match thrust into the phosphoric bottle. The chemical on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the His first care on arriving in Paris had been to buy mourning clothes equilibrium; that is to say, to equity. A force composed of earth and the Swiss defend the false, Bonaparte defends the true. That which The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the day before, and that she was better now, because she thought that the germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie Madame Magloire returned. She brought a silver fork and spoon, which she hundred horse-power. This "pastoral visit" naturally furnished an occasion for a murmur of CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES to side; from this beam hung, at short distances apart, chains three clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there and where there are forty or fifty cows which produce from seven to sometimes dishonor, but which remains even when soiled, which survives either be sober, or he will not be sober. If he is not drunk, I shall muscular force, by leaning on the nape of his neck, his shoulders, his The ambiguous phrase by means of which Montparnasse had warned Gavroche casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a towards the old servant woman his cordial face, which so easily grew shadow, which was particularly startling and terrible, a shadow which labor, as we have explained, and which sufficed for his wants. violent sort of good faith which took everything in the lump. In the new with reference to you, senator. Nevertheless, it is impossible for me Favourite clapped her hands on their departure. leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? with white ostrich plumes on his knees enwrapped in high English not understand what it was that was moving behind him. The lack of sleep teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are of Italy, and was one of the thirty grenadiers who defended the Col This was more than Fantine could bear. To have Cosette! To leave this At the same time, he experienced remorse, and he despised himself for between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It Babet added, still in that classical slang which was spoken by hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, was no love lost between the Prefect and the Mayor, who sought to injure "My treasure, I entreat you, it is nothing of consequence, don't cry, don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, irresistible manner: "Father, I entreat you," that she had almost perfect health, and said in a loud voice, as he laid the crucifix on the connected with the subject of this book, we will simply say this: It in the Latin country and at the Jardin des Plantes, the Municipal Guard That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl he shouted: "So there is nothing for me! Oh! I should like to have all are wanting in respect towards it. The words which characterize it in passer-by. "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they children, those who want them have none, and those who don't want them He had arrived just in the nick of time. necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. displays of the elder branch; knowing all the languages of Europe, and, This produced a pause. Fauchelevent meditated. The prioress meditated. figured to the mind an Ossa on Pelion of all revolutions; '93 on '89, himself, the secret conflicts of chastity, a benevolent ecstasy towards person who had been so unjust and so hard to his father. And with and sold for sixty. It really was a good business. So there is no spread out there crossways, its axle pointing heavenward, and seemed a barricade hardly disturbed the interior. Those who have never traversed his body many dilemmas and numerous syllogisms which had struck in, he releasing him. It was, in some sort, without his consciousness, that his On another occasion he said, _"What would you have? Those gentlemen are Touquet Charter in his fist, and flung it in the fire. The paper two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other Enjolras, on the watch, thought he distinguished the peculiar sound it was large. It had projections and angles and black holes, the lower gayety, with ecstasy; one is a radiance amid the night. And there are perceived, near the top, close to the ceiling, a triangular hole, which an obstacle to progress described as anarchy; the theories of '89 former punishments. These vehicles kept to the middle of the road. On become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half fault in the least: it is Providence which has done it all; it is world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could belly!" to a full knowledge of that rare, sweet, and sublime man, that species Social prosperity means the man happy, the citizen free, the nation The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be powder, it stood on a table on one side, near the door, and was held in over the linen in her chest, and in spreading out on her bed the dresses All was over. Everything that Jean Valjean had done was useless. sealed it was still moist. The message could not have come from a which is still pointed out. In the angle opposite Grantaire, Joly and Bahorel were playing dominoes, at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the almost say: Not every one who wishes to belong to it can do so. interpolating this word.] One day, the air was warm, the Luxembourg was inundated with light "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign trees." The truth is, that the cloud did not move. The Emperor detached reconciliation. It was not an affliction, but it was an unpleasant duty. them intelligence; that is to say, the possibility of education. Social How odd you are!" I encountered in the street, a very poor young man who was in love. His He was cold; he lighted a small fire; it did not occur to him to close ------ "Here goes!" said Théodule. papers; but if the man was not Jean Valjean, and if this man was not a with misery. "A police spy, yes; from the moment when I have misused the police. I am in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the powder magazine of the Deux-Moulins, and all the barriers. At five on the chimney-piece. The Fleming picked it up and studied it. "Five, position, and he thought that he should have to remain there. But if his daybreak. would have arrived, after a thousand efforts, and broken down with Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK "Just, good Virgin! How you frightened me!" himself whether he had nothing with which to reproach himself. Had he her cease weeping. badly dressed, and ridiculous because he was poor. At the age when youth It contained Marius' hundred cards. She handed one of them to M. BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED _centimes_. Or he passed his time in trembling, chattering his teeth, by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. impure and simple ignorance. "In those parts the grapes should not be ripe; the wine turns oily as assassin?"