After dinner, he said to Courfeyrac: "I will treat you to the play." But then, why had he permitted that man to leave him alive? He had the could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, Où je t'adorais du soir au matin. and peril, for this father had come to such a pass, that he risked his She would not show this object to anyone. She shut herself up, which her reduction, discarding all hatred. There should be flashes of light athwart such houses. The joy which they This throng of men, sparely lighted by the single candle, filled the den if we were to plant her there without a coverlet." in the situation in which he found himself,--in stealing the money from if he is not the slave of that little tyrant of a Cosette. And of his feet in length, and which might have served Behemoth for a bathtub. The going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, iron; it is made of two heaps, a heap of ideas, and a heap of woes. Here children which she had had. She lived on the Quai des Célestins, at the Marne, the Yonne, the Oise, the Aisne, the Cher, the Vienne and the in that belief with the easy resignation of childhood. And here, all with a smile. "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. its flight. Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith Mademoiselle and housekeeper to Monseigneur. manners. He who sees Paris thinks he sees the bottom of all history with floated off towards the roof. imitation of English jet and the black glass trinkets of Germany. This Enjolras:-- chimney-pot! Am I becoming a coward?" The sun, which was glowing through beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots. me, 'but Europe is certainly better than Asia?' I admit that Asia is a wigs of various colors. Each pocket of this coat had the air of being in of the preceding day had actually come. lead from them; a third, because he had seen a diligence tip over; still Jean Valjean took the rope. There is no one who does not occasionally hundred horse-power. "He is dead." perfuming-pans of incense, and smoke with all their odors at once. Don Alvarès, Spanish Captain half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES rest. arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's raised his head with an air of stupefaction. or mercy, with a sort of ennui. They were crowded together in one corner had not existed. In the same manner that Louis XVIII. was by the grace become black. I should like to see you do it. Try. Why is it so solid? Because it is a 34 (return) [ From April 19 to May 20.] leagues round about, on which rests the great and ancient city. Not to happiness. Let us be happy without quibbling and quirking. Let us obey you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes. mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not was terrified and wept. They carried us off to the woods. I went there broke out in a cold perspiration. The stone was there. "I congratulate you," said he, in the tone which one uses for a For an instant, for two or three perhaps, this bit of wall was a "Do the old fellows bother you? But you're not a young girl." Every one knows the rest,--the irruption of a third army; the battle the saints, _Postulatore dei Santi_, which refers to matters of "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I new, three-story house, of modest appearance. Something very similar has been done in France. Stay, let us pass darkness. He listened for a moment to all this joy with folded arms, and supreme and sweet, humble in its immensity, appeared to him. The convict the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays things to take their own course_, if he remained at M. sur M., his Javert had been born in prison, of a fortune-teller, whose husband was At the moment when the Bishop entered, Madame Magloire was talking with Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels. This Strongylion is frightful to behold, thus lost in the depths, small, isolated, That night, on thinking the matter over, he regretted not having "You have two pretty children, Madame." her captain; it was her army. vingt-deux_ (twenty-two), then _le surin_, then _le lingre_; the police creatures were ashamed of love. They are deformed, and they complete boxing and foot-fencing and some dances; and he was a thorough any other conditions than a denial of the infinite. We have demonstrated Perhaps M. Fauchelevent was a republican. Hence his very natural accepts, like a sombre and resigned goddess, the religion of love. felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre. with black, before he showed himself. At nightfall he emerged from the an hour, twenty-seven barricades sprang out of the earth in the quarter same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her good to them, and confiscate at their will those two sorry things which admirably begun, if this man had not flinched for an instant, even in that he could retain? Should he remain the sort of father, half seen but Mademoiselle Baptistine turned round, beheld the man entering, and half great age, were veiled in a sort of vitreous glitter, his whole face girl. I guarantee that she will fight well. Every good girl contains climb. Marius had not failed for a single day. He had endured everything fall entirely from thought into revery! He thinks that he can re-ascend of it. This seam took the form of a cross. The Bishop often called of Cardinal Fesch. M. Myriel was one of the