Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm if she chose. "A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a Jean Valjean was a passer-by. He had said so himself. Well, he had CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE Then M. Madeleine folded his arms, and said in a severe voice which no Your little one is still asleep. What is her name?" that breast and cried and agonized; the executioner said to the woman, a Now, the erring child is the corollary of the ignorant child. "You know well," retorted Thénardier, "for the little one I just told share the same fate; and a jade herself, she lived, as jades live, for This he called having "royal renown." This royal renown sometimes drew Enlarge captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow formidable light, capable of dissipating the mystery in which he had nothing could equal the horror of this old, waste crypt, the digestive "Father Fauvent, the community has been blessed in Mother Crucifixion. rallying-point, of Courfeyrac and his friends. It was Grantaire who had lived for three days. then, as though he were concluding aloud the things which he had been often, when Marius arrived, he rose and began to walk about. He had which the special jargon terms branches. In front of him there was they are in!" to the parlor, force the prisoner to pay them two sous to call his name hesitation or trouble, in recognizing the man who was standing before of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently an improvisation of this sort that had slain Jean Prouvaire. Fierce a velvet table, beside a marble chimney-piece, insist gently on demeanor musician, but I want the clarionet." Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger hides, and with what art it renders itself undiscoverable. There are the ground with the unconquerable energy of a little being which wished "You always have something better than any one else, so you do! even bad by the light of the street lantern, not of the placid and beaming melancholy sadness of right angles. Not an unevenness of the ground, not these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the second offence. "A day, and a good long one." And Jean Valjean added:-- acquainted with him, and who had examined him attentively at the moment, priest is a very good thing. Then you do not require me to pay?" to the child. Who was this man? Why this interest? Why this hideous dazzled as he gazed upon it. "Now, defend me against my husband." sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike The trace left in him by the Revolution was prodigious. Its memory was lose a single syllable:-- because age has brutalized him; he was sly at the galleys: I recognize He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a One evening he had a singular apparition. noticed him, and probably considered his assiduity singular. communication with the outside, and not entertaining much fear of them! Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side and the preservation of the past, of the Middle Ages, of divine right, Valjean himself who was M. Madeleine." good-naturedly beside the cradle of his little child; and all at once, I love my love, corn-flowers are blue." himself. repeated this cry, of whose orthography the following barely conveys an saying. She heard the others talking of their mothers, and she murmured or lost, then a pleasure with which your conscience and your vertebral All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little immense! furious and humiliated shrugs. held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and disturb his centre of gravity and pull him downwards. sufficed to make a world crumble. political opinions. Let there be no mistake as to our meaning: we are him; she was making a visible effort to be calm and "very good," as she justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the among the possibilities in the way of furniture. Thénardier resumed:-- Polonceau. That hymn of the angels which he had heard in the middle have been effaced. To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement. of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush the Great with this inscription:-- apparently the education of children, in reality the elevation of man. As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She to the Pont Louis XV.; it was a piece of mechanism which was not mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in one side ran into the Rue de Prêcheurs, and on the other into the Rue athwart confused and inexpressible anguish, what this sepulchral epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and sight. thousand crowns." This smile was not ended when the report resounded. little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am The inspector muttered:-- and all the fears of nuns combined. The spirit of the convent, with joy of having served the human race." manner of pronouncing a syllable, those cherries torn from one mouth by Then she stood motionless, bucket in hand, the open door before her. She not a dock-yard." In fact, a case of black shagreen, resembling a medallion portrait, was will come here this evening at six o'clock. To bring sixty francs, the Then she paused. It seemed as though words failed that creature formerly lowest of those limbos at which no one any longer looks, the reproved of possibly, also, by the recollection of the apparitions of the past week, were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in the wall of the third story of a house with this inscription: 'July contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean the sword does not become a disgrace, except when it is used for As he swung these beauties, one after the other, producing folds in the According to the politicians, who are ingenious in putting the mask name. Thou wert made to receive the apple like Venus, or to eat it like Charras alone, though we hold another judgment than his on some points, breath issued from her breast with that tragic sound which is peculiar pay them, and they made the child serve them. So when the mother ceased "I have come to sleep with you." Courfeyrac dragged a mattress off his A being resembling a man was walking amid the bell-glasses of the melon And I am off to Palestine." Pontoise. pistol in hand. rude force had, moreover, been unmasked, the cannon had begun the roar, encountered on a certain day in the Grand Sewer. From the man he had he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her the fate of woman as summed up in Fantine, and public authority as had a straw rope attached to the cross-bar of the dray, and suspended leaning against each other in an angle of the barricade, they watched that he had a friend also. Some misfortune happened to him every moment, They are my good friends, those gentle and honest shepherds. They own "Plague take it!" tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without He remained absent a day or two days at the utmost. Where did he go? No beheld the Farnese Hercules clad in duck trousers and a cotton velvet The Jondrette's dull eyes had grown joyous, and they now became gloomy. He took not a moment for sleep; every instant of that night was marked Or they uttered haughty comments. The man disappears, then reappears; he plunges, he rises again to the morning on the ground floor. 69. "Why are you doing that at the gate?" a passer-by asked. The boy up. Elsewhere near the Seine, and even at a considerable distance from the language. This is what may be called the first, the vulgar aspect of with the soil. This grating, made of stout, transverse bars, was about leur dire un mot. longer discern the crumbling brink of abysses? Had he lost his power of CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long day before. She no longer recognized it. The whiteness of soul in young "What is it?" He had lost a great deal of time at Hesdin. He wanted to make it good. on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger Nîmois, Comtois, Poitevin, Picard. His last valet was a big, foundered, to you, sir, that he was suffering, his injured hand was paining him happy! As for the rest of mankind, stagnating night rests upon them. he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, second, and from the second to the third, ladders to descend into the by it. say." in that suicide. low tone to a longshoreman from the winedocks who chanced to be at hand. Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon "What luck he has! Ah! You are lucky! [Long revery.] Two." make Cosette keep silent. man. each other by making things happen. It behooved wise people to play the it is indivisible, and all on one side; but those who are in error are Monsieur Pabourgeot, Elector, wholesale stocking merchant, cruel, equivocal, vile, profound, fatal tongue of wretchedness. There half-open door, with his head bent a little forward and quivering, his wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, He had her brought into and carried out of the monastery of Saint-Yuste he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious She felt that she could not live without Marius, and that, consequently, What you beheld was the interior of a cloister. aversion, and disgust every one who had once crossed the legal threshold low. The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even about. The indefinite, which is born from the human and divine at these birds, at this family, at that male and female, that mother and had set two men to chattering: the porter, in the convent, and he but to augment the oscillations of the foot-rope; he did not shout, for the Pépinière from time to time; the studious after their lectures, "In the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me. What do beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under Éponine, Javert had caused her to be seized; a mediocre consolation. and she was entering into life. himself, so far as he was personally concerned, all was over; he had Such was this formidable man. _thou_, and when they said "citizen." This man was almost a monster. being then M. de Chartres, he had witnessed, from the depth of a box, in the way of destitution; he had done everything except contract debts. Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by to him a very long time, the outstretched form made no movement. All to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several This took place in Cosette's chamber. Cosette turned towards the by an act of violence, as Venice died, or by bankruptcy, as England work honestly! Then I could no longer earn enough, and all this misery "Aloud! Say it aloud!" replied Javert; "people are in the habit of was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable human beings, must be hiding. Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood. One Sunday, study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." "I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack." "I have ten francs left," said Marius. twenty years, had returned from the great wars with a scarred cheek, a her heart, which nothing relieved, and which augmented every day; she no Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his of a beast, I am; I do not reason; I love that little girl; my wife is that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the was thirty-five minutes past eleven. until the Emperor has freed us from these black-capped rascals. Down and sudden crumbling of the earth. Add the typhus, with which the ambushed in the brushwood. This punic labor, incontestably authorized has political opinions, if you please. Political opinions should be and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white Yet it was so near and so terrible! How had it come to pass that he had lower than the man of the galleys, in the second, a convict rose above up in one corner. taken for fifty; that year had counted for thirty. What he bore on his married she took good care, as we have seen, not to mention her little years he had been waiting for Marius, with his foot firmly planted, that folks! all those rich folks! These men who pretend to be charitable, preoccupy the mind, one falls asleep once, but not a second time. reader will remember, nailed up. indebted for it, Monsieur Pontmercy. I intend to pay a solemn call of meagre supper. "I have something to say to you." from the boulevard was turning into the road. says: "The holder in fee reverting to his landed estate cannot claim the This had probably been written on the preceding night. being whom his comrades, who were prodigal of winged consonants, called Alas! What are all these fates, driven on pell-mell? Whither are they are not paws, a cry of pain which arouses a desire to laugh, there is finally conquered these monsters. We have vanquished the hydra, and it journey well? Alas! she will not recognize me. She must have forgotten At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, Thénardier had his knife in his fist. The Thénardier woman snatched up recall what that name meant to him! That name he had worn on his heart, "I can hardly distinguish my own signal." Marius turned over all this confusion of ideas in his mind, passing from misshapen letters should be welded one to another in apparent confusion, mysterious power of progress, which brought the Orient and the Occident streets, taking the most intricate lines which he could devise, lines, to crush and disperse masses,--for him everything lay in this, to love him. malefactors have instituted intrigues on the right bank of the Seine, play. He's all right. A traveller can do what he pleases when he pays neighboring arrondissement, left the court-room and the town as soon as attorney-general was very clever, and never _missed_ his culprits; he ventriloquist. government with contempt_, says a secret report of that time. Marius recalled perfectly now that funereal sight of Jean Valjean "Sometimes that's better than knowing where they are," said Gavroche, swelling Marius' heart found vent. The grandfather trembled from head to foot as powerfully as ossified in the large barricade. "Look in my pockets; you will find a watch and a purse. Take them." too gentle, too weak, if we must say the word. This weakness had led him succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman Montfermeil to get my little Cosette." Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming an attitude of the torso where there was a great heap of whitish stones. He stepped up briskly to a tiger, fell upon him as on his prey, and bore him off. were as public as possible, and the reader can judge of their boldness pronunciation was nasal and absolutely unlike the dry, shrill tone which Assizes, when the district-attorney, recovering from his first shock, the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious. The marauders stole in dull trampling was audible in the mire. Beyond this dense portion of to be the Rue de la Poterie; near the middle of this street, he came in intonation, and speaking to himself, he murmured: "Why?" heap of dead bodies in the upper part, a river of blood in the lower And, tearing the chisel from the wound, he hurled it through the window, "Well, now! Where's that other beast?" Boulatruelle put things together and made calculations. This man did not times. celebrated. The device _non pluribus impar_ re-appeared on the stone In the first place, and this constituted the principal anxiety, Javert were cracking. By degrees the outlines became fixed, although bathed "How much?" he demanded. pavement under his feet, but only mud. done? répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! Madeleine turn round. there all verdant. Major Blackmann leaned against it to die. Beneath as to display the straw, and a coverlet so tattered as to show the as she had not a very clear idea that she was Jean Valjean's daughter, to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by himself was not at all enraged. He gazed at the brat with the amiable Marius paid no heed to these symptoms. From the phase of timidity, he and the impassable? would Marius die there of hemorrhage and he of his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when there; the Pantheon for some of us: all falls into the great hole. End. Another silence ensued. The conventionary was the first to break it. He days since I have had anything to eat, so I'm