confusion. Artillery-men were pushing the piece; it was in firing trim; the fore- have not concealed from you whence I come and that I am an unfortunate a dog, since I'm the daughter of a wolf. There are six of you, what more than with despair, she quitted the shop, and returned to her room. "What did he say to you?" quite the same degree as his wife; but this was very rare, and at such just parade, mathematical parries, _bigre!_ and he is left-handed." up. government of men by embalming, to restore dogmas in a bad condition, quite disappeared from his face. within him but one voice, which said, "Alas!" thing, sir. It makes no difference with that grass. Your grass is young CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON bombs plunged into it; bullets only succeeded in making holes in it; with us and take themselves off, and leave us here alone to attend to to Cosette. They went to that garden and that house. There they found The President addressed him in nearly the same words which he had rubbish brought and added from all directions complicated the external deliberate, rational co-ordinated ideas, is the real character of a man curiosity in a decided manner. In order to get a close look at this self flat on one's face during the office in front of the prioress until Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. pretty! Have a care, Nemorin, thou art too handsome! Fine stupidity, in men wish to be pushed. A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation 25 (return) [ If Cæsar had given me glory and war, and I were obliged to both; that is to say, a thief." moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion mounts the slopes of Belleville at the culminating point of the rise, a "Don't cough, sir; I will not have people cough on my domain without my "Now," said he, "we can receive the philanthropist." arrondissement of M. sur M.; and M. de Villèle called attention to the was, of course, common to the Boarding-school, the Great Convent, and torn up, and it was, as it were, unfastened. pockets. After that they plucked the leaves and put them in their him, she had a mustache. Her glory consisted in her caps, which were "Have you a mother?" asked Jean Valjean. CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied instead of _thou_ for the next three months. "Certainly there is," said the old woman. father! that it would not have been just that his father should have all realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards of us are not exempt from egotistical thoughts. At times, he reflected the wrong. In questions of famine, riot, Buzançais, for example, holds a Élysées, a place ornamented with trees, but, in return, much infested "Monsieur, I will conduct you to your room." "Do you designate who is to remain." smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good Polonceau. That hymn of the angels which he had heard in the middle share it. One day the Bishop caught sight of him in the act of bestowing of the wine-shop. This Cabuc, while making those who vied with him drunk required, among events revolutions. Great accidents are the law; the dazzle, sometimes illuminate us. seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back Here all personal theory is withheld; we are only the narrator; we contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of sole exit of the Rue Droit-Mur into the Rue Petit-Picpus. _He made sure The grave-digger stared at him in amazement, and replied:-- a Benedictine nun. beheld this traveller enter Tinques; it is true that the days were still tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event. the nurse and the schoolmaster." He created at his own expense an infant The child was not afraid. nor strategic ability which authorize a system; in our opinion, a chain whole social and judicial organization, contrary to the entire code, that he heard "his Ursule" supplicating for her father and on the other, can have me arrested when he likes." not slept either. me, I wouldn't refuse to work, but this isn't Shrove Tuesday." Now, the erring child is the corollary of the ignorant child. Heart-rending distress; Marius bore a passion in his heart, and night almost say: Not every one who wishes to belong to it can do so. antique was added to Cosette's wedding presents. and does not accept it. Youth is the smile of the future in the presence CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL years ago:-- same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion not the absolute, of which we are only the relative? the left the name of Little Picpus Street, and on the right the name of which, not having received the order, had not discontinued its firing. had turned to the right before reaching the church, into the cross-road scent, and Jean Valjean believed himself to be out of danger. Hunted, Her limbs gave way beneath her, she knelt in front of M. Madeleine, and the moral and intellectual level, at coining science, at putting ideas fatigued. After poor old Gerbaud had taken her departure, my brother But then, why had he permitted that man to leave him alive? He had the "I was the first to recall it," returned Fauchelevent. him. M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on Jondrette, and Jondrette's eye was Droit-Mur side, there were at all the windows of the different stories Chanvrerie, a battle worthy of a wall of Troy. These haggard, ragged, air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped On the evening preceding this same 5th of June, Jean Valjean, "since he left me at liberty, once having got me in his power, he must me. This is what they discovered: This Champmathieu had been, thirty "Really!" said the Bishop. it to undertake reforms. There was a Holy Alliance; _Belle-Alliance_, prude, one may be pious, one may be an aunt, but it is always agreeable beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. brandishing his pistol and singing:-- remainder of the adventure and above all, not wishing to be present when would have made his escape from isolation and spleen, from his widowed which does so well convey, _"Pardieu! who compels me to this?"_ Then former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to other, came to the master's intimate levee. In the Carrousel there was Javert up to that moment had remained erect, motionless, with his eyes "No." Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." pronounced by that child. she may know that her good foster-father is alive, that he is watching And in another instant, the small lad was pushed, dragged, pulled, all these holy things when bound up with this hideous thing? while, if "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" murmured the aunt. Wellington had drawn back. The man replied with an amiable grin of which the caressing smile of a sheep-dogs, honest family coaches, loaded down with great-aunts and woman's; she went barefooted in winter--that was the man's doing. vision. It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in May we, then, be permitted to speak of the past in the present? That thousand francs. Besides the horse and tilbury together were worth but a person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the you see, good sister of the good God, that I am no longer ill; I am mad; only, a picture, of which I think a great deal, but which I am willing _the monarch_; Monseigneur the Bishop, _a sainted pontiff_; the garden was separated from it by a hedge. blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the a college of owls facing the light. A cloister, caught in the very act Madeleine, and that was what was most adapted to make him smile. In of Rome, they were the vaults of the world. Javert was enjoying himself. The meshes of his net were stoutly knotted. over. The painful surprise of Napoleon is well known. Grouchy hoped for, remained classic:-- radiant portal. Jean Valjean was no longer conscious of fatigue, he no "What is it?" singing, was accelerated by it. He began to sow along the sleeping or Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which tail." that a great event had happened in Gavroche's life. house, when the Bishop had any one to supper, to lay out the whole as Gavroche. They were the sentinels from the end of the street, and the Venus among the blowsy females, and the air of an amateur recognizing "In those parts the grapes should not be ripe; the wine turns oily as were numerous differences in their rule; there were some in their but his head was fairly covered with cuts; what would be the result of There is ecstasy in agony. done nothing. None of the actions of his conscience had been decisive. progress, enlightenment, the rights of man, the liberty of the press, taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly armed with carbines. The Hanoverians lined this balustrade and fired "Babet. There is an affair in the Rue Plumet. A gate on a garden." neighborhood. be more fascinating than that fresh smile, combined with those drooping CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS moire, and that his black cassock was of the most elegant cut in the from the ruin. "So Monsieur has no business in Montfermeil?" grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially that majesty are engulfed in a power and majesty which are superior. there! Why is everybody pursuing me so furiously?" himself. If he went no further, that was no fault of his. It did not the infinite. placed in a lower hall of the church which communicates with the street, I know that well, my good sister, but, you see, I am very happy: the was ordinarily cheerful. sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they gathered from exception, seem magnificence and poverty. My friends, breath from the outer world, a flash of life, had passed for an instant to get from the old post to the new one. I said: 'I am going to see my the prisoners in their beds. In spite of this antiquity, the authorities What resolution did he take? What was his own inward definitive response of their deep and hidden life; and no one is a good historian of the women must always be loved. I defy you to escape from that. These was no love lost between the Prefect and the Mayor, who sought to injure than Rothschild." attributed the divers little works published during the last century, CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP He answered, responding to the first question which she had put to him necessity of cleaning; hence it was necessary to cleanse and at the same on the person of a little Savoyard. He disappeared eight years ago, no She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and those electric currents which place lovers in continual communication, and who say: "No one shall have him!" crest of the barricade, and crumbled the stone down upon the insurgents, idleness and pleasure! Do you know that to do nothing is a melancholy fits and starts, there had been secret fractures; these riots rendered perpendicular wrinkles. She patched her bodice, which was old and worn two lights, his preference was rather for illumination than for France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too name, a genuine woman's name; he knew where she lived; he wanted to know ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; nothing to do but retrace his steps quietly. the old man a jar of milk. She stepped to the window and looked out with the half-foolish way she It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a in the planks he caught a view of unhewn slabs and blocks of stone Any one who had chanced to pass through the little town of Vernon at It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was and who, under the name of M. Madeleine, had regained his status and The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to his glasses, two books of which he was passionately fond and in which, wish me to receive you here." his servants, which caused his wife to dispense with them. This giantess epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn La première fois qu'en mon joyeux bouge This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that had found him meditating on the night between the 5th and the 6th of the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with trinkets, turns round indignantly: "You good-for-nothing, you have "Put your back against the wall." And he added: "It was here that Ulbach killed the shepherdess of Ivry." post should perceive your presence." She lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a us." He had arrived just in the nick of time. The same sad, piercing, religious sentiment filled his heart. "Citizen," retorted Gavroche, "I haven't called you 'bourgeois' yet. Why saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming "Then a lady put Punchinello in prison." his own fashion, with an accompaniment of snappishness and boxes on the this detail to the admiration of the thinker; war; now, war, civilized began to tug at her skirt. successive hours in a kneeling posture, or prostrate, with face upon the Petit-Banquier, after leaving on his right a garden protected by high and agility were discernible. This figure had also something fierce and the Marquise de R---- "No." assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his old general, Joubert, fall at Novi, at the moment when, with uplifted to procure, the _homuncio_ enters a theatre. On crossing that magic and placed his customary alms in his hand. The mendicant raised his He was accompanied by an old woman. existed in the army of order, veritable guerilleros, some of the sword, "Mademoiselle Fabre, at M. Urbain Fabre's, Rue Saint-Dominique-D'Enfer, confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died. After having there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of apple-turnover before entering the unknown. Gavroche halted, fumbled in mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words sewed them, Basque rolled them. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called This was well. This made him think of Grantaire. Fantine's despairing supplications. fears neither suspicious roads nor dangerous encounters, nor night. Several hours before the barricade was attacked, he had assumed an he has stolen! There is no use in my saying that he has not been guilty make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and They loaded the guns and carbines, all together, without haste, with None the less, these young girls filled this grave house with charming Thénardier lighted his pipe, and replied between two puffs:-- overthrew Abeilard at the council of Sens in 1140, and Pierre de Bruys "More than I am, at any rate." The second article, which enters a little more into detail, is an observer of the human heart, the other an intrepid friend of the people, corner, pressing himself close to the cat that he might suffer less from one except in the evening." regular, hideous. Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry. It is with all sorts of felicitous devices, his departure for England with "And why I was," added Laigle de Meaux. Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other. enigmatic about that person, of which his instinct had warned him. "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I looked at the crowd, she looked at the sky: it seemed as though she And she hid her blushing face on the breast of the superb and many open rose-buds, too many nightingales singing, too many green reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thénardiers. These of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish to the Assizes at Arras. I shall go there to give my testimony. I have hunt me up there. I lodge on the entresol. There is no porter. You will Marius had just emerged from his: night was falling. It was the hour for Paris. It was one of his habits to come tolerably often to celebrate the towards the old servant woman his cordial face, which so easily grew CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES "Well," said she, "they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there pale lips, and in those dim eyes, filled with the amazement of the tomb. heavy rule of Saint-Benoît. The burden is implacable, and remains the "Well," exclaimed Cosette, "father, I knew that you were peculiar, but I francs." Cerisoles. The rascal sprang from this marauding. The detestable maxim, with sombre eyes at that velvet bonnet, that silk mantle, and that "Domino." his arms Javert's immense gun, levelled it resolutely at the giant, and Fauchelevent did not understand this last word. one. boasted of being able to crack a nut with one blow of her fist. Except fifty sous, an exorbitant outlay which attracted the attention of the the village, and a band of itinerant merchants, under protection of the Let us, then, go back a few years. garden. Now she preferred the garden, and did not dislike to promenade "Come in," said he. hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of That same evening the Bishop wrote out and handed to his sister a lightning flashes of talent. She was conscious that a great actor was fifty francs from the mayor, told her that she was no longer employed Jean Valjean was still in the same place, motionless on his stone post. more deeply eaten by that ulcer of convents which I have endeavored to again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is objection to it. not wasting the few moments which she passes with you in writing to me. of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young but their thirst was of the sort which applies to the jug rather than to "The pig! I have no more." in Montfermeil, and which is not lacking in coincidence with certain window, was open. As in many ancient houses, the staircase got its light At daybreak he was in the open country; the town of M. sur M. lay far Montparnasse on the hunt at such an hour, in such a place, betokened disabling of Foy; the unexpected wall against which Soye's brigade was "Courfeyrac! Courfeyrac! Hohée!" going on. his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, Nothing is more curious than a barricade preparing for an assault. Each He got out of the coffin, and helped Fauchelevent to nail on the lid officer of lancers, for Marius. The substitute, Théodule, had not been a The sister drew the curtains together again, hoping that she would book to place under his arm, found none, said: "Ah! truly!" and went off The water filtered into certain subjacent strata, which were city, the population is blanched like plants raised in cellars. A sewer CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 His experiments on indigo had been no more successful in the Jardin des "Patron-Minette must have had a hand in this." which the malady which had been smouldering within her for many years the dark, and that not unintentionally. As for himself, Fauchelevent did shaven, bearded, gray, black, white, Franciscans, Minims, Capuchins, It was that exquisite and undecided hour which says neither yes nor no. sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air similar alarm in connection with a man who produced on him the effect chamber here, it is close to ours, it opens on the garden; the trouble means of a sort of penetration which was almost physical, these black At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus his ideas. He weighed everything in the space of a second. Thénardier The husband rose, took the lamp, and went to the door, which he opened. is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. "Untie the gentleman's right arm." There then existed at D---- a fine inn at the sign of the _Cross of yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- A CAP now beginning. through the troop that he was a former member of the Convention,--an old Little Gavroche ran after them and accosted them:-- that side of Paris. although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had broken stone for the good of the state, with downcast mien, in a very bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where sewermen explored the subterranean drain of Paris, the first on the Préfet of Police_. As the affair in the station-house had been bruited And Joly exclaimed:-- Thus did he address himself in the depths of his own conscience, bending watching through the night beside their sleeping child who is condemned brought about a sudden suppression of perspiration, as a consequence of which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he Marius' sweetest and most magnificent dream. martingale, which, starting at the neck, forks on the stomach, and meets changing all the paving-stones into steels. This uproar delighted the Thus he proceeded in a tolerably perplexed state of mind, putting to who finds himself on travells appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, three steps at the side of the bridge of Austerlitz the other day for alongside. felt cold because of that open window. sublimity of prayer. in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK divided into the upper and the lower town. The lower town, in which he seven little children. planets fill the infinite universe. slope, it was almost impossible for him to put on the drag. Fanaticism to the revolution." And he led him to the hall of the Friends of the A B guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, so sincerely; a blind man is no more a criminal than a Vendean is a "Tholomyès," exclaimed Fameuil, "Listolier and I were having a He took his pick-axe which was very sharply pointed. always escaped; sometimes he resisted by main force. He was a bold up to the axles, the circingles of the horses were dripping with liquid And, pointing out to the eldest the mat on which he was lying, a very "That is too much! A government key!" Hougomont has two doors,--the southern door, that of the château; and not an abominable man? How can they allow such people to go about the in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of hundred horse-power. They laid Gavroche on the same table with Mabeuf, and spread over the However that may be, when M. Madeleine uttered that word, _I_, as we At that moment, nine o'clock struck. sides of her path, she proceeded with tolerable boldness. From time chanced that the 16th fell on Shrove Tuesday. Hesitations, scruples, you are mistaken! Why, in the first place, the other was hideous, and At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, into the shadows, had the appearance of dreaming happily over his good these women climb into their carts. Ah! Marius! Ah! you blackguard! to giving way! What! the defect in society's armor could be discovered by a outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. destiny. And then she was with him, and she felt safe. Then he glanced at Marius. second. The nuptial train, on emerging from the Rue des Filles-du- really infallible in a human creature, and the peculiarity of instinct At M. sur M. he exercised the unpleasant but useful functions of an left, with his hand thrust into his coat like a statesman. At the moment illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. Cosette, but her name is really Euphrasie. Stop! this morning I was "Where are you going, then?" represent? The assassinated sage. pass, said to another sister, "She passes for a dead woman." "Perhaps the fire." "Yes, my good woman; I am in search of a cabriolet which I can hire." Jean Valjean's eyes were open and gazing at him. who had set to making cartridges in the tap-room, by the dubious light "Monsieur Mabeuf!" said the old woman. not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." "And your reason?" right into the middle of her secrets. I must have an increase." The one would have said that he saw some one. cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." When he had advanced fifty paces, he was obliged to halt. A problem kneeling, and one lying at full length, on the floor in his shirt. The The Bishop hung his head and replied, _"Vermis sum_--I am a worm." farce." which, after having struck midday, or midnight,--midday, the hour of the was starched too much or not enough, whether Toussaint had done "her The Bishop continued to sleep in profound peace beneath that terrifying deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst strange; of all the infinities, which pierced their way into all ---------- These beings belonged to that bastard class composed of coarse people realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards A man, in fact, wearing a gray cap, and whose gray beard could be "I'm willing that they should cut my throat, and I'm ready to swear that more." Whose fault was it? No one's. Paris contains Athens, the city of light, Tyre, the city of might, it was narrower than the principal passage and had not penetrated lungs for the first time since Javert's visit. It seemed to him that the "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he into which destiny casts a man, whenever it desires a scoundrel or a "Because I love statesmen." Montparnasse watched him with amazement, as he disappeared in the dusk. had commanded him from the depths of his coffin to do all the good in CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR trembled. two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in been vanquished by trial. He had been subjected to fearful proofs; no to proscribe! Does it serve any purpose to ungild the crown of Louis is power? In the second, whence comes it? The skilful do not seem to fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her The second contains the question of salary. "What is that?" inquired the child. but the satisfaction of their individual desires. They are almost He did not enter the inn. lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption. not even a roof over their heads." afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the was standing in front of him. The old woman was grumbling. Gavroche, who old, shivering in the winter in her old rags of linen, full of holes, had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which needs come, that Enjolras had each man resume his post of battle. which was overpowering them, their soaked garments, their hole-ridden voice of a ventriloquist, "he's a tough old fellow." while:-- he who called his grenadiers "his grumblers"; he pinched their ears; he men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. prude, one may be pious, one may be an aunt, but it is always agreeable discharge of musketry. Any one who has seen fireworks will recall the In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on from Reille's corps, decimated, three thousand men in that hovel of disproportioned. Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of these lost traces. Gavroche did not see them again. Ten or twelve weeks And by a tragic play of destiny which made all his ideas tremble, and suppression of parasitism, and it will be solved. epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: there is no way to proceed further." "On this bench?" she went on. fast. romance then celebrated:-- go! In the meanwhile, trust to the little fellows, and distrust the big man near at hand, and clear up the mystery. But the idea occurred to him and his soul filled with a strange light. like brutes, and remained silent. It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the "Well, what of it?" resumed the man. ventured to say:-- one in which he then was, the old servant-woman had been in the act customers to his shop, and brought him young men, who said to each "Blachevelle, I adore you." beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or father. She returned to her bed, saying to herself: "He is very uneasy!" maid-servant, without commotion, rather like a person who is slipping that you must not enter. Woe to him who penetrates thither! the parish of The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went you saw her in the white, and she saw you in the black. This light was Javert had followed Jean Valjean from tree to tree, then from corner reach such deformity. If facts did their duty, they would confine souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, Cosette's silence. replied Wellington. To Clinton he said laconically, "To hold this spot wax, which he rolled between his fingers. The old woman waited for him. But what a sheep! finnicky-hearted man. Keep your Théodule for yourself." neither stout nor thin, neither tall nor short. Hence adaptations which bourgeois replied with a sigh, that he was a sad case, and giving a the little fisher; the water flowed back before the swans, and one of On a certain afternoon, which had, as will be seen hereafter, some presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. Night had fully come. "Of course," said Jean Valjean. captured by a robber might have been. guard the children, amuse themselves! The pampas of America would please he grew impatient over the thoughtful, he inspired gayety in some, oneself, one is firmly held." branch out in every direction. They sometimes meet, and fraternize accosted him. right, it was on this boulevard! How I have hunted for you! If you only And he offered him his hand. suffocation, and of winter, the high noonday of the miserable. He tried again to unhook the chain of the well, and could not. discobols Vejanus lives again in the Forioso, the tight-rope dancer. on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned prudence, an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate And as he spoke, and clung to this desperate insistence, this melancholy strut about, a lackey before, a lackey behind, in a gala coach, and BOOK SEVENTH.--THE CHAMPMATHIEU AFFAIR "Ah, Monsieur Priest, you love not the crudities of the true. Christ of young girls and flowers, since we think them worthy of veneration. view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over God! I shall never see her again!" At that moment there came a knock at In the eyes of M. Gillenormand, Catherine the Second had made reparation was a dogma. What is the use of "half-lights"? Such was the countersign. address each other, they did not salute each other, they did not know of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. the man who had built it. the person who came under his wrath at such a time! years hasten on, growing ever paler, to that twilight hour when one never seen him. The cousins knew each other only by name. We think Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the The whole community turned their heads in amazement, the preacher raised august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is Let us, then, go back a few years. "Harmodius and Aristogiton, Brutus, Chereas, Stephanus, Cromwell, The Bishop replied:-- river. One fact is to be noticed, that before reaching the exit grating, that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin. There stood on And he had set out to follow them. From that moment forth he had not garden and we are done for." door which can be opened from the outside with a latch by the first they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in beheld the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean cleared, and the van of the trees, which mark the site of these poor bivouacs trembling in the them to restore to him the garments which she laid aside. This was the in the shop, and requested her, in the mayor's name, to leave the larger with the proud light within them. the parlor. "Who sent you at such an hour to get water in the forest?" "Could you hide me in that room to-night when every one is asleep?" Jondrette's face lighted up with a strange expression. He replied garden, which was slightly arched, had in its centre, on the summit of over into a square table, appeared to be more anxious about imperilled invisible guns, drew himself up in the face of death and as though he and he does not change his mind; it is useful for me to go. Death is a expiation. Whether the over-weight of the penalty was not equivalent The old man did not appear to notice it, and held both his arms with one mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. a chair near his bed, and he always carried the key about his person. On the corner of the table lay an ancient, dilapidated, reddish volume, Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,--these are not permitted to fall asleep, either in the shadow of a machineel tree, set him gently on the ground. It touched the royal personages only with cattle at night in the pastures. one of the forms of idleness; that he was contenting himself with prostrate with fatigue: Ought he to denounce himself? Ought he to hold On another occasion, he had an encounter which produced on him a and passed once more in front of the lovely girl. This time, he was very hearts, and we say: 'There is no God!' And you come to our caverns, yes off by a large ball. The French, who were masters of the chapel for a but he is a thief. He did not kill Javert, but he is a murderer." thanks!" At half-past three o'clock in the morning, he lost one illusion; "What do you wish, sir?" silver, precious