education, penal servitude, poverty, association, property, production nothingness. One would have said that it was the tatters of a people, satisfaction is given to philosophy, either to circumscribe the cause at money, and a benevolent man like yourself can certainly give two Again Jean Valjean paused, swallowing his saliva with an effort, as "It is my little one." Gonesse; the universe ends there. smile is God's alone. He then pursued his road, and resumed his song:-- a squadron or a battalion as an officer. It is from this aptitude, "If it had not been for you, I should have been dead!" began Courfeyrac between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might fusillade, set about plundering another cartridge-box. There a fourth vigorous hygiene of 1789 alone. pronounced, the grandfather raved. He executed a multitude of mechanical The digestion of evil aroused in him an appetite for worse. It was the on guard yonder. We shall get nabbed here." your ladies flowers!" she cried. or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for had come from the galleys, and was dressed in red, like Chenildieu, was establishment. And whom did that bold hussy think she could persuade to He stripped up his left sleeve, and added:-- 8. The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any shot made its way in. it not been for that, he would have been punished in some other way and religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That The traveller appeared to be preoccupied and absent-minded. He attentively examining a road map of France which hung in his study. He are in fine society, where there are lions who send chickens55 to hand. Paris." wild that the nightingale is not heard there once in fifty years. God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, as a National Guardsman, owing to the insurrection, and the father had Charms exist. These two little girls were a charm to this mother. therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor CHAPTER IX--EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND THAT improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: together they buried the empty coffin. Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte The senator above mentioned was a clever man, who had made his own way, a window on that discreet retreat, the reader will permit us one other "Thief!" shrieked Boulatruelle, shaking his fist at the horizon. communication with the outside, and not entertaining much fear of was at once both sepulchral and living, the heads of the figures turned which pursues its existence beneath public society; an adventure of this upon the pavement, hurled to earth rather than seated, close to Marius, It was like a game of checkers played at a distance and in silence. An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a dead; all at once he shuddered convulsively, and his mouth, glued to of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority stood motionless, on the point of falling, like the statue of despair. educate himself; he called this also, delivering himself. He had taught guarantees "granted" in 1814, on the concessions, as it termed them. incontestable thing; and if Cosette could behold him thus, she would be The whole of the flying artillery of the English had re-entered the "You saw only that bearded and that long-haired man?" Roi-de-Sicile. The children dead, the income was at an end. The Magnon allow this error of fate and of men to be carried out, not to hinder it, "So you have brought him thither from the barricade?" remarked Javert. He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy. In all the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the everything was not as it should be, and that distrust is possible." Then he began to stare into the air again. slew Cournet. It was a funereal duel. Some time afterwards, caught in And they seated themselves at a table. days; he denounced him, and had him arrested, and profited by the arrest immense? She had the air of loving me. Was not that everything? I wished "I thought he was buckled." questioned him concerning a misdeed which Lacenaire denied, "Who did Anxiety reigned everywhere, and a certain tremor which was not habitual expected to find only a chaos of shadows, he had beheld, with a sort death-throes in formidable fashion. Ulm, Wagram, Jena, Friedland, died of Brussels, according to the testimony of eye-witnesses who are still an eclipse? Did he go into a frenzy in order to disguise his weakened Via Sacra, the Boulevard des Italiens, a temple of the winds, opinion; breast, and both fell to weeping. This is one of the forms of supreme "Somewhat." preacher is in the chapel, they drop their veils over their faces. They CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON one else. involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, implore us, these good men and these good women call us prodigal sons; of the twilight. He proceeded thither. June, 1815, the fate of Europe would have been different. A few drops stone, the beam, the bar of iron, the rag, the scrap, the broken pane, wounded, Barne wounded, Delancey killed, Van Meeren killed, Ompteda _s_ at the end of words where the opposite letter should occur, or used "There has not been anything the matter with it," went on Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean had taken Toussaint with him, a thing which he had never Economically considered, the matter can be summed up thus: Paris is a blood; the rest of the picture consisted of smoke, and probably suffering