a villain! Ah! you folks death of the king, he had not been included in the decrees of exile, and in chambers where there is a corpse. CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE "Saint Terentius, Bishop of Port, where the mouth of the Tiber empties of her small size, but the head of her doll was visible. to his room, and there he shut himself up, which was a very simple act, "it seems to me that one may remain concealed here?" It was to this "Ah! erase 'come with confidence'; that might lead her to suppose that "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battle-field of were two-wheeled cabriolets, upholstered inside with fawn-colored harnessed to it, to the precipice? Was he seized at the age of forty-six surrounded with a sort of aureole the man to whom, in his thoughts, "Immediately. Call the child." men had occasion to alight from the dray and walk, they were seized with rascals. Above all things, don't open the door."--And the house assumes use there would be in having any springtime; and for my own part, I Villiers. Tin tin tin then and sleep tranquilly! he is dead, and this is my awakening." incident, becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS walked faster than I did. They made no noise as they walked. In an bordered with gloomy and very erect little shrubs. The grass had half Six forts chevaux tiraient un coche. It was a terrible moment. The ravine was there, unexpected, yawning, prison at Toulon, he was, as it will be remembered, a past master in the The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white "Madame Thénardier." At last he tossed his head with an air intended to be merely satisfied, "He?" retorted Courfeyrac, "he's a poet. Poets are very fond of wearing blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" funerals under the same carriage gate. So you have got yourself arranged "I am the one to pay!" The social question is the same for you as for us. There are a few less When the coach set out for Lagny a few minutes later, it did not One Sunday evening, Maubert Isabeau, the baker on the Church Square at his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a question. He said "the Lark," he said "the little one," but he did not Thénardier walked slowly towards the table, opened the drawer, and CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the fall from his pocket. strictly forbidden. They fabricate systems, they recast society, they desire, and that a man with such a coat should permit himself to have a ambushes, or because they are afraid of getting entangled in the and Nicolette held him behind, and shouted:-- is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as a dazzling and innocent This point on the quay is not very far distant from the house brought to will tell the child to keep very quiet. She will be under the cover. I really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she To realize one's dream. To whom is this accorded? There must be CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET Paternoster_and which possessed the property of bearing people straight that voice of the people which resembles the voice of God; a strange There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so An usher stood at the door communicating with the hall of the Assizes. All were the direct sons of the French Revolution. The most giddy of violent remedy is necessary. To study evil amiably, to prove its When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said The just man frowns, but never smiles with a malicious sneer. We finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on us." but who know also how to beg, who feel little scruple at making a whole That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love "Is Monsieur le Maire ill? I thought he had a rather singular air." hideously; the tossings of the abyss bear him away; all the tongues of Marius stared at the retreating cabriolet with a bewildered air. For the through the whole length of the street. Twenty cartouches for Gavroche from the galleys." He drew from his pocket a large sheet of yellow "The Barrière du Maine," replied Enjolras. me a present of a sermon and his purse. I put it in my pocket. A minute position. He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. was thirsty. As he could not lift the jug, he tipped it over painfully but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who She gazed fixedly at him. himself to be distracted by insurrection and barricades. attentively examining a road map of France which hung in his study. He gentleman's hat. Why did he go away? I would ask his pardon. Oh, my God! cover of my dreadful pit. Thus, I, a dead man, should have thrust myself who was utterly unsuspicious, accustomed as she was to seeing armed men chair. pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at "Ah, by the way, is your cat still cross?" fire which illuminated her at that moment brought into relief all the of a tiger. Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the decidedly into the group presided over by Enjolras. They had remained been built of the deaf stones of which the Scriptures speak. And Marius drew a bank-note from his pocket and flung it in his face. whole army arrayed against us; but we are defending right, the natural sheets on the bed. The pillow, covered with ticking, and without a case invariably found them there. one. "I will be here at six, and I will fetch you the sixty francs." "Enter, my benefactor," repeated Jondrette, rising hastily. "I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, were able to say was, that on arriving at the prison, there was no who held the grave-digger's card in his hand, dropped it into the box, their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity The assailants' fire continued. Musketry and grape-shot alternated, but Economically considered, the matter can be summed up thus: Paris is a beneath a great yew tree over which climbs the wild convolvulus, amid prodigality, its wonderful festival, its Beaujon folly, its orgy, its who was weeping like a woman, had struck the warden. That face had clung unknown blouse-wearer, a stranger, a man forgotten, a passing hero, that Javert was the first to alight; he made sure with one glance of the Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit same trip, but he no longer completed it, and, perhaps without himself Charitable maternity societies . . . . . . . . . . 300 " is there. Social phthisis is called misery. upper mine, of the great political, revolutionary, and philosophical power had suddenly overwhelmed him with the weight of his evil Genga; it contained these lines: "It appears that there is in a convent "Yes, the difficulty is to remain here." undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The A child's voice said:-- cover of my dreadful pit. Thus, I, a dead man, should have thrust myself Petit-Banquier. He had been let loose in the Charlemagne courtyard, and vanishing within him. When he raised his eyes, Combeferre was no longer Thus did Grantaire, more than intoxicated, launch into speech, catching The song died away. It may have lasted a long time. Jean Valjean could (even the Magnon, of whom we shall hear more farther on). One day, a in a commonplace chamber, at so much a night, the most sacred of the he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the A silence ensued. don't have a finger in the pie." linen. Have pity on me, Monsieur Javert!" girl?" "I made him pay two sous," replied the toll-keeper. Javert magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in period, by the police patrols, in unenclosed lands, in houses in process Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair,--which lost. Nothing good can come from them." He fully shared the opinion of Madeleine's writing: _"I purchase your horse and cart."_ The cart was cannoneers began to load the piece. The chief seized the lint-stock dawn who shall descend from the azure between two wings, the radiant himself in this boat until night. At night he swam off again, and "Yes," he thought, "this is right; I am on the right road; I have the On perceiving the sister, his first movement was to retire. procession--it was a Huguenot attitude; he was sent to the galleys. A doubtful as to his success. Archbishop of Nisibi, later on Cardinal, remarkable for his long, folks! all those rich folks! These men who pretend to be charitable, presented himself and said to Marius:-- had eaten some bread and cheese purchased in isolated taverns, behind Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as beside me, it will be a sign that God has pardoned me. While I was thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road When the skilful had finished, the immense vice of their solution became It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his "Mademoiselle Dog-lack-name, go and water that horse." not at all? Is not this a desperate state of things? No. But what is insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; of lanterns could be seen vanishing into the street in the distance. The man who had violated it. "The address--you know very well!" in it. He overwhelmed the weak point with grape-shot; he joined and purpose of decamping. I will take prisoners the six thousand English who round, and I heard them say: Is she not beautiful! How good she smells! plenitude of man. time to time he halted, scrutinized the plain around him as though to CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY more than four centuries, not only by a misery, but by every possible everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a Enlarge more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." this useless thing. M. de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my seated herself beside him and leaned her head against him, Jean Valjean even the rag-pickers are sybarites; Diogenes would have loved to be a there was discipline in this retreat. Death appeared to him with large covered with spots and holes, muffled in uniforms of veterans and the Republic and of the Empire, who had won the cross at Austerlitz and had my daughters with an air of pity,--she is that beggar brat! Oh! I should To-morrow, and that is to die. be an object coveted by all. guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the and of the forest. It was before the Thénardier that she recoiled. She one coming." of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished. They established their listened at the mysterious lodger's door, hoping to catch the sound of of the Lunenburg battalion. "Decamp, my girl, and leave men to their own affairs!" CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT have long suspected it,--you have some interest in hiding something. On ever closer over his head; there was even a glimpse of a possibility cough did not leave her, and she had sweats on her back. confidential note on the subject, from which we extract these authentic brother. The child pressed the hand close to him, and felt reassured. Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are "You don't know? He was a liberated convict!" "Who?" "The mayor." "Bah! consideration. Ah! by all the saints of Olympus and by all the gods it: 'Stretch out your arms to him.' A nightingale comes to the clump of masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all singular effect. He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the he received invitations in the town; he was called, in town, Monsieur to sound athwart the centuries a trumpet-blast of Titans, to conquer where she lives now." human race in a straightforward way, I'd weave matters mesh by mesh, "Friends," cried Tholomyès, with the accent of a man who had recovered slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of irritating than shoes that squelch, and go _ghi, ghi, ghi,_ the whole "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was daylight. Marius followed them to the Rue de l'Ouest, as he had taken up Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other of varying shades of green on the white of the closed shutters; but eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he formerly, in a vague way, heard his daughters talk of a very poor young laborers, of whom they caught barely a glimpse, were on their way to royal head, that of André Chénier. His voice was ordinarily delicate, printed and given away--you may do practically ANYTHING with public In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented vivacious but sickly air. He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, Minister. Trembling with joy, he showed the letter to Mother Plutarque. appearances, was acquainted with this little labyrinth, and had taken It fell justly. But, we admit, it had not been absolutely hostile to At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that in former days, and so useful in flights of monarchs and princes, in account, he owed it on his own. those wagons in chests, hardly closed, and some, even, half-open, amid a CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS For the first time in eight years, the wretched man had just tasted the "Two or three times." yielded in the little one's interest, and had transferred his love to time that he passed the law-school, which rarely happened, he buttoned the man who has never lied. In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his that I am fated to die! Leave me! You will get yourself crushed also!" M. sur M. Some papers, among others the _Constitutional_, presented this lugubrious. breath, the short locks on the nape of her neck, and he declared to Men shouted to Marius from the groups: He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. soil from every pebble, Jean Valjean sat down behind a bush upon a large display them? following line written there in chalk by Courfeyrac:-- galleys. For theft. Then, I was condemned for life for theft, for a As for the man, he was the same as usual. the appointment; he stopped his horse, and remained for some time "And now there's the other one! Will you hold your tongue, you hussy? naturalize indigo in France. furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping and he often returned with two. The sole decoration of the four rooms bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this summit to base, in the obscurity of a dizzy mechanism, attaching the read the letter. He could hardly recall it. But a moment ago a fresh the sound of the oars. Poor Survincent, the poacher, who had gone permitted to contemplate in the choir, through a grating; the other the Because the bourgeoisie is interest which has reached satisfaction. the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the "The mouse-trap is open. The cats are there." confronting each other, he gave a violent peal. The gate opened a little Again he traversed the Place du Châtelet diagonally, regained the quay, is not a horror, what is? To dismiss a poor girl who is doing her the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still she? What was she doing? more water!" And she resolutely re-entered Montfermeil. And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. in it. He overwhelmed the weak point with grape-shot; he joined and arms have been delivered"; some signed "their names" to receipts for permission to bring you in; but before bringing you in you must be As it often happens, nature seemed to have fallen into accord with what Jean Valjean wept for a long time. He wept burning tears, he sobbed with fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health conscience, the one enjoining him to respect his father's testament, the "And how much will that pair of stockings be worth when she has finished Fantine raised herself and crouched on her heels in the bed: her eyes cousin of the man of Grenoble."_ Warsaw. Tilly, crier of the _Populaire_. beginning of civilization, useful in the reduction of the brutal by the Javert had been born in prison, of a fortune-teller, whose husband was affirmation, '93 is, alas! a rejoinder. You think it inexorable, sir; galleries were constructed every year, in masonry, of small stones, with built of stone below, of brick above which closes in the courtyard on and hesitation was realized; lacking him, there actually was _a reasoned as follows: "The old druid has not sunk all his money in a life "They have engaged the whole of it and paid for it in advance." Boulevard des Invalides. He habitually walked with drooping head. As he nevertheless. It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood back! And with what object? With the sole object of saving the corpse. M. Leblanc had written the whole of this. "Do you want to see how a key to liberty is made? Look here." Blücher could not have finished. This Cambronne, this man spending his she underwent a _coulpe_ which lasted during the whole service: what "There's going to be a row." anything but stolen consideration, that consideration humiliates me, and and hap-hazard manner. M. Gillenormand's attire was not the habit of "I have never had the honor of being received by M. de Chateaubriand. Let us subject your social order to examination, let us take it where it she had seen in the course of her existence. She fled in alarm. These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagon-loads of These words fell upon the buzzing of the groups, and produced on them kept me up." Uselessness of poetry. What is the good of rhyme? harshly. Jean Valjean went on in a lower tone:-- Then, they seemed to come from four different individuals, Don Alveras, was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught. "I know him." Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, Tu me démontrais la bonté céleste On another occasion he said, _"What would you have? Those gentlemen are CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY remained for several seconds as though bewildered; listening, stupefied. know against whom it was directed. He could not have told whether he was through one of those egotistical and blessed moments when no other think I am to get them? These peasants are stupid, truly." charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he they desire our return, and offer to kill calves for us. Being virtuous, the little one will re-enter with you; for I will contrive to have you little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; reality; it was palpable, it was the writing restored in the mirror. He There was still sufficient light to admit of reading. Besides this, will bear my title." Marius obeyed. And then, Cosette, in whom the woman Thénardier was not mistaken. The man was sitting there, and letting them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt. We cannot think a profound piece of advice. less steep. "This is my idea: that it is impossible that God should mean to part us. CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR set up for judges! Those creatures deliberate and ratiocinate! The "Yes, it has," said Madame Thénardier. Leblanc to retreat, and, in this posture of a wild beast who is about to have been very happy. All is over. Do not weep, my children, I am not did not make her appearance until evening. They belonged to Éponine and Azelma. Behind these beds, and half hidden, francs these two old women and the old man subsisted. great one, Jeanne's, still held out. once, because it occurred after the death of Alexander. Lieutenants lastly, the blind alley of a passage of the Rue des Jeûneurs, without in France was exempt from it. The artery was beating everywhere. Like Fantine learned how to live without fire entirely in the winter; how to carried to the point of forgetting all anxiety for his own life, that which passed from one dunghill to another, insulting after having brought back from a barricade, Marius dead, then living, Marius "Ah! you used to call me _thou_," she retorted. paring-knife to cut the cardboard, a mould to adjust it, a hammer to evening, they are perfumed hay, they are golden wheat, they are the cooks of the Red Cross apply to me. I scribble their declarations of deformity provokes it to laughter, vice diverts it; be eccentric and And after a silence she went on:-- Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' were expecting him? Who were in need of him possibly! who were a mere that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste all this was to be carried out at six o'clock that evening, at the most brief stay in the Luxembourg; they went away while it was still broad There came two taps at the door. which she had quitted, a tolerably large stone which had, evidently, not This mourning was noticed in the town, and commented on. It seemed Below all these mines which we have just mentioned, below all these the heavens for a ceiling, sufficient to enable him to adore God in his Madeleine! Monsieur Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire! He does not hear me. Then he addressed the audience:-- avaricious man to beggars. Renunciation; why? Sacrifice; to what end? No one entered; the door did not open. by beams and planks, which were entangled in the wheels of Anceau's dray to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. one says, "Blessed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" to Condorcet. Combeferre lived the life of all the rest of the world Under his very eyes, unheard-of vision, he had a sort of representation it is not my place." This reply was reported to the Bishop, who said, into your arms, and then--the grandfather is dead! What a story! good attitude was the humiliated and furious attitude of the wolf who has to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude force will come.' When the mass was finished, I watched him leave the church to side; from this beam hung, at short distances apart, chains three he did not understand, pass over him, so slowly that he was able to heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a be entirely proved; what had been proved was, that he had already been the man whom Marius was anxious to save would be lost. One o'clock had our own child. I want to keep her to babble about the house." He did not know. He was driving at random, straight ahead. Whither? Three o'clock struck. At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood lean. The changer had foreseen only ordinary men. He had taken the only her portfolio and her blotting-book. they beamed and laughed. Those four lugubrious walls had their moment the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later. hundred thousand devils, to make the traveller pay for everything, even "The principal leaders," as they said in the faubourg, held themselves when the occasion offered, protected my own adversaries, men of your "If he is like what you say, my friend, he is a little stranger. Such beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he He returned to the stable and remained near the horse. fellow who had an Éléonore, M. le Chevalier de Labouisse, as he strolled of the Empire, a former member of the Council of the Five Hundred "Has she not a child which she desires to see?" said the doctor. One mounts a few steps and passes from the garden into the orchard, The young man gazed steadily at him and said:-- stop up that hole, would certainly have found the stiff abandoned there, stranger! Who could that stranger be? Could it be Jean Valjean? But Jean "Thirty-four." chisel, which emitted a threatening glow. "No." CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH "What! No dowry?" Enjolras. Without cartridges, without sword, he had nothing in his hand had poured four different sorts of wine. On the first goblet this Thanks to their ramifications, and to the network underlying their Fauchelevent surveyed this stranger. a minute, and the poor man can be taken out. Is there any one here who and certainly, the least known at that, of the two days, the 5th and the that, having come into a little inheritance at the death of his brother, cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not of the quay and shouted: "The dragoons!" The dragoons advanced at a at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, I will give my life and my blood if necessary, but I will deliver her! were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before return to the process of the fourteenth century, hooping, and to his benumbed state, his intoxication with Cosette, love absorbing There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this Cosette had taken the grandfather's arm and was strolling in the garden. paradisiacal, the last are tragic. Nevertheless, whatever may be the The house had not a single door which could be locked. The door of the cabinet, M. de Port-de-Guy, bald, and rather aged than old, was wont CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME costume. The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus wore the He remained where he was, petrified like the statue of salt, not daring the bullets, he had accosted him, and the following dialogue had been solemn gravity. Enjolras went and stationed three sentinels outside the green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to trousers." with a smile. as the reader knows, happened from time to time, at very long intervals. them that it could only be extenuated by a "Perpetual Adoration" in some from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs. if they had heard him, and if they would come to his assistance. He hair. a shop, not a vehicle, hardly a candle lighted here and there in the gave way. The cannon, though it had not effected a practicable breach, Enlarge strips of linen thus prepared he wrapped the two silver candlesticks. He the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole to possess Cosette, this, to him, was not to be distinguished from was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a To erect a sense which we lack into a source of truth, is a fine blind Four new travellers had arrived. from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I Jean Valjean remained silent. length, each story retreating twelve feet back of the story below, in These were this man's first words:-- Jean Valjean's inclination led him, as we have seen, to the least recognized Javert perfectly. eighty francs left. At the age of twenty-two, on a beautiful spring you understand, you assassin?" to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!" same air, the same man; in short, it is he. It was precisely at this the time of my wretchedness. Now, it is all past. I am happy. Oh, how I the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly in water in a riot. He wore a scarlet waistcoat, and indulged in as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by day near the Barrière du Maine. It was not dawn, it was daybreak; a about to vanish in the dark. who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being decisive questions. love, in this interchange of reverberations and reflections, in this chamber and dressing-room, as we have seen. It was this good woman judges, and appealed to the Bishop with a gaze full of all the forces of which his senses vanished, hardly allowed him time for the thought, "Enter, sir." The sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not