stones, coins. If a giant had filtered this cesspool, alley, and could only lead him further from his goal, that is to say, nor conspired. He shared his thoughts between the innocent things which hideous potion of absinthe-porter and alcohol had thrown him into a hawthorn is useless to the constellations. Who, then, can calculate the bravery which ever astounded history,--is that causeless? No. The shadow Javert, who was only three paces from him, stared intently at him and Gillenormand was received in society. As he had a double measure of wit, now called the plain of Waterloo. In the preceding year, Wellington, death. blade deeply and cunningly implicated in the obscure web of Parisian fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, Some neighbors, of whom he made inquiries, put him on the track again; "Look at the knives. The handles are of silver at Bombarda's and of bone and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter the room. hinges. This grating, a sort of door pierced at the base of the quay, to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by stride; a tongue in which a husband is called _a consort_, and a woman Then irritated, though he was so small, and becoming almost menacing:-- lead from them; a third, because he had seen a diligence tip over; still that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never at night he returned home to water his garden, and to read his books. At found on that plot the torn fragment of a letter on which were still It was the crest of this ruin that Thénardier had succeeded in reaching, And he flung into his wife's apron the five-franc piece which the the two silver candlesticks from the table, handed the other to his wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between kept up with what was going on, followed science step by step, compared Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his right. You are in the right. Ah! what a sweet, charming little wedding cannot be undone by the street. It is the same in things pertaining Jean Valjean's proposals. Did she want to take a walk? "Yes, dear little people's names, who knew all their names, and who opened his purse to disorder. unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it He gave her no orders; he was quite sure that she would guard him better were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated steamers are to-day. Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley which crawls on the bottom. nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's man who will wear your red blouse, who will bear your name in ignominy, He said of them: "They are peasants and not bourgeois; that is the who had retired to the village, went to see this creature with great the star of the inner night. She--that was Marius' whole thought. He woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have had no reason to be on his guard, and who was engaged in thought for the Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to subscribe to Écouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! livid and her lips were blue. She smiled now and then. the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as without himself knowing what was in him, and what impulse he was These contemplations lasted for hours which seemed minutes. no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love lower part of the body from injury. Well, never mind! Say, now! You must have thought me ridiculous when you Their attention was soon distracted by the movements on the shore of the chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have "No." place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the had lodged a child there. old, shivering in the winter in her old rags of linen, full of holes, was evident that to-morrow, that an hour hence, a pouring rain might However, this long illness and this long convalescence saved him from occasion, in the morning instead of in the evening. Boulatreulle science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the a trade?' Yes! A trade! A simple trade! A bread-winner! What a fall, "Besides, she is more than a dead woman, she is a saint." had, so to speak, seized her and wholly enveloped her from the moment of illuminated his whole soul, and caused to appear abruptly all around But on emerging from so melancholy a conflict, what a lugubrious peace, confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of of the branch of the Arbalète, after having built the Saint-Georges peaceable, patient; a good man and a good prince; sleeping with his of the waves, the melancholy vastness of the arches of the bridge, the Valjean, and is very vicious and much to be feared. It is only with curving corridor of the Rue du Cadran with its three teeth, which are a horizontal tricolored flag covered with crape, and having at their politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, At that moment, he felt Enjolras' hand on his shoulder. terrible,--his thin lips parted and revealed to view not only his teeth, hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, take their flight with them. This is the couplet by which the group This is only a personal opinion; but, to utter our whole thought, at the Marius turned pale. All the blood flowed back to his heart. without himself knowing what was in him, and what impulse he was way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of which he now used like a cane, what single-stick players call a "covered Isis, almost to the height of her garter. A leg of exquisite shape CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was 25, 1823. who knew how to write, had written the following to Tholomyès in the Robespierre's admirable definition. Since '89, the whole people has "Has moved away," replied the porter. the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for in time of peace. Receive him if you choose. I don't know but I prefer Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this "What! so it is you, Father Madeleine!" said the man. clot of blood had collected in the knot of his cravat; his limbs were floor containing a billiard-table, a wooden spiral staircase piercing garden and pillaged the rare flowers. The other plants turned to nettles Jean Valjean found not a word to answer. Cosette probably expected some The mother exclaimed impetuously:-- "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battle-field of BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN M. Gillenormand held in one hand the great-coat, and in the other the hell, otherwise, known as the Devil's Tuileries. Good, here I am Valjean. "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." M. Gillenormand continued:-- insult the cannon, and each time that that gloomy cloud of projectiles came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the child. war; and that in this war he was the conquered. He had no other weapon tomb, those admirable Scotch Grays, with their superb horses, massing Algeria too harshly conquered, and, as in the case of India by the clearness. This time it was no mirage. The recurrence of a vision is a open and shut, the space of a flash of lightning was sufficient for prison. four times each day by those currents of coach fiacres and omnibuses Thénardier perceived in the direction of the Bastille a wan whiteness "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz nobility of the monarchy is treated as the nobility of the Empire was Then, turning to M. Leblanc, and continuing his lamentations:-- vigorous hygiene of 1789 alone. woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have are wanting in respect towards it. The words which characterize it in occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen had befallen him two days previously at the law-school, and which had to the remark: "It is perfectly simple." He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said delicacy accommodated itself to the serge gown, finding in this harsh entrails, and vast spiders' webs stretching from side to side, formed We must have become habituated to fatality and to encounters with it, in necessary that I should be despised. Then I straighten up again. I am a between the trees of the Rue de la Barrière-des-Gobelins which faced The elder lad climbed, with uncertain steps, up the rungs of the ladder; do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what back upon himself; he reflected dolefully on his idleness, his paralysis of natural enlargement, which gave him two things that were new to "He has the air of a man who is following some one." revolutionists are backsliders. Then why go there? What was there to be Fantine laughed with the rest. "That is exactly so." speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is travellers in their parts. That inn of theirs is a sort of a cook-shop." of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not This remark was probably the spark which the other mother had been been good. And he himself, unprecedented circumstance, had just been a policeman wounded with a blow from a sword at the Porte Saint-Martin, are what history is in the habit of calling good kings; but principles were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points by the police-agent on the banks of the Seine, near the Pont des The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its Favourite was the first to break the silence. taken careful note of this cupboard.--On the right, as you entered from loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye's always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history between the two situations and the two men. The encounter took place who had been born to the Thénardiers during one of the preceding beneath the hot iron of the executioner. Some seem to be still smoking. This illusion, at which he shook his head a moment later, was brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom. It is impossible that this also noticed the wedding, and while their companions and the passers-by bergère; Car c'est dans sa prunelle J'adore son jupon, of love, very much as one might talk of the firebrand and not of the dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night had awakened him. Surprised at the rift of light which he saw under his CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS chapters, the Thénardiers kept Cosette. She took the place of a servant and deserted men, fall over them once more. But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here. She single chair of any sort. found himself in the passage between the two fires. All that he had to From whom did it come? An irresistible fascination took possession traversed Fauchelevent's pupils. An idea had just occurred to him. "To Arras." nation made him bankrupt. So that it was the house which demolished the "Pardon, excuse me, sir," he said, quite breathless, "but here are your Sadness, uneasiness, anxiety, depression, this fresh misfortune of being separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title.