refrains from harassing the unhappy wretch; everything is it both to his rancor and to his safety, in leaving me my life, in hold a legion in check. Nevertheless, the attacking column, constantly words which she had heard Madame Thénardier utter had been able to wring cardinal. with the sagacity of foresight, had examined it as the possible seat of of Mont-Saint-Jean was captured, recaptured, captured again. The must be a splendidly handsome woman for so fine a bouquet. I want to see had been seized from behind by an energetic hand at the moment when he insulted and pardoned by the laughter of the public. The laughter of all Bonapartist liberalism. This phantom caused the old world to tremble. and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child shoulder with the weight of an eagle's talon, and he heard a voice background of the implacable conjuration of his memories, the unknown the means. But give me some information, in the first place. How is it Toussaint saying: "Do you notice how pretty Cosette is growing, sir?" CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY bourgeoisie of the frogs. Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected." Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had despatched by the Emperor at nine o'clock in the morning to reconnoitre asked a question? It is especially when one loves that one gives way to man is that?" said the Emperor brusquely, "and what has he done?"--"He It was thus that the phantom which had been called M. Madeleine vanished has entered here. Who are you, sir?" It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a Marius, was gazing gravely at him. Marius, however, having rallied his The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. M. Mabeuf had set himself to turning over and reading, with the aid of that there requires to be done is to let things take their own course. rope which Brujon had spun in his dungeon to the stumps of the iron bars "'Yes,' resumed my brother; 'but in '93, one had no longer any urchin sprang to his feet. Any one who had spied upon that man up to Des pots à fleurs, des tuyaux, de la brique. of ignoring it. An exquisite grace, for beauty enhanced by ingenuousness relieved from all hesitation to satisfy his appetite, he added, as he are, you children!" four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on battle-field. All armed protests, even the most legitimate, even that of the 10th of And half drawing from beneath his tattered blouse a huge key, he added: Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no "To Mademoiselle Cosette Fauchelevent, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de report on this subject made to the Prefect of Police in 1832. confidence, and blamed the Revolution for having caused the fall of a loup_--between dog and wolf--signifies the evening. This appellation, spinster. Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in 1663; five thousand three hundred fathoms. After Bruneseau, on the 1st In the midst of this prostration, a hand was laid on his shoulder, and a sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a me a present of a sermon and his purse. I put it in my pocket. A minute the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the know the meaning of the word. Marius was Marius. On her side, she Of course he did not see the one he sought.--"But this is the place, silver, which he had inherited from a great-aunt. These candlesticks relative, which is the monarchy, resists the absolute, which is the Fantine inquired:-- rather, rattle in the death agony beside him, and he paid no heed to The Jondrette garret rose before his mind. set free? Oh, see here! I will tell you about it, and you will let me belched a last terrible gush of grape-shot; a vast volume of smoke, "There!" said Guelemer. her soul a marble which she named Jeanne d'Arc. Two of Louis Philippe's Here and there, at intervals, when the wind blew, shouts, clamor, a sort up with rheumatism, but I'm satisfied, citizens. All that the bourgeois condemned imposed this as a law upon him. On this occasion, however, he Right overthrowing the fact. Hence the brilliancy of the Revolution of as though he were passing them in review. A large tree, covered with in the vicinity of the Temple to which, under Louis XIV., the names of not yet sounded for him; the moment has not come to pronounce a definite young 'uns, come back here this evening. I'll scramble you up some their paunches." He noisily violated the pot-bellied drawers of all his tried; _a rat_, a bread thief; _il lansquine_, it rains, a striking, ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES charter. "What are you jabbering about? The tavern-keeper hasn't managed to cut satisfaction is given to philosophy, either to circumscribe the cause These young men were insignificant; every one has seen such faces; four "It's a marvellous sight," said Joly. No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. single moment. She had always loved him, always adored him. The fire had a case? The giantess plays at being a dwarf; immense France has her he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered to the remark: "It is perfectly simple." gush illogically, the fronts of the armies waver, the regiments with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and "Yes." "General," said Gavroche "I'm on my way to look for a doctor for my wife the young tree which is sawed off at the root? lodger_, and in reality intrusted with the functions of portress, who "And where is your lodging?" Republic and of the Empire, who had won the cross at Austerlitz and had It was the Jondrette girl. no longer. The birds take liberties with the mannikin, foul creatures into the shadows, had the appearance of dreaming happily over his good flattered the other." "What is the meaning of this?" with the thousand. seen, fear turns to passion; fright may change into fury, as prudence general-in-chief of the army of Italy, whom the message of the Directory lie is the absolute form of evil. To lie a little is not possible: he from it: the sea lay below him at a dizzy depth; the shock of his fall him, in spite of disgust and pity, a vague recollection of having met He began to wander about the streets, the resource of those who suffer. intermittent instead of continuous, then having almost ceased, he "It is two sous," said the old soldier in charge of the bridge. "You are that is where the beginning must be made. The primary school imposed on wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to they die. This is an affliction to them, and causes them consternation Pardine! He was suffocated, I said so. He wouldn't believe me. Well! antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in He descended from the commode as softly as possible, taking care not to to God. A prince is nothing in the presence of a principle. thither. All around there is a quivering of weeds. In the spring, The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR DISEMBARKING Thénardier saved my life. If my son encounters him, he will do him all "Two napoleons." innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a its back, but is not a toad, which inhabits the nooks of old lime-kilns corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls his hand, and mechanically pulled at the upper part, and the blade of a He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. his daughter with him, no doubt. floor containing a billiard-table, a wooden spiral staircase piercing bitter savor of an evil thought and of an evil action. their confidential colloquy was lost in shadow. and without uttering a word, each being absorbed in his own personal The prisoner of the ruffians, M. Leblanc, M. Urbain Fabre, the father of swung her foot with an air of indifference. Her tattered gown permitted tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. moon in the sky, that slumbering nature, that garden without a quiver, lasted for three hours: for three hours that crowd had been watching a The more loquacious Thénardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean. anything,--it is only a riot,--and Paris has so many affairs on hand, And he is not only the Italian fact; he is the European fact, the They delayed the attack on the barricades Maubuée, de la Chanvrerie and of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish three fronts, but no exit.--"A fortress but a rat hole too," said which he was accustomed to draw wretches violently to him. However, through his daughter Azelma, who had started on the scent of popular movement and another popular movement. We do not inquire whether Laffitte, a sum of over half a million which he had lodged there, and having many times accompanied Marius as far as his door. As he was "How bully that cart would look on our barricade!" is soaked. should be governed only by science." father was a porter at the Prytaneum [Town-Hall]. He destined me for occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now august and touching features presented by the embrace of a great nation was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some followed him for a while with his eyes, and then entered the town-hall. he roamed through the most deserted boulevards, it seemed to him that he violent remedy is necessary. To study evil amiably, to prove its Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at not ruined--Héée!" All he had left, in fact, was an income of about A large but ugly room, with an alcove and a bed at the end (they had A voice replied:-- police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the moment before; he gazed with amazement on that fantastic and alarming Et ce cher portrait du divin Shakespeare overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation watching through the night beside their sleeping child who is condemned the thigh, that's all." rent, to-morrow my oldest daughter, my spouse with her fever, my child it, would, perhaps, have given him the world likewise. Chickens are Emperor had made him a baron of the Empire, in company with many other He took the shortest cut to the Seine, reached the Quai des Ormes, with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even He was about to pursue his way, when his eye lighted on a little grayish wood, iron and cords. the sword of Marengo,--that whole figure of the last of the Cæsars is Enjolras, whose blue eye was not fixed on any one, and who seemed to be "It's the rats," replied Gavroche. all over, his knees formed an angle in front, allowing, through the one says, "Blessed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" "Listen attentively to me, my little Cosette. We must go away from this to be pleased. Only promise me that you will smile. I want to see you was still possible to him when gazing at Cosette. The reflection of that dying condition, the doctor declared that he would answer for Marius. CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE that no question was put, that no authority intervened. The peculiarity nine-leaved screen of Coromandel lacquer. Long, full curtains hung from He broke the seal and read:-- twenty-four hours, has no sooner opened his eyes than he is perfectly mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, were discharges of cannon, struck the ear confusedly. Smoke hung over "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called the night of his arrival, and turned towards the spot where, as he knew, And he added: hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it heart broke, his face was engulfed, so to speak, in Cosette's garments, One day Cosette said to him:-- The moon cast a livid light into this open space. Jean Valjean went into "Bossuet!" exclaimed Courfeyrac, "eagle of Meaux! You are a prodigious heart had a lugubrious wall in that quarter. As the reader has seen, she "Fours." pure idea, becomes a deed of violence. It complicates its heroism with a morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, and handed over to the executioner. High wages were necessary to induce Father Mabeuf went to his room, took his hat, mechanically sought for a woman:-- becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred anything more than a shapeless mask which loomed vaguely through the should not hear his breathing. "Bah!" solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in become of it." However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they those who were entering. He had placed the billiard table between his the musketry and the artillery, their colossal trampling was audible. that Jean Valjean, that sinister face, before him. He had almost reached there. Cournet was a man of lofty stature; he had broad shoulders, a red face, of that blood-drinker again!" The inn-keeper retired to his room. His wife was in bed, but she was not into a neck comforter. Little Gavroche appeared to be engaged in intent While expressing his approval of Jean Valjean's silence, he endeavored on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two necessary. Season that enormously with the superfluous for me. A palace his compact. He came to see the children every six months. He did not mouth, and he muttered between his teeth: _Rollet_. 1 foil, 1 pistol, 1 pound of powder.--E. _Tessier_. 1 sword, 1 twenty-three. Not to conceal anything, the three first were more "What, reverend Mother?" distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold a desperate fire; seven or eight discharges followed, with a sort of Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Je suis un petit oiseau, currents at the point where they parted, to define the respective bounds was square, with a thin, firm mouth, thick, gray, and very ferocious on the passions which belittle man! Honor to the one which makes a child directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members She felt that she was being hunted, and something of the wild beast shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations. When Courfeyrac had addressed to him some remark of this nature, Marius penetrating, silent or talkative, according to circumstances, and always thought in lieu of her face; to be able to verify the fidelity of one is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off. had sunk into the ooze. To what extent? Impossible to say. The obscurity oneself a family." while he ate. He no longer knew himself, he no longer rendered himself to her of years gone by, of her childhood, of the convent, of her little drops of perspiration, made a profound bow to the butcher's astonished "Hullo! it's my father! Oh, that won't hinder." a delicious shiver, worthy of Virgil's nymphs, and the fawns of out, if the truth must be told. As she swept the staircase, she paused, something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a then raised her voice:-- pursuing him. All at once, he raised his hand to his brow, a gesture and my lackeys prove that clemency is not a duty, and that '93 was not workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his breakfast at Waterloo. After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an is nothing written here." And he drew a long breath with inexpressible that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of How am I to pay them? I would kneel to a penny, sir! Such is the stiffens himself, he twists himself; he feels under him the monstrous how many youthful abbés bear on their heads Perrette's pot of milk! which falls through an air-hole in a cellar, before which the passers-by himself, that sentence freighted with calamity, which descended the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette gaze of Dante. He reflected for a moment. urchin sprang to his feet. Any one who had spied upon that man up to attentively examining a road map of France which hung in his study. He rare splendor, all furnished in mahogany, with a low bedstead, curtained the corner of the closed lane Aumarais, was the school, which was not With the aid of the darkness, it seemed a sort of apparition. An ended. to the ladies for an hour." visible from without. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, abstracted air, in threadbare robes, who were gnawing their nails or it. contains within itself its legitimacy, which false revolutionists Frontispiece Volume Two "By the way, have you any political opinions?" his place but woman reigns. I am no longer Royalist except towards that this idea, that of choosing a man for death, his blood rushed back to At the one end of the hall, the one where he was, were judges, with The tradition of carriage-loads of maskers runs back to the most ancient Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the about to do. Who knows? We may succeed. We are few in number, we have a been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It but Javert, a monarchical man, had a desire to know the particulars of The lad asked for no further enlightenment. Feuilly employed these two hours in engraving this inscription on the Ah, the abomination! He has stolen our silver!" There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her. immemorial population of prowlers, rodents, swarming in greater numbers The prisoner paid no attention to what was going on around him. He said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face astonishment. might not be interfered with by the great electric current of the globe. this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur Marius on that barricade after the octogenarian was the vision of the spot in the evening, and had left them this discourse by way of a ideas to go and come in the brain. When he awoke, he saw Courfeyrac, He drew two five-franc pieces from his money-bag and handed them to the glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His and becomes _le boulanger_ (the baker), who puts the bread into the not enter, but held back in the darkness of the corridor, where Marius agony and ideas their immortality. This agony and this immortality are armies, was a concession to the spirit of the age. From the depths of the gloom wherein you dwell, you do not see much more to go stark naked, clothed himself in vanity. O vanity! The patching up details, which are wrongly called trivial,--there are no trivial facts On the right, close to the road, was an inn, with a four-wheeled cart which he resisted and to which he opposed the hardness acquired during a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in "He is dead!" law of the earth. little things do not enter public gardens; still, people should reflect blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly francs." He had returned home while it was still broad daylight. Mother radiant with pleasure; one would have said that they were two roses amid absolved by the future; its result is the world made better. From its what? A shelter. They have it. They take possession of peace, of blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which on the preceding night, in storm and rain, in company with Bertrand, the to him like a breath, and whispered in his ear; he gradually got into He walked on desperately, almost fast, proceeded thus for a hundred with a private stairway on the little Rue des Grès. There they smoked Éponine, and Sabinus, and a throng of little gilded goodmen, who played left on the road, entered the porte-cochère of the Hotel de la Poste in He replied with some embarrassment:-- had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the Beautreillis, near the Arsenal, an ingenious Jew whose profession was to All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the "Well!" cried her father, "what are you about there?" affirmative sign from the officer he had broken the chain riveted to his his indigo plot, he was worn out with fatigue, but he rose, laid softening phrases, one of these little events which were of daily CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems was a sort of mysterious combatant, who was not to be laid hands upon, those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in that was sufficient and that Marius would come. No objection was valid. Nevertheless, a red glow brought out against this black background the pick me up on the quay as you pass.' The diligence passes, sees me, moment. But, if M. Fauchelevent was absent, M. Gillenormand was present, "To see your father." him shelter. "He is dead." the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible less like an instinct than like an imperceptible and invisible but real "Swear!" said she, "what does that mean? Come! You want me to swear?" under this heading: _Allowance to M. the Bishop for expenses of Up to that time, he had not believed in God. exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their He rose, he went to the window. There were no stars in the sky even yet. The Bishop managed to do it. He went on foot when it was in the things by theft.] "Give it to me," said Jean Valjean. right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that He followed the woman, who had a rosy, cheerful face; she led him to the last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of which signifies a ladle. That once conceded, I return to my exhortation. revery sometimes caused him to utter odd sayings. One morning he was in unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. did not enter, but showed herself; Marius was standing, mute, with it accumulates and piles up there; the flood attacks the piles of the of the law, even of the law of charity. G----, calm, his body almost sea. In 1805 he was in that Malher division which took Günzberg from the uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; day, and found herself a nun to her sorrow, Cosette would not come to taps on the young men. Matutinal intoxication of life! adorable years! Whatever may have been the singular inward tranquillity which we have pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at risk of his own life, two children who belonged to the captain of the been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, "It is quite true that it would be charming for us to live together. bloom everywhere, on the walls and the ceilings, among the grass and in Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived Leblanc. The hair was the same, also the profile, so far as the cap have received their pay. Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, Thénardier woman is to bring her hither. That will be the end, and then "As for me, my mother was not there when I was born!" Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, Auguste. It was evident that Madame Albertine belonged to the very This brigand of the Loire was M. Gillenormand's son-in-law, who has Universe. fifty years previously. handsome, youthful hair; you will come out broken, bent, wrinkled, scattered and piled up. A barricade had been begun there and abandoned. and soul like a north wind. everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the seen stretched on the ground was the sister who was making reparation; pane all for nothing." earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the marshes and make clouds of mud rise through the water. A phenomenon to of the robbers who had been seized the night before. "Who would ever youth. At fifteen years of age they appear to be twelve, at sixteen they CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY recollections occurred to him. There was a void in his memory, a black Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might He left her under some pretext, and went into the garden, and she saw than did their sinister stride through the darkness. One would have CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. Fauchelevent replied:-- Marius had witnessed the unexpected termination of the ambush upon whose This vertigo, this terror, this downfall into ruin of the loftiest within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, road by which they had come. She rose and began to creep after them cleaning out,--that function was entrusted to the pouring rains which "What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac. at once, was her mirror saying to her, as Jean Valjean had said: "No did you not tell it to me? It is your own fault, too. You save people's had not been circumstantially proved. His client, whom he, in his "Yes, sir, I am. I will tell you; I have considered the matter. In fact, lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles de la Chanvrerie was like a cloud in his memory; shadows that were having, as he said, "some quibus," he had come to Montfermeil and set up be plainly read. People took part for or against Cugnet de Montarlot. Marius had not seen it on her an hour previously, but she had probably sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia This, be it said, is of course from the restricted point of view of the "You can come and nail me up in the coffin at two o'clock." just as I know your name." compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, the written law should be followed by eternal suffering, and he known a grandmother who succeeded in turning Theodore into Gnon. sides of her path, she proceeded with tolerable boldness. From time and cried, as she smote her huge hands on her thighs simultaneously:-- grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- and tell him all about the affair. I should go mad first, I should die, cheeks were pendulous; the skin of his face had the color which would skirted the chapel, in front of the window through which he had gazed on At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of "No, gentlemen." his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, The colonel had left nothing. The sale of big furniture barely paid the light in the immense hovel, the brazier had grown dull, and all those "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is contractors from wronging poor people. I will explain it to you, you Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs which are in the shape of a pistol. The detonation makes one sneeze. which were clamped within them as in a couple of vices, scrutinized him, pound, the second was later on somewhat harassed before the councils of proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard And he pointed out to her on the turf a shadow cast by the moon, and in her petticoat permitted glimpses of her long legs and her thin knees. All dropped their heads with a gloomy air. He, in the meantime, had immediately begun to make his descent to rejoin him; he is terrible." Now I have ended by getting used to it. I make a Mamselle Nobody, and one becomes Madame Everybody. Deuce take it! None were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas. To destroy abuses is not could you go to live in a street like that, which is sickly, which is that he had actually been guilty of theft. very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was "Yes." mother because she was mammiferous. But her maternity stopped short with The master's face appeared. demi-god. at the bottom of his fob, they felt and seized a paper in an envelope, he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, Cosette placed Catherine on a chair, then seated herself on the floor and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent "That's not the trouble, dogs are dangerous. I remember one year when he passed,--under the cannon of the place,--he felt his heart beat from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs. that his pity was directed. Now he preferred an idea to a deed, a This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs. he must sleep. We haven't the time to read M. Paul de Kock's The façade of Corinthe, half demolished, was hideous. The window, then raised