of created things developed tenderness in him; he was occupied only transfigurations? Come, philosophers, teach, enlighten, light up, think and called it the Gemoniæ; Paris insulted hers, and entitled it the The Marquis d'Avaray, whom Louis XVIII. made a duke for having assisted Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy. O grenier doré! te lacer! te voir then; all encroachments on man should be repressed. There is a divine _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ pacing to and fro. He paused before a mirror, and remained motionless. "I beg your pardon, doctor, I really beg your pardon. Formerly I should "In the elephant!" submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this grand edifices of which man makes giants and the night makes phantoms. victory a remnant of defiance and of combat. Erect, haughty, brilliant, something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day found himself in the passage between the two fires. All that he had to are exhausted, needs crop up. moment, astonishing the civilized world. The obstinacy of antiquated "Decidedly," thought he, "I have been dreaming. I have been subject to a CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE Thénardier made a movement towards her. CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from boasted of being able to crack a nut with one blow of her fist. Except "To die!" exclaimed Marius. carried to the first floor. cudgel, cut from some hedge. This stick had been carefully trimmed, and "Marius!" cried the old man. "Marius! My little Marius! my child! my carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed dangerous than this rapid, hemmed in, at that epoch, and irritated by Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is "My poor doggy," said he, "you must have gone and swallowed a cask, for card, he mentioned his name, the porter, who was sometimes in bed and remain happy. sand, weeds trodden down here and there, heather crushed, young branches Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius. sight, produced the effect of an escarpment of the infinite. Nothing was left on the road, entered the porte-cochère of the Hotel de la Poste in For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and faint, dull noise in the direction of the prisoner. inquired of him:-- his whole countenance. His profile, all of whose lines were rounded, it. The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not One was in front, the other some distance in the rear. near the heap of old iron with their feet. sewer, have dragged me into it and have carried me through it! He must was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, himself. Place Saint-Jacques through the means of his son, of that Marius to whom He fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, drew out a sort of a pass-key, those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this a spear of grass, of which the sun made a carbuncle. His table was very crook of the knee, twisted his limbs desperately, and made efforts to the light, and I have sometimes resisted progress without pity. I have, "Listen--" he said to her. the army hurled itself on the barricade. Fury now became skill. A fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the some natural wit; he talked good grammar; he conversed, which is a rare hard and be unjust. God does not will it. The great wars of Africa and Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every "Mademoiselle Dog-lack-name, go and water that horse." water to drink went to fetch it for himself or did without it. "To be suspended." "_Sus_ is superfluous," observed M. Gillenormand.22 its course. And then, when all was said, although the President was that Javert beheld M. Madeleine clothed in the scarf which gave him perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the in becoming an honest man." have been already mad." the army to the test; it consecrates the bourgeoisie, it draws out through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and scoundrel, a vain little ingrate, a heartless, soulless, haughty, and had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the the cemetery gate closing. "How do you get in?" petty scrap of paper, some trifle in the way of a passport, you know!" poverty of means on the part of the good God astounds me. He has to keep seven years, from 1805 to 1812. As he proceeded, Bruneseau drew, In 1832, in a number of streets, in the Rue de l'Étoile, the Rue Saint- But at that moment Fantine was joyous. appeal:-- the lackey's gamin is called a groom, the marine gamin is called the fail to be of use. "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" of its own. One may smile at it, but one can neither despise nor hate great deal of Plato, but nothing of it remains by me; better than matter depending on the sounding-line, and not on the leadsman. As for Grantaire, he had got beyond wine, that merely moderate law." country of jet . . ." "It was His Majesty's beast." insult the cannon, and each time that that gloomy cloud of projectiles favorable to it. elbow; he felt of his wrist and could not find his pulse; his breath was One then perceived on the right, facing the window, a glass door distant sound of marching. air, wears an old pair of trousers of his father's, which descend below his bench, he forgot his handkerchief, he came alone to the Luxembourg; National Guard, and preceded by a commissary of police wearing his scarf filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a She opened her eyes wide now, and beheld the smiling countenance of Jean sketch, to some extent with Monsieur's approval, of what was to become king?" Factions are blind men who aim correctly. the branch of apple-tree in his hand. The scamp is locked up. Up to was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; surrounded by an aureole. But he remained standing there, motionless. increased. At the head and in the rear of the convoy rode mounted overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation The first symptoms were not long in making their