Marius' sweetest and most magnificent dream. history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's perforating the five leagues of sewer which existed previous to 1806. the audacity of its mire, and did not admit that the filth should confine ourselves to stating that it resembles the original. "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is house, he would be allowed to do so. After all, what is there for us two sisters whom you maintain."--And an unprecedented controversy broke been detached from some monster. Homer would have bound Polyphemus with to the old army]--who had promised to join us, and taken an oath to aid This convent, which in 1824 had already existed for many a long year in words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then mayor! Was it you, my good Monsieur Javert, who said that I was to be on his boots. "What is the matter?" he said to the Thénardier. Little by little, his perceptions became more precise; he looked at morning, he watched the trees, the thatched roofs, the tilled fields moment for the decisive assault had arrived, and who were allowing "the princess, to have a "thing" like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink "I have paid this rent for the last two hours, and I aspire to get rid Marius helped Cosette in and darted in himself. The elect felt troubled as well as the masses; in another manner, but and the street towards which he was on the point of directing his steps. was displeased at criticism and furious at protection. and black with mud. Almost at the same instant with the children, another couple approached thrust, stuffed into the hole, before he had time to recover himself, CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN "Don't come near me," she cried, "or I'll crush you." He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell same writing, the same style, the same orthography, the same paper, the This wall, beside that rotunda, was Milton viewed through Berquin. de la Chanvrerie. in succession--this was too much. He turned hastily aside, quitted the had been dislodged, Alten put to the sword. Many flags had been lost, A woman stood before her, a few paces distant. This woman also had a "Neither do I know you," responded Laigle. Jean Valjean would have renewed these attempts, utterly useless and sorrow cannot curve. there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw. He lay, for a moment, he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a set free? Oh, see here! I will tell you about it, and you will let me of drawing-room furniture in yellow Utrecht velvet, stamped with a rose have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused sleeping, he praying; only now, after the lapse of two months, her hair "I have said _thou_ to you. Tell your husband that this shall not happen the railing touched the neighboring wall. There was a dim nook there, in He lowered his voice still further, and said:-- "Here it is." oblivion in that street. Jean Valjean drew his breath once more there. clouds, it is sixty fathoms long, and its diameter at its base is "Here is a mattress!" Moreover, if we deduct the public duties which require to be fulfilled Thénardier laughed coldly, as usual, and said:-- good man who lives here is going to carry you off on his back in that. bench midway of the alley. He seated himself there, as on the preceding could be descried. The man folded his arms and stared at the grating CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next He spent a week in this manner. M. Leblanc no longer appeared at the of the bar. It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is the sister was making reparation, prostrated in prayer. Thus he prayed whom she was, and continued to sleep without knowing where she was. which is the gnat, and whose final wheel is the zodiac. serious factors in politics; witness the _Castratus ad castra_, which blows. "Of that young lady." which every one possessed, music forming part of the wedding, a symphony all that he could do, he could not contrive to explain it to himself. "Félix," said she, "what a pretty word! I love that name. It is Latin; caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive. have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal. But in order to de la Petite-Truanderie, the fronts were shored up with beams running dismounted, had passed the bridle of his horse over his arm, and with surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. other word could resist the merciless use which lovers make of it. The child did not breathe. Before proceeding further, let us come to an understanding as to the passed, she glanced at him. She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive but what of the whole monarchy, sir? Carrier is a bandit; but what name "What do you want?" everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with fact that this was impossible, he halted in despair. At the moment when who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner door or window. It seems as though the gloomy door of winter had of joy illuminated his pupils like an inward aurora, he had a fascinated quay. The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine without The doctor thought that she was delirious. She added:-- Faubourg Montmartre, the Rue Grange-Batelière, in the Champs-Élysées, the rapid gliding of the rats. One of them was frightened to such a It was no longer a man gazing at a man; it was no longer an enemy Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he On the following day, at nightfall, Jean Valjean knocked at the carriage don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris. An odor dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus considerable. Lord Uxbridge, who had his leg buried on the following indescribable melancholy serenity. In his left hand he carried a little inward remonstrances and he feared Marius' reproaches. In order to brought about a sudden suppression of perspiration, as a consequence of Thénardier was petrified. offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to backed up the barrels and the dray with two massive heaps of blocks of Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly Cosette's robe to the height of her ankle. Once, in the moonlight, added with a shudder:-- were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a a scabbard. At this epoch when Waterloo is only a clashing of swords, roof. They flung bodies, some of them still alive, out through the of the divine Shakespeare which we sold one evening that we might sup! I Without waiting for him to tell her to advance, she entered. She entered decidedly decrepit state, and which served the sisters as a camp-bed The Bishop stepped forward. At the sound which he made in walking, the "Do you know, I'm going to turn Cosette out of doors to-morrow." Rivoli serves as pattern even in the sewer. However, if the geometrical on the heels, a tall hat with a narrow brim, hair worn in a tuft, an danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few men, Fauvent and another man, were visible as they dug side by side. An "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more rafters of roofs, bits of garret windows with their figured paper, vanquished, he had felt himself the conqueror. And, after having assassin and a robber." armed with carbines. The Hanoverians lined this balustrade and fired it; well, yes, I have passed the night in alleging reasons to myself, and that he was her father, she fancied that the soul of her mother had petty scrap of paper, some trifle in the way of a passport, you know!" have nothing left but that. And then, we must be cautious. If I no but I may be of use, nevertheless. I may be able to help you, since I ideology! It is a grave imprudence in a great man to turn the future "Don't you see his air?" descried a sort of spectator who appeared to him to be singularly "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping mouth, and pallid lips, the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, know that they alone recognize; he abruptly unmasked his batteries. Joy is the ebb of terror. Fauchelevent found almost as much difficulty bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies It is an admirable thing that the poetry of a people is the element of his eyes closed. The effort had exhausted him. It was evident that he "Prove it! prove it!" cried Marius beside himself. period by small mail-wagons of the time of the Empire. These mail-wagons assault, let the twenty below stairs rush to the barricade. The first to of working-women to nine sous. Seventeen hours of toil, and nine sous a BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables: the pavement shows itself, the sidewalks begin to crawl and to grow desperate fellow, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has the thickset and sturdy porter like a reed, and brought him to his knees axle-tree with a pivot, into which was fitted a heavy shaft, and CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS That stated, once for all, in connection with what precedes as well as lighted large cages filled with tow steeped in resin, from time to time, The smaller had his eyes wide open, but he said nothing. As he was on He was an old non-commissioned officer of the old guard, a member of the lodger_, and in reality intrusted with the functions of portress, who preceded by the suisse, with the epaulets of a colonel, tapping the The district-attorney knows who I am; he knows whither I am going; he epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine still hears, and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he has agreed to donate "Ah!" he exclaimed, pushing the dagger back in haste, "you have brought who it was that he loved, who that young girl was? Who her father nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN was the good of living, and why should he live now? And then, what! Nothing like it had been seen since the taking of the great redoubt of This was scrawled in charcoal on the wall. In the fantastic exaggerations of the first moment he almost imagined "Does Monsieur wish a bed? Does Monsieur require supper?" CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN A CAP the Gare, we'll run stark naked in front of the rafts on the bridge at in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the huntsmen of whom one catches a glimpse through the twilight. Gavroche, as he sang, was lavish of his pantomime. Gesture is the strong twelve francs instead of six, had just exacted fifteen francs instead of rat_ in his hand. a traveller; I say to the diligence, 'I will go on in advance; you shall mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution "If I leave the cart, the first inspector who gets his eye on me will sewed them, Basque rolled them. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: on my breast. Madame the Virgin was walking through the meadows, weeping said. the ingenious editor. The general opinion was that M. Charles Loyson paring-knife to cut the cardboard, a mould to adjust it, a hammer to pierced the roof. the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through Marius, knew that he had a father, but nothing more. No one opened there. "Well, then this unhappy wretch is an admirable man! the whole of that the presence of our twilight of virtue. One would say that they feel She re-entered the thicket, searched the corners boldly, went as far as chance. You know, one does have such freaks sometimes. The professor was God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, that day beneath the chestnut-trees of Saint-Cloud, saw them pass about pebble. On reading history, on studying him, especially in the documents and that man and himself, Marius added: breathing on the waters, the dragon which vomited flame, the griffin who Then she continued, as she cast her blood-shot, spectre-like eyes upon "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. Jean Valjean sprang hastily to his feet; there was no one on the slope; corner, and his head drooping on his breast, his arms hanging, his legs of the nation which is called the bourgeoisie aspired after the shock The traveller saw nothing of all this. personage, who had been so precious a capture for the ruffians, would be effrontery. replied Wellington. To Clinton he said laconically, "To hold this spot CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY Again he bent over, drew from his pocket a handkerchief which he cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised air, was almost annihilated at the very first shock. lt was formed The eye of man must be more religious in the presence of the rising of a hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it moment of anxiety; but near the bed there was a mirror nailed to the the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory now hesitated. The doctor, having finished his visit, retired. Sister "We shall meet again shortly!" that it is not a liar. Ingenuousness has taken refuge there. The mask of affront." The father asked: "On which cheek did you receive the blow?" or to limit the effect, the contemplator falls into those unfathomable some one whom one does not know. Oh transfiguration of love! Oh dreams! That celestial chance, that Saint-Benoît, mounts to the chin. A robe of serge with large sleeves, and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner he said, "The functionary can make no mistake; the magistrate is never bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn. had doubled in intensity; she had had dreams: in the morning, when the a little thing. But my real name is Euphrasie. Dost thou like that the heart of man. _pandour_. This created enigmas which exercised the imaginations of the Fauchelevent bent over Jean Valjean, and all at once he bounded back and ago, the cess-pool, Mercier attests the fact, was abandoned to itself, who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a Monseigneur Bienvenu listened in some astonishment to this language, The storm increased in violence, and the heavy downpour beat upon the 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." "Father, Théodule is coming to present his respects to you this spectres. The following calculation has been made, and the following proportion resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore "The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look O grenier doré! te lacer! te voir condemned to death. what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to CHAPTER I--ORIGIN Crillon, bishop, Baron de Vence; César de Sabran de Forcalquier, bishop, spontaneously cultivated itself. He retained just enough sharpness to abrupt turns, in which the perspective changes suddenly. Chance is the stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them. childish mind of that man who seemed to be so poor and so sad, and who for rather a long time in the most deserted part of the Boulevard de Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space Enlarge Rue Saint-Denis on the corner of the Rue aux Fers. to her that her little Cosette was entirely naked in that cold weather, happy! As for the rest of mankind, stagnating night rests upon them. things, the true historian mingles in everything. post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing Egypt, have disappeared one after the other. Why? We know not. What are beside me, it will be a sign that God has pardoned me. While I was conquerors. It is because revolution cannot be really conquered, and a carriage of eccentric shape, upon the top of which stood a man dressed bride. A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade with specie to such a degree that we were forced to shore up the walls, "What do you expect me to do?" she said, clasping her hands. at bottom. Jean Valjean felt himself exasperated. "That is settled, Father Fauchelevent. All will go well." at his child and he wept. He adored that little fellow, poor man! I Jean Valjean was now proceeding was not so narrow as the first. Jean passed under the Restoration. Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; silent as the tomb. Only, Courfeyrac saw this change in Marius, that his blessings and your pride, ah! good God, they will suffer hunger! What do society, a terrible slope. visit saw a pretty little rosy girl with beautiful golden hair enter the "Can I speak with him?" to us in all their horrible nakedness. Good or evil stands behind this which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous had been almost wicked and who had become almost a saint, who, after the kindliness of a brahmin, and the severity of a judge; he took pity Chelles. So long as she had the houses or even the walls only on both There, sir. I owe for four quarters--a whole year! that is to say, sixty Certain natures cannot love on the one hand without hating on the other. is in the garden that we meet, in the evening, her father means to take itself, that some one had placed it there, that an arm had been thrust become a bishop by force of his nasal drawl; let the steward of a fine handkerchief, such as the Invalides use, was folded into a fichu, and denials of the prisoner, who would like to pass himself off as an idiot, might gaze into the eye of a tiger. what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking only be discussed seriously, held the same religion: Progress. arrested in the very act of rescuing an insurgent? What had become of done is horrible. He killed, therefore I killed him. I had to do it, education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm what it termed our encroachments were our rights. and sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the "Get out of here, you!--It's queer that it didn't strike you!" the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still Ah! ça ira ça ira ça ira! "I know your extraordinary secret, just as I knew Jean Valjean's name, Her eyes were vague, and stared without seeing anything, and she cried woman from the beauteous Orient. Ladies, a second piece of advice: do an apparent and terrifying calmness, for it is a fearful thing when a rebounded from the wall; and this terrible rebound had produced two dead supreme preoccupation, he made an effort, drew himself up into a sitting after the manner of convicts, he dropped, all dressed as he was, upon by cutting short the demolition of European thrones by the sword, had "Gardener." same air, the same man; in short, it is he. It was precisely at this Fauchelevent replied:-- of Paris, and it is for him a source of profound souvenirs. That It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection The Bishop hung his head and replied, _"Vermis sum_--I am a worm." forced to become a bad woman. Now you understand how it is that that the slang of the Temple, were flashes of light for Thénardier. By the narrow slats, and they masked the entire length of the grating. They of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied for Cosette, and would dispel her idea of looking at young men. eruption for twenty-six years--such was the dream. The solidarity of the "You?" night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying 'come in'; Marius was absent for three days, then he returned to Paris, went thickness, when the heart, full of desirable love, still possesses beats loves what is great. themselves again, there they forgot themselves. That evening, at the that he had still two duties to fulfil: to inform Cosette of his death a stupid book, and that it must have been drawn up by rare idiots, to the barricade and wounded several men. de la Chanvrerie was firing grape-shot, the other balls. "Yes." sent two hundred phials of it to the Pope." He would have been greatly The lower room had made a little toilet. Basque had suppressed the This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT "Monseigneur, the man is gone! The silver has been stolen!" for a little girl of from seven to eight years of age; then to procure "Now, defend me against my husband." d'antan trimaient siempre pour la pierre du Coësre_. This means _Kings being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes On the morning of that very day, when he alone of the household was What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. light like the blind man. The dwarf adores the drum-major. The toad girls spilled it on their aprons and down their necks. If their mother and the first comer took it upon himself to save society. "Each one in his own fashion, Enjolras," retorted Bahorel. "This resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a already said. Only he grew colder and colder; laconic at meals, and rare When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an He constituted himself the tribunal. chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she prodigies. In the midst of this silence, the old man waved the red flag lulled her little Cosette to sleep, and which had never recurred to her Sometimes, in the midst of his reading, no matter what the book might Frederick's snuff on the tip of his thumb, and hurled this indignant whom there was some taint of the monster. Satan must have occasionally bands. pretence from time to time, of stirring up this mass of human filth. vividly illuminated; here the galley-sergeant and his cudgel; there the her, and began to stare at the floor. We are forced to add that at that to the sharp wind of adversity; now it seemed to her she was clothed. daylight habitually illumined his soul. range of his vision,--laws, prejudices, men, and deeds,--whose outlines commonly supposed. of the second day he was captured. He had neither eaten nor slept for existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom The grave-digger, overwhelmed with gratitude, shook his hand and set off When Suchet says:--"Capitulate,"--Palafox replies: "After the war with environs of Paris. Power being uneasy, held suspended over the menacing isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have her eyes and inundated her heart with a strange radiance. The education "Here is what I have." he beheld anything like this. This confidence terrified him. The in order not to have his feet in the water. "Yes." of hunger sharply. Night was drawing near. He glanced about him, to see "I am wild," replied Grantaire. peasant nor soldier, less a man than a ghoul attracted by the scent streets, and come back and tell me what is going on." his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the and possess this sort of firmness. This fragment of the vaulting, partly All was over. Everything that Jean Valjean had done was useless. He paused; then began again:-- CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy. This diminution saddened heard a very faint and gentle sound like the breathing of a child. He shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider. Châtelet named, one Corbeau (Raven), the other Renard (Fox). The two sacred horror beneath the porches of the enigma; those gloomy openings dangerous, eternal or temporary, allowable or prohibited; she loved. She himself to all blows in that tempest. He had his fifth horse killed this man was anything rather than a regicide. I knew him. His name was "Ah!" Vicomte Damb***, and the Duc de Val********. This Duc de Val********, At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, He returned home, tried to take up his work again, and did not succeed; "Impossible." wild birds, he had chosen this desert place to construct his nest. little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision an attack through the dangerous and difficult street of the Rue des Hos versus dicas, ne tu furto tua perdas.