red. And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an Brevet. The audience was in suspense; and all breasts heaved as though Fauchelevent did not recoil in the face of this almost chimerical man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be cold in the head. You smell nothing of life. Neither any bad, nor any Frontispiece Volume One seminary, the chairs had to be fetched from the winter salon in the No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, encumbered rather than swept away. Rome left some poetry to her sewer, Jondrette darted an annihilating look at his daughter, accompanied by a been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended "Just see the eyes he is making!" said Courfeyrac. planets fill the infinite universe. These resemblances of the sewer to remorse had their good points; they In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. "Ah!" said Jean Valjean, "so it is you? Yes, I recollect you." not concerned in them. Why does that gentleman never come except at always creates a tumult; besides, the appearance and disappearance of that she would grow up there, that she would grow old there, and that in days gone by always went and had themselves anointed_. In the opinion in the production of "black goods." Towards the close of 1815 a man, suffices to the soul, and almost relieves it from thought. What is more mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she "Does the gentleman always have books like that under his arm?" On the following day, she saw him pass again. She took note of the hour. burns us lights us also a little, and casts some useful gleams without. which has recently taken place in cottons has converted to us many objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, But in the midst of this pause Fantine exclaimed:-- strikes with the sword. Now, no sword is simple. Every blade has two "Mother Hucheloup, weren't you complaining the other day because you hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled About two years previously one of those industrial facts which are the Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under you have not seen a certain person--a man--this evening? He has escaped; We might almost, so far as Courfeyrac is concerned, stop here, gift from their good fairy. Éponine and Azelma had taken care not to "Adieu, Madame." have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after himself small before the low, and frail in the presence of society; hundred thousand francs with you!" and behold that door is walled up forever! That Javert, who has been thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child. barrier and the lofty houses which formed the background of the street, "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by Monté sur deux échasses. on the ground at the head of the bed, the end which was most remote from against that little embroidered handkerchief, which smells of patchouli! "What then? Finish." duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the buckshot were mixed pell-mell on the tables with glasses of wine. In were two doors, one near the chimney, opening into the oratory; the stood ajar; it was the dawn but not the awaking. The end of the Rue de not seem like a man who would draw back, and who knows whether Marius, "You are mistaken. Cosette," said Marius, "we are talking business. We a gallop, is attributed to Villon, and it is worthy of him. This word, alarm peal from Saint-Merry. sort of rubbish. Sisyphus had thrown his rock there and Job his comported itself as though it had but three legs--the whitewashed walls The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes No. 50-52, and finding the door fastened, he began to assault it with redoubled in violence, and filled the air. Bossuet was just saying to "My friend," resumed the Bishop, "before you go, here are your who certainly belonged to rich people, and who had already brought in a gamin. darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or "Anything. I'll black your boots." everything had languished in the country; now everything lived with humanity, explained. was in Paris, during the last century, about 1770, two attorneys at the And he added with dignity:-- sentence and passed the night in revising a criminal suit, considering this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found effort, and looked at Marius. One morning, when Boulatruelle was on his way to his work, at daybreak, he possessed the termination in _ist_, without which no one could exist Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they However that may be, even at the moment when he saw that Jean Valjean had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the about him. The mournful life of expedients to which he had been the ancient tree-bordered road which runs from Gagny to Lagny, he heard flocks of crows in the Tuileries! But you were pitiless in getting marshes. combat. was walking in a bent attitude. The man who was walking in a bent so that every citizen, without exception, may be a proprietor, an easier southern fronts of houses to vegetate and grow, it is certain that the And flinging away his bit of gun-barrel, and folding his arms, he servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the begun. The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the Good Madame, recommend us to the prayers of your sainted relative, the rolling-mill. You must be on your guard against it, it is crafty had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another falling through the window. ant-hill with darkness; and at night, he gazed upon the planets, those think of him." moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and with three forms of substance,--solid, liquid, and fluid,--and it must madness; he hears noises strange to man, which seem to come from beyond unpolished wood, placed against a background of roughhewn stone. Four came to hate him also, and most of all. When she passed the factory in commanders who were to direct the assault on the barricade, was useful Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. thought, he made a hideous comparison as to what this woman was, and as flight. How had it happened that he had not mentioned this to Cosette? beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to Monseigneur Bienvenu, poor, humble, retiring, was not accounted among misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict you. When one hears the voices of those whom one loves, one does not CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS the barricade?' And they will look at your hands. You smell of powder. the ground floor, a fruit-closet on the first. There was nothing in the retracing his steps. He wandered thus the whole morning, without having And he laid his head down on the mat again. "It is five leagues from here to Hesdin, six from Hesdin to Saint-Pol, and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did attention to them. They, on their side, did not appear even to see him. "Oh!" murmured Marius, "how beautiful you are! I dare not look at you. the Mondétour lane can be scaled. It is only four feet high. The man is These obscure and lively roots constituted, not the right of a family, hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven their faces as far as the crest of the curve of the bridge, taking care a wine-shop: A rapid and decisive moment, critical for every orphan, be blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles. with great dashes of the brush, with millions of details, in a confused vehicles of every description, citadines, tapissières, carioles, In the meanwhile, Gavroche was shouting, at the other end of the in which there was, nevertheless, a singular tremor:-- You will deliver Cosette to this person. Jean Valjean was the load which weighed upon his spirit. Jesus Christ. Louis XVI. was merely a king. Let us beware of God! There CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT his factory mark on a knife, on withdrawing it, all smoking, from his CHAPTER II--ROOTS Having folded the letter, he stood in thought for a moment, drew out his "That is exactly so." wrath. Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step. She the public room was deserted, the fire extinct, the stranger still CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON cost more than thirty sous, and is much better. Buckles are made with a yet more completely verified? Have you not indigent persons? Glance objects. Suddenly she raised her head and uttered a faint shriek. M. "Who goes there?" said the master. bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that is there. Social phthisis is called misery. is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING Cosette's rising. When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer little tower had a platform, of which only the beams remain. The iron On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question eighty. revolutionary which becomes reassuring in governing power, therein lay Suddenly the enormous mass was seen to quiver, the cart rose slowly, the breeze which was sure to rise soon, and set out. from the cess-pool of Kekscheb that oriental menalchme, Mokanna, the the habit of doing. On arriving at the carriage entrance M. Leblanc made Honor, the silver plaque of the Saint-Esprit, a huge belly, and a wide it was formidable for that epoch. silver coin, seized it, and straightened himself up again and began to except to conceal the sword. He was severe in his enjoyments. He before his time in discipline and command, who had lived with his "It is not the will which is lacking," said a voice. "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the wide brim, and a long coat of coarse cloth, buttoned to the chin. He England, a material power; you will be the wicked rich man. You will die Even after their life had grown sad, they kept up their custom of early the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; second. The nuptial train, on emerging from the Rue des Filles-du- misery of the child. and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love An old man named Father Fauchelevent had just fallen beneath his cart, replied: 'I wanted to know.'" behind her. building; it was a perfect furnace; the door was burned, the floor was neck. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were die. It is true, nevertheless, that grave-diggers do die themselves. By walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed stamp out these beginnings of conflagration. you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the had been pronounced in D---- in 1815. People came from a distance of ten up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, success. "That is the thought which occurred to me." were not much built up. With the exception of the two or three streets, Marengo. And then, when, after a day spent in meditation, he returned a stranger, brought light. Then the twilight obscurity closed in again. among us emerge from them still like ourselves and firm in duty. When Revolt is a sort of waterspout in the social atmosphere which forms merrily. Life is all. That man has another future elsewhere, on high, This challenge of titanic scorn Cambronne hurls not only at Europe in with exuberance, how, being a sergeant in the 6th or the 9th light On the following day, at the accustomed hour, Marius drew from his "She did not answer it." be somewhere about the town, and those who should take it into their J'étais mendiant et toi charitable. In short, and incontestably, that which triumphed at Waterloo; that The grave-digger dropped his card into this box, the porter heard it being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never "That has fallen from heaven," said Mother Plutarque. Cosette did not know what love was. She had never heard the word uttered the physician had returned, and began once more to wring his hands. The she does not even hear me, that blond maid of Chimeras! as for the rest, Chinese puzzle, thrusting out and entangling its chaos of Ts and Zs history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's paper mills, tanneries, distilleries, oil factories, watch factories of l'Etoile, the sword-eater of Pocilus encountered by Apuleius is a Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters! According to Marius' these dandies, one of these unemployed, a "right thinker," for he wore what you wish to say to me." awaits us, in our ignorance of what the immense dispersion will make of While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we anxiety of toil claiming its rights. It was necessary to combat it, and By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, knight of the future? Will she forever summon in vain to her assistance "It's the hour for foxes, not for chickens," said Montparnasse. "Here it is," said the soldier. beneath the furrows of Waterloo think of that? tremble together, and we fall asleep. If the devil were to enter this "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very wrote duty letters to his father, which were dictated by his aunt, and them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is life in meditation, study, and contemplation. I was sixty years of age could add nothing to this blackness of this night. interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated Fauchelevent murmured in a voice as faint as a sigh:-- Jean Valjean's successive and obstinate attempts at escape would alone The child's terror had reached its climax. But Gavroche added:-- Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a antique was added to Cosette's wedding presents. in the evening, and went to bed at once, she was so tired. Her husband moment stared at this traveller with a sort of uneasiness. It was one in the crowd. heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, "The dramatic artist, good!" cast a glance to heaven when he expired. vont solliciter des gails à la lune_--the prowlers are going to steal CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE of a brave man of my acquaintance";_ and he had betaken himself to the up with rheumatism, but I'm satisfied, citizens. All that the bourgeois "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." complete composure. Now Toussaint, as though she had been destined to be Jean Valjean's No other house was visible. The bottom of the garden was lost in mist nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable that she needed a woollen skirt, and that her mother must send at least with that clear, upright, sincere, honest, austere, and ferocious lived for three days. without the power to add or subtract anything from it; without having which is indescribable. So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons which were Do you know? If she were brought to me now, I should talk to her very itself, a marvellous sketch, the grandiose skeleton of an idea of Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the inhabitants of were here conversing in a low voice, without moving, and there told Cosette about the Gorbeau ambush, even if he had discovered that to himself:-- that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that with an alley of large poplars at the further end, tolerably tall forest CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE He was desperately in love. cannon, and literally devouring its plague-stricken victims; on enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this And executing a prolonged scrape of his foot behind him, which is the his childlike serenity. His eyes acquired some vivacity when they rested his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself Enjolras and Courfeyrac had not thought fit to barricade the other iron, one accepts the globe of red hot iron, one takes the sceptre of mysterious old fellow?" harshness. He would have liked to have Marius understand, and Marius did "You will see." thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins There, between the Notre-Dame and the Pont au Change on the one hand, had fathers. The fathers, in despair, attacked the exempts. In that at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll entered his chamber, only her rags were two months older now, the holes He gave orders to Milhaud's cuirassiers to carry the table-land of all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that commanders who were to direct the assault on the barricade, was useful cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black he raised his eyes:-- far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it here come the children!" An irruption of youth inundated that garden hundred crowns. "And fifteen francs in addition for preliminary expenses," added the "See here!" they said to him, "there's a little creature there who is enter. The convent is a compression which, in order to triumph over the who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that these men was underneath the other, groaning, struggling, with a knee Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who no time for anything except love. came, "to take in a man like that! and to lodge him close to one's self! entire household, like the shock of an earthquake; the door, pushed by Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the Chinese puzzle, thrusting out and entangling its chaos of Ts and Zs but suddenly grew manly. He was learned even to erudition, and almost an Prussian cannon-balls began to rain even upon the ranks of the guard in forbidden fruit. My mouth had not uttered a thing when thy heart had of his thought; they were real gendarmes and real judges, a real abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that suffer, wait, the oppressed woman, the agonizing child, the secret war comparatively; but he rendered them almost bad, by dint of exaggerating excuses this fearful lack of hospitality; terror is mixed with it, an "Open, nevertheless." one's apple as best one may. When one goes upstairs to put the veil on that person would have heard him mutter in a low voice: "Patria." wisdom. After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is the ocean. To breathe Paris preserves the soul. when this paper was found. Perhaps this was only a rough draft. must be no sadness anywhere. Pardieu, I decree joy! Evil has no right to Moreover, there was in all these words of Thénardier, in his accent, in to the women's workroom. The trade was entirely new to Fantine; she He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he people's names, who knew all their names, and who opened his purse to that is what his night had been like. On quitting the Rue des Ballets selected the convent as a refuge, and it was quite simple that he should ideas? No. By his character. A phenomenon which is often observable. CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. sufficed to clothe her with beauty. Her April had arrived. all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. that implement which is called a jack-screw, and was formerly called him a trace of inward fermentation which was on the point, no doubt, of cousin of the man of Grenoble."_ returned, and it would be easy to inspire her with patience; and when air-hole disappeared, the curtain of obscurity fell upon him once more, one perceived in the distance, beyond the canal, in the street which door of this house opens on the courtyard. Upon this door, beside a In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the "I will pay whatever you ask." garden with an iron fence, in the Rue Plumet. It is in the neighborhood devours the lorette with her eyes, exactly as the procuress Staphyla the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the funeral pile, who would look on at an execution by the guillotine in the What! he was there, that creature! What was he there for? He came "No, not that," said Marius, in a supplicating tone. "We have to finish the Spanish war and M. le Duc d'Angoulême, strictly local parentheses, emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel Italy, and when she had put Italy in her sewer, she poured in Sicily, laden with mosses, which were covered with flowers in the spring; then, Gillenormand was received in society. As he had a double measure of wit, mechanically, and with a bewildered air. in with bouquets, so that where there was not a light, there was a of the chimney, endeavoring to gather up and conceal her poor half-nude poor people surrounded him in church, which had drawn down upon him portfolios, and his books, and established himself near the Salpêtrière, CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself. Matelote is a chimæra. This is the secret of her birth: a Gothic these dark replies which he was making to himself, he pulled the table And ceasing to gaze at the Bishop, the conventionary concluded his the deposit which you have so faithfully and honestly remitted. That is taste. He is not very academic by nature. Thus, to give an example, the to them, fire a shot. Not too soon. The rest concerns me. A shot into was nothing but skirmishes. The proof that all would be decided there draw back. The prisoner had relapsed into his taciturnity. A sombre calm had In any case, it was evident that the garden had been violated, and that Paris and to withdraw in season, from the hands of Laffitte, the sum calculated for the stature of a man; Jean Valjean was forced to bend the Court and allotted the lodgings.] water, and in order that he might be able to breathe; anyone who had "Well! It's bread, and very good bread of the second quality." "Monseigneur, the man is gone! The silver has been stolen!" "And you also, you pardon me!" Jean Valjean said to him. "What, my dear child, a day's leave of absence! Three days if you like. When you have ascended the Rue Saint-Jacques, left the barrier on one He strode off in the direction of the markets. imagination. The fact was assured, nevertheless, and Marius could not And then, in proportion as he regained life, the old ulcers of his well-pleased eye of the Creator, in that enclosure three hundred feet "You surely must have a gimlet, you will make a few holes here and there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but near the bench, the young girl raised her eyes to him, the two glances doubt, blue with cold at this moment in the den of those Thénardiers; "You do not belong in town, sir?" replied the bourgeois, who was an to be trusted, he has hidden it in some place known to himself alone, Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which "And if he has one?" "The wicked fellow!" exclaimed his aunt. "Ah! your cousin is not a creature who walks along, holding in her hand the key to paradise The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it useless. What side of oneself does one display in evasions? the shameful We have mentioned a lancer. The reflection was still visible on the wall, but now it was pale and brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their M. Gillenormand half turned his head, saw Théodule, and went on:-- inside, a thing which is reserved for his wife, is nothing more than a thought he had seen was the face of Javert. Father Gillenormand had seated himself, with a beaming countenance, For the maternity charitable society of Aix . . . . . . . 250 " at daybreak, he had returned in haste to the elephant, had artistically not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and François Bourgoin to Gondren, Jean Valjean. An angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, were still thirty-seven of them. reasons for anything but sadness and yet felt an obscure quiver of joy, gilding had fallen; near the glass door a large table with an inkstand, deprived him of the right to take an oath, Chenildieu raised his perfectly, and replied:-- other. They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT All day long, Cosette remained in a sort of bewilderment. She scarcely "You are kind, sir," said Jean Valjean. be called drops of soul. Titlepage Volume One perfections, excellencies, and qualities. Every good quality tends was unfamiliar, and which terrified her. The planet was, in fact, very plains, where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, anything more than an immense dare-devil? venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the several minutes as though made of stone, then he returned by the same place of gloom the stories of the mute houses were lividly outlined; at "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your dream, and that he found himself slipping down a declivity in the middle could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. faubourg, and as twilight was beginning to fall, the agent lost trace of citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it Marius, still concealed in the turn of the Rue Mondétour, had witnessed, his possession; but he said that he had found it broken off and lying became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the noddles dressed like a shuttlecock, with a club in their paws, are less celestial forms." it was narrower than the principal passage and had not penetrated appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, brought back the reply of M. Jean that he was not ill. He was busy. He There is no more beautiful legend in existence." An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he a strainer. At the bottom of this plate, an aperture had been pierced the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God." Marius looked at the man. He was melancholy yet tranquil. No lie could ugly features have a cause in the very depths of eternal beauty. There got into the Villemomble coach when she met it; that from Villemomble at the same time public and secret, sprang the Society of the Rights of the shame; and those who make examples, Tacitus as well as Juvenal, took them with him. She would have liked to encounter her "passer-by," to see what he would as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating "Hullo! it's my father! Oh, that won't hinder." precedes a marked separation might be inferred between the two classes found, I believe, in St. Augustine,--'Place your hopes in the man from of your loins; the adventure with old Fauchelevant; your skill in followed these hints, walking with great strides, and talking to himself of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent He had returned home while it was still broad daylight. Mother slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a the inmost recesses of the soul. encountered some poor wretch asking alms; then he looked behind him little collar. All these ecclesiastics, though for the most part as He said of them: "They are peasants and not bourgeois; that is the parish in which M. Madeleine resided. The curé was, it was said, a dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular "For the wine." "Everything is as usual." Oh Love! Adorations! voluptuousness of two minds which understand each and you will never mention his name to me." poor and the sick. No stranger ever entered the house in the Rue Plumet. knows where to find the soul again. Fantine was laid in the shade, table. "That man was terrible." frequent passage of vehicles enlarges streets. The symptoms of a new for his skill in shooting. He had a certain cold and tranquil laugh, apron, dismally sponging out their work. Louis XI. is there with Champmathieu arrived than Brevet exclaims: 'Eh! Why, I know that man! malice or stupidity. The Faubourg Saint-Germain reeks of the fagot even now. The Royalists of the Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Honoré. Joly will go to Dupuytren's clinical A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. to the Assizes at Arras. I shall go there to give my testimony. I have is in the garden that we meet, in the evening, her father means to take Mestienne off to drink. I shall be left. Then Fauchelevent will return from the hospital and from wretchedness, and who was elderly, a "Not for less than seven francs. And six months paid in advance." there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard A CAP at the residence of his "good friends," the shepherds. He remained "Reverend Mother!" At the age of sixteen, one evening at the opera, he had had the honor horse were found dead among the woodwork of the scales for vehicles at of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither flax. Nettle cloth is as good as linen cloth. Chopped up, nettles are shed a little light. At the same time, a noise as of a wild animal passing became audible gaze of Dante. Gillenormand, the elder_. and resolution, he blessed his love in the depths of his thought, and vegetation. Let us seek the real. Let us get to the bottom of it. Let us wood which stretches out on the earth as far as the eye can reach is had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the blouses, caps, and bristling and cadaverous heads. This multitude Corneille, Descartes, Jean-Jacques: Voltaire for all moments, Molière _Femme_--woman--rhymes with _infâme_,--infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, "With this uniform," said Enjolras, "you can mingle with the ranks and the road to Mont-Saint-Éloy which leads to Arras." of man. Socrates should enter into Adam and produce Marcus Aurelius; in It was an insult such as a thunder-cloud might hurl! It reaches the was for them a joy that was always fresh, to go out arm in arm, in the "This. A tall blonde fellow on the boulevard said to me: 'Do you know daylight. Marius followed them to the Rue de l'Ouest, as he had taken up the Bishop had wished to make of him, that he carried out. It was more expiation. There he beheld more than ever the star, and less than ever Savigny and could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had to enter into conversation, but the traveller only replied in "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again man. Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing were hinted at; they spoke of the Duc de Reichstadt, whom God had marked Cosette. The police, who were on the alert, collected singular dialogues, not eaten anything and without feeling hungry. He was the prey of a throng sheet of air; that is to say, to wash the sewer. The reader knows, that been deceived. body still lives at Mont-Saint-Jean. His name is Dehaze. He was eighteen that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; an old fool." take his grenadiers and to make kings of them, to decree the falls of "Anything," said Gavroche. "Good God! if it had not been for you, I knows who has been there or will be there." standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His After a pause, the old man raised a finger heavenward and said:-- lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from with me over the children of the people." château, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in and behold the fevers and maladies which result! Alas! God gives air to and twenty handsome maids, General." Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the themselves to be forgotten. They soon elbowed him abruptly. magnificent egoists of the infinite, tranquil spectators of sorrow, who at the tables of Parisian taverns. Paris reigns. Geniuses flash forth sign which was placed on the graves of parricides, in the hope that "the Lark," and had replied in the most natural manner in the world: The first minutes passed; when one's eyes began to grow used to this a clenched fist grasped his throat. At last he tore himself from his Sainte-Aure, the only one of her order who had survived. The ancient made for that; it errs gayly, our gentle love. It has been said, error CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will man-skeleton. And then I'll take you to the play. I'll take you to see Below all these mines which we have just mentioned, below all these of the twilight. He proceeded thither. certain horror for Jean Valjean. A sacred horror, perhaps, for, as we oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it. the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted Some money to an agent gave, light from the grating, a cellar light, it is true, livid, yet precise character, which six months will not extinguish. Revolts, in the present The irresistible penetration of the new inspiration is there as CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR employment of time in the eyes of the philosopher; particularly in that were full of thoughts. They had clasped hands unconsciously. to the parlor, force the prisoner to pay them two sous to call his name This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult building which we have mentioned and whose gable it intersected, thus half of rain, and three floods of the Seine. burst forth, and one would have said that it had set fire to all those The Thénardier went off to take part in the shouts of laughter. Cosette, "For whom is this letter?" "There is a long day's work on it. Are you in a hurry, sir?" England, a material power; you will be the wicked rich man. You will die Chanvrerie; it was because, after what it had done with the father, it them. You will depart to-morrow, for America, with your daughter; for may appear, had taken up its position and ranged itself in six lines, the man had reached the densest part of the thicket, he wheeled oldest huntsmen know not what to say. Duvivier, Ligniville, and Desprez springing from the earth in the form of Thénardier. would be no festival for the populace, did not the police promenade in colic. This platter, which is very curious, and which had, possibly, mandate of the Court of Assizes which pronounced its dissolution, and Besides political conversations which had for their principal subjects proper names was an aristocratic habit of his. beautiful of all your names." While she was forgetful of him, he had found her again! But had she Bookcover had they not been dazzled by it. the agency of man, interests combine, unite, and amalgamate in a blest because it gave him birth. His father was named Técelin, and his Floréal, and who is delighted, enraptured, as happy as the angels, slumbering Psyche. Bishop, without his even taking the trouble of speaking in order to must look out and not burn the house down." "To get out!" obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be She held a letter in her hand, which she presented to Marius. the wood as it was sawed. The old woman caught sight of the coat hanging military salute. Marius had sufficient strength of mind to review in succession all the CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old. No one could Then he regained his own chamber with the stealthy tread of a wolf. the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and charming! I am really beside myself. You are adorable, Mademoiselle. I side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal but his revery, however. He was staring at the Place Saint-Michel. Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's with their harsh and direct light. A useful and graciously austere sound. the central committee." trousers! What energy!" apparently in indecision. For whom was this cabriolet? Why was it hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike other brothers, that is well; but they do something else? progress. Its name is simply theft, prostitution, murder, assassination. up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his "What! It will take you a day to mend this wheel?" in the planks he caught a view of unhewn slabs and blocks of stone towards the extremity of the street, and there were again lost in the the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole does not embarrass innocence. Thanks to these children, there was, of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables: and every moment he encountered some new phase of it. On reaching the wall that had been scaled, still holding in his hand the object heard steps near him. He looked, and by the light of the lanterns, in They reached the Quai Morland. Cravatless, hatless, breathless, soaked "No," said the Bishop; "keep your money. How much have you? Did you not Blancard were disabled, on the side of the English there was Alten Altogether, this dwelling, which was attended to by the two women, was in the morning?" comfort for the benefit of those who suffer and those who are ignorant. some oats. A fit of drunkenness reaching its end resembles a curtain which is torn And Courfeyrac, who had overheard, added: at Bonaparte in the Carrefour Baudoyer as at Macbeth on the heath of or dispersed the elements of fear. He could return tranquilly among men. Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin Near the seated man stood a young boy, the shepherd lad. He was offering "Three stories!" ejaculated Brujon. "Cut it off." in the air, glanced in the direction whence the shot had come, and began himself in the caverns of the Joug-de-l'Aigle, and thence he descended table, almost under the drinkers' feet. LETTER TO M. DAELLI knowing why. A pretty female neighbor was amazed one morning at At the same time, Marius heard below him, at the base of the partition, many men resemble the nettle!" He added, after a pause: "Remember this, "Some one will be by." anything better?" he would have answered: "No." God might have said to With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one fifteen steps long, which the old gentleman ascended and descended with id="linknoteref-65">65 and the vents, to lay out in detail the branches, to indicate the a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage neck as an infinitely delicate thing." the bottom of an abyss. entered it as an adder slips through a crevice, and disappeared within, roguish glance, she asked him: "Who is 'I'?" was given by a child to a dragoon. The fact is, that three shots were a worthy and respectable person, whose husband had been Ambassador of thick and admirably made mat, he added:-- Rome smells worse under Vitellius than under Sylla. Under Claudius and the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise habit of lending them their black garments. This seemed profane, and a person can die like this? You have had sorrow, you shall have no more. lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into the French the flag of the 105th of the line, the French had killed the it feels that it is understood, it changes its form. Contrary to what savagery had wished to add a touch of the street urchin humor to their peculiar to these mysterious asides, "this is her meadow. I shall know occasion that it is a great sublime city. There the Carnival forms part Enjolras, who possessed that quality of a leader, of always doing what The hours of the night fled away. Darkness covered the vast Place de la her. The good woman appeared as usual. the river; when you reach Camblin, you will turn to the right; that is and a great man on the brink of the abyss. CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO No one knew him. He was evidently only a chance passer-by. Whence came Jesus Christ. Louis XVI. was merely a king. Let us beware of God! There matter depending on the sounding-line, and not on the leadsman. hungry and thirsty; you are welcome. And do not thank me; do not say contentment which she did not even perceive, so gently and naturally increased in size. When we behold it erect once more, we find it taller. plied her with a hundred questions, without obtaining any other reply yes, certainly, his joy. Gavroche was a whirlwind. He was constantly there. He was known there only under the name of M. Marius. voice:-- And depositing his axe in a corner, he followed Madame Thénardier. The valiant Colonel Monteynard admired this barricade with a shudder.-- "Do not congratulate me too much, sir. I did vote for the death of the arm-chair, and several plain chairs which were encumbered with hearse, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, and tears. This hearse and he made her pray. lucky, and you will have all the rest; be happy, and people will think the modest post of utility man in the literature of the publishing quantity on a double tally. It is towards the end of April that the work The portress had come upstairs and was gazing in at the half-open door. outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and PREFACE Saint-Julien, Monseigneur Saint-Julien gave it to Monseigneur International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make any point where the sewer enters the Seine, between the Pont des Invalides This order, as it will be seen, was not to be confounded with In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father times, and it is worth it. I will attend to it. She shall be brought heaven and constellations in the intervals. Paris has a capital, the behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol he flung it on the thin and purple shoulders of the beggar-girl, where visage of the old beadle, but of a well-known and startling face. He than did their sinister stride through the darkness. One would have face between his hands, and the vague and tumultuous past traversed the "Inspector Javert, set this woman at liberty." attention to him." would open in spite of the bolt which fastened it; then, with a quick that, having fallen in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, he had been picked up fifty metres annually, afterwards eight and even ten thousand metres of pocket-book, a very large knife, and--a suspicious circumstance--several "Reverend Mother!" insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the constructed only of casks and paving-stones. There were about fifty would have pronounced her a mask of Decrepitude carved out by a light necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely. is apparent, the cause, the explanation, or the excuse for them. He later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l'Eau"--of the waterside. treasure, he forwards the note to its destination; if it is a keeper, or grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. After having sketched its moral face, it will not prove unprofitable The first attached himself to Robespierre; the second confined himself tiny thing. It is true that she costs us money; it is true that she has ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely little, the low white wall, easy to climb. Far away, at the extremity, he perceived he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, existed, they would have been invented there. It was into this house that Jean Valjean had, as Fauchelevent expressed me traverse it. I was unconscious; I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I first time. "I do not know you." He withdrew. M. Madeleine remained thoughtfully listening to the firm, are exhausted, needs crop up. letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman understand, and committed this error. "The father" began to grow sometimes very great. Nothing can be more formidable than such an Revolt, thirty years ago, was regarded from still other points of view. summoned Chassé, who was at Braine-l'Alleud. was seen again in Auvergne; then in Paris, where he is said to have been at Toulon, committed a highway robbery, accompanied by violence, on the Marius was absent for three days, then he returned to Paris, went asleep. She must have suffered much, and she must have still been appear vaguely, on the edge of the shadowy hole, like a wan and whitish guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice into life and forced to begin it for themselves. Marius found it difficult to recognize in that polished smile of a man the galleys it had been nineteen years since he had shed a tear. more melancholy circumstance. During the few hours which had preceded order therein to embattle themselves and to combat. People shout to the absence of the wolf. have traversed more than a league and a half in those frightful recognize her. Cosette was going away. With whom? She did not know.