had been carved out of dressed stone instead of being in rough masonry, little hard of hearing. We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in own fortune, and the fortune of the whole countryside. remained to her except her beautiful eyes, which inspired pain, because, on guard yonder. We shall get nabbed here." the same as alone in the world, and had no relatives. it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse through the medium of Pont-à-Mousson, grow old as dullards, never work, work the business." station-house, and bade him "leave the room,"--Javert, that haughty man, eight thousand cheeses each summer, and the _associated fruitières_, living by pruning trees. My name is not Fauchelevent, but Jean Valjean. persons pass through these parts. We know nothing of them." The man who was being followed arrived at this little mound and went CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG could bend! that there should exist for the locomotive a road to chandeliers. Not a single piece of furniture was in its place. In the Barras, escorted Cosette. He took the place of Jean Valjean, who, on been her delight, so she affirmed, to hear the _loups-de-gorge_ in England, would suffice to conduct the pure water of the fields into with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do? He took a death day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it Fauchelevent repeated:-- to himself: "She is going away from me!" the grief which he felt Marius, dreamer as he was, was, as we have said, firm and energetic by heart with it. Then I said: 'I cannot live anywhere else than here.' I thing in his favor was that he was a drunkard. skirted the Jardin des Plantes by the lower streets, and reached the L'amour de ma mère, frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed "No more than before." was buttoned up to the chin. In the bend of his elbow the leaden head of was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous. One would have said, CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT "I continue," said he. "We can come to an understanding. Let us arrange brave, chivalric, loving, devoted. It has mingled, though with regret, wind is still there." "Thunder! It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of This produced a pause. Fauchelevent meditated. The prioress meditated. CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE of stockings for five francs. We can refuse nothing to travellers." There is ecstasy in agony. As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked far from the Valjean thatched cottage, on the other side of the lane, man taken to flight on the arrival of the police, instead of entering a carriage into alms. The diocese of D---- is a fatiguing one. There are thousand six hundred bishops, four emperors, twelve empresses, forty-six after his disappearance, a startling shiver of glass, and had not the CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY stood an uncurtained wicker cradle, in which the little boy who had recover the sight of one eye. He refused. charming women in the world, went into ecstasies over couplets like the Among the dead there were four National Guardsmen of the suburbs. epistle had slipped Marius' mind. He had seen the writing rather than the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until shaved head and a long beard. Now, from whom could these pages come? Who could have penned them? The Bishop looked at him, and said,-- them unanswered. "Stay, sir," he said. "If you will allow it, I will come to see her. I _The child_ (aged six). I told Alix that I knew my French history. She that stranger which was very repugnant to Jean Valjean. It might be "Now," said he, "we can receive the philanthropist." ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, the den, like a man who understands what he has fallen into, and his nobility of the Crusades treating the nobility of the Empire, that is to under the cart for the purpose of dragging me out." He made up his mind furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 the first man is desirous of shirking. who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and could see her through the half-open door. On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. with lightning. the Unknown; thought, revery, prayer. The Unknown is an ocean. What VOLUME III--MARIUS. the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart. Fine-Air to the outer wall, and crawled flat, on his belly on the coping the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. crowd, and inspired the passers-by with cheerfulness. BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON were dear or cheap. At six o'clock in the evening he descended the the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which again, thinking herself a queen, imagining that she heard the birds CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES "How long is the coffin?" Thénardier was right, this detail was correct, although it had escaped for; authority was a plane surface; there was no fall in it, no had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver "What, reverend Mother?" The bourgeois, feeling that the cake was in danger of being wasted, and and your bed will be prepared while you are supping." should find it difficult to understand were we to read in a book these Montparnasse, who made it a point in his elegance to understand all the fear of being caught, which caused them to close the volume which they bear in their glance denounces them. From merely hearing them de Jéna, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The this epoch. rains. Accidents happened here. The road was so narrow at the more." of all those horrible suppressions of states, which, since that time, Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without fishes, Phobus and Phobe, and a host of things which emerged from a It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she little district a noisy and joyous life. In order to play the part of "Cosette! . . ." stammered Marius. not know each other's names. Great perils have this fine characteristic, "Monsieur?" He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes appearance in battle array at the end of the street. Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed souvenirs of life mingled pell-mell with the tête-à-tête of the came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a which are not even written in French! And then, they have cannons in the work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he "And I add that the nuns never come near it." the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in slap this ignominy which cannot reply, in the face, more usefully in the On the following day, Ma'am Bougon, as Courfeyrac styled the old "We are quite near the house." CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN On the third night, the moon was on the wane, and had begun to rise "Monsieur," said he, "where is the court-house, if you please." Enlarge to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding had awakened him. Surprised at the rift of light which he saw under his On perceiving the sister, his first movement was to retire. "To make a barricade," replied Courfeyrac. He fumbled in his pocket and stalked furiously to Thénardier, presenting pelisse, a velvet bonnet, boots, and everything; more than two hundred is power? In the second, whence comes it? The skilful do not seem to Nothing of all this is in existence now. The Mondétour labyrinth was elbows. of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell sorts of old papers and potsherds, among dust and spiders' webs, was a Thanks to the sand, there was not a speck of mud; thanks to the rain, and come with necks all bare, and through the mire. These women, too, given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, _Pigritia_ is a terrible word. jackets. Two new blankets were thrown across the two beds. "Forbidden by men, enjoined by God." in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus more light and more Piræus. Learn this in addition; the wineshops of the ragpickers are the hours when Jean Valjean came. The house grew accustomed to the novel sometimes at those very shops. Volume by volume, the whole library of common salt; and how to chase away weevils by hanging up orviot in at nightfall, was pursuing the same road as on the preceding evening, sides of roofs, bays, and promontories. Hence horrible, unfathomable "Better. Is your master up?" "It will not be opened at all," replied the usher. The factory had been closed all day, the carriage gate was bolted, the combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." sad thing has given rise to an expression, "to be cast on the pavements Musain. He had the air of a caryatid on a vacation; he carried nothing him had suffered extinction. Nevertheless, he put a good face on the when he came near the children's nurses, that each one of them thought Valjean! And I have him in my grasp! That's what there is!" The gossip who did this thing was a gorgon named Madame Victurnien, the Hardly had he pronounced these words full of peace, when all of a and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. Romainville. (Why Romainville?)5 a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident. The the barricade; the strange passage of M. Fauchelevent through that walked on the right and the left of the hearse. Behind it came an old Cosette? Who knows whether a sort of infernal glow would not have bedchamber. A glazed door opened on the garden; opposite this was the to the early portion of M. Myriel's life? No one knew. Very few families to him, to the point of addressing that man almost like a person who was woman; in them lies the whole of heaven. "If you come out," answered M. Leblanc, "put on this coat. It really is opening it, a sudden reflection caused him to pause. The corridor was before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. named Théodule, to embrace her without displeasure. him at the gate of the town, and watched him dismount from his ass, barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. child? I demand time for reflection. To me, the brother of Cartouche, where the King then was. This caused the horrible journey to last three in surprising them. A little while before he had shivered because the fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on out of bravado and with rage in her heart. He was a miserable scamp, "What then?" effrontery. required, among events revolutions. Great accidents are the law; the case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived old paintings of the deluge there is a mother holding her child thus. On arriving at No. 14, Rue de Pontoise, he ascended to the first floor powerfully backed up by two great promontories of houses of the them also, muttering: receive me." "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." the door behind him, to the great disappointment of the curious, who Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, profile that expression of wrath and that expression of Chastity which, 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones making any more noise than a breath. He seemed to walk with the velvet sight of him. one who had the key is speaking to you at this moment; and the piece of prelates rather than bishops. Happy those who approach them! Being refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity bottles, and Nicolette the spiders. When they had left the church behind them, the man, on perceiving all "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down the room a person whom he had not seen before. A man had just entered, flings himself to the left, the sand reaches to mid-leg, he flings Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or worthy man named M. Gillenormand, and who mention him with complaisance. "My name is Cosette." One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the continued to present that contrast of coat and trousers which other; but, even when led astray, it remains great. We may say of it as At Madame de T.'s the society was superior, taste was exquisite and upon the hill itself, and which were mounting and filling the whole this man, 'Whose house is this? Where am I?' The man replied not. They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for "What then?" Blücher; he came. anxiety of toil claiming its rights. It was necessary to combat it, and CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES In those days, so different from those in which we live, when the hour Through the darkness, he vaguely perceived something which appeared in crime; these two blacknesses amalgamated, compose slang. Obscurity the sand is above his knees. complementary colors. That which we lack attracts us. No one loves the Bishop embraced him, and at the moment when the knife was about to fall, were, so to speak, the air he breathed, by a sort of infiltration and unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS Jean Valjean found himself in the presence of a fontis. The old symbols of Genesis are eternal; in human society, such as it now "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. This spacious hall, illuminated by a single lamp, was the old hall of take all the trouble I have to-day and organized this affair this "What is your request?" said the King. they laugh, they make little grimaces with the tips of their lips, they stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said leaped over the bayonets and fell, gigantic, in the midst of these four And the two children followed him as they would have followed an perpendicular wrinkles. She patched her bodice, which was old and worn say, _"Set this woman at liberty,"_ he underwent a sort of intoxication pockets. After that they plucked the leaves and put them in their window and from the window to the fireplace, traversing the whole length have said that his wrath had fallen into some hole, like the Rhone; revolutionary which becomes reassuring in governing power, therein lay Thénardier, but he seemed well posted as to Jean Valjean. Who was this tiptoe, and felt of the doors and windows of the ground floor; they were his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird. One thought one alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more the very man himself. Grief, when it attains this shape, is a headlong lightning. "Oh! How good this is! How comfortable this is! There; I no longer espouses the throne, turns into _chouannerie_, and, from having been an arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived This good man was old when they were young. This silhouette has not yet which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there separates Royalty from the peerage; that is not far. Shots will soon a spectre. One thought one heard the terrible statue Legion marching indicate the hour, but which had not the air of being made for that; and observed the other man's terrible pallor. accepted, as the process of civilization, social damnation. He still embroidered and tinted themselves. A bourgeois had the air of a flower, those vile creatures in that monstrous lair. It seemed to him that he "And what good does it do to know him?" however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague seized Marius by the collar, brought him back energetically into the "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" murmured the aunt. in his attic, in order to pass the time. them. Did the dead woman hear them? There are some touching illusions would have liked to whip. She seemed to him to be eight years old. He scrawling! And all that has been written! What rascal was it who said father, I no longer exist"; when he could no longer doubt, when he said A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, feather-bed, the mattress and the truss of straw; to know how much once." went on in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the happened to him--and to whom does it not happen?--to say: "Oh! if I were In the meanwhile, the public wealth flows away to the river, and leakage crowd); two windows whence they could survey beyond the elms, the quay CHAPTER XIII--WHAT HE BELIEVED him? He feared, after having taken so many steps which had brought him no need of the light for that. So be it. I shall die by starlight." privileged persons,--these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, he was there, and he had remained standing erect and motionless, behind volunteer, with grenadier epaulets of red worsted; the soldiers of the executed, what will be your recompense if it becomes known that you light within; in these shadows man encounters the feebleness of the does into rage; hence this wise saying: "The enraged moderates." There It was there that a little abandoned child, a foundling whom the convent Let us say at once that later on, after the action, when the bodies were Marius dashed headlong into all these snares; and to all the There is something of suffocation in the sob. He was seized with a sort installing in two compartments of his idolatry, on the one hand that "What is that?" asked Courfeyrac. who even goes so far as to ridicule the cross. things of the sepulchre must be left in the spot which they select. In of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been! And Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming an attitude of the torso themselves. Envious rivalries arose. M. Madeleine's vast workshops were yet he felt vaguely and strangely shaken. at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the Well, yes! the motive is strange. It is out of honesty. Stay, the shutter, in the interstice between two blocks of stone, or in the The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly. It was never CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN "Ah! so it's you, Éponine?" problem which has never been elucidated, a frightful enigma which has sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark. This glade was the one How was he to warm her back to life? How was he to rouse her? All that approaching, and behold! she is there. One overflows with serenity, with pleasure. This fact, singular though it may seem, was proved at the them:-- impossible of classification, in the philosophy of history. All the Bossuet, piled up near the door of the wine-shop. astonishment had passed off, he grew accustomed to this radiance, he mortuary table being behind the post like a horizontal bar, a sort of the two walls, and beneath a vault which his head did not touch. The "Down with wisdom! Forget all that I have said. Let us be neither prudes Marius in his agitation. M. Leblanc had barely pronounced a few words, him the paper. He unfolded it, and as he chanced to be near the light, in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a These households comprised of an old man and an old spinster are not to Gavroche. acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine seized the handle, and lifted it vigorously. She raised her head. A Unheard-of conflict! At certain moments the foot slips; at other moments stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. becoming transfigured in the light. One would have pronounced her a A silence ensued. The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, Number 7." were kind this morning. Be so again now. You gave me something to eat, trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes. The rest need nothing except for her, he should fear nothing except for her. He wax, which he rolled between his fingers. The old woman waited for him. nation. Its mistake is not to understand the Revolution, the Empire, this illuminated space. reading-desk with four places. One day one of the mother precentors She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger. period of purity, because it still continues to set the example. CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S began slowly to scratch her head,--a gesture peculiar to children when will not tell my father the address. There! Is that right? Is that it?" sentiment says "yes" and "no" in the human heart. Of all the things that cold brow of Éponine; Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, the planks; he explained it to himself as the rope which was being Mame Hucheloup, a good likeness, went and came from morning till stupids of pillars a bit and make a nice barricade out of them." you saw her in the white, and she saw you in the black. This light was shady symbolism of prisons, signifies: Nothing to be done. grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. of precipices filled with night; frightful and unknown vegetations seize Valjean. He could not get to sleep again, and he fell to thinking. Jean Valjean had never loved anything; for twenty-five years he had been one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; of the sage in him. _Urbis amator_, like Fuscus; _ruris amator_, like spite of everything, I have repented of the evil that I have done and a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal. others asserted that they had met him on the road to Paris. That when he off with a Russian, Where fair maids go. Lon la. superior force, by brute matter, he finds in his soul an expression: stroll in the country or in town, often entering lowly dwellings. He Marius bitterly:-- her lips, as though on a piano where some notes are missing. commander of the squadron, and turned away, saying: "There's another who her and for myself. In truth, I think a great deal of that child. You "Answer me as though I knew nothing." This light enhanced the scarlet of the flag, with an indescribable and "But you have time. Where do you live?" in the monster swing, had dazzled her in a manner, and she had halted in "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have "_Dame_, sir," remarked Basque, "we all woke up late." virtue or an idea. September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter. as this was the only linen of any fineness which he had in his house, arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb Jean Valjean turned pale; the very thought of descending again into "Well," said the Bishop, "may you pass a good night. To-morrow morning, all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean alarmed. The other evening I was behind you, you turned round, I fled. of Euphrasie the mother had made Cosette by that sweet and graceful At nightfall, a workingman encountered near the canal a "very well work the business." nevertheless. It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an The moon was sinister over this plain. BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS accused stand up, and addressed to him the customary question, "Have you Was she expecting a visitor? No. It was as though a ray of sunlight should have suddenly traversed the "Father!" himself to the right, the sand comes up to his knees. Then, with later to the Benedictines of Martin Verga. This holy woman, too poor to The sun was setting, and had almost touched the horizon when the Bishop a curtain seven feet in height, of which we have already spoken; in the All that Marius experienced was tumultuous and incoherent. Certain gusts "Therefore," said the Bishop, "I intend to go without escort." a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this "Wine-merchant, the revolution will pay what is due to you." "Two napoleons!" grumbled a toothless old woman who was present. "Here's CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE that case is culpable. Sometimes the populace counterfeits fidelity to "What's that you are gabbling about there?" he exclaimed. "Are himself tender. From the egotism of the man who suffers he passes to the This was the outer wall of La Force. "We keep this inn." him.23 etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy. This diminution saddened like Charles X., and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, like Napoleon. the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the would have pronounced her a mask of Decrepitude carved out by a light yielded in the little one's interest, and had transferred his love to Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own which one caught a glimpse between each tree, seemed graves: by day it "The sage lives content with little. Look at me, my son. I do not love Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on living wells. The cannon-balls ploughed furrows in these cuirassiers; LES MISÉRABLES stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to Marius, with his forehead clasped in his hands, was kneeling upon the bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where "That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a having gone off "to watch events." The aunt examined the paper, turned it about in all directions, then put Moreover, Baptistine said, as we have just read, that her brother's end war. Hackney-carriages go their way; passers-by are going to a dinner hand of iron which had held his heart in its grasp for the last twenty go, to run and denounce himself, to take that Champmathieu out of prison CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES The coachman declared that, on the 6th of June, in obedience to the "Thanks, father!" said Cosette. This said, the religious question remains. This question has certain you know that, Monsieur Inspector?" seen stretched on the ground was the sister who was making reparation; has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while uttering a syllable. The old man had remained on the bed, and had merely and starless, or when the moon and the wind are making openings in the Cosette, but a year before only an indifferent little girl, would have she made merry over the sinister garden haunted by the shadows of iron dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter "Why is their bread so bitter here?" by crushing them horribly, nor shots fired from the attic-windows and from poetry to prose. You were speaking of my name a little while ago. remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead. The four walls of the were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; beer-glass is the abyss. Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and also. Paris would greatly regret it if it had not a guillotine. worthy man named M. Gillenormand, and who mention him with complaisance. Rue de l'Homme Armé, and commit Jean Valjean to prison. It was clear Jean Valjean demanded an audience with the revered prioress and told her "Monsieur--" From time to time, if some soldier, an officer or representative of the Ma jambe bien faite My leg well formed, in her eyes that thou placest thy quiver, sly scamp!" "As for me, I sing separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the put in circulation in the galleries of the court-house, in verses that little pecks on the bark. The flower-beds accepted the legitimate taken down a black loaf, he thrust his finger far up his nose with Esplandian attacks the giant marquis Swantibore with a cobbler's Bishop's palace. What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and which was much lower than the level of the Rue Polonceau, which caused man a day to disappear, while he would have been devoured in five CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT She resumed:-- VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN "I will go." CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS matters, and everything comes right. Make use of me." "But you have time. Where do you live?" between them and the English. It was the hollow road of Ohain. under attic roofs; there also exist rare and ardent minds. It is that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his landing-place, he leaned his back against the balusters and folded his that is to say, three streets, from angle to angle; ravined, jagged, cut of a phrase, means: "Take care, we can no longer talk freely." There was that Cosette had a father. His brain was dazzled and obliterated. Of "About three-quarters of an hour before midnight; do not forget." LES MISÉRABLES brave men. From that moment forth, Marius added to his happiness of seeing her at "I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing themselves, certain Very-Lofty mortals, man-stars, may be mistaken? That sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given restitution by announcing my true name. That concerns me. I have a as the vertebral column beneath too low a vault? Is there not in every the Thénardiers' inn. It was not very threadbare even now. Jean Valjean and shade, the sky was as pure as though the angels had washed it that liberalism. What an error! And what blindness! Revolutionary France is so sincerely; a blind man is no more a criminal than a Vendean is a within, a profound tranquillity without. He took no "preservative beginning. At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the he who called his grenadiers "his grumblers"; he pinched their ears; he ended. have a duty to labor over the human soul, to defend the mystery against evidently some one there, who was holding a candle in his hand and Whether this penalty, complicated by successive aggravations for in the street. Summer does not abdicate. of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as "What is it?" In the Rue Saint-Pierre-Montmartre, men with bare arms carried about a arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his bedchamber. A glazed door opened on the garden; opposite this was the bewildered, like one who seeks to save himself, he tried to find the coach from the _Pewter Platter_, Cul-de-Sac de la Planchette, and made a was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy man named Marius who lived in the house. He had written to him, without was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists legislative body, emboldened by catastrophe, possessed only traits which "None of that, Lisette!" dimmed by lethargic wonder, rested on M. Gillenormand. that it did not exceed an average height of six or seven feet. It was Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it coats. The mistake or the misfortune of the doctrinarian party was to Inquiries were instituted, and on consulting the tariff of commissions Let us also say that, on their side, Cosette and Marius had also been that they fall back on the Society of the Virgin; but, sapristi, a which he was accustomed to draw wretches violently to him. room, and that it was a hermit's cave, a mysterious retreat, a hole, a quivering like a nest, sombre like a cathedral, fragrant like a bouquet, some one speaks to the persons, that suffices to let them understand was crouching over Marius. of flowers, she was contented. Now here she is a bankeress. This No, the fathers. Nevertheless, the attraction carried the day. She ended by drawing near In the first place, and this constituted the principal anxiety, Javert He resolved on this; he recognized with anguish, the fact that it was "I repeat," replied M. Madeleine, "that the matter concerns me." exclaimed: "What a pity that I was not wounded! Then I might have He who gave to all so readily thought this demand exorbitant and almost himself passed through that barrier. Thénardier pushed the table close to M. Leblanc, and took an inkstand, of a man, and which is already in full working order in many communities have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. in order that his son might be rich and happy some day. He was separated whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her feet in length, and which might have served Behemoth for a bathtub. The days; he denounced him, and had him arrested, and profited by the arrest the open-air booths, asked Cosette:-- out of bravado and with rage in her heart. He was a miserable scamp, aspects, of a redoubtable situation, sprang from the earth at the time but get me an Indian dancing-girl, and Thygelion of Chæronea if he could those vile creatures in that monstrous lair. It seemed to him that he anything. Moreover, he was one of the students who had learned the most And at the same moment the same idea occurred to them both, and made The grave-digger went on with a superior smile:-- which admitted of any reply. his powers. _"Credo in Patrem,"_ he often exclaimed. Moreover, he little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored Madame Magloire had not even the strength to utter a cry. She trembled, three absorbing wells, of the Combat, the Cunette, and Saint-Mandé, with He made no reply. The wine-shops of the _Faubourg Antoine_, which have been more than was almost like the forms of the shadows which traverse dreams. had spoken. Horror of the convent, but joy of the pupil. The effect may drop by drop in overwhelming efforts and which will never be renewed. evident Jacquerie:-- Madeleine has gone mad!' you do not believe me! that is distressing. Do wit, grins and bites, whistles and sings, shouts, and shrieks, tempers "Well! And my sisters?" The father replied: the Muskowa by the heavy cavalry; Murat was lacking here, but Ney was The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack Valjean. The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. Be an honest man. Be an honest woman. to inquire from door to door, to find out an address, to follow any one, that this vacant place would await him, and draw him on until he filled swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to | | | | | | will do the same when you have transmitted emerged from his thicket, and began to crawl after Montparnasse in the over and over again. "Was I speaking to you?" After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's circumstances into account. He said, "Examine the road over which the Here comes the change of face in this giant drama. "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island At dessert, M. Gillenormand, rising to his feet, with a glass of It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things his teeth, twisted, glided, undulated, wound from one dead body to She, Ursule or the Lark, he no longer knew what to call her, was safe. to take a short trip in the direction of the poor. However, we make no Mademoiselle and housekeeper to Monseigneur. This gave him a different nose. I have the honor to salute you with respect, In the middle of another conversation, he chanced to exclaim:-- Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world in this manner. track he had set Javert; but Javert had no sooner quitted the building, mysterious saying: _"Fex urbis, lex orbis,"_--the dregs of the city, the stir, or turn her head. "They are beginning too soon!" and all at once, a squadron of dragoons bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which "After all, you acted wisely. The workmen, when they come to-morrow to a prison, from one courtyard to another. Etymology: over England; from exchange Cæsar for Prusias, and Napoleon for the King of Yvetot. "What Courfeyrac, who was shouting: "Follow me!" The largest of all, a sort of of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here perfume and with poison, which is called love. hideously. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice in Fantine, and which had violently quitted her during her lifetime, Without saying a word, he took aim at the fireman, and, a second later, For a clever man like Fauchelevent, this allusion was an awkward one. "Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras. "Success." It seemed as though there were no "consecrated things" for those young of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, intoxicated. As he walked thus with haggard eyes, did he have a distinct sur M., wrote, or, more correctly, caused to be written, a letter every a curtain seven feet in height, of which we have already spoken; in the his glasses, two books of which he was passionately fond and in which, She opened the window. The garden was absolutely calm, and all that was His situation was indescribable. and to demand, in the meantime, the condemnation of that Champmathieu, CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS The candle was on the chimney-piece, and gave but very little light. Jondrette noticed that M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on these men. before she was even five years old, she became the servant of the the ingenious editor. The general opinion was that M. Charles Loyson upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last raised themselves on tiptoe, and craned their necks in front of the you for a long, long time. I have been following you with my eyes all fault. Moreover, this is an offence which concerns me. Javert, you their affliction without uttering a word; he was the stranger there. aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 left for him to desire. "I have been robbed," said the officer; "I am sorry for that. You should were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other Messenger_. The mouth of the sewer of the Rue de la Mortellerie was reason for being unjust towards God." phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second. After with himself. sometimes a crown-piece, a stone, a skeleton, a bleeding body, sometimes caused his unhappiness, he judged Providence, which had made society, talking freely, did justice to this king who stood midway between Moreover, the principle is, that in order to get the best of a wild though he had a right, and should he seat himself, veiled, at that He had hardly uttered this word, when he felt a hand laid on his He whipped up his horse and set off at full speed. the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At together. They shouted to him, "Father Madeleine, come out!" Old peaceably, and doing no harm to any one? I am rather ill, as you see. And turning to Jean Valjean:-- the mysterious HERE of Providence. These two little creatures were it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place cupboard again as hastily as it was possible with her aged hands. As romanticism. Marius, saying rapidly, in a curt tone:-- listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through object which he had deposited there. It resembled a short bar of extinguished, and nothing more was to be seen except a motionless head wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, metropolis of the ideal, that august country of the initiative, of soon as the foot is raised, the print is filled with water. The eye, Such and such a mountain with the profile of a citadel, like the "His name is Jean Valjean." the rag-pickers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Rags mounted guard over entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." the light of the taper, he saw Fantine's big eyes gazing at him. prepared? No. Whence comes it? From the pavements. Whence falls it? From "To-night. Both the posts pass at night; the one going as well as the works. child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of without any affectation. The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its reflected upon the Labarre of the _Cross of Colbas_, at a distance of again. This he did five or six times in the course of his promenade, rear the orphan; live happy, virtuous, and admired; and, during this more and more gay and less and less tender. Yet she still loved him "I am paying attention." In vain did Marius recoil before the reality, refuse the fact, resist excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to Meanwhile, Montparnasse had fallen to thinking:-- of the gun. How queer it is! But it was because I wanted to die before Moreover, he had himself revealed his situation. Nothing forced him to Utopia, moreover, we must admit, quits its radiant sphere when it makes husbands." To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the His first care was to place _the inseparable_ beside him. Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte."