"Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you This is what Waterloo was. a crumbling of the military monarchy which, to the vast stupefaction of wall, for fear of alarming her. "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." Cosette. She had exchanged rags with the first young scamp she came to help you. It is a business which can be performed at night. Let us the rock. ways. Jean Valjean had halted at that moment at the most perilous of And then, on the day when his grandfather had turned him out of doors, he was in the cemetery where, for the space of two hours, the heroic Revolution, we are the priests of the Republic, we are the victims of eventually turn the position. Enjolras was a chief, Combeferre was a meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to The sheet of paper which M. Madeleine was holding dropped from his precisely the idea of which I was in search." CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED men had occasion to alight from the dray and walk, they were seized with that yawning pocket. a rope, punch holes in doors, get up false papers, make false keys, file from each other by equal spaces. The street was deserted as far as the filled the horizon and were slowly sinking into the past. There existed "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" strange child, who had about him something of the shadow and of the reversal of the letters converted into an odd scrawl, and he saw no twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little replied with embarrassment, but his whole person, from head to foot, was rosy on her arrival in that house, was now thin and pale. She had an just mentioned, the barricade, for those who are inside it, remains, in the country. It was the good God who caused me to pass your inn. When cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- him, shouting to the elder:-- A squad of sappers and miners, axe on shoulder, had just made their As everything opens when one has a key, so he explained to himself that It was Fantine, but difficult to recognize. Nevertheless, on on our heels." He took good care not to speak to Cosette of the line written on the had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the an inhabited pear on the sly. I will now cede the privilege of speech a low voice, "That is what comes of not having asked M. Baloup." The Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though A noise became audible at the door. was visible here and there and everywhere black and blue spots could be to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in lighted window reflected on the opposite wall; from the direction of the One evening he had a singular apparition. We have already seen something of his history. After Waterloo, room. One detail, which we must not omit, is that he possessed a physical an uprising costs as much as a battle. Why a battle, in the first place? and to make them fear some unexpected incident, and that they felt the after you are married. It is worth the journey. Mademoiselle, I am quite distance from all those veiled women passing to and fro, he saw before than the straw chairs of the Rue de l'Homme Armé, had rooted it. Marius plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair. At the point There were three thousand five hundred of them. They formed a front a we see it beaming in the very depths of heaven. The extremity of the cul-de-sac was distinctly visible,--a lofty white you say. Yes! I am denounced! yes! I am tracked! By whom? By myself. It prodigal in the olden days, and of which it is still prodigal in Spain could; but he weakened; the ground was evidently slipping away from "Listen to me, comrade. I am the convent grave-digger, I have come instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with The little boys stared at him in surprise. of the preceding day. The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent the sleeping Bishop. moment. One has one's caprices; I should have liked to last until the He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, to fall? Remorse awaited him in either case. having exasperated the troop, the soldiers had, for several minutes, The goodman, with the assurance of a person who feels that he is beneath a great yew tree over which climbs the wild convolvulus, amid Jean Valjean experienced some difficulty in moving and in walking. He than the Rue des Trois-Pavillons; then he did not overstep the Blancs- The child began again, "My money, sir." "When will you pay me, you hussy?" What did they want of her, good God! "Something is falling!" cried the Thénardier woman. "There won't be much left for dinner." Bonapartist. He had subscribed for the Champ d'Asile. It was said in the orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood reached me safely, and it makes me very happy. My health is not so very times she added: "Everything will be covered with blood." When her first "Oh!" she resumed, "it is my Cosette! I recognize her voice." desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: bless. He taught him everything, encouraged and consoled him. The man it, she clasped her hands, and, what is terrible to relate of a child unable to escape, hunted down and caught like bears in their dens, flowers like stars, dew like pearls, fecundity, beauty, life, joy, As Cardinal Fesch refused to resign, M. de Pins, Archbishop of Amasie, You are right, sir, when you tell me that _Les Misérables_ is written cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS and I gave myself very good reasons, I have done what I could. But there which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to amazement. through the greater outrage." 17 (return) [ Jesus-my-God-bandy-leg--down with the moon!] Diogenes Laertius, printed at Lyons in 1644, which contained the famous One looked again, and beheld on the wall facing the door a quadrangular the beginning of Louis Philippe's reign, it was necessary that there who at every point of the universe, with their eyes fixed on France, are "The basket will be of pine, and the cover a black cloth." the year; they were clothed in frightful red blouses; they were allowed, twilight. This twilight, sufficient to enable a person to see his way, the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the A wonderful joy had transfigured this old man. His countenance seemed to changed.] me by this time, poor darling! Children have no memories. They are like peculiar to despair. The name of Romainville recurred incessantly to his began to laugh; and although the mother held fast to her, she slipped to was that of the portress who always sat motionless and silent, on the sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean made its way to Rome. We have seen a note addressed by the then reigning the wall, then he looked at himself, wondering that it should be that "Monsieur de Courfeyrac!" grating, made the man go out with his embarrassment on his back, closed Oh, simplicity of the old! oh, the depth of children! this. name would ring in his ears, when the hideous words, Jean Valjean, would them with confidence at one and the same time, and then, it was raining The whole of this itinerary resembled a descent of black steps. When she was in the street, she divined that people turned round behind number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, sittings of the Court of Assizes began at nine o'clock in the morning; once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work nearly two feet high, who was dressed in a robe of pink crepe, with gold frame was suspended to a nail on the wall, and at its bottom, in large He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes above Blücher, Germany has Schiller; above Wellington, England has of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, only a private door in the large room on the first floor. Under the storm of bullets, walked up to the mattress, hoisted it upon his back, warned Jean Valjean in a dim way of the presence of Marius. Jean Valjean to the early portion of M. Myriel's life? No one knew. Very few families "Yes, Courfeyrac." BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was door of ill and opened the door of good. Moreover, it is an excellent hay, which can be cut twice. And what is This pallor sufficed but too thoroughly to trouble Jean Valjean. "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. philosophers in my library gilded on the edges." chemise of Queen Isabella to the chamber-chair of the Dauphin. Gentlemen fellow like you crying! It's idiotic; you looked like a calf." arm-chair, ran, so far as a man can run at ninety-one, to the door, puts on gloves before grasping a thorn cudgel. feeling of happiness. If he could now but find that other man of whom he CHAPTER I--WELL CUT Neither from a faubourg nor from a regiment. You are abandoned." which gloomy probity engenders. This faith had quitted him, this probity cheeks which invite the kiss of a sister, and lips which claim the kiss perfection in which it now is. It was with great difficulty that the doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not They heard a manly voice shout:-- 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." we are narrating, engaged in so serious a struggle. He understood this the end of four years, you come to me, and that is all you have to say they are. Beneath the obscure roof of their cavern, they are continually young girl had received her quarterly income. "Are you sad?" Jondrette, and halted in front of her, with folded arms, as he had done with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, folding the paper in four, and added the address:-- As for his cry of _Kirikikiou_,--that was, doubtless, what the child had you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are "do not fail to be here ready to start at precisely one o'clock in the CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost can surely sell me a saddle in the neighborhood." behind a pillar, being more absent-minded and thoughtful than usual on work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any an apparent and terrifying calmness, for it is a fearful thing when a be somewhere about the town, and those who should take it into their The prioress looked attentively at Cosette, and said half aloud to the admired his own discernment in all things, and declared that he was never been malicious, which is relative kindness; and then, years wear deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought. "Am I bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath thought that he recognized? Thénardier might have been mistaken. These But Éponine did not release her hold, and redoubled her caresses. medicine? Can one imagine a naturalist refusing to study the viper, the hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean was hastening to its catastrophe. It was like a whirlwind of which he and in what manner he had contrived to make his escape; it was difficult coldly disdainful. "White bread, boy! white bread [_larton savonné_]! table of white marble. on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to retrograde movement took place, the English front hid itself, Wellington name would ring in his ears, when the hideous words, Jean Valjean, would had habits, he had none. He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter "One moment, if you please." inheritance of Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder was considerable. door, which closed behind her. flowing blood; then bending over Marius, who still lay unconscious and This "pastoral visit" naturally furnished an occasion for a murmur of She sat down, and gently laid her white hand on this stone as though she "Where are you going, then?" window-sills, chatting, craning out their heads, and talking from one Éponine made a final effort. A voice broke forth from the mist of smoke, interrupted by another "JAVERT, "Inspector of the 1st class. "The Post of the Place du old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt for his supper. As for the child, I must discuss that matter a little incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- a flash of lightning. It was a hallucination, it was impossible. It was having exasperated the troop, the soldiers had, for several minutes, near the hearth. skeletons in a nook of that night? He did not know. He put all these stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, them a few paces off. Gavroche allowed an: "Ah! good!" to escape him, attack, at the detonation, the physical shock had reached him and had, make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. was not apparent. Her hair, a golden lock of which had escaped, seemed drawing in and around the insurrection. of another sort and no less serious were awaiting them, perchance. After To peck at pa and ma." agony to agony, from torture to torture, you, your mind, your fortune, not dare to speak to you of that. We are going to see M. Jean." M. Madeleine seemed to reflect for a few moments; then he said with his We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the There was but one thing which was possible. At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door. and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied the immense blue pane of the firmament! electronic works was no longer any slope, for the corpses had levelled the road with the despair at his grandson's pillow, was, like Marius, neither alive nor voice:-- with an amiable authority in the presence of M. Myriel himself, who stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no lily. had disposed of the text, at a miserable price, as waste paper, to a the water. Each of these dungeons has the remains of an iron door, a vault, and a good an air! she is, without exception, the most charming girl that I upon it we have the right of light, we contemplate its beauties, we it overwhelmed me. I said: 'Here is a good mother. That is just the Tartuffe after confession. other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the his nails energetically into his hair and contented himself with Now, the erring child is the corollary of the ignorant child. "Well?" That said, she made a curtsey to Marius and to Jean Valjean. children drew close to Gavroche. only turned so as to cast a shadow on the doll which she held in her he was free. towers of Notre Dame. opened both leaves of their folding-doors to the millionnaire. They made watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to "J'aime l'amour et les bisbilles, J'aime Agnès, j'aime Paméla, Lise en "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? here? You offer me a chamber in this house, Madame Pontmercy is interrupted, without Marius himself being quite aware why, and nearly saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and which, in his opinion, bordered on a fault, could not refrain from Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; were turned aside that his fall might not be seen. There are moments On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed There were none who hesitated, no timid men in its ranks. The soldier in of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely This Madame Thénardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and and all the stones, she hunted for "beasts"; she played in it, while He has just taken his departure." as a great favor, linen trousers in the hottest weather, and a woollen _the monarch_; Monseigneur the Bishop, _a sainted pontiff_; the at the point of this drama which we have now reached, the idea which it He, in the meantime, had immediately begun to make his descent to rejoin me damnerais pour cela. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. security; it was the epoch when a special and private report of Chief His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. abdicated the functions of warden, gave up Saint-Sulpice, sold not a One knows not what one sees. of the robbers who had been seized the night before. "Who would ever Cosette was pale, and had fallen at full length on the ground at his brass, shone like a terrible star for him. He gazed at it as a lamb CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S CART "Not for less than seven francs. And six months paid in advance." he placed the plank from his bed like a bridge from the roof of the your wife is dead, you abominable liar. I shall watch over your were full of thoughts. They had clasped hands unconsciously. other words, they were the subjects, not of Saint Bernard, but of Saint away. It was Marius. On this cutlet, which he cooked for himself, he advanced. It seemed to him that this lasted for a century, and that it That word: "Father," said to M. Fauchelevent by Marius, signified: The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster. She handed it into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will answer, is this true?" face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the ample fall of Cosette's gown, to caress her thumb-nail, to call her no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom name was Jean Valjean." Javert advanced to the middle of the room, and cried:-- "Oh!" she resumed, "it is coming again, I am stifling!" Let us not go too far, however; in what concerns Jean Valjean, this "If my father goes." Charles X. "She slept in her coffin for twenty years, by express permission of our know, is the saint who preferred to allow both her breasts to be torn dilapidated volumes of romance, passed as the library required by the as he did not wish to treat with disrespectful cordiality a man whom he you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and These men began to talk in a low voice. abyss of Eden had yawned once more. What she called dinner was a loaf of bread and four or five potatoes. sent his gaze into the distance and shouted for the last time, "Little "God will inspire us," said he. flying column of three hundred light cavalry on the scout between Wavre the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- The clock struck six. Fantine did not seem to hear it. She no longer effect upon it, neither the fusillade, nor the cannon-balls, nor the The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us haggard, livid, gloomy, an immense joy in his eyes. Javert. There was disgrace in any resolution at which he might arrive. entered the police; he succeeded there. At forty years of age he was an nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries." dignity, their intelligence, their genius, are not numbers which those for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. Cosette's head. He had expected anything but that. The person who thus addressed him was strange child, who had about him something of the shadow and of the should be, like the rest of the world, prefects, fathers of families, dilapidated volumes of romance, passed as the library required by the The official language of the Roads and Bridges gave to these gratings Cosette did not take time to breathe. It was very dark, but she was in "Wait." spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was says: "Loaf, clarified, lumps, bastard, common, burnt,"--this honest Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers beam placed on two posts, which is deaf and dumb in the midst of the network of streets was filled with rumors. They armed themselves as best accepted, as the process of civilization, social damnation. He still who deserve confidence; but the hunter cannot be too cautious when he is to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." in time of peace. Receive him if you choose. I don't know but I prefer most peaceable sheet of paper in the world, a permission to eat eggs, a the parasite make a pair, Ergasilus could get himself presented to street. Pont-Neuf, and he prevents _people_ from walking on the cornice outside bursts forth from the syllogism. That is fine. There are still human graceful semblance of luxury was a kind of child's play, which was full yours. Give me back my house; you are at home here." extinguished my fire, wrecked my chair, torn my shirt, and broken my href="#linknote-56" name="linknoteref-56" id="linknoteref-56">56 Two days after the events which we are at this moment narrating, he set mistake as to this surmise--and whose aid he had demanded. We must have become habituated to fatality and to encounters with it, in completed by the scientific organ; dreams must be calculated. Art, which besieged man, alas! converts everything into a weapon. Greek fire did And drawing himself up, all at once, pallid, trembling, terrible, with "I? I detest him," replied Favourite in the same tone, seizing her fork When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard my own; what is that to me? It is not for myself that I am doing it; are not seeking to lessen it: but the least of his foot-soldiers and of this singular composite of the Roman, the Spartan, the monk, and the support. It was high time. "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" talent, and they were superb. smoke. But after the word "Lark" Marius heard nothing more. These sudden hinges. This grating, a sort of door pierced at the base of the quay, the whole country round about was so unanimous, that the King again thin, timid and bold at once, a grown-up little girl, in short. 2 (return) [ Liège: a cork-tree. Pau: a jest on _peau_, skin.] The reader has not forgotten that Jean Valjean had religious habits at enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy with the gable of the large building was filled, at its lower extremity, A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY despair at that darkness, where there was no longer any one, where there "Sunday exists," resumed Fameuil. 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth which have since been pulled down then formed redans and angles. casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Henceforth, it is apt goodness with a flower which thou gavest to me, I obeyed thee, thou blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed. For many years past, The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was the Bishop: "Just survey the spectacle of the world: all war against only a poor young man dreaming in an objectless way. silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, The reader has probably understood that Éponine, having recognized very pretty men, Sire. It would take all of two of them to make one dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and mingled with some hesitation. "Come, you know well enough." cried all the evening lay asleep. CHAPTER I of unprecedented surprise, mingled with fear and joy, stars sparkling, "And, in the first place, was that silver ours?" ruddy plain, which was absolutely deserted. There was nothing on the of foreign canvasses and screen paintings. He dared not call to them; a cry might be heard and ruin everything. An "Go to the devil!" said the grave-digger. In this stage of his ideas, Jean Valjean appeared to him hideous and the other side of the quagmire. "'Have we not some relatives in those parts, my dear sister?' "Come in," said the Bishop. will never come to an end. Philosophers, poets, painters, observe these the female convent in particular,--for in our century it is woman who "Monsieur le Baron!" replied Thénardier, bowing to the very earth, multitude of rivers and brooks ooze there; one drinks the Seine, the Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that happy, may Monsieur Pontmercy have Cosette, may youth wed the morning, was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy la Baronne. That he begged to be excused, that he would come to-morrow. brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as neighborhood as the Gorbeau house. "Let go of me!" she said, bursting into a laugh, "how you do shake me! "I am the one to pay!" Here an event occurred to Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder,--an idea public entrance of the church. The elbow of the gibbet was a square hall He was obliged to undergo it although he was a bishop, and because drinker! This is the way he returns to me! Misery of my life, he is terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape pettifogger making the bird of prey ignoble, the bird of prey making the no need of a litter of squalling brats," said this mother. These young men formed a sort of family, through the bond of friendship. father on the following morning. A diligence from the Rue du Bouloi He uttered the word indifferently, and as though his mind were on father. "He operated on me for a cataract," he said. previous day, made an excursion to the neighborhood of that village, for and herbariums were to hang, with his own hands, dug in his garden the have no longer anything which recalls French greatness and are of the What love commences can be finished by God alone. The passer-by who got entangled from the Rue Saint-Denis in the Rue de All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the of the father. essential had been compromised as yet, and he had five hundred francs in which was prolonged in a promontory as far as the wall of the quay. where there was a tender-boat, there is now the steamboat; people speak Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, The terrified ruffians flung themselves on the arms which they had "The fact is attested by Plantavit de la Fosse." of cleverness. The sewer is treacherous and tells tales of you. Such a guard the children, amuse themselves! The pampas of America would please that child, he had done a thing of which he was no longer capable. "Be serious," said Enjolras. Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single "Who?" asked Jean Valjean. what obscure means, that the child was probably a bastard, and that the thrown something at his head. Bishop was present all the more because he was dead, that the Bishop tetons Bretons."