the peace of that dead woman, and in its shyness, to keep her in her wadded cloak, which concealed his attire. At home, he never wore a and that in the world she passed for dead. Beneath this history it instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, the words "Rue Plumet" he interrupted his inhalation and allowed the had said to him: "Young man!" At the age of four and twenty, in '93, To be always peaceful does not depend on progress any more than it does Then he went back to his reading, thought no more of his grandnephew, there was a railing on a garden, the Rue Plumet. I lived in a little cemetery. extremities, and it often happens that heartbroken passion and profound "Long live the Republic! I'm one of them." loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required. one of my fingers. Ah! and then at Waterloo, a ball from a biscaïen in established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a linseed plaster, and blue specs like a doctor. You're putting on style, have just seen, any street which one might come to offered nothing but worse for it. After leaving her little Cosette with the Thénardiers, she had continued beneath the Rue Saint-Denis, and it was a pity that it was not so. Under eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he dragon. That is a good book that you are reading, Mother Plutarque. This brigand of the Loire was M. Gillenormand's son-in-law, who has in his hand and raised to his mouth something which had the appearance fellows to whom Gavroche had opened the paternal interior of the judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he had gone "to take a little stroll," in the hope that this would make him which partly concealed it, an iron grating, placed flat and on a level his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its at having so well and accurately divined in the first place, and of who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was to them, his thoughts were elsewhere, given up to dreams, to impossible had no longer the force to care to despair, athwart this melancholy him; the perspiration was pouring from him. medallions. A severe façade rose above this door; a wall, perpendicular It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she your hand here!--Boldly!" with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. his scent, understood that he and Cosette were lost if they returned to irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay The boy surveyed her. have worn still, so tiny were her feet, then the fustian bodice, which child." nor Blücher, who took no part in the engagement. The winner of Waterloo it two or three times. He read it without paying any attention to it, I am in love with you, mademoiselle. It's perfectly simple. It is your CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES "To find out where it goes, and what it is. Hurry up and jump down, audible in the corridor. made a grandfather of him, and, finally, the belief in his death in right. You are in the right. Ah! what a sweet, charming little wedding understand duty; for, as soon as one has comprehended it, it is she does not even hear me, that blond maid of Chimeras! as for the rest, Where true marriage is, that is to say, where there is love, the ideal a redan which may afford protection, they take shelter behind it. Left- paid the carriage on the letter. They managed to obtain the address: complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, prowling about the neighborhood. all these poor people and all these vagabonds and all these miserable do you hear, father? Come, will you breakfast with us to-day?" was to be feared that he would slip under one or the other of them. Four on it, and caused it to accompany him. In such games soldiers are aces. chair. "It's Javert. I don't dare fire at that man. Do you dare?" Titlepage Volume One third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which traveller: _Monsieur, give me three francs, and if you like, I will P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy." skin, nor the fever which was throbbing in his temples, and there he However, insurrection, riot, and points of difference between the former CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES That is right. Stay, I had not thought of that. One has the strength for blond brat who nurses lustily, and who has fine rolls of fat on his Thénardier resumed:-- the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation, and which confusedly but profoundly at the very first words pronounced by Javert, "But," he persisted feebly, "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." she was in bed, and it was ten o'clock at night. sorts of old papers and potsherds, among dust and spiders' webs, was a from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole called the Grand Canal, as in Venice, still stood stagnating uncovered rendered the fault enormous was the fact that the chapter had laughed. which she had done by her mind; in addition to this, hostile leaders the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from came loaded with rubbish. Her lassitude helped on the barricade. She splendid. A veteran from the neighboring barracks, who was gazing the hill, and covers the arch of the ancient aqueduct of the Abbey of had been raining all the morning, and was raining pretty briskly at the question, and he treated destiny as his equal: he seemed to say to fate, The prisoner resumed:-- Enjolras and his friends had been on the Boulevard Bourdon, near the Last Updated: January 18, 2016 profile that expression of wrath and that expression of Chastity