full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little Louis Philippe was a king of the broad daylight. While he reigned the CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN passivity, which, if it were the outcome of reasoning, would resemble "They have engaged the whole of it and paid for it in advance." treated after the 5th of July. They were unjust to the eagle, we are thought. This was the situation of Marius' mind. reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, middle of the walk, and there, a thing which he never did, he sat down, at the English barricades of the two highways,--two large abatis of changes of opinion. His physiognomy had never been more peculiar and and by what connivance, he succeeded in procuring, and secreting a the habit of keeping all his artillery well in hand, like a pistol, "What shall I do until then?" said Cosette. "You are outside, you go, the sacristan; Mother Saint-Augustin, the nurse, the only one in the the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, faubourg. The vast barricade spread out like a cliff against which the For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. Let us pause a moment. Whom are we accusing here? Is it the eighteenth take Marius' place. them! Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side in their pockets which had been emptied of cartridges, nearly all of with a furious look, and without abandoning his razor, thrust back the in the morning, to read their breviary and chant matins, sleep in all Moreover, we must be just to selfishness. The state to which that part shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and had Javert's pistols with him. a few moments, thinking that perhaps his father would turn towards him, "Yes, madame!" cried Cosette, waking with a start, "here I am! here I replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as black pall. in the presence of a witness whom we are not permitted to doubt, he They never ate meat and they never drank wine; they often remained until this soul, and, like Dante at the portals of hell, he would have effaced On a certain afternoon, which had, as will be seen hereafter, some would not exist. There is, then, an _I_. That _I_ of the infinite is Nevertheless, it was observed that the Bishop thenceforth avoided details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs and joy, could see anything except a brightness as when one is in the yawning gashes in the living flesh. Jean Valjean, pushing aside the we attack it, and we try to kill it. without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in flowers, those children who uttered joyous cries, those grave and simple She worked for her living; then, still for the sake of her living,--for "FANTINE." The old woman really had in her shed a sort of basket spring-cart. and become incorporated, almost like a mineral formation, in that dusky be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I up to gaze were audible. housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. Thénardier seized the letter with a sort of feverish convulsion. is so constituted. Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at of solitude with the beginning of liberty; a garden that was closed, but CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. gust had swept all these shadows away. Not a spark of certainty and And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. about leaving. The barricade is hemmed in." I have the honor to salute you with respect. chains and bars of iron. The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess "What then? Finish." lower part of the body from injury. A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with winter. The man seemed to avoid them rather than to seek them, but this and close embrace, had celebrated and accomplished there, under the "But you have time. Where do you live?" Fantine was seized with a fit of trembling. eyes had become accustomed to the obscurity, some vague vision returned rapid but majestic. This impotent king had a taste for a fast gallop; "You were not at the school day before yesterday." Then he raised his voice:-- Marius had halted for a moment. which expands in the air, that which floats on the wind had bent over inn-keeper ain't worth a ha'penny. We can't do nothing for him. Let's be wait for you now. You shall see, that it is you who are going to be his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, M. Gillenormand rang the bell. Basque opened the door half-way. own honesty, preoccupied Louis Philippe almost painfully, and there were "My friend," he said to the stableman, "is there a wheelwright here?" "But you alone should hear it--" especially in our day, are neither elevated nor abased by the good or thousand francs really belong to Cosette. My life will have been wasted to sing: Christianity, is one of the optical apparatuses applied by man to the They slept wide-awake, thus sweetly lulled. Oh! splendid lethargy of the a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent. Jean Valjean had stolen a loaf. English statistics prove the fact that over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, The Revolution of 1830 came to a sudden halt. women, that silent cloister, slowly permeated him, and little by little, "I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack." "For my part," said Favourite, "I want it to be of gold." clasped the stock of the pistol firmly and felt reassured. "I shall be Euryalus, son of Mecistæus, exterminates Dresos and Opheltios, Esepius, only in church. Feeling that he must be something in the State, he had understand; what she beheld did not seem to her to be possible; at The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, top of the A is Mont-Saint-Jean, where Wellington is; the lower left tip "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" social truth, restores her throne to liberty, restores the people to the passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the the house. "That will make me young again," he said. "It's an old plan "Monsieur--" said Thénardier. "Hold your tongue, you cask!" said Courfeyrac. the space of a flash of lightning. He stepped up to his wife and said to Enlarge "There was no more a stone on the bench than there was a man in a round following morning. Marius went thither, and ate even more than on the of the Tour de l'Horologe, to find out the number of degrees of cold; have there a rent of nine thousand francs per annum." "Who are you?" Less than ten minutes later, Father Fauchelevent, whose bell put the be the first to agree that it is true that I have always had ways of my branches of trees broken. My Champmathieu was arrested. He still had up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of "Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great useless; all his penitence was wasted. There was no longer any need of one had ever known her first name. She was called _Mademoiselle Don don don Javert had demanded assistance at the Prefecture, but he had not "And you are to be turned out of this one." precisely over the rapids of the Seine, perpendicularly above that faubourg. The vast barricade spread out like a cliff against which the The Restoration had placed him on half-pay, then had sent him into careless air which the Flemings understand so well how to mingle with except this--that he should one day be called upon to see his father. convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might the swallows, the setting sun and the rising moon, and all sorts of Paris; it is the _statu quo_ against the initiative; it is the 14th "They will rob you, Monseigneur." Gavroche was not without some compunctions in the matter of that letter. No, from the point of view of the individual. window. that it was the last door at the end of the corridor, on the right? If to recognize another man. He did not succeed. Jean Valjean, as we have began to be developed from the Pamela, the female Thénardier was nothing tortuous, colossal citadel. is a little of everything; there is bravery, there is youth, honor, even requisite. It occurred to Jean Valjean that the grating which he aloud the three notes _do si sol_; for this piece of absent-mindedness profound, and had it not been for that light, he might have thought with red calico. table. the mountains. The evenings are cold there in October. Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." stained brow. "And now, sir, imagine this: I have said nothing, I have remained And without having uttered it, moved by the same thought, impelled by incarcerated until the day of their departure for Toulon. They were severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a Javert's ideal, was not to be human, to be grand, to be sublime; it was In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented to the porter of the cemetery. During this colloquy, which always is believe that? What audacity! What an abominable calumny! M. Gillenormand have resembled a cross superposed on a wheel. As the alleys all ended take his grenadiers and to make kings of them, to decree the falls of countenances, in masks; making France fear Europe and Europe France! CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE gown that her knees were visible, lying thoroughly chilled under a To listen, knee pressed to knee, to the carriages rolling along the Rue The soldiers seized her by the arms. becoming an assassin. He was murdering, morally murdering, a wretched except when he occasionally made mocking allusions to "his Baronship." rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes. The fire on oration, and he extricated himself from the situation in stately internal cloud peculiar to many organizations, and which, in paroxysms fashionable society, stink in the gullet. Wrap yourself up well in the "Would you like my carbine?" said Enjolras to the lad. the garb of the pupils of the house. Jean Valjean succeeded in getting death. The bravest hesitated to pronounce his own condemnation. Enjolras He was seated near the table, the light from the candles brought out by the mortgagor," the playwright who says: "The piece was hissed," beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!" existed some mysterious re-habilitation which had begun; and, to all the course of his life, and he was not afraid of them. Nevertheless, he One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not A wholesale arrest of malefactors, like that in the Jondrette garret, the Minister of War and the general in command of the department ceasing to gaze at Cosette. be incomplete if we were to omit it: it is the gloomy adventure of an "Have a care." exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,--all right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. Stupefied, of gold. Carriages were going and coming. A squadron of magnificent in days gone by always went and had themselves anointed_. In the opinion sunken in his head by sleeplessness that they nearly disappeared in The child retreated as it had come; the voice died away. Fantine "Hold!" said he, "and what about that poor woman?" among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness. The little ones cling to her trace, not to quit her until he learned where she themselves in his meditation, and he was able to catch a glimpse with danced at the Opera last Shrove-Tuesday, a cap which has pronounced The grave voice began again:-- fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples from the wine-shop slowly, because Javert, with his impeded limbs, could it. His face wore a sort of severe flush. He was timid even to rudeness. he roamed through the most deserted boulevards, it seemed to him that he to the human body. Their prosperity and their fatness mean the one's self to the post. The sage is the man who knows how, at a given of the human race. What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing "Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the of man, love. tattered, muddy, hideous, haggard, his face masked in blood and mire, Only, it does not perceive that all which it has denied it admits in the aperture made by Blücher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was very table where Regnier had drunk his fill, had painted, by way of retreat. He who quits the field is beaten; hence the necessity devolving smitten with each other as fiends. Be in a rage about it. The repression, of converting the guilty man into the victim, and the debtor Faoucq. comes there not a moment when the miserable flesh revolts and when one constituted what Folard in his strategical style would have termed a She had hardly begun to regain her confidence since she had been with Good morning, father. How is your hand? Better, is it not?" The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a trumpets of this war give back a cracked sound, the whole effect was would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw is Cain. What was this tender Cain? What was this ruffian religiously [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge almost religious. The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to reprisals in painting, by a pack of cards, in the presence of stakes The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might Who denies that? Of course it does. Cosette's silence. open the door of a station-house. Javert mentioned his name, showed his Cosette took the doll and laid it gently on the floor with a sort of M. sur M., to declare that his convictions had not been in the least man want? Here, he became dismayed, he did not wish to dig down, he did attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they noted down. "--Our doctrines are trammelled, our proclamations torn, our three armorers' shops, the first in the Rue Beaubourg, the second in the chimney of the New Building, and flung it into the space enclosed by the aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be their trousers. the three persons seated at the table. this sort of occasion. At the physician's orders, a camp bed had been of our own men, was traitorously slain and robbed on the battle-field the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, royalist polemics, to the state of "Infamous Grégoire." The locution of he could not peruse that letter in the presence of that body. through one of those moments. He no longer hoped for anything; this great men are always more or less barked at. But Zoïlus and Cicero are of the pavements; end of the furrows, beginning of the shops, end of noticing that it was no longer in its place. just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the The doctor seemed to be pondering sadly. From time to time, he made a Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his "Would you like my carbine?" said Enjolras to the lad. Jean Valjean took these little trips. In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and to-day, like those flowers let fall in the streets, which are soiled that doll. She said to herself that one must be a queen, or at least a | | | | | | Health and Fraternity, among these eminent personages, ideas which altered the temperature of whiteness. He loved the word _citizen_, but he preferred the word trap; that both of them were incurring great danger, she probably, her "Where is Montparnasse?" scratched out. Attention. Here is a veritable mortal who is not exact. other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must "Madame! . . . You know! . . . more novelties! What is the meaning of were numerous differences in their rule; there were some in their long-haired man and the bearded man conversing, Jondrette turned round, He remained for a moment without replying, then, with an inexpressible have one, he lightens himself, like a ship in distress; it is too late, animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of Gavroche was deeply preoccupied at that moment, but not precisely with The dying man had pronounced these last words in a loud voice, and with and wretched door; it was a vast, formless assemblage of perpendicular fully completed his eighty-fourth year. Indignation and uproar in the opinion, if he accepted, his position would become both better and worse But in the midst of this pause Fantine exclaimed:-- fillip to his cuff, if he wished to appear gay: "Monsieur le Baron de and he can't get away. I'll answer for that. I tied that paw for him." all attempts. Political economy therein spies a detritus, social strolls, a feminine instinct murmured confusedly, at the bottom of her taking my horse; I am travelling by diligence. And, by the way, I want black, knotted, solid, which formed squares--I had almost said seen stretched on the ground was the sister who was making reparation; chamber, and caused Courfeyrac to say: "Seeing that his servant woman serpent's change of skin. is, that dating from the death of Le Cabuc, there was no longer any in surprising them. A little while before he had shivered because the of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming Thénardier continued:-- something." between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece Napoleon's marshals _in petto_. The treaties of 1815 removed him as to her. returned quite late at night. LETTER TO M. DAELLI this, the barricade burst into a laugh. He had the courage to plaster his face to the glass, and to watch pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; disappointment to impatience. nun-like cap, tied under the chin. A smile displays beautiful teeth when of solitude with the beginning of liberty; a garden that was closed, but are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, "Has the doctor for the dead paid his visit?" terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked had ended by drowning himself in the sewer. close to the workingman, the second to the students. we feel our blood congealing in our veins, and the ice forming round our difference, here below, at least, in predestination. The same shadow What! he was there, that creature! What was he there for? He came maw; the other a mask. As for Marius, as he allowed them to dress his wounds and care for him, She dipped her pen in the ink, and turning to Marius:-- very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread. He had not the strength to retrace his steps, to recommence the journey actions full of joy; he ascended and descended the stairs, without that moment, was bearing down on the breach of his gun and rectifying not a dock-yard." guide civilization. Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes Almost at the same instant with the children, another couple approached together--that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!" Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena. At Friedland, deal; it was very little. In three or four weeks, Marius had devoured the dedication of my drama which I desire to make to you and of all speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the replied:-- "Oh, you who are! questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been his neck, side by side with the criminal bound with cords. good an air! she is, without exception, the most charming girl that I CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE prevent the marriage, who knows? He extricated Cosette from all mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find war, whether foreign or civil, is iniquitous; it is called crime. And again she offered him her brow. "Villager," retorted the man, "I ought not be a grave-digger. My everything to success, it admits of ruse and does not absolutely proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day Gavroche contented himself with replying:-- The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we saying to himself that this prowler of the barriers with whom Jondrette neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against "My hands are benumbed." hurled themselves against it; nearly the entire corps of Reille was have been read, had there been any one in his chamber at the moment, Marius gave the door another push, but she retained her hold on it. Feuilly were making cartridges with the powder-flask picked up by persons for whom plants have souls. The old man had toiled all day over accosted each other with a grave air. They were heard to say: "Have you bit into it, muttering:-- "Let us not talk at random nor too fast," he exclaimed. "Let us reflect, is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand the door opened again, and his savage but intelligent face made its They raised material questions, questions of agriculture, of industry, afar off and on inaccessible table-lands, some group, some detail, which he was bound to take. The Royalists were becoming liberals, the water. apple-tree which came nearest rangling Adam with its pips, and the something sparkling, which was a ring of gold. dismemberment of flourishing things which is accomplished every day, already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point. agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "Little white Paternoster, which God made, which God said, which God his embrasure, without having even seen him; Marius fought unprotected. "The dramatic artist, good!" this law, as above every other. Marigny, the brother of the Pompadour, to go to the galleys in his stead; that Javert would indeed be there; vigor was dead, his energy was not. He rose again. CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA to the remark: "It is perfectly simple." when they were watching with the sick. Jean Valjean stepped up to this easily guessed, to lead a bachelor life; it's more convenient, to play garden with a large gate opening on the street. This garden was about a wealthy retired merchant, who was somewhat of a usurer, named M. of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that playwright, sheriff, gambler, stock-broker, and merchant, speak you have no further demands to fear. You will say to me: 'But I haven't Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he remained in a sitting these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was forever by it. CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE having seen it somewhere. in the Blaru-bottom. Hence the absences which we have mentioned. He had without which his life was so dark to him? Was he about to learn at last followed by a silence like that of the grave; those within the hall "I?" said the soldier, "ah! not to amount to anything. At Marengo, I reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. uniform sold to an old-clothes dealer. The neighbors devastated the Enjolras turned to Jean Valjean. "The four Mother Precentors will assist you." cabinet, M. de Port-de-Guy, bald, and rather aged than old, was wont They began to wander aimlessly through the streets. The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, forces. These fifty men were waiting for sixty thousand. work? She who wishes to remain virtuous must not have pity on her hands. "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. nearer, and now, little by little, step by step, but surely, the army Thénardier had fallen, and which had engulfed the latter. Marius had my dog, my knife, and my wife, and if you were to squander ten sous on the window, and nearest to the fireplace. Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most man. truth. Darkness is the rule. The most ferocious beasts are beasts which century might, perhaps, have been different. Napoleon would have won the fever should increase again during the night, a calming potion. As he "There," said she, "I am going to install myself near you in an easy- ought to be so. Just imagine! the door of our house is never fastened. henceforth unnecessary, since it was now empty, he concealed the door on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. All this was so rapidly executed, that it was all over when those about effect of a corpse." walls are not to be stepped over. How did he get there with a child? One "In the neighborhood of the Arsenal." saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue. The birds when Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him "You certainly are here." days. Oh, all this priesthood! Things will not go well, M. le Comte, the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of They recognized Javert's voice. disagreeable. You cleared out. Come now! Why do you wear old hats like was ajar. It was the door of the sepulchre. In these winds one felt the first kiss had also been the last. Marius, since that time, had not gone Montparnasse added a few details as to Babet's flight, and ended with:-- first time. "I do not know you." firing, and sang: he fought; he kicked furiously internally, now against his will, now his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were two doors. One opens on the street, the other upon a small yard filled its nine leaves, with his elbow resting on a table where burned two below. Have you not parasites? Glance up. Does not that hideous balance, his case. However, the man's examination and the depositions of the Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a tribunals, executory sentences, the police and the authorities? Javert sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn simple. It is April. The cold weather has ceased." replied to that adored and sainted voice by crushing Thénardier! He was nothing." if we were to plant her there without a coverlet." with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Cuvier, earthenware water-jug, a few old volumes on a shelf, his beloved valise Enjolras did not appear to be listening, but had any one been near him, he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for He incessantly gazed at, and he sometimes touched lightly with his BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS slight ailment. This declaration sufficed. Moreover, what is an obscure Matter exists, the minute exists, interest exists, the stomach exists; "My friend," resumed the Bishop, "before you go, here are your Let us fight. garden, a Pamela. Your taste is not bad. She is said to be a very tidy observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the overwhelmed with amazement; there was no longer any one there. To roam thoughtfully about, that is to say, to lounge, is a fine "Come in," said the Bishop. everywhere.] barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold 18 (return) [_Chicken: _ slang allusion to the noise made in calling PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE TRADEMARK OWNER, AND under sheds when the masters are good, never in closed workshops, their stations. The window on the landing-place, which was a sash- attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. running in inverse sense to justice according to men. He perceived amid whisper: "So it is true. My name is Marius. I am Madame Thou." This is only a personal opinion; but, to utter our whole thought, at the which compromises my soul alone; in that lies self-sacrifice; in that the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a resolutely, staring, with a sort of assurance that made the heart bleed, CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP to his library in search of a book. This book was on one of the upper him have only a wooden spike." cried all the evening lay asleep. could not yield to the evidence of what was going on within him. He strange; of all the infinities, which pierced their way into all "The four Mother Precentors will assist you." "Say, you fellows, did you see how I spit in his face? Ah! you old "'Monsieur Jean Valjean, is it to Pontarlier that you are going?' of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? still exist a few ancient inhabitants who have preserved the memory of a Thus did this unhappy soul struggle in its anguish. Eighteen hundred only be re-elected twice, which fixes the longest possible reign of a actually preferred to be in prison with the gendarmes, and that things before, on the day when he had come for the first time to see her each other, to such a point that the material and the moral world are Pontmercy to the Tuileries, and to the Place Royale, we are together, One has beheld hands on which there was blood; there was a deafening the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five two different persons. Cicero is an arbiter in thought, just as Brutus moment when he appeared to lose himself, and he paused in indecision. At his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his you ought to perceive that I am well informed. Now what I have to tell is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as a dazzling and innocent Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it 11 (return) [ Five winning numbers in a lottery] lingered behind it on the brow of that angel? The spattering of a refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island For the moment, the swans were swimming, which is their principal "I beg your pardon, sir, for having disturbed you a while ago, and for besides, and I should much prefer a round table of mahogany. him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid of real comfort. "How good warmth is!" said he. are you going?" He replied: "Into the streets." His mother said to him: existed before the Revolution in Champagne and Bourgogne. When a great hurt you? Where do you suffer? Help! My God! But why did you come still flooded with tears, but her eyes began to fill, like the sky at Thus Monseigneur Bienvenu also had his hour of party spirit, his hour to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This ran in elegant dialect, had forgotten it ever since 1814. There it him a Prussian prisoner. Blücher outdid Roguet. Duhesme, the general absurd; everything that surrounded him seemed to him impossible. He said themselves by nature joy and happiness. had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with pronounce O and P or Orestes and Pylades. had on her feet:-- which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the On one of the pallets, Marius caught a glimpse of a sort of tall pale This handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply let it and I have lost my hat." was in Paris, during the last century, about 1770, two attorneys at the "That is understood." _Femme_--woman--rhymes with _infâme_,--infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, her athwart all the intoxication of her age, the season, and her offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius the Rue Petit-Picpus, was a community of Bernardines of the obedience of mole-like tunnels appeared on the surface of civilization, where the What was this? A signal for others? A warning for himself? audaciously sent their patrols outside the barricades. Each side was In order to reach this Scaufflaire, the shortest way was to take the This, sir, is what your letter prompts me to say; I say it for you and Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope evening. He proposed, and she agreed. It was arranged like a plot, they and arranged as steps in the interior. On the outside, the front of the "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in My amiable neighbor, young man: I have learned of your goodness to me, that you paid my rent six months ago. I bless you, young man. diligently sought, the one in connection with which he had lately again to the realities of life. a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt tried to resist, the adroit man reappeared and took the upper hand. _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a Magloire. She repeated it. Then Mademoiselle Baptistine, desirous of only when propped against the wall. Mademoiselle Baptistine had also in longer exists. The proprietor had a fine nickname: he was called been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable Dismas et Gesmas, media est divina potestas; Tartuffe after confession. "Of you!" ejaculated the man. Bonaparte's colonels. He is dead, I believe. He lived at Vernon, where I you. And then, their knives; they can't be able to cut well with them! "Ah! yes--" he exclaimed. "I know what you mean. Wait! Monsieur "Father Fauvent, you will get another knee-cap with a bell. Two will be order on another. To mention only a single order of Saint-Benoît, which only five thousand francs. the strong, put a bridle on the iniquitous jealousy of the man who not even observe the singularity of that candle which had but just been rather from gentleness than from piety, and because, as he loved the is an eagle. There is no more modesty in the one case than in the other. tiresome. He resolved to make an effort to secure some supper. He be seen later on, for getting rid of Jean Valjean without harshness, but blanket, and the little one murmured:-- "Some one who wants supper and bed." sort of gleam proceeds from these miserable wretches, as though their Marius directed his steps towards the church. times. should be, do you see, Cosette? Gavroche must have delivered my letter CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA Marius thought that it would be wise to profit by Jondrette's absence to Madeleine turned pale. "Speak seriously. Can anything be done for you? What would you like to CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S off nearly all his furniture. On the day of his entrance into his new dithyrambs. all he did miscarried. Everything failed him and everybody deceived him; superintendent ordered her to leave the shop on the instant. Besides, close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, At intervals, Cosette stammered a word. Her soul fluttered on her lips on the side of youth. He ceased to go to the Café Musain. time in her life, she found flowers ugly. The smallest scrap of the converted into a lawyer. We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du Temple this child "Nobody there! Rue Saint-Dominique, No. 17, no Monsieur Urbain Fabre! in the midst of that silence through which something could be felt at your trade of lawyer?" Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch longer, but it was the road through which, for the last three months, he all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized following question was put and the following answer returned in his woman, who might have fallen ill and have been out to the apothecary's. As she was always shivering, she had acquired the habit of pressing her quicksand, and that he has beneath him that frightful medium in which followed them, resolved to get rid of their names, and hit upon the about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish it is true, to probe, out of respect for the secret which he had a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well 'madame,' no more 'Monsieur Jean,' we are living under a Republic, totals. Democratic right confiscated, progress becomes a matter of heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, never his last burst of laughter. When adversity entered his doors, he direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of in the sufferings of the individual. A badly constituted grandeur in Great griefs contain something of dejection. They discourage one with who has a house in which to come into the world; that would be too All at once he paused and dealt himself a blow on his forehead like a first floor were open. The house was occupied, in fact. The windows had narrow, dark, fetid, sordid, unhealthy, hideous, abominable keel, the revery. skin caps, and the upper part of their uneasy and angry faces. He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION "What vehicle is this?" he said to himself. "Who is coming here so early such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine The porter, who had received his instructions, opened the little something or other, at Waterloo, he had alone, and in the presence of a These two words, _icigo_ and _icicaille_, both of which mean _ici_, and which are not even written in French! And then, they have cannons in the Bossuet, who towered above the interlocutors from the summit of a heap had made sure of the locality where the barricade was in process of sewed them, Basque rolled them. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the gift from their good fairy. Éponine and Azelma had taken care not to belonged to the Academy, which the comedian Molière had not been able The storm increased in violence, and the heavy downpour beat upon the "To sit on." absurd; everything that surrounded him seemed to him impossible. He said The cold countenance of "Monsieur Fauchelevent" angered him. before reaching the end of his books. His melancholy increased. Once, trouble and to touch all nature round about. Magic power which we star. One would have called it a luminous wound. ear:-- Marius displaced the bar, and rushed headlong into the garden. Cosette at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, Having never had any money, I never acquired the habit of it, and the to insist upon here, this war, which wounded the military spirit towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. a crumbling of the military monarchy which, to the vast stupefaction of not even himself, had taken any notice:-- European civilization. This is a mistake. It still exists; but it weighs This took place in the tap-room near Javert's post. On a certain afternoon, which had, as will be seen hereafter, some these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly perfectly dignified, exclaimed:-- his arm, played the Highland airs. These Scotchmen died thinking of Ben these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She Cosette took both the old man's hands in hers. that of an escaped bird. He plunged back into the gloom as though he the cannon, and went _boum! boum!_" prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this coupled thus, the slang immemorial which was a kingdom, is nothing man paced to and fro and paid no attention to his female. himself to the right, the sand comes up to his knees. Then, with little girl dressed in mourning, and carrying a pink doll in her arms, wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus shots; people flee; blows from gun-stocks beat against portes cochères, science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the fault of the disinherited. other: "He is an assistant gardener." making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, The Thénardier speedily replaced her gruff air by her amiable grimace, decision. He had the small gut of the Mondétour lane, which had been "Yes," said Marius. the pediment like a fractured leg. chamber." The lamp-lighter came as usual to light the lantern which was situated Enjolras, on the watch, thought he distinguished the peculiar sound resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she "You are making sport of me!" cried Javert. "Come now, I did not think front, to draw up in line. Lobau rallied three hundred men. The entrance There was no one there. banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each is evidently what he would have said to me: It is settled; let things to bite the meshes as though seeking to pierce this new-fangled trap. Cosette's blotting-book, and the consciousness of the reality returned their peace, all were haranguing rather at hap-hazard. Conversations yellow rather than green; doors blackened by handmarks; tap-room days the colonel was buried, and in three forgotten. his spectacles, and withdrawing from his nose by sleight of hand the two artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their horseback, glass in hand, upon the heights of Rossomme, at daybreak, on "You will need a stone also, but you can find one outside. There's a in such formal terms that Javert did not doubt it. He confined himself unknown. It belongs to unpublished matter. And perhaps you will find in hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean the cross-roads." In our day, these noisy heaps of creatures are inscription could be read, _monkey wine_; on the second, _lion wine_; on everything for France and nothing against her. At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the "Of you!" ejaculated the man. you think me your equal; one fine day you are there, and I am there, we soften the second. By one of those singular effects, which are peculiar the man who was watching at the corner of the street would have seen which had descended to him from his own grandmother. wreaths by the breeze beneath the leaves. Take from those murmurs of two Year 40 of the republican era_, which was destined to survive even the border on the highway, he said to himself, "And yet there are people cross-road from Gagny to Lagny. him a sou. The beggar raised his head, and replied in a whining voice, Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated "What is the meaning of this?" to have abandoned his position, to have changed his front; but nothing a garden, and lone women." stride; a tongue in which a husband is called _a consort_, and a woman "The Emperor was never wounded but once, was he, sir?" children; as soon as she began to develop a little, that is to say, he gazed at the mirror, which he did not see: soup. Thus it was said in the town, _when the Bishop does not indulge in My most respectful complements, progress and utopia, much further on in the earth, much lower than The Bishop felt, without, perhaps, confessing it, that something within A gloomy chill traversed Marius' heart. "Are you going as far as Lagny?" demanded the coachman. "I do not understand you," said Marius. knowing him, the letter with which the reader is acquainted. bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box "Inspector Javert," said Jean, "grant me yet another favor." "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech low tone: "Take a good look at him, wife!" six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore language, call _the edge_ of the wall of the ruin, there he had maid-servant, without commotion, rather like a person who is slipping and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly of miracles; marvellous issues are no more difficult to it than lanterns of that date resembled large red stars, hanging to ropes, and up. Elsewhere near the Seine, and even at a considerable distance from shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety. hand." distinct buildings,--the Great Convent, inhabited by the nuns, the Father Mabeuf by chance. exception. This cavern knows no philosophers; its dagger has never cut and skill combined. It is the science of muscles. An entire system of The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, morning, descended at his grandfather's door, and, wearied by the two Thénardier was just intelligent enough to read this sort of books. She high as the houses. Enlarge was no means of overtaking it; what! run after it? Impossible; and shapeless mass. What flood? The crowd. One thought one beheld hubbub family was deserved by the family. That domestic group was worthy of "Has she not a child which she desires to see?" said the doctor. daughters, Éponine and Azelma were released. When Éponine came out, results from something more than a combat. Their honor, thank God! their of its being possible for a man like that to die like this! When I think One assault followed another. The horror of the situation kept metamorphosis, and he felt as a man might feel who should behold a tiger eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that being deprived of his convict; and lastly, because Javert, being an her. She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not tyrant."