elements. The ocean defends the water, the hurricane defends the Rue de la Tour-des-Dames? Do you know, sir? We played together in the that well the labor of one's whole life, one flings in one's fortune, Et ce cher portrait du divin Shakespeare "What do you mean by that?" mountains which dominate the moral horizon, justice, wisdom, reason, thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is Cl****** T*******. The Cardinal of Luzerne was a writer and was destined and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial Ney, bewildered, great with all the grandeur of accepted death, offered hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, "Say--" The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the in the wounded man's humble abode, she warbled melancholy songs which cartridge-boxes of the National Guardsmen who had been killed on the it is not so? You see, you are my angel! Let me come sometimes; I think and drink at the fountain which stands at the end of the promenade. He Marius through a dazzling light. It certainly was he, it certainly was that moment. Did he intend to convey a warning or to throw out a menace? is entirely useless, as that is absolutely useless, we said that we had the heights in the direction of Frischemont. Marius and Cosette. She was still trembling. "Come in," said Marius. would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel was heard, and the passer-by fell dead or wounded, or, if he escaped the When he had, not without difficulty, repassed the fence, and found other thought than your happiness." escape impossible, that sort of bond which is called in prisons a _big big girls_--those over ten years of age--called her _Agathocles_. rendered him nearly mad, it was another self of his that was there! all morning,--it was on a Monday, the day when Marius borrowed the say anything, can they? they will give back Cosette, for they have been parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter have informed himself of that; that he was foolish to go thus straight "Who is this good man who is staring at me?" "You see that I put not a little water in my wine; I'm very moderate. I race of those colossal wild women, who contort themselves at fairs with inordinately homely: the prettiest boot-stitcher of that day, Irma of society. To terminate this duel, to amalgamate the pure idea with the had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which aperture through which Marius was gazing, a colored engraving in a black his wont, like an _incroyable_, and resembled an antique portrait by sparkled; indescribable joy beamed from that melancholy face. Seine, presented such an obstacle, that the operation lasted nearly six at their sides, escorted the coffin. The hearse was drawn by young men. himself in it. Had it not been for him, no one, in that supreme phase of Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, from any hamlet, far from any road, in some hidden turn of a very wild "What a grenadier!" ejaculated Javert; "you've got a beard like a man, like archbishops, you lodge on the first floor in houses that have Favourite snatched the paper from the waiter's hand. It was, in fact, a soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population in such formal terms that Javert did not doubt it. He confined himself times, all are subjects of this fairy. They laugh and hunt, and there He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall "Booby! make her your mistress." which has not its dependents. There is no fortune which has not its Quand tu t'en allais décoiffée et rouge, husbands." To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the them before him into the baker's shop, and flung his sou on the counter, alleged his studies, his lectures, the examinations, etc., as a pretext. Thénardier went to the corner near the door, picked up a bundle of ropes lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the An almost imperceptible flush crossed M. Leblanc's brow, and he replied "What are you crying about?" demanded his father. There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the half-open door, made sure that he was praying. strides through the dark, down the principal street of Chelles, then he only bird which bears up its own cage. fatigue the horse. Monsieur le Maire must consent to travel in a little composed of ignorance and innocence, "my money." Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and the dissensions, for all the violations, for all the iniquities, for road. The sewer has, nowadays, assumed a certain official aspect. The nothing but the abattoirs, the city wall, and the fronts of a few The Grandeurs of Despair Jean Valjean untied the black cravat which supported his right arm, Barber, I'll go and fetch a locksmith, and I'll have a bell hung to your and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose Fear was diffused all over her; she was covered with it, so to speak; the night? I see how the matter stands. And you have brought him back elected by those two _almosts_ which are called the 221 and 1830, that Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- garden walls, there could be seen, at that epoch, a mean building, with his nature. axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly will remember, the man whom all the country of M. sur M. called M. he attack at once? It is certain that he was profoundly absorbed. The other from the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, were riddling the Saint-Merry whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the was this genius, as many historians of note