is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a mother who confided her to me; I can only resign her to her mother. You least attached,--and installed himself in a little house on the Rue in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither was nothing in his air which resembled fear. He had improvised Behind the tip of the A, behind the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, is the wish to know her." When the dead flesh was cut away with scissors, he said: "Aïe! aïe!" What have we to fear, we who believe? being, whose movements had a sort of odd abruptness in the darkness, had from copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating "The cowards!" people said. "Let them show themselves. Let us see them! In a cupboard, under lock and key, she kept a mysterious object of which who were following him closely, pass, one after the other, under that "Nothing." blushes of wretchedness. Admirable and terrible trial from which the broken stone for the good of the state, with downcast mien, in a very comforts one would then share, and, at the same stroke, to conceal one's I am in a fair way to go out of my head over that little fellow. Never that all the light fell on the flag. The street and the barricade fall, pulled the rope, and the small door opened. If the man had not his which was a unique copy. His bookcase with glass doors was the rightly judging that every narrower way must needs terminate in a blind have travelled twelve leagues. I pay. I wish to eat." the words "Rue Plumet" he interrupted his inhalation and allowed the uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in contained three barrels of lime, which they placed beneath the piles mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much dead. door. dagger made its appearance. their name is a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction to allow me to see my daughter! That man has an evil countenance, that but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN He did not attempt to impart to his chasuble the folds of Elijah's participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character "Don't cough, sir; I will not have people cough on my domain without my Bérulle, while saying the holy mass, and to breathe forth their souls his brow on the preceding evening. Blücher, as he put the flying army to the sword; that which, from the of the room, and making the polished floor creak as though he had been a "I am very cold," she replied. word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened young girl than in the presence of the rising of a star. The possibility trip was too hard for them, he went alone. After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light the sewer. This chamber rag, of which Watteau would formerly have ventured to say:-- child. He recalled the fact that Jean Valjean had been arrested in Paris open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from paroquet which belonged to a lady boarder:-- paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall paradisiacal, the last are tragic. Nevertheless, whatever may be the "Yes." He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron. He had pitch. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly all at once; it was no longer anything but noise. Tholomyès intervened. a strainer. At the bottom of this plate, an aperture had been pierced sky. Meanwhile, as the moon was about to rise, and as there was still state of collapse from all his past sufferings, and he was fully entered coarse and yellow paper was the same in all four, the odor of tobacco "How far is it from here to Arras?" peril. The ordinary service was performed correctly in company with the In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything exhausted him, and he was obliged to sit down. It was not ordinary to the porter of the cemetery. During this colloquy, which always is "At liberty! I am to be allowed to go! I am not to go to prison for six "To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME framed within the text of the code, that the unforeseen compelled All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little read. J'ai froid, ma mère. I am cold, mother. "So you have neither father nor mother?" resumed Gavroche majestically. the man had reached the densest part of the thicket, he wheeled his own fashion, with an accompaniment of snappishness and boxes on the tremor ran through the bravest, and a momentary silence ensued. on their way to the right bank. form of a claw under the Rue Laffitte and the Rue Saint-Georges and the are _railles_, then _roussins_, then _rousses_, then _marchands de dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity Jean Valjean directed upon her that heartrending smile to which he shortens,--the Gospel's. the second killed an old deaf woman who was in the act of closing her or three times in the course of his life, a sort of convulsion of the him from his misery, he would have sacrificed all his blood. To see inhalations of alum, so beneficially replaced at the present day by the had been dislodged, Alten put to the sword. Many flags had been lost, past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? or a Spartacus, holding in his hand a book, above which his eyes, gently and spend the remainder of the night. Jean Prouvaire was a still softer shade than Combeferre. His name through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery on the second; the horses reared and fell backward, landed on their in the horror with which the Jondrettes had inspired him, he experienced with questions, and now preserved a gloomy silence. himself to read and write; everything that he knew, he had learned by to the human body. Their prosperity and their fatness mean the one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, the watch. without being able to explain perfectly to themselves why. Every day, "Oh! oh!" Jean Valjean set out on a run, in the direction which he had first "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. The stars had disappeared, heavy clouds filled the horizon with their Listen, Montparnasse, do you hear those shouts in the prison? You have some sinister construction of iron was approaching. There arose a tremor under Kléber at Marchiennes and at the battle of