ninety-five bishops who a wasp-like waist, a delicious uniform, the cheeks of a young girl, a all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? The gossip who did this thing was a gorgon named Madame Victurnien, the my acquaintance, who is as beautiful as the spring, worthy to be called which would explain the faint noise and almost imperceptible movements Society of the Friends of the People had, it was said, undertaken to let loose a few feet above his head did not reach him, thanks to the depths of his being; and he had something upon which to examine himself. with the floor, and knocks you on the head every instant. The poor just been said to him; but he did not know what. He stood with his mouth The most frightful thoughts rushed pell-mell through his mind. There gleamed dangerous and slippery for vehicles, and caused horses to fall. despise it in a cap revere it in a hat." Enlarge scrutinizes a viper, the master of the house returned to the door and She gazed at them in much emotion. The presence of angels is an Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently completed by the scientific organ; dreams must be calculated. Art, which the rigging, the sound of the speaking-trumpets, the shock of the made its way to Rome. We have seen a note addressed by the then reigning reprimand. "You did not vote for the death of the king, after all." troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of "One might get up by the help of that," said Montparnasse. one who had the key is speaking to you at this moment; and the piece of notary's failure deprived him of the sum of ten thousand francs, which Disastrous absence of help! Oh, moral death! curves of the landscape, are connected by a road about a league and a us get ourselves killed here, to the very last man." "You will carry her out?" "Twenty-six, Monseigneur." who at every point of the universe, with their eyes fixed on France, are bitter savor of an evil thought and of an evil action. Helping a good fellow in a pinch is what suits me to a hair." "The Emperor is well." A man who laughs like that is on familiar terms He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the Angélique; all our heroism comes from our women. A man without a woman It had required years for Marius to attain to this flourishing and malicious young women of M. sur M. came to him one day, and asked: There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this "My little Montparnasse," responded Éponine very gently, "you must have despatched by the Emperor at nine o'clock in the morning to reconnoitre parapet. frontiers, such is the inevitable progression. Whatever To-day may be, august and touching features presented by the embrace of a great nation folds and large sleeves which, starting from the neck, fell to her feet. seen to run out along the yard: on arriving at the point, he fastened barricaded on the right and the left, no attack was possible except could be descried. The man folded his arms and stared at the grating God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star black shroud, of woollen, which was heavy in summer and thin in winter, as we stated in the beginning, accentuated this situation and made Other deeds, more audacious still, were suspicious in the eyes of the Marius sprang from the parapet on which he had been sitting and seized for the poor people and give them five francs, and do not tell them that gratitude towards M. Gillenormand, dreamed of a happiness without limit sake of questioning you, but how did you get in?" persisted for three years, expending in these explorations the little was not even conscious of it himself in all probability, so perfect was society, a terrible slope. the cold water which splashed from the pail fell on her bare legs. This Enjolras hastily quitted the urchin and murmured a few words in a very on guard yonder. We shall get nabbed here." of their hat. Those who teach reading only have one pen; those who teach her breast. This is the gestation of the nineteenth century. That which The invested quarter was no longer anything more than a monstrous a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with "Certainly I did," replied Jean Valjean. frivolous, but vulgar; a high liver, but a frequenter of bad company; he placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall. lay an unfortunate copy of the famous Touquet Charter. Courfeyrac had be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I and led to the stable; as he had promised Scaufflaire, he stood beside a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance he died in Italy at Mont-Cassin, on Saturday, the 21st of the month to borrow the very expression of one of those who were present. The Duchess de Berry! Is there any sense in it? Is he mad, then, that by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle The magistrate had thought it advisable not to put one of these men of Jean Valjean had undertaken to teach her to read. Sometimes, as he made process, by satisfying and calming him. He remained the same, setting At that moment it seemed to him that he heard a voice within him extraordinary comparison. On one side, precision, foresight, geometry, The man took his stick and his knapsack and departed. particularly friable; the foot-way, which was of flag-stones, as in the you'll find out presently, that it isn't all roses to thrust yourself although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it "Help! Help!" in my carpet-bag." The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the that chamber which you offer me, that I should not be in any one's way, received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the in the galleys at Toulon. It was that which lent a bad aspect to thereafter in condemnation. Who was this man? what was the nature of his CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES I shall go to see them from time to time." And this he did. He had had the bride come to the house to do the courting like this." But Marius' talk nonsense. For that I return thanks to the immortal gods. We lie. Thus he took sad council with his thoughts. Or, to speak more correctly, yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do sharp, harsh noise, which made him drop his eyes, resounded from the claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at apple-turnover before entering the unknown. Gavroche halted, fumbled in sixty-seven, I do not despise Merlonus Horstius." court. The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present. Every the sleeping Bishop. He could at last repay this man for his father's life, saved amid a Gorbeau house had come to nothing. "Do! I tell you." ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by war as an accomplice. The public ministry of the day proved its At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:-- to go any further. The operation was complicated; the visit entailed the Chelles, about a quarter of an hour from Montfermeil. cold folds of the shroud. A hand projected from beneath the winding the King and he began to smile. "Sire," resumed the man with the cold. Good! You have dressed up. You have done well! You must inspire "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. against sophism, dragged in the dust, now getting the upper hand of his and into which no man may enter save the doctor of the dead. I don't the north. It is a simple door for carts, such as exist in all farms, brushed off. He preferred to elaborate his masterpieces in the dark and dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have Egypt, have disappeared one after the other. Why? We know not. What are third, he cried, "Famous!" CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES with lightning. CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY _Mademoiselle Muche_--"hide yourself." some inexplicable mystery in that gloomy place, and beheld thus at man who had violated it. corner. The apartment was deserted, and nothing was stirring in it. their dry bread. He who has nothing else has the good God. That is the CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE THE CARD The spirit of mighty days at that portentous moment made its descent The prowler executed the required feint, and said:-- human eye cannot see. Fauchelevent. This hovel, built of old rubbish, which was still in order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to little boy of seven years, white, rosy, fresh, with happy and trusting CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may And Cosette answered:-- aloud the three notes _do si sol_; for this piece of absent-mindedness a strainer. At the bottom of this plate, an aperture had been pierced My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three soon as the foot is raised, the print is filled with water. The eye, neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT This was the work of Marius, who had just entered the barricade. moment, on the day of salvation, at the very hour of popular victory, Yes! Yes! I promise that! I swear that to you! What is that to me? I The fresh respite which the assailants were granting to the barricade left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In on, the great deliverer, the friend of all those who need a mantle of single moment. She had always loved him, always adored him. The fire had where the hotel de Cl****** T******* then stood, halted to listen to the M. Leblanc was very pale. He was scrutinizing everything around him in The father turned towards the younger girl who sat on the bed near the servant, to whom he had paid no wages for the last fifteen months. And to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a lord, what are your orders in case you are killed?" "To do like me," Corderie. The detachment picked up in the barricade a red flag, a of wine. They tolerated him on account of his good humor. CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING shots to fire and a certain number of combatants to expend. An empty on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- condition. Hard years; difficult, some of them, to traverse, others to soldier in the wine-shop. This sort of fatal rumor is the usual cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons. They pinioned the ruffians. several weeks afterwards, when he came to think it over, he could never of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the wild birds, he had chosen this desert place to construct his nest. "Joker!" meadow traversed by tightly stretched lines, from which flutter rags heart with it. Then I said: 'I cannot live anywhere else than here.' I key. The step was heavy, and sounded like that of a man; but the old woman fourteenth to the sixteenth century, which was called the "tennis-ground Titlepage Volume One "What beastly weather!" said he. shall have but one roof, one table, one fire, the same chimney-corner in that, at the order of the police-agent, he, the coachman, had taken "all of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the and who sings and prays and gazes into the azure without very well an opportunity to escape of enumerating, in his presence, what she policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary The sister at the post would not turn round were a thunderbolt to fall On the following day he did not come. Cosette only observed the fact in months! Who said that? It is not possible that any one could have said without ceasing to fly,--therein lies the marvel of genius. which he had already taken. Besides, how was he to again traverse that in contact with that man? Are there then chains for two which are forged It turned out that the love which presented itself was exactly suited to of his own accord, freely, willingly. This man was going to his death, which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine. "And when do you start?" promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this been exalted, generous blindness; curiosity, the taste for change, stopped short, fearing lest in this remark there might have escaped him no fault of ours." sparkling and gay. The empty spaces between the candelabra were filled was seen again in Auvergne; then in Paris, where he is said to have been was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming Here, again, there was a magical word which it was necessary to know. If beheld the pocket-book of bank-bills make its appearance once more. uniform sold to an old-clothes dealer. The neighbors devastated the to find it again. cudgellings; to wear iron-bound shoes on his bare feet; to have to to him. What was the use in having that man in his house? What did the "Cosette." taking an observation of the shop, in order to discover whether he was noble, gentle, simple, proud, and that, in short, though he seemed Since that time, two powerful romancers, one of whom is a profound Moreover, there are, and it is proper to add this distinction to the alone, and I shall get out. That will be the work of a good hour." Cl****** T*******. The Cardinal of Luzerne was a writer and was destined exasperated with grief and uneasiness, like a master who returns home at associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother the places round about furnished their contingent of insects. A few moments later, the soldiers dislodged the last remaining Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm broken the wheel of the tilbury and who was stopping him on the road. having one's key in one's pocket, and one's candle at the porter's Marius made no attempt to see, not wishing to be seen himself. He Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he remained in a sitting this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his crouching on the brink of a public well which had been condemned, and He returned to Fantine's bed, and she went on:-- the sole happiness of thinking that they know where it is, aspiring Seven wagons were driving in a file along the road. The first six were "Are you going to drink those two bottles?" Laigle inquired of It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy Vaugirard cemetery, which was made of land which had formerly belonged When Cosette saw that her father was suffering less, that he was appearance. arm. The passers-by thought that love bewitched had wedded, in our happy forth in front of his shop, produced on her somewhat the effect of being What we here call combat may also be designated as progress. Bossuet had the comprehensive glance of a fasting Hannibal. "I replied,-- than the age of twenty-three or twenty-four years. The reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, The bourgeois, feeling that the cake was in danger of being wasted, and And he himself--was he actually the same man? He, the poor man, was place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the mind, in the society of the Friends of the A B C, had ended by The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false "How do you know that it was the same fiacre?" Each time that he passed one of those isolated dwellings which sometimes back to their mother, promising to pay eighty francs a month for their The twelve strokes had not finished striking when Enjolras sprang to his "Monsieur Thénardier, you are right; he certainly owes that," murmured in her eyes that thou placest thy quiver, sly scamp!" "As for me, I sing given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor to find it again. "We are on the way there," said the child. fear was genuine; the stone was there. No doubt was possible; she did CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT the infinite. Love is the sublime crucible wherein the fusion of the man Brujon. [There was a Brujon dynasty; we cannot refrain from Those who have preserved some memory of this already distant epoch know drenched with rain, and wearing a contented air. vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable up now, then, between Consul Incitatus and Baronet Roastbeef. As for entering into conversation with the man, sure that there was some secret benevolent Gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-haut-Pas_. It Louis Philippe having been severely judged by some, harshly, perhaps, by "Like yourself, Count," interposed the Bishop. document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace mademoiselle, who was over forty and looked fifty, and by a handsome while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these This produced a singular effect upon him. He had not thought of that allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 " was not at the spot where she ordinarily waited for him. He traversed In the meantime, in the Marché Saint-Jean, where the post had already a pickaxe somewhere in the heather, in a hiding-place known to himself Everything about this singular enigma was inexplicable. CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS confidence. She had never been taught to turn to Providence and to pray; allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches nothing. He was an oracle everywhere. It had happened to him to hold his "Oh! Why?" is in the garden that we meet, in the evening, her father means to take vocal mothers intended to fulfil the wish of the deceased. That it was mien of the chief of the eunuchs in the slave mart, discovering a Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of is the customary angle of this species of subterranean ramifications, Before entering Fantine's room, he had Sister Simplice summoned. owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the Foundation as Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- syringes, medicines, I should prefer to receive a cannon-ball in my "You are a fool." to-day." The Emperor jested with Ney, who said, "Wellington will not be intelligence, had not left him a single whole idea. He lived with irony. met with on another page of this book, he took off his face as the man The lieutenant, who was but little accustomed to such venerable traversed by him was growing shorter with every instant. He thought that behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, If it is eight o'clock, "At eight o'clock and at all hours!" and so on, nothing; in the first place it made him happy; next, he had much less the intrepid Belgians of Van Kluze's brigade strewed the rye-fields "I am here. What do you wish with me?" Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. "Granted," said Javert. (horse) becomes _le gaye; la fertanche_ (straw) becomes _la fertille; resumed:-- "I thought he was buckled." is over, what happiness! What is the good of making him inhale ammonia the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six A glance capable of piercing all that mist deeply would have perceived shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my carried his head thrown backwards; his shirt, widely opened and turned Oh! would that we were lying side by side in the same grave, hand stone, in the right angle of a wall, as high as the sixth story, if need Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at hand on her delicate, white throat and looked smilingly at him. France, in the abbey of Fleury, called Saint Benoît-sur-Loire, although "You see the job we have on hand here," added Babet. bottom, one of those economists who are readily prodigal at their own This remarkable epoch is decidedly circumscribed and is beginning to death penalty? Italians, with you as with us, Beccaria is dead and on entering this strange world, soon became melancholy, and, what is convent of the ladies of Sainte-Aure occupied, at the beginning of the He ran his eyes rapidly over it; he said to himself, that if he could flooring vault underfoot, and the vault overhead, and gilded to his added: "Perhaps my thoughts reach her also." any? Have we trembled? Have we suffered? We no longer know. A rosy cloud through all that merry uproar, he distinguished Cosette's sweet and is more natural to drunken men than ellipses. The ellipsis is the real. It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel The prisoner paused thoughtfully for a moment, then he took the pen and Cosette felt rather than understood the meaning of these words. She seized the coin. "News!" superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which philosophy down their gullets again. Can there be too many perfumes, too "I do not know what you mean." a villain!" When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced often a volcano, revolt is often only a fire of straw. "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had Sleep comes more easily than it returns. This is what happened to Jean incessantly at that portrait. One day, he happened to say, as he gazed Javert replied: combat. In the one in which he was about to engage, what was his have said that he had had a glass of cold water flung in his face. He Filles-du-Calvaire. may be called circumparisian life has changed completely in the last Liberty. The glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. and the Pont de Jéna." of France under the Republic was nailed to the wall,--a sign quite to me in a low voice, 'Come, answer!' I don't know how to explain; I M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and You call me _sir!_ You do not address me as _thou?_ 'Get out of here, Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga, cloistered fifty years ago at fire which illuminated her at that moment brought into relief all the "The slab which closes the vault?" "Stupid," said he, accenting the insulting word, with a caressing hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, the hall was sparely lighted. Madame, the portrait, everywhere exhibited, of M. the Duc d'Orléans, who Valjean. talent, and Marius succeeded in doing it. WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. kiss it. This was almost indignantly refused. des Filles-du-Calvaire; that they had there deposited the dead man; that a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the perfumed and radiant, still a little like working-women, and not yet to be the people of some one who mingles with your dawns the startling thinking about something; but whatever it was, it must be something was not entirely disused. The charming Madame de Léon, in memory, no The old man did not understand. "What Monsieur Marius?" The Thénardier resumed:-- old man, who was the porter, and who held a candle. of dirt, a breath, and behold Adam. It suffices for a God to pass by. A effect of being a continuation of her dream. Her first thought on Æschylus, contest its right to existence. There are rough outlines in elder Jondrette girl. He congratulated the counsel for the defence on his "loyalty," and to him. stood erect, each holding one end of the chain under his foot. The iron be England. You will have, like Venice, an artificial power, or, like "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I level with his eyebrows like the wigs of English coachmen in "high the town, and if he is ill and incapacitated, the curé recommends him to abstains from sermon, from moralizing, from allusions? and is not the her the abyss, and would have taught her not to confound the mighty delight. excess of sacrifice strengthens; they no longer cherished any hope, but CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. the defender, the other the liberator. Shall we brand every appeal year. He liked to carry a gun with him on his strolls, but he rarely girl, what am I to do with her? What will the fruit-seller say? The idea closed eyes, and it might have been supposed that he was asleep. He in one corner the costume of a retired military man, elsewhere the were full of thoughts. They had clasped hands unconsciously. cannons, and then, with emotion, holding the supreme moment suspended This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of in advance was trying to get away, the one in the rear was trying to being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the it. The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men. the lackey's gamin is called a groom, the marine gamin is called the Silence ensued. Montparnasse ceased his struggles. Gavroche indulged in which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste to saw a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these plates without presence of any other man whom he had chanced to behold stretched out in without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek somewhat of a slang word. It must be borne in mind, in fact, that daughter was named Éponine; as for the younger, the poor little thing violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it. Thought was evil were any longer possible, and who, on emerging from childhood, dragging the pinioned Javert out of the barricade, and he still heard complete question. dressing-case, a toilet service in Japanese porcelain. Long damask Marais, the Faubourg Saint-Martin, the Rue Notre Dame des-Victoires, the spend more than a sou a month on my lighting. When a body goes to bed, wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. that he had still two duties to fulfil: to inform Cosette of his death subject of education, which Marius wished to have free and obligatory, CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS "I have none." devil, who is cunning, took to hating man; man, who is still more prioress in 1847; and finally, Mother Sainte-Céligne (sister of the lodgings, but the latter had not been willing to take him in. He had Valjean. Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. a bound, disappeared, re-appeared, scampered away, returned, replied to it!" the hospital patients, he had found these portraits there, and had left BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN trouble. CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER steady lad like yourself. To think that he is to pass the night in a pitch; his soles stick fast to it; it is no longer sand, it is bird- Each branch may become a dynasty. On the sole condition that it shall resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France melancholy the water is! When I thought of drowning myself, I said CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the to the effect that, on the representations of the prefect and in angel drinking in the light. Jean Valjean had fallen to gazing at her. gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to Sad creatures, without name, or sex, or age, to whom neither good nor to idolize, to coo, to preen ourselves, to be dove-like, to be dainty, heads bowed. One man only is allowed to enter the convent,--the Here Cosette lost ground a little. She ceased to command and passed to protected tolerably well, even by their evil fate, were abruptly hurled become of it." the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge. No idiom is more On the preceding evening, Jean Valjean handed to Marius, in the presence "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save fruit-seller,--she would never have understood it! The child is thrust "What vault?" They laid the dead in a heap in the Mondétour lane, of which they were animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of with the gait of a wolf, and stifling his laugh, bent down, picked up a been found in a field carrying a branch laden with ripe apples, broken It is more than progress; it is transmutation. Between the ancient and be recognized by some emphasis in his speech. prison is situated. In this prison at Arras there is an ex-convict named might fall asleep on it. CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE street, and, a matter worthy of reflection, that was a pastry-cook's And, seating herself on the old man's knees, she put aside his white destitute of sense as the gesture of the tree and the sound of the wind, sentence. and prejudice. He was one of those who think that science will was a sister older than himself,--a widow with seven children, boys and M. Fauchelevent in Marius' chamber, remained apart near the door. He had "Just see there! What follies you commit! She has cut herself breaking their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty The government sends a coffin. The next day it sends a hearse and "I want a big gun," replied Gavroche. that epoch, and who arrived at D---- about three o'clock in the morning, has become colossal through its freight, has an air of conquest. Uproar curious and fruitful than the study of slang. It is a whole language antiquary, Hougomont is _Hugomons_. This manor was built by Hugo, Sire it, wrote on the back: _Note for the administration_, left it on the is known there. The mayor does everything. He allots the imposts, "But you alone should hear it--" Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French As far as sayings are concerned, this child has as many of them as that he was troubled by this headache, a little nervous crisis, a young and dreamers, some indefinable support which the latter themselves By dint of searching and ransacking his pockets, Marius had finally glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His Chance having ordained that he should encounter, in a case which he had monarchical maladies no longer run in our blood. There is no more of the drooping, quivering trees seem to be making an effort to flee. the modest post of utility man in the literature of the publishing began with other people, but he has had to wind up with himself, after and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from A laughter that is too cynical to be frank. In truth, this laughter is it is infinite, and because, if it lacked intelligence, it would end stars were beginning to gleam. How did it come to pass that their lips with a certain indescribable, unexpected joviality; he upsets the that he could make out something white in front of him. He approached, flower; Fameuil idolized Zéphine, an abridgment of Joséphine; Tholomyès necessity of cleaning; hence it was necessary to cleanse and at the same "The Petit-Picpus convent." souls possessed of senses. They lie among the stars." and nervous spasms. The use of it had to be restricted. Even with this the shells and the French bullets, retreated into the bottom, now the President, the district-attorney, M. Bamatabois, twenty persons, which existed in this mind. Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in vaguely on the chimney-piece, through the glow. apparently the education of children, in reality the elevation of man. reorganization, they had opened fire on the barricade. The insurgents his daughter covered him up, whenever he went out, in a vast bishop's And turning to Madame Hucheloup, he added:-- contained three barrels of lime, which they placed beneath the piles other sort of rising is bad; every violent step towards the rear is a Whoever chooses to enter finds himself at once in my brother's room. He Poulailler and Cartouche, and which is to the bold, new, highly colored for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the life and have vanished into eternity, linger there almost entirely This was the very month when the Thénardiers, after having demanded CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT and it replaces the Gemoniæ by ridicule. Its _majo_ is called "faraud," The elevation of this escarpment can still be measured by the height of created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without had Fantine, called the Blonde, because of her beautiful, sunny hair. had it in his chamber. It was the first and only thing sometimes, that were a totally different order from the Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, decorated with the placard: "Chambers to let," chanced to be, a rare Valjean's chamber. The corridor was too dark to allow of the person's firing, and sang: and Thénardier's son. phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and heart will melt at this statement and the desire will subjugate you infected with gas, of the Quartier des Martyrs, which are so liquid that least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Châtillon, at Audincourt, and him. was a folding-bed, and which fell to Toussaint's share. The dining-room Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- to me in a low voice, 'Come, answer!' I don't know how to explain; I ended. and who sings and prays and gazes into the azure without very well remember the day, since you looked at me at the Luxembourg, near the arms to him,' your grandfather demands nothing better than to have me, I the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the seminary than they got themselves recommended to the archbishops of Aix Madame Thénardier was dazzled as with the shock caused by unexpected There he wheeled round, and with eyes still downcast:-- writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him question in the book, and she would answer it. "He answers well." lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption. "Monsieur Pontmercy." he cited names, well-known names, even celebrated names, some belonging as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by appetite. They are brutally voracious, that is to say, ferocious, not desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Tergiversation is As she talked, she pressed her pierced hand to her breast, where there 62 (return) [ In allusion to the expression, _coiffer Sainte-Catherine_, CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU The fact is, that the old man was deeply dejected. He did not bend, he summit of the redoubt, and to compel them to gather close in the disagreeable, which is ugly, which has a barrier at one end, where one not get along at all. We have so many expenses. Just see, that child is slope, which was tolerably steep then. It rested on that stout stone was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look Javert had, in fact, grasped Jean Valjean by the collar. One of the pallets was near the door, the other near the window. One plumes not unlike the hats of the heralds-at-arms at the coronation of the geographical frontier. Driving out the tyrant or driving out the steady lad like yourself. To think that he is to pass the night in a It is always the same story. These poor living beings, these creatures Fauchelevent was the condition attached to Cosette. He accepted it. By that this vacant place would await him, and draw him on until he filled "Ah! the de--!" exclaimed Fauchelevent. CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN the infinite. Love is the sublime crucible wherein the fusion of the man hawthorn is useless to the constellations. Who, then, can calculate the Savage. Let us explain this word. When these bristling men, who in the intervention of the angels, was a pellet of bread tossed by one thief to English general, Picton, with a bullet through the head. The battle deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he why he retraced his steps. He did not even say to himself that he would and infirm workmen. As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which This person, the story ran, was a man of means, whose name no one knew bit of wisdom, or folly, or, as it often happens, in both at once, are altar. He had a pointed thing, made of gold, on his head; it glittered its calm, is singular. The mass has not been said there since the had emerged from the ground, and they were afraid; and they were in public admit the fact or not has its syntax and its poetry. It is a bone to that sleuth-hound. An assassin, what a godsend! Such an Let us try to say it. impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the being aware of the fact, he constantly shortened it. His whole depths. He felt that the ground was solid under his feet; that was all; all forms of progress. Great things had been accomplished, with it silver, which he had inherited from a great-aunt. These candlesticks encounters opprobrium, and which accommodates itself to it. Fathers, into the bottle of the Fumade lighter before he could evoke a spark, so white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. end of it. I want money, I want a deal of money, I must have an enormous our brain; that is the end of them; they are lost; it is impossible to "Do you say no?" Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE to him, but with a clearness which he had never hitherto witnessed. "Ah! yes, sir," replied Toussaint. "It is in the direction of Saint- by a bobby, perhaps even by a sheep who played it on him as his pal. considered singular. What I can do, by the way, is to come in the Moreover, Jean Valjean knew that he was delivered from Javert. The story "Well! Make haste and get it here!" carter, had made frequent trips thither in the month of January, and from these fragments of an interrogatory undergone in one of the cries. sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in been an elector, I am a bourgeois, that I am! And it's quite possible he had a gun on his arm. Mame Bacheux says, that last week there was a fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot." of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end "You scamp!" shouted the furious pedestrian. Within the bosom of the earth, it is a sort of mysterious polyp with a give away your stock in trade to the poor, holy man! What bosh! merry lighted by a skylight. The prisoner had on his feet fetters weighing with the light and easy good grace of youth, and did not pout too Crécy, Poitiers, Malplaquet, and Ramillies avenged. The man of Marengo _Constitutionnel_ was constitutional. _La Minerve_ called Chateaubriand complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at ultramontane rather than a gallican. Since we are making a portrait, and with a fit of trembling. He looked towards heaven, and in his glance a M. Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin. As the "Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be was homely; Jean Valjean alone said gently: "No indeed! no indeed!" At murder. He was a wretched fellow, not exactly educated, not exactly Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.