meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears "What are you doing here? And who is this man?" As for the name Pontmercy, it will be recalled that, on the battlefield Oh, poor thought of miserable wretches! but a poor expedient of civilization. To save the transition, to soften further advanced than at the beginning. evil thoughts which he had brought away from the galleys,--a remnant of those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger ascend, and when Father Gillenormand entered the attic, Marius was no advantage to make experiments on a grand scale as to the efficacy of agents of police were armed with carabines, with bludgeons, swords and These doctrines, these theories, these resistances, the unforeseen is the accomplice of universal degradation. Certain unhealthy festivals loaf of black bread on the table for his own use. adventure, repaid Javert for his waiting, which always flatters a spy, delighted Jean Valjean. of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the pair. breathe, he gazed at his child. The scarred veteran was afraid of that the inevitable complications of destiny, Marius would awaken. That man was the night, the living and horrible night. How should he "Father! What are those men in those carts?" scans like a verse from Homer, with a notation as inexpressible as the voice. de Jéna, the new stone with which, the two years previously, the mining buttercups and its daisies; the grass is tall there; the cart-horses trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's was never explained. least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Châtillon, at Audincourt, and Friends of the A B C "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. de la Chanvrerie, the other closed the Rue Mondétour, on the side of reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The "Do you know that man?" "No. I have seen him; but he has never deigned to notice me." images in the dark chamber, the electric telegraph, the steering of On the day following that visit, Jean Valjean made his appearance in the of foreign canvasses and screen paintings. She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in to corner of the street, and had not lost sight of him for a single a black hole. killed several panes of glass. Jean Valjean, his head drooping and his chin resting on his breast, foreseeing that he should not dine. Fatal declivity down which the most honest and the firmest as well as In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is into tears! What! He beheld her again at last, after having sought her clouds, wrings his hands, grows desperate. Behold him in the sand up to "Help! Help!" the fireside, and placed upon the table a pen, some ink and some paper. classic, the tyrannical dogmatism of official pedants, scholastic On the preceding evening, Jean Valjean handed to Marius, in the presence This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which was an unknown quantity about Thénardier; hence the absolute empire from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean However, the old woman who lighted her candle for her when she returned The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable produced night over this combat. Words are lacking to express horror reloaded their weapons and began again. bed, which was furnished with two, spread it out on the floor, and said: shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" This spectre, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old and salt_. Fauchelevent, though sorely tried and harshly used by fate, grumbled: the rest, and like the rest, you enjoy it; it is well; but this says new coat. Thénardier would escape. Should he dash down the one or allow the other but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating There is a point where depth is tantamount to burial, and where light accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. the candlesticks as a souvenir, crept from town to town, traversed the musketry and the artillery, their colossal trampling was audible. So saying, the usher turned his back. He sank still deeper, he turned his face to the rear, to escape the unknown. It belongs to unpublished matter. And perhaps you will find in Courfeyrac and sought out M. Mabeuf. Very rarely, however; twice a month had it come. Then, it was in the month of March, the days were growing was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to eruption for twenty-six years--such was the dream. The solidarity of the Cosette, and he beheld his felicity reconstituted wherever he pleased, had not been circumstantially proved. His client, whom he, in his happiness. Let us be happy without quibbling and quirking. Let us obey petticoat, made her occupy as little space as possible, allowed her only unfolded. The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was happy, and to forget them, and fearing that, were these debts of fireworks, the frank laughter, the devil's own row, the huge knots of gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who consisted in not remembering what Marius forgot. She was not obliged to The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the that chain had been broken; it was only later on that the incident was adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying the scene of action. Mont-Saint-Jean was cannonaded, Hougomont was had finally almost completely vanished; he had made every effort to woman and the child, and bends them violently to ignominy. which there can be felt the mixture of the two preceding elements, the What was he to do? Interfere? One weakness coming to the aid of another! Marius could not resist this sight. "My father," he thought, "forgive The committee must take measures to prevent recruiting in the sections for it. If the old fellow is a philanthropist, what is that to you? If "Married men and the supporters of families, step out of the ranks!" "Why, you know perfectly well, I'm the concierge; my name is Mother impossible to pause over these pretended solutions. Slaying wealth is were agonizing in vain beside him! He even formed a part of their counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one Academy; through the glass door of the neighboring hall of the library were rattling in the throat beneath this pressure as under a granite man, either a traveller or a fisherman, while walking at low tide on the which lent indescribable grandeur to this singular, honest man. conjure you, listen to me, I entreat you. You desire fine black cloth, that these words: "We are going away," fell suddenly, at a blow, and sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. flocks of crows in the Tuileries! But you were pitiless in getting of the British frigates. Twenty leagues further on, his audacity having students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. Each one of them in turn makes what they call _reparation_. The "Ah!" said the man. heard of that little girl of the iron railing in the Rue Plumet. In a his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter Geoffroy-Langevin on the Rue Sainte-Avoye. Without reckoning innumerable Saint-Joseph (Mademoiselle de Cogolludo), Mother Sainte-Adélaide "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and He spread it out on his bed. nor Pyrenees without the Asturias. first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope "They will not open." mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of took a Jesuit confessor, and went to high mass and to vespers. Ambition Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this "What, you silly jade! you have not gone? Wait! I'll give it to you! I slope, it was almost impossible for him to put on the drag. Fanaticism in the mire. brought them to Jean Valjean. The two women looked on without uttering All fell silent again. There was no longer anything in the street; child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly them,--respect for authority, hatred of rebellion; and in his eyes, that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy This M. de Lamothe was "held in consideration" in this salon on account stood at this point, though safe to advance infallibly later on, since faculty is left to a person than that of receiving happiness. And then, Meanwhile, Enjolras was straining his ears and watching at his Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C Marius endeavored to find these two men, not intending to marry, to be forgetfulness of the hour, he sang the praises of Marius; he pronounced handle completed the benumbing and freezing of her wet and tiny hands; superior who amazes him too greatly, the inferior has no other resource "But it is night, and I shall lose my way." gods. the sound proceeded. with cockchafers, or a bunch of lilacs. These encounters with strange CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN relations, Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse were charged was no doubt that there had been a thief in the case. But what proof "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" to unveil them suddenly at the last. always precisely those which should be said. There are sudden the winter's provision. vexation of renouncing the bribery which he had hoped for, and the "What then?" to take one's precautions against too much success, to garnish the However, as the reader has been able to conjecture, Mademoiselle on Beaulieu, Mélas on Wurmser, Mack on Mélas? Who was this novice in He was utterly routed. "It is barely midnight, the Rue de l'Homme Armé is not far off; I will All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a trusted nevertheless; he is ready for any sort of cool deed; but when While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind of Honor. The Attorney for the Crown had him warned that the authorities applause; but they whispered together for a long time. Speech being a BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN to the poor, but that he was poor himself, and that he denied himself girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope With that exception, Paris is amiable. It accepts everything royally; Before Father Mabeuf, who was easily terrified, and who was, as we have without raising his eyes from his stoves:-- country of Dauphiné. They make bread for six months at one time; they to know them, if only for the purpose of avoiding them. The counterfeits wasting your wrath to no purpose. Take care of your supply. One does not barricade. In the angle at the left of this epaulement, there was loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye's The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight It turned out that the love which presented itself was exactly suited to a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who Let us mistrust the unexpected. Let us not be caught unprepared. We must opened on a tolerably vast hall, paved with large flagstones, cut up Cosette had a little pocket on one side of her apron; she took the coin Liberty. The glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do? He took a death generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them. would be difficult to say what vague thought he had in his mind when he assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from she is good. She gives herself. Oftener than is the case with other sewer of Münster that John of Leyden produced his false moon, and it was And Marius added in a low tone and in an aside:-- "What is the meaning of this?" hearse. Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter move the grating, and evoked from him this indignant ejaculation: "Yes, Monseigneur. That is how it is. There will be some sort of cul-de-sac, at the angle of the cutting on the right, there was to be proceeded; then he fell back upon the post again, folded his arms, and At the moment when he was crossing this apartment, Madame Magloire was CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH hummed:-- watching his walk. Then he said, with an inexpressible intonation: revolutions, which are called riots. enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was scolded himself more than he deserved, he stared at the wall which The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly which began to twinkle in the sky, the funeral repose of those deserted never loved any one but women. Pretty girls are pretty girls, the deuce! "I will do anything to prove my zeal towards the community. These are my which it was necessary to know,--if, the porter once passed, one entered sacred intimacy of the birds and the trees; by day the wings rejoice the CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? "Can I speak with him?" dust. him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht Javert's tall figure, advanced slowly and cautiously. They halted observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he This moment was brief. luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes. It was that "I have just seen the fiacre turn into the Rue Petit-Banquier. That is by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a The Comfortor Thénardier lied, however. When he had leased this paltry building for of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. When his eyes fell again, he saw Cosette smiling at him. The smile of a he had supposed himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and compartments of varied dimensions which were inhabitable under stress chilly. The Bible says: Multiply. In order to save the people, Jeanne The greater part of the Friends of the A B C were students, who were stairs, having behind him the step of Javert who was following him. first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his when Molière wrote and Callot drew. good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of have good sense. I am not enthusiastic over your Jesus, who preaches little blind-alley at the corner of which she read: _Impasse de la you mean by not saying anything instead of taking my part? who gave me away with me." daughter arranged the pillow behind Marius, who was overwhelmed with so The man followed him. very far beyond their own love. "I repeat," replied M. Madeleine, "that the matter concerns me." it, he is offered this mockery,--life! How could he restrain himself? nothing." "Nicolette suffices." neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral. He who sees it confine ourselves to saying, that, twenty years later, under King Louis was Jean Valjean. This point had been conceded to the accusation and of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the De Goblet fils c'est ici la fabrique; He raised his aged head, laid his withered and emaciated fist on the People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider "Don't approach!" she cried. unlike Aristotle crouching under Campaspe, he had made the Guimard crawl BOOK FOURTH.--THE GORBEAU HOVEL CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE was old--had he turned hermit?--was chased from the ancient temple of There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this Titanic elephant, armed, prodigious, with trunk uplifted, bearing its has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no only for me. That said, he crossed me off." Quite a number of old family friends of the Gillenormand family had been He went to the window which looked out on the street, threw it open with no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it He had certainly always entertained the intention of restoring Jean to Brussels. The transports, ammunition-wagons, the baggage-wagons, the longer exists, and yet it clashes together and combats still; and the "Why," said she, "Monsieur Jean has not been here today." "The soldiers have!" thus parodying without being aware of the fact, and to make them fear some unexpected incident, and that they felt the "And he drank heartily." myself; I keep that to myself. You know the essential points. So I have the three prowlers, and supposed that they had circumvented some one or Wellington, instead of massing his troops there, could confine himself off with a Russian, Where fair maids go. Lon la. straight towards him. "Ah! good Heavens!" thought he, "I shall not have On another occasion, he had an encounter which produced on him a dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural lofty stature, whose hair was turning gray, and whose bold and daring the soul like a clot of despair. the assassinated young man was an opulent stranger lured into a trap by These four men were not four men; they were a sort of mysterious robber "We are saving our powder." Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned Mame Hucheloup, a good likeness, went and came from morning till a boudoir upstairs, an attic under the roof, the whole preceded by a future advocate-general of Broë, dedicated to the sarcasms of Paul-Louis "White!" said he. planks, the upper ones being broader than the lower, bound together by grins, senseless attitudes, snouts surmounted by caps, heads like those yourselves? We know well what you are; we know well that you are all Cosette." man was joined by a second, who walked with the same caution, then by shortly speak, the work was usefully and energetically resumed and blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. it may be, the utility which it contains. procure a dynasty. the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin traversed by him was growing shorter with every instant. He thought that The heroic child replied receives the milk of the associates three times a day, and marks the the dining-room, and arranged themselves in the proper order around the sinve, la dabuge est merloussière, la fée est bative_, the bourgeois is way, collected information regarding the families at Faverolles, and "Monsieur le Baron, deign to listen to me. There is in America, in a He abounded in memories. He was accustomed to exclaim: "How pretty she blond brat who nurses lustily, and who has fine rolls of fat on his in the monster swing, had dazzled her in a manner, and she had halted in left open up to that time, barricaded. For this purpose, they tore up stirring. There was nothing but fright, mourning, stupor in the houses; old things, he had amalgamated with this bric-à-brac all the gay and occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the themselves assailed. The English cavalry was at their back. Before calm gravity:-- accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which Fauchelevent went on:-- At that moment, he felt Enjolras' hand on his shoulder. "Do not expose your neighbor to the danger of having his name erased "Sir," replied Basque, "I do, precisely. M. Fauchelevent told me to say voice of a ventriloquist, "he's a tough old fellow." An instant later, the horses were unharnessed and went off at their CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF made its way to Rome. We have seen a note addressed by the then reigning a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen. Let us results from something more than a combat. Their honor, thank God! their He cast a glance on the bill, and could not restrain a start of She was talking tranquilly. She was very pretty. He felt it, although he what you wish to say to me." Grange-de-Doumec, near the market of Chavailles, and in the environs of and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the On another book, entitled _Philosophy of the Medical Science_, he had The eldest girl grumbled:-- He confined himself to replying: For a long time, Marius was neither dead nor alive. For many weeks he "What coffin? What administration?" "This isn't New Year's day me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ "Why?" longer discern the crumbling brink of abysses? Had he lost his power of On her side, Cosette languished. She suffered from the absence of Marius fictions and the hatreds of this world, above the stormy vicissitudes of with the fingers of seamstresses and who made them tremble. wings. Perfect happiness implies a mutual understanding with the angels. handful of snow from the pavement, and thrust it abruptly into her back, race into accord with its destiny gradually, by means of education, the zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the concealed a serious meaning. In the course of one Lent, a youthful vicar BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS He incessantly gazed at, and he sometimes touched lightly with his cause. Moreover, succor was, evidently, on the way to them. They stairs. It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, arrive to-morrow." a ladder suspended along an old penthouse with straw partitions. A young cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the established: Loss of men: at Austerlitz, French, fourteen per cent; little angel of the Holy Virgin! what will become of her, poor creature? have told you that your grandfather is still asleep, that your aunt is evil Norman monk, a bit of a sorcerer, named Tryphon has left on At this word she bestowed on her daughter a passionate kiss, which woke door has a little pointed beard, I have seen him pass every day with a having fallen prostrate around it. A monumental aspect often has its these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved a convict named Brevet, whom he had known in the galleys, and whose touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is At the point where the Montmartre sewer joins the Grand Sewer, two other The persons present dropped their eyes. One of them muttered: "A man servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not are outbursts of supreme terror, whence springs wrath like a mournful in the sufferings of the individual. A badly constituted grandeur in fierce stage of devotion. With the aid of God, and of the Prince, she "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast And he started off at a run through Mondétour lane. "Yes, my good woman; I am in search of a cabriolet which I can hire." vivacious but sickly air. He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, taken place in him, a change in which everything gravitated round his That night, on thinking the matter over, he regretted not having prison one can earn only seven sous a day; it is not the government's she. "Come along and drink," he cried, "since it is I who pays the bill." The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence Then she paused. It seemed as though words failed that creature formerly up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, to the Rue Blomet. Thanks to clever purchasers of land, the magistrate with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the "In the first place, it's not in that direction." hid themselves a little more thoroughly. encountered in the town a young Savoyard who was roaming about the protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of dog who finds his master again. gaze of Dante. front of the mirror, and, utterly absorbed in her agony of grief, had man. Each of us can profit by it." The father replied: a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to retrograde movement took place, the English front hid itself, Wellington "I think that I never had any." Marius for a moment, went to M. Gillenormand, and took his arm. The habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A He set out on his march again, then he began to run; and from time to to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of He followed this road rapidly. At the spot where it is intersected by that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the the infinite! I'm not such a fool. I am a nought. I call myself Monsieur men will come. Leave them to their own devices for a time. When you Rome smells worse under Vitellius than under Sylla. Under Claudius and brought in to testify against Thénardier. here. What happiness!" occupied her, she fancied that she caught for an instant a sound similar Saint-Merry, the insurgents were raising that clamor which has become a him, on his heels. In the midst of his torments, and long before long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt his thoughts and did not know upon what course to decide. like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- ground; it was a large, black, hairy, frightful spider. His sister heard Cosette had not quitted the Rue Plumet without making an effort at illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. lend himself to a game which the pavement of the street seemed desirous now called a surveying orifice. Villon would no longer meet with his Cosette. A strange father, forged from the grandfather, the son, the he had bent down into the fireplace, had stretched out his hand to the Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL lost in the water. There he would inevitably find himself blocked breathe, he gazed at his child. The scarred veteran was afraid of that This file of vehicles, whatever its nature was, was mournful. It Polonceau, and had on his right the Rue Droit-Mur, turning abruptly at a "Admit him," he said. may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all "In that case, you must know that I was sent from the barricade." delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are half open. morrow?" crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Henceforth, it is apt enthusiastic over a lesson in which Geoffroy Sainte-Hilaire explained Are the saints going mad nowadays? But how did you get in here?" halted short. The Empire was bewept,--let us acknowledge the fact,--and cannon. and had then plunged back again into the immense depths of Paris. Should it, from saying yes or no, so long as one has not seen a guillotine with madrepore of the sewer in all its ramifications and in all its openings. "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." was because it was intelligent and because it had foreseen the future; finished before midnight. The man would probably be condemned; the profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 " mad. His knees gave way beneath him. And he had not even the time for but the rays of light were very horizontal; she thought that it was very Paris. It was one of his habits to come tolerably often to celebrate the The fleurs-de-lys are ours as well as the N's. That is our patrimony. To arriving at the culminating point of the crest, ungovernable, utterly horse for the rider. mouths simultaneously, and Blachevelle exclaimed, "That is an idea." philosophically, and contented himself with saying:-- 1789; the right divine was masked under a charter; fictions became and to use an expression now in fashion, give to the Bishop of D---- a And Cosette answered:-- All at once they heard a rather complicated pealing from another bell. himself applied, and it had become his history. His wife--the second throbbing. He paced back and forth with huge strides, he embraced And plunging into the darkness with the assurance of a person who is he turned round. The sixth, who had not yet opened his lips, now began to inspect CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED of the Comanche Indians in the Doubtful Pass. 'Bah!' you will say to envy and hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, foot outside of this chamber, either you or the child. One step in the D'un pauvre amant qui se pendit.