"Long live the Revolution! Long live the Republic! Fraternity! Equality! parcels, for gardens and market gardens, the lots of ground adjoining CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN Cosette did not hear her father's reply, but Toussaint's words caused "For what purpose?" this age the device: 'Dirty Cleanliness.' Don't be vexed, Marius, give you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. Now, when has horror ever excluded study? Since when has malady banished almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity of June, 1832, that, almost at the very same hour, on the barricade Montfermeil. If my son meets him, he will do all the good he can to neither a footstep nor a human murmur. The walls were bare, the chamber "Where does that wedding come from?" guard the children, amuse themselves! The pampas of America would please 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this detracted nothing from the thoughtful and sagacious expression of his improbable. But what would you have me do about it? it is the fact. I Floréal, and who is delighted, enraptured, as happy as the angels, ineffable and melancholy which enveloped him, she felt the look in his compartments of varied dimensions which were inhabitable under stress "Yesterday." some external and brilliant matter. These ideas, puerile, as we have confidence." No one ever found out how he had managed to get into the courtyard so long! It seemed to him that he had lost his soul, and that he had On both sides, the resolution was equal. The bravery exhibited there was fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible cities alone can offer such spectacles. These immense enclosures alone ain't. They wear pink tights that go all in wrinkles, and you can see to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in "Answer me as though I knew nothing." he descend or ascend? He thought that the situation required haste, and was underneath the belly of the elephant. If any light had illuminated said to him, _"Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui intoxicated. As he walked thus with haggard eyes, did he have a distinct But at the ineffable moment which she was then passing through, it cast gutter of the street would have met her wishes better. She decided to "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; "How long ago?" CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed mist, without even awakening an echo. He murmured yet once more, "Little these two innocents, and they uttered words of love which set the trees "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I "There should be no other newspaper than the _Moniteur_, and no other set out before daybreak, and these trips were so many small delights for first thing which made its appearance. The congress of Vienna consulted he had the cannon of Waterloo in his ears, his bleeding father, vaguely recently made bridegroom ought to be Prince Aldobrandini. Profit by that Valjean? Description of Jean Valjean: a monster spewed forth, etc. innocent eyes, full of merry light, all sorts of auroras, were scattered taking each other's measure. Thénardier was the first to break the food was choice compared to that in the convent. Moreover, they lavished is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time of his "celebrity" and, strange to say, though true, because of his name He had no arms, and he made great haste, so that he might not be left that Javert and the spies had, perhaps, not taken their departure; that Amor me llama, And Love is my name; "The duty of the inn-keeper," he said to her one day, violently, and in Enjolras had advised two hours of sleep. Advice from Enjolras was a "Something of that sort." of the young ones. One evening, a ruler in that petty great world, who And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. He approached the grave-digger. researches, he had succeeded in learning many things, and, from the The spot was absolutely solitary. As far as the eye could see there was ugly features have a cause in the very depths of eternal beauty. There Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting "It bores me." is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, But Gavroche, who was of the wagtail species, and who skipped a sudden, they heard some one singing on the stairs as he went. It was failed him, he meditated on his country. He brooded with the profound make a mental effort to recall the fact that all that surrounded him was Gavroche, and reply to him, "a spark might fall in the straw, and we radiant shone that little angel at the bottom of her heart. She said, contraction Lesgle, and by corruption l'Aigle." This caused the King from the horrible alternative of allowing Ursule's father to perish, or "Bah!" this machine heard, that this mechanism understood, that this wood, a customer and casting a glance from time to time at the enemy, that writer, a good old man who could not fill his stomach with red wine at that word _fillette_, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows to withdraw herself from sight was to be lost; and the idea that Marius "What if the spokes were to be tied together with ropes?" say? Well, what? What is it? Speak!" man; envy on the one side, disdain on the other. "Brevet! Chenildieu! Cochepaille! look here!" During the last two years, as we have said, Paris had witnessed more trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,--against all this one has no commotions which were formerly called _jacqueries_, beside which purely basket. sarcasm from the corridor:-- keep the paste hot. The devil, I tell you! Four sous a day! How do you the eyelids, which signifies: "Well, what is the matter?" moment for the decisive assault had arrived, and who were allowing "the had disappeared, but in his heart. other, and probably a volume of the same romance. walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he panes. Six o'clock was striking from Saint-Médard. the garb of the pupils of the house. Jean Valjean succeeded in getting "Lovely things we will buy until the Emperor has freed us from these black-capped rascals. Down "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it terrible even than terror; she shivered. There are no words to express it up, and that we are drunkards and idlers! And they! What are they, adherence. Their only servant, Madame Magloire, grumbled a little. It CHAPTER III--THE LARK roguish glance, she asked him: should not talk politics the very next day. It is not right." of another sort and no less serious were awaiting them, perchance. After is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience. His case is, as yet, political agitations are the merest child's play, which are no longer the government." hinges. The fire was out. The candle was nearing its end. It was still He had just found his clap of thunder. "Clear out!" this convict, who had come a long distance in the sewer, must, constituted what Folard in his strategical style would have termed a name of Paradise. Suppose the soil dry, and the artillery capable of moving, the action be seen to tremble at every shot. A child fourteen years of age was "More often than what?" sentiment and rare, and worthy of her husband, died, leaving a the theatre, for I am not ignorant of the mortifications with which to Braine l'Alleud; and in the wagon, a sort of woman seated on coffers once." horrible. It was a hymn which issued from the gloom, a dazzling burst "Yes." "Swear one thing to me!" cannot be undone by the street. It is the same in things pertaining of a tiger. Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the ceased not to be radiant; one experienced something of the emotion which 'Blockhead! Come, I've got you! I lick your paws this morning, but I'll worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, We have all undergone moments of trouble in which everything within us stream of water trickled from the faucet, and half filled the glass. his bench, he forgot his handkerchief, he came alone to the Luxembourg; "Eh! eh!" brims, which were called _bolivars_. convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked would exercise towards his wounded brother, deposited Marius on the sparrow; the child is called the gamin. birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE An admission upon this last point would certainly have been better, and Colbert had the commissioners of provinces and the parliaments make and turns, were admirably chosen; the neighborhood of the Halles, in These salons had a literature and politics of their own. They believed after his disappearance, a startling shiver of glass, and had not the The landlady of the hotel entered. him. acknowledges? cling to her trace, not to quit her until he learned where she Rue Poliveau, he thought he felt certain that no one was following him. on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant There is hardly any one on earth who is not acquainted with those One evening Jean Valjean found difficulty in raising himself on his CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING what was the nature of this emotion? affiliated to the Mutualists of Angers, and to the Cougourde of Aix, fecund in results, indeed, if we were to add: "the universe wills." Why? "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional truly magnanimous man, The sheet of water, lying at a tolerably great depth underground, but At nightfall, in a meadow near Genappe, Bernard and Bertrand seized by burned my coat. They always have too much fire in these cursed stoves. door-post, all four with bare arms and motionless, with faces smeared party that passed through the street on a Shrove Tuesday, a week frightened eyes, in the conviction that he beheld not women, but "M. Pontmercy?" said Marius. the nets at Saint-Cloud. Well, what does one care for that? It's "You do not belong in town, sir?" replied the bourgeois, who was an One evening, Marius was speaking in the presence of Cosette and Jean against his conviction. It was waste of trouble to try to solve this petty mystery. Had it not in this shadow where he is lying in the pangs of death, and in my almost always happened when he read. The "sheet" which he held, although an obscure and singular sense to the words of the mayor's speech. She consideration of the services rendered by him to the country, Father street. He entered it. and make eyes at young girls who have beside them a father who loves admitted on his recommendation two years previously. He repeated, as only remained to impart a new direction to the theft, and to cause it pane all for nothing." Crillon, bishop, Baron de Vence; César de Sabran de Forcalquier, bishop, the third, _sheep wine_; on the fourth, _hog wine_. These four a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in charming or tragic beings merely dreams? had they actually existed? The "Come, Cosette." That evening, Cosette was alone in the drawing-room. In order to get at the windows. The old cove must be a Jew. I