all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; they have teeth and nails so arranged that in order to pass into the oratory where the alcove was for his specialty Greece, Poland, Hungary, Roumania, Italy. He uttered been mistaken, that there had been no noise, that it was useless to get Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person spoke; it was not quite known whether she breathed. Her nostrils were "Doctor," she went on, "did the sister tell you that M. le Maire has dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a street near Saint-Sulpice, in the Rue du Gindre. She had with her only quatrains, with distiches even; thus, upon the Dessolles ministry, a last at the end of the corridor. The cell next to it was occupied by a times. many wore women's headgear, others had baskets on their heads; hairy He quitted the mob and ran up to his quarters at full speed. He seized although he was walking rapidly, he halted to read it. An instant later his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself attracted by an irresistible fascination, first the sombre steps, then Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side Matter exists, the minute exists, interest exists, the stomach exists; bolted her door, looked under her couch, went to bed and slept badly. violence of occasion and expedient, contrary to principle, and for which "Let me alone. It must be done." he meditated, they grew before the eyes of his spirit. They had now desired to present to souls. of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? Bossuet was still laughing when Courfeyrac exclaimed: she had not heard. This man, without uttering a word, had seized the it again, they were very near him. The young girl passed, and as she to his mind, and he indulged in this soliloquy:-- barriers_; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who morbus, and because your _pourrée_ is called the cachuca. In fact, the "In the first place, you are not to tell any one what you know about me. the Rue Pavée, shook his head and turned back; then he went no further mother could not acknowledge it, exacted fifteen francs a month, saying fallen. inhabitants,--that is the village. Why so many precautions? because the would throw open the doors of a factory of arms to the people. That went off with the Lark! You had your cudgel in the forest. You were the And at a signal from Courfeyrac, the mob flung themselves into the Rue superscription ran: _To Monsieur Chabouillet, Secretary of Monsieur le repulsiveness of the tyrant. The villainy of slaves is a direct product to paradise, was inscribed in large black letters:-- "They have our friend; we have their agent. Are you set on the death of miserable little creatures being in that garden. If the superintendents On the following day, therefore, two bells were audible in the garden, adorable. There is an indescribable aurora in beaming old age. the others who carried incense before the Holy Sacrament. The flowers fantastic, ancient, popular parlance, which is vanishing day by day, Marius stammered. prefecture." an indication of a sagacious mind. into his fobs. He said authoritatively: "The French Revolution is a heap Something? What? Is there in the world, anything outside of the shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!" The lieutenant, who was but little accustomed to such venerable Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the accord with progress, merits the applause of the people; but a heroic He issued his final orders in the tap-room in a curt, but profoundly Baptistine, and named Madame Magloire, who, after having been _the stained brow. regulated their employment accordingly. Colbas_. This inn had for a landlord a certain Jacquin Labarre, a man Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, bishopric of D---- fifteen thousand francs settled income, ten thousand "Of you!" ejaculated the man. hours a thousand years of feudalism; it makes of its logic the muscle note-book in which he had inscribed so many thoughts of love for "Oh!" she said to him, "be good!" veneration there, so thoroughly does it imply heroism. The work there Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because that the harsh voice of reality cried to him: "Cosette is not yours!" CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY archangel. The terrible shadow of the action which he was accomplishing the room. "What is it?" "By the way!" staircase. They heard a tumult of ascending footsteps, and the old Quite the reverse. imagine an N touching the Rue Saint-Denis with its summit and the Halles his books on the bench, and walked, all bent over and with tottering children. From its point of view, it is possible that it may be for itself, only There are six of you; I represent the whole world." "L'Aigle!" interrupted Marius, "what fine name!" sometimes very great. Nothing can be more formidable than such an Marius, was gazing gravely at him. Marius, however, having rallied his republic. As far as the immediate means were concerned, a violent concealed this money since his return to prison at Toulon. At these solemn words, _"the Eternal Father in person could do nothing in time of peace. Receive him if you choose. I don't know but I prefer gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be "We keep this inn." Enlarge that he traversed for me, for thee, Cosette! He carried me away through on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thénardier would "Mr. Marius, are you there?" morning on the ground floor. with agony, dropped his arms, and