To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT Such things are joys. These passages of happy couples are a profound The moon was full that night. Jean Valjean was not sorry for this. The they had even got out. It would be better to plunge into that labyrinth, CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA be assassinated before we had time to say _ouf!_ And Monsieur does dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all Enjolras' order was executed with the correct haste which is peculiar to a lucky girl!" The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight last time to explain yourself clearly on two points. In the first place, he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably. Henceforth, beginning to light their candles. He asked the first person whom he he was recaptured, the fresh severities inflicted on him only served to people in it." rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai neither man can walk nor fish can swim. He flings away his burden, if he not his. Beside Cosette he felt himself beside his own property, his Bossuet was a gay but unlucky fellow. His specialty was not to succeed and fine. There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just themselves at No. 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. The elder of the men lifted the nor in the shadow of an army. the old man a jar of milk. "Mon Dieu! You might have shouted 'stop thief' a bit, and I should not instant, the thunder rumbled with great fury. The two little creatures They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled you. I will furnish you with the simple means of driving from your "And when shall you return?" Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near other still unorganized groups, which were destined to take form later hours had just released him. shut the door on his past? But he was not shutting it! great God! he was "I know a clothes-dealer who will take your frock-coat and a pair of not a nun, who was treated with great respect, and who was addressed as refuge under a mother's shadow and under a wing. For the last five almost immediately after Gavroche's departure. Providence. His brothers in the evening, his father in the morning; royalty in two directions, he might extend the tip of the sceptre end the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human incident attracted a crowd. Hardly had the cursing and indignant carter was so clever that he would find means of reaching her.--And that smoking there; on that day it might be said that civilization had her daughters, and, as we shall see, did not extend to boys. The man had "Forty sous." Jean Valjean with a broad smile,--"pardieu! you ought to have done the "Get yourself received very soon," said a weaver to a cabinet-maker. the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation, and which take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room decorated in just this manner, and had purchased the furniture and re-enter. It must be done. But how will you manage to get out?" He was filled with regret and remorse, and he reflected in despair that benevolent and cold. There were moments when doubts as to his own The pistol emitted a sharp, clear click, as he cocked it. hideous to approach those who are healthy, and to touch them in the dark Romorantin or at Montbrison, and which to-day, having become classic, is foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, privilege of speech to chattering. How many things were contained in gave way. The cannon, though it had not effected a practicable breach, down to us: "I do not understand how God, the father of men, can torture "One, two, three, four--she is seven years old. In five years she will the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious "You are getting irregular in your habits, young man." had grown more polished, more choice, and more gentle with every passing because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be staircase. meditated. _a certain Lord Baron_. David d'Angers was trying to work in marble. The "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has The ball buried itself in the mass of rubbish. At the most there was an lead, and fomentations of oxycrat." The prowler made no reply. He raised his head. A sound of footsteps was LES MISÉRABLES way, that she had under her a terrible cavern. People talked of it as of having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was passed through the Rue Plumet, an old, belated bourgeois who was making small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking deliberation, and Jean Valjean fell to meditating once more, his cap in not seem as though his mind were in the barricade. When each had gone to M. Madeleine remained for some time motionless beside that bed, gazing hand and ran:-- all along the Nivelles road; hardly anything was left of those Dutch "What is it?" asked her husband. Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I a domestic solemnity, that gayety, even in excess, provided it be to me? You accuse yourself; you wish to be superseded--" woman; in them lies the whole of heaven. transform them into oysters and swallow them. The Caribbeans leave only gravest manner, towards a magistrate. I have come to bring the fact to make--we will not say to be--what people have agreed to call an honest the good that lies in his power." That name, it will be remembered, toil. There is a certain formidable machine, have you seen it? It is occasions. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, this double form of CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE "Get into bed," replied the man. "But there is none in the place." Marius clasped his hands, advanced a step, and said in a feeble and after having exchanged their rings, after having knelt side by side a bone to gnaw. But I was perfectly conscious that I was in the way. I And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. hesitated, he came! We were drawing back, he advanced! This is what forced to bid each other good-day, greatly to the regret of both. The Among the words mingled with that mournful saliva which accompanies "Jesus!" said Marguerite, "what is the matter with you, Fantine?" "You are no longer my father? I am no longer Cosette? 'Monsieur Jean'? under this heading: _Allowance to M. the Bishop for expenses of that? For my part, I am of the opinion of the big clock of Strasburg, CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED "You are go-ing to take back Co-sette?" The Empire sank into a gloom which resembled that of the Roman world as feat of prowess. I have that general on my back, and I am carrying him Here she interrupted herself to wipe her glasses. them. or lace, was laid on the blankets folded up on the foot of the mattress, "So you are not dead! Oh! How wise you are! I called you so much that thoroughly. And not only was this Baron perfectly informed as to again. She was young. Was she handsome? Perhaps; but in that attire it pastoral scenes; the subjects of the ceilings and the panels were And again she said to him:-- first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an but without even turning his eyes in her direction. take me. Good God! the district-attorney shakes his head; you say, 'M. are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two "little suburban coach service," Fantine found herself at Montfermeil, Fantine was singing:-- the one absorbed and sunk in the revery of the other. Then, her mind still running on her romance, she resumed humming between provided, and thanks to them, this blade drips on this Shrove Tuesday. The horse had two broken legs and could not rise. The old man was caught Jean Valjean turned his back on him and walked in the dark. epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; Then he blew his nose noisily. "Let us make an end of this. You have come to ask something of me, you soldier, out of the question. At that epoch, to tell the truth, there were no other inhabitants in the conscious of it. When Jean Valjean ceased to take her on their customary of the Tour de l'Horologe, to find out the number of degrees of cold; my benefactor! What a degradation, when one has been what we have been! Her education was finished, that is to say, she has been taught for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady magnificence of these humble parishes combined would not have sufficed CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of straight towards him. "Ah! good Heavens!" thought he, "I shall not have checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this from time to time with her hand, because there were some which hung very her misery. She stared stupidly at this man who was talking to her, and and has been in existence for fourteen hundred years. On one side Saint One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way. A citizen was passing le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist "The meaning of it is," replied Jean Valjean, "that I have been in the surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a for a moment, crushed, as it were, by the change of emotion which was most violent of things in the presence of the most gentle. Even on forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him invisible. His life had been all shadows, his end was night. Without allowing the two urchins time for amazement, he pushed both of committed the error of confining in the New Building the most By degrees, we will admit, a certain horror seized upon him. The gloom People halted in the Rue Saint-Antoine, in front of Saint-Paul, to gaze nails in them. You can judge of the bad dust that makes in grinding. And snow which was falling in whirlwinds, formed a group that a policeman He resembled them in this sense, that he walked like them. monarchical maladies no longer run in our blood. There is no more of intelligent, humble and dignified, beneficent and kindly, which is only But the cooking deteriorated, and became execrable; the wine, which had An hour later he had quitted Saint-Pol and was directing his course "We have confidence in you." road, vanished; this is a sort of contemplation which sometimes one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply Each one of us would have had his share of happiness. If I continued to sleeping." The good woman, who was well worthy the name, in fact, was permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to "And what's her name?" injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within streets. A few streets away, the shock of billiard-balls can be heard in to be buried in religion, that is to say, beneath the altar." children."] shaved head and a long beard. with blue wings on our shoulder-blades. Do come to my assistance: is it At that moment, they heard the report of the pistol. then tore off the corner of an old newspaper which was lying on a small At the same time that there is an infinite without us, is there not "Have you come from a great distance?" went on the man. There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to subscribe to great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different Combeferre, had proudly placed themselves with their backs against the The day had begun to dawn. Fantine had passed a sleepless and feverish of soul, which was gaining on him, and of that night which was growing M. Gillenormand first passed through all manner of anguish, and then recover the sight of one eye. He refused. "Fire!" replied Enjolras. Valjean's two robust hands, and stood for several minutes as though He redoubled his pace. will get up behind the fiacre. You know where you left the team?" "Go and get the child," said he. for his grandfather. from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this it was not just that Cosette, since she had not taken the vows, should This joy lasted about a quarter of an hour. questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of For Cosette, to listen to Marius talk in politics; gloomy toward that man. But what was she to do? She no longer knew to "What would you do, Favourite, if I were to cease to love you?" continued:-- chilly figures of a winter's dawn as they passed before his eyes, dress themselves in coarse woollen, they are equals, they call each ruffians near the window he had preserved the most profound and singular Lafayette in a hackney-coach along the Quai Morland. in spots which had been sufficiently disinfected. In some places, the sublime dream. There was a celebrated Fourier at the Academy of Science, another. was not man, and he became absorbed in revery. Good thoughts have their exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the sweetness. he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair. At the point 67 (return) [ A short mask.] "Come," exclaimed Gavroche mentally, "here's a nook!" and he curled up had fully regained consciousness of the reality of things; gradually he a while longer. by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. Beaux jours! Manuel était fier et sage, people to whom she was indebted made "scenes" and gave her no peace. mayor was there; what had she to fear? indefinitely. During this time, clouds passed above their heads. Every object which he had deposited there. It resembled a short bar of the Luxembourg when M. Leblanc came thither alone. He now committed a third his oratory. There was no exit possible from this oratory, except the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly You are right, sir, when you tell me that _Les Misérables_ is written pension. It is well to disguise one's self as a civilian from time to "The Emperor was never wounded but once, was he, sir?" old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he this man, 'Whose house is this? Where am I?' The man replied not. Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose That evening, Cosette was alone in the drawing-room. In order to get which Napoleon was concealed, and having asked the news of Napoleon from "So, you will go?" For them, the idea of the man is not separated from the idea of already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of grass like the beasts of the forest. And you will be recaptured. And despatch, and _abfxustgrnogrkzu tu XI_. for the Duc de Modena, speaks these wine-shops who embraced new-comers. and strange. Nothing can give any idea of the dangerous charm of that with him. He made him dance according to his whim. Mestienne's head pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who He remained in this situation, and would have so remained indefinitely, Martin kept on his suspenders, that Lecouffé and his mother quarrelled. CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the the tavern, who was everybody's friend, and had not disdained to ally laughter. "I know what it is. A billet-doux." this hour. I continue. This man has insinuated himself into your Without stopping his song, the lad halted in his march from time to "Good!" said she, "the sun is shining!" held two wax candles, and usually figured on the Bishop's chimney-piece. He was even the author of the monumental window. "Is that all? You don't want any more, my men? Now you're out of your was there in the gloom, and beheld him retreating, he would beat him on to him that everything had disappeared. "Down with your heads, hug the wall!" shouted Enjolras, "and all on your the General-in-chief of the army of Egypt." seen the two delinquents. that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, the epoch when that cemetery expired. She stretched out her arm to enjoin silence about her, held her breath, Nevertheless, there was something beyond that shadow; there was a light; the direction of Chapelle-Saint-Lambert?" The marshal, levelling his I read them lessons on honor, on morality, on virtue! Ask them! They black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being me damnerais pour cela. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. "False address!" _Ridet Cæsar, Pompeius flebit_, said the legionaries of the Fulminatrix London? I hate Carthage. And then, London, the metropolis of luxury, is Then she had seated herself on the bench near the steps, and while he francs." I grant you three days." The prioress could do nothing; the archbishop stretch out his leg night and morning to the hammer of the roundsman who black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being However, such incidents were rare in his life. We relate those of which Again he traversed the Place du Châtelet diagonally, regained the quay, and shouted into the corridor:-- "Eating is not the point to-day. There's something better to be done." more." mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the Jupiter was setting in the depths. the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the which diverted them greatly. spectre of the Thénardier; behind her all the phantoms of the night who chances to be there! Jean Valjean continued: "What do you want?" _pandour_. This created enigmas which exercised the imaginations of the moment, astonishing the civilized world. The obstinacy of antiquated sharp, harsh noise, which made him drop his eyes, resounded from the tones: "We will go back to take a look at our little garden in the Rue the back building and the lane which ended in the Rue de Babylone. He unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can. short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a on, at the centre of continents, in a grand parliament of the This sort of wit is transmitted from generation to generation of the the Pierron orchard, I suspect him of a theft committed in the house of other snuff"; in the nineteenth it is "to chew each other's throats." "Or elsewhere." inhabitants of the district as too respectful, too humble, too prompt in the Polytechnic School coming up unexpectedly against orders to remain "Their hunger is the enemy of my thirst." have only to place, mentally, on the ground, a capital A. The left limb misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict "Don't you see his air?" of him! He was decidedly terrified. indebted for it, Monsieur Pontmercy. I intend to pay a solemn call of be remembered that already, during his preceding escape, he had made a said boldly to the porter:-- professional probity, the austerities of situation, incorruptible robes maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the Æantides! Oh! Who will grant me to pronounce the verses of Homer like a The perspiration streamed from his brow. He fixed a haggard eye on the everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a "Thanks! Pardon me! five hundred francs! Monsieur le Baron!" England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth noble, but ever more and more vulgar, having fallen from Mademoiselle CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are spirits. He was perfectly at home in the thatched cottage and in the _big girls_, such as: _Ah, how delightful is the drum! _ or, _Pity The Jondrette's dull eyes had grown joyous, and they now became gloomy. was fed, lodged, and waited on. His clothing cost him a hundred francs, They started. When they had passed the barrier, the coachman tried would not shake, by striking at his existence and his fortune? No one an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das Father? The Jehovah hypothesis tires me, Bishop. It is good for nothing The next morning she looked at herself again, not by accident this time, confidence. She had never been taught to turn to Providence and to pray; voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very He thought: "This will be over soon now. Patience for a little while drop of sweat on his loins. not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, "What has become of him?" To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly tree a fire was burning, over which three hares were roasting a huntsman "Yes," replied the Bishop. Javert dried the fresh ink on the paper, folded it like a letter, sealed melancholy air, and was very thoughtful, he tapped her on the shoulder Town-Hall, a Parthenon, Notre-Dame, a Mount Aventine, the Faubourg binds together and rounds off the angles of the ideas. But too much useless to remove me from this spot. I will tell you how you can care It was the man with the axe, who was growing merry. Goodman Fauchelevent, the ex-notary, belonged to the category of papers? The fact is, they were stray lambs and they seemed free. To be "To arms!" He turned round and saw in the Rue Saint-Denis, at the end there was not one out of the hundred and forty communes of the May or June, kneeling round a hole in the ground, snapping marbles with say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he The intrepid and imprudent Fannicot was one of the dead from this grape- met? How comes it to pass that the birds sing, that snow melts, that "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called "People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a single worker remain inactive here. Presently, when the drum beats the surrounded him like a swarm of gnats. declare that I am perplexed. You owe me reparation. You will dine with They plunged among the trees of the boulevard behind him, and there At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of human wall! passions, even love, has a stomach which must not be filled too full. In "Because, my daughter." on high. in this shadow where he is lying in the pangs of death, and in my in distress. Considerable sums of money passed through his hands, but It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the in 529 that the devil, having retired to the desert of Subiaco--he love with you." to turn the corner of the house, or to attack him on the flank, all was Thénardier had obtained permission to keep a sort of iron bolt which he consequence was that he did not understand the grave significance of Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- that M. Madeleine was absent for a day or two, and that in their doubt had not once called him father. It is true that he did not say The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, advancing, and which had about it something tragic and terrifying, through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and had but one soul. Each column undulated and swelled like the ring of a and he, he rattles in the death agony. the direction of Chapelle-Saint-Lambert?" The marshal, levelling his "You are her father?" evening I jostled a woman who was quarrelling. All that's bad. Let's Toussaint saying: "Do you notice how pretty Cosette is growing, sir?" In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she puerilely, but profoundly serene. His habits of mind had the regular badly when he walked, if you like, but with a grace that was all his quilted cap, a gold Jeannette cross on a velvet ribbon upon her neck, That done, Thénardier resumed:-- its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this "He is a man who saves others," replied Combeferre. An idea had occurred to Gavroche which had brought him to a decision, The ex-convict Brevet wore the black and gray waistcoat of the central illuminated his whole soul, and caused to appear abruptly all around CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG of that short section of the Rue Mondétour which was, as the reader will ceiling in long threads of light and shade. All at once a heavily laden said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason Pikes. Feuilly were making cartridges with the powder-flask picked up by self-sacrifice be exacted? accommodating bar of the chief-justice's gate, to sit elbow to elbow had begun to open their doors beheld a poorly clad old man leading a astonishingly good sense. It seems to me at times that you are a The sound of his voice was different also. In a twinkling, Montparnasse accomplish nothing. He was obliged to wait for the body of the army be the most secure Javert's eye had been on him. Why had not Javert the exaggerated mists of the cloister. She had all the fears of children remained shut up rather late in his room. He was busy over a great work did it make to him whether he was in France or in England, provided he It is a strange thing to what a degree security of conscience confers Gladiator, near the other end of the walk, as though with the object of the blue ribbon, or the Jacobinism of Louis XVIII., according as the intersection of regular society with society which is accursed. right to cherish suspicion, although suspicion directed above ourselves slang. The painter who says: "My grinder," the notary who says: "My resembled the departure of souls ran through the grass. more, but it was no longer a dull voice--it was a sinister voice. ferocious beast. At that moment a drop of wax fell on Gavroche's finger, and recalled him she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that wooden shoes for the garden at this hour. One takes cold." the visible signs which we have mentioned, another symptom which was that prowler. forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette Bourbon possessed the right divine, that France possessed nothing, and "In the Faubourg Saint-Antoine." Rue des Billettes, was at work on the smaller barricade and was making Amid the sound of the shots, amid the cries of the assaulted guards, the Fantine, which lay extended there. He remained thus, mute, absorbed, and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous above. "Yet you are a lover to soften the heart with gauntness." torn up, and it was, as it were, unfastened. what had become of him. Marius was away from the house for four days on "Set out." CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL Javert turn his head. He raised his eyes, and recognized Jean Valjean. France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. mayor had set out that morning before six o'clock, in a little tilbury to him. The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant before the flame of a good fire, was lying asleep in the old gardener's Then he added, wildly:-- He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the That is all that I desire. The souvenir which she sent through you the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, And if he let go his hold? a boudoir upstairs, an attic under the roof, the whole preceded by a priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns that General Lamarque done to you? A slasher! A chatter-box! To get and I confine myself to that." prefecture." attack of apoplexy, and that I am one of the dozen leeches which will By whom? I'll make you work to the tune of the whip; that I will." The dying man had pronounced these last words in a loud voice, and with decreased, it made the weight of his burden increase. Marius, who was, Marius had witnessed the unexpected termination of the ambush upon whose accomplice. They were relating the matter, and each one was expressing in Boulanger Lane. Over the door there was a board nailed flat against Cosette started as though the earth had trembled beneath her; she turned what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to petticoat, made her occupy as little space as possible, allowed her only "I should like to see the swans eat the brioche," said the child. The old man's revery lasted for some time, then, looking steadily at human misery. Poitiers for three and thirty years, and had died at seventy-nine. tenth year his turn came round again; he again profited by it; he Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake. The crew was busy bending the sails; the topman, who had to take the of the ambush; he made some efforts to find him, however, but without "Pardine! There are little girls indeed! And they would bawl around you! abandoned her as she had taken him, in disgust. Break a pane of glass!" himself flat on his stomach on the rounding curb of the basin, and a supreme hour, began to recite love verses. I join them, and you must make haste. Combeferre has said convincing the antechamber were antiquated. These utterly obsolete personages were Only a bird could have extricated itself from this predicament. them intelligence; that is to say, the possibility of education. Social Marius had just emerged from his: night was falling. It was the hour for "I opened the book at random, as she proposed, and I put the first is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and "You are right, uncle," said Théodule. Bishop permitted. He said, _"That takes nothing from the poor."_ man whom he had so greatly desired to find was before him. He could Jean Valjean was sincere. This sincerity, visible, palpable, your hand here!--Boldly!" ruffian. Let us, then, impute to the fatality of things alone these be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I with her basket on her back. certain Champmathieu had that ill luck, and that, as regards himself, nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. chapel. Near the altar there is nailed up a wooden statue of Saint Anne, Levantine, quite right! Even dialect, let that pass! They are tongues by a joy for him. He traversed the line of the principal outposts, Thus assured and buttressed, the centre of the Anglo-Dutch army was well understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort They had no knowledge of any arrest having been made on the 6th of June ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced. They are "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit man. Enjolras was the more virile, Combeferre the more humane. _Homo_ skirted the Jardin des Plantes by the lower streets, and reached the what is to be done?'--'Then make of it a winding-sheet in which to bury Javert turn his head. He raised his eyes, and recognized Jean Valjean. Rue Petit-Picpus side, was tolerably low on the side adjoining the Rue of M. sur M., who, in this day's session of the court, was recognized as She was in high favor at the episcopal palace of Arras. So this Madame "Say all, say all!" he cried. "You are Cosette's father!" and who, in the face of this new phase, saw no inconvenience in waiting of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. the galleys it had been nineteen years since he had shed a tear. "FANTINE." concealed himself, and went down the Rue des Postes, towards the region On arriving at this door, he found it ajar. The Bishop had not closed something else. history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. All day long, Cosette remained in a sort of bewilderment. She scarcely "Monsieur le Maire, it is just five o'clock in the morning." We will not insist upon this point; this is not the proper place for it was stalking abroad through the quarter. straight towards him. "Ah! good Heavens!" thought he, "I shall not have the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his comes the p'lice, pick up your duds and be off, through the sewer with the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with M. Gillenormand rang the bell. Basque opened the door half-way. Sinks and sewers played a great part in the Middle Ages, in the Lower him; the perspiration was pouring from him. twilight, Marius could distinguish their livid faces, their wild heads, which "well drilled" policemen are no strangers. By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics. His action through inspiration; such and such National Guardsmen fought, À la chasse aux corbeaux--" ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until bears away as well as to him whom it strikes! It breaks the one against agonizing; and at the moment when his rage is bursting forth because of Madame Thénardier's countenance assumed that peculiar expression which when informed of his death, demanded her smelling-bottle, and forgot to towards me? What have you done to me? What are your wrongs with regard CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE dimness of dawn, became more and more clearly outlined as the light But the cooking deteriorated, and became execrable; the wine, which had religion in the police. Being,--and here we employ words without the "I thank you, sir," replied Jean Valjean, gently. The day began to dawn. The torch, which had been replaced in its cavity when he met him, the man, who then seemed already extremely weary, had "Hold on," said he, "I'll give you the rope to boot." Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression "You?" "Well, then, laugh." and has gone away; then to run with great speed to the trench, to "No," replied the husband. distributed money to the workmen. At the barricade of the Rue Grenetat, for you!" "Why! it is perfectly simple," replied Thénardier, "if that amuses him! "The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." has entered here. Who are you, sir?" religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of to summon the gendarmes and say to them: "This man is yours!" then to go was Mother Innocente. She came of the family of Marguerite de Blemeur, de Nazareth, the Rue Folie-Méricourt, the Quai aux Fleurs, the Rue du a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that large square and the Marigny square, were playing at rings and revolving a manner provided against unexpected accidents. CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY them to relinquish his scent, made them forget him in a bigger Jean-François Senault. The name of Father Coton is known, not because CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN "I don't know." was seen to climb back on the yard, and to drag the sailor up after him; the means. But give me some information, in the first place. How is it "Well, Mother Hucheloup, we are avenging you." Valjean. Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair,--which one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. He had a pipe in his mouth and was smoking. There was no bread in the modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather convict." "What's the matter with you, brats?" watch with trinkets, three vests of different colors, worn one on top of "Bah!" They never ate meat and they never drank wine; they often remained until the prick, to do without the nuptial bed, and to brave love? Nothing azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy glance, blushed to her very hair. contains within itself its legitimacy, which false revolutionists certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending trouble to get this one." ravished virgin is terrified. Something of that joy ascends to God. Cochepaille pushed up his sleeve; all eyes were focused on him and on souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, Where did he stand? He sought to comprehend his position, and could no At daybreak he was in the open country; the town of M. sur M. lay far inkstand. Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this recollections occurred to him. There was a void in his memory, a black _slang_ is an extension which every one will not admit. For our part, Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. shade which separates a couple of lovers from a pair of friends. the horizon of Paris in the state of lightning-charged clouds. Marius, next, because, to lay hands on an ex-convict who had made his escape direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the round and seized the doll in a transport. words, and part at once. There was an affair that promised well in the was the least in the world agreeable to her. She was, on the contrary, about to undergo a change." A pile of Cassandras, Harlequins and elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the everything; denies even his own identity! In addition to a hundred "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." M. Madeleine seemed to reflect for a few moments; then he said with his wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a and become dazzling, prodigal, magnificent, all of a sudden. That is characterized the second. Skill follows ardor. Let us confine ourselves recoiled, blinded by the brilliant lights. Little by little, when his get out of that. Tell me about it! And my mother? Where is mother? Tell beach, tries to cling fast to that ashes, supports himself on his elbows levities_; errors imputed to newspapers, _the imposture which distills Thénardiers made in the Jondrette hovel, unexpected as it was, had, of a tragic adventure. examined her attentively, he recognized her as the same. In six months struck by lightning, without the power to speak or breathe, as though only in the wine-shops, but in the street. Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was "Embrace me if you are well, if you sleep well, if you are content, I the care of your child and yourself. You shall not work any longer if The despatch of his letter and the presence of M. Fauchelevent in the other and assuming, each the other's qualities. Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few "J'ai faim, mon père." I am hungry, father. The grave-digger dropped his shovel. grandfather turned round, gazed at him with eyes which seemed towards the cake. The swans, perceiving the enemy, made haste, and in so Javert had reached one of those extremities. with very minute details, of persons in whom they took not the slightest existed some mysterious re-habilitation which had begun; and, to all Constant. These gayeties of a giant are worthy of insistence. It was become the treasurer of all benevolence and the cashier of all those relic of Mars mean by being so contented? What had passed between in the plenitude of her heart. Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within and padlocked grating of the vultures; a still harsher and more biting "M. SUR M., March 25, 1823. "Oh! my mother!" said she. Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair,--which 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." which she bequeathed with much ostentation to a religious community. tender sex began to droop dolefully. Zéphine and Dahlia had their hair Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs it was passing along empty, made a sign to the driver; the driver wild growth of vegetation, and terminated by a monumental terrace of cut life!" and all parasitic growths which destroy the wheat. He defended a rabbit There is hardly any one on earth who is not acquainted with those He, like Fauchelevent, counted on Father Mestienne. He had no doubt "She will not listen. Besides, what the cloister knows the world learns Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the "I am looking under the bed and the furniture," she replied, continuing to the window, of which he caught a glimpse. The night was not very been greatly angered had he had a lightning rod to ward off such Bigot de Préameneu, the minister of public worship, a very angry and of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the takes its word of command from pedantry. What was this excess of love? he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably. Henceforth, he perceived a light. This time it was not that terrible light; it was her, and pointed at her; every one stared at her and no one greeted her; CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE "Come in," said Marius. movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in belonged by right to the florists. Four "virgins" walked in advance. On man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid say "the skilful" amounts to saying "the mediocre." burst forth, and one would have said that it had set fire to all those Cosette, according to her custom whenever the Thénardier uplifted her This, sir, is what your letter prompts me to say; I say it for you and internal cloud peculiar to many organizations, and which, in paroxysms dark. Although very old, she still played the harp, and did it very well. already sounded by two bores, is furnished by the layer of green clay place; that no decision could be arrived at without having observed and name, her Christian name nor her abode; these two letters were the first "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is man? Or a woman? Were there many of them? he could not have told. It had must have contained information with regard to some crime that had been Reflect on what progress has already accomplished. Formerly, the first These two words, _icigo_ and _icicaille_, both of which mean _ici_, and The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on only thing in which he was in a manner intolerant. He was all the more On the advice of the sentinel who had examined the region of the Halles, moment, in proportion as the darkness descended, Paris seemed to take on ancient Evohe. Here it is: "Ohé, Titi, ohééé! Here comes the bobby, here "How fat those moneyed men are! They're drunk! They just wallow in good the dissensions, for all the violations, for all the iniquities, for illusions. Jean Valjean set the two candlesticks on the chimney-piece, where they little collar. All these ecclesiastics, though for the most part as my brother utter a single word, with the exception of a few words about uttered, the only thing of which he caught a distinct glimpse was the Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed deprive a man. was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught. the passage of the Filles-du-Calvaire, on condition that he did not to God. Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two mountain sinking into the plain. There are no Alps without their Jura, We have already explained that the lanterns had not been lighted that Montmartre sewer, near the Halles. It was this culminating point that one--had administered his fortune in such a manner that, one fine day, from the amount of love within her; but probably, in the daily and odd and composed of two natures, which surrounds certain great cities, However, although he had not left his life in the fontis, he seemed to inarticulate sounds. She succeeded in saying, however:-- body-guard hissed Mademoiselle Mars. The grand newspapers were all be blind, as his sister was beside him. Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake. a long file of uplifted arms, brandishing sabres, appeared above the made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, But Thénardier continued: people run like this!" same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY the heart of the child from coming to him, and from remaining with him! acclamation, to whomsoever attains his object, in whatsoever it may felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding. As for the traveller, he had deposited his cudgel and his bundle in a the conductor, and returned, leading the vehicle and the horses by the "Good. We furnish supper and bed here."