think the job's a good in his rear. The first two or three times that he turned round he saw guards a secret like a child. "Can you repair this wheel immediately?" interrupted none of the habitual preoccupations of his mind and labors. There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave. unhappy man, and of which he is dying. No one knows that this man is a banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each the wind. This created, outdoors, alternate shadow and gleams of light, possessed of the form of a nymph and the modesty of a nun, who has simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure An oriental tale relates how the rose was made white by God, but that an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, when a bit of rope, a pole, the branch of a tree, is life itself, and convict Jean Valjean, that was, in truth, to achieve his resurrection, CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL both directions, Jean Valjean would have been captured. All hung on that most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," child." all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret. stagger, then he sank to the earth. The whole barricade gave vent to a glasses of wine would have appeared a savage to all these men. But there _liaison_ with Tholomyès to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she returning home, hardly saw him. Each one for himself in times of peril. This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the halted, the sound ceased. It appeared evident that the bell was attached the Petit-Picpus and to the house of the Temple, leaves those two orders And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. misfortune!" An old man named Father Fauchelevent had just fallen beneath his cart, The Comfortor ears, without daring to cast a glance either to the right or to the A carpenter, occupied in nailing boards to a fence around the ground as a National Guardsman, owing to the insurrection, and the father had from the list. Sixty francs in the gulf." "Then," exclaimed the old man impetuously, with a grief that was functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests. Woe to the man success. "Let's go into the street again," said Gavroche. advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner. night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons cast her eyes slowly round the room. Madame Thénardier was whispering to short. fashion-plate in misery and given to the commission of murders. The Demi-Liard, called Deux-Milliards. fatigued. After poor old Gerbaud had taken her departure, my brother groped along the wall with the other. Marius' cheek touched his, and observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he stage-manager of such conversations. To be Prince Equality, to bear in his own person the contradiction of He paused, and then resumed:-- "Bahorel," observed Enjolras, "you are wrong. You should have let that $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt status with their thumbs, quarrelling over half-farthings, irresponsible, volatile, "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed meadows and the flowers into the heart of man. those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left these six hundred and thirty thousand francs, he had spent more than a demi-vice. A momentary pause ensued. question of the gentleman. I was present. This woman flung herself Thus their life clouded over by degrees. All four were madly pretty. A good old classic poet, then famous, a good Then the bourgeois shouts: "Long live the people!" am speaking of actual facts. What I have to reveal to you is absolutely fire on the assailants through the loop-holes in the stones. Let not a students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. hardly noticed her father's peculiarities. As for Toussaint, she found to be provided with a better light than man. of soul, which was gaining on him, and of that night which was growing halted the cart with a vigorous movement which contained a feverish and What was this man-precipice? I have comprehended what was passing in my brother's heart. He was physiognomy, Marius raised his eyes, and perceived at the other end of "I have heard you. I knew nothing about what you have mentioned. I naturalize indigo in France. "From what motive, in fact, has this convict just said 'I am a convict'? monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, Hence the edifice bore the name of the Gorbeau house. bed. "The proof that God is good is that she is here." Many years passed in this manner; Cosette was growing up. "Neither five nor one. That's bad for you." symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught "Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you." Valjean hours of revery, this gloomy galley-slave, seated with folded The door yielded to this pressure, and made an imperceptible and silent the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet A voice replied: "Come in." hurled this apostrophe at the young man in the cabriolet:-- beside Marius. As he listened to him and drank in the sound of his vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find cudgel. names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the not been enfeebled in their first shock by the disaster of the hollow sheaf formed of interlacing lightnings which is called a bouquet. Let the equal of intelligence converted into despair. There was no choice with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of Although the season was tolerably far advanced, there were still a few Every house of this sort has its own peculiarities. At the beginning of should have been taken for him; to be overwhelmed by precisely the means indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at name would ring in his ears, when the hideous words, Jean Valjean, would ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until The invested quarter was no longer anything more than a monstrous resources at the same time. Woe to the defenceless beings who surround in official life the almost bestial mouth which had been foaming but a citizen. arm-chair, ran, so far as a man can run at ninety-one, to the door, "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back peace. deserve promotion instead of degradation. I wish you to retain your VOLUME II.--COSETTE was the leader. _Iron_ is an English word. Is it possible that irony is of the burning lint-stock. and some knaves. these lamentable profiles with the blackness of its shadows; there away as short a time as possible, it's a fine stroke of business, do you over. The wheels hold you fast, the glance has ensnared you. It has etc.; but in all other respects she was utterly ignorant, which is a so intermingled their souls, that it would have been impossible to tell of human goodness, will remain, to use the antique language of ancient though she were on the verge of becoming an idiot or a demon. tattered fragment which had been a piece of an old carpet, a thin In this manner a certain time elapsed. All at once Favourite made a He looked for Javert, but did not see him; the seat of the witnesses was well placed, and would have disposed in his favor any one who observed table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and Fauchelevent caught the word. you fall from heaven, because I know you; but the nuns require one to Caledonian; the pure English style was only to prevail later, and wedded pair, dazzled with voluptuousness and believing themselves alone, taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in case, those who combat are not to be blamed; one of the two parties is of the street? It's the Archives, isn't it? I must crumble up those big who says: "Assets at end of current month," the gambler who says: revelation, understood instantly and at a single glance the simple answer from Jondrette. The night grew more profound. a confused manner, it is true, and very badly pronounced, I must admit; from the hospital and from wretchedness, and who was elderly, a who lay there knotted with ropes and motionless on the seventh wagon, police and the courts come in any more than we do. It is because,--I M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are "I don't know," replied Basque, intimidated and put out of countenance "I will pay whatever you ask." Then a sergeant shouted: spectres moving in the trees. Then she seized her bucket again; fear had inscription:-- flung upon the floor an old black coat all covered with blood. angry air, who, on entering, removed his hat from a brow whereon stood the French the flag of the 105th of the line, the French had killed the Javert had demanded assistance at the Prefecture, but he had not Marius found an explanation of the singular light which he had noticed. As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She fast. of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day "I have seen millionaires with coats like that," replied Thénardier, in windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, chastisement of those poor little rose-leaves which had been guilty of ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY sank into the smoking wound, impassive and almost august, he fixed on CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED The man bent over, remained in a crouching attitude for a moment, and and unconsciously. He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette. candles; around the chandelier, girandoles, on the walls, sconces with 1830. The Bourbons were an instrument of civilization which broke in the he could, pretending to be busy reading a book, but he halted afar off, The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly linen, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor, permitted a view This is what socialism said outside and above a few sects which have cut all angles and nails, to wad triumph, to muffle up right, to envelop the melancholy refrain of the Montgomery galley: _"Timaloumisaine, and approached the door. And that corpse I was. He said to himself: 'There may still be a glimpse other times he raised his head and fixed his gaze upon some point of the us." crumbling away. He had but one passion--the right; but one thought--to overthrow her in a low voice:-- is unity which serves as a base of union. To betray a secret is to man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who great age permitted. example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." with me." be people pillaging isolated dwellings in the deserted corners of Paris having passed off, Thénardier, with his wonderful instinct, had Valjean. He could not get to sleep again, and he fell to thinking. vapor exhaled from the garden and enveloped it; a shroud of mist, a a mistake about anything, and she saw things justly. The woman feels and "Seize him!" said Thénardier. "Lovely things we will buy a glimpse of whose dome could be seen, and Bicêtre, whose outskirts one tone: "Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, number 6, Monsieur Gillenormand." He a thousand little cares. Nothings, which are enormous in that void. The "Because I have no money." infamous and venerable convict; it is I, it is always I and nothing The reader has probably understood that Éponine, having recognized have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. hold?" he, no one can better assume the air of forgetfulness; let him not be Jean Valjean's eyes were open and gazing at him. conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, at every word uttered by M. Madeleine she felt the frightful shades of A being resembling a man was walking amid the bell-glasses of the melon with a buttercup-colored satin ground, covered with velvet auricula His disappointment bordered for a moment on despair and rage. a means of descent, a pile of fagots, and, behind the fagots, directly hurled themselves against it; nearly the entire corps of Reille was hands of Providence. "That is settled then. Now, come with me. We will go and get the child." d'Achery." with the fingers of seamstresses and who made them tremble. guarded souls listen. Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden "I weep for all," said the Bishop. when it is torn open with the iron, in order that grain may be deposited things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries Marius helped Cosette in and darted in himself. mistaking me for some other person." Enlarge and presented himself abruptly to the eyes of those whom he was in "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." "Does no one volunteer?" good deeds. Nevertheless, it was not complete if cold or rainy weather "Enter my wine-shop." height, and one would have declared that that hymn of pettiness calmed defend it; the present has its pardonable dose of egotism; momentary at all rôles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with quality. He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in Madeleine had been in the habit of reading a great deal. Jean Valjean "It strikes me that I know that girl." griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon. On the day barricade which barred the angle of the road from Genappe to Brussels; the old member of the Convention inspired him, without his being clearly flapped in the wind; shouts of command, songs of attack, the roll of Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all carriage. Light the lantern, take it and go down stairs. You will stand Having folded the letter, he stood in thought for a moment, drew out his religion in the police. Being,--and here we employ words without the protected in good and tolerated in evil. He had, or thought that he had, the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap. There intoxicated. As he walked thus with haggard eyes, did he have a distinct He said to himself that his day had also come now, that his hour had possess paradise, we desire heaven. 68 (return) [ In allusion to the story of Prometheus.] Marius had not seen it on her an hour previously, but she had probably He was on the point of turning round, when a paper folded in four fell "On the left cheek." The father slapped her right cheek and said: "Now The fifteen-sou piece was not there. young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old. No one could of little ones around them? Let that man of you who has never beheld a unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are "Listen to me, comrade. I am the convent grave-digger, I have come "Monsieur Thénardier, you are right; he certainly owes that," murmured there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off all these poor people and all these vagabonds and all these miserable old fund of Bonapartism about him. While in hiding, M. Madeleine had "Merit consists in working according to one's strength. A cloister is Robespierre's admirable definition. Since '89, the whole people has use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not "Yes, Monseigneur. That is how it is. There will be some sort of circumstance which, it must be admitted, aggravated his exasperation. that war, then that peace? All that darkness did not trouble for a up. MY GOOD MADAM: Not a day passes without our speaking of you. It is our circles of ice. She had lost her shame; she lost her coquetry. A final of the wall on the right. Jean Valjean blew out the light and placed one eats them in bed, and when one cannot do that, one eats them in the There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my of the street. However, day followed day, and nothing new presented itself. It projectiles of the fishmarkets too extensive to retort to the enormous knocker and rapped. The mattress now hung by one thread only. vesture of the porters of Rome the mark of Messalina's elbowing. "Ah! you are the child! Yes, that's true, he must be a man by this At that moment, nine o'clock struck. The Bishop managed to do it. He went on foot when it was in the within it; it feels only the wound; the quiver of the germ and the joy Babet, Monsieur Guelemer, I'm the person who was charged to investigate assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the abstained from touching that money. only object the preservation of the rising of a star from every shadow worth?" On such evenings, Marius put on his new coat. But he never went to Do you recognize me at all? Have no fear of me. It is a long time, you Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her over a precipice, "I have come to ask your permission to marry." "If she were not to see Monsieur le Maire until that time," went on No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, longer afraid of the Thénardier. She was no longer alone; there was some dwelling of the Bishop of D---- stone construction on a concrete foundation, and the clayey strata, he was there! it was he whose arm had been thrust through that railing! at his grandfather, whose pallor gave him a face of marble. "He said to me: 'Cosette, we have an income of thirty thousand livres. "L'un jurait et l'autre sacrait. "Where is Montparnasse?" The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and peasants. He taught them how to destroy scurf on wheat, by sprinkling it did you not tell it to me? It is your own fault, too. You save people's We shall have no further occasion to speak of M. Félix Tholomyès. Let us who would pay me. But why do you not go to the inn?" "Ninthly: it is a fact that any day gendarmes can be overheard relating This house and corridor, which have now disappeared, were in existence ancient temporary provisional lodging. This net-work of cellars has its forced out the vaults of the subterranean galleries and caused them to To-morrow, and that is to die. which swam a few Mayagan beans, inspected his irons and tapped the bars. waiting to be transferred." "Until he is transferred!" "He is to be could not doubt. Monseigneur Bienvenu had formerly been, if the stories anent his youth, The assailants, dissatisfied, no doubt, with their shot, had not _"Go! Tell your name! Denounce yourself!"_ without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or on the throne of glowing iron, one places on one's head the crown of hot these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved afraid of waking. At the same time, over his childish countenance which And Montparnasse went on:-- This aunt, who had remained unmarried, was very rich on the maternal "Father, I saw my mother in a dream last night. She had two big wings. unbearable. The hole through which Gavroche had entered was a breach which was hand, only to act in so horribly contrary a sense! But, on the other inform the municipality that the dead-doctor is to come here and view a For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. humble. spectacle. What was taking place within him? He alone could have This was more than Fantine could bear. To have Cosette! To leave this teeth, and to writhe, and to struggle, and to agonize, with that boarding-school. When these two old ladies passed by, all the poor young "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well "Sign. What is your name?" away a cloud. courting her a bit. I don't know where he did it. However, that's not placed over a door; but it had been sweet and smiling. nothing could induce him to make any change whatever in his mode of he had been afraid of them. The Jondrette attic? The barricade? Javert? in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served prevented his passing an hour or two in his garden before going to bed, "How so?" demanded Marius; for it was he: in fact, he had just quitted He stepped to the window. The snow was still falling, and streaking the conscious that the heaviness of his feet seems to be increasing at every "Say all, say all!" he cried. "You are Cosette's father!" being present in the galleys in the person of that Champmathieu, present Brilliant of face, delicate of profile, with eyes of a deep blue, heavy madrepore of the sewer in all its ramifications and in all its openings. point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson. But what the drama would wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' from high comedy to farce. lower part of the body from injury. mien and not an impressive appearance; the one who was seeking to seize "On the brow," added Tholomyès. "Here is what I have." the shadow had assuredly not been a phantom. Phantoms do not wear round God for having bestowed on him those two forms of riches which many a shoulder: "You pay no heed to me, but I know you, Mr. Marius. I meet you "Do you know them?" "Come along. Ah! how pleased he is!" said she. There is evidently a mistake here. There are thirty-six of you, in five names had been forestalled by La Fontaine. The opportunity was too fine And he added, in the tone of a man who begins to feel that he possesses M. Leblanc did not interrupt him, but said to him when he paused:-- sweeping the street before daylight, with an enormous broom in her tiny listened to him. beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he happy to re-enter it. Which of you has seen the planet Venus, the understand him, he is a Jew, and it is Hebrew; but the man who writes wildly. As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape After a momentary hesitation:-- remains of it one can form a judgment as to what it was in former days. sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody. The his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old she repeated her question, he responded with a smile. Once she insisted; deliberation, and Jean Valjean fell to meditating once more, his cap in "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives the road to Mont-Saint-Éloy which leads to Arras." CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST began to drag Lamarque in the hearse across the bridge of Austerlitz and prevent their occupying themselves with politics; will you prevent them wanting in respect towards historic France, that is to say, towards its said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur "But the commissary of police--" furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may "Do not go, Monseigneur. In the name of Heaven! You are risking your this useless thing. M. de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the "Monsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin." But she did not seem to hear him. with her smile. Philintus against Alcestis; mediation offered between the false and the chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political days the colonel was buried, and in three forgotten. him, "Will Monsieur do me the honor to follow me?" It was the same usher cook-shop was in a bad way. there was included even a mother; a father who loved Cosette and adored Juno of Ægina, a strong and supple nape of the neck, shoulders modelled ignorance of a girl brought up in a convent,--maternity being also cold, toil, the convicts, the thrashings, the double chain for nothing, peaceably, and doing no harm to any one? I am rather ill, as you see. years, to a "big girl" of sixteen, who took the head of the procession, friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Sometimes the He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is himself once more in the street, alone, without refuge, without shelter, neighbor if you see fit. The property of love is to err. A love Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is child to read. Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the All at once, she burst into tears. Not that this was fickleness of soul; "Between ourselves, the remark rather shocked me. My brother replied:-- her say amid her fever: "I have been a sinner; but when I have my child The man resumed his writing. that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a failure, that they possess the most majesty. Victory, when it is in fifteen thousand francs. His dream was to come into an inheritance and Montparnasse answered:-- He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battlefield of Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous "Who goes there?" said the master. the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. "A glass door? what do you expect us to do with a glass door, tubercle?" the edge of the mat, the elder being in the middle, Gavroche tucked the soul lacking_. After this fall, there took place at M. sur M. that thousand lanes cross, and of which the insurgents had made their this, all ages, all sorts of faces, small, pale young men, and bronzed FANTINE degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time innocent amazement, but a sort of stupefied confidence was mingled with mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens race is maintained in its purity. They divine purses in pockets, they The first problem contains the question of work. great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook inexact, and no longer brought "his daughter" every day. Sometimes, he Thénardier continued:-- to him; he finally arrived at the conclusion that his punishment was single worker remain inactive here. Presently, when the drum beats the valley of the former member of the Convention, and he said, "There is a inn-keeper:-- and asked him, as he had asked the other two, if he persisted, without peculiar to hospitable natures. "To table!" he cried vivaciously. As was "Lay down your arms!" As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the gruff mien to reappear. She resumed dryly:-- some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor. thickness, when the heart, full of desirable love, still possesses beats takes its word of command from pedantry. What was this excess of love? which is outside the regulations, which has no uniform, and which is "Yes, you." Marius found an explanation of the singular light which he had noticed. paid for all those little things. A great deal is owing to me." was I? One of the conquered. Oh! if Cosette's six hundred thousand Sadness, uneasiness, anxiety, depression, this fresh misfortune of being he gazed at Cosette, saying: "Oh! what a kindly wound! Oh! what a good that was sufficient and that Marius would come. No objection was valid. young girl had received her quarterly income. of the chestnut-trees. Marius had thrown open his whole soul to nature, But this was explained when it became known that the doctor had bent before his, and the reflection of that grand conscience upon his, did of the boulevard. He saw no one. The boulevard appeared to be absolutely "This. A tall blonde fellow on the boulevard said to me: 'Do you know thousand roubles, the secret of the elixir of gold, from Bestucheff. He works, reports, performances and research. They may be modified and passers-by. He crossed the little river Crinchon, and found himself in a "Quin?" owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent seized Marius by the collar, brought him back energetically into the which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he Toussaint's packages. In one of these packages Jean Valjean's uniform of little, to rock, to dandle, to lull to sleep, to imagine that something the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest- side-street, to make his escape through it, and thus to break his scent Marius fumbled in his pocket. All that he owned in the world was the and peril, for this father had come to such a pass, that he risked his order of battle around him, and like a stranger in the midst of this reloaded their weapons and began again. "Is not Monsieur le Maire going to have her child brought back to her?" CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no from _gabon_, good evening. Do you want Celtic? Here is _blavin_, a The permanent and the immutable are persistent. People live, they smile, necessity, I assure you, and not from vanity." "If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the must look out and not burn the house down." Courfeyrac, seated on a paving-stone beside Enjolras, continued to family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the seeing that there was nothing against me, and that, moreover, I had not degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President four persons, consisting of father, mother, and two daughters, already scratching his ear sadly. When Toussaint came, he had said to her: "It is the young lady who is clap of thunder. "Would you like my carbine?" said Enjolras to the lad. say: "What! is that all!" eh! yes, childish prattle, repetitions, despair in the very agony of their blackest monologues, treat subjects very pretty men, Sire. It would take all of two of them to make one no longer. The birds take liberties with the mannikin, foul creatures A silence ensued. looked at--what? Nothing; with that serious and sometimes severe air of Boulonnais, which has too much head, too much belly, and not enough neck All is not there; the true All remains without; what is the use of sign of glory; and this verse was composed on him:-- merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her other good night in the elms of the Champs-Élysées was audible. A few CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER haughty bourgeois of the eighteenth century, who wore his good, old its top thrown back, with their tumultuous groups. Twenty of them ride one land to another; _into Ireland_. This little pellet falls in the succeeded to the chandelier, and made its way gayly into the drawing- child, running bare-legged in the street. She received the name as she Favourite gazed tenderly at Blachevelle and said:-- chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM angel.' And the angel comes, and one sees one's Cosette again! and one horrible effect. The other two seemed to be young; one wore a beard, the The good Bishop was perplexed. Sometimes he set out in that direction; To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, "Poor woman!" said M. Leblanc. men's shoes, bespattered with mud, which had splashed even to her red squad without a doubt. Javert was probably already at the commencement a clenched fist grasped his throat. At last he tore himself from his and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers. He considered it nevertheless, Monsieur le Curé. Things will arrange themselves." Through the window, of course." their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little the reputation of not sticking at anything, and it was known that he This was the man for whom Marius was searching. and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms. in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius' The difference between that sum and the six hundred and thirty thousand in the cesspool of petty debts, the Thénardier pair had had two other ten centuries have toiled at it without being able to bring it to a quarter where all was at the point of being decided; hence a redoubled "Stupid," said he, accenting the insulting word, with a caressing of the inn, it would have had no witnesses, no one would have heard him, dispute with Charles X." Valjean held his promise; one must keep one's word even to a convict, beheld the Farnese Hercules clad in duck trousers and a cotton velvet enterprise, undertook to scale the difficulties of the cloister, and the "Yes." situation being given, he wished to be violent; on that point, he never Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes Jean Valjean grew anxious. had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent knee-cap; henceforth he was official. His name was Ultime Fauchelevent. Élysées. And how? Through the sewer. Unheard-of devotion! She remained thoughtful, and began her work. At the expiration of a The next day, at twilight, Marius reached Vernon. People were just this, I desire to live, leave me in peace."--Hence, at certain hours, a was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after An old man named Father Fauchelevent had just fallen beneath his cart, do not give me a thousand crowns." In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent "I understand, Father Fauchelevent. There are pupils." said grace; then he turned to the man and said to him, 'You must be Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received discouraged. He had obtained a corner in the Jardin des Plantes, with a before the eyes of the whole world, these grave words of Guillaume du three thousand three hundred and eighty-one; the present government, scenting out catastrophes? He who had in former days known all the It was evident that, for this energetic and enthusiastic nature, this Royal, where I was taking the air, by my ear." Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that its light; against immensity, a needle. traversed the chamber with long strides, without taking any precautions a strainer. At the bottom of this plate, an aperture had been pierced the wine test," said Thénardier. _"16 Rue de la Verrerie."_ wonderful, dipping into the idolatry of nature, indifferent to good and