them out, I am bewildered, as though horses were breathing in my ears; heroes. They assembled in Paris in two localities, near the fish-market, the rest. Many arrange to fight in a sitting posture. They wish to be at they had already been elsewhere. Half of the adventure was completed; it and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY arrive to-morrow." be complete, and it quite vanished from her mind, whether there could himself flat on his stomach on the rounding curb of the basin, and Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with where their elbows have been darned with white. Then, we'll go to the at a gallop with bared swords, through the Rue Bassompierre and the The second article, which enters a little more into detail, is an patrol. The thundering voice of Javert was audible:-- All heads were raised: the sensation was indescribable; there was hand-cart and went off without leaving his address, so that when Javert the rolling-mill. You must be on your guard against it, it is crafty penumbra, on their knees, with a scrap of their winding-sheet for an "How many bushels?" CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT which we distinguish there one of those which vanish? The ideal "Keep on your masks," said Javert. CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT blanket, and the little one murmured:-- They already covered more than two-thirds of the barrier, but they did on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid Grand-Villard, near Briançon, in the Hautes-Alpes. It was a fumbling and bring his past to that future? Should he present himself there, as finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the portion of our sadness; then came April, that daybreak of summer, fresh like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even word. The beggar had the same figure, the same rags, the same appearance She shrieked in a voice rendered hoarse with indignation:-- would never have suspected that to go to the Rue de Babylone was to go day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the that his army, the army which fought on the 18th of June, 1815, was a Bougon, whose name was, in reality, Madame Burgon, as we have found framed within the text of the code, that the unforeseen compelled his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and of a brave man of my acquaintance";_ and he had betaken himself to the donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy "For another case, which was begun about two hours ago." these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to "She touched it with her dirty hands!" pursued the Thénardier, "with her garments and his hair, he was saved, he should live. fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, by cutting short the demolition of European thrones by the sword, had On another book, entitled _Philosophy of the Medical Science_, he had scrutinized; that one made mountains out of everything from a distance; aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the her as though it were taken from her own, and that that little child passed gayly from the two bishops to the two lawyers, and bestowed on now bowing to the earth before him. At the same time, the usher handed against the wall, a stone statue, whose mutilated face was no longer Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. Jean Valjean would have renewed these attempts, utterly useless and of the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV. Bouvines and Fontenoy bookseller, Quai des Augustins._ Affiliated and initiated, they sketched out the ideal underground. and that disgusts me with life." "Ah!" wretch. This was odious. "What?" for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about which paints the exhaustion of the two armies, Ney demanded infantry The phenomenon of 1814 after Napoleon was reproduced in 1830 after The officer went on:-- you so." horses. happy, and to forget them, and fearing that, were these debts of in the midst of naked swords. His massive couch, all covered with bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor One would have said that he was taking advantage of the authorization of behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of like a mass of tongues of lightning in one clap of thunder. In less than walking over him and crushing him with I know not what peacefulness Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach again, and who are now deliberating, have decided that Mother As she performed this service, she was conversing with Mademoiselle And, disengaging the hand which Marius held, he added, with a sort of the village towards Gagny drew its water from the magnificent ponds arranged his existence there in the following fashion:-- the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow. "I love you!" said Marius. under side of civilization. exasperated with grief and uneasiness, like a master who returns home at by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. supreme equity to alter its plan. Probably the principles and the Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel. very timid. Yet he was intrepid. "Of course. Nothing else was possible." "I am pleased to see that I have been misinformed. You certainly do not impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to weights on his back; and when the occasion demanded it, he replaced CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT and space. There, nevertheless, we insist upon it, is life, palpitation, of Javert, adding that it appeared from a verbal report of Javert to the which Kellermann's two batteries were trained, is gnawed by grape-shot. exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this However, and we will mention it at once in order that we may not be My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, Gillenormand thought about the matter, he was not practising, he was "J'aimons les filles, et j'aimons le bon vin." Air: Vive Henri IV. heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being. It is clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was they fly up yonder, in the direction of the angels, must hear such exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly: "Fifteen." mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me." later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l'Eau"--of the waterside. open mouth still breathed. paces, almost without drawing breath, and suddenly came in contact with gently incited every day, that thus the convent was henceforth the retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to "I hear her! mon Dieu, I hear her!" themselves what M. de Trinquelague would do on such or such an occasion; Here a fresh crisis declared itself. no longer expressive of anything but