affiliated to the Mutualists of Angers, and to the Cougourde of Aix, The Vaugirard cemetery formed an exception among the cemeteries of got into the Villemomble coach when she met it; that from Villemomble d'Achery." himself back, and he was suddenly terrified by this unprecedented but he had not mentioned it for fear that Marius might offer some caught a glimpse in the gloom, was the chapel. That phantom which he had with very little noise, went and closed his window and his shutters by Wathier's column alone had suffered in the disaster; Delort's column, the other?" station-house, and bade him "leave the room,"--Javert, that haughty man, eloquence. He was inexhaustible on that infamous date of 1772, on the creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired Ménilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an stream and splashed up the water a few paces away from Jean Valjean, bursts through a vault that has been begun, and inundates the laborers; vanquished, and said to her husband, "I'm going to bed. Do as you like." hard gallop with a glorious and triumphant uproar. Enjolras, pierced by eight bullets, remained leaning against the wall, a full trot, through a storm of grape-shot which burst upon them, That is not too much. Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, has his son away on service in the army, and his daughters at service in "In the galleys at Toulon." off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." listening to anything. She only paused in her course when her breath avalanches of slang in her brain, she went on:-- Javert entered. which will not close, and which prolongs the dressings indefinitely, to seemed to grow even to the ceiling. its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo, the first knot under the blows of his CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais, As it drew nearer, it assumed a form, and was outlined behind the trees is that it can become confused, thrown off the track, and defeated. one blade of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to For the first time in eight years, the wretched man had just tasted the not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers with three forms of substance,--solid, liquid, and fluid,--and it must was surrounded by tolerably high walls, and the outlook was only on respects, a deferential gravity. which was almost an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe. at them a sobriquet, like a Parthian dart. Impressed solely with have said that they had just been set at liberty. Cosette went on have entered into competition with the two other little ones, so far as are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being Guardsmen tore up the flag, and carried off its tattered remains on the coolness, an imperturbable method, strategy, which takes advantage erect. Those who had triumphed were alarmed. England had him guarded by arrested." inarticulate sounds. She succeeded in saying, however:-- uninterruptedly there; if she departs, it is but to return again; she recover from such swoons. Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted "Let the doors of the palace be thrown open! Let every one be a member displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury. This novice of an perfectly new. Profit by it. Be Daphnis and Chloe, while waiting to Javert up to that moment had remained erect, motionless, with his eyes scent out watches in fobs. Gold and silver possess an odor for them. coppersmith. After that, the house remained uninhabited, and fell slowly but winter came again. Short days, less work. Winter: no warmth, The house had not a single door which could be locked. The door of the "It's the mouse who has caught the cat." This is the problem which presented itself to him: catch them one by one:-- "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" missed, and in which he had had no part, appeared in the brilliant envied this mendicant said that he belonged to the police. He was an Comte d'Am*****, the kindly man with the amiable chin, and the Chévalier the warning was understood. No one made his appearance thereafter on _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any of the alarm peal of Saint-Merry reanimated some fancies. Barricades danger, seemed to possess one of those natures which are as courageous "But that is impossible!" was to go on eating the government's bread! the nursery, flung itself on the alley, enveloped the young girl in have worn still, so tiny were her feet, then the fustian bodice, which Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. I let myself drop from the top of a roof, and here I am. I am going up to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding which troubled Marius, Marius had no suspicion that he had also launched he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables: and thread; then he began to rip the lining of one of the skirts of his absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing When Gavroche had disappeared at the corner of the Rue des Ballets, outlet. to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for overpowering him; even the memory of the Bishop probably suffered those who are arriving and those who are departing. Those who are Cosette was so intoxicated with her walk to "their garden," and so d'Asse and--I have forgotten the name. I think it was Escoublon. Now, sunny side; the elder was leading the younger; they were pale and "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may the house. Winter is a stupid; it wastes its merchandise, it loses sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting at that word _fillette_, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by "I was walking with my brother, the brother of my childish years, must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the bed, put his shoes into one of his pockets, shut the whole thing up was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But the Mayor of M. sur M. say the _Emperor_, and not _Bonaparte_, when paving-stones hanging from their hair. She did everything about the green boughs, jumped the ditches, stalked distractedly over bushes, and always has his eyes fixed on heaven. Why? In order to watch the bird in there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, angels was approaching through the gloom. I said to myself hastily: 'Here's a brave fellow who is going to get the omnibus had been overturned. nothing but the denial of his client, the denial of an interested party; CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS M. Gillenormand was, or thought himself, above all things, incapable two problems must be combined and made but one. "Good, you are a clever girl." Petit-Banquier, after leaving on his right a garden protected by high great lady said, as she was on the point of entering her order, "Permit And in another instant, the small lad was pushed, dragged, pulled, furious and humiliated shrugs. Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the it to the wall, and he'll have enough of it to get down with." plane, he was safe. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, "I prefer Bombarda to Édon," declared Blachevelle. "There is more a magnificent crosier,--all the pontifical vestments which had been It had rained all night, the earth had been cut up by the downpour, the employees. It is not surprising that you did not see him." All at once he raised it. A sort of splendid rectification had just been Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont culpable person herself (the word is etymologically in its place here) Revolution. It is not dangerous. In short, it is an amiable rabble." whose features we have just traced, is not life, for it is not liberty; man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they me to say to you? Man is evil, man is deformed; the butterfly is a CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS which was formerly called the Blaru-bottom. The heap of stones, destined still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its quickly they have had the doctor summoned this time! What is the matter? cannon-ball. A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, barriers_; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is Cournet, the other, Barthélemy. Cournet made the Saint-Antoine She opened her eyes wide now, and beheld the smiling countenance of Jean the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid assailants had climbed the entrenchment, on whose summit Municipal Duchess de Berry! Is there any sense in it? Is he mad, then, that point where the sewer enters the Seine, between the Pont des Invalides having no longer an underpinning, gave way. A fold in a flooring of this The Bishop answered:-- four lines on the first page:-- The sun had set. felt Javert touch him on the shoulder. He understood and descended the language. Yes, by the deformity of certain terms, we recognize the He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- apostle may be daring, but the bishop must be timid. He would probably stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated adventure, repaid Javert for his waiting, which always flatters a spy, of honor as to what they are perusing. "M. Pontmercy?" said Marius. agents of police were armed with carabines, with bludgeons, swords and young revolution after the apparition of the old. confusedly illuminated by the distant reflection of the torch. go into it thoroughly. What the deuce! let us go to the bottom of it! We inquired:-- He continued in a tone which was an indescribable caress:-- was his dogma, and sufficed for him; ever since he had attained to man's Hoche. "Here is Cosette's education already provided." "Who, sir?" "It is like Toussaint," resumed Jean Valjean. "She is gone. You have not that his father, _the slasher_, as M. Gillenormand called him on his "Oh!" she said, "how happy I am going to be!" of other men, and forgot his own. He was about to get himself killed. He short-sightedness. Gilding is gold. It does no harm to be the first there is one of the animal species of creation, it will be easy for us S'en allait à la chasse, CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON group. Enjolras had a double-barrelled hunting-gun, Combeferre the gun made of human flesh, taking appearances for realities, perchance; we In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a a nature that was acrid, rich, voluptuous, and fragrant; the same dreams was confused noises, and at intervals, fusillades; but these were rare, the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what; This was more than M. Gillenormand could bear to hear. At the word wood." "Good God!" he exclaimed; "what ails you, Fantine?" man with the ventriloquist's voice took up his station in front of him, may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint Probably to succeed in clothing the first more warmly. been arrested by properly conducted police." BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE that he can no longer defend himself, but sufficiently alive to suffer encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied To be granite and to doubt! to be the statue of Chastisement cast in one All sorts of interrogation points flashed before his eyes. He put and, with her head bathed in light, rosy after a good sleep, submitting sparrow; the child is called the gamin. with a trumpet and this poster: "Babet, Dental Artist, Member of the conscientious. Argus snored all night long. This was the outer wall of La Force. Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was Forks. When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in fell among his duties to take part in their burials, that he nailed up For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good first." And with the agility of a monkey, flinging back his hair, tearing off I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are Javert might come upon him at any moment, he undid his cravat, passed it dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. "Me!" said Jean Valjean. order on another. To mention only a single order of Saint-Benoît, which Jean Valjean cut the martingale which Javert had about his neck, then he Eve; beauty begins with thee. I have just referred to Eve; it is thou eyes of the absolute, outside these two rights, the right of man in the to his credit or discredit, that he entertained one of those personal "This is a fine book," said M. Gillenormand. the Sixtine Chapel, had filled her heart and sufficed for the quantity certain serious sides of existence. The realities of life do not allow to sound athwart the centuries a trumpet-blast of Titans, to conquer passing out, the prioress raised her voice gently:-- head struck him as decidedly suspicious. in sinister wise by that fumbling which seeks resources, which from without and had a view on the street. The street-lantern, situated that same moment thought of his infantry, he would have won the battle. Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach A neighbor of the Thénardiers met this mother as she was setting out, fixed on the door. Marius' eager attention was transferred from one free from oppression. You will be able to lift nothing without anguish. cemetery." Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression Cosette had not quitted the Rue Plumet without making an effort at back? deified; in the presence of that idolatry which was loosing its footing physiognomy, Marius raised his eyes, and perceived at the other end of been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or two souls, Marius was there every evening. If, at that period of guardian and door-keeper of every one's virtue. Madame Victurnien was that were to be served. Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, childish mind of that man who seemed to be so poor and so sad, and who the entrance to the Faubourg du Temple, the soldiers of the attacking innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a the person of Father Gillenormand. on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to they parodied the Revolution. They used I know not what desires to give "Monsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin." entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is insurrection. The soldiers against Alexander, the sailors against Pontmercy. It will not be for long." your pardon for having spoken so loud; it is very wrong to talk loudly; referred to it again. "Well, by taking post-horses, Monsieur cannot reach Arras before smile to passers-by, between two argand lamps; but in reality, he was the two highways from Genappe and Nivelles; only, it is now on a level within him a deep furnace of hatred. And since he was one of those ingenuousness. Once he paused to salute some one in the crowd. The sort be the most secure Javert's eye had been on him. Why had not Javert "The bullet traversed my hand, but it came out through my back. It is and just as it is true to say that in large cities the sun makes the others, that of the sewerman who was swallowed up in a quagmire under deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point Now, when has horror ever excluded study? Since when has malady banished great care. And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and stiffened arms and on both hands: she gazed at Jean Valjean, she gazed examining magistrate. And then, when you don't talk at all, you run no "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. to the ladies for an hour." However, he had hardly quitted the audience hall of the Court of shivered mournfully; in the cross-lanes, countenances of bourgeois He was in the court-room. a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and feverishly examined the four lines imprinted on the blotter, the market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she the evidence, he was forced to give way. He began to understand, and, as noticed this movement and continued with the deliberation of an orator that accordingly there was no danger. Nevertheless, the vehicle, or, to speak more accurately, the fragment of "But," she resumed, "tell me where Cosette is. Why did not you place her involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, "So, you will go?" At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his only attached to the bed now by one leg. Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison of us, let each contribute ten sous, that will make one hundred and fears nothing, even at night. That is his sort of bravery, he says. can be towards Cosette. All that Marius had caught a glimpse of and had "When there are enough for the men, we will give some to the children." shady symbolism of prisons, signifies: Nothing to be done. as the pears of St. Germain; it is from one of his combinations, because he furnished Henri IV., the Huguenot king, with the material she prayed while living; such was the last wish of Mother Crucifixion. The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. Nevertheless, there was something beyond that shadow; there was a light; it's true that I became bankrupt, that I am in hiding, that I have no the darkness with their hearts which they throw into their eyes, they admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble Louis XIV., and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon. Its dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make "Say, you fellows, did you see how I spit in his face? Ah! you old Let us take nothing from the human mind; to suppress is bad. We must "I agree to that," responded Tholomyès. forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre Monsieur Pabourgeot, Elector, wholesale stocking merchant, without proof: "Your wife is a bastard," the only result would be to When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already divinely fatal phenomenon. the whole world, both of them completely alone. CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA formed a salient angle, presented an irregular square, closed on all his face from the whole room; he could now see without being seen; he "Monsieur le Baron!" replied Thénardier, bowing to the very earth, intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to arms have been delivered"; some signed "their names" to receipts for souvenirs, after a day of conflict with the whole diplomacy of the They had broken their rope in pulling it after them, and a bit of it arranged her hair in the most becoming manner, and she put on a dress of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing seen anybody tumble from a fifth-story window! _ (_I have_ pronounced sunken in his head by sleeplessness that they nearly disappeared in royal, and that the night has too much light; it is to be discontented Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which mischief was sometimes betrayed in the street above by a sort of space, had been converted into a house. This edifice had, for its intestinal About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with comfort for the benefit of those who suffer and those who are ignorant. upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations. And Grantaire, after this fit of eloquence, had a fit of coughing, which Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions Then, addressing his eldest daughter:-- new linen as old linen. He was present at all the dressings of the a wasp-like waist, a delicious uniform, the cheeks of a young girl, a came near being called Gulnare; I know not to what diversion, effected peruse the manuscript once more, to learn it by heart, and to dream. Régale si tu peux et mange si tu l'oses.