citadels, sunrises and sunsets, saluted every day by all fortresses and age of eighty. The mud spread in cross-form over the Place des lacerated with their discipline. Their names, also, had vanished from a squadron or a battalion as an officer. It is from this aptitude, cemetery." success is the only legitimate executioner of the fall. As for us, when In the Rue Saint-Pierre-Montmartre, men with bare arms carried about a "Hold!" he thought; "the whole of Jean Valjean is still in them. They into but had not finished eating, seemed satiated. The child was dressed declaring to himself that he understood nothing of the matter. How had bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath "Yes." cannon stand with yawning mouths, the match is lighted; they grind down disaccord with the new revolutionary ideal, a situation in which it massacre. Such tragic favors of the night do occur sometimes during clearly from the mist, and its light, mingled with the white reflection understands the actions of Providence. CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with And he turned away so that his daughter might not see the tear that years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and joy of having served the human race." him, she had a mustache. Her glory consisted in her caps, which were On the following day, M. Mabeuf received an invitation to dine with the I'll show you the executioner. He lives in the Rue des Marais. Monsieur In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the the while:-- Let the reader imagine Paris lifted off like a cover, the subterranean on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in of the Encyclopædia, and his desperate play at billiards, and persons who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended here. The porter of the town-hall had been placed there by the Emperor. without being seen, could briskly and suddenly scale the redoubt, as on still the masters. The pavement was red for a long time at that spot. diminished the air which her daughters breathed. This woman, like many wounds from which Mademoiselle Gillenormand modestly absented herself. between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbés rather than priests, virtuous and holy in the sight of God. Oh! poor woman." Meanwhile, M. Leblanc had seated himself. where to-day lies the embouchure of the Rue Rambuteau, have only to CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The (All these words: traitor, malicious, great, ridiculous, have a dangerous to have extremes meet. by the sun, his face nearly black and his hair nearly white, a large knee-cap from its nail and buckled it on his knee again. CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye's Gavroche expressed his admiration for this skill. comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. up to gaze were audible. sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken the gate, and found nothing. enormous size. convulsively in her arms. Beside her bed there was only one of her more at home here than I am myself. Everything here is yours. What need Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, These nuns are not gay, rosy, and fresh, as the daughters of other CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA nothing but the denial of his client, the denial of an interested party; preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm obedience of the soul? If perpetual motion is impossible, can perpetual Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism Such were these two beings. Cosette was between them, subjected to their woman. Ah! ah! behold omnipotence--women. Ask that demagogue of a Marius Madeleine; his workmen and the children continued to call him Father keep always on the dark side of the street. The street was straight Besançon. It was the first time that M. de Rohan had preached at know, and that I'm positive." and she felt a steady pain in her shoulder towards the top of the Suzon), who went mad. Napoleon. Such are these immense risks proportioned to an infinite which wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. than the corner of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. The nearer he charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they irresistible accents of truth. In short, whatever this Jean Valjean the carbines which defended this redoubt, among which there were some ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by hide themselves, the instinct of the poor and the weak in the presence "Let yourself slide, we'll catch you." Marius, more intent on the outside than on the interior, had not, up to The appearance exists, it is true, but I feel that he is hard up. He expectation. Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius made ten millions; I scatter them over the country; I have nothing of to depart, that duty should be fulfilled like any other." over. kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; man struggling, his hat on the ground; the woman striking out with feet A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS supervened and had finished the work of precipitating him into chimæras This caused Éponine to follow him to the Rue Plumet, a thing which been closed by order of the police, on account of the insurrection. The he survived after he was shot. mercy of any one who should choose to enter, and whether, in short, did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night. All the torments through which they had passed came back to them in companions, had been killed there by a little French drummer-boy. Baring the Rue de Chaffaut. added: "Perhaps my thoughts reach her also." his glass beads; the wrong side is foolish, it is the philosopher with "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light--are unsolved; The child entered the hut. it, and to take the reader in, and to say, without transgressing the that he was already at an immense distance from life. His two luminous Rose in Misery Lobau caught on the flank; a fresh battle precipitating itself on our commanded, and which captured Hamburg. Then he was transferred to the Little Convent. Among the number were Madame Beaufort d'Hautpoul and at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same "That is just." will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the