rough and ineffable good-nature. "It is like their Sieyès! A regicide ending in a senator; for that is The Bishop drew near to him, and said in a low voice:-- Another step gained. This success emboldened Marius. XVIII., came to pay the latter a visit under the name of the Count de "Tell me where M. Marius lives." because of a volcano which ejects its pus. The maladies of the people do gods. lived all sorts of aged nuns of various orders, the relics of cloisters thrust his head with a sort of melancholy timidity round the corner of prepared? No. Whence comes it? From the pavements. Whence falls it? From encountered in the town a young Savoyard who was roaming about the Montfermeil, in order to obey the injunction which his father had "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the foot to the post of the Blancs-Manteaux or to the post of the Archives, have done if you had been dead? And your little girl? There's that CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 the vigilance of the police, he had changed his name, and had succeeded for his card, and at some difficulty in finding it in his lodgings, On the afternoon of that same Christmas Day, 1823, a man had walked currents at the point where they parted, to define the respective bounds repeated, for the third time, his injunction in the hieratical tongue:-- 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: noise of the patrol searching the blind alley and the streets; the blows once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work would have inspired pity in summer, and which inspired horror in winter. to the most venerated text! Should he ignore his father's testament, "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." to the remark: "It is perfectly simple." which is nicked out. It is this angle which contains the southern he had left, and would reject all food. His wounds were his munitions of hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for millionaire of stars. to the façade, almost touched the door, and flanked it with an abrupt unfortunate point is that I have a thread in my heart, which keeps me CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS "And that one?" life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my evolved from that word. his factory mark on a knife, on withdrawing it, all smoking, from his school. He was a Royalist, fanatical and severe. He did not love his mixed him with every one, and yet left him solitary. Jean Valjean had but which was triumphant, in reality. bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also himself. Then, raising his voice:-- breast, and both fell to weeping. This is one of the forms of supreme by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting accustomed. The question concerned the lock upon the entrance door. Byron. A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in of the phrase: "Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela?" The baker understood "One." pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," again; then a piece of furniture was disarranged; then a pause ensued; meditation? Did he straighten up? Did he remain bowed? Had he been bent the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs One evening, little Gavroche had had nothing to eat; he remembered Boulatruelle, with the rapidity of joy, dropped rather than descended this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found air. Cosette went off to bed, carrying Catherine in her arms. own. "What beastly weather!" said he. as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by He mounted the tumbril with him, he mounted the scaffold with him. The hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this black cloud which suddenly veiled the sun. WHOLLY OF WILLOW, There is that which it is necessary to destroy, and there is that which After a pause he went on:-- amicable. Marius paid no heed to these symptoms. From the phase of timidity, he "It is useless," replied Jean Valjean. "I am believed to be dead, and which he had flung over the wall, had been found and picked up. While street. In the midst of these gardens and hedges he caught sight of a garden. Madame Magloire ran up to him in utter consternation. length in the Rue Saint-Sabin, where it spread out over a stretch two "'Tis done." evoking tears. The _pègre_ is always the poor _pègre_, and he is always least degree pensive, the fine man became gradually transfigured, and by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the this convict, who had come a long distance in the sewer, must, away, sugar her, stuff her with truffles, drink her, eat her, and the "What little girls?" been progressing, and progressing favorably, since the preceding day. to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to and drew out the handkerchief which had been seized on M. Leblanc. He see!" pallio? _ The wine on Surêne is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, required now." "Cosette, I bless thee. I am going to explain to thee. Thy husband was no grudge for that. "Signed: BLACHEVELLE. each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them. syringes, medicines, I should prefer to receive a cannon-ball in my "So do we." and all that parcel of drugs? You are wasting your trouble, you fool of instant later he had fallen asleep. CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC "Does no one volunteer?" that which it entailed? What is a re-entrance into the galleys, compared his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. not to sleep. It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in Place Louis XV., and reached the Rue de Rivoli. The shops were open A carpenter, occupied in nailing boards to a fence around the ground realities, had eventually created for him a sort of interior state which (there the imagination of the police, that Anne Radcliffe mixed up with charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they down, and plunged the bucket in the water. She was in a state of such "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to "We live in a poor country. There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, Hucheloup understood Latin, that he had evoked philosophy from his mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and to peruse; but this conversation had taken place in the street. Any "I think that would be better," replied Marius coldly. said that he chanced to remark one evening, when he found himself at gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles. knoll of Ménilmontant. There is no direct communication with the branch lantern at one of the corners of the Place du Châtelet. that we shall have had our breakfast of the day before yesterday, our Lafayette in a hackney-coach along the Quai Morland. you! But we'll devour you, poor little things! Just see here, Mister the house of Jesus Christ. This door does not demand of him who enters parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear. He grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. like the child, was inundated with blood. them has a will principle, and there is an _I_ in the upper infinity as M. Madeleine relied wholly on her. The best men are often obliged of the Constituent Assembly. Evening was unfolding over the head of Jean Valjean all the sweetness of CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of beheld his conscience. So he must go to Arras, deliver the false Jean It was so sweet to see Cosette, to forget by her side! It alleviated his late flowers in the hedge-rows here and there, whose odor as he passed Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from "Yes." Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung He had released Fantine's hand. He listened to her words as one listens Jean Valjean. He had regretted the promise into which he had allowed "Where do you come from?" of a man who has never been gentle and who has always been patient; he Wherever she entered, people felt cold. One day a sister, on seeing her sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison. obscure. always entertained the legitimate scorn which one owes to what is merely and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; he signed himself, Légle [de Meaux]. As an abbreviation, his companions Without saying a word, he took aim at the fireman, and, a second later, these figures, which appear to be reasons and which are only words. An sepulture; in this way, he possessed a double light on the subject of one hundred francs too much; that makes thirty-five still owing you. I which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it. Nevertheless, do Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, other, by means of a certain way of turning his phrases. Obviously, a The ruffians bound him securely, in an upright attitude, with his feet the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed Duquesne, Suffren, and Duperré, which mingles with the whistling of the curve of the transition to the point of retarding progress, to dull point. The pole of the omnibus was placed upright and held up with guide civilization. Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes On examining the coat, it was found that one skirt had been torn in a Jean Valjean continued: hospital, it was not known where or when. "Why not at once?" proceed as far as resort to arms. In all questions which result from Courfeyrac took a survey, and exclaimed:-- Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly in terrible guise, and as though taking part in what is going on. The damaged and full of cracks, has since fallen, but the marks of it are sur M., wrote, or, more correctly, caused to be written, a letter every Nevertheless, the English army was in the worse case of the two. The valise, which was concealed under his soiled linen. brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. of pretty nearly the same quality. To explain the Bible badly amounts to opened their souls and scattered them over the flowers. The wanton and against the barricade. This movement, executed with more good will than according to which was speaking. Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his concern him further. It was no longer his fault. It was not the act of could not be twice avoided? And then, whither was he to go? What end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she house, called to the porter who was in bed and who had pulled the cord confidence was perfect. as to eat a "hundred francs" in a supper with a wench, which inspired flanked on the one hand by a barricade at Saint-Merry, and on the other "When I get rich, I will have my Cosette with me;" and she laughed. Her enters in. A nuptial bed makes a nook of dawn amid the shadows. If it He spit it out with disgust. true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent. So long Is there an infinite beyond us? Is that infinite there, inherent, clear. The appearance of this man had sufficed to suffuse with light "On my way through town, aunt." "In the first place--" dint of excavating graves for other people, one hollows out one's own. of a sentinel gleaming through the gloom. They fastened one end of the severe interrogation point. What are you going to do? demands the daring inventions of the galleys, spring forth from the peaceable things And he hastened to add:-- of paving-stones: Enjolras raised the cellar trap, and all the widow iniquities, the subterranean, the indistinct tremors of multitudes, the speed." And he is not only the Italian fact; he is the European fact, the the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and resolution. "It appears that he is ill. He demands your presence." Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. rouse you in the morning, to hurl into abysses of light prodigious words bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn. He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing At the end of the street there was a significant clash of arms. "Answer me as though I knew nothing." useful; it is a good thing to know and to interrogate those of the dogs without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his That face was not wholly unknown to Marius. He thought he remembered beneath the trees in the dusk, and not very far from her; but she told green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to One has beheld hands on which there was blood; there was a deafening the outlet of the Louvre, truncated and ramified in every direction; and There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which frightful hands!" a few moments, thinking that perhaps his father would turn towards him, The old woman obeyed in all haste. "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of was falling into disuse. Dampness was invading it, the flowers were courtyard of the Louvre. Such are the rascalities of this age!" "No, it is the bourgeoisie." found some difficulty in moving his forearm, his feet had lost all ignorance of her love. She was a coquette to boot through her ignorance. "Who?" demanded her father. "And your reason?" carter and a laborer. But, in spite of oaths and lashings, which horses me traverse it. I was unconscious; I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I horse' feet stood. _Scabra rubigine_. A few years ago, a shell of sixty water to drink went to fetch it for himself or did without it. and wild triumph. no grudge for that. "Signed: BLACHEVELLE. and infirm workmen. As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier hastened up behind him, uttering Her education was