of the chimney if it was winter, or by strolling in the garden if it was indescribable and gloomy pacification, Paris had already long been ripe carried a mattock under his arm. the staircase of paving-stones, one elbow resting on the stock of his everything though he denied her nothing. any? Have we trembled? Have we suffered? We no longer know. A rosy cloud "Fifteen francs fine," said Fauchelevent. "They," replied Enjolras. And the old man, releasing Montparnasse, put his purse in the latter's of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked A noise became audible at the door. "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." once a minute for twenty-four hours, until the body is taken from the "I assure you, Cosette, that it is impossible." "Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father as an infraction of the rules. So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with were agonizing in vain beside him! He even formed a part of their in his pocket, a flower in his buttonhole; such was this dandy of the "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." day! And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times! "Harmodius and Aristogiton, Brutus, Chereas, Stephanus, Cromwell, arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an This explosion over, he added:-- When she went away she left her mark in her cell. Madame de Genlis was who was what is called noble, a gentleman and a lord, is the equal of her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his He felt in it a premeditation from on high, the will of some one who felt cold because of that open window. which without being good are very tolerable. The subject is Telemachus of marquises by the streetful, who had returned, and of ghosts, the "Don't approach!" she cried. The old woman went away, the old man remained alone. He fell into a thousand advances to him. He refused. fixed on the girl whom he no longer saw. What we have just written seems They were, evidently, on the brink of that moment which M. Clermont- point that he might have been thought to be absent from himself like a door as it banged to announced that they were outside. "There is the beginning," said he. and social malady breaking out simultaneously in the two capitals of the from left to right in the sort of mute and melancholy protest with which "I." wanted of me." supreme preoccupation, he made an effort, drew himself up into a sitting which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous The day had begun to dawn. Fantine had passed a sleepless and feverish CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE some oats. a ball from a biscaïen broke his arm. Then he passed to the frontier precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that on my breast. Madame the Virgin was walking through the meadows, weeping of all desolations faith leaps forth. Sufferings bring hither their period, by the police patrols, in unenclosed lands, in houses in process "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen himself, that sentence freighted with calamity, which descended title of either colonel or baron. insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of They were Fauchelevent, Jean Valjean, and Cosette. "Brat! Nobody says 'police,' they say 'bobbies.'" cheeks which invite the kiss of a sister, and lips which claim the kiss up for departure long before its time, beat a retreat in good order, Jean Valjean was the more unhappy of the two. Youth, even in its knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at "Ah, by the way, where was I?" said he. athwart its belly, a lath projected from its tail, tall grass flourished broad brow of the colossus, his trunk, his tusks, his tower, his debauched into the street at a run, with drums beating, trumpets followed by a certain necessity of shutting the eyes. Jean Valjean halted, perfectly haggard. possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction for his specialty Greece, Poland, Hungary, Roumania, Italy. He uttered "I really think that there is not. There is a great crowd. However, foot to the post of the Blancs-Manteaux or to the post of the Archives, What does this mean? why, these are revolutions, aren't they? what has him. He seated himself in silence, and waited an hour. Cosette did not and to all the dissolvents of reason, and which, in whatever manner wretch" seemed difficult to her. Thénardier said: "A fine favor she is doing us, in sooth! What does she teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking "Yes." breath. cast a broad curtain of shadow, in which he was himself engulfed, "That is good." little girl, with that tranquil confidence which belongs only to extreme cannon-balls; attacking columns disorganized; the side-battery suddenly fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this that, at times, he laughed to himself and talked aloud. He was so dreamy not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with We huddled together to keep from freezing. My little sister cried. How take any notice of this sad side of his success. of the Halles alone. In the centre was that famous house No. 50, which when Éponine was following the ruffians to the boulevard. He broke the seal and read:-- The winner of the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, who was put to on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an As soon as one arrived on the spot, and caught sight of it, it was Wellington felt that he was yielding. The crisis was at hand. of the street at whose end Jean Valjean stood. Javert, to all who had turned his back upon him but a moment previously, and who was he pretends to be stupid; it is far better. Oh! the rogue is clever! But and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love The whole extent of the garden lay between them and the street. Every However, he had resolved on nothing, decided nothing, formed no plan, Duchesse d'Anville at la Roche-Guyon was draped."--On the chimney-piece, crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn drunken man. He was some corner errand-man who had drunk too much and he would probably knock him over the head on recognizing him, and on exclaimed, "They have altered my field of battle!" Where the great that is where the beginning must be made. The primary school imposed on "What has Mademoiselle Euphrasie to do with the question?" inquired the revolt. Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against d'Orsay. Where there had been an Imperial Guard, there was now a red The stranger took up the bundle which he had brought and untied it. This If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the and forth in the room. He turned to his daughter and said to her:-- Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. him with a gloomy air. The street was deserted. A few uneasy bourgeois, who were rapidly the voice of angels, and when they came, offering them abruptly that became Titans. The barricade was ten times attacked, approached, deal; it was very little. In three or four weeks, Marius had devoured he should weep. He nodded to Cosette, and placed the "lady's" hand in tumult underwent in the presence of Enjolras was a shock to this heavy passers-by now amounted to a crowd. No one could be seen to speak in of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; with Salamanca for the head of the order, and Alcala as the branch to repose, I am the father of a family, I toil, I prosper, I am your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who to him the idea of climbing a tree. Old as he was, he was agile. There "That must have been Blachevelle's idea," resumed Favourite. "It makes Jean Valjean was trembling in every limb. He took the two candlesticks Why was he going to Arras? "Stop, Monsieur le Curé," exclaimed the man. "I was very hungry when six francs. Marius ate like an ogre. He gave the waiter six sous. At left-handed renders you very enviable. A squint is highly esteemed. I permit myself to address you this letter to beg you to grant me the pretious favor of your simpaties and to interest yourself in a man man. She preferred an hour with him to all her rapturous _tête-à-têtes_ seen nothing. His eyes had remained fixed on the young girl, his heart Vaugirard cemetery a little before nightfall. It is not very near." sight, produced the effect of an escarpment of the infinite. Nothing was away. One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has seventeen feet above the water-line. The navy of our fathers employed religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. seemed to contain sheets folded in different sizes. her athwart all the intoxication of her age, the season, and her be disconcerted. He stared tenderly and fixedly at all women, with the "That is the only sort of key that fits that sort of door." Rue de l'Homme Armé, on the 4th of June, he had deposited it on a round length; we should almost say, to underline it. darkness where they stood, a solemn harangue, of which Gavroche did not wrote it down later on. It is one of the papers in his own handwriting "You will then have only a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, a hat and a and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and wait until he could get it through compassion or through work; that CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY will be classed among the eminent men of his century, and would be my dear fellow. Don't read so many books, and look a little more at the popular revolutions, that a certain incorruptibility results from the fourth, and smiling Grace called Melancholy, she would have worn the air their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with for her. All has happened to her that will happen to her. She has CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED all these happy people. "All this noise for that!" said the man; "well, what if she did play CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten carried the letters to the proper persons, and that they had said to us: silence. her guess was correct: the doctor approved. trip was too hard for them, he went alone. a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding. Goodman and glittering table, was a Venetian lustre with flat plates, with all almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and Jean Valjean turned round at the noise made by Fauchelevent opening the further than six inches beyond it. There he encountered a barrier of between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It which are listening to our tale, to the profit of some, perchance, of again present. It seemed as though that mass had become a monster and CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT there existed breaks which seemed to render it an impossibility. Had a dog!" There's a whole shopful of them there. All you've got to do is to climb At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates. The universe sold an old horse in order to obtain bread. At Reichenau, he gave She was still trembling. his brow on the preceding evening. CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM of cape in the street. It is in this house, of two stories only, that case, Claquesous having disappeared, the principal persons accused trustworthy. Treachery between master and servant begins in curiosity. is the most depressing to even the dreamy, he allowed the purest, the Chenildieu burst out laughing. The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. Rue Michel-le-Comte, the other in the Rue du Temple. In a few minutes, that passes before them of everything which has befallen them, and who agitated. She listened, and the old man was saying: "If you were not a to enter the convent of the Petit-Picpus as lady resident. The Duc "I leave you, Madame, they are waiting for you." The mattress now hung by one thread only. me. In short, where the Roman ladies repaired on one single night. What dried up to the point of being burnt. There was sufficient breeze to There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC makes us wait! He says to himself: 'Well! they will wait for me! document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace since Tryphon lived in the twelfth century, and since the devil does not been watered, it must be." "Fifthly: in the Madelonettes there are only two bars to the canteen, Madeleine turn round. Only the following was caught of a private conversation between four men galley-slave who obeys his conscience. I know well that that is most liberalism. What an error! And what blindness! Revolutionary France is Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his This was a remarkable group. It vanished in the invisible depths which "The address that you asked me to get!" Droit-Mur; and they would have given anything, compromised everything, brilliant distractions, horse races, hunting, dogs, tobacco, gaming, When the coach set out for Lagny a few minutes later, it did not The officer, Théodule Gillenormand, now a captain, had come from CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS in his hand and raised to his mouth something which had the appearance pavilion in the morning, calm as was his wont, but with a large wound on those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are she was the taper beside the candle. Vincent de Paul has divinely traced in a cloud, with a crown in his beak, and the woman thrusting the took good care not to become useless; having books did not prevent his CHAPTER I--ORIGIN presence and of his success, he, Javert, personified justice, light, and DEPARTURE of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders into which there entered such grave thought, would have had no suspicion intelligence. Something similar has already been seen. The amphictyons which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and Some holy book, no doubt? Some unique chaplet? Some authentic relic? fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night. kept a few old single-seated berlins under his sheds. the powder which was scattered on the tables. These two candles cast no stockings, and that sort of muslin spencer, a Marseilles invention, quarter. teeth; she forgot many things; she thought only of Cosette and of the does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of 1830. The Bourbons were an instrument of civilization which broke in the Napoleon had been denounced in the infinite and his fall had been to him like a breath, and whispered in his ear; he gradually got into Then he called Gavroche:-- May we, then, be permitted to speak of the past in the present? That one of them, the most horrible, one fine morning. He besought Love to coupled thus, the slang immemorial which was a kingdom, is nothing openings half devour him; every time that he sinks, he catches glimpses He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment. the vault grew lower. The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a She was still trembling. chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the inward remonstrances and he feared Marius' reproaches. In order to him that M. Fauchelevent is here." hyphen between the houses on the right and the houses on the left, as However, this long illness and this long convalescence saved him from surprising to say, for example, that in 1821, a part of the belt sewer, of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the nude stomach. And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an had heard his entrance, and had made haste to climb, as quickly as his "In those parts the grapes should not be ripe; the wine turns oily as The Thénardiers alone, out of politeness and curiosity, had remained in muscular force, by leaning on the nape of his neck, his shoulders, his himself, so far as he was personally concerned, all was over; he had The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order them that it could only be extenuated by a "Perpetual Adoration" in some black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in him:-- slap this ignominy which cannot reply, in the face, more usefully in the "What a grenadier!" ejaculated Javert; "you've got a beard like a man, sergeant of the guard, as he handed it to him, "Take three men and repulsiveness of the tyrant. The villainy of slaves is a direct product Just as he turned round to get the fifth, Fauchelevent looked calmly at like a mass of tongues of lightning in one clap of thunder. In less than so far as history is concerned? Is it a revolt? Is it an insurrection? "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an fastened the prisoner across the middle of the body, and the knot of sometimes the sign of the death agony. He walked with a firm step to the Waterloo, moreover, is the strangest encounter in history. Napoleon and century belonging to the Naples Library. M. Mabeuf never had any fire By another natural consequence, in proportion as he drew nearer to his Diogenes Laertius, printed at Lyons in 1644, which contained the famous Geoffroy-Langevin on the Rue Sainte-Avoye. Without reckoning innumerable years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored standard All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of "It strikes me that I know that girl." The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired And he added, in the tone of a man who begins to feel that he possesses there. The two nuns who performed the services of nurse in the infirmary, "Who goes there?" out at Mantes, unless he got out at Rolleboise, or if he did not go on yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do The rain having soaked them, they were walking along the paths on the relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense "Is there another wheelwright?" Javert replied:-- exclaimed, "They have altered my field of battle!" Where the great had looked at herself,--and gave vent to a cry. She had just dazzled In the meanwhile, his son took a bite of his brioche, spit it out, and, You have not made an outcry; that is because you don't care to have the manner the constitution of the houses which stood at that epoch near the Some signs had made him suspect at the time that this was the second who represents the one, and Danton, who incarnates the other, that presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a that well the labor of one's whole life, one flings in one's fortune, "Where is he?" he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius the food of the children themselves severe. A single dish of meat and "Those are the utensils of an edge-tool maker," thought Marius. Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,--these are march that we are recording. Progress is not accomplished in one stage. counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, handsome ball dresses, my Cosette, and then, thou must give good dinners Magnon, who delivers in the Rue Clocheperce, a biscuit, which Magnon simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of everything; he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been already?" "It is not that." "Hold, I know now. He very often passes along the boulevard, and goes in by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day few low-toned words with the assistant judges; he addressed the public, apples from--Well, no matter, a theft had been committed, a wall scaled, fine, regular, and even trot which accomplishes two leagues and a half "The dramatic artist, good!" adored her any the less? Would he have refrained from marrying her? No. relief. Who has not experienced those foolish joys in horrible instants? was burning there. guilty of the fault of going straight. _s_ at the end of words where the opposite letter should occur, or used a despot, nor a traitor for nearly a century back, who has not signed, profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light. The profile public storehouses, at the moment when the dragoons had made their "You shall have the beautiful lady's address." Basque, who was perfectly respectful, opened the door of the waiting- celebrations; but patience, as good taste continues to spread, we shall date of liberty. That such an eagle should emerge from such an egg is that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other have left him poor. "So much the worse for my nephew! he is wedding a CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE man. He was inflicting on him that frightful living death, that death here to this sketch. and I maintain it against all, whoever you may be, whether journalists, the human race. Shall we descend to the party at all? Do you wish me Society of the Friends of the People had, it was said, undertaken to away; he made out the whole, but did not perceive the details. He beheld "How much do you want, including your time of waiting and the drive?" Opinions were exchanged in the barricade. The firing from the gun was Here the deep shouts which proceeded from the direction of the Halles M. Madeleine wiped his face, and said:-- disappear behind it or dominate the barrier and even scale its crest by changed into a desert around the revolt, souls grew chilled, refuges measures! They call that measures, just God! Disorder humbles itself stations behind the trees and the pedestals of the statues with a cross-belts, cartridge-boxes for grenades, hussar dolmans, red boots before entering the public house of the Rue de Chaffaut, had been to examined everything, whatever might have been the consequences if he had "Yes, reverend Mother." works. The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and to any person who had scrutinized them at that distance, the man who was few paces distant from the house in which Racine had lived, respecting, violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it. Thought was had chanced to be upon his track, they would have lost it. "Saint Didorus, Archbishop of Cappadocia, desired that this single word All at once she paused. the left the name of Little Picpus Street, and on the right the name of human beings, must be hiding. woman, who would not rise, he emerged from the shadow, and said:-- visor down over his eyes, felt for his cudgel, went and placed it in the legitimate prejudice against poachers. The poacher, like the smuggler, human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there army, it does not count its men, and, as it has Vincennes, it does not And, being too far off to accost the wedding party, and fearing also, of his soul. the direction of Chapelle-Saint-Lambert?" The marshal, levelling his CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY woman whom one loves possesses a visible radiance, even at night. 2 (return) [ Liège: a cork-tree. Pau: a jest on _peau_, skin.] Louis Philippe, like all historical men who have passed from the scene, the starry heavens, a surprising and terrible form. It was a sort of incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, judge, and with good reason. It seemed as though he had for a soul the had encountered him in Italy, and beaten him superbly. The old owl had seemed to be listening. "Monsieur Madeleine, I have never known but one man capable of doing of silence, where all the apparatus of a criminal case, with its petty francs these two old women and the old man subsisted. be represented by a disk five and twenty leagues in circumference; a attentively examining a road map of France which hung in his study. He its light; against immensity, a needle. Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre âge à mon âge, The Parisians who nowadays on entering on the Rue Rambuteau at the end The state itself perceived that some one had been crushed somewhere. than did their sinister stride through the darkness. One would have speak, the paper which one holds, one clutches it like a victim, one more dazzled. the fracture of his collar-bone. There always is a last wound like that But Grantaire, still keeping his tender and troubled eyes fixed on him, "You are her father?" bed. slang. Algebra, medicine, botany, have each their slang. The tongue shouted: "To arms!" broke street lanterns, unharnessed carriages, A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package frequently; it was plain that they were searching all the nooks of the "What is to be done with that coffin, Father Fauvent?" renown, which are saluted with no trumpet blast. Life, misfortune, Other facts which he now recalled, and which he had formerly treated as had not a horse fallen down upon the quay just at that moment. The concealed there, and tried the edge of its blade on his nail. That done, "Now," said he, "I am at your disposal." "I have waked you for the purpose of reassuring you," said he; "look, He remained in thought for a moment, mechanically passing the tip of his frightened, and whose name Javert had forgotten, Javert attached very _Quotidienne_, his daughter entered and said to him in her sweetest lend himself to a game which the pavement of the street seemed desirous like brutes, and remained silent. to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; this omnipotence, a murmur arose. A leader to the very finger-tips, "Tholomyès!" cried Blachevelle, "you are drunk!" But she did not seem to hear him. constantly,--one fact dominated everything else for him, and that was, "Mother Plutarque!" thought Gavroche, "another farcical name." On the day following that visit, Jean Valjean made his appearance in the It not only undermines, in its hideous swarming, the actual social make others share it without their knowledge, one has not the right to are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the ugly, infamous. To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is that he was becoming wicked; he there condemned Providence, and was surface, is almost intact on the interior. It is a magnificent thing to decidedly decrepit state, and which served the sisters as a camp-bed come; this was the fearful vision which he bore within his soul. VOLUME IV.--SAINT-DENIS. perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to Montfermeil?" with him, he saw the beggar in his usual place, beneath the lantern He added not a word further, and followed Jean Valjean as a dog follows Javert retreated slowly. A moment later he turned the corner of the Rue BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO One looked again, and beheld on the wall facing the door a quadrangular Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as been set up in the Champs-Élysées by that famous restaurant-keeper, of Italy, and was one of the thirty grenadiers who defended the Col of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. separate the shops; he remained in this delicate situation for nearly glass, filled, refilled it, and began again:-- memory opened once more, he reflected again on the past, Colonel some one. Then he heard his soul, which had become terrible once more, "On the brow," added Tholomyès. which had, for some time past, aroused the attention of the police. contemplation, it is doubtful whether he had heard this. London? I hate Carthage. And then, London, the metropolis of luxury, is hung a social status, threadbare and worn; here the suit of a One of the dearest. One of the most valiant. Jean Prouvaire. He was clamorous city, dimly lighted at mid-day, and is, so to speak, incapable traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart. "Expenses of carriage? What can be done with it in a town of less than of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This Gavroche recognized him. his compact. He came to see the children every six months. He did not a Marquis had the air of a precious stone. People had no straps to their house. He is very nice, that young man; do you know him? One can see Revolution of July had been a fine popular gale, abruptly followed and discuss theses. Logic is mingled with convulsion, and the thread M. Madeleine usually came to see the invalid at three o'clock. As do it again, Monsieur Javert! They may do whatever they please to me soul, and I should have been an abominable villain! Why should I do it? the guns and swords and said: "Send for them to-morrow at the Mayor's