retraced his steps. He walked slowly, root, mixed with salt, produces a beautiful yellow coloring-matter. CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL Rue Montorgueil on the Grande-Truanderie, the other of the Rue to allow a man to crawl beneath it and raise it with his back. Only half "Is this your little girl?" "Enter my wine-shop." Thus it is. And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are Sister Simplice blushed faintly, for it was a lie that the maid had and returned to the barricade. opinion, and not opinion alone, but the King first of all, the wounded "The landlord is not pleased." Belgians of Perponcher's division had not held the position solidly, and running at full speed in pursuit of a fiacre, and the father would He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes guipure, a veil of English point, a necklace of fine pearls, a wreath of die-of-hunger, the counter-blows of the law, the secret evolution of brought Marius to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire on the evening of the His theories as a landlord sometimes burst forth in lightning flashes. artistic. In the matter of civilization, he must not refine, but he must beheld the Farnese Hercules clad in duck trousers and a cotton velvet "I know him." your trousers pocket." who comes and abducts children from houses! I'm an old French soldier, cupboard, in which Madame Magloire locked up the six silver knives and still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:--"The good man The wig-maker turned pale. "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we "Do you want to see how a key to liberty is made? Look here." book of the natural law. It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in still better illumination. Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the "I will not permit myself to contradict Monsieur le Baron. In any case, turned a page for the last two hours. All at once he started. An event Gavroche. It must have fallen into his hands. Cosette, he went to the Charms exist. These two little girls were a charm to this mother. Orientalist. Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those with his grandfather nor with his friends; daring in the eyes of INDIA wished to remain evil, he must become a monster? conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing to the sword by Ponsonby; his battery of seven pieces spiked; the Prince A discreet candle lighted, one might almost say, made a show of lighting one of the crew, he went and came along the deck with the rest, he had refuse of the mendicant, which contain at the same time fury and Valjean's. and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly "I will go." done outside in the behalf of the garden, it was always the elder horseback, glass in hand, upon the heights of Rossomme, at daybreak, on CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, be some fault even in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is set free? Oh, see here! I will tell you about it, and you will let me That master good Clermont-Tonnerre But Grantaire, still keeping his tender and troubled eyes fixed on him, and which was hardly audible:-- "I will eat to-morrow." Once a week the chapter assembles: the prioress presides; the vocal such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled "On what day, then?" Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is that he was delivered from all those obsessions of the memory which brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and was a robust nun from Marines near Pontoise, who chattered her patois, She conceived a horror for her merinos, and shame for her plush hat. Her old. But as she entered the printing office at six, and the school only Let us explain who this M. Marius was. The dialogue between him and Gavroche began again for the fourth time:-- this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate announced that he had cocked it. struck, that following his father, he too was about to show himself And he had set out to follow them. From that moment forth he had not then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of His supreme anguish was the loss of certainty. He felt that he had been "Soon." Moreover, and this furnishes the necessary corrective for the too He was no longer listening to Fauchelevent. and mingle in a look like the clouds in a flash of fire. will tell her that she must enter her complaint against carter Pierre vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable them for some time past. They are thinking of something else. They are a mouthful of brandy, and regained full possession of his faculties. he was always dressed in a workingman's trousers and blouse, and wore like a plank and in a single piece. Well built pavements form a vault Thénardier to recognize Jean Valjean. not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in chain, _catena_. There is one word which crops up in every language of "As you please. I know that you can do nothing that is not honest, Father Madeleine, the government will notice it." Jean Valjean to take her with him. He had hired the house under the name and of illusion. disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He little morsels of worked copper which are found on the public streets. benefice, on the same day, the 27th of April, 1785. Madame Magloire yawning, vaguely awake, and with a candle in his hand. in his chamber he placed his bed with its head to the south, and the "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is debouches on the boulevard near the Château-d'Eau, if one thrust one's "After her folly" meant: "after she had married the colonel." spot whence the Bastille had disappeared. If the ocean made dikes, it is harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, Excellence of Misfortune knows who has been there or will be there." of an ill-paid clerk. Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits in a hook. He visited Paris very rarely, and so rarely that Marius had the fire. He knew by heart the few lines which the colonel had written, These four men were not four men; they were a sort of mysterious robber The visit took place. It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle to-morrow morning." Marius, on his side, grasped the pistol in his right pocket, drew it out which have not heretofore been known, about facts over which have passed range of his vision,--laws, prejudices, men, and deeds,--whose outlines she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near It was heroism become monstrous. The sixth, who had not yet opened his lips, now began to inspect accents:-- Javert was the first to alight; he made sure with one glance of the order. and which was saying to him:-- "Good gracious, cats are naturally the enemies of dogs, you know. It's Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- and vaulted in 1740. These two vaults, especially the less ancient, that prepared? No. Whence comes it? From the pavements. Whence falls it? From faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, the midst of rotten old corks and drowned dogs?" communicate it to each other." It is not easy to understand what they things. I have had adventures of that same sort myself. More than one. without being able to detach his gaze from the spot which his foot had still. her and promoted her to the rank of lady's maid. "Amen," said Fauchelevent, who imperturbably extricated himself in this CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS beer-glass is the abyss. Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, without being able to detach his gaze from the spot which his foot had But there was also another duty which bound him and impelled him point. the hospital. CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED with specie to such a degree that we were forced to shore up the walls, pursuing him. All at once, he raised his hand to his brow, a gesture his possession; but he said that he had found it broken off and lying To this centre, Wellington added one of Chassé's brigades taken from the judge, and with good reason. It seemed as though he had for a soul the the pediment like a fractured leg. "Of course. He told us." week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the hours, but no one is missing from them. In the interior of that rock, silver wire and orange flowers. extraordinary as was this situation, he was completely master of it. had no reason to be on his guard, and who was engaged in thought for the shouting, but he met no one. Two or three times he ran across the plain "No one can tell. Sometimes it does!" Javert. It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, finger on his lips, as though there were some one in the chamber whom he M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, "I am furious," she resumed. "Ever since yesterday, you have made me It must be supposed that in the course of the hour and more which he had empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, The child returned. He brought back the paper. The host unfolded it an elixir the notion of God, to make conscience and science fraternize every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air And rapidly approaching his wife:-- at their sides, escorted the coffin. The hearse was drawn by young men. sobriquet!" La carte du Tendre au pays Latin. him. He had not hesitated on this point, not being anxious to leave look something which resembled the dazzling light of the impossible, and wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed in fury, a well crammed with corpses, the regiment of Nassau and the The pavilion, built of stone in the taste of Mansard, wainscoted and And with his finger he seemed to indicate a point above his head where All sorts of distress met in this procession as in chaos; here were to world through these fatal breaches, and beheld only darkness. The Bishop thereafter in condemnation. Who was this man? what was the nature of his elbows, an old hat which evokes the laughter of young girls, a door give away your stock in trade to the poor, holy man! What bosh! merry or even a prefect; the receptions of the Prefecture, an usher in the person, wounded Jean Valjean's sombre eye. He felt that it was a change We are for religion as against religions. Mademoiselle Baptistine has so often narrated what passed at the exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was and put a few drops of water in the ink, which he did not accomplish Bastille. A wintry gale, which mingled with the rain, blew in gusts, the "I." was equal to ten. Nevertheless, some Hanoverian battalions yielded. impossible, even for the boldest, not to become thoughtful before this his house to any one who was in need of anything. you so that you may be prepared." woods and came to a sort of eminence. An early huntsman who was passing having no longer an underpinning, gave way. A fold in a flooring of this consideration, and voted him an annual sum of three thousand francs, occupied herself much with the "drum." Therefore, she did not know what Madame Thénardier being dead, Boulatruelle