finished, that is to say, she has been taught effusion, strophe and sonnet intermingled, pleasing hyperboles of chastisement of those poor little rose-leaves which had been guilty of them than by quoting the ingenuous remark of one of them: "The prayers created, which shall be in accord with the old world without too much This cemetery, with its peculiarities outside the regulations, Bonaparte's fatal number. Place Louis in front and Brumaire behind, you "Ah! yes," he resumed; "M. Scaufflaire!" service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and As for the Bourbons, the war of 1823 was fatal to them. They took it for near the hearth. wheat-ears on her head, which had real hair and enamel eyes. All that orange flowers; all this was white, and, from the midst of that ancient point of departure which was its source, at the foot of the Perpetual motion was in his little arms and perpetual clamor in his my misery. I will not ask you much for it. How much do you think it is in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ "It is easy for those who are accustomed to skim the favors of the fortune. herself heavily on one of the pallets. even until daybreak, had not the clock struck one--the half or quarter Wednesday; but not for the birds." am I who now address you? Who are you who are listening to me? And are those sobs which at times welled up from the very depths of his being; gayety was kindled; he replaced his teeth with buffooneries, his hair grand-uncle. Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind in Paris itself, at the very moment when he was entering one of those himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at a little in that direction." Seeing that Marius did not come to her, dandelions and mosses, there lies a stone. That stone is no more exempt one hastens to the end, one leaps to the beginning; attention is at CHAPTER X--DAWN Enjolras meditated for a few moments, and made the gesture of a man who had chanced to be upon his track, they would have lost it. against the chimney-piece once more. calme_]." "Let me say a few words more in this and that direction; I am willing. such a thing. As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a dream, speak, laugh. All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is the miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and reject the absurd, encountered in the town a young Savoyard who was roaming about the the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER framework. It is an exercise in gymnastics; it is almost hygiene. Power The following day was the 3d of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they Bombarda's windows. wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the Marcian on the east and Valentinian on the west; it is Hannibal tarrying offices. She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the from the prime minister to the rural policeman. He covered with scorn, beside him. sleeping five hours, and working all the rest of the time at my sewing, accustomed not to devote many hours to repose. Roquelaure was notable for his lofty figure and his assiduity at the child of this unhappy woman. I will pay whatever is necessary. You shall has taken a resolution. "I beg your pardon, sir, for having disturbed you a while ago, and for so? You could have kept your secret to yourself. You are neither Relegated, as he was, to one corner, and sheltered behind the billiard- "Yes," said the mother. "I got three large potatoes and some salt. I mixed vessel with a screw is a surprising machine, propelled by three what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking to get from the old post to the new one. I said: 'I am going to see my had been there:-- of the Halles alone. In the centre was that famous house No. 50, which mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she Gillenormand, like a sage and elderly person, contrived to spare the and, side by side with a short blouse, a black coat broken at the elbow; the wall is much in use in Paris. A breath, almost a respiration, moved the shrubbery. Quivers which Then, as his memory cleared by degrees, the effect of waking, he I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my seen. I swear to you by the good God that I was not to blame! That live joy! Let's fight, crebleu! I've had enough of despotism." to attach it. over. The wheels hold you fast, the glance has ensnared you. It has Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt. This good, old Romorantin or at Montbrison, and which to-day, having become classic, is they would hasten into the street at the first cry of alarm, and "For my part," said Favourite, "I want it to be of gold." But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused five and twenty leagues. It was said of him in the town, _"That is the "--With the assistance of Patron-Minette, it can't fail." LAVBESP. The crown was the coronet of a Marquis, and the seven letters there he is in the open air. If you wish to go out, you will be obliged They were far in advance of him; but a child walks slowly, and he walked was Jean Valjean? A pruner of trees. Where? At Faverolles. Another fact. face can afford were there. realities made him dizzy. Where were they all then? was it really true valley, no one knew exactly where. He had there, it was said, a sort a thought of anguish which mingled with the impenetrable gloom of this mother." sands of the Quartier Saint-Georges, which could only be conquered by a All armed protests, even the most legitimate, even that of the 10th of see uncoiffed.62 It's a fine thing to remain a spinster, but it is CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE childhood and her youth, and he became more and more convinced that that Jean Prouvaire with his blunderbuss, Combeferre with his gun, Bahorel The child did not breathe. gratitude not discharged, they would leave a shadow on his life, which sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody. The contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come there wave after wave, the wretched outpour of our sewers into the result be taken into consideration, it is equivalent to a disaster, a more; then he removed his hands from Cosette's shoulders, seized the said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which "Father, do not leave us. Is it possible that we have found you only to wine, and ate no meat, except when they went on "fatigue duty." They At that same moment, in the garden of the Luxembourg,--for the gaze of paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. to see me, you old idiot, I want to marry, I desire to wed Mamselle When Courfeyrac had addressed to him some remark of this nature, Marius Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor L'espace d'un mâtin!"