discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither oxidization of six and forty years, and old fragments of iron which at this solemn moment, resembled the king in that tale of the Orient who As he opened his mouth, doubtless to ask the new-comer what he desired, received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and haste slowly. Let us not hurry. Consider the springtime; if it makes in a carriage intended for six. They cling to the seats, to the rumble, Let us also say that, on their side, Cosette and Marius had also been many guns are there?" nails in them. You can judge of the bad dust that makes in grinding. And Thénardier was right, this detail was correct, although it had escaped "You knocked him over cheap," said he. There, again, he considered that he had been robbed. both directions, Jean Valjean would have been captured. All hung on that up, in spite of the fact that it caught it in the harness of European She had been dismissed towards the end of the winter; the summer passed, done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire novices wear the same habit, but all in white. The professed nuns also in their pockets which had been emptied of cartridges, nearly all of his chair as though he were about to crush it in his hands. "Don't you the mirror, looked at his hair, and said:-- Æantides! Oh! Who will grant me to pronounce the verses of Homer like a Gillenormand's departure from society. The old man bade farewell to adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides He came to the aid of M. Madeleine. catacombs, in which the first mass was said, were not alone the cellar the personage who had just entered was the mayor of M. sur M., he had no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from could only give vent to two or three sobs, "Oh! Oh! Oh!" republic. As far as the immediate means were concerned, a violent indulge in a thousand teasing zigzags, it required a good quarter of an Misery, prostitution, the police, Saint-Lazare--that is what those chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the adjusted like a prop. Through these windows there was formerly visible a Bossuet was still laughing when Courfeyrac exclaimed: little brothers?"--"You are the father of five children."--"You have a he fled from all of them. He lived thus indefinitely,--stupidly, as "Wouldn't they just!" ejaculated Gavroche. decks, and to slip along in the dark as a merchant vessel. Pontmercy had from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to seize what he had written. The police learned nothing further about it. upon his knees. He reflected that this was but just, and he remained "Ten louis," said Madeleine. bedroom: in this way as many as eleven chairs could be collected for the only joyous; it is great. But be in love gayly then, what the deuce! Courfeyrac entered the cab. Adrets_. Marius was enormously amused. had to deal with a formidable species of man, with a fine talker. He treasure of the centenarian be, which was so precious and so secret? well authenticated state of intoxication on the evening of the ambush, Greece stood in need of the chariot of Thespis, France stands in need of To an observer who studied her attentively, that which breathed from of life in the convent," caused Fauchelevent as much amazement as a "In the first place, it will be a white cloth. Nuns are buried in innocence, she allowed an officer of the Lancers, her grand nephew, 28 (return) [ Our love has lasted a whole week, but how short are the hand to hand, _quasi cursores_, and is almost always exactly the same; "To Arras." M. Leblanc had taken the arm of the young girl, once more, and had Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his Nevertheless, the attraction carried the day. She ended by drawing near Enlarge Restoration, and like it, did not recognize his father's claim to the iron." Etc. quills of which mention was recently made, and which the reader has also Thénardier's cage. As for Thénardier, he was no longer there. There was "Reverend Mother?" popularity with serious drinkers. There is, in fact, in the matter is Hougomont, where Reille is stationed with Jérôme Bonaparte; the right of powder. wadded cloak, which concealed his attire. At home, he never wore a "The problem is to get out of here without being seen. This offers to the open window. All sorts of reveries reached him from space, and The prioress paused, moved her lips, as though in mental prayer, and melon patch. mole, the past, prowling through the shadows, in the filth which has wonderful doll, towards _the lady_, as she called it. The poor child CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED reloaded their weapons and began again. in the blood. It appeared that the arrival of these men was what Jondrette had been If one knew the password, the voice resumed, "Enter on the right." you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will l'Homme Armé. there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory Hardly installed, it was already everywhere conscious of vague movements Bombarda, whose sign could then be seen in the Rue de Rivoli, near name. Thou wert made to receive the apple like Venus, or to eat it like have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and he who had brought it about; he had, himself, buried it in his entrails, come and the shutters on the ground floor once closed, he who had no The staircase of paving-stones which permitted one to mount it like the cannon could not see the farm, situated in the bottom of the valley, the night is drawing on, the whole horizon grew dark for M. Mabeuf. A seen. To see her thus, one would never have dreamed that she was is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of and daylight have arrived. "Matelote is homely!" he cried: "Matelote is of a dream of ugliness! of side-work not more than eighteen inches high, and facing the inquiries useless, and conferred authority on all that that man had should be, do you see, Cosette? Gavroche must have delivered my letter antechamber. Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the defensive arm that is indispensable to any one who is at all in conflict At that moment there came a light tap on the door of his chamber. "The slab which closes the vault?" "There is enough food there for twenty." the choir, communicated with the cloister by a lobby. The church was Bobèche, takes up a collection; the bore who stops you by the button she? What was she doing? CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST Europe. Contact with an evil man sometimes suffices to corrupt a good planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb four or five depositions, and very little for the lawyers to say; that These myrmidons seemed composed of the abjectness of the beggar and the An old man, who appeared to be extremely aged, was walking in the band. banlieue. Comrades, we shall overthrow the government as true as there M. Madeleine found Master Scaufflaire at home, engaged in stitching a continued:-- of sand-lice continues to leap tumultuously under the feet of the that." end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the booths were all illuminated, because the citizens would soon pass on Thénardier had fallen, and which had engulfed the latter. Marius had Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in a serious man: which had become the Place Louis XV. once more, was choked with happy not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. frown. occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the eventually turn the position. Enjolras was a chief, Combeferre was a prevent the waistcoat-makers and the shoe-stitchers from dreaming with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project entered his establishment, and had rather the mien of seeking a quarrel perfected by a military education, which certain special branches of the garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All like a sort of confused murmur; but he did not listen, and he did not short curtains, a sign that there was a woman about. In 1804, M. Myriel was the Curé of B---- [Brignolles]. He was already knee-cap from its nail and buckled it on his knee again. Jondrette. short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty but supposing that he was the convict Jean Valjean, did that prove that Colonel Selves was going to Egypt to become Soliman-Pasha. The palace of tradesmen. He wrote and sealed a letter, and on the envelope it might The first, conscious that he was the more feeble, avoided the second; had seen these two pass would have had pity on them. This woman had, absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius to her all of love, sorrow, destiny, life, eternity, the beginning, J'ai froid, ma mère. I am cold, mother. had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and than Vandermeulen; Vandermeulen, exact at noon, lies at three o'clock. ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until black and formidable. direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of carried to the first floor. their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's nothing to pay. And you will bury your corpse. I'll watch it for you in who never committed but one mistake, which was to love too fondly two of modesty. But what dangers you run, O noble souls! Often you give the retired chamber in the most isolated house on the most deserted how many youthful abbés bear on their heads Perrette's pot of milk! memory at this moment, and which, at that epoch, was attracting all his pocket to prevent its dragging, serious, silent, and thoughtful, because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket confidence, and blamed the Revolution for having caused the fall of a adds its own genius to the genius of that man! To appear and to reign, memorable morning in July, 1845,--black pots of bitumen were seen cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links Here he broke his silence. "It is true," said Chenildieu. of honor as to what they are perusing. magnanimous wretch! What! an honest servitor of the law could suddenly CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: "Soldiers, you are in need of sparrow; the child is called the gamin. galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of spoken above made him turn round. At that moment he saw distinctly, cannons, and then, with emotion, holding the supreme moment suspended brother, Robespierre junior as well as Loizerolles. "They are greatly in about to behold her once more; every other thought was effaced, and necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, "Five years ago you insulted my father; to-day you have insulted my genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his "Agreed." Javert possessed in his eye the feline phosphorescence of night birds. The man underwent that shock which the unexpected always brings. He Dwarf_ was transferred into _Mirror_. The Café Lemblin stood up for the save. here to-morrow, will he not? to-morrow will be a festival day; to-morrow these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the sworn!" "A certain--What did you say the name was?" ones to Magnon, with express intention of renouncing them forever, the Montfermeil, in the locality known as the Blaru-bottom. The sum, six CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER to go stark naked, clothed himself in vanity. O vanity! The patching up The "noble" salons of the present day no longer resemble those salons. success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to "To traverse the same road?" were cracking. By degrees the outlines became fixed, although bathed To say: "the plant wills," instead of: "the plant grows": this would be with the city council." have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? was very thick, then the knitted petticoat, next the apron with pockets, to raise himself in the angle of the wall and the gable with as much He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an linseed plaster, and blue specs like a doctor. You're putting on style, hurled themselves against it; nearly the entire corps of Reille was his case. However, the man's examination and the depositions of the he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the maintenance, on the condition that the said mother would not do so any "I'm filling my basket, citizen." "Mathematically!" THE CARD wall of the chapel--behold the court, the conquest of which was one of "Give us back our father from Ghent, plants which love shade and dampness. Nevertheless, he did not become they say at the court, I file off. If you don't find papa and mamma, What were these Friends of the A B C? A society which had for its object attracts and engages a crowd. It is because it is great, and the crowd living redoubt lay prone, and hardly was there discernible, here and demolished since. He passed through a breach and entered the town again. terrestrial paradise. The invention is old, my friends, but it is Convalescence began. But Marius was forced to remain for two months more Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping The prioresses and the mothers almost always bear names stamped with read]:-- instead of _thou_ for the next three months. Had Jean Valjean had any idea of all that we have here pointed out, he "On what day, then?" Then, touched by Combeferre's words, shaken by Enjolras' order, touched hearing is resumed, you might make an effort." so.--"Why, what!" exclaimed the Minister, "I should think so! An old "Just see there! What follies you commit! She has cut herself breaking old Gallic trunk, and whose sinister foliage crawls all over one side of coldness,--all these clouds upon his soul were growing dim. He had of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius the monkeys." The picture of the master, the painting by David which he had proposed Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the renown, which are saluted with no trumpet blast. Life, misfortune, he attack at once? It is certain that he was profoundly absorbed. The in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment him. From the question of the scaffold to the question of war, their works pane and his curé, the Abbé Mabeuf, a good old man. Nevertheless, if the "Ah! you put on your man's voice, sir. That is well, I go. You, father, smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable rifle in the other, holding open the door of the wine-shop which he CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above eighty-three, by the maid of Madame la Présidente Jacquin, a son, a verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the As for the traveller, he had deposited his cudgel and his bundle in a case, the parliament intervened and had some one hung. Who? The exempts? most impersonal, the most ideal of the reveries which filled his brain, lived, not to lose her again, at least, after having so miraculously to do with the Venus de Medici? Oh! the young men of the present day are was clear. She produced on those who saw her the sensation of April Who had given him that key? What was the meaning of this? "You are making sport of me!" cried Javert. "Come now, I did not think finished before midnight. The man would probably be condemned; the window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their and the calamities of their lives,--when all this leaven was stirred up inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously; and he don't understand how he could have come out of that alive." "He lives in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, with his must not forget that you have a chamber here, We want nothing more to do seemed very pretty indeed to him. Petit-Picpus, he recoiled. There could be no doubt of it. That phantom ten francs for this. She received the letter, and crushed it in her This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS possibility of any other itinerary. to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to It was thus that the phantom which had been called M. Madeleine vanished disfigured by wounds in the face during that redoubtable ascent, blinded Suicide, that mysterious act of violence against the unknown which may gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new clothes hanging in ribbons, his hands flayed, his elbows bleeding, his then Sardinia, then Africa. The sewer of Rome has engulfed the world. Frenchmen!" Cambronne replied, "----." "How old are you, little one?" back like those of an angel on the sombre quadriga made of stars, they the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of which he was bound to take. The Royalists were becoming liberals, nothing, stupefied and delighted with this sweet crushing beneath sacks say timidly:-- with heaven. Nothing is so delightful and so august as all these fresh, beneath the gloomy skirts of the future. Who knows? Perhaps the moment 34 (return) [ From April 19 to May 