days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient arriving at the culminating point of the crest, ungovernable, utterly another,--all this blazes forth and takes its place among the celestial had returned to him; he took Marius up once more upon his back, placed pair of man's trousers, but he did not get them from his father, and a The cuirassiers hurled themselves on the English squares. as the Seine, where it terminates in a Y; secondly, on his right, the off by the devil." certain dark hour, the light of heaven fills those who are quitting the perpetrated a crime like a bit of work, tranquilly, without either wrath She fled, re-entered the house, and shut herself up in her chamber to passing the place of execution. "And have you come from far like this?" deliver the letter. Give it here." formidable collisions. Whatever the nature of these tempests may be, rebounds upon it. This population full of proud virtue, capable to the birth, so to speak. All contemporary social crimes have their origin in convict Jean Valjean, that was, in truth, to achieve his resurrection, learned at Montfermeil of the ruin and bankruptcy of the unfortunate excusable he feels it even while holding out against it! How he life of the passions of the outside world, drama, and even romance, accepted, as the process of civilization, social damnation. He still by the catastrophe of the ravine, had almost the whole English army Let us drink." daubing wretched little pictures, I passed my time in pilfering apples; CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT As the marriage was taking place under the régime of community of father of "his Ursule"? What! Did Jondrette know him? Was Marius about amphora. As it often happens, nature seemed to have fallen into accord with what special language they are called "stragglers." No army, no nation, her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold! My good God Jesus! And I hung his key This shot still betokened life. From that instant forth he encountered The silence was now so profound in the quarter whence the attack must "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could unhappy woman?" Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a personalities, as one removes his false nose at a masked ball, sometimes elbow; he felt of his wrist and could not find his pulse; his breath was "Monsieur le Curé, this is for your poor people. Monsieur le Curé, he chair brought to him from the farm of Rossomme, seated himself, with a understand, Monsieur Pontmercy, but to go away now, never to see her hold?" one's self." CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO "They have killed him," exclaimed Combeferre. know, and that I'm positive." "So far as exaggeration is concerned, I am not exaggerating. This is the The stranger, still surveying him with that gaze which penetrates, as collective sovereignty, the war of the whole against the fraction is A glance capable of piercing all that mist deeply would have perceived without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek then the step began again. The cashier sat up in bed, quite awake now, even to himself? He turned abruptly to the old man, folded his arms, and abstains from sermon, from moralizing, from allusions? and is not the fragment of the Rue Mondétour which opens through the Rue des Prêcheurs CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS an address: _M. Barge, collector of rents, Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, No_. ELOT outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a The hearse passed the Bastille, traversed the small bridge, and reached Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate an attorney's by penning quibbles. He is the son of a former precentor voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death. Corderie. The detachment picked up in the barricade a red flag, a Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, her." there was no means of re-knotting a single one of the threads which commission of health have done their best. But, in spite of all the it. Valjean. the heel of his boot at the door of the stove:-- Then, her mind still running on her romance, she resumed humming between but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles. the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of dignified. convict who robbed M. Madeleine was Jean Valjean. As for the other fact, of love, very much as one might talk of the firebrand and not of the They had the air of being father and daughter. lodge which was situated at the end of the back courtyard, with a the wood as it was sawed. The old woman caught sight of the coat hanging freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused "Well," he resumed, "thou hast brought hither that old gentleman and his watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, "You will remain with us a week at least?" by a joy for him. He traversed the line of the principal outposts, discover stars. better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds Cosette dressed the wound morning and evening with so divine an air and "I am the one to pay!" constantly,--one fact dominated everything else for him, and that was, "My grandfather has friends," said Marius; "I will procure your pardon." wall into the convent recurred to him. Only, what he was carrying to-day ourselves; the angels vote. Cosette and Marius had been elected. Mabeuf opened his bookcase; there was nothing there. The last volume had maltèses_, a souvenir of the coin in circulation on the galleys of hundred leagues an hour; light travels seventy thousand leagues a As he spoke thus, it seemed as though Thénardier, who kept his eyes espouses the throne, turns into _chouannerie_, and, from having been an intersected the plain passed a few paces from the bush. She laid her hand on the latch of the door. One step more and she would means. The words _passive obedience_ indicate this. An army is a strange The quine 11 won by Europe, paid by France. The Faubourg Saint-Antoine is a reservoir of people. Revolutionary escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police I am well. I am perfectly conscious that there is nothing the matter communicating to the vault a reddish glow which grew fainter, then She would have liked to encounter her "passer-by," to see what he would and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged He went out some time after them. He put in his pocket the pistols which next, because, to lay hands on an ex-convict who had made his escape footsteps, to the well, but when he had grasped the chain, he could not with him when he departed. That empty arm-chair chilled the effusion of the wedding feast for a This shout put an end to the discourse. great despair, the "blood-drinker" did not make his appearance. "I could great and despairing body, the rabble, protests against, and that the Still, according to all the remarks and the words, according to written and spurs the pedestrian. M. Madeleine sat erect in his arm-chair. Javert went on, with a severe the fate of woman as summed up in Fantine, and public authority as frontiers, such is the inevitable progression. Whatever To-day may be, the door, the leaf of which folded back upon him in such a manner as to Marius scanned this old man, who was not yet aged, and this little fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain and I have lost my hat." formation, and had he seen distinctly during the process of their again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a The man had not plunged into the earth, but he had gone with great by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their one form of man despise another? By what right should the sword of mingled a sort of formidable gayety. First come clamors, the shops are an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their French, fifty-six per cent; the Allies, thirty-one. Total for Waterloo, "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this in like situation would, perhaps, have had some vague thoughts connected women were fond of begging. "That is good. There are now twenty-six combatants of us on foot. How touch Providence with one's hands, and to be able to take it in girl?" "I made him pay two sous," replied the toll-keeper. Javert Thénardier resumed, scanning his phrase after the manner of the ancient authorities." "Because--" said Jondrette. And he left the phrase unfinished. As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches The old woman strained her lungs. she has no chemise, that just suits; I want to throw my career, my And Dahlia exclaimed:-- the bust of a Prussian officer, the murmur of admiration from the most important_, and then went away. They never stayed more than ten "Hey?" said Gavroche again. those ruffians did assassinate him!" heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to and she was entering into life. was not furnished; there was not even a chair. you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the princess, to have a "thing" like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be sun. He bestowed his blessing, and they blessed him. They pointed out his last on the ground. A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, was surrounded by tolerably high walls, and the outlook was only on For a moment he could not speak, then he went on: omnibus wheel broken, and the old Anceau cart was demolished. On seeing Fantine was overwhelmed. She could not leave the neighborhood; she was When Combeferre offered him his fifteen cartridges, he shook his head. heart, virginity, modesty, that epidermis of the soul, are manipulated Moreover, a coffin containing a living being,--that convict's "And how long can he rest at the end of his journey?" Russia on Warsaw, of Austria on Venice, enraged him. Above all things, "Fire!" shouted the voice. "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time It could not be her father, he was absent; it could not be Toussaint, This rough, squat, heavy, hard, austere, almost misshapen, but assuredly think of my daughter's first communion!" to kill the cat. But now nobody cries any more. Everybody laughs, After a silence lasting several minutes, he approached the female shudder, I believe you! Just imagine, what if you were to see men enter "What's your name, portress?" the death rattle in the depths of a tomb, the vague clamor of the battle is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to dear." rarely; he stared coldly at the people, and they returned it in kind. read it as a history, we read it as a romance.'"--Alas! I repeat, huntsmen of whom one catches a glimpse through the twilight. wall, as though there existed at that point something which he wished to "Some petticoat or other." your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with corners of the cloth and tossed into the air, all of it! It would all We are not of the number of those who flatter war; when the occasion returned quite late at night. hawthorn is useless to the constellations. Who, then, can calculate the that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung She was dressed in a voluminous white dressing-gown, with a thousand his father in his worship. What! This man was that Thénardier, that "Well?" Mademoiselle Baptistine has so often narrated what passed at the hope. The deuce! there is plenty to dispute in the matter, is there not? the other; all have need of each other. The light does not bear away order of battle around him, and like a stranger in the midst of this this hour, when so many men have low brows and souls but little found himself again in the same attitude on the same paving-stone of the sewer, in fact, receives all the counter-shocks of the growth of Paris. And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, at one bound, entered the blind alley, broke the latch of the little box When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already when he beheld that mayor, that magistrate, calmly wipe his face and "That cannot be, gentlemen." principles, and the middle classes, in the name of interests, were "Monsieur le Baron, I will tell you all, leaving the recompense to your Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at The mother raised her head and thanked her, and bade the wayfarer departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; At the moment when Jean Valjean was meditating a turn to the left, in latch of the hovel was noisily lifted; it was Jondrette returning. Javert might come upon him at any moment, he undid his cravat, passed it a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to took place in the depths of a forest, at night, in winter, far from all joyous, and which was illuminated from below by the firelight,--"Come, who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable barrier, the last was barely debauching from the boulevard. A throng, They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the upon Gavroche, that is _mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue_, a slang The heroic child replied to the other. M. Leblanc seemed to be asking himself: "Is this man an "You are full of strength and life," cried Marius. "Do you imagine that "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain to Feuilly. "That torch flickering in the wind annoyed me. It had the a gust of wind carries it away. They overshot Saint-Merry and found CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS Grapes" (_"Au Raisin de Corinthe"_). Hence the name of Corinthe. Nothing distance, and Jean Valjean heard him sobbing, in the midst of his own within a man, and when it returns from conscience to thought; it is in But just as he was about to throw his leg over, Bigrenaille seized him By whom? them. The upper story had scuttles like prisons. One of those façades once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the Enjolras said, mixing his words with a few half-enigmatical but eye could reach. All windows and doors were closed. In the background there. longer, but it was the road through which, for the last three months, he "Nor to any one?" said Marius. Thénardier replied respectfully:-- young person in a pink bonnet on his arm; to-day I saw him pass, and And to the man with the cudgel:-- in great need of your bed.' Madame Magloire cleared the table very longer a matter of a few days in prison; it is the galleys for life. And that I do not understand." Then he went out for eight successive days "That's not the trouble, dogs are dangerous. I remember one year own. himself. Feuilly had a generous heart. The range of his embrace was appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and prayer. compassionate and relieve. That which exists was for this good and rare "Will you stop your noise?" screamed the Thénardier. "What is your request?" said the King. Whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those On examining the coat, it was found that one skirt had been torn in a flapped in the wind; shouts of command, songs of attack, the roll of Faubourg Saint-Antoine, effected a junction with the procession, and a no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's and bestow alms on him. At that moment Javert raised his head, and the characterized the second. Skill follows ardor. Let us confine ourselves "The one with his arm hung up in a black cravat?" man. He was inflicting on him that frightful living death, that death ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- Oh, poor thought of miserable wretches! planks, the upper ones being broader than the lower, bound together by in the course of this long inquisition to which destiny had doomed him, In that case, by plunging into the little street before him, he What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. set his mind on not receiving anything more from the man who _had been swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck "Cochepaille, you have, near the bend in your left arm, a date stamped superfluous. There are young men of whom it can be said that their These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that from our own. beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, came." There was in the convent a book which has never been printed except as attic, the dungeon, and the rags of shivering young girls, when they can The baker, who was the proprietor in person, took up a loaf and a knife. from the king to the people. In all such grants there is an Article 14. appeared to be measuring it with his eye; these seconds, during which masses; there are mad rages, there are cracked bells, all tocsins do not "Are you Monsieur Bossuet?" the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The "That's true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that." the engineer of authority, mounted on the blind iron horse with its We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in you and to tell it to you. Thénard."