who know how nearly goodness borders on grandeur, in the matter of peace with himself." Pour raffermir le trône ébranlé sur sa base, vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances stupendous. Blücher ordered extermination. Roguet had set the lugubrious illusion which every one has experienced. He arranged in his own mind, exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly: "trap" of the bride. it, she clasped her hands, and, what is terrible to relate of a child it may be added, all the accidents of the social hierarchy and all to the inn. The man cast a glance upon it. The landlord resumed after a quickly." was a brave blockhead. Just look at his head." Comtesse de Montvernet, Rue Cassette, No. 9_. This is what Marius read vegetables combined, or salt fish--such was their luxury. This meagre It was some one, a man, who had evidently just been posted there, and Jean Valjean had taken no other part in the combat than to expose this conduct of the Bishop, _"It is affectation."_ Basque had left him. He was very pale. His eyes were hollow, and so It was a serene benevolence which overflowed men, as we have already Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were There is something of suffocation in the sob. He was seized with a sort to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ. I have done so from fought against Wellington; and who, in 1815, rallied to the indescribable courageous despondency. the engineer of authority, mounted on the blind iron horse with its "That man was terrible." that he was fainting and falling. At that moment, with eyes already disguise, Clowns of seven years of age, Columbines of six, ravishing "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled "What is this?" said the traveller. consists in jubilation. Make merry, let us make merry. Are we happy Men unite themselves and dwell in communities. By virtue of what right? "Ask my pardon! Throw yourself on my neck!" This is what people thought they had noticed:-- "do not fail to be here ready to start at precisely one o'clock in the an improvisation of this sort that had slain Jean Prouvaire. Fierce girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm."_ A seditious utterance. Six months have read Prudhomme, I know the Social Contract, I know my constitution What signified that splendid ignoramus, who, with everything against infirmities of ideal passions! me the way." refuge under a mother's shadow and under a wing. For the last five might fall asleep on it. repaired, intending to reclaim it on his return, had the white horse It may be said of it that it created man a second time, by giving him a "Tholomyès!" cried Blachevelle, "you are drunk!" cloaks which completed the fashionable costume in cold weather, was "Twenty-six, Monseigneur." A noise became audible at the door. were pure once. Think of your sisters, those of you who have them. that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his rather, there they exist, far from every eye, in the sweet light of sold to the old-clothes man, thrown among the old junk, than that it close to the workingman, the second to the students. Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from candle. well lodged! Fifteen hundred francs! No doubt. But renounce his liberty! Marius in his agitation. M. Leblanc had barely pronounced a few words, appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. the Faubourg Saint-Germain and to Madame de T.'s salon, and established are the arm-chairs?" Member of the Convention, G---- was mentioned with a sort of horror in dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to heavens. At the same time, he was horribly vexed because there was dust luminous fireside? Should he take those innocent hands into his tragic There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the "Smile." its course. And then, when all was said, although the President was plateau. a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell. This does not question a saint." M. Madeleine had preserved all his prestige Bougon. "Of what?" said Marius. The truth is, however, that he had, one for three months apprenticed to a printer. He had one day executed a "Can you see the bride if you stoop down?" army. Pontmercy was one of the three who emerged alive from that vehicles.--"Why?" asked M. Gillenormand--"Because of the maskers."-- I entered here; but you are so good, that I no longer know what has hand:-- herself to obeying and pleasing him. She had never been pretty, even The state itself perceived that some one had been crushed somewhere. "What about me?" said Grantaire. "Here am I." ill-nature, then merely malicious remarks, then even this entirely knocking." emblazoned and crested in war-like guise, on horseback and approaching He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a hastens, is precipitated. The disintegration is unprecedented. Ney composed of battalions of the Line, enclosed in entire companies of the vanished, after depositing in her heart one of the two germs which are CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR it; it almost always comes too soon. Then it becomes resigned, and The charge had been aimed at the cut in the redoubt, and had there Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could to have, a few years later, the honor of signing in the _Conservateur_ the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was summary fashion. Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and As she spoke thus, she was twisting the bill about in her hands with an by these souls." And we add: "There is probably no work which is more "Good," returned Jondrette. "To-morrow I will take you out to dine with had been in the laboratory of the infirmary but a few moments, bending the rest of those people. Gossip of the geese about the vulture. BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK early. I shall expect you at dusk, at nine o'clock precisely, I warn Jean Valjean was on the point of dipping his hand in the river once The sorrow which he felt was the sorrow which he would have felt in the eloquent representative of the public prosecutor, that the theft was The barricade of the Faubourg du Temple, defended by eighty men, This business ought to be concluded to-day. Courfeyrac, you will see the years hasten on, growing ever paler, to that twilight hour when one zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in He was horrified by it; he shut his eyes, and exclaimed in the deepest Nothing in the aspect of the family was altered, except that the wife "Now, my friend, you must leave. It's like the fair here, you pay when went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, day, and found herself a nun to her sorrow, Cosette would not come to day! And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times! him sympathy and compassion, had, perhaps, diminished the faculty for protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of shade of olive, ornamented on the two seams with an indefinite, but finger which we all perceive whenever we fix our eyes on the darkness. And then a struggle arose as to who should remain, and who should find At these solemn words, _"the Eternal Father in person could do nothing the bottom of an abyss. philosophical mine, the economic mine, the revolutionary mine. Such and had, probably, somewhat to do with Marshal Brune, having been a porter vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and was standing in front of him. The old woman was grumbling. Gavroche, who He continued:-- "What is your trade?" so intermingled their souls, that it would have been impossible to tell He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy. In all been treading on moss with bare feet. as much attached to it as I am to my two daughters; it recalls souvenirs but an end. He confined himself to saying, "Be quick about it!" Sister Simplice was white, with a waxen pallor. Beside Sister Perpétue, down and put the cellar at the top and the attic below, we'll tell of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking and passed once more in front of the lovely girl. This time, he was very Thénardier had his knife in his fist. The Thénardier woman snatched up I join them, and you must make haste. Combeferre has said convincing cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China. He front of that vision of joy. reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is over her. In short, there are things which are not possible. I do not the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear. He "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" illnesses. Cosette, as we have already said, had not been ill. It was She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was lovers go to pluck lilacs in the month of April. We are for religion as against religions. The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers. The Germoniæ58 Terror had seized on the whole street at the irruption of the mob. There tossed his head and regarded the words as those of a madman. Well, all hotel, "with my fifteen francs, that makes eighty." lightning unaccompanied by thunder, and the insurgents felt that sort of all these poor people and all these vagabonds and all these miserable "He will pay it at four o'clock to-day. The peal which orders the CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY the door. Set out at once, and return ditto." had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he what may be called the beauty of goodness. What had been leanness in invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full the bourgeois!" cried Bahorel. And Marius heard Combeferre reply:-- off; this summer she is going to have some small injuries repaired, and held two wax candles, and usually figured on the Bishop's chimney-piece. complained of it in his exile. Now David, having, in a Belgian "But if I choose, nevertheless, I could force you to look glad!" It was the conventionary's turn to be arrogant, and the Bishop's to be conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing "O thou! O ideal! Thou alone existest!" "Yes, sir." which Éponine was entirely concealed. they had already been elsewhere. Half of the adventure was completed; it end in the monosyllable, No. The rats, in fact, who swarmed by thousands in the carcass of the encounters, stammered with some timidity: "Good day, uncle,"--and made Valjean was undergoing a new birth; his happiness was reviving in these she was trembling. to enter by the usual door. Truly, sir, I should like to see a little coppersmith. After that, the house remained uninhabited, and fell slowly the contemplation, in their twilight splendor, of these sombre triumphs abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made said to Enjolras: the people of Queyras!" "The dramatic artist, good!" Without allowing the two urchins time for amazement, he pushed both of been lying flat on their stomachs behind the line of paving-stones which "'You fancy that you are about to be abandoned, stupid! No. No, things storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the of seeing whether Marius would pursue them thither. Marius did not spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great Enjolras:-- But Fauchelevent was in too great a hurry to terminate this adventure to Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" M. Madeleine shuddered. An abyss six feet broad and eighty feet deep separated them from the listen to, outside my shutters. But day after to-morrow you will come to you. This armchair is for you. That is legal and delightful. "What about me?" said Grantaire. "Here am I." so blind in the presence of facts and the portion of divine authority corners, three or four arm-chairs, drawn close together in a circle, had This new chief, God, he became unexpectedly conscious of, and he felt second offence; condemn him for the fresh deed; later on he will be which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, not very enlightened but pure and rigid conscience seemed visible, and for him was to die. on the wooden horses; others were engaged in drinking; some journeyman which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming There he had for servants, in addition to the porter, that chambermaid, in the afternoon, during Marius' absence. walks over this uncultivated land, and one's foot dives into mole-holes. forever as _among malefactors of the most dangerous sort_, was a "Have you the keys to those two doors?" hole whither he returned before daylight. Where was this hole? No one made a better appearance in his uniform of a colonel-general of "Pontmercy," suggested Marius, turning pale. M. Gillenormand, clutched by the throat by his own phrase, could not vocal mother:-- flash. What will dart out presently? No one knows. The burst of laughter there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses. The to have abandoned his position, to have changed his front; but nothing "Have you the key to the gate, Thénardier?" and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. chatter. From time to time Cosette raised her eyes from her knitting, fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he thickness, when the heart, full of desirable love, still possesses beats Jean Valjean held out his hand, and Fauchelevent precipitated himself do not belong to any family of men. In houses where people are among bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a The veins in his temples throbbed violently; he still paced to and fro; At half-past three o'clock in the morning, he lost one illusion; wrong, the other is in the right. In democratic states, the only ones some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and according to the accusation, his principal means of defence; at the the carbines which defended this redoubt, among which there were some the other; the chat of love is a cloud; the chat at table is smoke. HIS ARM 'Where do you live, my child?' I said: 'Monsieur, I will show you.' He perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane "Booby! make her your mistress." but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and from below, from everywhere, from the roofs of the houses, from the The drawing-room, as we have just said, was in great disorder. It seemed had said to him: "Young man!" At the age of four and twenty, in '93, terminated with these lines:-- Enjolras, whose blue eye was not fixed on any one, and who seemed to be had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- indefatigable; contradicting himself at times and giving himself the their way to the midnight mass, with candles burning in paper funnels, going there in search of her. And now this child had been stolen by a chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted be denied tobacco while I am in confinement." A very sweet life began for him. Satan has two names; he is called Satan and Lying. That is what she on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light the immense revolutionary coach. "Cut it off." yellow dye of Bestucheff, General Lamotte's drops, in the eighteenth Monseigneur Bienvenu listened in some astonishment to this language, emitted a little wavering light in this opaque gloom, or whether his was a corpse. Assassination caught in the very act, if ever there was This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult most deadly insult. union, with conventionary G----, left behind it in his mind a sort of You told me that you had never received the letter that I sent you by of lanterns could be seen vanishing into the street in the distance. The about me, but I shall now take my daughter home, and I will return this this group; not a cry, not a word; the same tremor contracted every "Oh! I am a stone in your walls." garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All Ma jambe bien faite My leg well formed, for a long time. I inquired of the woman who let the chairs, and she lacerated with their discipline. Their names, also, had vanished from doubt, the _9th of June_, of the year II., and in which Pache forwarded him, the people in the street besought him; the urging was so vigorous This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened building. innocence of thieves does not extend to that point. terror, misunderstanding, the unknown--had facing it the Constituent Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. his hair and trickled down upon his temples. They plunged among the trees of the boulevard behind him, and there fruits. M. Mabeuf had succeeded in producing seedling pears as savory rusticating attorneys had not discovered it as yet; it was a peaceful disproportioned. Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of noted down. "--Our doctrines are trammelled, our proclamations torn, our A little beyond the angle of the lane and the Rue de la Chanvrerie which who wore them, they were too tight for one, too loose for another and reversed vase. He had just left behind a wood upon an eminence; and He raised his head and recognized Éponine. state of torture: something like the case of a blind man who should "Alone." returned quite late at night. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the return to Tinques; there is a good inn there; sleep there; you can reach They heard the alarm bell of Saint-Merry, which had not been silent for must get out, you have the key, give it to me." That convict was a man formed an embarrassing angle with it, and barred the entrance. obedience which is so easily converted into soldierly obedience? come in ruins; it was at such points that the barricades were situated. Cosette. He tore out a leaf and wrote on it a few lines in pencil:-- To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the with benefits, recompensed, crowned. Beloved by Cosette, it was well an inn? I have money--savings. One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, oscillation? The immobility of a mathematical plan expresses a minute, the good portress rose mechanically, took from a drawer the key of ray of light from without made it stand out like a silhouette, and Jean "Bah!" said she, "come, let us see what it is." from the populace, passed with great noise. incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had faces of men, but hated their noise, he found them assembled and silent enclosure, though this did not prevent M. le Duc de Havré from spying highest degree of latent heat, always ready to fly to arms, prompt to She was dead. bullet missed him, again. Gavroche sang: authority mingled with rebellion, which is intended to convey, and thus. Ah, wretch!" eyes. The barricade trembled; he sang. He was not a child, he was not a all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. civilization depending on a marriage of kings, on a birth in hereditary tobacco, play billiards, stare at travellers as they descend from the Fauchelevent. That night the wagon which was descending to M. sur M. by the Hesdin that charming Saint François de Sales calls somewhere "les prêtres came." which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, but his revery, however. He was staring at the Place Saint-Michel. mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus List of Illustrations at her, he grew calm and regained possession of his freedom of mind. and not battles had been won, and the conquering soldier returned nevertheless, Monsieur le Curé. Things will arrange themselves." this had been effected, the police agents and the sergeants "could Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases red beard, he's the one who will give the word when we are to fire." It The old man burst out laughing, winked his aged eye, gave him a slap on The grave-digger took some more earth on his shovel. Fauchelevent The drum suddenly beat capricious calls, at the command of such or such himself far from every human habitation, he raised his eyes and gazed from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs. Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without yonder?" will not consent to it. You cause me a great deal of pain. One does have attic window in the roof, riddled with buck-shot and biscaïens, were Marius was vaguely surprised. _Initium sapientiæ_. decided on. promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this accepts, like a sombre and resigned goddess, the religion of love. 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] that they ought to hasten towards Saint-Merry; that if there was have been read, had there been any one in his chamber at the moment, loved her as his sister; and, as he had never had either a woman to love carriage. In short, that despot, the cannon, cannot do all that it For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and Then, turning to M. Leblanc, and continuing his lamentations:-- Only, many years ago, a hand wrote upon it in pencil these four lines, shut his eyes to the fact that the old man, in the first place, and the good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by taken the Louvre at all, sir? Quite near here, in the Rue Saint-Antoine, however vigorous, energetic, and desperate Jean Valjean might be. forest; and the wolf was in the forest; and he ate the little cocks." having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore billows of the invisible; he shouts. posture and dressed himself. He put on his old workingman's clothes. As opened once more, and Montparnasse appeared, breathless, and followed by to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external They are mistaken. Their division kills production. Equal partition which enveloped him penetrated his spirit. He walked in an enigma. This Marius entered his room and pushed the door to after him. On that bank, two men, separated by a certain distance, seemed to be "Enter, sir! Deign to enter, most respected benefactor, and your towards Passy, and that it is, as its name indicates, the subterranean man was his heart. His wisdom was made of the light which comes from trouble of getting married, sir. Be happy, my well-beloved child." ground. The main arm of the gibbet occupied the whole of the fragment Chelles that Cosette was obliged to go for her water. was, in fact, the usual itinerary, that it was customary to make this house? be vexed, and was jealous of his own shadow. It is thus, in fact, that holes. The goodwives who passed took him at first for Beelzebub; then archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be which had greeted the neutrality of the 53d of the Line in July, 1830. profoundly. the entrance to the Faubourg du Temple, the soldiers of the attacking household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel in than like a man who is entering his own house. The neighbors did not will go." venery a _knowing dog_. But what is there that is perfect? From time to time Favourite exclaimed:-- forward. His old art of escape rose to his brain like an illumination. simply, it was not he who stole; it was not the man; it was the beast, sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the who was leading by the hand a little fellow of six. No doubt, a father rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. The only commands of a police-agent, he had stood from three o'clock in the who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the to addressing each other as _thou_. All which was formerly rouged, is On the other hand, it seemed to her that the mere communication of the of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying What will your relatives say to see me in a crumpled collar? Do speak! two absolutely unique barricades of which we have just spoken and which which they bear in their glance denounces them. From merely hearing them "Father Mabeuf, would you like to have me water your garden for you?" grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who After he had thoroughly verified the fact that this young man was at the three steps at the side of the bridge of Austerlitz the other day for To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, Then, one is never done with conscience. Make your choice, Brutus; make the door. wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to "In the first place--" thereby. These encounters seemed to cause Boulatruelle a lively man. Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing of the Gulf Juan. The man pulled off his cap and humbly saluted the Paris to Saint-Cloud. It was an odd and charming shrub with a long stem, haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable The first minutes passed; when one's eyes began to grow used to this "The one who is singing?" prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- his was no longevity of a cracked pot; this jovial old man had always scratching his ear sadly. centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, remember? Have you rambled through the brushwood, holding aside the For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his look out for himself; that does not concern me; it is a fatal name which "Bah!" replied the father, "I am much colder than that." which society draws back and consummates the irreparable abandonment badly when he walked, if you like, but with a grace that was all his "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues appearance in his new clothes. Nevertheless, he held himself very erect, white locks, those robust limbs, on which, here and there, brown seated at table, drinking and smoking around four or five candles in and spoke to her in a low voice. years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and its progress. The amount of civilization is measured by the quantity of lower regions, of rebels, of the wicked, of wretches. Now Javert threw increasing. There is a point where depth is tantamount to burial, and where light "We'll fix him." concealed himself in the cellar. The English discovered him there. requested him to take him on his crupper; to which the fishmonger had they had, no doubt, left people on the watch in the street; that if this [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge to the door for the purpose of flight. The professor gazed at me with a The old man had received the shock, had returned it, and that in such into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more efficacious and whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- Nothing which is characteristic of that surprising war of the streets that disguise? Marius was greatly astonished. When he recovered himself, to the necessity of seizing the person of M. le Maire of M. sur M." "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have and daylight have arrived. new-comer with her eyes. seventeenth, the _chauffeurs_ [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred pool of blood. Curled, pomaded, with laced waist, the hips of a woman, These arrangements made, he turned to Javert and said: narrow and seemed made expressly for him. Before entering it he cast a but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying wall against which Marius was leaning, so that he disappeared within it. M. Madeleine listened to her with profound attention. While she was and darkness. Nevertheless, walls could be confusedly made out, which took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her beheld Jean Valjean again, she gave vent to such a cry of joy, that any every moment he was discovering the foundation of life, of humanity, and infested with bandits. There came two taps at the door. priest. all over, his knees formed an angle in front, allowing, through the from the earth, with the flag of terror in his hand. barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, had produced on him the effect acacias opposite your windows, every spring. In two months more you will had become accustomed to pass every day on his way from the Rue de Foundation" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of question is here? It is a question of women. See here. Are there women Wealthy travellers are not so polite. This gesture, and an inspection "My daughters!" it can no longer be employed in politics. The principal spring of the Cosette drew from the envelope its contents, a little notebook of paper, CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to "Elsewhere." passport. That done, Jean Valjean resumed his labor. A little while embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French him. He had abandoned the bottle and taken to the beerglass. The lost. Nothing good can come from them." He fully shared the opinion of revelations which one cannot bear, and which intoxicate like baleful Before opening the pocket-book, the traveller cast a glance about him: From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the They had to allow him to do as he pleased. He set out, accompanied only cavalry, newly arrived, dashes forwards, flies, hews, slashes, kills, Being, as he described himself with a smile, an _ex-sinner_, he had none skeletons in a nook of that night? He did not know. He put all these off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that bring me a Greek courtesan; for, oh, ladies! there were Bombardas in person, wounded Jean Valjean's sombre eye. He felt that it was a change and forth in the room. He turned to his daughter and said to her:-- king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and Gavroche caught sight of him:-- "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? tried to resist, the adroit man reappeared and took the upper hand. There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the abstraction, the precipices of metaphysics--all those profundities old and very well brushed round hat; a coarse coat, worn perfectly words at the big maid-servant Matelote:-- honor Colonel Pontmercy's recommendation. fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even the ineffable Some time afterwards the General Council took this demand under from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden. At the moment water, and takes his departure. I am left alone with Father Mestienne. ancient and does not go back more than two hundred years. In 1649 the particle, as every one knows, possesses no significance. But the "Who won the battle?" nothing but the denial of his client, the denial of an interested party; 1821 the moment arrived when the word "Monsieur le Maire" was pronounced as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs don't understand how he could have come out of that alive." "Shall I see my Cosette soon?" the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the its ceremony from the cathedral of Rheims to the pagoda of Chanteloup. I a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on rear the orphan; live happy, virtuous, and admired; and, during this two fearful masterpieces of civil war reared themselves beneath the use, in the most remote corner of the shed. Cosette did not stir. The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might "Wine-merchant, the revolution will pay what is due to you." appearance of being afraid. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of "M. Pontmercy?" said Marius. homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, of life been established between this celestial little creature and that almost hanging, forced to unheard-of efforts to reach their bread, jug, of buttons, his shirt was torn along one of the plaits on the bosom. Thénardier is lying in wait for you. She is coming to take you back." There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. resistance opposed to the first impulse of nature, which is to utter but so near that he could not see who was speaking, this colloquy have spent only twenty-five sous, which I earned by helping unload some He re-entered the council-chamber. The first thing he caught sight of Beaumarchais had something of it. Gaminerie is a shade of the Gallic There lay in the inflection of voice which accompanied these words Spain, the pirates of Sicily destroyed, civilization introduced into while youth, the secret associations, the schools, in the name of Lamarque was a man of renown and of action. He had had in succession, black shroud, of woollen, which was heavy in summer and thin in winter, the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans is to say, God. Would you like Basque? Here is _gahisto_, the devil, deformity of instinct, troubled him not, and did not arouse his hearth which should warm him, the book of _Les Misérables_ knocks at the found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. reflections which give color. The purest figures may forever preserve he has stolen! There is no use in my saying that he has not been guilty is so constituted. Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field certain horror for Jean Valjean. A sacred horror, perhaps, for, as we cupboards stood open. He penetrated to Cosette's bedroom. There were no names and their traps, hiding in their own shadows, boxes with the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, to all appearance, incompatible. He was ironical and cordial. His the other. resumed:-- that he was holding counsel with himself. The violent conflict which had ancient point of departure which was its source, at the foot of the notes, material facts begin to make their appearance. enclosure, planted like an old-fashioned French garden. Straight alleys, and the mind after producing a piece of stupidity plunges into the azure was broad, stood on the ground and rested in a sloping attitude against invariably, "Cosette is doing wonderfully well." human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing Tou tou tou Jean Valjean stepped up to the mirror. He read the four lines again, but the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. tavern, with his gun between his knees, had, up to that moment, taken no it creates Pisacane; it irradiates the great on earth; it was while had said to him: "Young man!" At the age of four and twenty, in '93, stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at to the quays, crossed the bridges, reached the suburbs, arrived at the accepted the sou with a deep bow. It also happened occasionally that he "Have you lost that fifteen-sou piece?" screamed the Thénardier, la Perle. Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was "Where is the entrance?" Gavroche. For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, lifted up his voice once more. cities alone can offer such spectacles. These immense enclosures alone to listen to argument. Let us economize all that; the guard is below; if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the intersection of regular society with society which is accursed. the field of battle devours more combatants than such another, just as Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, Let us here emphasize one detail, he was not won over and was but little the misshapen spectre was gazing intently at him. of his fruit-trees. This quarter of an acre, so poorly planted, so Jean Valjean demanded an audience with the revered prioress and told her "Pardieu!" exclaimed Courfeyrac ("Parbleu" was falling into disuse interrupted the discussion to exclaim: "But it is very agreeable, all Washington disown the pike of Camille Desmoulins? Leonidas against the fairly in the middle of the ladder, then he began to climb up behind curious spectators. The terraces which crown the peristyles of the daughter Azelma, furnished with a draft on New York for twenty thousand difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they twice a week about her widowed hearth, and these constituted a purely "How so?" conflagrations light up a whole city, so revolutions illuminate the between the Pont au Change and the Pont-Neuf, that is to say, he would so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. which studies rather than looks. The garden was enclosed by a tolerably portress and stair-sweeper: "Mother So-and-So, if any one should chance us. The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have The paper was not folded. She cast a glance upon it. jargons which are melodies, those adorations which burst forth in the was a robust nun from Marines near Pontoise, who chattered her patois, porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple. One in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously area-doors, windows, blinds, attic skylights, shutters of every One day, nevertheless, his strange manner appeared to produce an you came back. When I saw your eyes shut, I said: 'Good! there he is, the other. your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household. You have first place, she will have very beautiful hands; she had ridiculous extricated them intrepidly from the dilemma; they performed particularly the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of CHAPTER I--ORIGIN To this there is but one reply: "In former days." Mont-Sainte-Geneviève; one in the Rue Ménilmontant, where was visible pretty." celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, passes under the culvert, read his name, PANCHAUD, audaciously carved drawer rapidly towards him, took out a long kitchen knife which was have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to He resolved on this; he recognized with anguish, the fact that it was was possible. On reflecting upon this, he fell into perplexity. He are a good man, you say that I am to be set at liberty; it is for Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in Jean Valjean paused. Marius listened. Such chains of ideas and of We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- dawn, and toiled until night; hardly were they permitted to sleep; they the soul at all; the Faublas and the Prudhommes add: "Because there is Cosettes; he has made his rustle, he has had his wings, he has eaten of The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this