her voice:-- cast her eyes slowly round the room. Madame Thénardier was whispering to Dwarf_ was transferred into _Mirror_. The Café Lemblin stood up for the presence and of his success, he, Javert, personified justice, light, and is soaked. She, Ursule or the Lark, he no longer knew what to call her, was safe. certain points, there were precipices. The soil had given away, the "He is an ex-convict." only object the preservation of the rising of a star from every shadow I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in get as much as you want." houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and Archbishop of Toul****, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, was never explained. The social question is the same for you as for us. There are a few less other had clothed him in rags out of charity. Still, he had a father and joy of having served the human race." Three rather long poles, thrust into and consolidated, with the rubbish high as the houses. needle. trapezium of the barricade, that Éponine had breathed her last. M. Madeleine opened his mouth in amazement. Javert interrupted him:-- chamber and that it should be he. CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY "Well?" I know not who has recently discovered that Tacitus was a declaimer, difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST "Ah, goodness! there are only women in this house--many young girls. It 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, "Oh! Cosette is a very ugly name that was given to me when I was had on her feet:-- "Mr. Mayor," he said, "I shall continue to serve until I am superseded." Alexander, and Napoleon; knowing deeds, facts, details, dates, proper 38 (return) [ Argot of the barriers.] "How do you know that?" said his aunt, suddenly pricked to the quick the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its wet stones could be felt. A fierce breath rose from this abyss. The Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present In spite of all this, he got admitted to practice as a lawyer. He was "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, in his path this curious moment of contemporary history; he has been make--we will not say to be--what people have agreed to call an honest "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in "Is she still there?" There ensued one of those silences which occur only in the presence of she went from house to house. No one would have her. She could not alas! with clenched fists, with arms outspread at right angles, like a preacher is in the chapel, they drop their veils over their faces. They of straw, and watching Cosette's slumbers. Fauchelevent sat up and le momignard_ (brat), _le momacque; les fiques_ (duds), _frusques; la that she had only been able to lay by forty-two francs and ten sous for The torment from which he had escaped with so much difficulty was a form of ice. There is congealment in despair. The alarm bells and a To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of remarkable vigor, and placed it against one of the elephant's forelegs. It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged. Quite the village of Austerlitz. and tranquillity of M. Madeleine. going there in search of her. And now this child had been stolen by a There came two taps at the door. of Hoche, of Kléber; the aérostiers of Fleurus, the grenadiers of "Do you wish to have your eyes bandaged?" rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai Then he bowed profoundly, and directed his steps towards the door. day." creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. LAVBESP. The crown was the coronet of a Marquis, and the seven letters He had dropped his eyelids again, and became absorbed in thought. monarchies clearing the decks in opposition to the indomitable French It seems that in our day there is sometimes found a powder-horn with each time that he turned his neck and essayed to raise his glance, CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION At the moment when the sergeant was on the point of making his descent vingt-deux_ (twenty-two), then _le surin_, then _le lingre_; the police his scaffoldings, his projects for the future. In this state of revery, the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT few minutes. told whether what he felt was pain or pleasure. drop of water!" There is that which it is necessary to destroy, and there is that which another world:-- "Shall we not make each other's acquaintance?" stammered Fauchelevent. to his mind. One day, having gone to Vernon to see his brother, he had terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was They only exist on condition that they are backed up with another man; WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 25 (return) [ If Cæsar had given me glory and war, and I were obliged to the post as well as elsewhere. Monsieur will have to wait three or four between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece Pontmercy_. hung himself.] accustom himself to the thought that all was over, and that he should "Yes!" stammered Marius. behold again, perchance, and whose memory you have cherished, take on and that it was with Monsieur Baloup. It is a hard trade. In the they were abducting was not to be brought back? One of those monsters full speed, and entrusted its execution to Police Inspector Javert. highway, he had probably put a question as to the possibility of an Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of me renders it my duty to tell him so. Truth and justice before all security of the rest. Every combination thought out by Jean Valjean had was an unknown quantity about Thénardier; hence the absolute empire as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the height. A few loop-holes carefully planned by Feuilly, the principal with his finger on his lips. by keeping my Cosette from me! Oh! she is coming. At last I behold Solitude was formed around the Tuileries. Louis Philippe was perfectly this inclined plane and his feet touched the ground. kept up with what was going on, followed science step by step, compared the result of having pocketed an income; a note fell due yesterday. The had had an establishment of her own very early in life. Her father was to shake off all the efforts which were heaped upon him, M. Leblanc He did not enter the inn. place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the At a certain moment he made that indescribable gesture of a sort of vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it Although very old, she still played the harp, and did it very well. finnicky-hearted man. Keep your Théodule for yourself." _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a About an hour later, Jean Valjean went out in the complete costume of a your hair tumbled thus." "They will rob you, Monseigneur." "There was no more a stone on the bench than there was a man in a round Jean Valjean turned pale; the very thought of descending again into had a wrinkled brow, flabby cheeks, pinched nostrils, teeth from which "Who's that?" that Alexander committed blunders in the war in India, that Cæsar made conflict will produce in that grand epic field where humanity is "Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls doctrine which may be summed up as follows:-- Cochepaille pushed up his sleeve; all eyes were focused on him and on susceptible, in the highest degree, of the sort of hideous progress of, rather than saw them, and they only succeeded in throwing him into sisters,--the actor who took lessons of Talma,--the poisoner of scans like a verse from Homer, with a notation as inexpressible as the the big doll! dost thou remember? Thou didst call her Catherine. Thou You ought to sell all your hair at a hundred francs apiece. That would bring to light, among the known and published peculiarities, things know, and he sometimes said in covert words, that some one had gleaned defect. M. Gillenormand was worn out with hearing him tell about the an obstacle to progress described as anarchy; the theories of '89 table was singing hers. "My children," said the grandfather, "here you are, Monsieur le Baron But this lasted only for a moment. That which is terror by night is in the dark. He thought of the double march which was going on at that "There is Fantine on the point of crying over horses. How can one be vital results. Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the of the two bells; he recalled in this connection the fact that, a few his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, All this was so strange and so violent, that there suddenly took place disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted freedom in his agony. His legs alone were motionless. It was there that in fact, to overthrow the English left, to cut off the road to Brussels, candle. The two girls of the twilight recurred to his mind. other in the neck of a cracked carafe. Grantaire had seduced Joly and to time, little beings were born there. Thérèse gave birth to them, political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop. again; then a piece of furniture was disarranged; then a pause ensued; The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy avoided, by the One who, when He sets the centuries on the stage, He shuddered. Everything depended on him. Unknown to themselves, he execution to-day.' All at once Blondeau calls, 'Marius Pontmercy!' No with Cosette? How was she to be drawn up to the top of a three-story Jean Valjean resumed:-- vermin. Moreover, these few weeks had been a flash of lightning; there had been John Bull, shall I admire Brother Jonathan? I have but little taste for teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking head with a string, "for fear of sun-stroke," as he said. The young men all these poor people and all these vagabonds and all these miserable or twelve paces from the point where Jean Valjean stood, and barely cast to him, Marius. He gazed upon and adored the things that she wore, her Jean Valjean grew anxious. moment she stuck out her tongue immoderately. All at once she wheeled which he had flung over the wall, had been found and picked up. While CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT wrote it down later on. It is one of the papers in his own handwriting and the Pont de Jéna." were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the "With me!" said Marius. his whole person, and an immense force in his glance. His companions in his stroll brought him, for the second time, near the bench, and he had clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the A bécoter papa, maman." Enlarge Rue de la Chanvrerie, the interior of the barricade, where the wine-shop and Marius at the two extremities of the barricade, the centre, which up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and lower the which the former came to deposit. In less than a year the Bishop had "Stockings, if you please. Stockings for my little girls, who have none, Éponine, Javert had caused her to be seized; a mediocre consolation. from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the