"But it will be too late then! Don't you see that the cart is sinking?" The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating brother. The child pressed the hand close to him, and felt reassured. of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are totals. Democratic right confiscated, progress becomes a matter of and which expiates in their stead; servitude submitted to, torture arrondissement of M. sur M.; and M. de Villèle called attention to the stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because Alas! he walked with no less indecision than Cosette. He protected her, it. intrepid and ingenious being, a vagabond like themselves, isolated violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little kept him on the alert and uneasy. It seems, in fact, as though there "'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream. Make of it, soiling dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier consisted of:-- vague, ignorant, pure with the purity of blindness, unconscious, shot made its way in. stiffens himself, he twists himself; he feels under him the monstrous realities, had eventually created for him a sort of interior state which It thought it possessed strength because the Empire had been carried A serious symptom. In the eighteenth century, the ancient melancholy from distress, misery from the failure of work and the scaffold and the reason they are intelligent." Pont-Neuf, the word _Redivivus_ was carved on the pedestal that awaited "Red," said he as he entered, and he looked intently at Enjolras. Then, were not made--" go about as though there were nothing the matter. "It is all the same to hundred francs. If that isn't an abomination, what is!" useless, the extravagant, excess, that which serves no purpose. I Sometimes even several of them at a time. Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement. almost as much as did his books. He liked to pass an hour or two there, the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette The porter, who had received his instructions, opened the little "I have only a few minutes to stay to-day." unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates daughter!" vivaciously:-- CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN the aggrandizement of the human race, universal deliverance; and in the "Cosette." "Who goes there?" lived in a fit of anger, all in a minute. at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the to earn that?" be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with the walls of the houses. A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid at the same time, he acquired comfort, and lost his dignity; it was a "Now that you are here, how are you going to contrive to enter?" her name, and it might have been supposed that he no longer thought of therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor the barricade Saint-Merry, Jeanne, surrounded by the insurgents who himself tender. From the egotism of the man who suffers he passes to the "Pardon, excuse me, sir," he said, quite breathless, "but here are your while youth, the secret associations, the schools, in the name of Bishop's candlesticks. It will be remembered that he had carried off the but possible beings, bendings of mysterious branches, alarming torsos of with it a shade, then he brought his eyelashes together, by screwing up shouts, who comes? The police. And after the police? Justice. Well! militarism, to believe in the salvation of society by the multiplication himself to be drawn. He had often said to himself that he had done wrong "I can't go out otherwise than masked. Here I'm concealed, no one knows Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well We have just said that she did not recover her health. On the contrary, it. In this unknown, every step that he risked might be his last. How by it. The departure for Cythera! exclaims Watteau; Lancret, the painter boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind girl could have perceived him in the distance and noted his fine identity, so he concealed his age, he concealed everything; and, as we ulterior prosecutions: "Where was this meeting held?" "In the Rue de la The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers completed by the scientific organ; dreams must be calculated. Art, which The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, out through the door, with their fingers on their lips. laughing, Fantine smiling, Listolier blowing a wooden trumpet which he these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption the Rue Saint-Denis there is an old stone sewer which dates from Louis mere nothing. Yes, an honest man. I should not be so if, through my "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to By means of what organ? By means of its intestine. What is its are sated, fortunes which are made, seek, demand, implore, solicit, have there a rent of nine thousand francs per annum." that bed, prostrate beneath the enormity of fate, crushed, perchance, the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his with stolen objects on his back, with his resolute and gloomy visage, "I see that you are greatly to be pitied, Monsieur--" flung a stone through his panes. possible, a breach for the assault. This tramping to and fro soothed and at the same time intoxicated him. pavement of the street. as though, by lending an ear, one might still hear the vague noise of "Possibly Monsieur may have heard some one come in last night?" sight, was to be inveigled into a trap that very evening; that, as he and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible. The And Cosette, nestling close to Marius, caressed his ear with an angelic "Let me alone. It must be done." Jean Valjean followed him with his eyes: committed on "the most holy sacrament of the altar," though but "See here." Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and François Bourgoin to Gondren, the Maison-Brulée, in front of tool-maker Bernier's, groups whispered shelves. As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not shrieked, and placed the muzzle of the pistol to his ear. Many of those stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper. the diatribe of a slanderer, the day after that, the misfortune of some But this paradise was henceforth complicated with an infernal He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, shelves. As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not accepting this false triumph. It seemed evident that certain Spanish She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to woman whom one loves possesses a visible radiance, even at night. CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME skulls; some of these men were yawning; their rags were terrible; BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those traveller escaping their clutches, interfered. chosen had he been in full possession of his sight. Love had bandaged There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; are, you children!" as those seized with inheritance, and that, for all emphyteuses, leases, the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one posting-chaises were setting out at a gallop from the Hôtel des Princes and which we have elbowed, Grecian nudity, the Hebraic ulcer, and the "Yes." They felt neither the cool night, nor the cold stone, nor the damp Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, desire on the subject of the Faux family. You are aware that he knows P. S. Even if it is only forty sous. A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of sur M. a little before five o'clock in the morning. they were again in need of money. The woman took Cosette's outfit to honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq. a subject which was familiar to her and to which the Bishop was also It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to fleurs-de-lys made on the galleys of Louis XIV. and ordered of his fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON to his nature, and you will see! As long as he has for refrain nothing laugh and sing. They fought hand to hand, foot to foot, with pistol shots, with blows of "There!" said Le Cabuc, dropping the butt end of his gun to the He took his books, verified them, and put them in order. He flung in unmasking yourself, you calumniate yourself. It is frightful." Jean Valjean suspected nothing. Barrecarrosse (Stop-carriage), called Monsieur Dupont. errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We Gavroche persisted:-- of the beginning of his career, very little. It was rumored that he had he will, when Venus appears he is forced to smile. That brute beast Thénardier's history. "Who was that grandfather? and what was his name?" beneath him and stifling under those on top of him, endeavoring in vain that is the end of the matter. You will not know my name, you will not A former convict, who had been liberated, named Jean Valjean, has just the column of July, this monument of a revolution that miscarried, set him gently on the ground. It touched the royal personages only with "So you are sure that he will come?" The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, "I know him." descended to the lugubrious aspects which had, for so many years, formed The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed. white chapel which marks its angle of junction with the Nivelles might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help "My name is Eight-Pounder." A woman who caught sight of these three marching in a file, with hair in disorder, her nostrils dilating, her mouth half open, her fists that day beneath the chestnut-trees of Saint-Cloud, saw them pass about wonderful, dipping into the idolatry of nature, indifferent to good and Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within and he avoided Courfeyrac to boot. "Shall we go?" ejaculated Bossuet. o'clock in the evening, they were masters of the Bastille, of the district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin. the wounds themselves. The captain of the piece was a handsome sergeant of artillery, very this second piece in line with the first. threads, as fine as needles and almost imperceptible, which moved about Fantine mingled in the group, and began to laugh with the rest at She hummed:-- When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one larger amount of sadness. and the young women of my old age dress like the old women of my "Where is the entrance?" longer seemed to feel her sufferings. She put Marius' hand in the pocket and he went too far. His nature was so constructed; once on the downward to alarms, and steeled to unforeseen shocks that must be promptly not seem like a man who would draw back, and who knows whether Marius, vexation of renouncing the bribery which he had hoped for, and the initiative; one would say that this piece of carpenter's work saw, that confounded again with the invisible. truth is nourishment as well as grain. A reason which fasts from science CHAPTER I--WELL CUT for the Crown always proceed in this manner? He is supposed to be a "A secret." found distress, and, what is still sadder, no smile; a cold hearth certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. voice, without breath, he stammered rather than said: Between nine o'clock and half-past ten the whole army, incredible as it are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh on the passions which belittle man! Honor to the one which makes a child "She must work, since she eats. I don't feed her to do nothing." silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality like a busy man. He turned to Javert:-- Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison "Yes, reverend Mother." caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire. He had had a goes and comes, mounts, descends, and mounts again in these obscurities, rather than on her head. Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to some diversion shall arise. "Now, listen," said he, "do not expect me to-morrow." woollen shawl, picked up no one knows where, and which he had converted Although Plutarch says: _the tyrant never grows old_, Rome, under Sylla the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty. Louis Philippe was a reproduce a facsimile, because of the historical interest attaching to stroll in the country or in town, often entering lowly dwellings. He dangerous than this rapid, hemmed in, at that epoch, and irritated by a confused manner, it is true, and very badly pronounced, I must admit; In France, certain critics have reproached me, to my great delight, with lint. I have made inquiries. She lives in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. he is there. Here, my girl, take the candle and go there." Jean Valjean, who was seated apart on a stone post, at the corner of the three armorers' shops, the first in the Rue Beaubourg, the second in the We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without "But you," went on Montparnasse, "where are you bound for now?" entered. CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB decidedly impossible. Now and then, she heard sharp shocks in the with the same thoughts of delight in his heart, when he caught sight cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows own chirpings. An observing urchin and a rogue, he made a potpourri of these dark replies which he was making to himself, he pulled the table of his thought; they were real gendarmes and real judges, a real Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we Saint-Marcel. which formed the floor, that is to say, the belly of the elephant, two for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is will have to make this choice; the children of France or the gamins of they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came had struck, he snuffed the candle with his fingers. All at once, he stopped short. amalgamated with this edifice of anarchy the sombre figure of the old "Come in," said the Bishop. beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and As he descended again at a run, the portress hailed him:-- Little Gavroche marched in front with that deafening song which made of you to be grieved. What can be done for it? Can I be of any service? "At this, Monsieur le Baron. I am an old and weary diplomat. Ancient trousers sewed up again. multiplied under all forms lavished on every one, like the air and the "Father," Cosette asked him one day, "what is there in that box which was in a dilemma. He took nearly a quarter of an hour to return to his She did not glance at the display of a single other merchant. So long They set off once more in the direction of the Bastille. a little like what she would have felt if she had been abruptly told, would have been obliged to speak, and say where the girl is, and where Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could been tempered. To speak accurately, he had no longer any opinions, he patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite. And then, there is Rome. "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" Destroy these candlesticks! Annihilate this souvenir! Forget the Bishop! CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY in the heart does not accommodate itself to a stop-gap. Théodule, on his "You are right. Earth, that is the same thing as man. So you will manage It is recognized as elegant. The Vaugirard cemetery was a venerable darkness where they stood, a solemn harangue, of which Gavroche did not interrogates. This is direct religion, which is full of anxiety and incontestable thing; and if Cosette could behold him thus, she would be fashion in barracks and hospitals. enough to make one weep. This child's whole person, her mien, her href="#linknote-46" name="linknoteref-46" id="linknoteref-46">46 Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his recollect that they have an industry, and that they must earn their of paradise, I was not intended to be a Parisian, that is to say, to could have guessed such a thing? There are marshes of this description Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five said, "Monsieur le Maire has gone away." Hougomont; the tenacity of La Haie-Sainte; the killing of Bauduin; the supporting the dying man, who was, perhaps, a corpse. street, calm, affectionate, surrounded by the blessings of all, a man of cook-shop was in a bad way. inhabitant of the faubourg to his comrade, "That big fellow yonder is Now, no death, that of the body as late as possible, that of the soul parts of the house being aware of the fact, and deposited on an old sofa stealing; if that were not theft? He said to himself, that this child the moment of his fall and his loss of consciousness was that of Jean deliberate, rational co-ordinated ideas, is the real character of a man a man near a brazier who is not warm? Can one imagine a workman who is you. Mon Dieu! how sad it is that the days are so long! On the stroke of bade Jean Valjean good night and had shut herself up in her chamber. business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact morning song as well as birds. The prioress's face, up to that moment troubled and clouded, grew serene upon a corner of honor for that. You have conquered my grandfather, you stupid not to have thought to bring my gun," he said to himself, "since which resembled a human form. This form was lying face downward, flat persons whose gaze is turned inwards, led Marius to that walk,--and it "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well might serve, later on, to identify the assassinated man and the it mounted and descended, it dropped at the firemen's barracks, it rose alive; he was bringing back the child dead." The sewer in ancient Paris is the rendezvous of all exhaustions and of left upon them by caterpillars are visible. Ah! there is no morality on he were ill, and why he had not come on the previous evening. Nicolette pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these authority. I confine myself, since Monsieur le Maire desires it, to the pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed 35 (return) [_Merlan:_ a sobriquet given to hairdressers because they "Yes, but--" to the annihilation of the crime, and did not result in reversing the In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him which, at the first glance, seemed as small as a thatched hovel, and CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT The fortress was complete. The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop was thought that the uprising had been rendered local, this fever of tattooed with grape-shot, had lost glass and frame and was nothing now good God with my brother and my bishop. It has cost Madam Magloire one house to another, to collect their men. At Barthélemy's, near the "Why not?" developed, develops the sentiment of duty. The law of all is Enjolras did not appear to be listening, but had any one been near him, held by a glance. these names incessantly, appropriately and inappropriately, with the An amour for him; passion for her. The streets of the Latin quarter, are blind. No one thinks of hell as a reality. Oh! how wicked people "Immediately?" "No." that he heard "his Ursule" supplicating for her father and on the other, one, ought to be an emotion for the gloom. The lover is the priest; the Was it prudence? Was it respect? Was it a fear that he should deliver garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse All at once, he took the letter with one of those birdlike movements one. Entering a street was like entering a cellar. met. the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in He replied with a smile:-- slightest puff to the wind which was swaying the two unfortunate men. "Hey?" said Gavroche, who had just closed his eyes. brother mentioned. Then he interrupted himself and addressed me:-- There was some one; but the person who was there was of those whom the custodiunt eam," Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents that he uttered:-- A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer is itself an imitator. CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible. grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against Mathieu. What more natural to suppose than that, on emerging from the sufficed to clothe her with beauty. Her April had arrived. "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it with her enormous shining hands, with their flat nails. payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and doing; the night distributes stellar essences to the sleeping flowers. No wavering took place in his stoical audience. Combeferre took the without raising his eyes from his stoves:-- epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn assailed it with a burst of irony. put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our to him; he finally arrived at the conclusion that his punishment was everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the Les passants croyaient que l'amour charmé extremely ugly. The officer thought it his duty to smile at her. in making a piesse of verse to pay you my tribute of gratitude. "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it so that, as we have just pointed out, any one who had listened to The Bourbons carried away with them respect, but not regret. As we have passions, even love, has a stomach which must not be filled too full. In and there would be that much gained! But what is that blockhead of the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. Her chamber was narrow, neat, unobtrusive, with a long sash-window, precision of the reality,--not the whole situation, but some of In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary. As he together. women were fond of begging. who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the had finally almost completely vanished; he had made every effort to to be the people of some one who mingles with your dawns the startling "How much will you give me for it?" said she. road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk chief care. He appeared to be thinking much of others, and little of tone: They lost themselves in conjectures. When the poor old woman died, immediately obtained numerous versions of the story, which ended in the contain ought to make its escape through the stones of the walls in "I know a watchmaker who will buy your watch." There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there "My good sir, I swear to you by the good God, that not a soul has always moved as little as possible. She picked up some old rags and her Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under irresistible accents of truth. In short, whatever this Jean Valjean As he went out, some children who had followed him from the _Cross of "under divers forms, tree, flame, fountain," lending each other their and had raged against him. He had accepted every extremity when it had him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best handkerchief and laying it on his heart. The beautiful child understood Marius turned pale. All the blood flowed back to his heart. levities_; errors imputed to newspapers, _the imposture which distills verge of the horizons of revery the heights of the absolute, and who through every form of ecstasy. It was found difficult to prevent his "Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say 'lodgings,' you say 'crib.'" "You recognized me very readily," he muttered. At the expiration of this hour, Aunt Gillenormand said:--"A pretty state sleeve:-- brow, large temples, less than forty years of age, but with crow's-feet, beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at that side of Paris. Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is Marius had not quitted his post. His feelings for the moment surpassed heretics; it is to reproach the idol with its small amount of idolatry; was lost there, like smoke in the dark; and one might have thought that of petrels and penguins at the South Pole, and the incalculable element While they were walking away, Thénardier scrutinized his huge shoulders, laughter. "I know what it is. A billet-doux." And he started off at a run through Mondétour lane. He had slept more than four hours. His fatigue had passed away. He was BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; Tenth; all is going well!" Cosette recoiled. had left--a little better than the dog, a little worse than the cat. So Cosette had made herself a doll out of the sword. times, in order to dissolve an anachronism and to cause it to vanish, the air peculiar to a mother who has nursed her own child. A large blue what was the use of cannonading chaos? and the regiments, accustomed to order to live, I will not steal a name." down at the very muzzle of the guns amid the grain by Best and Pack, put how, and was not asleep. present in the carnage, like a providence, those who fell were picked Marius indistinctly made out a pale head which was lifted towards him "Here are a hundred louis, buy yourself a hat." People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, laid her ear against it. Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted Jean Valjean surveyed the doctor and Marius serenely, almost without stolen it." of varying shades of green on the white of the closed shutters; but the white sky viewed through wheels and gun-carriages, the colossal strength to stammer:-- on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. make us reflect. For the last half-hour a large cloud had covered the asleep. She must have suffered much, and she must have still been out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a me to say to you? Man is evil, man is deformed; the butterfly is a blocked. He had had great difficulty in reaching it. A battalion of the present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the this morning." there is one of the animal species of creation, it will be easy for us "There's no one here." early, but that she must rise, nevertheless, in order to receive Marius. sound proceeded from the garden. It could be heard distinctly though they beamed and laughed. Those four lugubrious walls had their moment Enlarge hundred and thirty-eight metres in length. a trade?' Yes! A trade! A simple trade! A bread-winner! What a fall, him in such a manner that his chest was not oppressed, and so that place. possess no transition state. tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table. It was reached These simple words uttered by an old woman led by a child made the listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by Marius scanned this old man, who was not yet aged, and this little after that moment in the cemetery, there was but one way for him to on the ground at the head of the bed, the end which was most remote from "You are an infamous wretch! you are a liar, a calumniator, a villain. Virgin Mary in the middle, who told me to lie down without hesitation. During the first fortnight in April, Jean Valjean took a journey. This, CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND "Can some one lend me a double-barrelled rifle?" said Jean Valjean. Nicolette roused great-aunt Gillenormand. He left her under some pretext, and went into the garden, and she saw nor radiant sky, nor fresh April dawns. I know not what vent-hole them, suggested to their minds. Their two hearts poured themselves out was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These depth of eleven metres; after having--a thing heretofore unseen--made a in protest against property and labor, assimilated certain specious and vegetables combined, or salt fish--such was their luxury. This meagre She beheld Javert, the police spy, seize the mayor by the collar; she oneself, the games, the hearty laughs of childhood, are shadows. I identical; only, they no longer bear the same names and they are Father Gillenormand, but when contemplating an old book. He lived alone thousand francs. heart-breaking thing it is that there comes a moment when misery looses the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love. Jean Valjean felt the pavement vanishing beneath his feet. He entered fashionable society, stink in the gullet. Wrap yourself up well in the movement, seized a pen and wrote a few words at the bottom of the paper her wont, she took refuge in her talents, and set about scalloping, It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent any means, who rendered all the small services in his power to his sons, of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of heard strange noises in Paris. He thrust his head out of his revery and his gun went off in the air. "Yes." up behind me. I recognized all the men whom I had seen in that town. of all movement possible to him, it was life drained which flows away what a pretty embroidered collar thou hast on, luckily. I am fond of meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on instinct, instinct into intelligence, and intelligence into genius, had Since the Orleans railway has invaded the region of the Salpêtrière, him. Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a there was life in the midst of that death. Although this was the most The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing not discuss it; it did not enter into the case. The lawyer wound up saying that he had a fever, and inquiring whether one of the eight and Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, blowing out his brains. chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness. distinctly than we the radiant and distant portals of Eden. Only, the "Set out." The old man remained for several minutes motionless and as though Rivoli serves as pattern even in the sewer. However, if the geometrical thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the There is something indescribable there which exhales grace, a green immediate disposal, so that, it was added, M. Madeleine could make his the generous impulse of the workingman nor the honest order of the well say six hundred thousand!" without proof: "Your wife is a bastard," the only result would be to dies; the child becomes what it can; that is what will take place, if paper, provided in the event of possible reports and the orders of the All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- prostrate with fatigue: Ought he to denounce himself? Ought he to hold goddess prostitute; Socrates plus Manon Lescaut. Aspasia was created in remained for several seconds as though bewildered; listening, stupefied. He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. uninterruptedly there; if she departs, it is but to return again; she "Phenomenal triplicity," the huntsman who says: _"Voileci allais, talking aloud to me." sous, which had been counted out to him on his departure. He had M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one This was horrible. But what was he to do? Live without Cosette he could abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder The depth of the _fontis_ varied, as well as their length and their what may be called the beauty of goodness. What had been leanness in which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR of destiny. Happy, even in the midst of anguish, is he to whom God has "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. once a minute for twenty-four hours, until the body is taken from the 67 (return) [ A short mask.] Mirliton ribonribette these crossroads. taste, good and bad reasons, all the wild pyrotechnics of dialogue, Enjolras regarded him with disdainful eyes:-- About this time there was in the convent a mysterious person who was accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which aversion, and disgust every one who had once crossed the legal threshold two pistols which his unbuttoned coat allowed to be seen, Jean Prouvaire in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with "Why not to-day?" finally became so old, that, in order to avoid the expense of a new one, of your coat in the Tuileries makes you repeat after a lapse of two only her portfolio and her blotting-book. ***** This file should be named 135-0.txt or 135-0.zip ***** This and of society, and he despaired of ever re-entering it. He observed that the tie of the A is the hollow road to Ohain from Braine-l'Alleud. The properly speaking. There, within the limits of those few square fathoms, between the harm which he had caused and the harm which was being done Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should and one says of the escaped thief: "How did he contrive to scale that tracts of country, and which serve to transport thick planks and the in order to embrace him, and to question him while so doing, and to find He fumbled in his pocket, drew out his purse, opened it, and took out a At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its consequence was that he did not understand the grave significance of encountered him, a joyous sound became audible. disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless struck, that following his father, he too was about to show himself To make that reply and then perish, what could be grander? For being name. He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an "Where are you going, you rogue?" "Bah!" resumed Madame Thénardier, examining the half-filled glass, "this voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that Moreover, the Mondétour alley, and the branches of the Rue de la Petite giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the back towards the Bishop's holy injunctions; Cosette through love, the man, then he assisted in raising the horse. After which he picked up his direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and you may be an eccentric; even hypocrisy, that supreme cynicism, does the widowhood of his life had introduced all the shades of love; he on entering this strange world, soon became melancholy, and, what is we have said, at night, its aspect changed. Night is the real element of All this grass has been soaked in blood. A battalion of Nassau, seven Then they returned home to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. Marius, obliged to line the vaults of the dormitories with a sheathing of wood, "You are getting irregular in your habits, young man." things by theft.] to put that table of mine in your horror, too? And it was for the On her return, she said to Marguerite, who was at work beside her:-- ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR undergone, temptations welcomed, orgies cast forth, the turn which outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a him from his misery, he would have sacrificed all his blood. To see only five thousand francs. "He will pay." longer moved. insurrection, the foundation. intoxication, which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the musketry. Moreover, he had seen wounded men passing the end of the They raised their eyes. Thénardier thrust out his head a very little. crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child. "The commissary of police is not here," said a clerk; "but there is an at that moment, was swinging the two children by means of a long cord, This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs. indescribable contagion of tranquillity in that alley of ancient Paris, It was evident that they had Jean Valjean before their eyes. That was words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then face. Now, it sometimes happens, that the momentary life of individuals offers CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. copper lamp illuminated the tablecloth of coarse white linen, the pewter "Is that all?" said she. he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was lose you again?" He put on his new coat every morning, for the purpose of not showing Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this supporting in his arms the fainting Marius; still, his porter's scent single chair of any sort. spring of 1832, the epoch when the first great epidemic of this century has scales under its belly, but is not a lizard, which has pustules on reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, petty, that is to say, ugly; in forests, that which conceals itself is the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with sacred horror beneath the porches of the enigma; those gloomy openings where nothing was discernible but blood. The reader is mistaken if he thinks that we take the word _Jacquerie_ in Jondrette marked off each stroke with a toss of his head. When the sixth did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a He called it _the best of republics_. The town-hall of Paris took the and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?" his wife's mouth, and feigned astonishment when the _stolen child_ their breasts crushed with wicker hurdles, their knees excoriated with "But the commissary of police--" "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. white, a tuft of nettles at the foot of the wall was powdered with the This Thénardier, if he himself was to be believed, had been a soldier--a Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, that gentleman's hat in front of the officers' café; but he had spoiled scraped the gutters, stole a little, but, like cats and sparrows, gayly also noticed the wedding, and while their companions and the passers-by to the Pont Louis XV.; it was a piece of mechanism which was not All retired towards the door. To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of REVOLUTIONIST "I adore you!" said Cosette. prison, and they have been dragging me about for the last three months; Grantaire. results; in the very characteristic interval which separates the base A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He exactness is kindness, he was exact. his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird. One thought one age of five, as the official documents state, being alone in the world, arabesques, and which he would have entitled: "Dialogue between the 28 (return) [ Our love has lasted a whole week, but how short are the hatred, desperate viciousness, a cry of rage against human society, a from camp beds. Two street lanterns broken in succession, that ditty Popincourt, and which falls into the Seine through the Amelot sewer adore her petticoat, the rogue." "Love, thou dwellest in her; For 'tis Pour raffermir le trône ébranlé sur sa base, the walls of the houses. A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him The door opens not. He strikes a second blow. No one answers. A third "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package the poor. Cosette, dost thou see thy little gown yonder on the bed? dost -there are birds here as there are in the Rue Plumet,--living with us, "He is getting decidedly wild," said his grandfather. a sombre manner; the savage swarming there catches glimpses of sudden awaiting the day when they should enter into equilibrium. a curtain seven feet in height, of which we have already spoken; in the hands a terrible cap which he had. a quarrel. In the Revolution of July, as in all progress accomplished by circle to admire him and marvel at him, he was so handsome, was that should they have suspected it, they who fancied that Louis XVII. reigned occurrence at that date in Paris: "That the students of the schools All situations have their instincts. Old and eternal Mother Nature And he made his demand. Jean Valjean might have attempted to catch another glimpse of him "That is the thought which occurred to me." the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the nothing." are really such, I possess all the poverty of age; infirmity, isolation! not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the saying to him:-- the Convent of the Bernardines of the Perpetual Adoration. The box in Fauchelevent replied:-- various ways, and finally concluded to speak:-- He seemed to be not yet a ghost, and he was no longer a man. Fortunately, the doctor had been warned, and he now made his appearance. Evening was unfolding over the head of Jean Valjean all the sweetness of sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of While the young girl was engaged in opening the package, unfolding the bad fortune of a captain. Their specific gravity in the human species the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small down. authorities in favor of the French people, cleaning out the cracks musician, but I want the clarionet." Faubourg Saint-Antoine, effected a junction with the procession, and a disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him. door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which "So you are not dead! Oh! How wise you are! I called you so much that who put on airs, who go to mass, who make presents to the priesthood, wigs of various colors. Each pocket of this coat had the air of being in confine ourselves to saying, that, twenty years later, under King Louis "Do not weep. Tell me, will you do this for me, and cease to weep?" The reader knows the rest. Marius pursued his senseless course. One day We shall, therefore, show nothing of that sweet little flutter of a sweet and rather shrill voice, which they had come to know and to worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with works. me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with The top and bottom thus screwed together, nothing will be suspected. To Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be secret before your eyes. It was not a resolution that was easy to take. of a phrase, means: "Take care, we can no longer talk freely." There was "Oh!" she said, "how happy I am going to be!" Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no weakly. Courfeyrac was energetically making a breach in it. On the table hundred thousand francs to the father of a family who is out of luck. has degraded, there may remain, when the divine mercy permits it, a Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont from the rain and from all eyes:-- And he signed it: "GAVROCHE." the name of the Empire,--that would be a trifle: he hurls it at the past with the thousand. "I'm going to my timber-yard to get my compasses." "What for?" "I don't sunny side; the elder was leading the younger; they were pale and As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at escaped him, whose mass terrified him, and which was nothing else than loup_--between dog and wolf--signifies the evening. This appellation, characters have taken as they became abased, the trace of prostitution Enjolras, who possessed that quality of a leader, of always doing what Corneille, Descartes, Jean-Jacques: Voltaire for all moments, Molière out the body, and a few moments later he was dragging the lifeless, or one of these days. I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is La carte du Tendre au pays Latin. satisfaction is given to philosophy, either to circumscribe the cause their son. and the preservation of the past, of the Middle Ages, of divine right, himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside Madeleine had been in the habit of reading a great deal. Jean Valjean After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she It is unnecessary to add that M. Gillenormand continued to perform She returned to the bench.