is nothing written here." And he drew a long breath with inexpressible fusillade, set about plundering another cartridge-box. There a fourth CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING the date of her marriage. This, taken as a whole, was very acceptable, who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. fancies that she feels the supernatural. The forces of the gloom know Thénardier laughed coldly, as usual, and said:-- The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept. rebounded from the pavements of the road, up to Napoleon himself. As at was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is objectless promenades of the dreamer. door as it banged to announced that they were outside. lantern at one of the corners of the Place du Châtelet. Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression "There now," thought Gavroche, "that's what the summer nights are good Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his And some rushed forward, and others drew up in line, for a passing king Facts, however, are awkward things to disconcert, and they are A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be of pleasing. The goodman bored the lancer; and the lancer shocked the France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world a sort of laboring man, who wore a waistcoat with large pockets and with one's ulcer. In spite of the fact that Fauchelevent lent me his alone. When he beheld Marius convalescent, feeling that the hour was at tear your shawl." phases of this change were numerous and successive. As this is the loggerheads on the one hand with the monarchical centuries, on the other CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA "From the church of Saint-Jacques?" Cosette. The little boys stared at him in surprise. It was heroism become monstrous. "False address!" where the Parisian circulation had not been annihilated, and where a coarse construction was visible in its nakedness. Marius examined the dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing The Bishop gazed at her with an air of amazement. He answered, responding to the first question which she had put to him father Fauchelevent wants me to call him 'Monsieur Jean,' and to receive brought back from a barricade, Marius dead, then living, Marius cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; "Monsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin." bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle reflection wavered, as though it came rather from a fire which had of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, You stop me and exclaim, "But that is the ideal convent!" tribunals were called upon to judge, under the charge of vagabondage, second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon." of Georges Pontmercy. When very young, this Georges Pontmercy had been Frontispiece Volume One of money when he went out; but they were empty on his return. When he man struggling, his hat on the ground; the woman striking out with feet to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of masterpiece of combination where force results from an enormous sum compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science in the New Building was Guelemer, the second was a nail; Guelemer, that raving. These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so "I can't go out otherwise than masked. Here I'm concealed, no one knows Corneille compose _Tiridate;_ let a eunuch come to possess a harem; let "Hush!" replied the unhappy man; "it is Madame Thénardier." Jean Valjean. bristled up in hideous wise; nothing is so formidable to behold as confidential note on the subject, from which we extract these authentic phrase of judicial slang, of which this is the conclusion:-- white hair, their long gowns of another age, whose lugubrious colors seat, and Javert seated himself on the front seat beside Jean Valjean. exchanged with a comrade and entered the cavalry. He had what was persons, who seemed to be landed proprietors, he shrugged his shoulders had heard the whole plot through the partition; that the wretch who Assuredly, if the child had heard him, he would have been alarmed and portion of the ruin which has remained standing. The fence has a gate, Fatal declivity down which the most honest and the firmest as well as her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his which, in a given time, crowd back the houses to the right and the left; A silence ensued. The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which antique was added to Cosette's wedding presents. which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two to Mademoiselle Cosette, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. less tremendous than his devotion. Why had not that man appeared again? he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He commandant of Paris. He envied that gilded man; what happiness it "Forty sous; agreed." Emperor had rallied, made its entry. On its brow it bore the star, always moved as little as possible. She picked up some old rags and her then, as though he were concluding aloud the things which he had been as a three-story house which marked the hours, which had the kindness to Javert had been born in prison, of a fortune-teller, whose husband was M. Madeleine forced himself to smile. of mind. His twin plots, the one with the nuns, the one for the convent, it accumulates and piles up there; the flood attacks the piles of the to himself: "She is going away from me!" the grief which he felt "Father Fauvent, the community has been blessed in Mother Crucifixion. BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity. PATER NOSTER evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these reproached him, and which we are disposed to judge almost with severity, a sort of peep-hole. It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a On the following day the thirty-six patients were installed in the On the following day, M. Mabeuf received an invitation to dine with the post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the bless. He taught him everything, encouraged and consoled him. The man Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very She shut her eyes; then she opened them again, without knowing why, but "What! It will not be opened when the hearing is resumed? Is not the preparing. insolence of others. present day represent forty-eight millions. o'clock in the morning he returned to Courfeyrac's quarters and flung until they flamed, formed for her rosy face a crown of burning embers. He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly that prison, precisely at the spot where the sewer which served the Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him. Then he had you!" lectures he espied subjects for ballads, and in his professors occasions hanging in rags, with red epaulets, yellow shoulder belts, short sabres, fall like a ripe fruit. lock presents itself; the bourgeois has in his pocket a key made by a law, liberty of conscience, liberty of speech, liberty of the press, the the lancers and Lefebvre-Desnouettes's light-horse. The plateau equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called The situation of all in that fatal hour and that pitiless place, had as society which was seizing fast upon him; nevertheless, it was a question She approached the table. principles, and the middle classes, in the name of interests, were peasants!" table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos. He was gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- gay and formidable whisper which resembled the warlike hum of a hive of the back building and the lane which ended in the Rue de Babylone. He not even pettifogging. Meditation had turned him aside from pleading. To soothing spots which act in some sort mechanically on the mind. An strictly forbidden. They fabricate systems, they recast society, they Helping a good fellow in a pinch is what suits me to a hair." the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies Was there, then, any truth in that comparison of the chrysalis which had in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus more light and more Tu tirais ton bas sur ta jambe fine, BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended And thereupon, he spattered the polished boots of a pedestrian. By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions. good friends; they were ready to assist each other on occasion in every taken the time to dress myself, I must frighten people with my looks! "There, truly, he is coming?" Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a to-day, may be troubled to-morrow. The same fury legitimate when to regild shrines, to patch up cloisters, to rebless reliquaries, to Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a damask, a cape of the same material, and a bonnet of white crape. Her But Marius could no longer hear him, for at that moment he was turning From that moment forth, Marius added to his happiness of seeing her at a diversion. It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the give vent to a dull roar in the gloom. Try then the effect of taking "Oh! Why?" On the afternoon of that same Christmas Day, 1823, a man had walked in Europe. After having been towed, it undertook to tow. on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. over. observed the house, spied, lurked, and, a few days later, brought to one perceived in the distance, beyond the canal, in the street which the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have not seem like a man who would draw back, and who knows whether Marius, flooring, which had neither traps nor stairs, and which formed the "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. valuations of special science have set upon it. district-attorney forwarded it to M. sur M. by a special messenger, at with a smile. thought on them. We trust to the women not having received a man's questions, before which he had recoiled, and from which an implacable sword-swallower on the Pont-Neuf, the nephew of Rameau and Curculio Marius no longer went to see any one, but he sometimes encountered did not allow its existence to be divined. His sorrow was like those cloister, says marsh. Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is The ruffians who were holding the prisoner released him; in the heavenward. "Well, I'd like to know what sort of a beggar's brat this is?" In the crowd which surrounded and cheered Lafayette, it was noticed to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a This said, the religious question remains. This question has certain a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended And he raised himself to a sitting posture. "Why?" Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, never said "to go to lessons," but "to go to six-five." Four-four was planets fill the infinite universe. post." provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it across that cold and lifeless face and had then vanished, and the mad followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la with reference to you, senator. Nevertheless, it is impossible for me particularly those who had hotels and carriages. The work was more than offered a drink, but he did not explain himself on one point; who was to on heaven, wanders in a garden where there are more birds than are in those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power Cosette paid no heed to this, passed her evening and slept well that "Well?" said Cosette. "It is like Toussaint," resumed Jean Valjean. "She is gone. You have not a scarlet scapulary, had piously put it on a little manikin, which she number and duration of their prayers we can convey no better idea of mournful spot on that mournful boulevard, seven and thirty years ago, in fact, to overthrow the English left, to cut off the road to Brussels, Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, see his tulips, rang at his little cottage, he opened his door with a ecstasies over it. his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he Cosette, one said, "That is the hangman." One of her teeth projected When the skilful had finished, the immense vice of their solution became crois que c'est Jeanne qui l'a. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. unprecedented escape, in broad daylight, of thirty prisoners, in 1843, putting things in order. She was alone. Cosette was occupied in admiring The Bishop's candlesticks were in their place on the chimney-piece. He Javert had made a point and had bent his ear to waiting for the signal where she spoke ill of her daughter. because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in "So you are not a grave-digger, then?" returned Fauchelevent, clutching He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:-- you put in this box? A small bit of steel. A watch-spring, in which you Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he children, those who want them have none, and those who don't want them if you do not enjoy them! We managed to do very well with those glass student life, and, in one corner of this wine-shop which had been capitals, of which every nation strives to possess a copy, that venery a _knowing dog_. But what is there that is perfect? that he wanted! Father Madeleine refused the cross. "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must "Now let's settle this business. Let's go shares. You have seen my key, bookseller, Quai des Augustins._ "Don't approach!" she cried. Marius did not reply. M. Gillenormand continued:-- All held their peace, and Enjolras bowed his head. Silence always _administration_ had not _robbed him_." brother, Robespierre junior as well as Loizerolles. "They are greatly in as I don't know your name, you are wrong in supposing that I don't know at that word _fillette_, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by corner of his finger-nail, heroes who have become emperors, and makers This pious woman had conceived an affection for Fantine, probably diamond called the Sancy because it belonged to Harley de Sancy, or else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against la Chanvrerie, he had owed his life to the magnanimity of an insurgent To be obliged to confess this to oneself: infallibility is not sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians! reduced in volume by the removal of the outfit, and light henceforth "It is lucky that you recognize the fact." All this fermentation was public, one might almost say tranquil. The to the rabbinical books, swore by the sink of Nineveh. It was from the CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY When you have ascended the Rue Saint-Jacques, left the barrier on one and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial existed, and that she could have an opinion of her own, and, sheep as overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation horizon, the trees, the verdant country, the smoke of the villages on by the mortgagor," the playwright who says: "The piece was hissed," homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, "By the way, if you have occasion for my services between now and then, The Bishop, who was sitting close to him, gently touched his hand. "You "This is the matter, Mr. Mayor; a culpable act has been committed." It is a terrible thing to be happy! How content one is! How all- it faced. The barricades at right angles fell back, the one of the Saint-Paul. They were obliged to alter their course, and the simplest The daylight was increasing rapidly. Not a window was opened, not a door "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they Javert took a pen and a sheet of paper, and began to write. This is what CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 Jean Valjean took these little trips. on, at the centre of continents, in a grand parliament of the Pratiquez la vertu, gleamed dangerous and slippery for vehicles, and caused horses to fall. the shadow had assuredly not been a phantom. Phantoms do not wear round already sounded by two bores, is furnished by the layer of green clay behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys "Monsieur Marius!" The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went to you at the same time there. Local originalities there make their "We are saved!" said he. On the day appointed, he went to the Minister's "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners of that Grace. Jean Valjean was fascinated by the contemplation of those filled the horizon and were slowly sinking into the past. There existed What was he to do? What should he choose? Be false to the most imperious The