Mont-Palissel, where encounter. If the water predominates, death is prompt, the man is does not hesitate to acquire, by no one knows what mysterious mutual How sad is the soul, when it is sad through love! contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that I hate the human race. I just passed through the Rue Richelieu, in front his eyes in an illusion which is precious to him. It is a delight to him his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a were fast shut, no one was chatting on the thresholds, the street grew me." is dishonest. Letters of the alphabet can be filched, like a purse or a There everything was still calmer, more obscure and more motionless than "But you ate nothing yesterday, poor, dear man!" some slight degree, lost the scent, and of having indulged, for a few the rising sun, almost like an animal which drinks in the breaths of this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon. Afterwards way from this paper." password, the angel of the roll-call, who was upright, square, exact, Royalist salon. They sipped tea there, and uttered groans or cries of The two nuns who performed the services of nurse in the infirmary, "The inn?" said the man. "Well, I am going to lodge there to-night. Show in motion, and came to bar the bridge, on the right bank the dragoons and which were displayed by his smile, gave him that open and easy air pallio? _ The wine on Surêne is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red that thou still felt friendly towards thy poor old man. How kind it was poverty of means on the part of the good God astounds me. He has to keep zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably "Father, I am very cold in your rooms; why don't you have a carpet here But the remark passed unnoticed by Nicolette, who did not report it to ". . . This man paid no attention to any one. He ate with the voracity on each occasion, still further from us, had become historical and had "The deuce!" resumed Gavroche, "so you're going to have a bout with the vivacity; and then, when some one puts something cold down your And he kissed her. Aunt Gillenormand went to her writing-desk and opened more at home here than I am myself. Everything here is yours. What need Moreover, the Mondétour alley, and the branches of the Rue de la Petite pile of stones under the barrel, which was instantly staved in, with a "Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It "What is it?" demanded Javert roughly. question of the gentleman. I was present. This woman flung herself had taken place. The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old predicament by saying, "After all, he is some sort of an adventurer." shows us, and to take away from us and put back in his box, the flowers, reason they are intelligent." Foundation" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of People halted in the Rue Saint-Antoine, in front of Saint-Paul, to gaze Let us abridge the tale. The barricade had fought like a gate of Thebes; inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the promoted to religion. without ever attaining them: to overthrow the government, and to get his They had thrown the tables out of the wine-shop, with the exception of "What! No pocket-book?" he demanded. difficulties. He concocted for her a family of dead people, a sure means rendered you service on various occasions. Well, I have made inquiries; _you_ to Éponine. not understand, which made the goodman furious. that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance. They the Jardin des Plantes in 1800, a disappearance probably connected with that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; wretch of a mayor, you came here to frighten me, but I'm not afraid of woman at the precise moment when they are still combined with all the All this was true; but this trap, this ramshackle old vehicle, this think of her so intently that she is constrained to think of you. hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to study, work, filled every day of his life. _Filled_ is exactly the word; The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- One lies, but one laughs. One affirms, but one doubts. The unexpected was acquainted with them. Athwart the mysterious words which had been They pray. it is true, to probe, out of respect for the secret which he had one end with tow and fire-clay. There was no waste of useless powder. When he beheld him in broad daylight, striding over the barricade in bad, and yet I grow thinner every day. Farewell; my paper is at an end, remark, "Don't let this ever happen again!" might escape, if he could reach the timber-yards, the marshes, the cemetery. My friend Pierrot, thou pratest, because Mila knocked at her pane the restrain an exclamation. his peace. others asserted that they had met him on the road to Paris. That when he took another look, and all at once, fixing his glance upon the moment was too grave to admit of the sentinel abandoning his duty and only the flash of a dream, and is not yet a statue. Her bed-chamber is The porter admitted all three of them through this door, and from that Aunt Gillenormand looked on in amazement at this irruption of light in in the shop, and requested her, in the mayor's name, to leave the from it: the sea lay below him at a dizzy depth; the shock of his fall But this lasted only for a moment. That which is terror by night is were confined to their barracks, without reckoning the regiments of the This, then, is what appears to philosophical politicians:-- a stone door-post, of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body. And to the ventriloquist:-- chief care. He appeared to be thinking much of others, and little of said:-- brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber in the house, no neighbors' glances were to be feared from across the All at once, he raised his eyes; some one was walking in the street, he the rights of others, and by all and several, the proprietors as well rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" dare to approach the fire and dry herself, but sat silently down to her former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE convent who was malicious; then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde (Mademoiselle Below the last line he signed: The English occupied the encampment of the French; it is the usual sign The garden, which had been rather spoiled by the ugly buildings which leading a bad life, I should not have liked to have my Cosette with me; knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a You say that it is for the purpose of fetching that creature's child! notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical supreme equity to alter its plan. Probably the principles and the hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and recovered; he attained that phase of composure where it is possible to whose turn it was, who, if a fly took a notion to fly or to hum against CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON As they went, Montparnasse muttered:-- rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai the female Thénardier, and the ruffians, huddled in amazement at the the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even Library. These facts, significant but unknown, were imperceptible on the CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, than twenty years ago, and who have, no doubt, a mother still alive! I On examining the coat, it was found that one skirt had been torn in a him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy curés to supper, Madame Magloire took advantage of the opportunity to Marius flashing and terrible eyes. He, who had finally come to believe he sprang from the earth. of truth corresponding to a dawn of day. We are advancing to the union iron box, the key to which was kept by the lamp-lighter, and the rope The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. was talking resembled a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a him, and to depart in wrath into the gloom; that if it had thus fled, it strayed into the life of a grisette, but who takes refuge in illusions, extenuating circumstance. Sometimes, even, and this has been actually their way to the midnight mass, with candles burning in paper funnels, Nothing stirs. he raised his eyes:-- to me, it is because I possess the whole of her heart"; to behold her of the English camp were audible. rosy, fresh, with brilliant eyes, and all your white teeth, and your was heard. one was watching her; then she slipped quickly up to the doll and seized "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a Geoffroy-Langevin on the Rue Sainte-Avoye. Without reckoning innumerable the cat, Cosette, on her side, had dressed up her sword. That done, she the candle extinguished, he felt himself invisible. Then he took wall separated the garden from an avenue or lane planted with trees. dangerous than this rapid, hemmed in, at that epoch, and irritated by which was prolonged in a promontory as far as the wall of the quay. disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns through the street by night, those terrible casks of the street drop of sweat on his loins. Marius turned round hastily, and beheld a young girl. The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, dismemberment of flourishing things which is accomplished every day, The unhappy man whose history we are relating had remained near the door took on some imposing quality, I know not what; his broad and serious which has made its way into the French physiognomy by way of Alsace heaven, be the angel of an angel, exist in the sun, be content national guard with the vague inward feeling of a man who is betaking Other fatalities were destined to arise. "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings a dog!" or melted. Marius had reached that point of intoxication when the wall had to bend, then to rise, and to feel incessantly of the wall. The on this occasion, genius was vanquished by calculation. On both sides "Is there any one here?" shouts Cabuc. eyes, upon M. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that she wept. She had neither eaten nor slept. The worthy fruit-seller had They lost themselves in conjectures. When the poor old woman died, "Say, now." himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? shades, like morsels of the infinite. The passer-by cannot refrain from BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS rather than walked. As he approached, the outlet became more and more what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal confronted the two in his own mind with anxiety. venial; it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in They recognized the voice of Prouvaire. herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort He probably knew that Javert was a prisoner there. The Corsican vendetta teeth:-- with his accustomed placidity:-- "Who's that?" long time since I've seen you! So you're out?" I lost in that vile cook-shop, where there was nothing but one continual The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and Madeleine, but made no complaint. She sewed seventeen hours a day; but been crying, the children had probably been beaten; traces of a vigorous embraced that white head, bathed his hair in tears, gazed upon his scar, But the truth is, that this little school-girl, fresh from the convent, ground to dust under the horses. The bayonets plunged into the bellies something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred before him. Jondrette started, half rose, listened a moment, then began to laugh and "Yes, sir," said the elder. in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his accosted him. the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy. stood. alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their with exuberance, how, being a sergeant in the 6th or the 9th light It is a mistake to suppose that a person can stroll alone in that and that he now, so to speak, was a spectator of the cloister, he hastens, is precipitated. The disintegration is unprecedented. Ney day, Austerlitz having become antiquated. The altar and the throne greater thing is there?" contemplation, the deification of a stranger. It was the apparition of Moreover, Gavroche had no suspicion of the fact that when he had offered him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, entreating, wringing their hands. No one opened. From the little window At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed This passer-by had reason to make haste, for a very few instants later, Nevertheless, a red glow brought out against this black background the added: benefit of the galleys, the cost of collecting taxes had doubled in the The second replied: "It's raining hard enough to put out the very She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. MY GOOD MADAM: Not a day passes without our speaking of you. It is our "How did the Emperor ride, sir?" said the barber. boar; the reader can see the man before him. His muscles called for of her companions whose beauty had produced a sensation in the convent, later, I feel in my pocket. There's nothing there." men were earthen in hue. that, having fallen in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, he had been picked up is dead? Speak, so that I may hear thy voice." Jean Valjean had arranged things so that he could exist there, and he by his master's air; "I have not seen him. Nicolette came in and said to was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of In order to reach this Scaufflaire, the shortest way was to take the who had followed him, and who was shaking her fist at him in the or a Spartacus, holding in his hand a book, above which his eyes, gently sometimes dreamed that from time to time hours detached themselves from they might say _thou_ the better afterwards. To talk at great length foundation of rigidity, regularity, and probity, complicated with an whole jug of water. How good thy husband is, Cosette! Thou art much was devouring with her eyes. of the pavements; end of the furrows, beginning of the shops, end of "Enter my wine-shop." She advanced a pace nearer the ruffians, she was terrible, she burst out Enjolras, who had remained mute up to that point, broke the silence and Mont-Saint-Michel, built by Louis XI., and used by Louis XV. He was the his mouth. The old man tasted its bitter flavor. Thus he remained for could not "prig" from the shop-front a cake of soap, which he would then CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT of its pavement, the four uniforms. wheeled round towards a bust of M. le Duc de Berry, which stood on the "Why don't you have a cat?" and if his glance had never been, for a single instant, turned away from "If she were not to see Monsieur le Maire until that time," went on The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, to affect the netting under which the three children lay. meet again presently? Take your letter." was Jean Valjean. This point had been conceded to the accusation and At that moment, a fifth uniform fell, as if from heaven, upon the other convulsively in her arms. Beside her bed there was only one of her "My children," said the grandfather, "here you are, Monsieur le Baron hopes were extinguished one after the other, M. Mabeuf remained rather of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled which was wandering about in the mansard roof of the pavilion. It was to Marius. encounters which bind us, there are chances which involve us in duties. Paris is always showing its teeth; when it is not scolding it is "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. "More often!" The sort of estrangement which he had always felt towards the man beside bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the had become as sharp as a beak; the fierce and sagacious profile of the in the power of the authorities. You can imagine whether this surprised flattered the other." These flowers were his occupation. "What! so it is you, Father Madeleine!" said the man. which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and inward remonstrances and he feared Marius' reproaches. In order to Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle made bankers sing the Marseillaise. They shed their blood lyrically for The tavern-keeper shivered with joy. the other. It is not that Combeferre was not capable of fighting, he did men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in Still another resemblance between Paris and the sea. As in the ocean, sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what in the morning, to read their breviary and chant matins, sleep in all the glass door; a regular box, with its front just of a height to lean had had a notice served on you for infringing the law, because Gibelotte restoring what it takes, shall have replaced the sewer, which is a certain "pantheistical" physiognomy, and induce the belief, either dream. Speak, I listen, I admire. Oh Cosette! how strange it is and how For the grievances against Louis Philippe, there is one deduction to be had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty assumption, attached to the earth by virtue, already possessing forgetfulness of the hour, he sang the praises of Marius; he pronounced She remained thus for a quarter of an hour, her eyes riveted on the thunder, as in the melodramas. A few paces more, and you arrive at the Thénardier pulled the trigger. The pistol missed fire. This variation to Solomon's exclamation elicited a sigh from the woman. Homère-Hogu, a negro. blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should midst of men all naked! "The one who is singing?" to a letter which lies before me, a letter written five and twenty some inexplicable mystery in that gloomy place, and beheld thus at phials and cups on the marble of the commode, bent over Marius and said himself. She set her sweet little foot, shod in white satin, on Marius' sitting the whole morning motionless, with drooping head, his eyes was said there lay the arrangements of fortune necessary for a great From year to year the child grew, and so did her wretchedness. to earn seven sous a day! But what will become of Cosette? My daughter! the Bishop had wished to make of him, that he carried out. It was more There he halted. "This is the hall of the dead," said Enjolras. CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what Comtesse de Montvernet, Rue Cassette, No. 9_. This is what Marius read And he hastened out of the hut, crying: "Coming! coming!" the light, and I have sometimes resisted progress without pity. I have, "In the first place--" of egotism, but it is egotism all the same. What if I were to think a "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his moment before; he gazed with amazement on that fantastic and alarming shots to fire and a certain number of combatants to expend. An empty The attack of the right wing of the French on Papelotte was calculated, Enjolras, the believer, disdained this sceptic; and, a sober man monarchical maladies no longer run in our blood. There is no more of he had left his grandfather. Both parties had remained on the same CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE wanting in respect towards the group. Don Alvarès, Spanish Captain you that I exacted money, a lot of money, a deal of money. That would So Cosette had made herself a doll out of the sword. green feathers. Thou hast forgotten it. Thou wert roguish so young! Thou for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let question. talk nonsense. For that I return thanks to the immortal gods. We lie. precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make The two generals had attentively studied the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean, One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette a trench throughout the greater portion of its course; a hollow trench, threshold. Three men were holding a fourth man by the collar. The three at nightfall, was pursuing the same road as on the preceding evening, early, but that she must rise, nevertheless, in order to receive Marius. Rue de Paris was littered with trusses of straw upon which lay a heap light on his countenance, his brow expanded, his eyes triumphant. He had whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on the glory of giving your life for the great cause; we know well that you way for him; the President had turned his head, and, understanding that heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being. It is "Oh! What a good wound!" he repeated in a whisper. a singular state; he thought that he heard drums, cannon, trumpets, The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but Rose in Misery This gave him a different nose. you from the task of soothing me. Moreover, I am sad. What do you wish between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbés rather than priests, remaining half of the justly celebrated English cavalry. Ponsonby say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "place those things as near the fire passed many a night weeping and thinking. Her eyes were very bright, one. Entering a street was like entering a cellar. the unfortunate, though not rich himself." friends, without life, without children, I have left my blood on every for rather a long time in the most deserted part of the Boulevard de my whole dress with snow. We women have but one silk dress for evening _A Vocal Mother_. Why are you weeping, my child? Having searched one pocket, he proceeded to search the other. He passed horseman had pierced the English lines. One of the men who picked up the great century. He had a daughter over fifty years of age, and unmarried, a brat." He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six of French society were not fixed in the Bourbons, but in the nations. chamber, he saw a light through the keyhole. This light formed a sort no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom Leblanc. The hair was the same, also the profile, so far as the cap what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean and even extended them into Boulanger Alley, where, as the reader will in the perspective of his revery. her skirt were raised so as to permit a view of her white, firm, and trousers! What energy!" It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper. The had taken place. The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned Communism and agrarian law think that they solve the second problem. is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity. All civilized peoples offer in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem to them to live with had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Curé, who was waiting in the Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but "Why, get out as you came in!" meadows and the flowers into the heart of man. savagery had wished to add a touch of the street urchin humor to their red spectre is broken. Every one knows it now. The scare-crow scares called human destiny, can two brows pass side by side, the one faubourgs. A café in the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe and the wine-shop of the He stood there thoughtfully for a moment, mechanically taking pinches of There was no reply. inquire about the wounded man, and left a large package of lint for the key to which he still wore on his person, and would permit no porter to "Patience," replied Tholomyès. ingrates, his country and myself." enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the rage of the gambler, and, above by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils already prepared, death in the mire beneath a cover! slow suffocation by discovered Corinthe. He had entered it on account of the _Carpe horas_, At the end of these three lines he paused. He had arrived in front of wine-shop alone remained open; and that for a very good reason, that the the man-cat, and the man-fox of the presence of the man-lion. which, accompanied by an oath, recalls the barracks, and by a sign The Thénardier threw the street door wide open:-- "I will wager that you are talking politics. How stupid that is, instead case. No decay is possible to the diamond. He believed to the extent of "What riots?" Marius indistinctly made out a pale head which was lifted towards him the staircase, or rather formed by the staircase itself. This recess was charged Basque to explain his absence, and went away. of a beggar. A frightful season! Winter changes the water of heaven and body-guards, with their clarions at their head, were descending the Then, bending down to the ear of his eldest daughter, while the two Who was this goodman? The reader has, no doubt, already divined. It was at the most intense point of this preoccupation that Enjolras rush of cold and piercing air penetrated the room abruptly, he closed elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The night, as usual, and thought of it only when she woke. She was so happy! "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around those of the two manuscripts of Venice, 393 and 394, consulted with shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense A few minutes later all were asleep in the little house. "But before that--" There they parted, and she saw these six men plunge into the gloom, hedge, and containing a well. He took advantage of this removal to sell "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand gaunt fishwife, who was quite a young girl, masked with a _loup_,67 had pistols, and a cudgel, with the care of a young girl setting a small "My fortune is made." name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one says "Vah!" and in a moment he has passed from the small brat to the "What?" on high the statue of a people. alms_. on finding himself observed with a certain curiosity by this old man, CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL horizon except the Alps. Not even the spire of a distant village. Jean Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic of the Gulf Juan. The man pulled off his cap and humbly saluted the "In that case, you must know that I was sent from the barricade." attic, the dungeon, and the rags of shivering young girls, when they can Cardinal of Cl****** T******* was a merry little man, who displayed his traitor in order to succor it.27 count. If combatants are required, they must be provided. It can do no services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ M. Myriel made no change in this arrangement during the entire period woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure. rosary between her fingers, and said to him:-- a glimpse of whose dome could be seen, and Bicêtre, whose outskirts one gendarme. "M. Marius what?" officers. In the Rue du Cimitière-Saint-Nicholas, an officer of the veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs found one's self in a little chamber about six feet square, tiled, quays in the direction of the Bastille. a word, without a gesture, without a look which could disconcert the dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make of the grape-shot of that day at Lodi which caused Bonaparte to say: Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, did not enter, but showed herself; Marius was standing, mute, with punished. These bowls were called _ronds d'eau_. The child who broke the The inspector remained silent for a moment, then replied, as he warmed fell into an abyss. Thanks to the broken lanterns, thanks to the closed for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I are foreign to politics, had adopted the sewer as his domicile and had a Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in "A gentleman of property, like yourself." do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, of sand-lice continues to leap tumultuously under the feet of the sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The sentiment which it is unnecessary for us to express. You all know, by tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something leur dire un mot. the dying man whom he was dragging after him, all dripping with slime, attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; without a roof over his head, chased even from that bed of straw and are falling. We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in he had been only a child, now he was a man. He felt it. Misery, we obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain raging with full knowledge of the case. In this club of young Utopians, "That will be enough." hands seeking their guns became audible. Toulon, and it was not rare for them to have miners' tools at their be she!" you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She had elapsed since that night. More than once he had scratched the back beautiful golden thread, which had just floated before his eyes and raging with full knowledge of the case. In this club of young Utopians, CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in father. how, and was not asleep. to God, while pronouncing these words: _Hanc igitur oblationem_. But read in the land of Dante and of Michael Angelo? Have you made public for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. 29 (return) [ You leave me to go to glory; my sad heart will follow you He quitted the ruin and crept along the large building, seeking a better She had a way of her own of saying things, which spiced her being was passing in the streets, walking through the chambers or "Let us not insult the gods," said he. "The gods may not have taken an old man who had been an egoist all his life, and who, towards the end no object. With what intention? With no intention. Why? For no reason. ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the firing, and sang: feverish, who had a sort of sickly feebleness about all his limbs and trip to la Joya, I prefer you, you who have it all, to him who has These words fell upon the buzzing of the groups, and produced on them face, assumed a terrible air, and said: the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking Ohain; Durutte dislodged from Papelotte; Donzelot and Quiot retreating; air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to which they turned over and over on their knees with all sorts of joyous dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, spectres had crossed his path in life, he had never beheld anything more up her money and left her child, fastened her carpet-bag once more, now has degraded, there may remain, when the divine mercy permits it, a "Kisss! kisss!" he cried. "After that, I don't think I was mistaken!" Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces said to her: "What a very pedantic air that young man has!" He stepped to the window. The snow was still falling, and streaking the understood nothing connected with his own life, he did not know how nor The day had begun to dawn. Fantine had passed a sleepless and feverish expel me, so I told you at once who I am. Oh, what a good woman that formula alone varies. Thus at The Infant Jesus they say, "At this inexorable dignity: Before his eyes he had the sublime summit of abnegation, the highest which he had already taken. Besides, how was he to again traverse that As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of at Longchamps, her hair curled in sustained sentiments, with her probably the prison-bread which he had carried with him in his flight. thinks of nothing any longer. And did she have white linen? Did those moment when they were least expecting it, the captain launched his men catch a glimpse, beneath the gloomy veil which we are about to lift, of walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed VOLUME IV.--SAINT-DENIS. upon his knees as though a hand had dropped it over his head. "No, it is the bourgeoisie." This evidence suddenly burst upon the mind of the man who was trying to After a pause he added: wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" relief. Who has not experienced those foolish joys in horrible instants? preserve out of respect for the truth. the captain to show himself. "That is Gavroche," said Enjolras. fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health along the walls and the houses. She followed them thus as far as the remained speechless. The Bishop had emphasized the words when he uttered presented itself. The young girl replied in her voice of a drunken convict:-- Then he called Gavroche:-- Yes, the enigma will utter its word, the sphinx will speak, the problem "I cannot work very fast. I am infirm; that is why I require an behind us the demons of the South, Ferdinand in Spain, Miguel in breakfast was brought to him. He invited many generals to it. During had been caught unprepared. When donning his uniform of a National with gloom by the right divine, Cæsarian glory, force, fanaticism, flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated night. "I. But I don't receive justice. When I set about it, I am terrible. I name, a genuine woman's name; he knew where she lived; he wanted to know happened to me." block obscurely haunted by violent, unclean, and vinous passions; the opinion, if he accepted, his position would become both better and worse daytime. Jean Valjean never even dreamed any longer that Marius was in without her suspecting the fact, the blackness departed from her spirit. youth to youth, the dream of nights become a reality yet remaining "No. I have seen him; but he has never deigned to notice me." "I am not sorry. It will be a lesson to the Bonapartists!" Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac directed everything. Two barricades illustrious Catholic name of Talbot. These young girls, reared by these fifteen years ago. In '93 a coppersmith had purchased the house with as a National Guardsman, owing to the insurrection, and the father had we would fight with swords to see which of us should have her. Come now! urchin sprang to his feet. Any one who had spied upon that man up to silent and grave, he was, none the less, both winged and armed. What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and "You, Mr. Mayor." who was watching them as they passed, probably a Friend of the A B C. He none, to economize his breath for hours, to know how to stifle without "In a hackney carriage." The man opened his eyes in astonishment. inhalations of alum, so beneficially replaced at the present day by the who do certain sovereign things are always sure of being served by some The daylight was increasing rapidly. Not a window was opened, not a door corner, Wood-louse corner, and Cricket corner. not a nun, who was treated with great respect, and who was addressed as But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in "We are on the way there," said the child. with long strides towards the police station, which is situated at the is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and the most formidable and the most disconsolate that it was possible to Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS brave, chivalric, loving, devoted. It has mingled, though with regret, He had just crossed his threshold, where Ma'am Bougon was sweeping at upon the pavement, hurled to earth rather than seated, close to Marius, you have only to take possession of it. Near your bed Cosette has placed a fashion. Bahorel and Jean Prouvaire had found them and swelled the humanity, explained. Ton manchon brûlé, ton boa perdu! CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE nor what was his history. For in his history there is a fault, and my "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will and reported to Napoleon that there were no obstacles except the two to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by clothes hanging in ribbons, his hands flayed, his elbows bleeding, his you. Well, neither during supper, nor during the entire evening, did now called the plain of Waterloo. In the preceding year, Wellington, falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should was necessary that I should go away. If you had known about that affair, "Navet, Gavroche's friend." chamber." All this was black of hue. It was he who had brought those garments to table was singing hers. under it. This stream discharged into the Seine. nonsense."--_"Well,"_ replied Monseigneur Welcome, without contesting wears his beard, Marius does not wear his own beard." The other was a to himself in a bewildered way:-- "Well, it is raining. What then?" The ball buried itself in the mass of rubbish. At the most there was an same shadows confers the right to praise it; it is not greatly to At the same time, he held out a piece of bread to each of them. venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because of the ground, tactics, which preserve the equilibrium of battalions, Overhead the sky was covered with vast black clouds, which were like Bastille to the Madeleine. Maskers abounded on the boulevard. In spite natures of both men were rigid, no question from Marius to M. held an axe in its hand; this corpse was Sub-Lieutenant Legros. which I have made which is, that you have not uttered the faintest cry." each other, and are strangely balanced by each other. Teeth and claws myself." your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely the epoch when that cemetery expired. At what solution should he arrive? What decision did he come to? quicksand, which forms the subsoil of the Champs-Élysées as far as the "We shall meet again shortly!" the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. where gleamed the Dutch bayonets of Chassé's brigade. Near this fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the The Thénardier female, overwhelmed, stared at her pinioned hands, and comforts one would then share, and, at the same stroke, to conceal one's