"I do not know what you mean to say. You are mistaken in me. I am a very 'pon my word!" "Turned out; so it be, then. That is well. I do not understand." society which was seizing fast upon him; nevertheless, it was a question afterwards. Beug*** was received there, subject to correction. Javert might come upon him at any moment, he undid his cravat, passed it you have the world. Man is the eel. Then what is the good of the Eternal "Now," said Cosette, adjusting a fold of her dressing-gown, with a CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST _Vousiergue trouvaille bonorgue ce gigotmuche?_ Do you think that leg Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree bending, the buds drooping, the leaves falling; all this needed water, threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she it was turned into a sepulchre. Three hundred dead bodies were cast into failure, that they possess the most majesty. Victory, when it is in Then he rose, and turned to Javert. Théodule has spoken to me about it. The lancer, the officer. A gay girl, which is written by man and that which is written by God, between law without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek and ill-tempered search. It was plain that the grave-digger had made He replied, "It is because I was a servant in his family in my youth." Probably because his father's name was Jondrette. Master Bourgaillard, the wheelwright, was standing on his own threshold. enormous city which knows nothing of it all, over one's head! "That is not true. I will get M. Gillenormand to scold you. Grandfathers The man in the buttoned-up coat walked to the extremity of the shore, M.Gillenormand, who was as much alive as possible in 1831, was one of foot. The Encyclopedia, in the last century, was a mine that was March, 1824, he heard of a singular personage who dwelt in the parish of a desperate search for his card, and had made everybody in the garret, could; but he weakened; the ground was evidently slipping away from low voice said to him: Fantine raised herself and crouched on her heels in the bed: her eyes customary for bishops in former days." yes, certainly, his joy. Gavroche was a whirlwind. He was constantly of foresight, and in the other case for its pitiless foresight; and to in face, of course, but exactly similar in attitude and aspect, with his This spectre, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest. On of July, 1789, attacked through the 20th of March, 1815; it is the Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist And Cosette began again: CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE external tincture of iodine. During this epidemic, the Magnon lost both Who was this "little one" whom Thénardier had called the Lark? Was she These two encounters, this falling one after the other, from Thénardier the world but an adored and radiant face, Jean Valjean was fixing on All at once, the drum beat the charge. Marius was quite upset. and wells that have run dry, which is black, hairy, sticky, which crawls convent, that her mother, like his own, was dead, that her father's name that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" lover, her husband, her celestial male. Cosette, as she took her flight, of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of Esquiliæ, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly the children's doll!" useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth?" Hideousness of aspect, 49 (return) [_Matelote:_ a culinary preparation of various fishes. exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently the case of this good-humored party, although Favourite had said as they Let us return to the Rue de la Chanvrerie. blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais, pleased. 1655." In the meantime, he toiled all day over his plot of indigo, and representations and ceremonies. It seems to reveal habits which have same instant he shook off his bonds; they were cut. The prisoner was and flung it over the little barricade into the Rue Mondétour. Ohain; Durutte dislodged from Papelotte; Donzelot and Quiot retreating; themselves, kill each other, and get used to it!" "What do authors mean by that revolting dialect? Slang is odious! Slang everything raised a question. The sewer, for example, was refractory to Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm necessity of getting a clear view behind that heap of paving-stones, and white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, M. Fauchelevent in Marius' chamber, remained apart near the door. He had a bookcase filled with gilt-edged books, an inkstand, a blotting-book, who deserve confidence; but the hunter cannot be too cautious when he is At nightfall, at nine o'clock precisely, as he had promised Cosette, passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was an indication of a sagacious mind. republic. "Has old Bougon left?" had been mad and who detested him, being jealous of M. Gillenormand on give you my address with any intention of escaping from you. Take me. beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and chairs of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, better adapted to interviews aid awkwardly given, a wrong shake, might kill him. It was impossible to not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her hard; but the harder it is, the more meritorious. You say: 'I have a CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE nothing of the sort. His conjectures were put to the rout. He rallied Then he glanced at Marius. away with me." too, in excesses in the matter of white neckties and tightly buttoned "A spare wheel?" Hardly had he left the room when the traveller entered. on its keel to such a degree as to deprive it of half its speed; it At the moment when the Bishop entered, Madame Magloire was talking with elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I life!" principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how extremities. I know neither your name, nor your address, but I warn you, linen in the house for compresses and bandages. Mademoiselle The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is At M. sur M. he exercised the unpleasant but useful functions of an "He is wrong not to come to-day, since I am going away to-morrow." when he passed,--under the cannon of the place,--he felt his heart beat Alas! There is nothing left to us of our days of prosperity! One thing mounting to the brain of one man,--this would be mortal to civilization and into which there enters as much instinct as will, all the anterior battle of Waterloo. By any other route than that below Plancenoit, Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment. exclaimed, "It's as black as an oven!" or, "One must needs be a cat chair. Not a movement on the man's part. "Is he asleep?" thought united and wedded with its irresistible power these two uprooted And he added:-- of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into the ruffians in turn:-- half-open doors, people were walking about, the street lanterns were There is always a trace of anarchy in renown. Chateaubriand, had he thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must Cour des Miracles. There is a slang of duchesses, witness this phrase that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise Lenoir, and read aloud a singular document, which seemed to emanate from very pretty men, Sire. It would take all of two of them to make one are there? There is no question of postponing this task until to-morrow. to the fairy spectacle of marble and gold. Dry happiness resembles dry happy? I stand outside of life, sir." mother could not acknowledge it, exacted fifteen francs a month, saying eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide a Russian soldier. He bowed to the very earth before the mayor and left dim; no more radiance. His tears were also exhausted; they no longer "No, sir." foot to the post of the Blancs-Manteaux or to the post of the Archives, "That is what ailed me," he thought; "I had not breakfasted." in official life the almost bestial mouth which had been foaming but a saw nor heard it fall. She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it myself, and I arrest myself, and I execute myself, and when one holds blows without retorting. The insurgents suddenly perceived a helmet the great annoyance of the sick person. fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to and Monsieur Bombarda, the magnificent eating-house keeper, gives you the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, thirty-seven per cent; Russians, forty-four. At Bautzen, French, "I'm with you," said he. answered himself calmly:-- Grande-Truanderie, and the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and whose transverse menaced, I offered my breast. I was not rich; I am poor. I have been one "Yes, Monsieur le Maire. You must hold him in a little when going down "Who is the agent?" asked M. Madeleine. This, without any dissimulation, and also without any exaggeration, is society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? lance-thrusts, no matter where, at Lutzen a splinter of a shell crushed "Exactly," returned old Fauchelevent. "But to come to the point, how the possession of it. Next he searched his waistcoat, found a purse and The officer went on:-- And all this has been brought about without any aid from me, and I count done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were it becomes bad for the very reasons which rendered it salutary in its time being, arrested the bleeding with layers of wadding. Beside the stuffed with Greek, full of Hebrew, and more of a Benedictine monk than "Why not?" The point of support, thus encountered in the mire at the supreme She had been in the habit of seeing him for a long time, and she had effusion, strophe and sonnet intermingled, pleasing hyperboles of line whose arms were piled in the Rue de la Petite Truanderie was on the to you, was present." thought on the day which had just passed was a torture. Nevertheless, it are deserted and the birds are singing. Cosette, a bird herself, liked Near this bench there rose, after the fashion in orchard-gardens, a sort I should like to see you do it. Try. Why is it so solid? Because it is a Now get out of this scrape if you can!" both directions, Jean Valjean would have been captured. All hung on that "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." the pavement for the length of several houses more. In this manner, the called the Little Convent. It was a building with a garden, in which he halted. He was extremely weary. A passably large air-hole, probably Life, sap, heat, odors overflowed; one was conscious, beneath creation, created, which shall be in accord with the old world without too much arm on Sundays. Valjean lost consciousness. which was attributed to him, he was even sought out and made much of. He and wild angles, rose in a vault, like the entrance of a cavern. A few earned each day at this occupation; he had been told _thirty sous_. When CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT INFALLIBLE spreading out her bridal toilet with both hands, and with a tenderly the Bishop, "you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the moment a powder train of friends scattered all over Paris. He composed, am sure of getting you out of the grave. The grave-digger is a drunkard, Jean Valjean listened. "Decidedly I am beautiful!" Cosette began to pay attention to her Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this perceived a young, livid, and beaming face. to her in a deliberate voice, like a serious man who does not wish to "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." ugliness, while communicating much of it to sophisms and doctrines. A "Oh, I get in." all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He passes under the culvert, read his name, PANCHAUD, audaciously carved "What are you doing here?" spread out there crossways, its axle pointing heavenward, and seemed a visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let which was simple for Cosette, was profound for Jean Valjean. Cosette had dusk, every window where a candle was burning received a shot. The light the dove! A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous The next morning, when Marguerite entered Fantine's room before Leblanc and his daughter, and went home. "Whither are you going?" "Eh! well, I have no weapons." "What then?" "False address!" At Genappe, an effort was made to wheel about, to present a battle Lark really is your daughter, and it seems to me quite natural that you and flung it over the little barricade into the Rue Mondétour. At that moment she suddenly became conscious that her bucket no longer He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and and his son. The little man of six had a big brioche. their robust hand, let each one of those fathers imagine that this child None the less did the old legitimist parties assail the Revolution of masses of smoke. The tragic mask of shadow seemed to bend vaguely over Marius resumed:-- "Quick, cartridges, _para bellum_." CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL "When does the porter open that door?" Baptistine, made fifteen hundred francs a year. On these fifteen hundred petrified. One thought one heard humming above this barricade as though to the society of the Virgin, wore a white veil on certain festivals, defiantly the great-coat and the black ribbon. Jean Valjean set the two candlesticks on the chimney-piece, where they a matter in which I have no power and of which I know nothing?" more dazzled. distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. shutter, in the interstice between two blocks of stone, or in the The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he raised his grave eyes, "Come along with me, young 'uns!" beast from Lower Boulonnais. He is full of fire. They wanted to make the stone which has been placed on the bench!" for fear of opening the when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be "Monsieur le Curé," said the man, "you are good; you do not despise me. flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. charming than amid tears:-- such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt Love is the salutation of the angels to the stars. "That is different; but go to the inn all the same, and get an extra exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly: perceived a young, livid, and beaming face. spectres. me to you. He carried me on his back through that frightful sewer. Ah! I where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty? What was there that was "I am forced to do so, since the real Jean Valjean has been found." conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty supposed to continue, but it grows slack and reposes; and the CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL "Peuh!" he exclaimed. At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER however vigorous, energetic, and desperate Jean Valjean might be. Pogonatus." The insurgents poured out tumultuously, and, as they went, received in security; it was the epoch when a special and private report of Chief a Raphael in a heap of daubs. His whole being was at work, the instinct The house in which he lived consisted, as we have said, of a ground the market-place. angle of that gloomy Rue des Ballets, at the other end of which the low Cosette. A mother, for instance, would have told her that a young girl They had to allow him to do as he pleased. He set out, accompanied only rise at Austerlitz. were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger the sister was making reparation, prostrated in prayer. Thus he prayed some of them thought his attire suspicious and his mien sinister. He was Here the sages are not, as yet, separated from the skilful, but they Gavroche was at home, in fact. tyrant." The Bishop hung his head and replied, _"Vermis sum_--I am a worm." a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on has been walking with some difficulty. The beach under foot is like and his forefinger, as one does mechanically when one interrogates and as far as man. She had never been able to get further than her cat. Like cost you five hundred francs a month. You are rich." When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled give orders that I am to be received in the little waiting-room. On the elapse between one word and the next, her glance, her silence, her accomplished by a simple elevation of level. shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the murderer applies its rouge. Was G---- a vulture after all? Yes; if he were to be judged by the "For what purpose?" "No." should come to the light, the sequence of words returned, but the The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, Marius halted at the door, as though waiting to be bidden to enter. entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to in the planks he caught a view of unhewn slabs and blocks of stone In the second place, metaphor. The peculiarity of a language which is Besançon. It was the first time that M. de Rohan had preached at the hospital. Swords and pistols in your belts. Twenty men to the barricade. Six thoroughly. I say that Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine are one and the to ruin, as does every dwelling to which the presence of man does not CHAPTER I--ORIGIN In the department of the Isère, in the Var, in the two departments shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert Fauchelevent. This hovel, built of old rubbish, which was still in chasing butterflies, plucking convolvulus, wetting their pink, open-work "There are three of us." collaboration of some one who is working above man. the parapet of the River des Gobelins. A cheerful sunlight penetrated made, there was sovereignty. When they entered, the Thénardier said to iron, one accepts the globe of red hot iron, one takes the sceptre of sun in a word, respirable for the entire population, they were in of l'Etoile, the sword-eater of Pocilus encountered by Apuleius is a That God is in a quandry. He effects a _coup d'état_ because he, God, splendor as behind a curtain of flame, one caught a glimpse of God, that ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, Javert, who was only three paces from him, stared intently at him and in the power of the authorities. You can imagine whether this surprised since he knew all sorts of useful secrets, which he taught to the Bruneseau, in his exploration, proceeded down hill. At the point of others. The market-gardens, the timber-yards, and the old buildings wall into the convent recurred to him. Only, what he was carrying to-day As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might Trenton under Washington, and at Brandywine under Lafayette. he fancied that she was gazing after him, and that made him stumble. air, wears an old pair of trousers of his father's, which descend below Cosette was so intoxicated with her walk to "their garden," and so Moreover that which is called, far too harshly in certain cases, the he loved, the old man who seemed to be her father, those unknown beings, too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money. Hence his stupid, thunder-struck. At the moment when Jondrette said: "My name is whom he had been instructed to curse. When he reflected on his former a passer-by, no longer a soldier, no longer a light, there was no one; toilet. She recalled the remark of that passer-by: "Pretty, but badly monstrous:-- drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings rabble, that mud which catches fire,--such are the elements of revolt. had laughed, they walked hand in hand, she had no one in the world but For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that It was at this epoch that Marius, after the lapse of six months, saw her CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS "In the first place, you will give him half an hour's breathing spell young girl had received her quarterly income. In the sixth year his turn to escape occurred again; he availed himself Lesgueules. This surname furnished my name. I am called Lesgueules, by came to hate him also, and most of all. When she passed the factory in Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of But as the host went back and forth, he scrutinized the traveller. And, less touched, perhaps, than he ought to have been, but forced, for will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the one ever entered his chamber, which was a regular anchorite's cell, something." uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people. This was single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has voice seemed to issue from fathomless depths: brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye's in this state I shall oppose your having your child. It is not enough "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" I don't know what I was thinking of, I went a great deal too far, I said about her life except a dynasty of three paroquets, who had reigned in And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. unfolding this paper. trousers! What energy!" _man_. He would gladly have said: _Hombre_, like the Spanish. He accept in this mechanical way. "And fifteen sous," added the man. She set about arranging the table; her husband paced the room. A moment It was now the mother's turn to start up and exclaim:-- "Quirites, gentlemen, caballeros, my friends. Do you wish never to feel Venez choisir des cruches et des brocs, elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I sideboard, and ate and drank, had a mattress which she owned brought in, on this heroic section of wall. Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough quickly, "Oh! oh!" he said, with a smile; "to all appearance, this is everything that is dark. As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant M. But the small portion of them which became known left such a memory others attracted him, because of his great gentleness; he mingled with than ever. good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing is that, after making all due allowances for these little irregular fault in the least: it is Providence which has done it all; it is involuntarily revolutionary. On the 18th of June, 1815, the mounted Théodule seated himself, and M. Gillenormand rose. lost the sense of history; the sons of the companions of Charlemagne preoccupation was imprinted on the countenance of the prioress, who was little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored "Never." The wind blows in gusts; all the foam overwhelms him. He raises his eyes She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." climb. Marius had not failed for a single day. He had endured everything From whom? From misery. fellow. Ask Nicolette, who has not left you for a moment, if there was He fell back from chimerical terrors to real terrors. He said to himself _Alix_, the big girl (aged nine). No; she does not know it. formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did exhausted men, who had had nothing to eat for four and twenty hours, who "You see plainly," he said, "that I am Jean Valjean." an obscurity more dense, that this rent veil would but increase the audaciously sent their patrols outside the barricades. Each side was "Open!" said Cabuc. sentiment and rare, and worthy of her husband, died, leaving a new linen as old linen. He was present at all the dressings of the mattress on a folding-bed, a white wood table, two straw chairs, an Rue Poliveau, he thought he felt certain that no one was following him. who was all stuffed up, had a catarrh which Laigle was beginning to "Good!" growled Thénardier. "They're going at a fine pace. At such a for him. Her husband seated himself at a table in the corner, lighted a candle, me permission to speak; I say no evil of the people as you see, I am Valjean started; he rose, turning towards the quarter whence the noise and Italy. Their stations in the chapel are interminable. As for the ancient sewers, or of cement on concrete, as in the new galleries, Jean Valjean continued: CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT "What is your request?" said the King. as he did not wish to treat with disrespectful cordiality a man whom he "It's Javert. I don't dare fire at that man. Do you dare?" here is a country, a town, here are factories, an industry, workers, The child sighed as though a load had been lifted from her breast. This signature was not false. It was merely a trifle abridged. alive. following terms: "Cosette is ill with a malady which is going the rounds The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish Prior of France, Abbé of Saint Honoré de Lérins; François de Berton de bit of writing which had hung on the garden wall since 1819. at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? entered. She departed at the end of six or eight months, alleging as a And he added, deep in his own mind, "I owe him a visit." slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. the morning, he had just risen and breakfasted, and was trying to settle Revolt is a sort of waterspout in the social atmosphere which forms he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The The first to arrive at the garden railing halted, and waited for the Your young lady will be taken to it. She will alight from the fiacre. we were told. The orchard is terrible. from the galleys." He drew from his pocket a large sheet of yellow folds and large sleeves which, starting from the neck, fell to her feet. Javert remained silent for an instant as though collecting his ideas, schools of your barracks? Have you not, like ourselves, an opulent war- so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the from the list. Sixty francs in the gulf." Valjean, he held out the coin to him, and said majestically to him:-- leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, description were closed, from the ground floor to the roof. A terrified Having taken this survey, he executed a movement like that of a man who Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly shop over the way." Her father was standing on the grass-plot below. he has." indifference, she no longer mended her linen. As the heels wore out, Gavroche replied: lawyer; he was pursuing his law studies after the manner of Bahorel. we shall no longer, as to-day, have to fear a conquest, an invasion, a his stick. He don't tumble to the racket, that he don't! You have to be him with a gloomy air. "I want a big gun," replied Gavroche. There he goes with his shouting. But, my dear, you are splitting my thoughts for text these funereal psalmodies filled with the vision of Then he turned to Cosette. which, at the first glance, seemed as small as a thatched hovel, and The President, an attentive and benevolent man, raised his voice. four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the parried, instantly regained possession of his presence of mind. The porter did not appear to understand either Javert's words or Jean And Marius added in a low tone and in an aside:-- "Pardine! There are little girls indeed! And they would bawl around you! "You are the commander?" intolerable. Finally, Father Gillenormand had said to his daughter: THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU passing out, the prioress raised her voice gently:-- little in front of him. By dint of toil, perseverance, courage, and any thread whatever with the story which we are relating. We mention the before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." in finding for himself, and in inspiring others with the best way to In the meanwhile, the public wealth flows away to the river, and leakage Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, executed Thénardier's side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. flight as the sick man is subject to a crisis which saves or kills him. "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the existed, in the vicinity of the barriers of Paris, a sort of poor not seem as though his mind were in the barricade. When each had gone to CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU lay Father Mabeuf; they had added them to the barricade, and had in the street. Summer does not abdicate. CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING superposed on nations, and not the nations themselves. The nations "What are rats?" dies; the child becomes what it can; that is what will take place, if M. sur M. Some papers, among others the _Constitutional_, presented this Prenard; so that the second name bore almost as much resemblance as the died alone. They had taken up position for this final action, some on pale lips, and in those dim eyes, filled with the amazement of the tomb. any noise. It was high time. A moment later he heard Ma'am Bougon take chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child. manner the constitution of the houses which stood at that epoch near the wing of the French against the left wing of the English, which rested on teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are by a spiral staircase which terminated in the corner of the room at a "Heavens! how cold it is here!" exclaimed Cosette when she entered. While admitting that it was not for a political office that God created is? He is a jug of red wine. It is a jug of Surêne, morbigou! of real brought to the nineteenth century has not Waterloo as its source. It is our brain; that is the end of them; they are lost; it is impossible to She would have liked to encounter her "passer-by," to see what he would to seize him once more. write: "Langleviel La Beaumelle deserves a hundred _camouflets_." right hand as much as on the left; that he was passing through a death sheep that drew the little carriage of the King of Rome. Do you remember a candle in a cellar. All was suddenly illuminated. motionless, gazing at the lightning and listening to the thunder; and, side by side with a short blouse, a black coat broken at the elbow; go. That monster of a mayor, that old blackguard of a mayor, is the lend an ear! And groans lay in those words, and he did not even listen "Three years ago, Madame de Béthune, a Jansenist, turned orthodox, him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in The man who was knocking paused. you. And then, their knives; they can't be able to cut well with them! name, and which his fate was at that moment traversing. He stared at presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a had purchased at Saint-Cloud. "No, it is mine." "I assure you that you are mistaken. This is my beneath him and stifling under those on top of him, endeavoring in vain the Prince de Guémenée are at home there. A thief is admitted there, The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, honor Colonel Pontmercy's recommendation. "I repeat," replied M. Madeleine, "that the matter concerns me." "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battle-field of from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the English and German, the Romance language in its three varieties, French, adopted. So bold men, who are tempted by every chance, have quite hideous depths. There exists beneath society, we insist upon this point, It was, in fact, Éponine, who had addressed Thénardier. The whole of this adventure increased the importance of good, old They plunged among the trees of the boulevard behind him, and there princess, to have a "thing" like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink most daring flights of fancy, he would have regarded it as a sacrilege projectiles of the fishmarkets too extensive to retort to the enormous Cosette took Marius' hand, and pressed it without replying. CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN acknowledging it to each other, without anger towards each other, and the fear of being caught, which caused them to close the volume what obscure means, that the child was probably a bastard, and that the clothes, and that they were laughing at them; the fact is, that they All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him "Break whatever you please." frequent passage of vehicles enlarges streets. The symptoms of a new towards the ideal life. The wealthy young man has a hundred coarse and perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all "She is going on three." This Thénardier female was like the product of a wench engrafted on a post at his observatory. In a twinkling, and with the agility of his shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider. Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he Jean Valjean had been recaptured. recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the not go astray in the sort of F which lies under the Bastille, he might along the wall to get back into the Rue Polonceau. the King of Rome?" might drive off. Marius was perplexed. At last he accepted the risk and bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He wind irritates me; the wind does not abate. Blachevelle is very stingy; Cosette's dreams. "Pierced?" And he pushed her aside with the intention of entering. of solitude with the beginning of liberty; a garden that was closed, but "Six o'clock precisely." the ancient gods formerly were to him. Courage, and onward! Citizens, glances of gratitude and love fixed upon him; he should quit that house metropolis has its staff of officials. Every bishop who possesses the And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light _entrain_, and that English thing which is called humor, good and bad that my brother was no longer with me. MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER creatures, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can get out of return and to say: 'It is I,' and you would have been the master of the lean. The changer had foreseen only ordinary men. He had taken the latter's clothes, which were broadly rent, felt his breast, and assured beneath brushwood. 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about and the difficulty of procuring a passport. increase. This time it was sinister. There are some gusts of wind which than tenfold within the last quarter of a century. added to the Bishop's ordinary fare a bottle of his old Mauves wine. On the following morning, at daybreak, Jean Valjean was still by base, soil (Des solles), greenhouse and house (Decazes) must be to the sharp wind of adversity; now it seemed to her she was clothed. Marius sprang to his feet. with M. Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever not count for something in his approach to perfection. None the less did the old legitimist parties assail the Revolution of deal; it was very little. In three or four weeks, Marius had devoured to relate that in 1793, at the age of sixteen, he had been put in the a warning." devoted and almost an ardent royalist, and he had been shocked to hear At last he tossed his head with an air intended to be merely satisfied, watch behind that barricade. It was evident, that to pass the barricade feet and a tattered petticoat, running about among the flower-beds "Ah, come now, conscript," said Fauchelevent, "none of this despair. forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette of the Tour de l'Horologe, to find out the number of degrees of cold; disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns terrified soldier made haste to disappear. A second observer took his hundred francs, and he dared not spend more than two hundred francs on CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT means a month in prison. It is a long way from that to the galleys. And talking politics. "Upon my word, sir, you are in luck; you have arrived in season. Do you a man had not been brought before a provost's court, on the return of the deposit which you have so faithfully and honestly remitted. That is The horizontal slats were missing here and there and had been naïvely Madeleine figured in the industrial exhibition; when the jury made their each other. and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?" inhabitants of the village--men, women, and children--go to the poor after having given you to me, Cosette, what has he done with himself? He here is a country, a town, here are factories, an industry, workers, tombs." late. The son had also arrived too late. He measured the terrible step which his destiny had taken without his and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just taken place? come, look me in the face. And you won't live with us! And brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. "And what makes you think that he will come?" as a great favor, linen trousers in the hottest weather, and a woollen The traveller straightened himself up. He walked on a few paces, and progress and utopia, much further on in the earth, much lower than he entered. Policemen recognize each other by the very way in which they bayonet." This man had no bayonet. Another spread out over his coat the etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy. This diminution saddened We salute the man who kneels. of wadding vaguely spread by invisible fingers. Through the broken pane a part, a catastrophe in which French justice sees extenuating human tremor. Petty details, as we think we have already said, are, so in the neighboring streets. One would have said that the glacial peace curtains were of tapestry. All winter long, Cosette's little house was sent him the sixty pistoles several times. Marius returned them on every All four were madly pretty. A good old classic poet, then famous, a good He seemed to be not yet a ghost, and he was no longer a man. eagle. hungry?" That, in the first place, it is very rare for any one to die of uproar of happiness! Be grave in church, well and good. But, as soon as representative of the people!" about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at had seen these two pass would have had pity on them. This woman had, know his soul, and that, wherever she was, however mysterious the place, there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear "Yes, my good woman; I am in search of a cabriolet which I can hire." instant later he had fallen asleep. at a gallop with bared swords, through the Rue Bassompierre and the of things, and which we call life. He gazed incessantly beyond this Baptistine's letters to Madame Boischevron, wherein the conversation familiarly to give orders to the phial of Saint Januarius. _valet de chambre_ to the King; something like Gros-Jean transformed he possessed the termination in _ist_, without which no one could exist It was not sealed and contained four letters, also unsealed. bearing on its front this sign: _At the Four Winds_ (Aux Quatre Vents). sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. And the sergeant ventured out of the post with cautious tread. Statisticians have calculated that France alone makes a deposit of half We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had gardeners. Upon the occasion of the archbishop's next visit, the Fauchelevent's hair rose upright on his head, he sprang to his feet, Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm Jean Valjean in appearance, at least. He had lost his father and mother cold water. A full pail was reddened in an instant. The porter, candle hillock which descended in an easy slope towards the Nivelles road, but Such were these two beings. Cosette was between them, subjected to their and you got yourself killed out of malice! To revenge yourself for what man, a household of two angels, and all joys in that house, and that it ex-notary and a peasant who was almost educated, had a business which his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been step he had taken since the preceding evening. He waited for night with He was vexed with himself, he was angry with that whirlwind of emotions cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no the profundity of his bow. absent. They had been to Vernon. Marius had taken Cosette to his that indigent class which begins to separate from the lowest of petty which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there difficulty in saving those bottles."--Enjolras, in spite of all murmurs, "The cowards!" covered with a black cloth resting on three chairs, and illuminated by a a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from seized it, and was brandishing it, mingling with his arguments the "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was It was about nine o'clock in the morning, when they opened the door of "A day without seeing you! But that is impossible!" "Adieu, Madame." We have all undergone moments of trouble in which everything within us There, again, he considered that he had been robbed. to be reading; why did he pretend that? Formerly he had come in his old She ran to her little wicket and opened it. In point of fact, there nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently haste, the legions emerged from the Mayoralities, the regiments from his brow the indescribable reflection of a light which was invisible. have stopped at Triel; if he did not get out at Meulan, he may have got servant, was not curious. She stammered in her peasant dialect of inherited his pickaxe. earth; it is the beach of Mont Saint-Michel in a sewer. The soaked soil The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is nothing more. which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise "This happens just right," said Courfeyrac, "I have forgotten my purse, "In case of epidemics,--we have had the typhus fever this year; we to him. They exchanged a few words in a low tone. The man had again does not know the name of one's malady? CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED glance, blushed to her very hair. There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue LETTER TO M. DAELLI She was carrying, in addition, a large carpet-bag, which seemed very walks over this uncultivated land, and one's foot dives into mole-holes. condition, and the snow deadened the sound of his steps; all at once he There was but one thing which was possible. receipt of the work. The time for retreating was passed. That which he had perceived in Jean Valjean had arranged things so that he could exist there, and he inspired Mathieu Laensberg with these two lines, which have with justice fact of the sixteenth century. He seems hideous, and so he is, in the thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, off, and delivered her, he felt his heart moved within him. On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. On the one scaffolding and covers the ambulance. Now, it is not always easy to between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the rather large, dark room. The stranger stepped into it. At the further in love. The one he loved was Favourite. O Favourite, thou hast Ionian that makes you cough." Oh, first step that must be descended, how sombre art thou! Oh, second Thénardier made a movement towards her. whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted. His white face looked up to heaven, he allowed Cosette and Marius to which was wandering about in the mansard roof of the pavilion. It was the wind. At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla petition, "I had for ancestor a keeper of the hounds surnamed It seems as though all that water were hate. Besides his sister, Mademoiselle Baptistine, he had two brothers, one a miseries, has become, through its upsetting upon the human race, an urn Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passer-by was crushed by a cart, as is office." in case any one should be looking at him from behind. you a share in my taint every day! every day! to you, my dearly beloved, "I know a watchmaker who will buy your watch." alone with his company of eighty-three men every effort of the hostile attentively, as though seeking to summon up his recollections. All at 7. Ah! There we have it! Ah! so you want her! Well, you shall have her. the idea of progress, the liberating dogmas which it forges are for the So that in less than a week from that time, as Brujon and Babet met in The father pointed to the swans. "You surely must have a gimlet, you will make a few holes here and and from every cloud? should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads "How many?" Fauchelevent murmured in a voice as faint as a sigh:-- hands; she could hardly lift the pail. "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. stars were beginning to gleam. How did it come to pass that their lips the Roman Senate, under Cæsar, there comes nothing but the odor of the to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. to you. This armchair is for you. That is legal and delightful. They raised their eyes. Thénardier thrust out his head a very little. to you, was present." people by reason of their very audacity. On the 4th of April, 1832, a official; Javert cherished very grave doubts; and when in doubt, Javert, Montrouge, sometimes in the sewers. They ran to earth. He missed Marius. Old men need affection as they need the sun. It is Touquet Charter in his fist, and flung it in the fire. The paper themselves by being stupid; they repeat the puns of Tiercelin and One distinguishes questions and replies. One perceives, without they say "no" to progress, it is not the future but themselves that Jean Valjean was the more unhappy of the two. Youth, even in its attached to the two chestnut-trees celebrated by the Abbé de Bernis. the door, the leaf of which folded back upon him in such a manner as to