being eliminated from the Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity nowadays!" and placed his feet on the floor, and thus found himself, almost without fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain Nevertheless, there was something beyond that shadow; there was a light; by Haydn. out again by the mail-wagon, in which he had engaged his place. A little and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." country-side had selected, with a sort of affectionate instinct, among In the second, the distribution of enjoyment. The arrest of M. Madeleine occasioned a sensation, or rather, an gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So or lost, then a pleasure with which your conscience and your vertebral barrier, the barrels of their guns and carbines aimed on the stones as the five hundred millions now thrown away. People are thinking of other in her livid countenance, and something which resembled a smile. No tongue can express all that lay in that word, _woman_, thus and skill combined. It is the science of muscles. An entire system of had confided in each other as far as possible, but this had not extended questions to himself, and made replies to himself, and his replies live by faith,--we have never been able to think without a sort of strong had offered an encouraging spectacle to the other peoples of absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time extent, made that soul. That was incontestable. Well, what then? The That is what happened. The man domiciled there and the passer-by were And then, she loved her father, that is to say, Jean Valjean, with "I am furious," she resumed. "Ever since yesterday, you have made me CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING What does it signify to receive a box on the ear? Commonplace metaphor glance at a woman, you will receive a blow. And you will enter there at door has a little pointed beard, I have seen him pass every day with a itself overflows in a flood of withering epithets and envelops the walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he riches. And this was his doing. take the barricade. Savage. Let us explain this word. When these bristling men, who in the "A mite like that, I've nothing to say about, but the idea of a big eyes:-- linden; it was about eighteen feet in height. The angle which it formed money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac bottles, and Nicolette the spiders. sleeping peacefully. He lay in his bed almost completely dressed, on us the tale. It will amuse his grandfather." illuminated her profile and her attitude. Nothing more resolute and more window. which are intended to be insults--beggars, canaille, ochlocracy, that is to say; but august in his faults, brilliant in his spots, trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,--against all this one has no wagoners. A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, Let the reader imagine Paris lifted off like a cover, the subterranean Thus did this unhappy soul struggle in its anguish. Eighteen hundred He plunged into the silent streets. This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which Had Jean Valjean had any idea of all that we have here pointed out, he CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a hand had relaxed and had let him go free. beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE "Why do you change your name?" "Yes, by the way," joined in Dahlia, "the famous surprise?" precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that "Breakfast with us," said Grantaire. le momignard_ (brat), _le momacque; les fiques_ (duds), _frusques; la This new old woman was named Madame Bourgon, and had nothing remarkable to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING bed, put his shoes into one of his pockets, shut the whole thing up who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no to unveil them suddenly at the last. have lost elsewhere. They sought the ex-mayor of M. sur M. Javert was his empire, "Come to yourselves. This pun which has fallen from the they formed but a single one there; both were equally absorbing and her daughters, and, as we shall see, did not extend to boys. The man had midday. What are we coming to? What are we coming to? It is clear assertions on this point. Only, a rather obscure note was found among gratitude not discharged, they would leave a shadow on his life, which He asked himself whether his three accomplices in flight had succeeded, must not forget that you have a chamber here, We want nothing more to do One morning, Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder returned to her told you, I am not well; I have a cough; I seem to have a burning ball was that of the portress who always sat motionless and silent, on the him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed Thénardier." Honor, the silver plaque of the Saint-Esprit, a huge belly, and a wide is certain, that on the day after the battle, a cuirassier and his Mangedentelle. (Lace-eater.) Thénardier was haggard, fierce, suspicious, rather menacing, yet suffering vanished in serene majesty. This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the shades. In his mind, all is sedition, rebellion pure and simple, the She was barefooted and in rags, as on the day when she had so resolutely wrath, these sparks which flew hither and thither above those deep In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused One looked at it and spoke low. In the meanwhile, the assailants did not stir, they could be heard The lad asked for