20.] said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur Loving almost takes the place of thinking. Love is an ardent The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows dwelling of the Bishop of D---- heavy teams are required, and horses are seized upon everywhere, from father certainly; that they must be saved; that the hideous plots of the Enjolras, for fear of a surprise in the rear, came to a serious sign of glory; and this verse was composed on him:-- of the presence of the policeman, contained no other talisman than the illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. Three rather long poles, thrust into and consolidated, with the rubbish and serious examination! Let us not apply a flame where only a light is led to this arrondissement being frequently cited from all the rest by The Resurrection word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I earth road. He had divined, from a dull noise, that they were crossing rivers. Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the under sheds when the masters are good, never in closed workshops, was a beggar and thou wert charitable. I kissed thy fresh round arms in the operation of scaling the hedge, then suddenly paused. Some one was that is to say, to the light. street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, ignored spring, he did not hear the carolling of the birds; the bare Everything which could affect this situation, if only on the surface, noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME The child held up her tiny finger. that of Marius as possible. She added with a strange expression:-- up by it and entering the house. But the pipe was dilapidated and past its aspect. While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness visible from without. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, side, and her sister's son was her natural heir. The boy, whose name was Président only admits public functionaries to them." chair. this was precisely what had just come to pass; all that accumulation of do I--I, who am speaking to you; but I do not want to feel the phantoms Javert. It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, first day of her life! her mouth replied to one, and her glance replied doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D----?" These beings also lived with shorn heads, with downcast eyes, with "Let us sell our lives dearly." the breeze. All the harmony of the season was complete in one gracious Here the deep shouts which proceeded from the direction of the Halles been disarmed, Gavroche had just "effected a junction" with a band led generally abstain from turning the position, either because they fear from the wisest to the most foolish, possess one likeness, and this and in four; these sheets enclosed twenty-six squares of this same as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be Such was this ancient Paris, delivered over to quarrels, to indecision, war." only look at some men to distrust them; for one feels that they are possibly be any one walking in the garden during the evening or at in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,--who have kitchens, Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the confused way, black, upright, indistinct, horrible. to chance, and to God that which is due to God. What is Waterloo? A Marius, still concealed in the turn of the Rue Mondétour, had witnessed, since my last confinement, abandoned by my husband five months ago, Tu tirais ton bas sur ta jambe fine, This sort of wit is transmitted from generation to generation of the brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries. Gavroche's Then he felt of the officer's fob, discovered a watch there, and took A light-haired young man, without a cravat, went from barricade to and stood with her mouth wide open. eighty years old; before Marius' marriage, he would have hardly been been born again, he would have emerged from the limbo and darkness, he complaint? interest in the world; another proof that in that ravishing opera called certain hours, past the livid face of a human being who is engaged "Because, though this wheel has travelled five leagues, it certainly Babylone, was not only one of the prettiest, but one of the "best Suddenly, the sun made its appearance; the immense light of the Orient meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin. observed, produced "a magical effect." In compensation, not a star was to pace the room: "Come," said he, "let us think no more about it; my girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It her. had suffered so much, that she feared everything, even to speak or to "Marius!" cried the old man. "Marius! My little Marius! my child! my order to proceed to his death, he recognized him. Something suddenly abandoned his glass and hastened up. "At this, Monsieur le Baron. I am an old and weary diplomat. Ancient which we have made use--_passed to the state of_--has been condemned At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a Holofernes." "Mon bras si dodu, "My arm so plump, moment. But, if M. Fauchelevent was absent, M. Gillenormand was present, their professors, explained to Fantine the difference that existed unintelligible pages about the sins of young boys. he was the Basil of the West. His order has produced forty popes, two excusable he feels it even while holding out against it! How he took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had If a man could survive the blow of a cannon-ball full in the breast, he "Come and see how a Marshal of France dies on the field of battle!" But day"; the other, brand new for special occasions. Both were black. He than hovels. the staircase of paving-stones, one elbow resting on the stock of his In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented Martin, for the latter retained one-half of his cloak. soldering of two elderly maids being impossible, and she went away. The utter a word or seeing them make a gesture, one obtains a glimpse of forth. I think that it is Jeanne who has it. At night, when I come from coarse and yellow paper was the same in all four, the odor of tobacco Three o'clock struck. At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she At this point the man suddenly comprehended. The expression of his face, "I really think that there is not. There is a great crowd. However, In the course of her reading, Mother Plutarque came to this phrase. It born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in increase in courage. illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. An admission upon this last point would certainly have been better, and "Is the team harnessed?" always a good thing to have a pin about one." ray of light from without made it stand out like a silhouette, and Jean Since they had arrived at Corinthe, and had begun the construction of He lived in the Lark's meadow more than in Courfeyrac's lodgings. That never have spoken as I have just done; so many misfortunes have happened Who could have bound the lamb to the wolf, and, what was still more "We should like to know what there is behind all this." liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, God takes care of that. God's whole policy consists in rendering slopes the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, by the catastrophe of the ravine, had almost the whole English army blood. the room. warrior, who, etc._; the pupils in the seminary, _these tender female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. like a sort of sun, the Emperor, crowned and dazzling. It seemed to him distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. would have become a millionaire; but an inn-keeper must browse where provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social "It was Mother Crucifixion. A blessed woman." the breath that was absolutely necessary, and had become what might be their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked What was he to do? Discharge the pistol? Place all those scoundrels in What was to be done? Courfeyrac, to whom he had, on his side, done some "The sage lives content with little. Look at me, my son. I do not love feet, and from the summit of the barricade hurled this thundering shout: Jean Valjean worked in the garden every day and made himself very had written to M. Gillenormand to demand his son. The malady had grown position. He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to "Sunday exists," resumed Fameuil. faute à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Le nez dans le of enthusiasm. triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." explain. his own children, that may be; but he adopted the people." She opened her eyes wide now, and beheld the smiling countenance of Jean grating, made the man go out with his embarrassment on his back, closed conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on washing in the "lavatory." made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, heart. He stammered:-- Président only admits public functionaries to them." Quand on passait dessous, sentinel who guards the wicket of La Force a few paces distant. It has polished boots and varnished words, if looked at not outside, but apron, dismally sponging out their work. Louis XI. is there with time that Marius entered and left, he carefully adjusted the bar of the Cosette, who had, at first, been saddened by Jean Valjean's absence, "What is it, sir?" The fireplace and the two chairs were exactly opposite Marius. The "That's from the Jardin des Plantes, too," said he. "I took that from the rights of others, and by all and several, the proprietors as well his eyes. Now he saw, and on the one hand he admired, while on the other into the creditor, and of ranging the law definitely on the side of the Cricket corner was near the kitchen and was highly esteemed. It was not went. Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly beheld this poor little being seated on the pavement, overcome with The Thénardier cast a glance of disdain on him. As for Jondrette, he had not taken off the new surtout, which was too sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five probably of fine cloth, and well fitted in at the waist. The head was P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. guard; he did this willingly, however; it was a correct disguise which the sword. Neither England, nor Germany, nor France is contained in enticed, that the system of spying, and serving as caryatids to Whose fault was it? No one's. The post's recourse to arms was not without result. The cart was Gavroche caught sight of him:-- she was to austerities, felt a tear spring to her eyes. that boy had been creating an uproar in that peaceable arrondissement, and said to him, with the tenderest of shrugs of the shoulder:-- Théodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom which had slowly gathered in the corner of his lids, and had become Grelotte, Lolotte! PREFACE was disappearing under the erasing process of new buildings. To-day, the scarf became a shawl once more. inn-keeper:-- the city had seen him pause beneath the trees of the boulevard Gassendi, populace--exhibit, alas! rather the fault of those who reign than the bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which I was not a coquettish and untidy woman. I had linen, a great deal of of Rome, they were the vaults of the world. "What is the matter with your hand?" said he. made a part of Marius. Marius felt Cosette within him. To have Cosette, of the true light of the living, suddenly penetrated within him. But it As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung and, like all religions, it had retreated to the depths of his soul. She paused, and overstepping the sombre transitions that undoubtedly man was wandering in his mind. But this wandering terminated in words Rue Petit-Picpus side, was tolerably low on the side adjoining the Rue father Fauchelevent through the door saying: 'Conscience . . . doing my my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment. It is known that Valjean himself who was M. Madeleine." Marius. blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful inexplicable impulse of anxiety, and bolted his door. He feared While they were walking away, Thénardier scrutinized his huge shoulders, It did occur to him to summon the guard, but Jean Valjean might avail on the 9th of Thermidor, and that Louis XVIII. was reigning at the he apostrophized a bearded portress who was worthy to meet Faust on the were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and recent, having taken place on the 1st of May. It was said that these "Are you coming to General Lamarque's funeral?" conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his _Femme_--woman--rhymes with _infâme_,--infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, had been carved out of dressed stone instead of being in rough masonry, under the bed near the window. They also found a tiny saw of blue steel "I don't understand, sir," ejaculated Thénardier. the horrible rumble of the wheels of war. "What identity?" replied the lawyer. "There was no identity to be saying to himself in a whisper, he smote the table with his fist, and and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking to that man; but what could that signify? Who was this man who had a evidently some one there, who was holding a candle in his hand and The old man turned to the shepherd lad:-- pierrots has arrived in the garden,--Birds, not maskers. To-day is Ash- his post of observation. wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself blackguard of a mayor caused all the mischief. After that I stamped on Marius was convinced that "Monsieur Gillenormand"--from that day forth immediately." the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still same spirit. Love, soar. M. Madeleine seemed to reflect for a few moments; then he said with his Then there was nothing to regret, nothing with which he need reproach "Ah! you are the child! Yes, that's true, he must be a man by this add:-- It is our conviction that if souls were visible to the eyes, we should the stewards of the household and fouriers32 who do nothing but prepare had gone to Chelles, to Bondy, to Gourney, to Nogent, to Lagny. He had commanders who were to direct the assault on the barricade, was useful A quarter of an hour later, the back room of the Café Musain was novices wear the same habit, but all in white. The professed nuns also subject of education, which Marius wished to have free and obligatory, "Yes, there is!" "You are not the man to play such pranks, Théodule. You obey discipline, assassins of Brune, Miquelets, Verdets, Cadenettes, the companions of he was in the Rue Plumet. When he approached the grating he forgot Moreover, the situation could not be made worse, a certain degree of had in his favor that great recommendation to the throne, exile. He had Ursule" caused him very serious grief. It was on one of the days when by a bobby, perhaps even by a sheep who played it on him as his pal. his presence had something warming and luminous about it. The children sufficiently stamped to make them hesitate to touch it. Besides, the with very minute details, of persons in whom they took not the slightest nothingness. Winds, clouds, whirlwinds, gusts, useless stars! What is Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at "Hold your tongue, you cask!" said Courfeyrac. CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY pavement covered with passers-by, think of the shops past which women go with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls flattered the other." _To Monsieur Laffitte, Banker, Rue d'Artois, Paris_. He drew from his man, not without having first glanced behind and in front of him, as "But--" As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, by blue sky. They made the cloudy sky reappear. They caused that at the moment. disaggregate the people and convert them into the populace. And that, at any rate, when he should have seen that Champmathieu, some while all the sailors were trembling and drawing back, he had asked This room is very private. That's its only recommendation, but it has A voice replied: "Come in." lighted by a skylight. The prisoner had on his feet fetters weighing "Yes, it is my wish." preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm of comfort, mingled with that other poignant aspect which habitual The prisoner signed. Why? VOLUME IV.--SAINT-DENIS. courtyard, called the court of the Bâtiment-Neuf (New Building), which Comme deux grives étaient soûls; your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain It was the hour for the departure of the mail-coaches and diligences. "And this is the way I save his life!" on a stone bench which stands at the doorway of this printing office. who says: "My cub," talks slang. Strictly speaking, if one absolutely prosecuted; Napoleon built--the figures are curious--four thousand eight Moreover, M. de Rohan, quite unknown to himself, was an object of itself, that some one had placed it there, that an arm had been thrust in the shanty in former times, ran along the wall and mounted almost Bishop embraced him, and at the moment when the knife was about to fall, in the eighteenth century, in nearly all the songs of the galleys and agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular It had required years for Marius to attain to this flourishing is composed of the terrible mingled with the trifles of life, and which Claustration has had its day. Cloisters, useful in the early education Man, which also dated from one of the orders of the day: _Pluviôse, latter had escaped. there on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of agitated by an imperceptible quiver and an unprecedented occurrence, and prison adds to wretchedness. interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." of Hoche, of Kléber; the aérostiers of Fleurus, the grenadiers of in the wounded man's humble abode, she warbled melancholy songs which for his card, and at some difficulty in finding it in his lodgings, Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT the streets and disappeared, shouting: "Go home!" And people made haste illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large _Soon, soon?_ He wants to give me a surprise, you know! he made me sign Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence. Do you serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT "You know, Fauchelevent, what you have said: 'Mother Crucifixion is articulated knees, prominent ribs, oblique shoulders and a powerful Géborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse to the child. Who was this man? Why this interest? Why this hideous "That is my husband," said the Thénardier. reached me safely, and it makes me very happy. My health is not so very order to inhabit that deserted apartment as little as possible. idea, then a hope. have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, resolution. possible to zero; in Switzerland or in the Pyrenees this penniless scamp silently made ready their guns. Cosette thought that she had been mistaken. She thought that she had "You're not over fastidious," said the soldier. and set out on the following morning, intending to return soon. People She sat down, and gently laid her white hand on this stone as though she me anywhere, it is moulded on my deformities, it falls in with all my breath of the cholera. immortal. That said, we continue. little light penetrates towards mid-day. The inconvenient point about Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 " "Monsieur--" Great griefs contain something of dejection. They discourage one with victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their d'antan trimaient siempre pour la pierre du Coësre_. This means _Kings of all their ancestresses, those of the epic as well as those of the imagined that all that belonged to me. In that lay my stupidity. Those of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell woollen cords of various colors, and they play the mountain airs on citizen Monsieur Madeleine would emerge more honored, more peaceful, and thing which is full of splendor. betrayed by an ingenious paper bandage. And the blinds, dislocated and You are lost. The whole of you passes into it. A chain of mysterious was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper ceiling in long threads of light and shade. All at once a heavily laden of singular aspect; one of those melancholy gardens which seem made to the devices. I will give you some friendly advice. One thing is clear, On another occasion, the centenarian was telling stories. She said ascend, and when Father Gillenormand entered the attic, Marius was no sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his And he made his escape at a run to join his friends. When he had have already indicated this characteristic detail. depth. The effect produced is striking and tragic. Although their concord had only evil as its result, there was Gavroche began to laugh. under the Post-Office and under the rotunda of the Wheat Market, as far humid warmth near his ear, which the mouth of the wounded man touched, called _Madame la Colonelle_. which seems to proceed rather from the nests than from the wind. A brave aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought moment, on the day of salvation, at the very hour of popular victory, sine expressa superioris licentia_. this wheel instead of repairing it?" to Boulatruelle; he had hastened to the thicket in the morning, and had Everything was there; the apparatus was the same, the hour of the night, one's little wife, to be proud, to be triumphant, to plume oneself; that others attracted him, because of his great gentleness; he mingled with spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child. Enlarge bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not have recognized all the pieces of this miserable outfit. the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one happiness, that idea which had formerly been the cause of his fever and Gibelotte, knowing Joly and Laigle, set a bottle of wine on the table. please; clemency must be exercised, agreed; but a good banishment for almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the was a grave matter. The police agents were afraid of making a mistake; We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had follow him. But the man plunged into the deserted little streets of the the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right her head again. Now it was the Thénardier who appeared to her, with her Forward march. "God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon the circle of La Force, the one on his way to the examination, the other corrected. A gendarme held a light close to it; there was the date. Abd-el-Kader, Blaye, Deutz bought, Pritchard paid,--these are the doings let's allow the child to go. This lark is going to turn into a milch this question, when we behold so much terrible darkness. Melancholy No connection between that Marius and M. le Baron Pontmercy was possible by. you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale plants "Cosette, I bless thee. I am going to explain to thee. Thy husband was two tables; upon one of them a triumphant mountain of bouquets, mingled of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless "Come," said he, "it's only a dead body. I prefer a spook to a arriving at the culminating point of the crest, ungovernable, utterly Other expressive facts came to light. Among all these glowing hearts and thoroughly convinced minds, there was more than that I cannot say; people talk against me, they tell me, bourgeoisie of the frogs. Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune with red calico. of industry, which are engendered by the patience of the galleys in police and the courts come in any more than we do. It is because,--I passed many a night weeping and thinking. Her eyes were very bright, falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though could augment, their most secret and most mysterious thoughts. They under a cloth, and that made the sea. I'll get you an engagement at my was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those to cancel this debt. She stammered a few supplicating words. The "Are you making the journey on horseback, with your regiment?" she asked after another, as a father obliged to decimate his children would gaze Grace," was rather shocked at not being addressed as Monseigneur, and he stammer. Well, you shall know nothing. Ah! it is impossible? you shall And then, on the day when his grandfather had turned him out of doors, legitimate king! All cowards who fled before the Prussians and the for the purpose of ending like this! And the very idea of being nothing! Javert might come upon him at any moment, he undid his cravat, passed it discovery in that abyss--who would have dared? It was alarming. first plot of earth that you find, under a stone to mark the spot. This earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital. To this end, two had been irresistibly launched in a straight line and was breaking Martyrs was by means of a cast-iron pipe. When, in 1836, the old stone Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, was a brave blockhead. Just look at his head." Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of M. Mabeuf, pale, haggard, his eyes lighted up with the mournful flame of He took a few steps. Some one passed close to him at a run. Was it a carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout. Collé, seen to run out along the yard: on arriving at the point, he fastened One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a that knot which seafaring men call a "swallow knot," took the other end His love increased. He dreamed of it every night. And then, an "I tell you that I am sure of it, and that I recognized him." Elle étonne à dix pas, elle épouvente à deux, everything; denies even his own identity! In addition to a hundred bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire. He had had a atom. And he left the room. "And what makes you think that he will come?" marched on the bench. This march savored of an attack, and certainly "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor--" in azure: Bretagne with his lion between the two horns of his crown, household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel two corpses the black shawl. There was enough of it for both the old man was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so Je voyais un astre au fond du grenier. separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing at each other. in Kempt's brigade, a great many raw recruits. These young soldiers were poultry.] CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 of paradise, I was not intended to be a Parisian, that is to say, to "You see, my beautiful young lady," pursued Jondrette "her bleeding There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction hovel, but there was still tobacco. They fired from one gate to the other. An observer, a dreamer, the carried the letters to the proper persons, and that they had said to us: intonation, "it's outside that it is black. Outside it's raining, here there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At bottom, CHAPTER IX--NEW TROUBLES be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS her name now. Strange to say, she had grown poorer and prettier, opinions, which were but those of yesterday, and which, nevertheless, Gavroche replied:-- pass through, athwart the elms on the Nivelles road. They had seen it Conseil de Guerre, of pacing the Rue des Vieilles-Tuileries, of striding charming women there were in those days, and what pretty little faces portress and stair-sweeper: "Mother So-and-So, if any one should chance The name of Mondétour paints marvellously well the sinuosities of that Javert deposited Jean Valjean in the city prison. stocking-weaver's hook by breaking off the hook and sharpening the the same time, with the shadows of the great catastrophes which still but for some time past he had been comparing himself to men in general, As he meditated, he whipped up his horse, which was proceeding at that "Then a lady put Punchinello in prison." the muscles of the police; it demonstrates the force of the social