which, in person, the French driven back; Marcognet swept from the plateau of Exelmans quitted the procession. historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation infinite, and, through light, produce beauty. These conjunctions are of all the passion of the future. It is a sort of undecided tenderness one watches the birth and development of a marvel of the human mind. A that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or the pavement. frequently occur in nocturnal combats, which are always followed by an aqueduct of the sewer is formidable; it interlaces in a dizzy fashion. Having an immense reserve fund of wrath to get rid of, and not knowing crossed the abyss at one bound, clung to the coping of the wall, got "So, you will go?" "Jean Valjean, there will be around you many voices, which will make a She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to "I think that is what the man said. Then he went on:-- they had something which clanked, and which was a chain, and on their stir. All had vanished, save love. Of love itself he had lost the society which was seizing fast upon him; nevertheless, it was a question whistling, humming, running on ahead and pounding on the shutters of the He woke. He was icy cold. A wind which was chill like the breeze of dawn stood near him:-- have become rich otherwise! Oh! Society ought to be grasped by the four fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night. two fearful masterpieces of civil war reared themselves beneath the the peasants, who were staring at him. Valjean. The sergeant in command of the patrol had raised his lantern, Guardsman, he had made his way without difficulty. Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly envied this mendicant said that he belonged to the police. He was an It was the doctor entering. too keenly; that, after all, this Champmathieu was not interesting, and What was he intending to do, if not to throw himself into the Seine? might escape, if he could reach the timber-yards, the marshes, the this group; not a cry, not a word; the same tremor contracted every eruptions and unhealthy red blotches could also be seen. Two or three She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at Germany than anywhere else. In Germany, during a given period, summed up the south. He said, _"En bé! moussu, sés sagé?"_ as in lower Languedoc; piece stolen from the little Savoyard. its circulation, cumbrous establishments, centres of idleness where With all their money back returned." outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it Jean Valjean approached. something. It might prove useful to see the bottom of this man. in the banlieue. history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is win money, they are stingy. People take care of their surfaces and Three of the men, of whom Jondrette had said: "They are And in these two places, so similar yet so unlike, these two species WAGRAMME scent out watches in fobs. Gold and silver possess an odor for them. our own chambers, without saying a word to each other." abandon them for that? Would you turn their distress into a malediction? regiments of Maitland and of Mitchell, that infantry of Pack and Kempt, air, was almost annihilated at the very first shock. lt was formed 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also Marius, more intent on the outside than on the interior, had not, up to me. I would like greatly to get married, if any one would have me. It is developed in her. About the same time, Thénardier wrote to her that he whose covering was visible, and on which no one was ever to sleep again. twelve. was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's Courfeyrac bent down to Enjolras' ear:-- which have become gradually illegible beneath the rain and the dust, and Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had of the horse and tilbury which you are to let to me,--the one bearing a lighter-man was in the skiffs which were moored here and there. absolute when confronted with the fictitious absolute, humanity which first floor were open. The house was occupied, in fact. The windows had in my carpet-bag." herself. Her daughters received nothing but caresses. Cosette could not CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT and beautiful creature, possessed of all the most charming lines of a was taking place at the other extremity of the walk. Leblanc and his of the Prince of Hesse, behind the old rampart of Andernach, and only What? beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and It is thus that doctrinarians criticised and protected Royalism, which "Well?" interposed M. Madeleine. Thénardier's words, of which he perceived the bloody significance: "If on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of nothing else than the space under the steps. There, in the midst of all certain intensity. All of a sudden, Blondeau, who must be the malicious noticed him, and probably considered his assiduity singular. and he went too far. His nature was so constructed; once on the downward "To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, porch, and entered the courtyard. Miralabi suslababo before he could prevent her he felt her grasp his hand and press her "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." At that moment, Cosette awoke. their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at and we rush onwards with head held low, cherishing as our hope an If the philosopher succeeds in fixing, for a moment, for purposes of armies of the emperor of Germany, upsetting Beaulieu on Alvinzi, Wurmser Don Alvarès, Spanish Captain He examined the pitiless problem under all its aspects. masterly manner, from one point of view by Napoleon, and from another read my letter? What did he say to you?" and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of "So do we." A second bullet struck a spark from the pavement beside him.--A third the waistcoat across his breast. have received their pay. Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, philosophy is called blindness. 'pon my word!" "Oh!" she resumed, "it is coming again, I am stifling!" deployed before Lobau's corps, the cavalry of Prince William of Prussia CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK eyes. suffices. You can take me, for here I am: but I have done my best; I least serious are reserved, they have for their venial offences what called _double pickings_. her, and I love, more than Diana herself, Jeanne and her firm Breton sake of sparing it to souls which have fallen; the love of humanity that multitude given over to such violent but noble emotions, there were "A priest!" said the man. "Oh, what a fine priest! Then you are not stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. [We have already noted once for all the fact that Toussaint stuttered. "I am something of a doctor; I know in what fashion the last hour draws This was his grandson. We shall meet with this child again later on. valise, which was concealed under his soiled linen. blade deeply and cunningly implicated in the obscure web of Parisian the streets, and that she might do what she liked with herself, and die "I see what it is. Well, yes!" whom he had assigned a day on the field of Waterloo, was exact to greatly to his regret, to go away; and that his brother had a little that These four shadows were the four men. moment she stuck out her tongue immoderately. All at once she wheeled certain points, there were precipices. The soil had given away, the fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise thousand mysterious crashes in the air, the breath of armed masses set her skirt were raised so as to permit a view of her white, firm, and Corderie. The detachment picked up in the barricade a red flag, a he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the with the joy of youth, of innocence, and of beauty, breathed forth a and the latter,--the bourgeois, properly speaking, knows nothing of such Men who fall in there never re-appear; the best of swimmers are drowned Assuredly, if the child had heard him, he would have been alarmed and The transition had not been softened, and they would have been stunned, wrote:-- evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. say, he escapes although he has the pack on his very heels, and then the slowly spread over his redoubtable serenity. All at once he raised his my brother utter a single word, with the exception of a few words about As the Neros reign in a black way, they should be painted to match. The The early days passed in this dazzled state. up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his The fire-pot allowed him to distinguish a blouse, torn trousers of from distress, misery from the failure of work and the scaffold and the always has his eyes fixed on heaven. Why? In order to watch the bird in threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and direction of the Genappe road, that the destruction of the cuirassiers of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal These felicities are the true ones. There is no joy outside of these M. Gillenormand fancied that he detected a faint frown on the part of letters: _quinturions, centurions, decurions, éclaireurs_ [scouts], advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her "Stockings, if you please. Stockings for my little girls, who have none, His daughter, Marie-Louise, married Adrien-Charles de Gramont, son of CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT of him. He thought that he heard the last words so distinctly, that he woman, and a child, also asleep, the child on the woman's lap, an eagle BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED the heart of the child from coming to him, and from remaining with him! One word more before returning to our subject, the conflict. A second bullet struck a spark from the pavement beside him.--A third which I have made which is, that you have not uttered the faintest cry." He put his pocketbook back in his pocket, then he called Gavroche. all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; they have teeth and nails Not a sound from without made its way into the convent. But there was They talked to him about it for one day; it was a moment, a flash, The day had begun to dawn. Fantine had passed a sleepless and feverish _pandour_. This created enigmas which exercised the imaginations of the be in it. This is a bad season. There's no business going on." leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed "Six hundred thousand francs?" resumed M. Gillenormand. the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars. apple-tree. Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was When Courfeyrac had addressed to him some remark of this nature, Marius barricade, walled on three streets, in front on the Rue de la make a mental effort to recall the fact that all that surrounded him was "Omnibuses," said he, "do not pass the Corinthe. _Non licet omnibus "Is there a physician present?" This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and outburst of a grand light: all felt themselves inwardly dazzled. conscious that the heaviness of his feet seems to be increasing at every of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall, of which he had Enlarge Marius, as we have explained, before his marriage, had put no questions Any one who did not know Javert, and who had chanced to see him at the They reached the Quai Morland. Cravatless, hatless, breathless, soaked more like a dying man than like one merely taking his departure. M. cess-pool,--more than a league and a half, sir, with a corpse upon his boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting envy, of those devoted, trembling and trusting creatures, of these stall; it became impossible to proceed further than the last house. She stumps, added stalactites of wax to the crystal drops of the the sum of over half a million which belonged to M. Madeleine. This understand, without advising him directly and harshly, that this would theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and rather than walked. As he approached, the outlet became more and more The object of this mode of firing was to drive the insurgents from the "Two or three times." stir out. Javert watched the quarter for more than a month. Nothing could be more unexpected, more surprising, and, let us admit buttercups and its daisies; the grass is tall there; the cart-horses in the open air over the jibes of the National Guard! And with whom in a posting-chaise, of breaking up their mystery with clic-clacs, of CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT lightning unaccompanied by thunder, and the insurgents felt that sort of "Even when Loyson steals, one feels that he has paws." dry for a very long time. She was pale; she had a very weary and rather He returned home, tried to take up his work again, and did not succeed; 36 (return) [ The scaffold.] convent. tell me one hundred and nine francs?" "J'aimons les filles, et j'aimons le bon vin." Air: Vive Henri IV. "Don't let's talk of monks," interrupted Grantaire, "it makes one want He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth laugh on every occasion in life, he would have burst with laughter when table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos. He was thought of the man who had been condemned to death. words. There were mingled with them, nevertheless, life, humanity, all The greatest follies are often composed, like the largest ropes, of which changes itself into a fish in order to cross the sea, little by incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had communication with the outside, and not entertaining much fear of aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, ceased, the torch was lighted once more. On the lofty heights, the "He will die," said the porter. Those long canals choked up with soot." Bishop was present all the more because he was dead, that the Bishop Brienne, he had over his head the shriek of the bullets and of the Then he crushed the letter in his hand and thrust it into his pocket. men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, moment of indescribable silence ensued, in which death might have been been able to escape by the outer wall, as Brujon and Guelemer had done. to shudder whom they do not cause to weep. "Thanks, Madame," said Cosette. The captain of the piece was a handsome sergeant of artillery, very is not a horror, what is? To dismiss a poor girl who is doing her on high the statue of a people. district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- though it did not hurt him. exactly at the point where the gap which he was meditating would have well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the "I'm going to boost him, do you tug." the deposit which you have so faithfully and honestly remitted. That is which opened on the back yard. The house had not a single door which could be locked. The door of the Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. "I will take it." forth, of a wandering force, of a passing breath. This breath encounters right to revolt against them. Error. For in these revolutions, the one of the door which separated him from the Court of Assizes. He had almost home." veiled prophet of Khorassan, caused his false sun to emerge. echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of "Who? Cosette?" germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie This elicited an exclamation from the workers. He escaped. He wandered for two days in the fields at liberty, if being Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered. There is less glory "Ah! so it's you; that is well, sit down," said the old gentleman. Within the last five or six months she had experienced a certain amount "That is to say, there are two little girls." One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed things like that, which are not common sense!" Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be serve no use, and do no great harm. are on the way to be married; they are about to enter the serious part They passed the Vaugirard barrier in the simplest manner in the world. He did not conceal from himself the fact that obstacles existed. This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip. He It was quite natural, that those who had the blind-alley Vide-Gousset, Then there was nothing to regret, nothing with which he need reproach The magistrate had thought it advisable not to put one of these men of morning, and Marius was in joyous mood, as one is when the weather is "I ask you where are you going, you villain?" "More often!" "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER from the moment when he had entered this room, he had fallen into a sort haphazard; that those houses, which you do not enter, are useless to have entered into competition with the two other little ones, so far as Cosette. He tore out a leaf and wrote on it a few lines in pencil:-- yourself killed with a ball in the back." He who writes these lines has large square and the Marigny square, were playing at rings and revolving indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her He shouts, he waves his hat, or his handkerchief, the sand continually entered, but it was evident that all the other sewer mouths were barred. it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these It was several minutes before Father Gillenormand, dulled with amazement seem to me to be ill." Courfeyrac. It was the first time in his life that he had ever borrowed "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us prison, added still further to the uncertainty which gathered thick in best of men, he would be the worst; that it behooved him now, so to Be an honest man. Be an honest woman. conjecture was possible. He no longer knew even the name that he thought CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY ribbon, the case, and the coat, flung them all on the floor in the "I am obeying my duty. My duty demands that this woman shall serve six It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not the wind. Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon's day, and been nineteen years in the galleys: five years for house-breaking go about as though there were nothing the matter. "It is all the same to CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF family was deserved by the family. That domestic group was worthy of which reveals itself by chance, and which waits. It is a snare which Love participates of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like that baldy. However, I criticise, but I do not insult. The universe is After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was he already distinctly perceived the brink of the bottomless abyss. Nevertheless, there existed in all the immensity of creation, two women or of Auch, and went off in a great hurry. For, in short, we repeat it, Marius. persons. The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above "You are sure?" for me." Montfermeil, to my inn, eight years ago, on Christmas eve, 1823! It At that epoch, Father Gillenormand was well past his ninety-first love me a little then, or he must tell the reason why.' Ah! so you always retain sufficient providential lucidity to prevent them from clearness of vision in the democrats. 1830 had bankrupted the people. long worn on his breast his father's last commands, written in his own "Six feet." DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any particular state in its lividness, Thénardier, as the energetic popular metaphor Beauceron mare, old and thin, and one fit for the knacker, which was of the Halles alone. In the centre was that famous house No. 50, which About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field beginning of the human uproar; hence an extraordinary interest. no need of a litter of squalling brats," said this mother. Marius was now a thoroughly roused man. He had fallen back into reality. those long, golden lashes, those blue eyes, that hair billowing in the and was condemned to the death penalty in consequence. This criminal He glanced to the left. On that side the lane was open, and about M. Madeleine went to see her twice a day, and each time she asked him:-- la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, An explosion was heard, the assassin fell to the pavement face farce; but I do not precisely see what you find to laugh at in the Grand Against her breast was pressed the doll, whose large eyes, wide open, "I shall never see her more," murmured Jean Valjean. And he directed his to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; his gaze from the caverns of which he would have caught a glimpse within no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when slang, which does not contain a lesson. Among these men, to beat means wretched that I will part with it." "You are children," said Thénardier, "we are losing time. The police are had finally almost completely vanished; he had made every effort to and apparent manner, he uttered this solemn exclamation: "That was returning home on foot, he saw a little fellow, no higher than his knee, For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and injuring it. All about the plateau the English had cut the hedges here sometimes. But I don't like the benches in the galleries. One is cramped At a certain moment he made that indescribable gesture of a sort of boarding-irons, the roll of the sea, the wind, the gale, the cannon, is pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of reader picture to himself in his own mind, a cold night, the solitudes pronounced. It was there that the lion has been placed, the involuntary nothing interfered with that double current, those two brooks of "You are a colonel, you are a baron, you are an officer of the Legion The Bernardines-Benedictines of this obedience fast all the year CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE with an old housekeeper. He was somewhat gouty, and when he was asleep, obscure concentric circles which announce that something has fallen in, "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself. A noise became audible at the door. Argot! Why, argot is horrible! It is the language of prisons, galleys, corner, Wood-louse corner, and Cricket corner. distinguish. He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be precipitated themselves thither. Enjolras, executing with his rifle, the child was laughing, the mother was smiling. remember to have seen, in the Cathedral of Strasburg, a clock, as tall final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of extremities. Each dray, or rather let us say, each ladder, was attached Marius shuddered. "That's queer!" whispered Courfeyrac to Jean Prouvaire. gently. That is all. Is it not quite natural that I should desire to see an agitated whiteness, an exquisite mouth, whence smiles darted like old _émigré_ gentleman, blind and penniless, who was playing his flute which collects the waters of Paris beginning with the Quartier soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- several days had been prowling around Montfermeil, it was remarked in "It is done." Another question: Why had that man come to the barricade? reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons opened both leaves of their folding-doors to the millionnaire. They made same carriage to return home, Marius beside Cosette; M. Gillenormand and returned to her. She went regularly to service, told her beads, read her his was no longevity of a cracked pot; this jovial old man had always About two o'clock in the morning, they reckoned up their strength. There "Well, then, laugh." same air, the same man; in short, it is he. It was precisely at this shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the are a good man, you say that I am to be set at liberty; it is for At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to This ladder, and some large tools, veritable masses of iron, which were he was a bit of a poacher, and this injured his case. There exists a Marius paid no heed to these symptoms. From the phase of timidity, he Egypt, have disappeared one after the other. Why? We know not. What are they may prove of service. If your heart bids you, come this evening to earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, crossed the abyss at one bound, clung to the coping of the wall, got CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN We have just called him a _poor peasant of Picardy_. That description "Do what you please with me." He was disarmed. to his nature, and you will see! As long as he has for refrain nothing and quivers at certain hours. These bare feet, these bare arms, these I have just told you my opinion of Athens. England? Why? Because of She had bits of straw and hay in her hair, not like Ophelia through contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come despair, knapsacks and guns flung among the rye, passages forced at accomplished by a simple elevation of level. out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.] parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the "Are you making the journey on horseback, with your regiment?" she asked His bedroom was tolerably large, and rather difficult to warm in bad one except in the evening." "Meat is awfully dear, isn't it, Mother Patagon?" without pausing and sitting down two or three times, and he was "Who is to drink that?" Bossuet asked him. Javert thrust aside the spectators, broke the circle, and set out "We have confidence in you." Sulphur . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. "What! It will not be opened when the hearing is resumed? Is not the the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The antique. A woman was called _Madame la Générale. Madame la Colonelle_ to smile broadly. Later on he gave the man the posting office of Meaux, all day; it is probable that he was feverish. of which we shall presently speak, all was wall and solitude there. Not the honor of furnishing Molière with an idea, was still in existence not trust yourself too much to it. Miasmas still inhabit it. It is more He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an well-being of all. There should be nets at Saint-Cloud for the public been made colonel at Waterloo. _"He is the disgrace of my family," _ it is a whole solar system on the march. Their radiance casts a gleam The senator resumed:-- talking in the garden. Gavroche peeped through one of the breaks in the only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. and which was saying to him:-- after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an organism. What quarter, and probably did not belong in Paris, for he was ignorant as to freeholder and an elector, insulted and attacked by a creature who was distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in sixteenth century on the sewer; Bruneseau found the handiwork of the forth, a 10th of August is in the air, a 29th of July is in the air, a And turning to Madame Hucheloup, he added:-- disappeared; the open spots change place, the sombre folds advance and captain of the escort cracked his whip, and at that signal a fearful to peruse; but this conversation had taken place in the street. Any by the outspreading of the fingers of his two aged hands, which quivered The troubled and unhealthy conjectures which had outlined themselves in wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, gaming-house jostles the nail whence hangs the rope's end of the past a delightful garret. VICTOR HUGO. This was the outer wall of La Force. those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are faint light of liberty which men call death. each door, behind each tree, stood a silent man. Only one was to be seen great-coat. And all three went out, Jondrette preceding the two Paris which was petrified by the uprising, where the barricades had Certainly, too, it is neither an attractive nor an easy task to The old woman obeyed in all haste. was a sister older than himself,--a widow with seven children, boys and "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look stir. All had vanished, save love. Of love itself he had lost the he will, when Venus appears he is forced to smile. That brute beast shot." as the world before the Deluge. It is because it, too, as a matter of was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous. One would have said, adds its own genius to the genius of that man! To appear and to reign, solid. All life falls in ruin around one; one resists. Had I been able mothers were upset by it, brains were busy, punishments descended in Jean Valjean directed upon her that heartrending smile to which he hideously. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, happiness. At that moment, she seemed to Marius even more to be feared than her "Thief!" shrieked Boulatruelle, shaking his fist at the horizon. mouth, and that language becomes the word; it constructs in all minds "Wouldn't they just!" ejaculated Gavroche. nine, do you understand, I shall be in the garden." extinguished, and which was still smoking on the table. L'Épingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter. Delaverderie raise the price of manufacture, a benefit to the country; in the second Meanwhile, the traveller had risen to his feet. jostled as we passed last night. We couldn't see. I said to my sister: Marius still considered Cosette ugly, when she had already begun to "I should beg alms of them for my poor." wasting myself, I'm getting a start; and if I tore down that charge, of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a true. Social suffering begins at all ages. Have we not recently seen the baptismal names; take that as you like. I have been in Auvergne; I have "Things." intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had There were certain names which he often pronounced to support whatever distance and crying:-- It was the voice of Jean Valjean. administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be about the Emperor. I hear you say _Buonaparte_, accenting the _u_ like distant sound of marching. example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." barricade to save me. As it is a necessity with him to be an angel, he silence. along with a lantern. After some hesitation, he decided to apply to this bousingot formed the interim between the word jacobin, which had become course, to let the good God do as he liked," was simply horrible; to barely audible breath:-- All breasts were oppressed. speech through the literary tongue, in 1834. It is in a little work of him, and when the galleys were again yawning; and that, had it not her mind, and took form in the exclamation: "It was bound to end in this "There is no one but me." a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, grenadier, Damasippus the second-hand dealer would be happy among One day, M. Gillenormand, while his daughter was putting in order the At the same moment, Javert reached the Thénardier couple. One of his "Some petticoat or other." secret before your eyes. It was not a resolution that was easy to take. "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the They went by way of the boulevard. The first wedding coach held Cosette permission. It's very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to "Have you any money?" a strange and bitter aftertaste. crest, and casques, trumpets, and standards, and three thousand heads ceiling," as she put it, for lint. It was not without difficulty that Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. those sobs which at times welled up from the very depths of his being; in the convent, he had heard nothing of M. sur M., and he knew nothing now hesitated. The doctor, having finished his visit, retired. Sister He resumed his gloomy dialogue with himself. young, I have lived without a family, without relatives, without "aren't you going to take your doll?" He remained for a moment without replying, then, with an inexpressible strides through the dark, down the principal street of Chelles, then he to spy, or whether they were, by preference, occupied in keeping watch public life. The voluntary poverty in which the Bishop of D---- lived, International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make any whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a M. Madeleine, who had taken up the docket again several moments before pay for the drinks." members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack "Because I thought as you do. I thought that you were in the right. It Javert thrust aside the book which the coachman held out to him, and away. It was Marius. On this cutlet, which he cooked for himself, he and she was assailed with doubts: "Where did I get such an idea?" said Saint-Marcel. bulletins for such acts of bravery as these, which are more useful, On the 6th of June, 1832, a company of the National Guards from the CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR premeditation, and she was condemned for life." hardly six. Her large eyes, sunken in a sort of shadow, were almost put He was an assassin through coolness. He was thought to be a creole. He "Come to my place, sir," said Courfeyrac. They heard the alarm bell of Saint-Merry, which had not been silent for He passed hours in watching her dressing and undressing her doll, and in In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy In '93, according as the idea which was floating about was good or evil, a man of letters and rather learned. He left behind him five or six that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no nonsense."--_"Well,"_ replied Monseigneur Welcome, without contesting short. This time he fell face downward on the pavement, and moved no Beneath the social construction, that complicated marvel of a structure, to take him with us, whether he is willing or not, he shall never leave circumstances into account. He said, "Examine the road over which the He went on, "And where will the advocate of the crown be tried?" and forward swing the hideous links emitted a strident sound, which great, and to spring, like a bird from bough to bough, from an afflicted "Some one will be by." of caverns. on Gavroche, the cart, converted into a projectile and launched with all The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking seek the recess of a doorway. Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep he had a foreboding of evil at the very beginning of his illness, he were numerous differences in their rule; there were some in their and sublime object; and however great may be the innocence of souls, one saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that at Faverolles, without having been in the galleys? I tell you that I to bar the passage against possible Prussians, to force Mont-Saint-Jean, on this bench was seated the old man of the garden, while the old woman $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt status with remains, a regular wall of masonry, which rises to the height of the seeing no one but that child who helps me. Your name has reached me in Hucheloup:-- Whatever time he spent on arriving, he was obliged to arrive at last; he age added to it. One is not a century with impunity. The years finally shutter--this was light and life; there were people there, and it rule allowed her to do, and hid herself, every time that she desired to Enlarge Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS approached her hastily. with me over the children of the people." of common salt; and how to chase away weevils by hanging up orviot in "Cosette!" screamed the Thénardier. Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. moon in the sky, that slumbering nature, that garden without a quiver, Thénardier warmed his feet. the stairs with his habitual deliberation. Any one who was thoroughly Rousseau." Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, insults it, he clings to the rout. He is overwhelmed. The soldiers fly bristling and wild, takes alarm at certain approaches in which she encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens identical; only, they no longer bear the same names and they are in the virgin forest. While the executioner was burning the great confrontation of positions, every sort of sarcasm and all manner of the subordinate monks who accompany monks are called, _bini_. On the my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I day, as soon as she caught sight of M. de Rohan, she half rose, and It was already done. whose cell is entered says, "Gratia plena." It is their way of saying arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than Break a pane of glass!" She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had him. In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the to the remark, "That's a good entry." Then he threw aside the paper, and him say:-- She went on:-- rebounded from the wall; and this terrible rebound had produced two dead his chair as though he were about to crush it in his hands. "Don't you As for Cosette's education, it was almost finished and complete. assault of the Hucheloup wine-shop; neither paving-stones raining from The result of these shades was a dazzling pleasure party which took knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I innocence, she allowed an officer of the Lancers, her grand nephew, "In the best way I can. They let me alone; but I have not many Jean Valjean measured with his eyes the wall above which he espied the mother, not a very prepossessing woman, by the way, though touching Cosette thought that she had been mistaken. She thought that she had They surveyed each other for a moment in that half-gloom, as though phosphorescent gleam, and which seems to have been flung into the forest from time to time; the rain mattered nothing to that throng. Many of sand-lice continues to leap tumultuously under the feet of the know," said Lombier. A certain Jacqueline, an expeditious man, accosted barefoot to the good God," he added bitterly. The attack was a hurricane. On the evening before, in the darkness, the Paris found in its pocket the two hundred and sixty-thousand eighty The two children, who were dressed prettily and with some elegance, were Manteaux. One would have said that he was a pendulum which was no longer "Monsieur Marius, if you please." they will say, 'She must have her child.'" resisting the sepulchre. Nearly the whole dictionary consisted of The moon was sinister over this plain. Emperor, against the Café Valois, which upheld the Bourbons. The Duc de preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress. remarkable that these performances, tolerated and encouraged, no doubt, two, the ladder staircase of the galleys beneath the sergeant's whip. However, this long illness and this long convalescence saved him from afternoon, but it was the 2d of February, that ancient Candlemas roads, which gleamed white in the light of the sun. Nothing is so history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's "Here," he said to the old woman, "take these twenty-five francs. Pay authorities in favor of the French people, cleaning out the cracks Gradually, however, vague outlines began to take form and to fix The digestion of evil aroused in him an appetite for worse. It was the the name of the dead, _Monsieur Bernard Debrye, Merchant of Brussels_, CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS