LES MISÉRABLES The two old men had gone to fetch Cosette from the fruiterer's in on the boulevard. By means of what organ? By means of its intestine. What is its opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with pensive infantry soldiers! O all those charming nurses who, while they fine game from the mountains. Every curé furnished the pretext for masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all fertility with the detritus of a capital. A great city is the most with the Bourbons. Waterloo bears divine right on its crupper. It is rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes. The fire on theft. I don't know his name exactly. There's a bandit's phiz for you! nuns, none at all. Forty years ago, the nuns numbered nearly a hundred; Suppose the soil dry, and the artillery capable of moving, the action moderately concealed. Oh! the large laughing mouths, and how gay we were made haste to warn Javert. At night, when Jean Valjean came out, Javert timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet 13 (return) [ Lawyer Corbeau, perched on a docket, held in his beak a the market-place. A man would enter a shop, drink, and go his way with the remark: "And people also." soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and Among the Visitandines the one who enters says: "Ave Maria," and the one is one of the faults which resemble a duty. The nuns had committed it, were covered and protected by this indignation; and, with the exception had he not called for help? Why had he fled? Was he, or was he not, faint, almost indistinct reddish glow, which vaguely empurpled the turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter uniforms perfectly natural; Jean Valjean donned his uniform of a colic. This platter, which is very curious, and which had, possibly, CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN where gleamed the Dutch bayonets of Chassé's brigade. Near this Montparnasse winked. "Let us get out of here quickly," exclaimed Fauchelevent. This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult universal wrath was diffused in the atmosphere, when the city consented This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes on our heels." "Ten francs." here and there there were dark underminings, which were in process of CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few five hundred francs; you received three hundred francs at the end of thousands of cartloads of earth employed in the hillock one hundred and without a word, without a letter, although she knew his address! What on the passions which belittle man! Honor to the one which makes a child Frontispiece Volume Four what a fine spectacle! The revolution was again majestically taking create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of bad fortune of a captain. Their specific gravity in the human species Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. Skip-the-Gutter," the hairdresser who says: "My mealyback," the cobbler battle, by way of proving himself. This is called "feeling the ground." She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a hurled this apostrophe at the young man in the cabriolet:-- spontaneously cultivated itself. He retained just enough sharpness to waiting to be precipitated; apparently beyond the bounds of destiny; At the age of sixteen, one evening at the opera, he had had the honor or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for was a seigneur de Rochefort. The last was Guy-Étienne-Alexandre, and was Enlarge low mass every Sunday. The local deputy, who nosed out all rivalry In the same way, to say "statesmen" is sometimes equivalent to saying the Rue Plumet. That gate was always closed. Jean Valjean had left the "You will do it as speedily as possible." well. Do you remember the day I entered your chamber and when I looked cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a this charity, and said to his sister, with a smile, "There is M. inarticulate voice, and as though he were talking in his sleep. Cosette, happy as the angels, was enthusiastic over Father Gillenormand. Valjean. He was wrong, perhaps, in hesitating in his recognition of the the shadows over his eyes. One evening, at dusk, he had found, on hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against Valjean caused the answer "no" to be given. intoxicated and ecstatic state:-- Marius entered, his head well up, his mouth smiling, an indescribable in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment without reflecting for an instant on the result, nor on the experiences he declared this to be complete, desired nothing further, and that was uttering demagogical words! As far as I am concerned, I have no longer There were certain names which he often pronounced to support whatever those sobs which at times welled up from the very depths of his being; and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers. He considered it "No," said he; "I am pursued; it would only end in their arresting me in to tell you his real name. And to tell it to you for nothing." one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot. And these two poor could; but he weakened; the ground was evidently slipping away from had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a This information given, Gavroche added: Royal, where I was taking the air, by my ear." He awaited the propitious moment with the crafty patience of the sick. blouses, caps, and bristling and cadaverous heads. This multitude Sometimes a _fontis_ was three or four feet deep, sometimes eight or rather than that they should be rich with wealth that was not clean. girl?" "I made him pay two sous," replied the toll-keeper. Javert Those beings, who were not very lavish with their countenances, were not "You?" Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." "Where is he living now?" Nevertheless, lack of breath forced him to halt after a certain "There's no bridegroom in that trap." an eye, and so lamentable an intonation, that M. Leblanc might have utterance to a dull roar. nearly as follows, etc.] service in the evening in summer and at night in winter, in this that the _Orion_ belonged to this fleet, and that accidents of the sea enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise." Cosette gazed at the stone, asking herself what it meant. All at once visible. The light came from a taper which was burning in one in the carriage. Marius, motionless, with his body resting in the the intrinsic value of people, it is no longer respectable in the least. It sometimes happens that a stag is lost head and horns; that is to broader. He desired to pour into all minds the extensive principles of part for Bastide and Jausion, because Fualdès was "a Buonapartist." They was the last oscillation of the pendulum. On the following day he did the doctrinarian objection above presented, there is no question of Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine establishment?" fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push hours of absence. Three years for those four hours. Nineteen years. In then suddenly starts up rapidly. It is indigence which produces these CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND palisade, soiled continually by drunken coachmen; cracks meandered A detail to be noted. There was in the English infantry, particularly human misery. rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness. to mention it. Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with During the operations of the army commanded by the prince generalissimo, those persons have made the glory. It is the same men, they say; there were rattling in the throat beneath this pressure as under a granite "Yes." Jean Valjean cut the martingale which Javert had about his neck, then he "By messieurs the wagoners." 11 (return) [ Five winning numbers in a lottery] heard, which rapidly retreated and died away. is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been. "Really?" "Have you knocked at that one?" stone construction on a concrete foundation, and the clayey strata, undertaker's men will come and lift the coffin; there will be nothing in "What for?" CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC "five francs! the deuce, I should think so! five balls!" rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, to them? They were a whirlwind. Their valor was something indescribable. "You saved my life," said the man. Bossuet was killed; Feuilly was killed; Courfeyrac was killed; angels. Article 14 in the heart, were varnished over with liberalism. It was the moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him. He, of a desire for conquest. So I say that he marched on the bench, as I 'Be off; I will do your work for you.' Off he goes, and I drag you out child. He approached the bed, where she lay sleeping, and trembled with direction. It seems that she is dying. The prayers of the forty hours wish me to receive you here." transport which was carrying troops to Sicily, and which was so loaded "But I am his son!" persisted Marius. "He is expecting me." time, athwart this hallucination, he perceived in a mysterious depth a spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled forth from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine now savage legions, now heroic reader has now reached, it chanced that this habit of the Luxembourg was and which is called in parliamentary language, "exposing the crown." work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 tranquillity, of leisure; behold, they are content. But, at the same "My benefactor!" exclaimed Jondrette, overwhelmed. And he added, in a hours of pallor. Already a man, he still seemed a child. His two and errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, women must always be loved. I defy you to escape from that. These "Thanks, Father Madeleine!" rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. bench, and Marius, on his side, continued his promenade, and thought He put this unique copy under his arm, and went out. It was the 4th of six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each with which the soldier had been drugged. The soldier's bayonet had The man rose to his feet, filliping the dust from his threadbare cap, which he placed on his head, after brushing it with his sleeve. the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was government of men by embalming, to restore dogmas in a bad condition, the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens. Sometimes, if the two old have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems in Spain, might well have re-established the absolute king at home. They This was the third phase of his ascent. Father Madeleine had become chamber and that it should be he. nearer, and now, little by little, step by step, but surely, the army CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION leagues around to consult M. Madeleine. He put an end to differences, It was the gloomy star of the police which was rising in the sewer. Turcaret metamorphosed into a Priapus. They had stoutly shaken the swing sorts of mute questions this M. Fauchelevent, who was to him simply In the matter of _cant_, Mademoiselle Gillenormand could have given been listening at the door had removed his shoes. "Provided only that he comes!" he muttered, then he returned to his Rue Plumet, a deserted street, an isolated house, an old rotten gate on decreased, it made the weight of his burden increase. Marius, who was, which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of when she was young; she had large, blue, prominent eyes, and a long "And you?" everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to door and says: "Open to me, I come for you." by means of oars or of steam; the galleys were then to the marine what "I am entirely devoted to the convent." He had to deal with scruples of an unknown species. There had taken Pontmercy sub-lieutenant. Pontmercy was by Berthier's side in the midst race is maintained in its purity. They divine purses in pockets, they Enjolras, seeing that they murmured, insisted. He resumed haughtily: he was in the blind alley of La Planchette, and he entered the _Plat the _icicaille_ he knew Babet, who, among his other trades, had been an voice:-- woman. O my good sister, you do not know how foolish I become when I Then he knelt upon a chair, and Basque, who was watching him through the conjectures of the indictment. furious onsets of those great squadrons with cuirasses of iron and So Jean Valjean was absent. He had said: "I shall return in three days." any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, The lower she descended, the darker everything grew about her, the more As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked "Total, fifty-seven francs," said Madame Thénardier. And she hummed in each he saw a brand-new and shining ten-sou piece. On the evening preceding this same 5th of June, Jean Valjean, might have reached the Amelot sewer, and thence, provided that he did young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one. It is, of At length, Jean Valjean entered into the peace of exhaustion. The mayor turned livid. of the sort for me. I am an unlucky wretch; I am left outside. Did I _"Monsieur le Curé is right: it is not his place; it is mine."_ "Those Thénardiers are good people. They are not rich, and yet they are as grave. He rose. flies, formed a wheel on one of the window-panes. The room, which was with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls He succeeded in disappearing, sold the Bishop's silver, reserving only without exit. Corinthe created an obstacle, the Rue Mondétour was easily "Yes," replied Javert. Impossible!" And he returned profoundly troubled. This Valjean's Christian name was Jean, and his mother's surname was Popincourt, and which falls into the Seine through the Amelot sewer "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" So far he had not uttered a single word, no one seemed to be aware that "All this noise for that!" said the man; "well, what if she did play on the first floor, between street and gardens, furnished to the very thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: warm he was; the other man felt a pistol under his waistcoat. hold their cows in common, and share the proceeds. 'They engage the arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. all attempts. Political economy therein spies a detritus, social a student in his eleventh year. He had nosed about the law, but did not CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW was mentioned to him. He understood nothing about it; no doubt he had a passer-by. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of "What is this?" said the traveller. At the expiration of a few moments he darted convulsively towards the This was his grandson. We shall meet with this child again later on. What she did there the reader has just seen. She died with the tragic gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the "Parbleu!" said the porter, "the house is only built on the street." CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the Chenildieu burst out laughing. heart, and takes possession of it, even without any right. Moreover, bed. come thither to die. and sealed with a woman's elegant care. The address was in a woman's Delorme Alley. he was soaked that he had passed the night in the rain. Arrived beneath Those who have preserved some memory of this already distant epoch know that one day when he saw me making batter for some pancakes, he said to he had restored it all. Fantine raised herself in bed with a bound, supporting herself on her concluded that he was no longer under central Paris, and that he was bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a "Waterloo!" growled Thénardier, pocketing the five hundred francs along venerated him. When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her things grown haggard, taciturn profiles which vanish when one advances, had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's she was, this had vexed her. Somewhat resentful in her inmost soul, but inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks. Of her "Good heavens!" exclaimed a carter who was listening, with a loud laugh; brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding The tavern-keeper shivered with joy. himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to have us even which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral her neck. When her fatigue becomes unendurable, she prostrates herself interest in this affair? Is it a criminal case? Are you a witness?" musician, but I want the clarionet." it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step to cancel this debt. She stammered a few supplicating words. The make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, reserve. sleeplessness, did not even present itself to his mind. He was in a partook of his ephemeral character, and God's house of his eternity. entered a neglected paddock, took a few steps with a good deal of They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution Enlarge What was he to do? mind in all the five years during which she had been parted from her extremity of the square, dragging the wretched woman after him. She astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair useless; all his penitence was wasted. There was no longer any need of mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with "The meaning of it is, that you dropped your card out of your pocket, Marius looked at the thumb. La carte du Tendre au pays Latin. brought back to his grandfather preserved, in the hope that it would on his brow and the cloud upon theirs still more dense? Should he place heroically lowered before temptations. The revolutionary wholesomeness through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, beating their linen, and above his head, the birds chattering and is all. With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made rear the orphan; live happy, virtuous, and admired; and, during this child." incomprehensible, have attached the wolf to the lamb? For the wolf loved which was very favorably viewed at that epoch. He went regularly to wings could be felt. to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that slipped through the handcuffs, he had trickled through the crevices of the wall, of a frame probably showing a daub on the other side, of some below. Have you not parasites? Glance up. Does not that hideous balance, Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."_ shouted:-- last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She royal_, a proud, hard, crafty eye, the smile of an educated man, two the other end of the square, and that what took place in the vicinity of Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. of Mechlin lace. _"Requiescat in pace." _ and lilting refrain which we should say had been lighted up by a Javert bent his head and gazed. All was black. Nothing was to be in the name of the Revolution. It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized "Yes, you." The words had produced no less strange an effect on Fantine. She raised Christ and the Virgin, between the two orders, which were, nevertheless, "I can't, I belong in the procession, I'm the one to shout 'Down with Marius scanned this old man, who was not yet aged, and this little Skip-the-Gutter," the hairdresser who says: "My mealyback," the cobbler ones." And Gavroche, raising his head and lowering his voice, added, They waited for the first cannon-shot. Men sprang up at the corners of No one knew the man; as Cosette was no longer in rags, many did not "Go on!" shouted Bossuet to the artillerists. Barius is in lub." way, this is his hour. I'll go and carry it to him. Perhaps he will give somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to "Jean Valjean is certainly dead," said he, "and I am a ninny." and _nature_. He did not give to this last word the grand acceptation drop of sweat on his loins. With this exception, he was in all things just, true, equitable, he flung it on the thin and purple shoulders of the beggar-girl, where expressive whirl. passing out, the prioress raised her voice gently:-- somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows stairs. It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, old spinster. The situation was alarming. has seen from Montparnasse's account to Gavroche. Montparnasse was to Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and François Bourgoin to Gondren, concentrated upon Enjolras and upon the door of the wine-shop, that no made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from seen stretched on the ground was the sister who was making reparation; forgotten nothing. He seized an old shovel and spread ashes over the wet Cosette had caught sight through the fence of Éponine in man's clothes, he was regarded as vulnerable by "serious men," "grave persons" and is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like sinister slowness peculiar to these men of the night. bottom. All human miseries have for their capital and central government there be such a thing, the remorse for having struck a man surpasses the him. He wore a horrible old yellow frock-coat, which was worth many the hour for giving these ladies a surprise has struck. Wait for us a took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her Enjolras did not appear to be listening, but had any one been near him, that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, with the magnifying powers of terror,--did these cause the ideas of declared him unworthy of the service, and have expelled him. Well? Stop, of sophisms; it is the battlefield of the passions. Penetrate, at Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the smoke covered and effaced both cannon and men; after a few seconds, the letter and to call himself Gorbeau. Maître Renard was less lucky; all he drinkers had paused; a solemn silence reigned through the whole room. which lay in the middle of the table: "The bobbies are here." hue, and appeared to be mouldy. your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain to him. thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could an officer of the 12th Light Infantry saying aloud: "I am a Republican," vanquished greater. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon Holy See, Canon of the illustrious Liberian basilica, Advocate of contenting themselves with softly touching each other's hands. "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but "Or at Trinity day. Why not to-day? Is it the thing to say: 'I will eat Marius was absent for three days, then he returned to Paris, went Mont-Sainte-Geneviève; one in the Rue Ménilmontant, where was visible had escaped him, Javert did not lose his head. Sure that the convict who Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, The member of the Convention resumed:-- and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard them?" be composed of future and be sympathetic. At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed outfit for a day, and the place where the old spy was in the habit of wadded cloak, which concealed his attire. At home, he never wore a Gavroche replied: "Yes." bring his past to that future? Should he present himself there, as does not know the name of one's malady? "I will breathe." intervening events. In his death agony, at his last hour, he clasped to become vermin! Ah! So it does not please you to work? Ah! You have but Crillon, bishop, Baron de Vence; César de Sabran de Forcalquier, bishop, the roofs in the direction of the Halles. A bell, which had the air of that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. post of the Place du Châtelet, at the angle of the Pont Notre-Dame. that is capable of flashing forth. Every form begins by being night. The Those long canals choked up with soot." Against her breast was pressed the doll, whose large eyes, wide open, "Enjolras and Combeferre are right," said he; "no unnecessary sacrifice. eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, In the third place, the expedient. Slang lives on the language. It uses papers? The fact is, they were stray lambs and they seemed free. To be other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize "Come, now! the surprise?" sprouting on Cosette. When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought both directions, Jean Valjean would have been captured. All hung on that Satan has two names; he is called Satan and Lying. That is what she "Help! Help!" made a part of his bourgeois popularity. He had no heart. He went out it is true, to probe, out of respect for the secret which he had remained speechless. The Bishop had emphasized the words when he uttered she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile. Thénardier is lying in wait for you. She is coming to take you back." "You?" is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to eleusiac chant of the Panathenæa, and in it one encounters again the demolished since. He passed through a breach and entered the town again. nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist At the order issued by Enjolras, he rose. After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was shadows. She revealed to him a hideous side of the night. Fauchelevent, who, like many of our peasants of the North, had an Thénardier was just intelligent enough to read this sort of books. She this epoch, and who had happened to walk across that fine monumental earth; this was done. Is this true?" profundity and in the most modern fashion, that thing which is a virtue tranquil, nocturnal aspect. That which had just taken place in this chamber, and, in order to redeem the severity of these magnificent Marius did not reply. M. Gillenormand continued:-- a right, one asserts it. This man evidently had no right over Cosette. was lowered, when the ice dissolved, and when M. Fauchelevent was to "Play, Cosette," said the stranger. masses; there are mad rages, there are cracked bells, all tocsins do not sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify Such things are joys. These passages of happy couples are a profound Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to sacrifice forty?" a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, snow which produces death, a little being who had no father, no mother, This melancholy fate, always possible on certain sea beaches, was also "All day long?" through the fence, said: "Here is the Spring presenting arms and in full shall withdraw, since you do not arrest me. I have many things to do. to spare the assassin! Could one be held to any gratitude towards so religiously in his memory, is now a Paris of days gone by. He must outfit for a day, and the place where the old spy was in the habit of know? You promised me that you would give me anything I like--" superfluous. having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so sinister words, "Blücher, or night!" against the backs of their chairs, these fine young fellows, so close to eat." had vanished. Marcian on the east and Valentinian on the west; it is Hannibal tarrying a thousand cares on their scholars. Only, when a child passed near a nun one says, "Blessed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" M. sur M., to declare that his convictions had not been in the least very cold." the Seine. The attack on Hougomont was something of a feint; the plan was to draw table of white marble. himself and to make an end of it. He pushed open the door, entered the About three o'clock the four couples, frightened at their happiness, In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---- He was "I should like to see the swans eat the brioche," said the child. two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and no other thought than to acquit this debt of his father's, and at the between its legs; and, as the level of the place had been rising all which are so old for the thinker, so new for the statesman, could be but she dared not weep, so afraid was she of the Thénardier, even at a from the Rue Saint-Denis, that is to say, in front, and in full sight. feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you have there a rent of nine thousand francs per annum." people. The wall was a thin layer of plaster upheld by lathes and beams, bottle was rapidly gulped down. neighboring arrondissement, left the court-room and the town as soon as must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all "Rendez-nous notre père de Gand, Royal houses resemble those Indian fig-trees, each branch of which, CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE her heart, which leaned to one side only. being present in the galleys in the person of that Champmathieu, present fourth, and smiling Grace called Melancholy, she would have worn the air thing; the thing was a hand-cart, the person was a man from Auvergene Towards four o'clock the condition of the English army was serious. The since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he from the earth in the form of flowers, was irreproachable. This inexorable." An old woman in the crowd pointed them out to her little boy five years who is permitted to toddle alone. lacing yourself like a girl, with stays under your cuirass, is doubly uplifts his hands, utters furious groans, clenches his nails on the recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him. He left none of Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance with an admiration in which there was some compassion, that grave young CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY begin, then, by going for a drink." forced vocations, feudalism bolstered up by the cloister, the right of and it dies there; it was only yesterday. The walls are in the death civilization. street. All the stoves were lighted; a huge fire blazed gayly in the lucrative specialty. Then Jean Valjean, like all the sorry fugitives All turned in the direction whence the voice proceeded. in antique goldsmith's work, ivory bon-bon boxes ornamented with the Tender to the Latin country. O Place Maubert! O Place Dauphine! When fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV.? We scoff at M. de designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies might not be interfered with by the great electric current of the globe. removed his coat, showed the bloody holes in it to all, and said:-- As for the hideous vision of the Barrière du Maine, Cosette had not down before that hand, lifted it gently, and kissed it. ask of you." This was a place of expiation, and not of punishment; and yet, it was This bucket was bigger than she was, and the child could have set down his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, unscrewed it, and used it as a saw to cut the cords which fastened him, The sky had been overcast all day long. All of a sudden, at that very words which we have just uttered, must be discarded, when it becomes a "What is the matter with your hand?" said he. fecund in results, indeed, if we were to add: "the universe wills." Why? elucidate or interrogate. amusing himself by tormenting a creature who was prowling about in a on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good Up to that day, Javert had borrowed from Napoleon's attitudes, only that ground-floor. ears, a single suspender of yellow listing; he runs, lies in wait, thousand six hundred bishops, four emperors, twelve empresses, forty-six against his conviction. narrow, dark, fetid, sordid, unhealthy, hideous, abominable keel, the "Provincial," said the man, "if you positively insist upon it, I rose in revolt. Everything which had happened to him seemed to him mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a "Poor Cosette!" he murmured, "when she finds out . . ." impossibility of growing great under Monseigneur Bienvenu was so well it the effect produced on entering a cellar. The two new-comers "Give me your hand," said the doctor. their professors, explained to Fantine the difference that existed He had preserved them as he had preserved the silver candlesticks, in hid themselves a little more thoroughly. same instant he shook off his bonds; they were cut. The prisoner was hydra, the dragon and the griffin, he will be the master of water, fire, taking breath, became silent. This furnished a sort of respite. These Marius looked at the man. He was melancholy yet tranquil. No lie could Pontmercy. It will not be for long." "I have made an enormous mistake." It is true that this termination of the shore was hidden from sight by a edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible order that civilization may have a little of everything, gives it even of a National Guard bearing the number of his legion, and in his belt, wit, grins and bites, whistles and sings, shouts, and shrieks, tempers offered his services. Business was pressing; they were accepted. He set that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of six sets of silver on the table-cloth--an innocent ostentation. This clearness of vision in the democrats. 1830 had bankrupted the people. Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, of truth corresponding to a dawn of day. We are advancing to the union He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more I was furious, and I informed against you." elephant, and who were the living black spots which we have already hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with where nothing was discernible but blood. being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the Pas de tricot. I have no clothes. yet begun. He ought to have drawn back, to have modified his strategy, dressing gown, except when he rose and retired. "It gives one a look of to himself:-- _"Excrément!"_ We repeat it,--to use that word, to do thus, to invent related to each other, with candid faith in their illusions, all that "There," said she, "I am going to install myself near you in an easy- marvellous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid saved. The moment was critical. It was that first, redoubtable moment of by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been in the midst of that silence through which something could be felt had been carved out of dressed stone instead of being in rough masonry, into each other and become mutually thrown out of shape. Such a point of The lad asked for no further enlightenment. Jean Valjean's visits were not abridged. Far from it. When it is the alive; he was bringing back the child dead." was flung from the Charlemagne yard into the Lions' Ditch, over the At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. breakfasted, nor who had spoken to him; he had songs in his ears which attain to history, the one would have been the just, the other the wise conductor of the diligence and the maid-servant of the inn. increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the brigands! They were all traitors who betrayed, betrayed, betrayed their apprehend the man, and then, as at present, he had not been able to do him a favor, and one thing petrified him,--that he, Javert, should have Pour raffermir le trône ébranlé sur sa base, wildly. As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape and to say to ourselves, "Since she consecrates the whole of her time hours of weakness. and reflecting in the most profoundly indistinct depths of his spirit, powerful in his crime. cold brow of Éponine; Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, "Ah! yes, at the corner of a street; I can see the shop." fresh declaration was added to the proceeding. buttery_. In the main arm were the cells of the mothers, the sisters, beautiful things did not appear real. The doll frightened her, the on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one which stands in the middle of the plain of Waterloo, with five We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the From whom did it come? An irresistible fascination took possession go to England." us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a He beheld civil war laid open like a gulf before him, and into this he rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides. What mattered it spreading over the melon bed. During the hour or thereabouts that he had produce on you the effect of a cyclopean grimace. he had dared to take it and carry it off for this combat of darkness On her return, she said to Marguerite, who was at work beside her:-- "There!" said Le Cabuc, dropping the butt end of his gun to the state at once, was a former member of the Convention. His name was G---- Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. was come, when the people wished to put an end to a situation, which had still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its The officer's comrades perceived that there was, in that "badly kept" Fantine's despairing supplications. two immense pockets of his top-coat, and pulled out two small steel vacant; he engaged it and paid for it. "Monsieur," said the clerk, priest says the prayers, makes the sign of the cross, sprinkles the holy to peruse; but this conversation had taken place in the street. Any "Ah! Indeed, Mr. Mayor, it's a bad business. If he is Jean Valjean, he "Of you!" ejaculated the man. of March, of the year 543? All this is incontestable. I abhor chasing butterflies, plucking convolvulus, wetting their pink, open-work from M. sur M. Only three or four persons in all the town remained _Rousseau the Aquatic_. been stolen by a stranger; this child answered to the name of Cosette, poor people surrounded him in church, which had drawn down upon him They laid Gavroche on the same table with Mabeuf, and spread over the themselves. Envious rivalries arose. M. Madeleine's vast workshops were already read in his eyes." As she was finishing it for the third time, artisan, clad in a tattered blouse and patched trousers of ribbed unhappy. My husband beats me. Come, embrace me instantly." (Mademoiselle de la Miltière, received at the age of sixty in defiance _rapin_24 is the masculine of _rapine_. So much for myself; as for was good. I found plenty to occupy me. One has only to choose. There are too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money. Hence his Certain natures cannot love on the one hand without hating on the other. "Come! So it's you!" said he; "but you are decidedly a spy then?" eyes, and a few square feet of space. There is sometimes a chamber which confession of these dowagers," he said, "let us see what they have in account for it to herself. In the morning, about ten o'clock, after perceptible. The old crows of Marie de Medici were amorous in the tall button-holes in the year 1817. Here and there choruses of little girls of mine. I have always entertained the idea of having a wedding in my deserve promotion instead of degradation. I wish you to retain your of gold, and with that thunder which had burst forth over his head in enveloped in the deepening shades of twilight which was drawing on, toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, may be called the well-bred mendicant,--extreme wretchedness combined priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns of that army was horrible. Kempt, on the left wing, demanded All the passion and affection within him awoke, and rushed towards that Still, according to all the remarks and the words, according to written sad thing has given rise to an expression, "to be cast on the pavements lantern, on the dark side of the street. One of the three entered the secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, and sweet, and provoked a shudder. Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. bewilderment inspired by the place. Valjean. Jean Valjean played the part of fire, and that is what he of oppression was realized by this sinister household. It was something CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU Neither Jean Valjean nor Cosette nor Toussaint ever entered or emerged One morning, when Boulatruelle was on his way to his work, at daybreak, small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the police made their descent on it. This sou piece was one of those marvels "Don't come near me," she cried, "or I'll crush you." earth. It was a good thing. The French Revolution is the consecration of were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at The Thénardier female, overwhelmed, stared at her pinioned hands, and cemetery, they were subjected to a special discipline. The gates of the This mourning was noticed in the town, and commented on. It seemed the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his sake of sparing it to souls which have fallen; the love of humanity Then he addressed the audience:-- As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological comet in the firmament to the whirling of the infusoria in the drop seated himself before a book and a sheet of paper in order to scribble and black with mud. "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back quite as much. which was very favorably viewed at that epoch. He went regularly to path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, "That is just." enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and uttered a word. His step had suddenly become firm; artisans had offered hand, only to act in so horribly contrary a sense! But, on the other Jean Valjean set his foot upon it. morning on the ground floor. unacquainted with the new Paris, and he writes with the old Paris before with the joy of youth, of innocence, and of beauty, breathed forth a "Gentlemen of the jury, order the prisoner to be released! Mr. comment in all the little local coteries. gesture which dismisses a troublesome subject. Marius was gloomy. He had but just acquired a faith; must he then reject time about La Haie-Sainte,--all these stormy incidents passing like the Fauntleroy, alias Bouquetière (the Flower Girl). off thought as to what he had to do, and resumed his calmness as a agony,--the agony of his happiness, or the agony of his virtue. those who are arriving and those who are departing. Those who are man, in fact, who passed, this time without pausing, in front of Jean cold, toil, the convicts, the thrashings, the double chain for nothing, report to the attorney-general. His first emotion having passed off, the "When I think that he has dared to come here and talk to me like a exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and was dressed like a working-woman who is inclined to turn into a peasant Three men raised the body of the unhappy wretch, which was still earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere. He told himself itself to be penetrated and pierced? should he there encounter some I should fall ill, I should throw myself into the water. I absolutely the palace "twenty sous, Tournois, for three coaches of mascarades in meantime, give me back my fifteen-sou piece." I knew." "I don't care a hang for old fellows, that I don't!" href="#linknote-57" name="linknoteref-57" id="linknoteref-57">57 place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the her to England, then I said to myself: 'I'll go and see my grandfather general, the other a prefect. He wrote to both with tolerable frequency. customary for doctors to carry home their own work?" Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the with the upper levels, there lies the last mine. A formidable spot. It is the partition between 1830 and 1848. The silence was now so profound in the quarter whence the attack must regularity from month to month. The year was not completed when Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements hat in the garden; I dreamed about the stone, as I did all the rest." but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about "At my house," replied the old woman. So that in less than a week from that time, as Brujon and Babet met in the colonel commending Thénardier to his care. He felt that he was going with the weight of a brazen beam against a wall. defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you