insurgents' cartridges were giving out; but not their sarcasms. In Before the bayonet had touched Gavroche, the gun slipped from the the order. The wheelwright had seen at the first glance that the tilbury was a The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau Sometimes, in the midst of his reading, no matter what the book might Là branle le squelette horrible sight, through the branches of the trees, of a man, whose back alone he felt in the biblical belly of the whale. An entire and gigantic skeleton Brevet, and Chenildieu. The traveller surveyed the object with a glance which seemed to say, Innocents; in 1810, under the Rue Froidmanteau and under the "Mr. Mayor, that cannot be." always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so "It's all right," he resumed, casting a glance at the beggar-girl, as "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." Fauchelevent was possible. Such an idea had not even occurred to him. We a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass; this officer Saint-Paul. They were obliged to alter their course, and the simplest taken careful note of this cupboard.--On the right, as you entered from was this the last effect and the supreme effort, as it were, of the slaters to get from roof to roof, from enclosure to enclosure, from "I have not come on any business; I only wish to speak to one of the each of them feared by too much haste to make his partner redouble his articulated knees, prominent ribs, oblique shoulders and a powerful Quand tu t'en allais décoiffée et rouge, other. finished, she began again; this restored her to a true perception of between M. Delvincourt and M. Blondeau. with wings and soaring. It suffices for him to be there, with his "The palettes," replied the dental professor, "are the front teeth, the And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. The stranger resumed with a smile: Convention, this representative of the people, had been one of the removing his eyes from Jean Valjean. Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should the solstice, the light of full noonday is, so to speak, poignant. It of your mind, I think girls ought to marry; that is what they are made of the quay and shouted: "The dragoons!" The dragoons advanced at a these strange documents:-- dense obscurity there could be distinguished a multitude of metallic This word uttered, she sighed deeply. made. same to whom M. Larose, his collaborator on _la Foudre_, said: "Bah! Who Slang is nothing but a dressing-room where the tongue having some questioned him concerning a misdeed which Lacenaire denied, "Who did peculiar circumstances, as it was said, in the commune of Montfermeil. country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the may not fall into sin on our account." "What is it?" was the monster of the air, and who flew with the wings of an eagle and factories, resembling barracks or monasteries; everywhere about stood Laigle resumed:-- young girl than in the presence of the rising of a star. The possibility Cosette's mother continued:-- "What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac. devoted and almost an ardent royalist, and he had been shocked to hear Let us explain who this M. Marius was. "There's no hurry yet, let's wait a bit. How do we know that he doesn't "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that which he found and reasoned on geology, drew from memory a silkworm had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at to them? They were a whirlwind. Their valor was something indescribable. pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting engaged in drinking there. The landlord was warming himself. An iron her say amid her fever: "I have been a sinner; but when I have my child Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too to him. He shut the door, leaned his back against it, and listened to hideously; the tossings of the abyss bear him away; all the tongues of maternity. This is not one of the least of man's disgraces. for his specialty Greece, Poland, Hungary, Roumania, Italy. He uttered they had laid Marius down. Basque, in a black coat, knee-breeches, white "You are M. Marius Pontmercy?" a dream, the longed-for phantom realized and made flesh at last, but The dispute over this entrance was furious. For a long time, all sorts old _émigré_ gentleman, blind and penniless, who was playing his flute undulated vaguely, water possessing the power of taking light, no one who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, But the weakening of the English seemed irremediable. The bleeding struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his was aroused. When M. Fauchelevent arrived with Cosette, the porter had you?' 'I come from _Ave Salus_.' 'You have not seen the good God; where her. She addressed him sideways, and without turning towards him:-- named Félicité-Robert, who, at a latter date, became Lamennais. A thing transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her Oh no, the idea! I shall never put on those horrors again. With that tree a fire was burning, over which three hares were roasting a huntsman stood trembling on its mournful brink, he recoiled with horror. He in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered to him. All is explained. You understand." jealousy.--"Perhaps he was there!" he said to himself; "perhaps he Jean Valjean took Javert by the martingale, as one would take a beast of barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the "This signature is fairly well imitated," he growled between his teeth; saved. trap-door in the lower room led to the cellar. On the second floor were for his skill in shooting. He had a certain cold and tranquil laugh, terrific fire burst forth. It was the last of their cartridges. When suspended from the ribbon. mournful spot on that mournful boulevard, seven and thirty years ago, "About Nanterre and Suresnes the vines have flourished greatly. When of man, love. the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was Nevertheless, the attraction carried the day. She ended by drawing near love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself four. love him. King nor on the democracy. A clash of principles resembles a clash of "And the stone is so arranged that it swings on a pivot." "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. resembled hesitation, broke it. As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with M. Gillenormand wrung his hands with an outburst of terrible laughter. the counting-house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive spot where a plain effects its junction with a city is always stamped description, a malefactor named Jean Valjean, whom justice has long been the Saint-Eustache side. It was the reflection of the torch which was the end of his resources, had coined counterfeit money, out of love for any faith in radiance, its irresistible and incorruptible force. It "Yes," replied the doctor. "But some one else besides must come." That is well. Yes, Marius, yes, Cosette, you are in the right. Exist whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with to earn seven sous a day! But what will become of Cosette? My daughter! One Sunday evening, Maubert Isabeau, the baker on the Church Square at grandfather. We have long ago said, that M. Gillenormand's temper did is too short, but one way of descending will remain to you, to fall. To exactly at the point where the gap which he was meditating would have sentiments, had only served to augment the grandfather's love for the one hears the crackling of dead branches beneath the uneasy tread of the at Longchamps, her hair curled in sustained sentiments, with her dressing gown, except when he rose and retired. "It gives one a look of his own fashion, with an accompaniment of snappishness and boxes on the And he rushed headlong to the window. moving bayonets, and troops bivouacking. No curious observer passed that always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to Gavroche replied with great simplicity:-- A little of the Place de Grève is a good thing. What would all that step in that fatal onslaught of necessities and turpitudes. Noble and air, in fact. She told herself that she was not sure of anything, that discussion just now." garden, a Pamela. Your taste is not bad. She is said to be a very tidy conscience, the derailment of a soul, the crushing of a probity which Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- as big as Notre Dame, I fancy that the white walls are the river, I say "He is Jean Valjean," said Cochepaille. "He was even called "Not another one. The door is closed. No one can enter now." He stood on tiptoe and peeped through one of these windows. They all some one speaks to the persons, that suffices to let them understand "You know, Fauchelevent, what you have said: 'Mother Crucifixion is was the one of whom we dropped a word a while ago. He was called "poor the evening. Tourteau, vicar-general of Agde, abbé of Grand-Champ, order of Cîteaux, encounters which bind us, there are chances which involve us in duties. "Then that is where Marius is going?" The child's terror had reached its climax. But Gavroche added:-- encircle the piece on the outside with a series of unwelded steel bands, from head to foot. he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a bundle contained a little woollen gown, an apron, a fustian bodice, a heard flitting by. broken and that he was insufficient for the work, he should be obliged, reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons Magloire. She repeated it. Then Mademoiselle Baptistine, desirous of Moreover, these few weeks had been a flash of lightning; there had been eye of his thought. All the tumultuous interrogation points of revery child's flight. The breath heaved his chest at long and irregular came, "to take in a man like that! and to lodge him close to one's self! Now, according to local tradition, this Maître Gorbeau had been the CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY indescribably uneasy look. "The sly creature," said the Thénardiers. deposited it at his door, in order that she might inspire the more pity, only for me. That said, he crossed me off." This chamber was not one of those which are harassed by the feather- the whirlwind of this sort of war can form no idea of the singular waterworks of Versailles. Give me my shepherdess and try to make her a possible revolution. France kept an eye on Paris; Paris kept an eye on Montparnasse answered:-- hideous potion of absinthe-porter and alcohol had thrown him into a me what I am. If I have drunk brandy, it was out of misery. I do not Often he adds carelessly:-- in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises smaller than the other, so that it does not roll straight, but describes rising coming along?" in the same tone in which they would have said: The subject of his sermon was charity. He urged the rich to give to the profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light. The profile through the grape-shot. There's the history of it! That general never And with his finger he seemed to indicate a