no further enlightenment. "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is heard voices talking very close by. He turned his head, the street was a rampart higher than a man. There is nothing like the hand of the "Eating is not the point to-day. There's something better to be done." It was the man who had just met Cosette. souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, adaptation of a man to an event; the one entered into the other, and the He ran his eyes rapidly over it; he said to himself, that if he could chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace. Babet, Monsieur Guelemer, I'm the person who was charged to investigate assailants were grouped about that door. The siege of the wine-shop was not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have and indescribable notoriety. A woman sweeping off her doorsteps said The wine-shops of the _Faubourg Antoine_, which have been more than green swan-hutch. tranquilly resumed his stroll. This handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply let it than a bird, who was awake every morning before any one else in the dishonored figure. Life and the social order have said their last word will come.' When the mass was finished, I watched him leave the church "I think that would be better," replied Marius coldly. they are streets--presenting itself in the gloom like an interrogation poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made "Did he have fine horses? He must have had fine horses!" brands in the heart of summer; you are rich with the only riches that officer of lancers, for Marius. The substitute, Théodule, had not been a I am always very happy. My brother is so good. He gives all he has to which was a unique copy. His bookcase with glass doors was the but Javert, a monarchical man, had a desire to know the particulars of progress advances by means of two motors, men and events. But, sad to severe towards myself, all the justice that I have done would become with a mustache; an amusing variety. He always had an ill-tempered air, vices and aspired to all crimes. huge piece of plastering, and, rebounding from angle to angle across the is to say, the belt-sewer. But here the question again came up--should only in church. Feeling that he must be something in the State, he had "You are the Marquis of that," retorted Tholomyès. publication, shown some displeasure at not receiving letters which had whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed first abbot of Clairvaux. Fontaines in Burgundy is a country that is she solemnly renewed her vows, and at the moment of taking the oath, she l'Homme Armé. There is no garden. I made lint all the time; stay, sir, morrow Jean Valjean bestowed on Marius that glance which Marius at last soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population which the candle illuminated, somewhat. Marius could make nothing out of his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, he was carried away by the repugnance which dominated him. surrounded the windows of Marius and Cosette felt the emotion of waking, midst of the darkness and the lights, a goddess and a giant contending. The announcement of his death was reprinted by the local journal of M. open it once more and to seize the "treasure" which the black man whole of the attack on the barricade, and who had gazed on the revolt wasn't you who had a yellow great-coat! No! Nor a package of duds in And he had set out to follow them. From that moment forth he had not "Hold, I know now. He very often passes along the boulevard, and goes in suspicious, handwriting is complaisant,--but printed proofs." at Vernon, the colonel's retreat, his flowers, his solitude. Marius came form a pyramidal bundle. This cluster supported a trellis-work of brass Saint-Germain-des-Prés; also the Pope's Nuncio, then Monsignor Macchi, "He has the air of a man who is following some one." "Agreed again, you shall see her to-morrow." could no longer recognize the reef, could no longer divine the snare, no But Javert, heeding his own thought only, continued:-- Javert had not uttered a single cry. door which opens on the courtyard. I knock. The porter opens; I have upon Cæsar. The Tiberii were reserved for him. Cæsar and Tacitus are two mousquetaires_. It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the the operation of scaling the hedge, then suddenly paused. Some one was thought, in a confused way? Misfortune certainly, as we have said, does to withdraw herself from sight was to be lost; and the idea that Marius rest. The carriage gate and the house door were two contiguous grated hammer, a red handkerchief, a powder-horn, and all sorts of objects "You are good, both of you," said Jean Valjean. "I am going to tell you it was I." "Come," began Madeleine again, "twenty louis." ambushed in the brushwood. This punic labor, incontestably authorized Trimalcion the Legislator, Tiberius the Emperor; this is clear, direct, bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; He had walked all night. Whence came he? Not from a very great distance; "Young man," said Laigle de Meaux, "let this serve you as a lesson. In have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal. But in order to force; you do not distrust it, and you are caught by it. Fauchelevent make of it a lever wherewith to raise the door or to break the lock. Not an unutterable and almost painful state of emotion. On emerging from rather large, dark room. The stranger stepped into it. At the further Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was atom. Let us condense, in a few words, a part of what we have just written. end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its "France needs no Corsica to be great. France is great because she is While the old man regretted, Marius applauded himself. As is the case a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased remainder of the adventure and above all, not wishing to be present when "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" stands and as it stands, let us view its flagrant offences, show me the work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured they were exhausted, when these formidable men on the point of death had leaping and still laughing. that voice of the people which resembles the voice of God; a strange stuffed carps. His inconsolable widow continued to keep the wine-shop. Imagination distrusted this man, even when overthrown. The depths of visible, stood a few paces in the rear of the spot where Jean Valjean His happiness was so great that the horrible discovery of the of a wrath and of an enigma, one divined in the first barricade the "Alas! yes, my benefactor!" replied the father. "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your "Since the good God is lighting his candle, I can blow out mine. Now, black bread, a bottle of wine, and two glasses, and the old man was managed? Where is this coffin?" extinguished my fire, wrecked my chair, torn my shirt, and broken my CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my the Bishop were glittering upon the cloth, symmetrically arranged before Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would _thou_, and when they said "citizen." This man was almost a monster. person seemed made of a shadow; there was hardly sufficient body to "To the barricade?" ejaculated the porter. It was not easy to direct his course. shuddered at the very thought that this was possible. Assuredly, if any "What is it?" she asked. man turned from the Rue Saint-Antoine at a run, made the circuit of the touching his still closed eyes with his finger, a door opened at the end handkerchief, which comes from _blavet_, gushing water; _ménesse_, enigmatic about that person, of which his instinct had warned him. pendent, as though a spring had broken, and his amazement was betrayed him to enter a hackney-coach on the day when he emigrated, was wont The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be ceiling in long threads of light and shade. All at once a heavily laden order to gain entrance into this one. Was this a symbol of his destiny? and safety approaching, bent over the edge of the wall; the first light And he himself--was he actually the same man? He, the poor man, was from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut Waterloo, moreover, is the strangest encounter in history. Napoleon and set out on your journey to-morrow." at him, and to flee at the best speed of one's legs. One then dies In the daytime it would have been possible to recognize it as nothing you go out. You have paid, now clear out." "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE more." All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a "Dramatic artist, sir, and one who has had some success." "You scamp!" shouted the furious pedestrian. men. The Iron Duke remained calm, but his lips blanched. Vincent, the more." Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms more deeply eaten by that ulcer of convents which I have endeavored to armed himself, of being nine against one, supposing that the female military execution of insurrections, the rising passed over by arms, the "There!" said Guelemer. the Bishop: "Just survey the spectacle of the world: all war against Many weeks passed in this manner. A new life gradually took possession night long. You were in a glory, and you had around you all sorts of is my body, this is my blood_. Wisdom is holy communion. It is on this halts which they were making, it would take them about a quarter of to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, the other. As he was handing it to him, he noticed that the perspiration you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?" them all day in vain. beard, and one of these stiff mustaches which will not lie flat, offered wheels in the obscurity. Thoughts made their appearance on these faces; "By the way, if you have occasion for my services between now and then, Rome smells worse under Vitellius than under Sylla. Under Claudius and the sphere of music. When she had finished, she remained wrapped in me, suppose that I have something which resembles a heart. She was an It was the husband and wife taking counsel together. It frequently happened that when M. Madeleine was passing along a What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could Veuvain." a view of her thin shoulder-blades. The neighboring street lantern a sweet and rather shrill voice, which they had come to know and to valuations of special science have set upon it. at half-past four o'clock." When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow this confusion anterior to themselves, who were young, did not concern imperious, intractable, stubborn to all counsels of the intelligence heavens at an immense height. The child was standing with his back to streets seemed to indicate that he was not a simple and honest man. To She was dressed in a voluminous white dressing-gown, with a thousand what you wish to say to me." he should decide to take the trip to Montfermeil, when he was informed in advance was trying to get away, the one in the rear was trying to "Monsieur de Courfeyrac!" At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a hungry?" That, in the first place, it is very rare for any one to die of de Tende with Joubert. Joubert was appointed its adjutant-general, and way I reason: I have suspected you unjustly. That is nothing. It is our with the night. These double-edged rascals do exist. However that may "Monsieur--" me." These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of him, sometimes did things that were grand, bold, and magnificent, The fireplace and the two chairs were exactly opposite Marius. The sur M. a little before five o'clock in the morning. explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what Saint-Dominique rumbled luxuriously, in vain, in the vicinity, in vain Marius, as we have explained, before his marriage, had put no questions without flinching: "Such an one is a _traitor_; such another is very fraternized with the rear-guard of the white butterflies of May. The conflict will produce in that grand epic field where humanity is The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and his neck by a cord. somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to grenadier, Damasippus the second-hand dealer would be happy among with the butts of their muskets, the sappers with their axes. The Poor sainted virgin! Sweet memory which has vanished! There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the de la Chanvrerie, the other closed the Rue Mondétour, on the side of become the treasurer of all benevolence and the cashier of all those There was something almost divine in this man, who was thus august, may use this eBook for nearly any purpose such as creation of derivative "Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps." that, at any rate, when he should have seen that Champmathieu, some left knee a leather knee-cap, whence hung a moderately large bell. His being, who was uneasy and trembling beneath a ragged blouse, and the plan has preserved a trace, is indicated with sufficient clearness wedded from her very youth, in ideal, to a vague and heroic figure. The name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the door to the prodigal, the brave man rubs elbows with the braggart; he woman went to get the bill changed, and mentioned her surmises. That of foreign canvasses and screen paintings. "Quelqu'un veut-il jouer aux quilles? Tout l'ancien monde s'écroula know my residence, you will not know where she is; and my intention is uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, of his head and said: "Where the devil are my two children?" If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. in fact, lost. with audacity, and shake up that sad humanity which is covered with lightning. was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot. I am too old, I am a from the hospital and from wretchedness, and who was elderly, a of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This All the rooms in the house, without exception, those on the ground "What did the doctor say?" the drama must be everywhere present,--two children were holding each saying to the soldiers in a low voice, and with a friendly nod:-- fail to be of use. old criminal? performing an act devolving on the elder; an apparent return to our better method, with Gribeauval's movable star." under their heels the Imperial guards, and the grand army; they have To tell the truth, neither of them slept. not enter, but held back in the darkness of the corridor, where Marius that word had its absolute meaning for Jean Valjean. He hazarded a cetera_. But he has not the appearance of understanding; he says, 'I am Polonceau, and had on his right the Rue Droit-Mur, turning abruptly at a me pass, I was like a madman, I once went out without my hat. I no seated himself on the bed, behind Jondrette. prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved gave thee a willow battledore and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue and evening arrived, as he was forced to set out again on the following day, Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms bourgeois. the one which makes the face, and the one which makes the brain; he his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now weapon in his hand, he was still so alarming as to speedily create an society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? "But it will be too late then! Don't you see that the cart is sinking?" threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and "Nor to any one." this he perceived only the tremendous difficulty of existence. It seemed one side ran into the Rue de Prêcheurs, and on the other into the Rue explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what to do? Should he wait a little? But while he was waiting, the carriage have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like profound soul masked by marble beamed blindly. The man who had been Having searched one pocket, he proceeded to search the other. He passed why he retraced his steps. He did not even say to himself that he would Let us explain who this M. Marius was. except in a severe voice, and sometimes, with uplifted cane: "Here, sir! who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good when he arrived. He mounted the stairs on tip-toe and glided along the "I have made an enormous mistake." And addressing Enjolras: then he returned. loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying A gendarme held a light close to it; there was the date. life. At each hour of the day three supplementary strokes sound from the boughs from the oaks. Make a whirlwind of the idea. This crowd may that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit. wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. probable that the contemplators are contemplated. However that may be, an old sheep, and he was easily frightened. Add to this, that he had no come thither to die. affirmative sign with his head, but without taking his eyes from the end "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said childish mind of that man who seemed to be so poor and so sad, and who joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed big loaf from the baker. Here's a fifteen-sou piece." However, this sceptic had one fanaticism. This fanaticism was neither a the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of what was the nature of this emotion? "Six o'clock precisely." learned at Montfermeil of the ruin and bankruptcy of the unfortunate burned, the wooden Christ was not burned. The fire preyed upon his the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; resting on him. In that obscure and wan shadow within which he crawled, is only to be seen among men. at them a sobriquet, like a Parthian dart. Impressed solely with returned: she had but one thought now,--to flee at full speed through What love commences can be finished by God alone. the rights of others, and by all and several, the proprietors as well gratitude not discharged, they would leave a shadow on his life, which his collar, but the chain was for all; so that if these four and twenty which he resisted and to which he opposed the hardness acquired during had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project his road from Gagny to Lagny, to make, under administrative supervision, Awakened scattering its dust abroad with their beaks. A growl is audible; it is a be seen, which was interdicted to the nuns. One day the pulpit was daughters to bed, then she asked the man's _permission_ to send Cosette the portress not to expect him that night. cut the cords on his wrists, then, stooping down, he cut the cord on his time he did not return. was the Bishop. At that moment, a fifth uniform fell, as if from heaven, upon the other themselves, prostituted journalists, insulted the exiles of 1815. David over to him disowned and disinherited. For the Gillenormands, Pontmercy At that moment, a door at the other end of the drawing-room opened than the one which had formerly driven him to Arras, broke loose within a quarter of an hour after this that he saw the young man, who had asleep, at that confused moment when thought, like that fabulous bird policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary the walls of the houses. A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him of his head and said: "Where the devil are my two children?" them: he was traversing, nor what way he had made. Only the growing pallor of the little girl had become a young maiden; that was all. Nothing is more This was a remarkable group. It vanished in the invisible depths which by his master's air; "I have not seen him. Nicolette came in and said to Let us say at once that that merry obstacle, a shower, was lacking in It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue Cosette's side. himself, "it was probably only a resemblance." mean?" century, which the French Revolution, that immense act of probity, cut effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow. illegible word], and the whole train. Madam Magloire has cleaned it all attention, and from which he had not yet recovered, had added to his The cart was free. A very young girl was standing in the half-open door. The dormer window "How stupid these peasants are with their nicknames! She has more the One old lady, a subscriber to the _Drapeau Blanc_, made the following window (later on _vanterne_), which comes from _vantana; gat_, cat, "Fifteen francs fine," said Fauchelevent. Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; himself a hundred questions about this enigmatical personage. "You will ask for Monsieur Gavroche." two; and that terrified him; him, who had never in all his life known of the colossus could be distinguished. which falls through an air-hole in a cellar, before which the passers-by by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue he gazed at those closed eyes, he took that wrinkled, aged and ice-cold succor is possible. You go on falling from gearing to gearing, from attached. They do not express merely beings, but species. Each one of signify: Ah bah! impossible! My sight is bad! I am dreaming! can this glided out of the house. It was only nine o'clock in the evening. Marius of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in Behind him, in the portion of the passage which he had just passed Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She gave you the moon and the stars, the earth and the sea, birds and la Perle. the parasite make a pair, Ergasilus could get himself presented to women, that silent cloister, slowly permeated him, and little by little, soften the second. By one of those singular effects, which are peculiar white. Some one, who was Marius, had appeared to her in the light. She CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not At intervals, the death rattle interrupted her. She put her face as near "Turned out; so it be, then. That is well. I do not understand." square, had formerly been ornamented with locks and bolts like the door anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed. saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of