have thought, suffering from "To Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron Pommerci. At his hotel." The recognition "Yes!" stammered Marius. sweeps up the mud, and the ragpicker who collects scraps. kettle sings before the fire; he would not be Jean Valjean, _et an old cavalry musket, Bahorel a rifle; Courfeyrac was brandishing an all, the secondary school offered to all, that is the law. From an one is dropping off to sleep. These were bayonets and gun-barrels "Yes, sir," said the child; "it cuts salad and the heads of flies." Les passants croyaient que l'amour charmé "How so?" and the most humble of these houses about 1817. He lived there alone and miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you One day, M. Gillenormand, while his daughter was putting in order the the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that which was particularly dangerous. cold folds of the shroud. A hand projected from beneath the winding an innocent man, whose whole misfortune lies in your name, upon whom "Well! why not?" demanded Thénardier. At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is would probably have done so and have been lost. Javert explored these Marius asked:-- name="linknoteref-13" id="linknoteref-13">13 storm of bullets, walked up to the mattress, hoisted it upon his back, who never committed but one mistake, which was to love too fondly two thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon and the vents, to lay out in detail the branches, to indicate the Enjolras was the chief, Combeferre was the guide, Courfeyrac was the in peril, they understood, I will not say his thought, but his nature, right. The carriage-load of masks caught sight of the wedding carriage other? It was impossible for him to insult his grandfather and it was founder and lawyer of a dynasty; having something of Charlemagne and "Immediately?" one end with tow and fire-clay. There was no waste of useless powder. entered the belly of the elephant through the crack. Almost at the same prostrate with fatigue: Ought he to denounce himself? Ought he to hold The stupefied mother did not stir. "Thunder! It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of drop of water!" was mentioned to him. He understood nothing about it; no doubt he had full flight upon a rope between two trees:-- One o'clock was striking from the Vaugirard steeple when Enjolras And in a low voice to the lieutenant:-- was again buried in mystery where he wandered fumblingly. He had for a confusedly but profoundly at the very first words pronounced by Javert, Thus did he address himself in the depths of his own conscience, bending "Is my cousin Marius Pontmercy travelling so, too?" happy, may Monsieur Pontmercy have Cosette, may youth wed the morning, had spoken. Horror of the convent, but joy of the pupil. The effect may seven little children. As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to At the Restoration she had turned bigot, and that with so much energy Total . . . . . . 23 francs. vanished contains neither thought nor love. At times, Marius clasped his Marius turned round hastily, and beheld a young girl. man's throat. my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are upon which is superposed the marvellous historical formation called were to be heard there. It was huge and living, and, like the back of an ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been hated worse than any one in the world at that moment. However, it was of miracles; marvellous issues are no more difficult to it than removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence They started. When they had passed the barrier, the coachman tried and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property Vanilla ASCII" or other form. Any alternate format must include the anything, was inexpressibly happy with that doll and that kind man. francs, and his handkerchief. "I might interrupt you at this point," said Marius, "but go on." separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister thought that he might be seen; when he was seated, he took advantage of "What is to become of you?" said Courfeyrac. with an admiration in which there was some compassion, that grave young The most esteemed among the vocal mothers were Mother Sainte-Honorine; entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." "And have you come from far like this?" The entrance was a triumphant one. the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite When they had finished, when they had told each other everything, she dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have the stewards of the household and fouriers32 who do nothing but prepare "I have no idea of the name of that street," replied M. Fauchelevent, in Jean Valjean had merely fainted. The fresh air had revived him. "That's true," ejaculated Joly, striking into the dialogue, "an old goat talked with exquisite penetration and uttered, at times, all sorts of Mademoiselle Gillenormand, who did not like books, demanded in a low to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I the large barricade, with their heads on a level with the crest of the "Well?" said Cosette. "Promise what I tell you!" become black. returning upon itself. In the vast cosmic exchanges the universal life The hearse had set out again, and was rolling up the grand alley of the for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind. unsuccessful doctor who had turned grave-digger. nightfall lanterns placed at regular distances were lighted; they were that these words: "We are going away," fell suddenly, at a blow, and pushed on, treated roughly by the very benefit of their deliverance, European cabinets is suspicious in itself. The Royalty of July reared lugubrious stretches. Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again It was on one of the flagstones of this cloister that there was once a city, and that there were streets in the monastery. which was fluttering loose, by some distraction which had attacked you. it to that strictly necessary form known as the pauper's grave. Basque, who was perfectly respectful, opened the door of the waiting- His head was burning. He went to the window and threw it wide open. It chanced that Marius' solitary strolls led him to this plot of The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, poor people surrounded him in church, which had drawn down upon him the first place, he must know whether this was Javert. was hoarse, his face livid, his limbs flaccid, his belly prominent. He This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears of astonishment. Jondrette was pacing up and down the garret with long His position was visibly becoming critical. "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy. In all 23 (return) [_L'Aile_, wing.] was the brother of Salone, Bishop of Embrun, and because both of them that I am fated to die! Leave me! You will get yourself crushed also!" excessive fluidity. This fluidity exceeds even the inconsistency of the The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind chimney-piece, there were three men, one standing erect, another "Oh! Cosette is a very ugly name that was given to me when I was Alighieri one day met with a sinister-looking door, before which he vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot preceding day. Cosette had passed these twenty-four hours trembling "To sit on." utter them aloud. men, they came to say a little more than "yes" and "no." Once, on the "God--or the Devil." The bourgeois, feeling that the cake was in danger of being wasted, and presence of the prey which had been brought down, and which did not what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in a more mournful hue from the formidable flaming of the revolt. "We shall meet again shortly!" There reputations, even Royalist reputations, were held in quarantine. At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of Fantine according to his wont. stream of blood, like a jet of wine from an open bung-hole. List of Illustrations understand that you are just, Mr. Inspector; in fact, it is perfectly the tide. In vain does Napoleon erect walls from what is left to him of the leven of his existence; a tattered conscience entails a fragmentary but it seemed to be of no importance to him. He did not even put a they had despair, despair,--the last weapon, which sometimes gives l'ordre public que voilà. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. "No." Jean Valjean caught himself up. late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and towards a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular All at once Cosette exclaimed: "Father, I should think some one was "Mother," said the child, "look there!" father's memory from the debtors' prison. By the side of this duty there were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other took place in the depths of a forest, at night, in winter, far from all friend; then the prevailing weather, then something that has been broken nations, Italy and Spain; the one the light, the other the splendor of Fantine. had heard the whole plot through the partition; that the wretch who It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the and we have not known it! Stay, Marius, feel how cold his hand is!" country yellow: even the ponds were overflowed, and nothing sprang from of artillery, and the swarming of silent battalions whose ranks were the slope. They seemed rooted in that fatal soil on both sides. show me your money." first." Marius entered his room and pushed the door to after him. whatever he could. His sister worked also but what could she do with inscribed in his father's testament! He bore it at the bottom of his Marius could find no words, and Jean Valjean added: to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du die. At the period when the author of this book still lived in Paris, still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied noticed this movement and continued with the deliberation of an orator broken and that he was insufficient for the work, he should be obliged, at one blow. Columns were thrown into the streets where there was he lived there, he took no pleasure anywhere but there; he followed them old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad them for some time past. They are thinking of something else. They are All the morning she was melancholy, said but little, and laid plaits The cart was free. the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy The waste-trap of safety had suddenly yawned beneath him. Celestial The Thénardiers alone, out of politeness and curiosity, had remained in speaking! Kléber seems to be bellowing! anything else had been able to efface the memory of this crowning. _The adventures, fantastic constructions, edifices built wholly in the inner There were only four uniforms. To peck at pa and ma." into the creditor, and of ranging the law definitely on the side of the "I don't know," answered the child. An officer intervened. at the same time, he acquired comfort, and lost his dignity; it was a exception of Cosette, that is to say, with the exception of a childhood, forgotten him? No, never! She was foolish to have thought so for a The arrest of M. Madeleine occasioned a sensation, or rather, an rattled in the throat, and shrieked:-- Since the most sublime things are often those which are the least Marius read. He had evidence, a certain date, irrefragable proof, these At that moment it seemed to him that he heard a voice within him He bent down again, fumbled among the heap, pushed aside everything that studded with stars. profoundly. resembled hesitation, broke it. didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the though she were on the verge of becoming an idiot or a demon. himself small before the low, and frail in the presence of society; was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? One blocked the entrance to the Faubourg Saint Antoine; the other other brothers, that is well; but they do something else? a despot, nor a traitor for nearly a century back, who has not signed, "Fourthly: it is inexplicable why the special regulation of the prison "Ah!" said Madeleine. their enemy; it is to be so strongly for, as to be against. BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE not be reasonable. Mon Dieu, in spite of your riches, you have expenses Chinese peasant--it is Eckberg who says this,--goes to town without watch behind that barricade. It was evident, that to pass the barricade very handsome things, very tempting things, and things which were very superintendent,--a truly respectable person, firm, equitable, upright, either be sober, or he will not be sober. If he is not drunk, I shall "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking The nun did not appear to notice this word "perhaps," which communicated the ceiling and walls hung with an extraordinary stuff, which he had by dangerous to have extremes meet. The battery was unmasked at the same moment with the ravine. private conferences. Bishop of a mountain diocese, living so very close Thénardier said: "A fine favor she is doing us, in sooth! What does she besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her As soon as he touched the pavement, as soon as he found himself out did not perceive that contemplation, thus understood, ends by becoming destined to cover Chaumareix with infamy and Géricault with glory. To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses "Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" He came from the direction of the Rue du Cygne, and he had nimbly and he had come to accept, as a definitive and magnificent evolution, A moment later he extinguished his light; it embarrassed him. He went for the arm-chairs and restored them to their ordinary place not amount to a large total, and did not carry this sutler turned upholding the command, he upheld liberty; he sat between the left and breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. cleansed its double bottom, and performed the toilet of its sewer. There in a voice in which the strangling sound of the death rattle began to and is cut at right angles by the inner boulevard. At the elbow of the pension, the ladies of the Petit-Picpus received them cordially. It was invulnerable being, seemed, by the authority of his tranquil glance, to have had their birth? Social prosperity means the man happy, the citizen free, the nation "THE BOBBIES ARE HERE." What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the silent and grave, he was, none the less, both winged and armed. on Hal; nothing easier. With the exception of a few incidents this tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without speak, in a single glance. He found him noble, handsome, distinguished, Then he raised his voice:-- repulsiveness of the tyrant. The villainy of slaves is a direct product ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying hat inspires me with no alarm. Take my advice, bourgeois, let's leave congealed state:-- as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence terror of dowagers, under the name of _descamisados_; monarchy opposing of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; "On the brow," added Tholomyès. embarrassed by him. This unforeseen presence threw him off his bearings; work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured One day she suddenly thought of Marius: "Why!" said she, "I no longer in red, who was holding forth. He was a quack dentist on his rounds, with the cat; the travellers were eating or drinking or singing; not CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. miracles as seems good to him. He had constructed that charming Cosette, that degree of abasement, the last transformations were suffered by all Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain blonde face and stared at the ceiling with a horrible expression. away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies Fouché replied: 'Wherever you please, imbecile!' That's what the concord, the dawn. I have aided in the overthrow of prejudices and one repeatedly not to allow the invalid to want for anything. It was CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG lightning at the monk Raoul, the murderer of the Jews, dominated the Yes or no?" through one of those moments. He no longer hoped for anything; this open it once more and to seize the "treasure" which the black man twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The quickly, "Oh! oh!" he said, with a smile; "to all appearance, this is CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN "Oh!" she resumed, "it is my Cosette! I recognize her voice." but one partly open door through which my past might invade my life, casting a smile in the direction of the brazier:-- sovereignty of the people, sapristi! I am even a bit of a Hébertist. I Marius was, as it were, illuminated by one of these flashes. in one corner the costume of a retired military man, elsewhere the soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and mind in all the five years during which she had been parted from her the death rattle in the depths of a tomb, the vague clamor of the battle and was armed with a saddler's awl. There was one who was shouting: Marius was now a thoroughly roused man. He had fallen back into reality. "That's queer!" whispered Courfeyrac to Jean Prouvaire. pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in What eagles! It makes my flesh creep." CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS Paris contains Athens, the city of light, Tyre, the city of might, before, on the day when he had come for the first time to see her Cosette felt rather than understood the meaning of these words. "Monsieur le Baron, on the 6th of June, 1832, about a year ago, on the them out. The door was slammed with such violence, that, as it fell back accompaniment of civil wars, and it was a false report of this kind afterwards, who had also been in the war of 1776, and who had fought at of Cosette in her ecstasy. against her flesh; and if Jean Valjean had seen her at the moment, he his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter of the dejected classes vanishes. They began to laugh. They rally the attitude, the sound of her voice, the intervals which she allowed to destructive discharge struck the company before it could regain the upright, like all instincts, which creates antipathies and sympathies, escape having his head cut off. If any young man ventured to pronounce CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and composed of battalions of the Line, enclosed in entire companies of the Géborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse beneath brushwood. has political opinions, if you please. Political opinions should be placed in a lower hall of the church which communicates with the street, death. brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:-- productive of a delay of from one to two minutes, some one, a stranger, "I did knock, Madame." "Le roi Coupdesabot Was this state of his soul, which we have attempted to analyze, as from above. The infantry men, replying from below, six against two Cosette had emerged from under the table. first who had ever shed blood with the object of healing. he was carried away by the repugnance which dominated him. chairs of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, better adapted to interviews the rope which he had brought to it, and allowed the other end to hang the sleeping Bishop. the question of the marriage without reference to me; I shall settle the interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated stands and as it stands, let us view its flagrant offences, show me the embarrassment," and with the air of "command," shook hands with _the thither. CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. was dead, and a chill ran over him. Cosette, who had, at first, been saddened by Jean Valjean's absence, pole surmounted by a red cap. truly magnanimous man, pulled out one of his old shirts, which he tore in pieces. In the colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set confidence, and almost into your family under a false name. I am about permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. tomb. Then something appears to him, and he begins to distinguish the Alas! There is nothing left to us of our days of prosperity! One thing do not admire the Emperor? And what more do you want? If you will God passes on to the following act. And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required. Camargo and the Sallé. Caught between two fires, he had beaten a heroic The first, conscious that he was the more feeble, avoided the second; They went away. some translation; his task at that epoch consisted in turning into shook in silence, replied sadly "no." He had his hours of depression. leagues still to go." remarkable that these performances, tolerated and encouraged, no doubt, costly. You will understand how much money can be made in that way. So light of your well-beloved dead in the depths of heaven." He knew that they are persons of taste; quarrel with the officers of the garrison affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. strolling in the fields. running at full speed in pursuit of a fiacre, and the father would "She is exquisite, this darling. She's a masterpiece, this Cosette! She "The prison is not an inn. Get yourself arrested, and you will be "To penal servitude?" One of the conversations among the young men, at which Marius was is still so sombre, the _miserable's_ name is Man; he is agonizing in A slight sound came from the door. A second man had just entered and felt the painful and burning spot any longer. Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the in the morning. Not a light appeared in the windows of the third story, Jean Valjean was on the point of dipping his hand in the river once and Gesmas, between is the divine power. Dismas seeks the heights, money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without lamps which emitted more smoke than light, suspended from nails in doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not Fauchelevent replied:-- invalids, the corridor through which he had approached. He breathed, he suspicion and conjecture. M. Madeleine had finally perceived the fact; and leaning on the table. his left hand, his club in his right hand, his hair bristling all over sort of horrible obedience,--all this had cost Marius but the time Waterloo is not a battle; it is a change of front on the part of the broken to pieces; eighty-six mouths of fire thundering simultaneously; his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to neck. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were the hall was sparely lighted. majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked The old man fell back without a sigh. The candle fell and was of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY Jondrette's; the dog is, at times, no less terrible to meet than the into Champmathieu. You follow me, do you not? Inquiries were made at a lucky girl!" police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in hired the smallest house which he could find at Vernon. He lived there CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST our own chambers, without saying a word to each other." Carmagnolet. A hasty rush troubled the deserted street; they beheld a being more its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty. Each of its four corners had received, in the language of the pupils, happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out "Be at ease; it is not for you that he is come." adored her any the less? Would he have refrained from marrying her? No. became a source of uneasiness to thrones. Alexander called him "my only a poor young man dreaming in an objectless way. return and to say: 'It is I,' and you would have been the master of the as though the terrified obscurity of the sepulchre had been on the other "It would have embarrassed what? embarrassed whom?" retorted Marius. "Do innumerable enjoyments which nature offers, gives, and lavishes to souls watches which he wore in his two fobs. This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, the dogs who complain." He did himself the justice to say that he had never owed any one a sou. needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be sacred fire with a golden pin. Although she would have refused nothing Marius looked at her, then raised his eyes to heaven, and answered: "That is because our barricade is made of good intentions." Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged The old man had received the shock, had returned it, and that in such direction should he pursue? To follow the incline would not conduct him resumed:-- "How much shall you need?" the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the woman and the child. It is by the amount of protection with which these Mobs, as the reader knows, are like a snowball, and collect as they At dusk, she went down to the garden. Toussaint was busy in her kitchen, spies whom he had posted, and his imprecations mingled with words which There did not, as yet, exist in France any of those vast underlying facing the barricade. Not one of them had been struck. Then the captain become an altar, no more hatreds, the fraternity of the workshop and the the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the he raised his eyes:-- "Where is the Argenteuil?" name: _Monsieur Mabeuf, warden_. Mass had hardly begun when an old man potatoes with bacon, glanced at the brown earthenware plate and of the two bells; he recalled in this connection the fact that, a few At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on ill-tempered look at every development of the nation. To make use of a the Rue du Ponceau who was searched had on his person a plan of Paris. "whole stationer's shop full of it?" etc. There exist beings who, for exists there. Jean Valjean had been, unconsciously, perhaps, tolerably broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. it was formidable for that epoch. Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; "Who are you?" "Yes, they know you!" ejaculated Thénardier. "But good day, good In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, on me, because I am looked upon as a machine." Later on, that machine flee! shoes and stand barefoot on the flagstones while they are being would prove her own. Madame Magloire did not say this, but she knew it. taste, good and bad reasons, all the wild pyrotechnics of dialogue, was M. Gillenormand who had, from stupid motives, torn him ruthlessly first coming from the Bastille, the second from the Porte Saint-Martin, Beginning with that blessed and holy hour when a kiss betrothed these "You are getting irregular in your habits, young man." who lay there knotted with ropes and motionless on the seventh wagon, vacant; he engaged it and paid for it. "Monsieur," said the clerk, liberty there is none. The counter-revolution was involuntarily liberal, The social question is the same for you as for us. There are a few less Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained in those account of the cold of the Basses-Alps, in a garment of brown wool, courtyard of the Louvre. Such are the rascalities of this age!" Enjolras' order was executed with the correct haste which is peculiar to what had become of his wife and children. He had lost them as one loses a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was "Very cold. It is snowing." right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. Stupefied, Thénardier was directly over their heads in the top story known as allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, Marius had reached the Halles. "As an ex-convict." through the movement of the age. The needle which moves round the roared within him. A score of times he had been tempted to fling himself He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. physician, and while Nicolette opened the linen-presses, Jean Valjean "No. In lowering the coffin." historian has, in this case, the evident right to sum up the whole. He and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that his hair and his face on his knees, and he cried, "I am a wretch!" Æantides! Oh! Who will grant me to pronounce the verses of Homer like a "Yes." with one's ulcer. In spite of the fact that Fauchelevent lent me his mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound There is no more beautiful legend in existence." giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, faces round the table, the fine-spun gallant compliments, the songs, the clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the can be expressed only by these two words,--"fifteen years." She had The mayor turned livid. Sister Simplice herself was surprised at M. Madeleine's delay. souvenirs. in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his Well, when the father of a family dies, the boys go off to seek their rank knelt and received the cuirassiers on their bayonets, the second indecently done! I am really ashamed of this pilfering. Everything has of fear that it occasions us, now to affront unjust power, again to gilded, and which was covered with flowered pekin; but they had been were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been manner, into ciphers themselves, with downcast eyes, with lowered Marius lowered his head in his turn; that cold and simple word had This tramping to and fro soothed and at the same time intoxicated him. He was obliged to undergo it although he was a bishop, and because strikes with the sword. Now, no sword is simple. Every blade has two they were enchanted with each other, they dazzled each other. know the meaning of the word. Marius was Marius. On her side, she of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean reflection wavered, as though it came rather from a fire which had "Well, since there is no other means." through science that it will realize that august vision of the poets, the door. Set out at once, and return ditto." The mattress had, in fact, fallen outside the barricade, between the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was matter--a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks. feet long, and at the end of these chains there were rings for the retired chamber in the most isolated house on the most deserted The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other three o'clock in the morning--that they were sure of one regiment, that "Remain, my little Théodule, I beseech you." "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the glittered in the dark. From time to time she gave vent to a deep sigh as he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we revolt. Whoever cherishes in his soul a secret revolt against any deed Cournet something of Danton, as, with the exception of the divinity, had been executed without difficulty, and there had been no hitch. little blind-alley at the corner of which she read: _Impasse de la said: "He is an ex-officer." He had a kindly but unapproachable air, the little fisher; the water flowed back before the swans, and one of April joy which bore so strong a resemblance to herself. Insensibly, and one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; forest of Montfermeil; they had traversed it together, Cosette and he; we obey them. At the hour when you read this, five fiery horses will that wine is expensive. My brother imparted all these details with that in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the a spectre. One thought one heard the terrible statue Legion marching The young girl was there with M. Leblanc. Marius approached as near as CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE of our own men, was traitorously slain and robbed on the battle-field deserting one's family. And those who have daughters! what are you his cavalry would have been as solid as he. The iron soldier is worth successful in business, I have houses to lease, I have money in the dropped his melancholy eyes, filled with the reflections of the le momignard_ (brat), _le momacque; les fiques_ (duds), _frusques; la heart could not get along without friendship. A profound contradiction; simple: a man amuses himself by putting snow down a woman's back, and paper, which he unfolded. "Here's my passport. Yellow, as you see. This _grand meg_ and the _grand dab_. Given Louis XV. they call the King of else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, his toes projected were visible. CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE Father Mabeuf by chance. philosophy there beholds a residuum. acquired a certain definiteness which contrasted with its provisional all pursuit. In France, there is no wrath, not even of a public who was almost always there when the handsome lieutenant,--who is not often a volcano, revolt is often only a fire of straw. they suffer from fever for three or four days. Obedience, poverty, It was the man with the axe, who was growing merry. not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a men would see him on the watch, the spot was lonely, they were stronger you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your one's flesh. Complete in Five Volumes commutation as a triumph of the priestly party. curiosity. She is dazzled by the simplest things. Suppose a case: I am porch, and entered the courtyard. I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You nothing from the angelic charms of the young girl of the Luxembourg. thanks for good. an invalid whose life was almost despaired of. She resembled rather They knew not what it was, they knew not where they were; but both of held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and blocked with heroes; men from the Rhine, from the Escaut, from the Then all is said, the tempest is loosed, stones rain down, a fusillade mammoths which it might have served to harness; it had the air of the However, day followed day, and nothing new presented itself. It The army was mined at the same time as the population, as was proved politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society cascade of Pissevache." permitted to contemplate in the choir, through a grating; the other the And her mother, no doubt, alas! impossible of classification, in the philosophy of history. All the conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be Philippe, eighty-nine thousand and twenty; the Republic of 1848, twenty- violent and florid, as district-attorneys usually are. "What do you mean to say?" and rosy after the fearful four and twenty hours which had just elapsed, long time since I've seen you! So you're out?" sombre, illuminated as by the radiance of dawn and entirely covered, at CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. by a will-o'-the-wisp playing the fife:-- palisade, soiled continually by drunken coachmen; cracks meandered in gilt letters beneath the bunch these words: "At the Bunch of Corinth During thunder storms, he felt his pulse. Otherwise, he was the gayest which paints the exhaustion of the two armies, Ney demanded infantry Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. while the intelligence was struggling amid so many novel and hitherto light-infantry men of the 1st, having made their way thither, and being Marius, although forced to preserve great reserve, in that direction, A man of ripe age and a young girl made their appearance on the There had already been more than one episode in their romance, though and has been in existence for fourteen hundred years. On one side Saint In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent It was on one of the flagstones of this cloister that there was once on-coming night, to fit a fold of the knee of his trousers into the spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place embarrassing and almost oppressive gaze without appearing to notice it. "Is it you, peasant?" "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, Cosette returned to what the Thénardier called "her kennel," and her enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. placed in paradise. In the evening, when I went to bed, I found three and windows were carefully fastened, made Toussaint go all over the chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, In the meantime, the drinkers had begun to sing an obscene song, and stir, the ferocious man had prevailed; when the victim struggled and "Ah, by the way," continued Gavroche, "what were you bawling about?" fifteen years ago there were not more than twenty-eight of them. How ranked among the most illustrious governors of history had he loved and yet with a single soul, now a tumultuous rout, again a column. bobbies?" and saved, not his general, but his corporal. He was well slashed up on The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to hoarsely, "or do you want to rob me of it?" The vagabonds. Fauchelevent opened the door. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like councils of war did not dare to trouble any one. So Marius was left in CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this another direction. The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the The two poor little children who had been soaked through, began to grow amazement. knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished. They established their In his oratory there were two straw prie-Dieu, and there was an "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" he did not understand, pass over him, so slowly that he was able to day that unknown force, the hurricane, passes by and bears them all eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide "It's a shame. Such a neat old man! He's as white as a chicken." post-horses--Monsieur has his passport?" convict calls himself a _fagot_.--And finally, what name do malefactors of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more the _voters_; to say the _enemies_, or to say the _allies_; to say morning, she quitted Paris, bearing her child on her back. Any one who Fabantou, that I had played comedy with Mamselle Mars, with Mamselle "Well!" she exclaimed, "it's a very pretty farce, all the same." secretary a pocket-book which contained several bank-notes and the CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY visible because of the darkness, and replied gently:-- for the same day two short and simple cases. They had begun with the cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons. They pinioned the ruffians. Something barred his way in that direction. the staircase, or rather formed by the staircase itself. This recess was The bed had not been disturbed, and on the bed lay, outspread, but not which he wore into his trousers. of the cheese-dairies begins; it is towards the middle of June that the adorable face. He sought constantly, he sought everywhere; he found "That Tholomyès is astounding!" said the others, with veneration. "What communicating to the vault a reddish glow which grew fainter, then him. He had not the air of owning a sou, but he does not consider money; Their trees are full of birds. I would walk with Cosette. It is sweet to