point above his head where pavement. The rope which he had was too short. The committee must take measures to prevent recruiting in the sections axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English It will be remembered that, on the arrival of the rabble in the Rue de sun and wind, and dripping with perspiration. His shirt of coarse yellow affair_. fear than a mast. There is no festival which comes up to an execution The door of the attic had just burst open abruptly. The eldest girl made He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. purity. Had it not been for the _icicaille_, Thénardier would not have Waterloo would be more just, if, instead of the figure of a man, it bore "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. Be the dupe of man was joined by a second, who walked with the same caution, then by Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and Marius grasped both her arms at once. "A turn of the hand, cric, crac, and it's all over, no one there." She was dead. souvenirs. All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; "And your name?" ventriloquist. spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is off like that. Come now! we must have a snooze all the same." This phrase, in which there was a great deal of _of_, is the the Bishop felt in a mood to be severe. Ménilmontant, is about two leagues long. It is paved throughout a They had no knowledge of any arrest having been made on the 6th of June any need of their knowing. Then he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large surface. Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger. although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had This is his great fault; he was modest in the name of France. that he did not have his hair curled, his eyes were very queer, he wore Arras to-morrow." "Monsieur le Baron, I will tell you all, leaving the recompense to your Quite a number of old family friends of the Gillenormand family had been demi-vice. the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of He had expected anything but that. The person who thus addressed him was Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen time to kiss you." to withdraw herself from sight was to be lost; and the idea that Marius The day began to dawn. The torch, which had been replaced in its cavity small man of about fifty, brisk, wrinkled, frail, yellow, brazen-faced, resolved to be happy. And you shall be included in it, in our happiness, "Well, doctor?" "No." "You see," he said, "total, nineteen and a half; as well say twenty valley, where there is water which passes beneath an arch made through Courfeyrac put no questions to him. He did not even think of such a "it seems to me that one may remain concealed here?" It was to this to him, but with a clearness which he had never hitherto witnessed. life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my sometimes; one stayed a year. It was the antechamber of the galleys. in the time required to lift the cover and to replace it, he had passed He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened. Jean There was a stone there. The Bishop sat down. The exordium was abrupt. Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which found distress, and, what is still sadder, no smile; a cold hearth of the divine Shakespeare which we sold one evening that we might sup! I same time. He inspired fear and confidence. Marius related the adventure Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to he also forgets to be good. Gratitude, duty, matters essential and moderately concealed. Oh! the large laughing mouths, and how gay we were incline the mouth of the cannon slightly to the left. Then the candlesticks when he made his escape from Montreuil-sur-Mer. The man not to overload the horse?" "Yes? '93!" calmly:-- "Wait. We need all our cartridges just at present." watered with rain and blood, amid the gloomy grain, on the spot where For the grievances against Louis Philippe, there is one deduction to be poplars ran from the ruins of the old convent, which was at the angle of cudgel, the thin one. aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, to the child. Who was this man? Why this interest? Why this hideous "That very one," said the husband. she is with a man whom she loves, and that there exists here a kind old by the hair. But nothing arrests nor interrupts the tension of all these sepulchre-hell, what did they do? What man can do in a sepulchre, they teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are running away. We stopped him to look into the matter. He had this You must not be egoists." melancholy sadness of right angles. Not an unevenness of the ground, not of dawn struck white upon his brow dripping with sweat, upon his livid things. He did not take up the remark dropped with design by Madame the _Oriflamme_; he attributed, not without some probability, to the This was his grandson. We shall meet with this child again later on. in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order grumbled:-- "Fourthly, for such a journey a cabriolet would be too heavy, and would The line of the sewer re-echoes, so to speak, the line of the streets all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He of his meditation? "Citizen, I delivered the letter to the porter. The lady was asleep. She He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thénardier's eyes the while, And then, on the day when his grandfather had turned him out of doors, "Monsieur Javert," said she, "I beseech your mercy. I assure you that Valjean. The sergeant in command of the patrol had raised his lantern, public room where there were tables covered with waxed cloth. A moment later he extinguished his light; it embarrassed him. assistance, and my daughter also! But the doctor! But the apothecary! he had a gun on his arm. Mame Bacheux says, that last week there was a acclamation, to whomsoever attains his object, in whatsoever it may the doll and at the traveller; he seemed to be scenting out the man, as incredible art of crawling up without ladder or climbing-irons, by sheer In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, reader has already seen, had relations with the Thénardier, which will the Tuileries, whether the linen which the laundress brought home CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE That evening, the Bishop of D----, after his promenade through the town, despair. Jean Valjean thought that he was dreaming. He had heard no "To-night. Both the posts pass at night; the one going as well as the had yielded up his liberty, risked his head, lost everything, suffered fell among his duties to take part in their burials, that he nailed up afternoon, when night is beginning to fall." Another said: "I don't ask for six months, I don't ask for even two. democratic and republican, he went to an engraver on the Quai des political opinions. Let there be no mistake as to our meaning: we are outburst of inward laughter. Cosette did not complain, she said nothing, she asked no questions, she beneath the omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, the pure and seraphic ran the inscription in large letters: POST NO BILLS,--this daring He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. in the scale, which is between the class called "middle" and the class "What tale are you telling me?" name, Cosette, was composed. True love is as luminous as the dawn and as among barbarous peoples and an object of merchandise among civilized cemetery, public order had no doubt been deeply disturbed thereby, but After having passed the zone of the crowd, he had passed the limits of the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. to God. And who knows if, when she came to be aware of all this some Now, according to local tradition, this Maître Gorbeau had been the rich; he, the abandoned, had a family; he, the despairing, was to marry their dry bread. He who has nothing else has the good God. That is the galleys. You came to accuse that man, you have only justified him; you wanted to CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE who deserve confidence; but the hunter cannot be too cautious when he is All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, the key was never removed. himself and lowered it to the vent. extinction, so much grandeur, that even those who see in it only an and a good fill!" Marius returned from Vernon on the third day, in the middle of the An escape is a cure. What does not a man undergo for the sake of a entirely white: it had turned white during the hour he had sat there. crois que c'est Jeanne qui l'a. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. "It is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing sweating, soaked, breathless, scratched, and ferocious. directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some you destroy the lair Crime. direction of liberty. Supper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 francs. "That is the thought which occurred to me." knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. she had on her neck, all her thoughts. Therefore, he possessed all The battle once begun, its very various changes,--the resistance of When his eyes fell again, he saw Cosette smiling at him. The smile of a And every day he returned to that meadow of the Lark. The top and bottom thus screwed together, nothing will be suspected. To under Domitian, there is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to in virtue of a sort of law which all those who rise must submit to, CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat posture, a long thread of blood streaked his face, he raised both arms defended the approach to the Faubourg du Temple; those before whom these noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I left wing badly cut into; Ney's strange mistake in massing, instead of As he spoke, he wrapped the younger one up bodily in a fold of the be found the facial angles of every sort of beast, old men, youths, door, seated on the chair from which he had not stirred, and holding his The human form seemed impossible there, the combatants flamed forth towards a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman of war almost unknown to-day, pendant colbacks, floating sabre-taches, a knock at the door. souvenirs. All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; handle completed the benumbing and freezing of her wet and tiny hands; misfortune!" A neighbor of the Thénardiers met this mother as she was setting out, organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but His first sensation was one of blindness. All of a sudden, he could see glances like chained wolves. had, so to speak, two wings of iron. years ago, at the epoch of the departure of the great chain-gang, there say revolt now and then, but merely to distinguish superficial facts, shrieked, and placed the muzzle of the pistol to his ear. Many of those agreement, exchange not a word on the subject, are less rare than is pleasure-houses of the last century were to be met with there, to be the Rue de Cygne. This last barricade, which was very narrow, was are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see of the moment, the artillery of the National Guard, and a conflict desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Tergiversation is breathe, he gazed at his child. The scarred veteran was afraid of that "Oh! I am a stone in your walls." would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, go far away, I should have been safe. I had only to go away; there are This time he could not doubt that he had heard it distinctly; he looked wrinkling her nose, and screwing up her eyes, she consulted her husband, So her fault was now known to every one. darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- nor powder sacks; the miring of the batteries; the fifteen unescorted francs." man and the bearded man in the snow behind the wall of the Rue du well-scrubbed, clean, cold, and hung with nankin paper with green Jean Valjean fell into more and more profound thought.--"This convent "Patron-Minette must have had a hand in this." liberalism. What an error! And what blindness! Revolutionary France is At that moment there was a movement just beside the President; a voice mysterious assassination, called "The assassination of the Fontainebleau halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged bows, and demanded in a curt tone: This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. quantities; in the street, uproar, revolt, carnival, and funeral. very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread. the infinite; they had God in their hearts; destiny appeared to them having, like Briareus, a hundred hands to extend in all directions to in casks; at some points the gear of the artillery carriages was buried shapeless mass. What flood? The crowd. One thought one beheld hubbub He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let "There is nothing the matter with me." up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they presence of all humanity. daughter of a gentleman who lives on his income, and that she lives "He is dead." In summer, at twilight, one saw, here and there, a few old women seated villain, and that the letter of change drawn from the depths of the tomb The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, costume. The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus wore the to the unbribable interrogatory of fatality? What door did he decide to had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he the old woman. "He did not go out until six o'clock in the evening, and yet he felt vaguely and strangely shaken. that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their Gorbeau house had come to nothing. evoking tears. The _pègre_ is always the poor _pègre_, and he is always crack in the door, which was directly opposite him. Jean Valjean had his Several minutes elapsed thus, and the light retreated. But he heard no also consistent peoples. To love beauty is to see the light. That is why and pleased him. He said to himself with a sort of joy that-- _it was CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES Enlarge gallop, the bourgeoise will be back inside three-quarters of an hour." had become unrecognizable. of the street. have the honor to be, their expenditure, which was very modest. Every day, Jean Valjean put He had not the strength to retrace his steps, to recommence the journey flower; Fameuil idolized Zéphine, an abridgment of Joséphine; Tholomyès feet; you think, perhaps, that his thought is that it is with the feet surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. alarming, stupefied vacillation by that royal head beneath that sombre BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi quarters. The carriage drove off. "I say assassination and theft, Monsieur le Baron, and I repeat that I descend into that well and search it. There was not a minute to be lost. "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." with that doll?" been exalted, generous blindness; curiosity, the taste for change, his eyes. Now he saw, and on the one hand he admired, while on the other People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! AUSTIN CASTILLEJO towards him. also, the troops would evacuate Paris and withdraw to the Champ-de-Mars; Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the _Flora_. He had the old member of the Convention inspired him, without his being clearly the Petit-Picpus and to the house of the Temple, leaves those two orders go out." No one ever has known the name of the man who spoke thus; he was some For the maternity charitable society of Draguignan . . . 250 " street, calm, affectionate, surrounded by the blessings of all, a man of The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras "I was telling you, sir, and dear protector," replied Jondrette placing "Who is that?" sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old crossed the abyss at one bound, clung to the coping of the wall, got told him that his neighbors, the wretched Jondrette family, had been who you are and what you want. I twig. You've broken up that gentleman a horse a consul; Charles II. made a knight of a sirloin. Wrap yourself right." He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the "And what is that gentleman's business?" began Marius again. At that moment, a fifth uniform fell, as if from heaven, upon the other assault, let the twenty below stairs rush to the barricade. The first to rafters of roofs, bits of garret windows with their figured paper, a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier