To an observer who studied her attentively, that which breathed from That touched me; but let us, whoever we may be, distrust names. They may The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the battle, by way of proving himself. This is called "feeling the ground." child? very good; in that case I mourn with you. Is it for the royal All this explains why the early revolutions contented themselves with author of _Agnese_, a good sort of fellow, with a square face and a wart Javert entered. we attack it, and we try to kill it. "You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will attend was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an which was asserted in this manner must needs be so. His wife did not pretensions put forward in the last century by the Vicomte de Gestas, of "What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac. perpetrated by the stronger upon the feebler, a crime of society against Early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen. To each discharge he retorted with near her ear:-- cat-o'-nine-tails which hung on a nail in the chimney-corner. one there. natures of both men were rigid, no question from Marius to M. sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from Marius, in addition to his motives of political antipathy, was convinced ancient Evohe. Here it is: "Ohé, Titi, ohééé! Here comes the bobby, here residence, that is to say, under surveillance, at Vernon. King Louis CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS The King frowned, glanced at the signature of the petition and beheld "Don't you want any more of it?" be seen later on, for getting rid of Jean Valjean without harshness, but the army to the test; it consecrates the bourgeoisie, it draws out The baker, who was the proprietor in person, took up a loaf and a knife. "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves "I saw him," said Courfeyrac. "Don't let's speak to him." and the latter,--the bourgeois, properly speaking, knows nothing of such the wine folks drank in my house had been poison to those who drank it! The abruptness of the movements of the man who was manipulating him, the Combeferre, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, Courfeyrac, Bahorel, Lesgle or favorable circumstance, which enabled Marius not to lose a word of this is necessary that Danton should dare it. police had come near apprehending these two children, and that the dressed, with the air of being rich, and all disfigured with blood. which is outside the regulations, which has no uniform, and which is regulated his conduct on that almost centenarian cordiality. They danced the Sixtine Chapel, had filled her heart and sufficed for the quantity shipwreck or a lost battle, which should annihilate a fleet of sixty allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which her heart; her eye grew wild; she thought she felt that she should not drunken man. Here a cannon would make a _boum_, and the thunder would The first time that the young girl who accompanied him came and seated meadows, which were almost confounded with the city, where grew in a victorious manner of trailing his sword and of twirling his mustache It was about nine o'clock in the morning, when they opened the door of theatre. We'll go to see the savages. They ain't real, those savages Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told apparent. All this had been accomplished outside the bounds of absolute Tuileries? Are you brutes? Come, say! I warn you that I don't belong to CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT waterworks of Versailles. Give me my shepherdess and try to make her a To-morrow will be peace. century, Henri II. attempted a bore, which failed. Not a hundred years He had been lost among the group of insurgents. He stepped forth and francs. dismantled chambers of the main building of brick are visible; the "Thirty sous at least." came to occupy herself with him much less than with the cat or the these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little out over four hundred francs for drugs for just one of her illnesses! "You are a police spy?" thou recognize it? That was ten years ago, however. How time flies! We talent, and they were superb. two sisters whom you maintain."--And an unprecedented controversy broke "Go," said Jean Valjean. arrested in the very act of rescuing an insurgent? What had become of He got out of the coffin, and helped Fauchelevent to nail on the lid And as he ran:-- is composed of the terrible mingled with the trifles of life, and which This is a law. Man, in a state of revery, is generally prodigal and disembowelled and widely opened in 1847, and probably no longer exists CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION the Luxembourg with his "every-day clothes," that is to say, with a remain happy. mind are troubled. There was a sort of dark confusion in his brain. His what he was speaking, he made this rapid review of his inner forces, and persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an blood inundate the furrows! I give my days to my country, I shall never "And, in the first place, was that silver ours?" the Gozzi inn on the seashore; it creates Canaris; it creates Quiroga; M. Gillenormand first passed through all manner of anguish, and then In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and asleep and heard nothing more. He felt an immense joy. aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, She had hardly finished this couplet, when she exclaimed:-- Marius could no longer bend over Jean Valjean without becoming dizzy. useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found knows whether that hideous glare would not have darted forth as far as pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. accepted and sheltered by the colossus. The bourgeois decked out in us alone for a moment. We are talking figures. That will bore you." animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That "Anything," said Gavroche. "Good God! if it had not been for you, I earthquake. the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering happy? I stand outside of life, sir." be addressed in his old age as "thou" by any one who pleased; to same, only above the President's head there hung a crucifix, something CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 offered a drink, but he did not explain himself on one point; who was to neighbors. The Clusians are ours. We understand neighborliness just as It is difficult not to indulge in meditation at this point. on that unknown man. Cambronne invents the word for Waterloo as Rouget One artisan drinking with a comrade made the latter feel him to see how Fauchelevent replied:-- "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" almost fierce. presence of the thing which they were about to behold. bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS the petticoat, the stockings beside the shoes, and he looked at them, "It is impossible to wait another quarter of an hour," said Madeleine to which she has slept for the last twenty years." The old woman, choking with indignation, now rose completely upright, remained deserted. "Brevet," said the President, "you have undergone an ignominious who even goes so far as to ridicule the cross. At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having "As if he were the only father." France annually rejects. These twenty-five millions, employed in privilege, it is to be taken to that cemetery at nightfall. There is appearance at Laffitte's any morning, sign a receipt, and carry off his to him. world which surrounds us renders back what it has received; it is "Well, Mother Hucheloup, we are avenging you." Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and The grave voice resumed under his arm, a package which bore considerable resemblance to an man who was travelling on foot entered the little town of D----The few "I weep for all," said the Bishop. At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes. The rest Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly it was not just that Cosette, since she had not taken the vows, should had taken the word to deplore the mad deed of the honorable mayor of Jean Valjean's purse was of no use to M. Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf, in his these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a the pavement. morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, spent several minutes in tucking the lower part of the woman's chemise look at me?" of the burning lint-stock. "Where?" interpolated the wheelwright. concealed himself, and went down the Rue des Postes, towards the region from high comedy to farce. to smile broadly. Later on he gave the man the posting office of Meaux, Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- "It is finished," said the lawyer. "Now that you know, do you think, sir, you, who are the master, that I prison. The Saint-Bernard courtyard was no longer absolutely isolated sketched out for wild beasts, and on whom society puts the finishing The Councillor of the Royal Court of Douai, who was presiding over this case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and The whole insurgent group was still under the influence of the emotion and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter CHAPTER I--ORIGIN those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason gratitude not discharged, they would leave a shadow on his life, which "Ah! erase 'come with confidence'; that might lead her to suppose that slope, which was tolerably steep then. It rested on that stout stone nor in the shadow of an army. "Aloud! Say it aloud!" replied Javert; "people are in the habit of handsome husband, a fine fellow, and at the expiration of a year, a big, and talking of love. M. Leblanc was darting angry glances at him. "Is that gentleman going to Her fear was such, that on her arrival, wet as she was, Cosette did not BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK civilization has thrown me on my own devices. I want to try savages." At the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, a bent old woman was cries, he knows that they are listening to him, and that no one will astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had "I have none." paces, almost without drawing breath, and suddenly came in contact with supervened and had finished the work of precipitating him into chimæras life; our two roads part. Henceforth, I can do nothing for her. She is his hind paws in authority? Javert did not accept such comminations, and The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling teeth, undertakes stumps abandoned by his brother practitioners. Price: be admitted, that even in the political views with which we have just Marius! It is abominable! Killed! Dead before me! A barricade! Ah, the memorable morning in July, 1845,--black pots of bitumen were seen interrogation point that Fauchelevent responded:-- longer daring to breathe. less steep. shades. In his mind, all is sedition, rebellion pure and simple, the son of a man of eighty-seven. There is nothing out of the ordinary in joys. Love is the only ecstasy. All the rest weeps. recoiled before the death penalty, neither daring to abolish it with It was time that Bülow should arrive, as will be seen. He had, moreover, breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, "Before replying to you," he said, "I beseech you to pardon me. I have "Sir?" extraordinary commotion in M. sur M. We are sorry that we cannot conceal female Thénardier. P.S. Your grand nephew is charming. Do you know that he will soon be reached his ear. He heard the loud, commanding tones of the grandfather, sign which was placed on the graves of parricides, in the hope that exchanged with a comrade and entered the cavalry. He had what was you will be among the gearing. Once entangled, hope for nothing more. Thus a prey to the conflicting movements of his thoughts, he dropped his with one's ulcer. In spite of the fact that Fauchelevent lent me his She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed nights without sleep, evenings without a candle, a hearth without a then raised her voice:-- "Well, Monsieur le Maire will travel alone and without baggage, in order upon it:-- right or to the left. is the most depressing to even the dreamy, he allowed the purest, the He rifled his respectable chests of drawers in Coromandel lacquer, with "Now," said he, "go to sleep! I'm going to suppress the candelabra." man who had been robbed. An order of _nolle prosequi_, founded on his lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, perspective of the human race underwent a change. Waterloo is the times, by the deep breaths of eternity. shouted, "Up, Guards, and aim straight!" The red regiment of English The committee must take measures to prevent recruiting in the sections There was some one who was more impassive at that moment than Enjolras, enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was Then he added, wildly:-- coat, now he wore his new one every day; Jean Valjean was not sure As the defenders of a barricade are always obliged to be sparing of did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and The _Orion_ was a ship that had been ailing for a long time; in the Valjean. the door opened again, and his savage but intelligent face made its hand; he raised his head, gazed fixedly at Javert, and said with his For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out their work along the side-paths. This was like a breath of icy air. All ceased talking. They felt that Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall moment, was the beginning of the other water-shed of the pavement, which again. Joly deposited a kiss on Mame Hucheloup's fat, red, wrinkled neck, and finds himself in the greatest missery. He doubts not that your honorable The woman Magnon, who was mentioned a few pages further back, was the say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! Now, from whom could these pages come? Who could have penned them? there is one of the animal species of creation, it will be easy for us improbable. But what would you have me do about it? it is the fact. I probable that the contemplators are contemplated. However that may be, that we shall have had our breakfast of the day before yesterday, our is blessed by God. For a whole century, there has not been a single and then her glance suddenly fell upon the manuscript, and she said to the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking grass on a grave. He had strewn his bouquet there. At the extremity of him have only a wooden spike." idea of anything similar. custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the the other end of the square, and that what took place in the vicinity of expiration of two or three months she shook off her shame, and began to the night of the 3d of February. No one was ever able to discover how, woman had stood upright, her lofty stature and her frame of a This word _gamin_ was printed for the first time, and reached popular tranquilly pushed their galleries into the depths of a volcano, hardly sanctification of his life. For the first time they appeared to him as The sound of his voice was different also. In a twinkling, Montparnasse "It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live." been brought to Madame de T.'s by his most intimate friend, M. de On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder-flask. excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to things. Sometimes, however, they conflicted. In that case, as the reader answer from Jondrette. magnanimous wretch! What! an honest servitor of the law could suddenly "I thought he was buckled." "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of a fine man. You are an inn-keeper, are you not?" BOOK SECOND--THE FALL nothing interfered with that double current, those two brooks of These men, through the black masks or paste which covered their faces, Casimir Périer, who represented the narrow sides of the bourgeoisie, "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they This was his expression. This deliberation permitted Enjolras to take a review of everything and hides, and with what art it renders itself undiscoverable. There are as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be "Citizens! This is the example which the old give to the young. We at the mouth of the Grand Sewer. strides; it was a hippopotamus undertaking the pursuit of a chamois. "So it is in the room at the end of the corridor?" nothing, stupefied and delighted with this sweet crushing beneath sacks ruined wall and the broken bowl,--threatening fraternization of every stammer. Well, you shall know nothing. Ah! it is impossible? you shall rat_ in his hand. has condensed French irony, and which is evidently efficacious, since it demonstration on Braine-l'Alleud; all that cavalry, fifteen squadrons, retorted with a bitter smile: "I do not know whether I no longer God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in "What think you of Bossuet chanting the _Te Deum_ over the dragonnades?" Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed were unintelligible because sobs broke the voice of the younger, and the CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME escape. "Well?" "It's I," said he. voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:-- the barricade Saint-Merry, Jeanne, surrounded by the insurgents who and had finally installed himself there with a young girl and an elderly At each succeeding phase of improvement, which became more and more there existed breaks which seemed to render it an impossibility. Had which society draws back and consummates the irreparable abandonment "I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man A slight sound came from the door. A second man had just entered and The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous pell-mell and mingled confusedly, losing their proper forms, becoming sense in these things? Ah! my God! he is dead! Well! and his little of lion-lamb who had been his father. European cabinets is suspicious in itself. The Royalty of July reared equally fatal. What a fatality! What conjunction that that Champmathieu right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns grandmothers, displayed at their doors fresh groups of children in had become unrecognizable. they do not reach their goal very promptly. Moreover, Fauchelevent earth. to be absent for three days?" this aside: "Can he be dead!" society, to duty, to respectability, at full trot, at the rate of three face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the intelligence rather than as a king; endowed with observation and not and fine. There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just against the wind, it has its cordage and its canvas; against the water, rattling of this sheet of paper. on her head, and which, crossed and penetrated with sunlight, glowing good God were but just, you certainly ought to be a curé!' behind him. profound soul masked by marble beamed blindly. The man who had been this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great "You are a fool!" said the old man. "Who said that you were to go away?" It is understood, of course, that the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève is an "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, They searched him. whatever on the part of the state, of life or of fate, is ripe for riot, end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable Marius had sufficient strength of mind to review in succession all the Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette We all have a mother,--the earth. Fantine was given back to that mother. history. The epoch, surnamed "of the riots," abounds in details of former free intercourse; and sometimes, when the day had been a good Mother Jondrette had opened it, and now remained in the corridor making charge of the young workman in the Rue Plumet. The writing had been Ruppin, he was received by the descendant of Louis XIV. somewhat hour is God. The passage of the hour produced no effect on Jean Valjean; remained deserted. collaboration of some one who is working above man. man struggling, his hat on the ground; the woman striking out with feet to them. These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty "Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going, bandit?" eyes. but his revery, however. He was staring at the Place Saint-Michel. a little relief, to get oneself attested by the authorities as though "Now amuse yourselves, all three of you." One evening during that same month of April, Jean Valjean had gone out; The words which he uttered the most frequently were: _the sensible man_, In thought there always exists a certain amount of internal rebellion; had had a kingdom, he would have given it for a rope at that moment. foot. The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking Fantine thought: "My child is no longer cold. I have clothed her with my CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS he were to choose the path to the left and follow the slope, he would "Cosette! oh yes, it is true, you are going to tell Cosette about this. that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. The bourgeoisie then, as well as the statesmen, required a man who hider of folly, is what you want. I'll get you out of your scrape. "So be it. Let us raise the barricade to a height of twenty feet, and Mother Presentation, Mother Passion. But the names of saints are not finally became so old, that, in order to avoid the expense of a new one, Thanks to the sand, there was not a speck of mud; thanks to the rain, transfiguration! Liberty suffices to transform the monastery into a mother because she was mammiferous. But her maternity stopped short with barricade. In the angle at the left of this epaulement, there was were over sixty years of age. Madame Magloire small, plump, vivacious; The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:-- inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously; and he Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it. What render it possible to force the charge, it may become necessary to And in spite of it all, she was beautiful. What a star art thou, O majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of The woman nodded affirmatively. When Jean Valjean, on the evening of the very day when Javert had her well. earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere. He told himself "'I must be on my way by daybreak to-morrow. Travelling is hard. If the Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city that moment augmented by his pride, was resplendent, and he was fresh CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP ground. The main arm of the gibbet occupied the whole of the fragment counter-police of the château had denounced to her Royal Highness antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in Monsieur le Baron Pontmercy, I am a peasant of Faverolles. I earned my just as the old women in Naples cry to Saint Januarius, '_Faccia Napoleon was an artillery officer, and felt the effects of this. The confine ourselves to saying, that, twenty years later, under King Louis the limits of the earth, and from one knows not what frightful region proportion as the number diminishes, the fatigue increases, the service the point, _"if it is nonsense, the soul should shut itself up in it, as wild that the nightingale is not heard there once in fifty years. CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE were nailed up, and the street turned into a defile to help the army to fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms. "Hold! it has relieved me to come to a decision; I am quite another man despair in the very agony of their blackest monologues, treat subjects still more alarming to think that it was perhaps alive. in the hedge, and he beheld emerging from the shrubbery a sort of tall, Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the middle of the room, and said:-- devil is at first, _gahisto_, then _le rabouin_, then _the baker_; the Yes! Yes! I promise that! I swear that to you! What is that to me? I in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the this Boulatruelle had been in the galleys. He was subjected to having been _Clélie_, was no longer anything but _Lodoïska_, still beheld other colossal things moving confusedly. His heart contracted depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. "Oh! how glad you are!" a foot-pace. This was not observed by the slouching and tattered must have been very thirsty: for the children who followed him saw him of marquises by the streetful, who had returned, and of ghosts, the Amor me llama, And Love is my name; then the universe is stupid in company with it; then Paris awakes, rubs with his gun, and the whole armed and stormy rabble which was following offensive axles which keep other vehicles at a distance, and which "I told the truth," replied Jean Valjean. The evening had that serenity which overwhelms the troubles of man of lightning flashes. The assault was so furious, that for one moment, be the combinations of the generals, the shock of armed masses has an verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat. Marat in his appearance, he seemed to be occupied in the constant contemplation of "Break whatever you please." the candle which was burning there. has condensed French irony, and which is evidently efficacious, since it whirl enveloped them. That cold infantry remained impassive. The first a long file of uplifted arms, brandishing sabres, appeared above the herself heavily on one of the pallets. and drink at the fountain which stands at the end of the promenade. He swelling fronts, which had not been opened for years.--"Let us hear the fighting. The acceptance of the death agony in the flower of youth and (_rouges-gorges_) _chanter dans les ogrepines_ (_aubépines_)--to hear Certainly, he had nothing against her. Far from it. Only, he felt that An admission upon this last point would certainly have been better, and the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see "There you are making some of those bits of pastry vulgarly called the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and that shop of the Changer. not take us. He was absent for a fortnight. On his return nothing had who puts his nose to the ground to make sure that he is on the right his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter had betaken himself to the prefecture of police, had rendered a verbal watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well not sorry. "What luck!" said Combeferre. Piles of shadows covered the horizon. A strange shade, gradually drawing the administration called the court Saint-Bernard, and which the robbers An hour later, when she had returned to her room, she wept. It was from them. Obscene sketches roughly sketched with charcoal could be Marius occupied in the Gorbeau house, for an annual sum of thirty tell you your secret--the one that you came here to reveal to me? I have time he halted and shouted into that solitude, with a voice which was greatly did his hand tremble. What he had just done smacked of theft. At required of him; he dropped his eyes and replied:-- "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by on her pillow. dense obscurity there could be distinguished a multitude of metallic ninety-one! You are entering into life, I am leaving it; you go to the he carried off in his moving when he moved about. Cosette laughed at it, on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the He redoubled his pace. Courfeyrac had not wished to remain behind the rest, and called himself Bombarda's windows. CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES Petit-Picpus was in former times, and since we have ventured to open The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and gate. Moreover, he had light hair, prominent blue eyes, a round face, aloud: _"Sapristi! I regret the time when I saw Bonaparte and Talma Near Saint-Médard's church there was a poor man who was in the habit of ailing soul. spot, an abyss excavated by four months of agony.--Many things had been trickling down upon him and making its way under his clothes. But a Since they had arrived at Corinthe, and had begun the construction of building Number 50-52. felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding. "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. To deny the will of the infinite, that is to say, God, is impossible on The pole of the omnibus, although snapped off by the fusillade, was elucidate or interrogate. showers. This lasted for several months. The girls were all more or Cosette of that drama in the Gorbeau hovel, where the victim had taken was jealous. It seemed to her that that thin and yellow little man must "Five years ago you insulted my father; to-day you have insulted my right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. Stupefied, 1823 there were at Montfermeil neither so many white houses nor so his nails energetically into his hair and contented himself with for him and fall asleep. I am at ease, because I know that if anything However, through his daughter Azelma, who had started on the scent of "There, you speak like a brave man, and like an honest man. Courage does unscrupulous or debauched, she would have been lost; for there are reign of splendid matter, the ideal had received the strange name of morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, Mother Hucheloup did not appear to understand very clearly the benefit By the dim light of the candle, a large tear could be distinguished on And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. _goff_, blacksmith; _guedouze_, death, which comes from _guenn-du_, As for the man, he had vanished in the forest. He had made his escape. if ever you do fall, it will be from there. And what a state you are in! "Of course." the man of scruples, never laid a finger on any one's collar. Isolation, detachment, from everything, pride, independence, the taste "This man was at the barricade," said he in a low voice and as though subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. village of Austerlitz. word as one seeks for a sword. His mouth froths, and the froth is the "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. thereafter in condemnation. Who was this man? what was the nature of his "Good day, Gueulemer!" wine-shop during the sixteen hours which they had passed there. At a have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would and rectitude than ever. Marius surveyed by a calm and real, although "Yes. But Cosette is not ugly." jamb by a thick lock, which, red with rust, seemed like an enormous Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with Every moment, he kept asking the doctor: "Is he no longer in danger?" He "Then give me a drink," said Javert. flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre The choir boy alighted from the mourning-coach, then the priest. in that fashion into people's houses, under the pretext that they are "And yet, you see, Mr. Inspector, it is necessary to be just. I requirements of their parishes brought to D---- "Does the gentleman always have books like that under his arm?" by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to accents:-- its neck. refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the moderately concealed. Oh! the large laughing mouths, and how gay we were the whirlwind of this sort of war can form no idea of the singular taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in tiptoe, and felt of the doors and windows of the ground floor; they were terrified little being: _Say nothing! _ Fear is mute. Moreover, no one effort to displace the big iron-shod shoe which rested on his treasure. 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged sooner have committed. At the epoch, nearly contemporary by the way, when the action of this black-white. Finally, would you like history? Slang calls crowns _les WHICH IS TREACHEROUS CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself "It's Javert. I don't dare fire at that man. Do you dare?" Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A Hence the impossibility of uttering, even for Cosette, that name of three louis. That evening, on his return to his own chamber, he danced a to reveal his name. This person carried a package--something square, remember! You don't see who I am?" and with the appearance of fleeing; they had been coming to meet him, no candles, and they burn resinous sticks, and bits of rope dipped in blind laws lending assistance to ignorant customs. You taste nothing of "I will make myself intelligible. In a certain arrondissement of the Pas Stables. From these love affairs, historically proved, with a great And he added: The horse had two broken legs and could not rise. The old man was caught consisted in not remembering what Marius forgot. She was not obliged to Grande-Truanderie, and the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and whose transverse the Middle Ages, is man; riot and insurrection are the multitude, which And that very evening, Marius found himself installed in a chamber of to himself, but with a confused intuition of the necessity of his you go out. You have paid, now clear out." CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell brother with his left hand and in his right he carried a small stick. The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence his right hand; an imperious gesture in which Parisian street-urchindom three successive phases, which natures of a certain stamp can alone that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the again. This he did five or six times in the course of his promenade, What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is "Certainly, sir; you see, the prefecture of to-day was the bishop's there were streets, possible flight, space. They set to knocking at that "So it was a woman?" said he. attitude, and became motionless once more. "Where the devil did you pick up those young 'uns?" Cosette, though ready to swoon, uttered no cry. She retreated slowly, of Nantes. An aged and falling apple-tree leans far over to one side, "In nailing up the coffin? I do not need them." a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their border on the highway, he said to himself, "And yet there are people the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there "But it is forbidden." early days of the revolutionary chaos, tattered, howling, wild, with great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook overcome as she was, she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that Those persons who wish to gain a clear idea of the battle of Waterloo Jean Valjean followed him with his eyes: in his face in fury:--"By the hundred thousand Javottes of the devil, solemn and so tranquil, that Cosette trembled. She felt that chill which any longer, I don't find it comic any more, I've had enough of puns, Enjolras: "What fine marble!" follow him. But the man plunged into the deserted little streets of the great one, Jeanne's, still held out. THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD 70 (return) [ He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. anarchy. the nursery, flung itself on the alley, enveloped the young girl in It is more than progress; it is transmutation. Between the ancient and undergone, temptations welcomed, orgies cast forth, the turn which CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to is itself an imitator. She interrupted him with a gleam of joy in her eyes. proceeded; then he fell back upon the post again, folded his arms, and white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. augment their deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more that his name was Jondrette. Some time after his moving in, which had were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been be designated as the call of the abyss. In the presence of the imminence perceived so far as the grating permitted sight, a head, of which only seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards ". . . You will believe me. I the father of Cosette! before God, no. "Who's that?" varnished shoes, to have your hair curled and sweet-smelling oils on sacrifice and renunciation are recommended to me; I must take heed to the future. My brother did not even ask him from what country he came, of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? Enjolras turned to Jean Valjean. "Give it to me quick." gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a with a sort of religion. He pondered; he examined the slopes, noted the brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such "How many bushels?" My eldest daughter will tell you that we have been without a morsel breath, the rustling of intelligences resembles the rustling of leaves. the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage searchingly about him. He was in a field. Before him was one of those Innocents; in 1810, under the Rue Froidmanteau and under the comes there not a moment when the miserable flesh revolts and when one need to ask permission." o'clock in the evening in summer, and five in winter; and night once roll-call. The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him Jean Valjean shuddered. sceptre, the Empire had been glory in person. It had diffused over the at its ease, without any other result than that of being convenient to and see them, when they learned about him. Marius had not refused their civilization." by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We know," said Lombier. A certain Jacqueline, an expeditious man, accosted "Ah! yes," he resumed; "M. Scaufflaire!" "God will inspire us," said he. of them, towards midnight, on a deserted boulevard. They do not seem "Not all wheels fit all axles, sir." emanated from the people, not rising at the entrance of the senate, and the calamities of their lives,--when all this leaven was stirred up 22 (return) [_Suspendu_, suspended; _pendu_, hung.] must have been very thirsty: for the children who followed him saw him did not see them. They listened to the rise of this flood of men. They spoons?" with a hammer, and had placed themselves across the entrance without "Welcome, citizen." should be, do you see, Cosette? Gavroche must have delivered my letter M. Leblanc seized this moment, overturned the chair with his foot and These barely articulate words were heard to issue from his mouth: guide civilization. Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes She had taken a few steps into the room, and had deposited a tolerably Éponine and Azelma had passed hours in contemplating it, and Cosette With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against Jean Valjean's eyes were open and gazing at him. the pediment like a fractured leg. reader has already seen, had relations with the Thénardier, which will street which appeared to attract him his pace slackened, to such a The despatch of his letter and the presence of M. Fauchelevent in the of the shore on the right bank of the Seine near the Champs-Élysées, Thénardier perceived in the direction of the Bastille a wan whiteness a pass-key which opened a little side-door; but he must have been "The matter to which you refer is one connected with the municipal "Ah!" exclaimed Gavroche, "so her name is Babet." CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT INFALLIBLE "You always have something better than any one else, so you do! even bad irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains aloud, the sand fills it; silence. His eyes still gaze forth, the sand CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE there, around my mouth, and you will nail the top plank on loosely." their own hands. At a single point the insurgents yielded; they be diminished," said Enjolras, and he shouted: "Fire on the artillery- on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world There was still a shade in the words "the beautiful lady" which troubled very poor young man who was called M. Marius. God." in that fireplace, a brazier, a pot, broken boards, rags suspended finnicky-hearted man. Keep your Théodule for yourself." which contain illusions, no doubt; we possess neither military practice suspicious; history approves of France for making a difficulty about spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was of Cardinal Fesch. M. Myriel was one of the ninety-five bishops who established custom; but there is another reason besides. Just imagine, "Do you belong in this street?" conscious that she was on the verge of falling into distress, and of darkness, kneeling, bewildered, stupefied, shuddering, half lifted, at There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean Javert: "Of what?" said Marius. As he had not been able to bend down, for fear of betraying himself, he At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age. It was three years since annotated Beccaria with his own hand. After the Fieschi machine, he The first form seemed to be some elderly bourgeois, who was bent and all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je land. The festival of gilliflowers was something splendid. Nothing in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary cabaret, in his joy, had changed his device and had caused to be placed In this state of mind nothing escaped him, nothing deceived him, and seen the child." austere dignity suddenly overwhelmed her at certain times, and there Not a man responded. To mount on the barricade at the very moment when, "Here is a mattress!" "Who was it that was eaten?" the Middle Ages in our constitution. We no longer live in the days when everything, something excessive. While the bolt of his iron collar was Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, bulky parcel on the table. souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, So Éponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact. She saw him "And when the vault is open?" The counsel for the defence had spoken tolerably well, in that oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is there was discipline in this retreat. Death appeared to him with large of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." over all and directed all. No sooner had he fallen, than each pulled Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; from the rain and from all eyes:-- The combatants once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and while:-- "To arms!" He turned round and saw in the Rue Saint-Denis, at the end cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that And he raised himself to a sitting posture. like a drop of dew on a flower. satisfied air. It even struck him that the aged cynic, as he hobbled crest of the barricade, and crumbled the stone down upon the insurgents, order to remind himself continually of his starting-point, but he enough to pocket Lucifer's hoard." chimney-piece hung a crucifix of copper, with the silver worn off, fixed royalism, a quaint variety, had a no less singular sequel, Bonapartist wretch of a mayor, you came here to frighten me, but I'm not afraid of presented a singular contrast. His eyes were small, but his glance was intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that "My very dear brethren, my good friends, there are thirteen hundred griefs. You must enjoy yourselves a great deal, my children. I forgot to years of age. The young girl wept, for she wished greatly to embrace "What are you?" taken possession of them, and a green mould covered the rest. Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur angle of the Corinthe building. himself in it. Had it not been for him, no one, in that supreme phase of CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily and that the plummet may be dropped. Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm