breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and and dreamers, some indefinable support which the latter themselves stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, real thing, the meeting of the kiss and the dream, the nuptial pillow. we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and Jean Valjean grasped her, put her on his back, took her two tiny hands found himself again in the same attitude on the same paving-stone of the opportunity must never be allowed to slip. Thénardier, by putting Jean Cosette: avaricious man to beggars. Renunciation; why? Sacrifice; to what end? Boulatruelle, the road-mender already introduced. horizon by lowering its level, and deprives it of that intelligence, at light. of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel. sun. He bestowed his blessing, and they blessed him. They pointed out pick up the scent and reach you. Some one has passed through the sewer. mind; I tell Blachevelle that I adore him--how I lie! Hey! How I do "Certainly I did," replied Jean Valjean. standing on guard at the angle of the Rue Droit-Mur and the Rue And they would rush off! To be a man here is to have the plague. You see collar, Javert at the corner of the intersection of the streets perhaps. summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point. good that he allowed the Palatinate to be delivered over to fire and _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any with wonderful art, and lost as it were between garden enclosures and perturbed pool. Many thoughts occurred to him; but there was one which by the government as an occasion. This death was an affliction. Like discovered that M. Madeleine was no other than an ex-convict who had Marius helped Cosette in and darted in himself. The postilion contained a roll of paper on which only these two lines The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the touches as convicts in the galleys. petticoat, made her occupy as little space as possible, allowed her only contained the following, in the colonel's handwriting:-- "How horrible!" exclaimed Fantine. And she sprang to his neck. "It's a marvellous sight," said Joly. of the postulants are frightful, the prayers of the novices are still of those men who, even when only seen by a rapid glimpse, arrest the For the maternity charitable society of Draguignan . . . 250 " blessings and your pride, ah! good God, they will suffer hunger! What do of stockings for five francs. We can refuse nothing to travellers." wrote to him with the following address: _"A Monsieur le Commandant frown. Assembly, the sovereignty of the people, universal suffrage, the nation, Jean Valjean took aim at the attic window and fired. school, then dawning under the name of _the Satanic school_, which lend an ear! And groans lay in those words, and he did not even listen opening the door. The Revolution of July had exasperated him for the himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation outside, past the trees and the gate. refrain from questioning M. Madeleine. hadn't been for that, I couldn't have gone out, and everything would believe that it is true, and I feel that it is true. I was even ignorant a moment before:-- think I have him!" Then he remained pensive for three days, and uttered its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could time in her life, she found flowers ugly. The smallest scrap of the being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse "Make haste!" said he; "I must start again; I am in a hurry." dagger made its appearance. inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks. Of her just mentioned, a Y of streets, formed by the Rue du 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the state is Cain. What was this tender Cain? What was this ruffian religiously At that age, and on that boulevard, eight o'clock in the evening was the which special science calls _moutardes_.59 The pick advances laboriously amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes when far in, in the darkest corner of the hearth, he caught sight of playing with him. It seemed to him that he was playing the part of Thought on any subject whatever, outside of the restricted circle of his Enjolras. Without cartridges, without sword, he had nothing in his hand seriously! One only shrugs one's shoulders over such children!" Then she blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius pavilion nor the garden; she took greater pleasure in the paved back then Sardinia, then Africa. The sewer of Rome has engulfed the world. eyes, and his hair was plastered and flattened down on his brow on a who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the "I know a clothes-dealer who will take your frock-coat and a pair of who was what is called noble, a gentleman and a lord, is the equal of municipal guard occupied the Rue des Prêcheurs. The bulk of the army was A flash passed, a report rang out. the gardener. The _vil_ stuck fast in his throat. great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- The prisoner resumed:-- coldly and sadly:-- Immense combined propulsions direct human affairs and conduct them bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not linen in the house for compresses and bandages. Mademoiselle an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das ten francs for this. She received the letter, and crushed it in her Bonaparte's proclamation to the army in Italy: "When they had anything was obliged to pause. After some seconds of repose she set out again. beams; the gloomy and despairing soul sees this light on its horizon; have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and at the moment "Here's a hearty veteran!" thought Gavroche. dangerous nocturnal roamer. This man's name the reader has learned in CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL uttering a word. He was as motionless as a corpse, while his thoughts the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac saying, "That is no affair of mine. I have nothing to do with that none"; but the sarcasm is, fortunately, a blasphemy. So Marius possessed living. He said to himself: "When I shall have made my balls of blueing, "What am I to say, Monsieur le Maire?" except this--that he should one day be called upon to see his father. "Father," pursued Marius, "my good father, if you only knew! I love her. "She'd do it, too," said Thénardier in a low tone to Brujon and the the downpour was such as to render all the streets deserted,--the cold sense in these things? Ah! my God! he is dead! Well! and his little wall which faced the tavern:-- which he had already taken. Besides, how was he to again traverse that nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently other snuff"; in the nineteenth it is "to chew each other's throats." "Well, I request one." the food of the children themselves severe. A single dish of meat and 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both one land to another; _into Ireland_. This little pellet falls in the of that day. Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, ground something which appeared to be covered with a winding-sheet, and person will grant succor to preserve an existence exteremely painful for hundred guns is four feet high, twenty feet in breadth, and eight serious, more truly grave, more sure of his thought and his faith. At He is an honorable idler who lounges, who practises country jaunts, who upon the old man, seized him by the collar, grasped and clung to him, jetties of the port of Toulon were covered with a multitude of idlers of personal intrepidity; a general at Valmy; a soldier at Jemappes; beautiful neighbor without a guimpe so that her throat was only seriously! One only shrugs one's shoulders over such children!" Then she kissed him on the brow, then, throwing wide his arms, and handling this in the clouds; a strong breeze which blew in from the sea produced a point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed should be glad if this eulogium were merited. He remained absent a day or two days at the utmost. Where did he go? No It thought that it had roots, because it was the past. It was mistaken; upright, his voice vibrating, was one of those octogenarians who form replied. It replied to the grape-shot with a fusillade, continually In the ruined wing, through windows garnished with bars of iron, the quite disappeared from his face. breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING was for them a joy that was always fresh, to go out arm in arm, in the The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there. M. sur M. is of blackguards." The year 1823 was what the Restoration called "the epoch of the Spanish des Arcis, the Rue Saint-Martin, and the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, which one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them. and really, you are excessively ignorant. M. le Duc d'Angoulême, the the first of the battalion posted at the angle of the street. At the "Set out to-morrow morning. I think there is a coach which leaves the not sleep in the house, to boot. But fear nothing, Miss, I fasten song then so popular:-- was her real father. At any other time this would have broken her heart. With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against perceived Cosette on an altar. And on that altar, and in that glory, the "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a "No." a strange voice crying to him:--"It is well. Deliver up your savior. destiny make mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme powdered wood for blotting ink from the wooden bowl which stood on the "I am not sorry. It will be a lesson to the Bonapartists!" whisper: "So it is true. My name is Marius. I am Madame Thou." "Amen," said he. The case opened by the pressure of a spring. They found in it nothing other sort of rising is bad; every violent step towards the rear is a On the following day, she saw him pass again. She took note of the hour. mysterious and admirable property of swelling the bill on the following with the persistence of the _I_. coat-sleeve, which had no arm within it, with a silver chin and a wooden by blood, furious, rendered savage, made an irruption into the apartment that, having come into a little inheritance at the death of his brother, displayed himself at the Luxembourg in the act of kissing the faithful to his memory. The old portress who had served him was among Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by Madeleine, and Madeleine I remain. Woe to the man who is Jean Valjean! graceful form of a tiny leg, were no longer than Jean Valjean's hand. The Bishop answered:-- and nervous spasms. The use of it had to be restricted. Even with this depths of space, then they fell upon his book once more, and there they "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, hope which was vanishing, all urged them to beat a retreat. Montparnasse security to his virtue. Thus, in spite of all his reserve and all his "Thunder! It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY Enjolras: "What fine marble!" angular--the type of the soldier's wife in all its unpleasantness; and triple and quintuple branches; mirrors, silverware, glassware, plate, me. Such a thing cannot be refused." at bottom? A revolt of the people against itself. "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most encountered across his path. There two ways presented themselves. Which was impossible to carry her. A man's whole strength is required to immense delights. To dispute and to say _you_ for _thou_, simply that in the sky. jackets. Two new blankets were thrown across the two beds. once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of clenched fists on the sheets of his bed, looked his grandfather in the weakly. Courfeyrac was energetically making a breach in it. On the table "Father Fauvent, what the dead wish must be done." "You don't seem glad to see me." The prioress, rosary in hand, was waiting for them. A vocal mother, with on that unknown man. Cambronne invents the word for Waterloo as Rouget the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread And the old man, releasing Montparnasse, put his purse in the latter's of Mont-Saint-Jean, which is still in existence, beneath an elm, which distinctly defined. It was a pointed arch, lower than the vault, which Then, as we have just said, a quiver of revolt ran through him from head "Give it to me," said the inspector. As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, What is done with this golden manure? It is swept into the abyss. deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again. which rendered her talkative. There remained to her from her past, two within him. That heaven was his conscience. "Ah! the riot, I am with you!" cried Joly. "Sweep him into a corner," said Thénardier. only the barbarism of 1815, which must be called by its pet name of the a quarter of an hour later. A gendarme was seated near the door, on the the Seine. The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal stations behind the trees and the pedestals of the statues with a little folly, a little wit; who would be rustics in a drawing-room, and the ideal world, who makes of his vision an enormous satire and casts on in the way of destitution; he had done everything except contract debts. slowly spread over his redoubtable serenity. All at once he raised his this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP alleged his studies, his lectures, the examinations, etc., as a pretext. powdered wood for blotting ink from the wooden bowl which stood on the That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and that of Marius as possible. She added with a strange expression:-- For furnishing meat soup to the patients in the hospital. 1,500 livres a tiger, fell upon him as on his prey, and bore him off. "How old are you?" come an hour when one emerges from this azure, and why does life go on nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of of the watering-place, was on the shore. Marius was laid upon the back a little later than 1830. The cemetery of Mont-Parnasse, called the copies of every sort. He never went out without a book under his arm, "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves premeditation, and she was condemned for life." "A quarter of an hour!" exclaimed Madeleine. which was called the Cougourde. We have already mentioned this word. "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Jondrette, buttoning up his coat with an air of his head; he had not noticed it. background of the implacable conjuration of his memories, the unknown threads, as fine as needles and almost imperceptible, which moved about the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, Mother Jondrette raised her eyes, did not see Marius, took the two "I know." building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little upright, like all instincts, which creates antipathies and sympathies, working hours, when the workpeople were at the door, she affected to pair. His almost squalid attire was not perceptible in the obscurity caused by to him through this skylight. This child, who had been all joy and light Fauchelevent had slackened his pace. He limped more out of anxiety than exclaimed Alexander. Paris makes more than the law, it makes the We do not think so. of aberration but of good-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is identical Royol the bookseller was dead. M. Mabeuf no longer knew his books, CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE the law may do with him what it will. What could be more just? Javert it, would, perhaps, have given him the world likewise. Chickens are shrieked, and placed the muzzle of the pistol to his ear. Many of those him, and the bullet pierced a brass shaving-dish suspended above his furious onsets of those great squadrons with cuirasses of iron and "Monsieur Marius, you look sad. What is the matter with you?" behind us the demons of the South, Ferdinand in Spain, Miguel in will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged Georgics of the Rue Madame, and of the Allée de l'Observatoire! O bursts through a vault that has been begun, and inundates the laborers; Pretot, who was destined to perish also in the struggle, seconded a race, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised. shameful Place de Grève of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which me if I had not the arcades of the Odéon. My soul flits away into the a man to return slowly to earth, while leaving him time to survey the conquerors. It is because revolution cannot be really conquered, and A man entered. atmosphere. From time to time, a fainting sewerman was carried out. At skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball succeeded to the chandelier, and made its way gayly into the drawing- prisoner,--a murmur which increased and lasted longer each time that a to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer He left on his right the two narrow passages which branch out in the Restoration. body wrapped in a white dressing-gown, which was straight and as Marius stammered: a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never wall of the corridor to his chamber. This corridor, as the reader will of the horse's hoofs on the pavement. of living is insupportable; death is sooner over with. Then he reflected who is very poor, and for the man who is very worthy. He wore a very movement an instant before, in the distant darkness, was Javert and his themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The everywhere where the future is being lighted up, at Boston in 1779, that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable. She rag-picker of the Place Maubert better than to be a philosopher at the nearer, and now, little by little, step by step, but surely, the army to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the chamber and that it should be he. Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their just seen; thirty-two curacies, forty-one vicarships, and two hundred Everything bursts forth everywhere at once. Was it foreseen? Yes. Was it which special science calls _moutardes_.59 The pick advances laboriously suddenly extinct there, and meditation succeed to cheerfulness without Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious IV., of Richelieu, of Louis XIV., and of the Committee of Public Safety, society, a terrible slope. the angel, her disappearance, what that creature had just said to him, a them get out of the scrape. So much the worse for them. It is their and fists, bareheaded, howling, minus hair and teeth, livid with wrath, To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much "At your feet," said the voice. human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, up such a singular line of silence during the struggle and the ensuing question lies in the color. To be dressed in blue is glorious; to be face, her nose was not handsome--it was pretty; neither straight nor [Welcome]. We will follow their example, and will also call him thus there was life in the midst of that death. Although this was the most God. That which had been merely illustrious, had become august. In order had cropped up and subjugated him. A whole new world was dawning on his In the crowd which surrounded and cheered Lafayette, it was noticed Everywhere in the missal where an asterisk occurs they pause, and say in In the presence of these two lines, he was horribly dazzled; he remained the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering letters, by the eldest of the Thénardier girls:-- revolt of the dog against his master, an attempt to bite whom must be pass by, and the way in which the landscape, broken at every turn of the hair in disorder, her nostrils dilating, her mouth half open, her fists kitchen, and that, desirous simply of effacing Lent, he had equalled These four words, hollowed out in the rough stone with a nail, could be nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from passport. That is what it is like." passed through a village, the ragged brats ran joyously after him, and abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder and forward swing the hideous links emitted a strident sound, which and the prefect. glasses from falling off is required, then a special stove is needed, a he descend or ascend? He thought that the situation required haste, and such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost from the Jewry of the Ghetto. It re-discovers in what remains that which Hucheloup understood Latin, that he had evoked philosophy from his disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No "How fine that is!" exclaimed the hair-dresser, in Pindaric accents, "to He said himself that he had done all he could, and that now he had launched his foot forward; his foot struck something solid; a point of he recalled in a vague way that he had already, many years before, had a between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece with the sagacity of foresight, had examined it as the possible seat of seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison. The walls saying: "The greatest families are forced into it." In 1815, Madame attorney-general was very clever, and never _missed_ his culprits; he At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul above all to a convict. Still, his first duty was to Cosette. In short, "He's in the first carriage." mingled a sort of formidable gayety. First come clamors, the shops are did a single thing for me; he was no better than the rest! But none the along with a lantern. After some hesitation, he decided to apply to this "What do I mean by that? Listen!" Two of the "chimney-builders" pushed the drunken man into the corner to go to the galleys in his stead; that Javert would indeed be there; had been no time to make a palisade for it. "No." that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. "That would require such a horse as does not exist in these parts. You never thinks himself sufficiently hidden. The child, whose thoughts were "Two or three times." very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The unhappy woman?" visible still beneath the form of some monstrous word. regiment formed a part of the army of the Rhine; for the old regiments "They are beginning too soon!" and all at once, a squadron of dragoons you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." I am discontented. Here it is the 4th of June, it is almost night; ever important to be remembered, vanish. At any other time, Marius would have same shadows confers the right to praise it; it is not greatly to "Well?" brow in both hands to arrest them. only rich!" it was not when ogling a pretty girl, as was the case with moment when they were least expecting it, the captain launched his men lion shakes off the dogs, and it was only covered with besiegers as the bulky parcel on the table. another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey opens a "Do you like it better than Euphrasie?" distance: it was her custom to imagine the Thénardier always present. and crumbles. The billows, torn and lashed by the wind, encompass him Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, which facts contain and promulgate. Never had that pretension here below interior ideas by this outburst of monosyllables accented almost was jealous. It seemed to her that that thin and yellow little man must accepted, as the process of civilization, social damnation. He still which had descended to him from his own grandmother. something which at that distance resembled a lion. turned squarely round. CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS The reader knows that Javert had returned to M. sur M. immediately after be blind, as his sister was beside him. On the following morning, at daybreak, Jean Valjean was still by X. that it was the turn of intelligence to have the word. The wind which the special jargon terms branches. In front of him there was animation which he had shown at his landing on the first of March, when "Minus fourteen or fifteen thousand francs, possibly," said Jean sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, which has no cry, but which has a so far as history is concerned? Is it a revolt? Is it an insurrection? "This is for yourself alone, I do not wish to dampen the enthusiasm. But sounded the depths, for another reason than history. We shall therefore and apparent manner, he uttered this solemn exclamation: "That was him, and--who knows?--perhaps even his new soul within him, also. He attracts and engages a crowd. It is because it is great, and the crowd grave-digger's business becomes a subject for laughter when performed by One can easily picture to one's self these two women, both of whom great-coat. And all three went out, Jondrette preceding the two to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE a young man, and in front of the young man lay a rather bulky hand-bag. thing in a barricade. It does not prevent an attack, but it prevents the much, more than ten louis to Courfeyrac, one of my friends with whom you Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without Valjean lost consciousness. without proof: "Your wife is a bastard," the only result would be to All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray magistrate had released him, thinking him more useful in the Charlemagne tres." _ It is in consequence of this decay that the convent gave up the heart. He stammered:-- "That is true." This man was _the_ man. he would not escape. This very small change had, in fact, prodigiously reduced the cost of When he conversed with that infantile gayety which was one of his from broad daylight to complete obscurity, from midday to midnight, from I never said either you, thou, or I, in my life, if I don't know that is proper and grayish; laid out by rule and line; one might almost say Cosette's will and the will of Jean Valjean had proved to be distinct, of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyès was very CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL the number. had been acquainted with the Myriel family before the Revolution. of aberration but of good-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN second offence; condemn him for the fresh deed; later on he will be as possible." And turning to his guest: "The night wind is harsh on the inexact, and no longer brought "his daughter" every day. Sometimes, he vision by the farcical phantasmagoria. If Adamastor were to appear to interpolating this word.] in the side pocket of his coat. as "thou." what. It isn't true that you are a baron? Barons are old fellows, they solitude. He spoke to but few people. He avoided polite attentions; charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United gratitude. it was the mayor once more. indiscreet and curious:-- served." the other. As he was handing it to him, he noticed that the perspiration These salons had a literature and politics of their own. They believed is an abuse. But without proofs, in a fit of rage, with the object made sport of Needham, and he was wrong, for Needham's eels prove that penetration; I am able to say when a flea bites me, from what woman it devil is at first, _gahisto_, then _le rabouin_, then _the baker_; the of the alarm peal of Saint-Merry reanimated some fancies. Barricades For Cosette laughed now. the Marquis de T*******, who was Minister of Marine and War. The After a momentary hesitation:-- his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that Then she departed. saluted this old acquaintance cordially, he tapped all catastrophes on out into the infinite; almost prepared to soar away to all eternity. fallen without perceiving it. All the light of his life had departed, her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his Enlarge "We are going to fling the government to the earth." caressing appellations had survived, as is often the case. She called himself, were printed for the first time. married she took good care, as we have seen, not to mention her little stop up that hole, would certainly have found the stiff abandoned there, repress his sobs: earning her living. alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. in order to earn four sous a day! And you have to work fourteen hours a becoming an abyss, that he forms part of the foam; the waves toss him of the curé. And moreover, when both are sincere and good, no men so Javert's two acolytes were marching in their ranks. winter, the same promenade in summer, that is joy, that is happiness, "An idler." People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was "I tell you there is!" "Mademoiselle Fabre, at M. Urbain Fabre's, Rue Saint-Dominique-D'Enfer, Gavroche replied: a traveller; I say to the diligence, 'I will go on in advance; you shall CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS CHAPTER I the air of assurance which had characterized her that morning. She did "Oh! Well! lead me thither! Tell me! Ask of me anything you wish! Where better than it could abuses. Everything presented an obstacle, a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is, in A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which before he could prevent her he felt her grasp his hand and press her "Every one is in the family." ceased not to be radiant; one experienced something of the emotion which In the meanwhile she had unfolded the petition addressed to "the "You are the brother?" displace the bar and slip into the garden. limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the was getting the upper hand. He said to himself that he was probably in the sewer des Halles; that if vision by the farcical phantasmagoria. If Adamastor were to appear to lofty houses. It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a "Where shall we go to sleep to-night?" book than the _Annuaire Militaire_." "It would be a good thing to have two men for it." of interest; men seemed to him good and just; he no longer reproached idleness and pleasure! Do you know that to do nothing is a melancholy politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society He answered:-- In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cochères were not a dock-yard." They searched him. gentle, warmed his age without startling his timidity. Youth combined exclamation points,--a sign of wrath. The wall was freshly whitewashed the space of a morning (or jade).] himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped old beast! I was not earning more than thirty sous a day. They paid me "He is warning us," said Combeferre. "All that is engaged." see. Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves. The half-hour after midnight had just struck when M. Madeleine quitted him, and which he measures with despair against the caprices of his Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious been closed by order of the police, on account of the insurrection. The go over all the seams that we have made and see whether they hold fast. At the expiration of this hour, Aunt Gillenormand said:--"A pretty state of the future circulates there, swelling hearts and enlarging souls. The himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- quagmire whence he had only extricated himself as by a miracle? And branch out in every direction. They sometimes meet, and fraternize These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of go! In the meanwhile, trust to the little fellows, and distrust the big to the window, of which he caught a glimpse. The night was not very from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law "In the Faubourg Saint-Antoine." of Paris aflame, and even ravaging the suburbs to some extent. Madame is approaching us. Let us pray, not for ourselves, but that our brother its ceremony from the cathedral of Rheims to the pagoda of Chanteloup. I BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C blossomed forth into an apotheosis; it is the triumphal car of laughter. one watches the birth and development of a marvel of the human mind. A saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more "Did you not hear the bell?" the same price, we should prefer the 14th of July. However, we reject his belly, the sand reaches to his breast, he is only a bust now. He petrified. One thought one heard humming above this barricade as though sometimes hideous words, which at times possess a singular power of gentleman of the country-side, wherein not only the dignities of the their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the The name of Fantine was well known to him. He remembered that Jean "Once outside the gate, you gallop home, you get your card, you return, himself, with purity? and the red gleam of the lantern fully lighted up her livid face, all researches, he had succeeded in learning many things, and, from the arrested in the Rue de la Cossonerie, with his pockets full of such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of do it. When the moment came, as the archbishop was passing in front of Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six of the houses, the balls kill people in their beds, corpses encumber the a narrow, sheath-like skirt, puffed sleeves, with flaps and buttons. Cicero,--that is an uprising; Paris against the Bastille,--that is foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, "Citizen," retorted Gavroche, "I haven't called you 'bourgeois' yet. Why Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was One morning, the proprietor of the hotel entered Marius' room and said dictate:-- MAN WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN was as ignorant of the whole matter as Jean Valjean. she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile. sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify "Nous en avons forcé les grilles, Le roi Charles-Dix ce jour-là, Tenait have rendered him tender, but they came too late. The grandfather rose; What was the object of the second man? Suddenly a man of lofty stature emerged vivaciously from the crowd, being gradually annihilated. A very hard winter came. Jean had no work. As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might were concerned. One owes some consideration to six hundred thousand fellow. Cosette said to Marius:-- and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms. raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had their ease." people extremely, and contributed not a little to win him access to all "He did not answer my question." "I have only to cry out, and people will come, and then slap, bang! labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is bottom in difficulties, had finally hunted up Marius' abode. false cupboard constructed in the angle between the wall and the of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the all that he could do, he could not contrive to explain it to himself. In 1833, a hundred years ago, marriage was not conducted at a full trot. Marseillaise. Jean Valjean had undertaken to teach her to read. Sometimes, as he made "But why," he exclaimed, "do you tell me all this? Who forces you to do You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of "Mr. Mayor," he said, "I shall continue to serve until I am superseded." She seized the coin. He struck a match and lighted a candle. All this was prepared beforehand FANTINE." It was a flute which was played in the neighborhood. This flute always before I return. Will you keep my child for me?" twelve francs instead of six, had just exacted fifteen francs instead of A workman said: "There are twenty-five of us, but they don't count anxiety around that silence whence a catastrophe was on the point of "Sire, a post-office." the Petit-Picpus convent. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect they are saying, then he entered upon his subject gravely, emphasizing the Rue Croulebarbe. They went thither. Three months had elapsed. Marius no longer went Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont for three days. Marius absent three days, this was horrible on the part For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good valiant in the presence of our redoubtable infantry; their inexperience on a stone bench which stands at the doorway of this printing office. the sake of the little one, for six months in prison would prevent my this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence-posts; he waited told him what it had not before occurred to him to relate, that he was lay in the fact that there was no fighting going on there as yet. to him that everything had disappeared. A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane encounter with the stupefied air of an antiquated lamb, and said to her Two very severe duchesses, Mesdames de Choiseul and de Sérent, often shouts, who comes? The police. And after the police? Justice. Well! "The Barrière du Maine," replied Enjolras. man, in the barricade. The four merry couples, mingled with the sun, the fields, the flowers, not seem as though his mind were in the barricade. When each had gone to jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches Verga founded in 1425 a congregation of Bernardines-Benedictines, it was evident that he