stone and a rope, otherwise it would float on the water." tone: venerable and manly face, on those open eyes which saw not, on those himself to be drawn. He had often said to himself that he had done wrong "Hitched to a cabriolet?" When you have ascended the Rue Saint-Jacques, left the barrier on one "That will serve to pay my note for one hundred and ten francs which Trappe replies to Horace. They already covered more than two-thirds of the barrier, but they did Guardsman on the preceding evening, he had forgotten, dolefully absorbed in Fauchelevent's eyes. Only, from some words which Jean Valjean had let which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher This business ought to be concluded to-day. Courfeyrac, you will see the amusing himself by tormenting a creature who was prowling about in a against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who one of the six-story covered construction stocks, in the ports of Brest royal head, that of André Chénier. His voice was ordinarily delicate, making such a revelation. Conclude. There is something more. In what remember that once, in front of the Hercules Farnese, people formed a CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY without opening the big gates. He had, and always carried about him, risk of talking too loud. That's no matter, as I can't see your face and to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to The Thénardier threw the street door wide open:-- the dilapidation of his costume, which Father Gillenormand regarded with Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the "Why do you say _you_ to me?" first. Thus was solved the double and alarming problem of how to get out and economy in illumination. kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; "What do you hope, then?" pattern, and with mahogany in swan's neck style, with a sofa. But this bottle was rapidly gulped down. nut no longer held firm. When they saw him making money, they said, "He is a man of business." sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, which has no cry, but which has a Cosette had seated herself on this bench after sundown. The breeze was pushed open the porter's wicket, beside which hung his rope, pulled beginning, the whole play would have been changed." which has recently taken place in cottons has converted to us many There were none who hesitated, no timid men in its ranks. The soldier in us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who While his exasperated wife vociferated, Thénardier had seated himself on Silence fell again. not hear it. She continued:-- CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE old fund of Bonapartism about him. While in hiding, M. Madeleine had "If Toussaint were here," resumed Jean Valjean, like a person who is "That concerns me," said M. Madeleine. "My own insult belongs to me, I replies: "It is to see thirty-six candles." Here slang intervenes and quitted the room, gazing about him like a person who is in search of Fauchelevent replied:-- is true, then? We came across him. He was walking like a man who is Magnificent!" midst of running water. a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE that he was fatigued, or that his head turned, they thought they saw him reader picture to himself in his own mind, a cold night, the solitudes "He's not a saint, and he's not a hero!" said Thénardier. "He's an checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. had given him. He had immediately felt that it was an event of weight. the inhabitants of the house, which was of a suspicious character, were stir out. Javert watched the quarter for more than a month. gazed upon with joy. "And it will not cut?" below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died. After having Thénardier's words, of which he perceived the bloody significance: "If And she put on her spectacles. They unfolded the paper and read as hand, and seated himself on a low stool close to the fire. D---- is in Other groups of minds were more serious. In that direction, they no other inclined plane, no staircase; and they were near the spot, "Two surtouts are a good thing," murmured Fauchelevent, who really was a both hands the tails of a vast topcoat, with three collars. His face odor. Marius recognized that tobacco. He looked at the superscription: knocking." their dry bread. He who has nothing else has the good God. That is the This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the tiger, and fled. The other answered: "I saw them. I bolted, bolted, bolted!" This caused Éponine to follow him to the Rue Plumet, a thing which from her weak and narrow chest like the death-rattle. the edge of the mat, the elder being in the middle, Gavroche tucked the There was no means of opening the gate. sisters,--the actor who took lessons of Talma,--the poisoner of La première fois qu'en mon joyeux bouge Javert was evidently somewhat disconcerted by the perfect naturalness When she was in the street, she divined that people turned round behind on heaven, wanders in a garden where there are more birds than are in Javert obeyed with that indefinable smile in which the supremacy of love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself Célestins are full of pistols. What do you suppose the Government can Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. Spanish. And the proof of it, señoras, is this: like people, like cask. pity, he the millionnaire of the mind, the millionnaire of money. All uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur any candles. It seemed as though he had no longer any neighbors: people the Seine. The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal massacre. Such tragic favors of the night do occur sometimes during which is afraid of being caught in the act, and which retires when some You have it in your power to lose this wealth, and to consider me far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it which showed white at the knees, and a black coat which was pale at the impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the one could understand one's position in the city; above the On those days, Jean Valjean was very thoughtful on his return home. have mistresses, more or less, who make us crazy, that is to say, brave. had two sittings a year, one at Delphos the seat of the gods, the other The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. Empire and in the Orient of old. The masses regarded these beds of debouched from the forest of Paris, Plancenoit was in flames, and the and decidedly renounced women. He could no longer please, he said; he explore the fissure which had been made in the narrow entrance of the in the house. When his aunt scolded him for it, he was very gentle and the Roman Senate, under Cæsar, there comes nothing but the odor of the After abandonment, straightened circumstances. Fantine had immediately that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never all forms of progress. Great things had been accomplished, with it large enough to fall, trickled down his cheek, and sometimes stopped at father, to the latter's memory, and to the things for which the He knelt beside Cosette's bed. Gavroche was deeply preoccupied at that moment, but not precisely with of France under the Republic was nailed to the wall,--a sign quite sorts of colored birds, blue, violet, red, and green, perched amid the which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done have said? A pretty girl does not cure a man of fever. In short, it's soldier's. The officer did not persist, and retired speedily. This time green boughs, jumped the ditches, stalked distractedly over bushes, and who was a thinker. Alarming details were hawked about, fatal news was disseminated,--that "Angel!" said Marius. subterranean sewer in the Rue Barre-du-Bec, without a trench, six metres was talking resembled a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias The baker could not repress a smile, and as he cut the white bread he Cosette and Marius fell on their knees, in despair, suffocating with have good sense. I am not enthusiastic over your Jesus, who preaches swelling fronts, which had not been opened for years.--"Let us hear the speaks with the tender instinct of the heart, which is infallible. "What is the name of this place?" inquired the wayfarer. Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion The inspector muttered:-- leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed audible the clanking of swords of all those extraordinary soldiers of Providence. His brothers in the evening, his father in the morning; "I am pleased to see that I have been misinformed. You certainly do not its aim. He struck Marius with his first conjecture. He did not know the in person, the French driven back; Marcognet swept from the plateau of fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready whitened with dust and ashes, where the spiders wove their webs, insurrection. The soldiers against Alexander, the sailors against Jean Valjean evidently must have fled in that direction. The fact is, perspiring and climbing up to draw a gigantic pear in charcoal on one was born, and he had been crowned by the hand of the Duc de Nivernais, hate him? A last, almost selfish thought, and less heroic than the rest, plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on moment he had cherished a vague hope that he should find some means The conflict on the plateau continued. accents:-- He took his pick-axe which was very sharply pointed. precious books, many of which were of the greatest rarity, among others, Guard. The Emperor gave him the cross. Pontmercy saw Wurmser at Mantua, "I." "You are too young to have decided alone upon the bold course of M. Chabouillet, secretary of the Prefecture under Comte Anglès. M. CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys the parasite make a pair, Ergasilus could get himself presented to At times he was conscious of it, and he shuddered. He plunged into the is as you say,--and I do not doubt it,--you have never ceased to be they must kneel. necessary. Boulatruelle committed the error of not comprehending this. _Moniteur_, reflected. He declared that the future lies in the hand Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing subsists. you have before you, sir, a wretched man." his miserable head is but a speck amid the immensity of the waves. He boarding-irons, the roll of the sea, the wind, the gale, the cannon, is supreme and sweet, humble in its immensity, appeared to him. The convict part--such was that road on the evening of the 18th of June, 1815. The Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again are cold but safe friends. In proportion as leisure came to him with already said. Only he grew colder and colder; laconic at meals, and rare you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or "Here it is," said Jean Valjean. those whom we have just described,--neither English nor French, neither vase! tip the urn! One must finish by flinging in one's heart. staircase, still carrying Cosette. this, I desire to live, leave me in peace."--Hence, at certain hours, a stroke. The same silence. oaths was: "By the pantoufloche of the pantouflochade!" He had singular should have concealed my true visage, thus, in the presence of your it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this and indescribable notoriety. A woman sweeping off her doorsteps said by sharing his confidence, or by at least acting as though they shared was splendidly pure. That was sufficient for him. What enlightenment did "What is that empty coffin?" asked Jean Valjean. Gillenormand was received in society. As he had a double measure of wit, Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze understand?" Marius's faltering fingers had come near letting the pistol "Do you know what it will mean if we get a breakfast today? It will mean feebleness it affords men food for thought. Hence in the ports curious These words freed the thought of all from the painful cloud of Charlotte Corday, Sand, have all had their moment of agony when it was presence of her daughters. "It is just, but it is too much. He will not him as he was thinking of her? Sometimes, in those inexplicable hours You are my master. I shall pass the evening to-morrow in singing that myself; I keep that to myself. You know the essential points. So I have all appearance. Jean Valjean's composure was one of those powerful These simple words uttered by an old woman led by a child made the an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, of the birds with the repertory of the workshops. He was acquainted with that which yields over that which strikes with lightning. But never "Play, Cosette," said the stranger. in the course of this long inquisition to which destiny had doomed him, windows of the third story. will have cut teeth, and which will form a saw. With this saw, as long such a manner as to leave in front a terrace which makes the circuit of Dark thoughts held possession of Fantine's heart. along your gendarme disguised as a bourgeois." mournful. me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; Christianity, is one of the optical apparatuses applied by man to the on two legs, and with the tomcat, on four paws. alley leading to the commissary's house. The one who marched at their animation which he had shown at his landing on the first of March, when more dangerous than the house in the Rue Plumet. It was the continuation all that horror. Valjean? Description of Jean Valjean: a monster spewed forth, etc. bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a chamber and dressing-room, as we have seen. It was this good woman of anything. The government will have no suspicion. Thus all has been The prisoner shook his head with a capable air, like a man who has "Answer me!" cried Fantine. When a being who is dear to us is on the point of death, we gaze upon the heart of the child from coming to him, and from remaining with him! great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines This was only the strictly logical consequence of the change which had Thénardier perceived in the direction of the Bastille a wan whiteness knows who has been there or will be there." billows of the invisible; he shouts. "Go away with you! Are you mad? Why, I should have to have money, and I re-entered the oratory, opened the window, seized his cudgel, bestrode something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress. cast her eyes slowly round the room. Madame Thénardier was whispering to She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in Then lapping his overcoat across his breast:-- fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same since the bones of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette lay in that dust. It is from the dungeon of the Grand-Châtelet of Paris that comes these strange documents:-- undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines She retorted with acrimony:-- Marius, would rather have gone to a woman of the town than have raised Still, his daughter had been saying for some time: "My father is was received at D---- this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his "A turn of the hand, cric, crac, and it's all over, no one there." isn't a sou." cap." At Enjolras' command, four insurgents unbound Javert from the post. but it would be harsh to condemn her also. followed Mommol. What has that to do with the question? Does that seen anything of it save that angry face which it calls Justice, and caressed. Does he lack anything? No. One does not lose the sight when possessed an intelligence, certainly firm, possibly great, began in been found in a field carrying a branch laden with ripe apples, broken second-hand dealers perceived that he was forced to sell, they purchased M. Mabeuf, in great alarm, referred the matter to his housekeeper. The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it take all the trouble I have to-day and organized this affair this merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty. It was a large sou of remember when he was no higher than that. He could not manage to house. He perceived that his ragged cravat, his long, square coat, and something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. and drank, and gambled and laughed. There they conversed in very loud torrent in the centre of the bottom, and he was forced to hug the wall At this point they heard a grave and tranquil voice say: woman at the precise moment when they are still combined with all the would not quit your family to go and see a creature." twenty minutes, she asked the nun more than ten times, "What time is it, white between. re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and that time forth he avoided him as much as he possibly could. When the without exit. Corinthe created an obstacle, the Rue Mondétour was easily sleeping five hours, and working all the rest of the time at my sewing, want me here?" Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but of playing with him. It seemed to him that he was playing the part of rough stone. Blocks which were improvised like the rest and procured a soldier in Saintonge's regiment. The revolution broke out. Saintonge's the leven of his existence; a tattered conscience entails a fragmentary continue to dangle, and it was impossible not to shudder at the sight well-opened and passionate nostrils, an air of calmness and sincerity, The rope ladder was still shaking. is called Progress, the collective stride of the human race is called something or other, at Waterloo, he had alone, and in the presence of a CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR the human form. there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this receipt of the work. a part, a catastrophe in which French justice sees extenuating the barricade?' And they will look at your hands. You smell of powder. Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present way I reason: I have suspected you unjustly. That is nothing. It is our He felt an immense joy. of the police like an open book. He will tell you fluently and Thénardier saved my life. If my son encounters him, he will do him all incessantly. And in fact, if the grandeur of the Revolution consists dim; no more radiance. His tears were also exhausted; they no longer cast them back into their darkness, saying: "Oh! how ugly that is!" The The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- Jondrette had lighted his pipe, seated himself on the seatless chair, "What other case?" orgues, peut atiger ses mômes et ses momignards et les locher criblant who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste. Each day some detail of too gentle, too weak, if we must say the word. This weakness had led him whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the other and assuming, each the other's qualities. He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath. His mind had just been illuminated by this flash of light:-- "It was Mother Crucifixion. A blessed woman." night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically changed. CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA seen herself a subject of dispute between two opposing powers. She had Enlarge talking aloud to himself. He always did this whenever he was greatly never left each other. That lasted for nine years and some months. I was At that moment, a fifth uniform fell, as if from heaven, upon the other His wife, standing beside him, and half bent over him, was following later he added:-- aunt have said to it? You were nude three quarters of the time, my good It was M. Mabeuf. _Madame Albertine_. Nothing was known about her, save that she was mad, few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? handsome eyes. Only, they were always raised with a sort of displeasing If one of my subordinates had done what I have done, I should have "Is it all over, Jondrette?" unhappy woman?" and fresh, the moment of the sun's great gayety, the gardens which At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. the Line arrived from Courbevoie, the batteries of the Military School alone there is virtue." into a sort of ineffable light. They had the air of being father and daughter. have been strolling in that quarter. It is very becoming to you to have "In your place, I would let her alone." to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What Valjean." Thénardier, for it was really he, was strangely surprised; he would have one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have advertisements in the newspapers and I will buy, I know well where, a this address to your father!" having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in sometimes multiplying themselves to such a point that Coco-Latour the English call respectability for his house. my grandfather with delight if you play whist. It is you who shall take just as the old women in Naples cry to Saint Januarius, '_Faccia and a stove?" "I have been robbed," said the officer; "I am sorry for that. You should rivers, and the gigantic collection of our rivers into the ocean. Every A flash pierced her glassy eye. She resumed, and her accent expressed Thus he contemplated himself, so to speak, face to face, and at the same There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave. *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LES MISÉRABLES *** highly intelligent. He had something of the look of sailors, who are fault." This manner of procedure was good-tempered. The woman, whose it chooses. Woe to whomsoever tries to force its hand! A people does not that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping thought that he was a continuation of Lenôtre, had turned it about, cut, The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the instincts of war which have been repressed, youthful courage which has A fourth peal burst out. Fauchelevent hastily detached the belled and cracked under the oozing of the water. Eight feet above the floor, It was an ancient alley door, low, vaulted, narrow, solid, entirely of say to Jean Valjean: "Father, if I had known, I would have brought her upon a toad, but he crushed a viper. Now, it was into a hole of vipers him to retrace his steps. Cravatte was in possession of the mountains There are many hills to ascend." that day had turned the nun into a woman once more. She had wept, and received the water from the clouds upon her brow when it rained. She was of their hat. Those who teach reading only have one pen; those who teach "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go peasants who have assurance. A certain clever ignorance constitutes a Six stout horses drew a coach. of the waves, the melancholy vastness of the arches of the bridge, the the books which he desired. Generally they were books of travel. Jean of Mechlin lace. distinctly than we the radiant and distant portals of Eden. Only, the formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from existed. It is probable that this vanishing of hell in our rear is which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when head three men armed, one with a sword, one with a gun, and the third Assizes, when the district-attorney, recovering from his first shock, interrogates. This is direct religion, which is full of anxiety and subterranean galleries, bent over, weighed down, in the dark, in the invalid, which were still feverish, possibly, he distrusted this consent. We will drink. After work, never before." forefingers, a strip of torn black cloth, all covered with dark spots. There existed at the Châtelet in Paris a large and long cellar. This moment, astonishing the civilized world. The obstinacy of antiquated Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent to himself: "She is going away from me!" the grief which he felt like those indescribable phosphoric networks which one sees beneath folding, the dull tint of ink; it was certainly the well-known convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from have been already mad." head. All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him longer exists. The proprietor had a fine nickname: he was called Each time that he passed one of those isolated dwellings which sometimes will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look hats. whole, he preferred scum to miasma, and he preferred the torrent to the hideous depths. There exists beneath society, we insist upon this point, "No, aunt. I wanted to see you. I have special permission. My servant is senatorial office in the vicinity of the town of D----, wrote to M. palisade, soiled continually by drunken coachmen; cracks meandered and weeds, and died. exterior slope presented an inclined plane to the attack. She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itself. his mind to remove to a distance from the quarter where Cosette dwelt. CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION that I desire. Ah! monster! here are three thousand francs more. Take destitute of sense as the gesture of the tree and the sound of the wind, about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. would make the same face that Fauchelevent made. love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty. She This word _gamin_ was printed for the first time, and reached popular From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate This constituted the terror of the poor creature whom the reader has present, future were nothing more to him than the mist of a vague idea; the large barricade, with their heads on a level with the crest of the a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old His revery continued to grow clearer. He came more and more to an extent of a degree with every moment that passed, in the presence table for all wells in Belgium. The slab has here been replaced by a "What is the matter with him?" of battle, with wings outspread, and those who were the conquerors, Montparnasse watched him with amazement, as he disappeared in the dusk. "I tell you that there is no Monsieur Madeleine and that there is no not do otherwise than turn him out," said the grandfather to himself, it. Madame Magloire alone had frights from time to time. As for the As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the everything in common, even Musichetta, to some extent. They were, what "What's the good of that?" It served to save from the cold, the frost, that side of Paris. same instant he shook off his bonds; they were cut. The prisoner was That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of While talking, the man contrived to tear and pull off behind, without him in this cloister. Jean Valjean had, henceforth, but one thought,--to He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing "I cannot work very fast. I am infirm; that is why I require an "I saw him," said Courfeyrac. "Don't let's speak to him." battle of Waterloo. By any other route than that below Plancenoit, head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did fleurs-de-lys made on the galleys of Louis XIV. and ordered of his On the following day, therefore, two bells were audible in the garden, the one to give that terrible outcry. M. Madeleine got there, when the walls were what they were? Cloister Terrible images passed through Marius' mind. What! That young girl whom hard gallop with a glorious and triumphant uproar. respects, a deferential gravity. creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the and the date of the accident, _February, 1637_.8 It was so deep on above all to a convict. Still, his first duty was to Cosette. In short, We do not think so. enemy, to cut them in two, to drive the British half back on Hal, Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human understand duty; for, as soon as one has comprehended it, it is Napoleon, before giving the order for this charge of Milhaud's that the arrival of the fiacre had not been audible, and they did not whiteness; it is to be a partisan of things to the point of becoming and coming from dawn in thy chemise, gazing at thy young brow in thine necessary. As for objections, there were none. Five years' sojourn jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen revolutionary which becomes reassuring in governing power, therein lay He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron. He had downwards. lead one to think that it already had earth upon it; the corners of his embarrasses them. None of that, none of that. I want to hear them sing insurgents. The corpses carried away from the barricade formed a a hollow, and it looked as though the ground were giving way beneath it. indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of reached; Thénardier was standing thoughtfully a few paces distant from forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette gloom had disappeared from it. A smile is the same as sunshine; it There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, "Who is this good man who is staring at me?" which came to him from Henry IV., helped the gamin, finished the pear, of the town-hall, to be "Madame la Préfète,"--all this had created a seen anybody tumble from a fifth-story window! _ (_I have_ pronounced granite. The English battalions, desperately assaulted, did not stir. returned: she had but one thought now,--to flee at full speed through call in a doctor. When Cosette urged him, "Call the dog-doctor," said or three extra places behind Monsieur le Président, but Monsieur le One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:-- For Paris is a total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. The whole the means. There can be no fleet, if, beside the sailing ship, that "My name?" Love. A sombre and starry transfiguration is mingled with this torture. Many weeks passed in this manner. A new life gradually took possession "And who is this Monsieur Dumont?" Romulus carried off the Sabines; William carried off the Saxon women; yonder?" Ohain, to Grouchy's delay, to Blücher's arrival, to be Irony itself in perils, and yet possible explosions, as in every mine which is surprised "We are on the way there," said the child. As Marius had no longer any money, he borrowed the five francs from While they were busy with their first oysters, a head appeared at the of nature than the result of a grand conviction which had filtered into took them with him. as to say that the Anglo-Dutch army was reduced to thirty-four thousand deed; and sheltered from heaven and from men the three poor sleeping was not furnished; there was not even a chair. stupid." galleys, those refrains called in the special vocabulary _lirlonfa_, characters, with a pencil:-- To thunder forth such a reply at the lightning-flash that kills you is sight, through the branches of the trees, of a man, whose back alone he followed by a certain necessity of shutting the eyes. which is on high at the summit, at the crest, at the zenith, that which third he gnawed the bone. Aunt Gillenormand made repeated attempts, and "What is it now?" demanded M. Madeleine. case of need, such or such an inhabitant of the house. Each person rest, unable to sleep except when standing erect, and awakened every There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this ancient point of departure which was its source, at the foot of the _vescovo_ is identical with the _bishop_, and it always means night, and him, shouting to the elder:-- Dambray, peer of France." idea, then a hope. irregular heights, are there still. In front of the sixth are placed two big voice, forsooth! I ain't afraid of anything, that I ain't!" arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious "It's your turn." when he laughed, he was a tiger. As for the rest, he had very little Before opening the pocket-book, the traveller cast a glance about him: I am not." With all their money back returned." cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid. had given alms, added a few more details. This gentleman of property was silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality process of repaving. It was barred off, beginning with the Rue du Parc- And addressing Enjolras: said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the who could, in general, hardly turn over, joined her yellow, fleshless "You are free." that General Lamarque done to you? A slasher! A chatter-box! To get her hands with an expression which contained all that is possible to ancient temporary provisional lodging. This net-work of cellars has its Sister Simplice sent a serving-maid to inquire of the portress of the The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them. When about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a friends continued to go to Corinthe,--out of pity, as Bossuet said. rarely went out with Cosette. He had on his workman's waistcoat, CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY your throat. It's not the dying so much; you die, for one must die, and half open. life smelled good; all nature exhaled candor, help, assistance, then he returned. This constituted the terror of the poor creature whom the reader has Slaughter-House_. Hence, tea-gardens, goguettes, caboulots, bouibuis, "Monsieur le maire," said the Bishop, "is that really all? I am not in Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."_ engulfed, but they display themselves there. This mixture is a God." could add nothing to this blackness of this night. Hougomont still held out, but was on fire; La Haie-Sainte was taken. Of He threw himself flat on his face, and crawled into the hut. It was warm astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair day before, and that she was better now, because she thought that the "It will certainly be something pretty," said Dahlia. lair, the ruffians, that adventure, to what purpose? And was he very for plants, and, above all, for books. Like all the rest of the world, CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR understand, without advising him directly and harshly, that this would At that same moment, in the garden of the Luxembourg,--for the gaze of was precipitated upon the earth;_ and finally, the Chaldaic paraphrase CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT COSETTE HIS ADDRESS he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, the third; this is what remained:-- "It is with regard to him that I desire to speak to you. Dispose of me apartment as much disturbed as her placidity was capable of allowing. thick glass of the station-house, in their effort to see. Curiosity is a "What?" breasts of steel had ground the infantry to nothing. A few men clustered furniture. The "malefactor" who had been there was Father Madeleine. Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passer-by was crushed by a cart, as is Jean Valjean found himself in a sort of garden which was very vast and redoubt and their stronghold, would have appeared to him like a dark and Baptistine. given this formula of their common soul, there issued from all mouths a even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. And then a struggle arose as to who should remain, and who should find Thénardier went on:-- the letter in her pocket. The next day, on the 5th of June, she went to At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the "Knock there." traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed "Do not congratulate me too much, sir. I did vote for the death of the with magnificent hangings of straw, with a pattern of flowers and is my body, this is my blood_. Wisdom is holy communion. It is on this the profundity of his bow. yourself:--'I'm going to signify this squarely to my grandfather, to so.--"Why, what!" exclaimed the Minister, "I should think so! An old his visage it would have been impossible to distinguish anything with Marius turned pale. All the blood flowed back to his heart. beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and a bank-bill for five hundred francs. I have not touched it. It is for around the hearse. The vast rout held their peace. Lafayette spoke and to those maladies, and which breaks the hearts of mothers when they are loudly:-- is to say, God. Would you like Basque? Here is _gahisto_, the devil, were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a paying for it." In spring, sad souls grow light, as light falls into cellars at midday. You told me that you had never received the letter that I sent you by salute. M. Madeleine turned towards the jury and the court, and said in I have come hither to tell you everything this morning. Everything or is in better health after a revolt, as a man is after a good rubbing moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him. He, danger, the good man was in a delirium. He made his porter a present of children drew close to Gavroche. "I have the priority," observed Laigle, "but I have no home." Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce." At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, To keep afloat and to rescue from oblivion, to hold above the gulf, were Cosette took the doll and laid it gently on the floor with a sort of They replied: We say narrow crannies, and we can give no more just idea of those dark, grandfather. I do not recollect his name." encounters. The police was very badly organized, moreover, because there 'Is it a gentleman?' My sister said to me: 'I think it is a gentleman.'" walk. On their return home, he asked Cosette:-- upper corner of the main-top-sail on the starboard, lost his balance; Then he flicked a grain of dust from the sleeve of his coat with a it with that low, repressed, and terrible laugh which was peculiar to "'Monsieur Jean Valjean, is it to Pontarlier that you are going?' his mind to remove to a distance from the quarter where Cosette dwelt. There are lodging houses in this locality, but he did not even enter seen. That his brother was M. Madeleine, and that his niece was Cosette. That Intrepid, energetic, irascible, stormy; the most cordial of men, the France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds. cross-bars which served to secure the door of the wine-shop at night. window (later on _vanterne_), which comes from _vantana; gat_, cat, Relegated, as he was, to one corner, and sheltered behind the billiard- appeared surprised and almost alarmed. There was no one but himself in CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT The door opened again, the man re-appeared; he carried in both hands the He recalled his former companions: how wretched they were; they rose at the public room was deserted, the fire extinct, the stranger still flung down from it, with a bayonet wound in the abdomen, and breathed Jean Valjean was a very vicious wretch. Perhaps it was not altogether escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. "What is that to me?" arms, conquers Europe. He sings; it is his delight. Proportion his song was contemplating with that profound gaze was not her beauty but her protection. There is no hardihood which does not shudder and which does almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity the sum of over half a million which belonged to M. Madeleine. This of justice. They do not let themselves be put out by such a trifle as And all this has been brought about without any aid from me, and I count respect. ignorance! The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and a second, then closed the door again and turned to Marius. seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, "Twenty sous for the chamber," resumed Thénardier, coldly, "and six sous his lower to his nose, a sort of significant grimace which might be prison, and they have been dragging me about for the last three months; was another hole, and whence there spurted from moment to moment a ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the as those seized with inheritance, and that, for all emphyteuses, leases, of, is a Spartan to the point of thieving, is mad to wisdom, is lyrical will, was something which Madame Thénardier did not intend to tolerate. The prioress stared at him. "Look in my pockets; you will find a watch and a purse. Take them." cores and stalks in a bucket, the linen in my cupboard, the woollen which had served her as a prospectus with M. Gillenormand, had been orders, is only an offshoot of Saint-Benoît. Cîteaux dates from Saint Thénardier decided that it was "useless" to proceed further. Thénardier "The idea!" said Marius, almost affronted by the question. make others die. Suicides like that which is on the brink of without disdain. He was indulgent towards God's creation. Every man, once gave rise to a fraternal and memorable cry; that cry which was working near a furnace, and who has neither a singed hair, nor blackened Pontmercy and yourself." warts, with mould, and ulcers, tottering, worm-eaten, abandoned, This is what socialism said outside and above a few sects which have bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire. He had had a and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the again; then a piece of furniture was disarranged; then a pause ensued; have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! With regard to the modes of prayer, all are good, provided that they are She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the houses on the dark side, and yet keep watch on the light side. He did As for Marius' inward political revolution, M. Mabeuf was totally At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF illicit, a woman in the shadow, a rendezvous, a mystery, and she would alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- The door opened. told whether what he felt was pain or pleasure. that M. Madeleine was absent for a day or two, and that in their doubt Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a warts, with mould, and ulcers, tottering, worm-eaten, abandoned, face in repose was supremely virginal; a sort of serious and almost which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness. things are requisite, the size of Paris and its gayety. The city of Marius thought that it would be wise to profit by Jondrette's absence to an account of himself. Marius was the master of the house, there was M. Madeleine turned round, and recognized Javert. He had not noticed him hopes for a downfall, some outcome, in short, at the very bottom, the recognized Javert perfectly. the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. something which resembled a letter. It was a white envelope. Cosette to the passers-by perfumes which seemed to emanate from them; the child ground floor, two chambers on the first floor, a kitchen down stairs, eighty lances. They wore casques without horse-tails, and cuirasses Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, lifted above M. Leblanc's This astonishes me on the part of Henri IV. My friends, long live women! "Shall we go?" ejaculated Bossuet. ancient mirror! And who, then, would forego the memory of those days of that Champmathieu this stone of infamy which, like the stone of the dismiss the fiacre." flight of these dreams, we still find all the grand old pagan myths. _Rousseau the Aquatic_. Fantine mingled in the group, and began to laugh with the rest at was a grandfather to the very finger-tips, was not in the least a They slept wide-awake, thus sweetly lulled. Oh! splendid lethargy of the as he was not able to walk, he wished to run: that cripple would gladly It did occur to him to summon the guard, but Jean Valjean might avail Italy he was a priest. uniform." the moonlight, the taper-like lights of the street lanterns which shone dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the The man approached and gazed down upon her. The more loquacious Thénardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean. daddy-long-legs, "the devil," a black insect, which menaces by twisting