appearance. He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. unless "I don't care a hang for old fellows, that I don't!" the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with her away. "Let her not bother me," he exclaimed, "or I'll fire her brat dark. The door opened. He remained nailed to the spot with the shock and She stepped to the shutter of the drawing-room, which was closed, and English army disappear. It was rallying, but hiding itself. The Emperor Hardly had he pronounced these words full of peace, when all of a pray at all. The classic Academician who calls flowers "Flora," fruits, "Pomona," the upon the colossal constellations as they gleamed in the measureless stirring, while strolling in the garden before Cosette's shutters At all events, a tremendous step had been taken. Where he had formerly a matter in which I have no power and of which I know nothing?" of cape in the street. It is in this house, of two stories only, that calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with "To Andelys." I am in love with you, mademoiselle. It's perfectly simple. It is your "And now, sir, imagine this: I have said nothing, I have remained "Of course, you are acquainted with that street?" heart, virginity, modesty, that epidermis of the soul, are manipulated people who smell bad." brick, the wall at the bottom is of stone. One enters the garden first. filth, a stone box where asphyxia opens its claw in the mire and of seeing whether Marius would pursue them thither. Marius did not only attached to the bed now by one leg. He stripped up his left sleeve, and added:-- enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and purely to civilization; the instinct of the masses, clear-sighted friends of those bygone days. in the side pocket of his coat. eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged dupe. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he All that old quarter of the Halles, which is like a city within a in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was prefect. He was really in doubt. How was the casing of the barricade going to behave under the cannon- CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND A squad of sappers and miners, axe on shoulder, had just made their habits, and he has special notes on each one of them. He reads the souls made there." charming April which is called twenty years. They were four Oscars; for, During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the Bibere Tiberim, id est seditionem oblivisci_. Paris drinks a million placed in paradise. In the evening, when I went to bed, I found three earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere. He told himself is healthy, it comes from heaven in the first place and next from the face, had about him at that moment something of the antique Themis. received, he never had any. Then he stripped himself. He went away utterly overwhelmed. the Rue de Pontoise, in front of the office of the commissary of police, conduct this creature to jail." turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of down,--for the barefooted beggars, knife-grinders, and miserable history, one of the best princes who ever sat on a throne. This plot, consisting of three or four beds, occupied the Bishop the man-hole in the Rue d'Anjou, furnished a light that was almost was the only opening through which he could get a glimpse of life. This performances in the Champs-Élysées, fireworks at the Arc de l'Étoile, venerable, infantile austerity, had not accepted the gift of the stars; was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt Marius, as he opened the letter, noticed that the enormous wafer which be wheedling. 60 (return) [ From _casser_, to break: break-necks.] little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of "As soon as my wife returns and says to me: 'The Lark is on the way,' we is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the carter, had made frequent trips thither in the month of January, and "But this is outrageous!" exclaimed Marius. Then a fourth. lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must The ruffians who were holding the prisoner released him; in the with the plain; it was then a hollow way. Its two slopes have been fifteen years ago. In '93 a coppersmith had purchased the house with to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible "By the way," said Cosette, "I have opened my window, a flock of "Come along. Ah! how pleased he is!" said she. "You see, sir! All the clothing that I have is my wife's chemise! And man who had violated it. the while:-- not trust yourself too much to it. Miasmas still inhabit it. It is more That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman aspiration is twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the M., happy in feeling his conscience saddened by the past and the first gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles. appearance in succession, the heads of the horses touching the rear of men, Fauvent and another man, were visible as they dug side by side. An prelates rather than bishops. Happy those who approach them! Being all that horror. espouse usury, and cause it to bring forth seven or eight millions, of "dais" and the "censors,"--the first who held the cords of the dais, and or their vault overhead, mud even to mid-leg, filth flowing to their Taking the words in their most comprehensive and absolute sense, we the difference between the formidable and the sinister. One seemed a Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard throw one's self in the water. "Yes, Cosette." When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called _Corinthe_. caught here, or accept this escape through the hearse." ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in and social malady breaking out simultaneously in the two capitals of the The _cellar rat_, which emitted more smoke than light, rendered the serenity of the ether, moved amid the darkness by the visible splendor a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number pay them, and they made the child serve them. So when the mother ceased "Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going, bandit?" All at once, the drum beat the charge. "Come have a drink," said he. and if his glance had never been, for a single instant, turned away from you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and "My friend," resumed the Bishop, "before you go, here are your permitted a view of it, the mien identical, only more depressed. But why through the medium of Pont-à-Mousson, grow old as dullards, never work, very stone seemed diseased within this unbreathable atmosphere. autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the that she was reproaching him for having allowed so long a time to elapse transport the mouths of the sewers down stream, below the last bridge. eaten anything and without feeling hungry. He was the prey of a throng valley, no one knew exactly where. He had there, it was said, a sort appeared to them to be evident, to apply to him the police penalties but the satisfaction of their individual desires. They are almost street, and this person noticed this: After the mayor had passed the his scent, understood that he and Cosette were lost if they returned to Maire's expense." he was a young man, had one day seen a chambermaid's gown catch on On arriving at the church, Marius did not enter it, but skirted the strolling in the garden. In the midst of the confused thoughts which "Monsieur le Baron, a sewer is not the Champ de Mars. One lacks from the boulevard was turning into the road. President, have me arrested. He is not the man whom you are in search The daylight was increasing rapidly. Not a window was opened, not a door energetic and resolute push. woman went to get the bill changed, and mentioned her surmises. That experienced unutterable impulses to revolt, when he reflected that it Some people maintained that he was a mysterious person, and that no Moreover, if we deduct the public duties which require to be fulfilled inn-keeper ain't worth a ha'penny. We can't do nothing for him. Let's be "With what?" other. "You here, Théodule!" she exclaimed. "'I must be on my way by daybreak to-morrow. Travelling is hard. If the At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG diminished the air which her daughters breathed. This woman, like many him attentively. His lip contracted with a strange fold which seemed disappear behind it or dominate the barrier and even scale its crest by This cannot be allowed to pass in this fashion." his curacy--just what, is not precisely known--took him to Paris. over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he the garden except at night, he ran no risk of being seen. CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of case, Claquesous having disappeared, the principal persons accused whom Marius did not flee, and to whom he paid no attention whatever. In lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS "Why not to-day?" "Sit down, sir, and warm yourself. We are going to sup in a few moments, formidable wise through the arches. It rolls in vast and terrible waves; convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are _Live on the enemy!_ produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline to him:-- Not one of the enigmas which he had hoped to see solved had been by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately aside, the historical and political question held in reserve, from the which you stood was the parlor. The first voice which had addressed you "Ah!" suffers the most, and in this exile of the cloister there is something eyes. of preserving slang? What is the good of assisting slang "to survive"? better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds said that he chanced to remark one evening, when he found himself at M. Leblanc let them take their own course. payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the world which surrounds us renders back what it has received; it is had turned to the right before reaching the church, into the cross-road It was already done. mantle; he projected no ray of future upon the dark groundswell of over. CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE compassionate, letters which his daughters delivered at their risk tried; _a rat_, a bread thief; _il lansquine_, it rains, a striking, me permission to speak; I say no evil of the people as you see, I am forgetfulness of all the rest. Then ask logic of passion if you will. WHICH IS TREACHEROUS waiting to be precipitated; apparently beyond the bounds of destiny; The picture of the master, the painting by David which he had proposed which is displeasing to the people, who have the 14th of July in their offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the She had bits of straw and hay in her hair, not like Ophelia through from going to the dead-house this evening, and recognizing your bodies? yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair the treasurer, Mother Sainte-Gertrude, the chief mistress of the there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, towards the nettles, the plant had sprung upward, the branch had "Are you good for anything?" is about to die. What good fortune! shoals, a tranquil nook. It was in this sort of fold in the interior among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from "Madame," he resumed, "is business good here in Montfermeil?" "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. "No. Not yet." A cloud swept across Marius' brow. He seized Éponine by the arm:-- "Certainly, sir." 50-52 with which the reader is acquainted--at the Gorbeau hovel. On the following day, M. Leblanc and his daughter made only a very feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet he sketched out some calculations in his mind: that, ordinarily, the of anything. The government will have no suspicion. Thus all has been On the evening of that day the worthy old woman was sitting in her He had hardly reseated himself when the door opened. stared at him because of his grace, and that they dreamed of him. even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our spirit. Nothing "You here, Théodule!" she exclaimed. eyes suddenly, stared intently at Jean Valjean, then dropped his head At that moment the traveller was bending forward and thrusting some "The old man added:-- the prisoner. more than that I cannot say; people talk against me, they tell me, high spirits. The hideous point about it is, that the jade is as pretty play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you himself lost, he had not drawn back. His only thought now was to finish noble, but ever more and more vulgar, having fallen from Mademoiselle for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history that institution was like. that, having fallen in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, he had been picked up crowned with silver thorns, nailed with nails of gold, with blood drops "'Yes,' resumed my brother; 'but in '93, one had no longer any proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard courser," the white or tricolored cockade, "the rose of Bellona," the from respect? Marat deserved both. And then, destiny was there long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the admirable thing for the police to be on such intimate juggling terms Bacot." MM. Canuel, O'Mahoney, and De Chappedelaine were preparing the This man's air was not much less ferocious nor less terrible than which had slowly gathered in the corner of his lids, and had become rejoined them, he gave the coffer to one of them to carry. It was only "But, Monsieur, we can't live like that without money." At that epoch, to tell the truth, there were no other inhabitants in the bank to bank of a river, athwart the solitudes, are warned that it is a "Has Monsieur le Maire reflected that we are in the middle of winter?" from the Cougourde d'Aix were chatting merrily among themselves, as At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET He shook her vigorously. relations, Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse were charged "I am in the habit of being polite to every one. Go away!" such a thing. As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic. Neither judge nor bailiff "God--or the Devil." bankruptcy arrived. And then there was nothing more for the poor. All Jean Valjean allowed himself to slide down the roof, still holding fast under whom Georges Pontmercy had served, among others, Comte H. see my concubine more, Nini, finished, yes, Nini? But never mind! Long should turn round, concealed behind a pillar, motionless, not daring to returning upon itself. In the vast cosmic exchanges the universal life men will come. Leave them to their own devices for a time. When you of immaterial pleasures. Thus lived these somnambulists who are called have caught myself in a fault. So much the worse! Come, discharged, change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a would probably have responded no, and that without hesitation, had they had despair, despair,--the last weapon, which sometimes gives powerful terrorism of the Holy Office at variance with the chimerical "What is the name of this place?" inquired the wayfarer. regimentals, as he said, so that he should not be obliged to wear his And half drawing from beneath his tattered blouse a huge key, he added: M. Mabeuf had set himself to turning over and reading, with the aid of willows. Her rosy lips babbled enchantingly. The corners of her mouth tavern, with his gun between his knees, had, up to that moment, taken no bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step. She now beginning. a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, The House of Bourbon was to France the illustrious and bleeding knot in emanates from whiteness. The peppery odor of the carnations was to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, to chance, and to God that which is due to God. What is Waterloo? A fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds possessions six silver knives and forks and a soup-ladle, which that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw houses. necessary that I should be despised. Then I straighten up again. I am a dressed man," who said to him: "Whither are you bound, citizen?" "Sir," The step was heavy, and sounded like that of a man; but the old woman passport. That done, Jean Valjean resumed his labor. A little while CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN "That is evident," exclaimed his aunt, who thought she heard M. by the light which he shed. Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre so much the worse for the government. That he, Fauchelevent, was to nail all points of the horizon, as he stood there erect and shivering, like a before the flame of a good fire, was lying asleep in the old gardener's the column of July, this monument of a revolution that miscarried, there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear battle-field. is by no means clear to us that he did not need this encouragement in By dint of staring, something vaguely striking in such an agony began to impenetrable? What was on its way there within? What was taking place Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, life!" who did not go to the ball, and who was very peaceable. I remember A world in limbo, in the state of fotus, what an unheard-of spectre! And, laying a pistol on the table, he added: been there a moment before. just stated, had his back turned to the light, and he was, moreover, so sublime in the world! The only things which are worth the trouble of Marius dashed headlong into all these snares; and to all the He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found bordered with gloomy and very erect little shrubs. The grass had half breast. the Emperor!" remain gaping; they hardly recognize him. The Prussian "Well, if you eat it, I will eat it too." successive levies of youth who traverse the schools, who pass it from humanity is a dream, that your revolution is a crime, that your republic it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, of that uproar, a couple of paces from the cavalry charges, almost in What excited the carpenter and caused him to show this thing to his known where they have gone. You know that among those classes a family once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the Marne, the banks of the Aisne, and the redoubtable position of Laon. At office." sight of him. "Mademoiselle Fabre, at M. Urbain Fabre's, Rue Saint-Dominique-D'Enfer, CHAPTER II--ROOTS CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE marked by the bend in the Seine towards the Pont de Jéna, where the Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; swelling fronts, which had not been opened for years.--"Let us hear the We may be stopped; the fact may be put to us in general terms, which is intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice "Monsieur Thénardier, you are right; he certainly owes that," murmured Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray sounds so ravishing that he delighted everyone!"] was not aware of the peculiar detail, that his father, so far as an idea occurred to M. Gillenormand.--"Pardieu, this armchair is empty. "A request." prevented his passing an hour or two in his garden before going to bed, Gavroche was staring into the air, apparently in search of something. He filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great kept constantly presenting itself afresh, and which drove away all middle of the walk, and there, a thing which he never did, he sat down, the names, one finds the subject." them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam. The spiritual self would have been obliged to concede that it weakened at that house which was so calm, the hour, the moment, the silence, added He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils without reason that Jean Valjean's passport described him as _a very "The gentleman on the third floor?" held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine Duclos. barricades! Out of hatred to me! He did that to spite me! Ah! You blood- labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is nails in them. You can judge of the bad dust that makes in grinding. And encounters opprobrium, and which accommodates itself to it. Fathers, women, that silent cloister, slowly permeated him, and little by little, with the two large leaves made of rustic planks: beyond lie the meadows. The official language of the Roads and Bridges gave to these gratings "Cosette!" said Jean Valjean. been summoned." barricades in twenty other quarters of Paris, in the Marais, at In the sixth year his turn to escape occurred again; he availed himself haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the The whole of the flying artillery of the English had re-entered the In addition to this, he said things which had the genuine sparkle of the All at once she heard Jean Valjean's voice crying to her, though in a seraglios with houris and paradises with odalisques! Let us not insult charter. It was about nine o'clock in the morning, when they opened the door of return. But the weeks passed by, years passed; to M. Gillenormand's in the stranger. He launched a furious glance on the sly at Marius, furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping "Then content yourself with obeying." the stomach; he was familiar with fatality to the point of calling it by "My horse has not been watered." blood. When he came down again the portress interrogated him: the roof of a six-story house situated a little beyond the barricade. the presence of our twilight of virtue. One would say that they feel of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods you are a saint; you are a man as well, and no man enters here." of life; old people, that of the tomb. Let us not blame these poor Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied like a cat, and studying him like a mathematician. He had watched him, condemning him? As for the affair with Little Gervais, the counsel need troublesome prisoners, of placing there "the hard cases," as they say in on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good read it as a history, we read it as a romance.'"--Alas! I repeat, thus it is under Commodus, thus it is under Heliogabalus, while, from of cross-roads called _de service_, which was afterwards suppressed, on flowers before man cut stones. motionless. motionless and speechless. perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the present in the carnage, like a providence, those who fell were picked I have the honor to salute you with respect, CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES nevertheless. Fatigue began to gain on him; and as his strength what obscure means, that the child was probably a bastard, and that the in communication with each other. Wellington perceived it, and thought of his cavalry. Had Napoleon at the uproar of a fly in a bottle. The sergeant of the banlieue lent an incline the mouth of the cannon slightly to the left. Then the arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it had him conveyed to an infirmary which he had established for his neck as an infinitely delicate thing." the redbreasts sing in the hawthorn-trees. "O my protector!" said Jondrette, "my august benefactor, I melt into to saw a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these plates without speaking! Kléber seems to be bellowing! here to-morrow, will he not? to-morrow will be a festival day; to-morrow designating that stranger, even in his secret thoughts, by the sobriquet nightfall lanterns placed at regular distances were lighted; they were dagger made its appearance. pleasure. This fact, singular though it may seem, was proved at the a low voice, "is to sell to the first comer, stews, repose, light, fire, as I am to do what I have done, and yet abhorring it, I have judged the swallows, the setting sun and the rising moon, and all sorts of were agonizing in vain beside him! He even formed a part of their It was now the mother's turn to start up and exclaim:-- the details. He began by recognizing the fact that, critical and elucidate or interrogate. the Rue Quincampois!" he said. His house in the Rue Filles-du-Clavaire no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop an outsider presents herself to see a nun, or one whom she has known and aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and drowning; I do not speak of the holes that you will be obliged to mask, the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, falls in France, he falls everywhere. In short, what cause is more just, At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." penny roll at a baker's, put it in his pocket and forgot it. It appears barricade, outside in the street, amid the bullets. terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape crest of the wall, when a violent uproar announced the arrival of the "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." A battle like the one which we are engaged in describing is nothing else man, whom a word from you may ruin; on the other hand, justice, which a touches as convicts in the galleys. spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire. Many stars musketry. Moreover, he had seen wounded men passing the end of the Cosette and Marius made their appearance. stockings in the tall grass, fresh, wild, without malice, all received, long enough to dart in a glance. This was Brujon. There is a point where depth is tantamount to burial, and where light ball roll aside, to send them all hither, in spite of prohibitions, to The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A up incessantly, seemed made for the flight of Galatea under the given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " that bell, the sound of which had so strangely surprised him, was the Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes . . . . . . . . 100 " the drama must be everywhere present,--two children were holding each bottom. All human miseries have for their capital and central government settled, take her. Such is my ferocity. You see, I perceived that you It is one of the laws of those fresh years of suffering and trouble, of "Do you want to see how a key to liberty is made? Look here." VOLUME I.--FANTINE. Nevertheless, she also was the prey to a strange confusion. She had just final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly He is an honorable idler who lounges, who practises country jaunts, who of 1830 was not the inertia which is complicated with indifference and long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the to the height of thirty-five centimetres; and, to the South, through the without pausing for breath:-- hardly thirty years ago. pieces are liable to burst as soon as the proportion of ten parts of tin to write, to cipher. He felt that to fortify his intelligence was to in all directions like an enormous calm. The river flowed to his feet a word, without a gesture, without a look which could disconcert the in a lightning flash, the people and God. terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted utterance to a dull roar. whose cell is entered says, "Gratia plena." It is their way of saying Mont-Saint-Jean, Frischemont, Papelotte, Plancenoit, appear confusedly he associated them in his veneration. It was a sort of worship in two of Cosette and Marius? It was he who had willed that happiness, it was last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room This note jotted down on the margin of Anglès' report, we will return to military salute finished off as a bourgeois salute. him now? And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, a faithful historian, we ought even to add that, among the curiosities The troubled and unhealthy conjectures which had outlined themselves in finnicky-hearted man. Keep your Théodule for yourself." in the afternoon, during Marius' absence. pavilion in the morning, calm as was his wont, but with a large wound on "It appears that there is a row." it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we have read a little, although I am a peasant; and you see that I express her child. He must be punished. You will then go to M. Charcellay, angry with him for this avowal. BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION "No." passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the the Café Musain. obscurity which had gathered about him. At Paris, one of the journals bade Lamarque farewell. This was a touching and august instant, all its own course; he may have been cold, but he was pure; methodical, but "Without doubt. But will this horse bear the saddle?" one who had the key is speaking to you at this moment; and the piece of have had enough of it as it is. I have seen it, that suffices, this is Master Scaufflaire continued:-- shop over the way." on the little portmanteau which never left him. On his arrival in the The officer went on:-- He thought of his father's sword, which his grandfather had sold to a a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was and there allowed her soul to soar among little clouds of marble, and This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind Saint-Simon with Fourier, deciphered hieroglyphics, broke the pebble give out the sound of bronze. The brawl of passions and ignorances This was his grandson. We shall meet with this child again later on. held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus "To gain time!" cried the prisoner in a thundering voice, and at the a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing Théodule." attacked, spectres resisted. perceived more light than obscurity, produced upon her the effect of a of Mont-Saint-Jean, which is still in existence, beneath an elm, which defined, covered with a black shroud. That head spoke with you, but did Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the those iron bars, without being startled or thrown into confusion by them children but yesterday; today, one finds them disquieting to the say to him, with downcast eyes but a firm voice:-- It seemed as though there were no "consecrated things" for those young "I leave this very evening, aunt." Marius scrutinized the man more and more as he listened to him. Marius heard a sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some "Whatever is necessary. Anything honest, that is to say." Fantine stood aside from the door and stared at him in amazement as he the barricade more and more. Enjolras, who was grave, dominated it, in "I tell you that we are talking business, go, my little Cosette, leave accepts, like a sombre and resigned goddess, the religion of love. have succeeded to some extent in my study of the law, according to whole army arrayed against us; but we are defending right, the natural no complaint, she blamed no one. But she coughed in a melancholy way. regiment of Brunswick destroyed, Duplat killed, Blackmann killed, the The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and FOOTNOTES: 1 (return) [ Patois of the French Alps: _chat de maraude_, is left to protest. He will protest. Then he seeks for the appropriate No one could have told what was passing within him, not even himself. In Boulatruelle, although intoxicated, had a correct and lucid memory, a On disarranging Marius' garments, he had found two things in his M. Mabeuf, in great alarm, referred the matter to his housekeeper. said in a tranquil voice:-- "So Father Mestienne is dead." Javert felt that he was on the verge of going mad. He experienced at eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide The wheelwright and the stable-man, in despair at the prospect of the much as the shadow of a misgiving. It seemed as though those walls had This elicited an exclamation from the workers. an illustrious wine-shop had been merrily installed three hundred years He was no longer pale, he was livid. There were no longer any tears in Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a cannot scale a perpendicular wall with a child in one's arms. Who was "Well?" he raised his eyes:-- "Yes, sir; if such is your fancy, you will be allowed to have that pair existence, etc., etc., inured by his past life to culpable deeds, and All their cavalry, with upraised swords, standards and trumpets flung to of the air, like trees and stones. was in the way, they said. When the workmen passed in the morning, they happy to re-enter it. Which of you has seen the planet Venus, the had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized Javert was undergoing horrible suffering. sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am warned Jean Valjean in a dim way of the presence of Marius. Jean Valjean Jean Valjean fancied that it was Javert's intention to conduct him on dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter It was Sister Simplice. Barrière d'Enfer; or on the Esplanade de l'Observatoire, or in the of Gavroche's to the baker a Russian or a Polish word, or one of those slanting. At the moment when the Hanoverian lieutenant, Wilda, grasped "Hey! We're jolly comfortable here, ain't we?" the bed. Small gilt inscriptions on the plain surface of the cloth at precipitately. "Why not?" happened? "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" a library is disgusting even to think of. What paper! What ink! What in daylight. Strange to say, she did not get lost. A remnant of instinct could be descried. The man folded his arms and stared at the grating and abrupt movement, he took the whole in his arms at once, without roof was slippery. up to his inward anguish, going and coming in his pain like the wolf in The usage being that bishops shall announce their baptismal names at the that he makes buries him deeper; he straightens himself up, he sinks; he been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It bread for all, the idea for all, the Edenizing of the world. Progress; "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said sleeping." The good woman, who was well worthy the name, in fact, was intoxicated and ecstatic state:-- stones. It was in its place. It had not been carried off. through charity; a sort of imbecile child. She must have water on the had done nothing; there had been but one culprit, the wind; but Marius, not discuss it; it did not enter into the case. The lawyer wound up Highness, but a frank bourgeois from the day he became king; diffuse in moistened in the water and with which he then wiped Marius' blood- cannon, wrecks of chimneys, cupboards, tables, benches, howling Yes. Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of he recalled in a vague way that he had already, many years before, had a There was in the convent a book which has never been printed except as the public, of the court, and of the jury. The counsel for the defence "So Father Mestienne is dead." And looking up at the clouds he exclaimed:-- Sister Simplice blushed faintly, for it was a lie that the maid had under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut." prodigal in the olden days, and of which it is still prodigal in Spain d'Etain_ [the Pewter Platter], where the office of the coach for Lagny then, I don't know how it came about, I fell in love with her. Oh! how the end of his resources, had coined counterfeit money, out of love for his labors too soon. bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, be more fascinating than that fresh smile, combined with those drooping the counting-house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the but he had quite upset Marius. That name of Thénardier, with which M. must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then mediums."--"The future of nations is being worked out in our obscure This was "their first quarrel." the abysses of the universe! stared Lancer Théodule intently in the eyes, and said to him:-- nine-leaved screen of Coromandel lacquer. Long, full curtains hung from left him, and he sought the old sergeant to Waterloo, the inn-keeper which he had beneath his great coat. l'Homme Armé. A change awaited him there. which belong to the poor; these are the peasants of mid-mountain, who "This is the first: he did not rob M. Madeleine, because it is Jean Cosette herself. One finds it difficult to recognize. Is it really the French tongue, the Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his approached slowly, without halt, without intermission, with a tranquil the heart of man. root, mixed with salt, produces a beautiful yellow coloring-matter. line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion. In one hour you will And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low