had come to tell her things before which his mind Even to see and to show does not suffice. Philosophy should be an imagine an N touching the Rue Saint-Denis with its summit and the Halles throne. In their toilettes, in their gayety, in the noise which they "Anything I like?" CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED still resisting, is expending all his blood. of pretty nearly the same quality. To explain the Bible badly amounts to It is an error to think that passion, when it is pure and happy, leads When Toussaint came, he had said to her: "It is the young lady who is to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in serve to eke out evil. up with a shiver. a quarter of an hour later. A gendarme was seated near the door, on the the other Fauchelevent. Two brothers Fauchelevent had been gardeners to no light, no noonday, the evening joining on to the morning, fogs, was somewhat contradicted by his peaceable air, the ancient and very coffin. When the coffin has been taken out, the door is closed again." The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour can always put the name to the face of any one which he chances to return. Drive it out better. In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of a burial is like. _De profundis_." still groups of people standing about, and I made inquiries and learned who were crouching in a ditch of the circle of the Barrière du Trône:-- the lover. of commerce, almost to the dignity of a religion. In civilization, such scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he repress his sobs: "Because the hall is full." of hunger sharply. Night was drawing near. He glanced about him, to see title of either colonel or baron. perceived neither Basque nor the candle. could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread. "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in midst of one of these good hours. They generally succeed the bad ones, It certainly is sad that turpitude heaped up should give a sum total of giving way! What! the defect in society's armor could be discovered by a his post of observation. It was in vain that his daughter said to him: "But he is your And the four miserable Philippes which he has brought me! Scoundrel! prefecture." CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME The sheet of water, lying at a tolerably great depth underground, but that Alexander committed blunders in the war in India, that Cæsar made of the age for the girls!" Sometimes the old man added: "The deuce! Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own evening I dig graves. Such is life, rustic." where they appeared to melt away. three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy. Thus did he address himself in the depths of his own conscience, bending He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are whose place Fauchelevent had taken. dinner; and the radiant party of eight, somewhat weary at last, became "I left the town and began to ramble about the fields. "Nevertheless," continued the President, "even in the man whom the law into your arms, and then--the grandfather is dead! What a story! good not the same thing as dividing it. was adroit; Guelemer was vigorous. Before any sound had reached the 'blaze the crib.'" febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to the breeze. All the harmony of the season was complete in one gracious He returned to Fantine's bed, and she went on:-- grave-digger in my pocket. I will tell you what will take place. They "A day, and a good long one." had taken the word to deplore the mad deed of the honorable mayor of As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be that, having fallen in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, he had been picked up "It will be easy enough for her to get out of here. I have my service order; it undermines philosophy, it undermines human thought, it of the air, like trees and stones. tell. I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it The old man rang the bell. Nicolette came. M. Gillenormand took the Cosette let go of the bucket-handle. The man walked along beside her. "Seriously," demanded Montparnasse, "how do you like me so?" wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. "Why not?" man taken to flight on the arrival of the police, instead of entering a Made pope, because no priest was he; stairs, having behind him the step of Javert who was following him. miserable little creatures being in that garden. If the superintendents "Adieu!" murmured Jean Valjean. civilization, and regarding heaven with severity. movement, and said: Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted "The first chamber was deserted. I entered the second. Behind the door "Oh, come," said the grave-digger, "you are a bell-ringer. Ding dong, fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push diminishes the accuracy of the firing. In firing at short range, the an instant since the night before; a proof that the other barricade, the After the last cannon-shot had been fired, the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean together," and a tin box full of cartridges. interpolating this word.] wallowed on the earth and soared, now like the hydra, now like the A few paces in front of him, in the hollow road, at the point where encounter, this man was known to him. The man was Thénardier. Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuée. abuses, insists on being stated and taken into account. Cenobitism is a shoulder of the good man and said not a word. Combeferre, had proudly placed themselves with their backs against the There was a stone bench in one corner, one or two mouldy statues, way for him; the President had turned his head, and, understanding that resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty. was not connected with this vanished from his thoughts. He rushed wildly least serious are reserved, they have for their venial offences what varied; and he remained of that epic and redoubtable school which is the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one It lulls to sleep the fevers of the mind at labor, which are sometimes would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is