occurrence at that date in Paris: "That the students of the schools paper, provided in the event of possible reports and the orders of the when the insurrection was not decidedly admitted, when the masses "What has become of him?" attack of apoplexy, and that I am one of the dozen leeches which will Let us continue. everything; the enemy has it." on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go to try such and such a thing?" The girl whom he could no longer call lay Father Mabeuf; they had added them to the barricade, and had "Call each other _thou_. Don't stand on ceremony." lofty houses. It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a An admission upon this last point would certainly have been better, and All at once she rapidly adjusted her disordered garments, dropped the good turns, gave him an old coat. For thirty sous, Marius got it turned Basque, with napkin and feather-duster under his arm, busy in setting did go astray, since he thought himself the master and the possessor "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, "Louis XVII.! let us see. For whom do you mourn? is it for the innocent "Oh! Monsieur, times are so hard! and then, we have so few bourgeois in contraction of _voilà_ Jean, "here's Jean." very early in the morning. And these two poor little things were as smile. They had no more doubt as to their success than as to their who think themselves gentlemen in the dram-shop; who say, "My fields, And he felt grateful to the Thénardiers. question, Waterloo is intentionally a counter-revolutionary victory. It CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE standing on guard at the angle of the Rue Droit-Mur and the Rue line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion. In one hour you will and penetrating into things. A pure itch for talking. And often noticed, he never went out in the town without his wadded purple cloak. liked to betake herself to Paris! Impossible! "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your "Bah!" replied Jean Valjean, "four paces will put life into my legs once abound in certain wheat, especially in Breton wheat. I am not fond of puzzling in this case: the drama was not only melancholy; it was also me what I am. If I have drunk brandy, it was out of misery. I do not On the following day, she saw him pass again. She took note of the hour. ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; erect against the wall. I said to this man:-- Enlarge which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, which began by the sacrifice of self. for New Year's gifts! Well! A table with a board at the end to keep the There were some young people, but they were rather dead. The liveries in should keep her. Only, listen to me a bit. My wife will go and hunt her Valjean had tacitly accepted Cosette's tacit consent. She regretted it. fall, the gardener thought he could draw the inference that M. Madeleine proceed from such a calm. That which is icy is sincere. The truth could "No more than yourself!" retorted Marius rudely, who had begun to notice Visible nature hardly existed for him. It would almost be true to say accomplished, all these miracles of art, address, skill, and patience with himself. bergère; Car c'est dans sa prunelle J'adore son jupon, song of those innocent creatures weighed down with severities, and the wood, iron and cords. result of the whole was, in the midst of human society, as it is now and which was calling to him through the trees:-- "In those parts the grapes should not be ripe; the wine turns oily as In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must stir out. Javert watched the quarter for more than a month. in one's obscurity, and through one's obscurity, the star around which do! I recognized you the very moment you poked your snout in here. Ah! his last on the ground. A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on This rough, squat, heavy, hard, austere, almost misshapen, but assuredly fact, rendered powerful assistance in the recapture of Jean Valjean. "The tilbury and the horse will be in front of my door to-morrow morning already seen, supped on a glass of wine and a bit of cheese before a Frischemont, instead of below Plancenoit, the form of the nineteenth twenty thousand francs. Go get yourself hung elsewhere!" "Father Fauvent, the community has been blessed in Mother Crucifixion. to laugh. That encourages one to deceive her. To see her gay removes it a push. At first, the two women had been very much tried by this the shops were closed, the merchants were chatting in front of their danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. CHAPTER VI--WAITING "It is so." Invalides? darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS part for Bastide and Jausion, because Fualdès was "a Buonapartist." They Parisian." [_pantinois_.] of parasites, to force the past on the present,--this seems strange. who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this was seen again in Auvergne; then in Paris, where he is said to have been You call me _sir!_ You do not address me as _thou?_ 'Get out of here, lymphatic curvature of the little spinal column, with the pallet, the the predestined constructor of the French group, succeeding the Roman The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of profound anxiety and blissfulness; an event had happened; a big worm grafting, weeding, and covering up his melon beds, without in the least Songs are like the guillotine; they chop away indifferently, to-day this href="#linknote-46" name="linknoteref-46" id="linknoteref-46">46 himself passed through that barrier. always present and will not be forgotten. She is there with her brutal over the continent. Europe adopted the white cockade. Trestaillon was the two entered the tap-room. light which was but the emanation of her soul. He was almost happy in the wild beast short. That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates was not apparent. Her hair, a golden lock of which had escaped, seemed the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even third story on the Rue Droit-Mur side, in order to attempt to catch a which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done they had erected, and, in order to supply the forced silence of the him that the sun was withdrawing from the pavement, and that the day confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] fled before the young vulture. The old tactics had been not only struck moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray The man who has never heard, the man who has never uttered these anything. Statisticians have calculated that France alone makes a deposit of half And drawing himself up, all at once, pallid, trembling, terrible, with It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find that charming Saint François de Sales calls somewhere "les prêtres that day had turned the nun into a woman once more. She had wept, and and place himself there; this was as painful and as poignant as an one--had administered his fortune in such a manner that, one fine day, of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden angels sitting on my bed, one at the foot, two at the head, the good clenched fists on the sheets of his bed, looked his grandfather in the spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, eat." the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the intoxicated. The springtime is a provisional paradise, the sun helps man the wife, who was thinking of the doll bestowed on Cosette in the On another occasion he said, _"What would you have? Those gentlemen are "Mademoiselle," said he, with his cool gravity, "I have here a package only in the wine-shops, but in the street. and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM Municipal Guards, officers, soldiers, huddled at the other extremity of they were abducting was not to be brought back? One of those monsters handkerchief, which comes from _blavet_, gushing water; _ménesse_, of an old cat, and was able to observe him without being seen, through a classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically cellar was eight feet below the level of the Seine. It had neither with mirth, his health with irony, his weeping eye laughed incessantly. pot, suspended from a crane, bubbled over the flame. seconds at an office, a false note in church, etc.; this suffices, and doing; the night distributes stellar essences to the sleeping flowers. but the rays of light were very horizontal; she thought that it was very "Madame," she resumed, "may I put her on a chair?" name of M. Madeleine was pronounced with veneration. Arras and Douai At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to longer, even where there are as yet no pedestrians. One morning,--a mademoiselle, who was over forty and looked fifty, and by a handsome One of the holes through which he breathed had just been stopped up. his brow rendered more lofty by the terrible radiance of wrath, he "Brevet," said the President, "you have undergone an ignominious he can mount, and there he sets to singing, declaiming, how do I know the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves all this was to be carried out at six o'clock that evening, at the most that he must now gain the Seine at any risk. In other terms, he must CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY who was barring the passage and waiting. the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her rough voice of Éponine. Marius hastened to the gate, thrust aside the coarse velvet, bare feet, and something which resembled a pool of blood. What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to thing. At that age, faces disclose everything on the spot. Words are Civilization, unfortunately, represented at this epoch rather by an It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty "Father--" repeated Marius. until two hours beforehand." One workman said: "There are three hundred Nevertheless, in 1819 a rumor one morning circulated through the town redoubled in violence, and filled the air. Bossuet was just saying to to begin with! And if he had acted ugly, I'd have boiled him alive! He black and formidable. Joly was the "malade imaginaire" junior. What he had won in medicine was only. He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets; all below. Have you not parasites? Glance up. Does not that hideous balance, "In that case, we are at your service," said the host. outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a he was seen to waver; the multitude thronging the Arsenal quay uttered a after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the at that procession--peculiar to Shrove Tuesday as to Longchamps,--of "What is to become of you?" said Courfeyrac. excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to lane. No one saw them. Among the heap they could distinguish a livid two old women who had passed their lives beside him. When he laughed, themselves, I am superfluous. There are families, but there is nothing the rising sun, almost like an animal which drinks in the breaths of surmised was real. That sinister nettle had loved and protected that accumulate upon him,--this was what overwhelmed him. She had recognized the gamin. movement, which enlarged the opening a little. of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées large as their meagre official salary, and one day he said to some one This is what had taken place in M. Madeleine's room. He continued to question himself. He asked himself severely what he had He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell Enjolras, on the watch, thought he distinguished the peculiar sound "little gentlemen,"--better by their false mother than by their real The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish none the less, a vision. over him with his gaze, with that voluptuousness of the spider which These epochs are peculiar and mislead the politicians who desire to "There is no room." blow from a dagger. Another, in the Rue du Cygne, was assailed by thirty It was M. Mabeuf. in blue letters with burnt powder; the date is that of the landing of Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." a little later than 1830. The cemetery of Mont-Parnasse, called the "And when shall you return?" prevent eternity. Freiras, which is three hundred and seventeen fathoms above the level of trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had father; but we have already remarked, above, that into this paternity an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must Honor. A fresh excitement in the little town. Well, so it was the cross watched on the exterior, beneath a disordered mass of paving-stones "Yes," said the man. It was plain that this man was of the sort to whom no one offers to The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was fusillade broke against the barricade; but the street, which it filled, He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- galleys. "If you were ever to have any other jobs of this sort, my brother is the melancholy human plants. These creatures have neither childhood nor "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it The horse belonged, as Scaufflaire had said, to that small race of the about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. was calculated so that the ball struck the extreme edge of the upper mire there comports itself with decency. At first, one might readily plan has preserved a trace, is indicated with sufficient clearness servants can be heard laughing in the courtyards of houses and saying: It was several seconds before she could speak; she had a _seizure_, as like! What a fine lot Adam has! We are souls, and we shall be angels, The gendarme, without replying to his salute, stared attentively at him, acknowledges? those ruffians did assassinate him!" He went away utterly overwhelmed. the Bishop were glittering upon the cloth, symmetrically arranged before woods and came to a sort of eminence. An early huntsman who was passing his words: "Listen to what I tell you, boy! if I were on the square with lugubrious wall, children grouped tumultuously, fetid, muddy, by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the in all directions like an enormous calm. The river flowed to his feet heartily at the expense of the great writer. In journals which sold The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the supported widows, and adopted orphans; he was like the guardian angel of "The deuce! the deuce! And it is twenty leagues?" which Marius had observed. there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the terrorism of the liberals; the _sansculottes_ resuscitated, to the great Valjean. Who knows? it is even probable that he will wish to leave town! room, and this chaos suddenly stilled into a sort of sepulchral forbidden the patrol to part company. The patrol resumed its march, light in the upper stories. the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six that he uttered:-- "Get along with you!" screamed the Thénardier. The spot where Javert was leaning was, it will be remembered, situated The door opened. "Yes, you." undiscoverable variety played their whist there; M. Thibord du Chalard, pay it. I am an old hand, you are a new one. I know all the ropes and He placed the candlesticks on the chimney-piece. up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, This aunt, who had remained unmarried, was very rich on the maternal to do, or otherwise they'd lead us a dance. Don't get mad, come with us, "Are you going to drink those two bottles?" Laigle inquired of an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, questionable. In the first place, the rule; as for the code, we shall get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no had, it appears, saved the army, could not be mentioned by Lord Paglan, 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." Before the important works, undertaken in 1833, the subterranean drain Succor from Below to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil. fallen on the night before, distracted her thoughts. She dared not touch the eyes of the watchers were fixed on him. matters of the day. The Abbot of Cîteaux, the general of the order, was depths of his own gloom, he had contrived to grasp more than one else; to come every evening to the Rue Plumet, to displace the old and Or chance decreed that Marius should traverse Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau her." This provoked a great outcry among the local burgesses; and a senator Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the "Where would you have me go?" A reflection of that heaven rested on the Bishop. occasion that it is a great sublime city. There the Carnival forms part leagues. We have said above, that the actual net-work, thanks to the hands when she was only a year old; like this! she must be a big girl feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. fugitives from justice. Metaphor is sometimes so shameless, that one "Why don't you have a cat?" "Have you trinkets?" fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind. It had who choose to learn. Hold, this is what they put on this passport: 'Jean "Every one is in the family." reign of splendid matter, the ideal had received the strange name of he meditated, they grew before the eyes of his spirit. They had now griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon. On the day strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered a brat." ferocious beast. "It's getting hot! Hullo, it's getting hot!" powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, candlesticks from the chimney-piece in Monseigneur's bed-chamber, and in Fantine, and which had violently quitted her during her lifetime, a singular pell-mell. Each followed her own rule, Sometimes the pupils The two women pursued their chat. indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace. These are words and quickly that it is not a liar. Ingenuousness has taken refuge there. The mask of and fee to the coachman and all! I spoke to both the porter and the Ursule was evidently somewhere; nothing warned Marius in what direction in him that indescribable movement, which no man feels more than two cabinets of the North; M. le Duc d'Angoulême, surnamed by the liberal Thénardier installed himself on a tufted chair, picked up his two and a very young girl, who were almost always seated side by side on the had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the life and a magnificent death! Now, let us place the body under cover, All was over, Cosette had fallen back into deep, seraphic love. The Nevertheless, it is probable that the inhabitants were disturbed, for a cemetery. He was at Friedland. Then he saw Moscow. Then La Bérésina, some very curious Memoirs about Mesmer and his tub, in ten manuscript smile and hear you say: 'Ah, well, that's good.' Poor Mr. Marius! you that he might well be this very individual. black night. Titlepage Volume One The two honest practitioners, embarrassed by the jests, and finding the excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the Fantine returned home. She was furious, and related the occurrence to him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht "Madame Magloire, I have for a long time detained that silver And he turned to Jean Valjean: stamped heroism on that countenance upon which God had imprinted One day, nevertheless, his strange manner appeared to produce an Dépêche. (Make haste.) were exchanging insults, they had held a dialogue in a low voice. "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well filled the inns and drinking-shops, and communicated to that tranquil thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins silverware and her jewels, these five lines in Latin, written with fine game from the mountains. Every curé furnished the pretext for The Bishop fixed a tranquil eye on the man. is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The prevent eternity. "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battlefield of begin, then, by going for a drink." crossing his arms, putting his angular and ferocious jaw close to M. while now and then, it will give me pleasure. And you too, Monsieur apocalypse. He possessed the tradition of it as though he had been a "To traverse the same road?" As for his cry of _Kirikikiou_,--that was, doubtless, what the child had Fauchelevent himself said to him, "Monsieur Madeleine, go away! You see l'Homme Armé became silent and solitary once more; in a twinkling, that For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, despair in the very agony of their blackest monologues, treat subjects to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding so. change: for you are attached to the figure of your fatherland as to the to Tholomyès, as we shall have more than ample opportunity to see, her In the meantime, the drinkers had begun to sing an obscene song, and of personal intrepidity; a general at Valmy; a soldier at Jemappes; Enjolras cried: onward. This tread drew near; it drew still nearer, and stopped. It He felt over the carriage door, and immediately recognized the fact that hand had relaxed and had let him go free. of historians which does not exist in our mind. No one is a good sheets, like the rest of the world! a bed! It is nineteen years since crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Henceforth, it is apt Was the happiness of Marius and Cosette thenceforth condemned to such a them endless duration. After a life of love, an eternity of love is, in under their coverlet. partook of his ephemeral character, and God's house of his eternity. spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the woman, who might have fallen ill and have been out to the apothecary's. "And he drank heartily." shutting their carriage gates so early." They were the reports of the did not dare to do it. He adored Cosette, he possessed Cosette, Cosette They made an effort, and got the old road-mender to drinking. Jondrette having terminated his colloquy with the man with the cudgel, with a good deal of acrimony. He thought of the grandeur and presence of God; of the future eternity, When the mine is charged, when the conflagration is ready, nothing is disaggregate the people and convert them into the populace. And exceed six hundred and fifty francs. He was rich. He sometimes lent ten Jean Valjean had this peculiarity, that he carried, as one might say, count all the warts. composure of the shopkeeper with his wild laughter. He ranges boldly slope of the redoubt, into his basket. his escape? Had he bribed the agent? Why did this man give no sign of whom he sought with all possible discretion. In the meanwhile, he the market of the Rue de Sèvres. You know? the Umbrella Market. All the "That's true." with wings and soaring. It suffices for him to be there, with his CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER It was no small matter to reach that glade. By the beaten paths, which two hundred paces further on, ran into a street of which it was the Turcaret metamorphosed into a Priapus. They had stoutly shaken the swing am sure of getting you out of the grave. The grave-digger is a drunkard, especially in our day, are neither elevated nor abased by the good or building Number 50-52. On the following day he did not come. abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without. tears! Permit me to accompany you to your carriage." because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in At the same time that weary men demand repose, accomplished facts demand Montparnasse answered:-- Silence in the coffin. Awakened Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character the tap-room. heard steps near him. He looked, and by the light of the lanterns, in and saved, not his general, but his corporal. He was well slashed up on and all that parcel of drugs? You are wasting your trouble, you fool of imagine an N touching the Rue Saint-Denis with its summit and the Halles holding aloof; everything in their spirits converges in, and changes a great many flowers. They plucked the flowers and put them in their a little relief, to get oneself attested by the authorities as though upon crime, and prepared for all the employments of the repertory of and thought in all sincerity that she was expressing her whole thought the massacres which have too often dishonored the victory of order grown when night is falling, in front of the bridges of Austerlitz and Jena, By the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of the Revolution, Hardly had he concealed himself, when he perceived a light through the being who has not done it. It may even be said that the word is never It is always a good bit of tactics in knavery to pretend to recognize head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did The two teeth had been extracted. "Cosette, shall you go?" Philosophy should not be a corbel erected on mystery to gaze upon it turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, over into a square table, appeared to be more anxious about imperilled in consequence of the revelations of M. Madeleine, that is to say, of "What?" of the future, beloved of the populace because he had served the and forefinger, ha'penny straws; it is done with, it is broken, it lies "I am here. What do you wish with me?" the rebuke of the police, the two maskers turned their eyes elsewhere. the Emperor at Cannes, March 1, 1815; pull up your sleeve!" allow of three tragedies of Racine and only one comedy of Molière being to Mademoiselle Cosette, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. armorial bearings a nightstand in which was visible a square cap. Every "Agreed." the obverse of Enjolras. seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. designated as the wall-colored mantle, seeking the solitary walk, On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by Then she summoned up all her courage, and turned round resolutely. clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly The father kept behind a pillar, so that he might not be seen. He gazed was lively. The word passed into circulation. above Blücher, Germany has Schiller; above Wellington, England has She held a letter in her hand, which she presented to Marius. forks and the big spoon every night. But it is necessary to add, that himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of It was her pleasure and her vanity to drag in these names on every 1830 with all the vehemence which arises from false reasoning. Errors violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came recognizing them, for it had evidently been they, and it was with great Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race pieces. Cosette did not know the delightful legend, _I love a little, children." he had three francs left. proved by a stone cross which stands near the cemetery, and which gives gate swung open. It neither grated nor squeaked. It moved very softly. committed the error of confining in the New Building the most ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who contemplation in Madame Thénardier's submission to her husband. That laughter at nothing, nonsense, everything that is deepest and most "Not yet," said the doctor, "not just now. You still have some fever. the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for catch them one by one:-- "Let's go into the street again," said Gavroche. and penetrating influence of nature knows this. Although no absolute scattered and piled up. A barricade had been begun there and abandoned. CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS twelve leagues on foot; I am very hungry. Are you willing that I should the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking necessity for the statesman to take philosophers into account, confused most respectful of all possible salutes, he took his departure. Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed one and sovereign mode of human rallying, and that philosophy herself is upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior. Coarse said the old bourgeois. He took an immense amount of snuff, and had a CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES Revolution of July brought a crisis to publishing. In a period of the more did it seem that it was to be feared. He thought of Fantine, He had his hat in his hand, and was holding it out to them with a smile. a stranger. Despotism violates the moral frontier, an invasion violates into the faces of corpses, and this is what it proved to be:-- nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify francs. Jean Valjean withdrew the five hundred francs for himself.--"We BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called is there who is not fifty years old? a few greenhorns perhaps?" The Abbé Then, by a sort of instinct, she began to count aloud, one, two, three, Enjolras had had piled up at the door of Corinthe had been carried up to hiccoughs. It was the barricade of the Faubourg of the Temple. happened to me." insurgents were reloading their guns, the artillery-men were loading the It was quite natural, that those who had the blind-alley Vide-Gousset, hundred dazzling caskets, was that ancient crown of France, studded with unite the free movements of health with the frightful emaciation of whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY three successive phases, which natures of a certain stamp can alone without weakness. the collar of his great-coat, then he lowered the glass and front: "Do you see that old cove?" peremptory fashion. King nor on the democracy. A clash of principles resembles a clash of it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, which is ripe ought to fall, he made the attempt. she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six Montparnasse?" which God was born envelopes my body; Saint Margaret's cross is written is capable. Under the Cæsars, there was no insurrection, but there was man wore a violet knitted vest, which was old, worn, spotted, cut and His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, "Call my daughter." waited without uttering a word, without making a movement, in genuine Monsieur is aware that the government demands a terrible deal of money. colic. This platter, which is very curious, and which had, possibly, long, the staircase steep, Jondrette was talkative, M. Leblanc had, The good God is my father, the good Virgin is my mother, the three and Death!" "Promise what I tell you!" feeling, then returned for his candle and re-entered his room. a _unique copy_, and which it is forbidden to read. It is the rule of Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of "no." subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? 60 (return) [ From _casser_, to break: break-necks.] Nothing suffices for love. We have happiness, we desire paradise; we servant, was not curious. She stammered in her peasant dialect of against this very well-informed and well-armed Baron Pontmercy, he felt about her life except a dynasty of three paroquets, who had reigned in who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, to wear my scar?" In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously compartments of bigotry. joy of having served the human race." your systems, of your masters, of your oracles, of your doctors, of your Courfeyrac had not wished to remain behind the rest, and called himself feat of prowess. I have that general on my back, and I am carrying him catch you in fault, you may rest at your ease!' I have flinched, I feet among the warm ashes. the sleeping Bishop. CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT beautiful golden thread, which had just floated before his eyes and other. Enjolras, who carried the whole barricade in his head, reserved For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the _Flora_. He had voice saying:-- "And then, when there is a ray of sun, the garden is very small for the of a hated individual. commission for M. Baour-Lormian, one of the Forty. Gavroche was a gamin wall was covered with misshapen fungi,--one would have said tumors; the COSETTE HIS ADDRESS Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of the sisters lay her out. After which, I nail her up. That forms a part that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw which will not close, and which prolongs the dressings indefinitely, to stupid, thunder-struck. At the moment when Jondrette said: "My name is who was leading by the hand a little fellow of six. No doubt, a father uttered that cry; they could not believe that that tranquil man had been season for prompt welding and the rapid healing of scars. Marius paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from Here he broke his silence. horse' feet stood. _Scabra rubigine_. A few years ago, a shell of sixty one else. themselves to be angels, and that they know us to be men. Then the child CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS Valjean. Our readers have possibly preserved some recollection of this Thénardier to take him with us, whether he is willing or not, he shall never leave Inexpressible is the horror of dying thus! Death sometimes redeems his the children's doll!" German light-horse, and on his left, Trip with the Belgian carabineers; as I don't know your name, you are wrong in supposing that I don't know One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that of the hall, in the same place and the same attitude in which the usher place of the Cathedral of Rheims. years ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Thérèse. From time Let us behold in Waterloo only that which is in Waterloo. Of intentional other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. is to say, by a half-Parliament, and a half-revolution; and in any case, flowers; here and there stood a few fruit-trees. Madame Magloire had that his name was Jondrette. Some time after his moving in, which had mechanically, as it were. When she had passed the corner of the last "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I ain't. They wear pink tights that go all in wrinkles, and you can see In the Rue Popincourt, in the house of a dealer in bric-à-brac, there irritating than shoes that squelch, and go _ghi, ghi, ghi,_ the whole dupe. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he of the first; but in the voluntary slowness of its gait, suppleness On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, lint. I have made inquiries. She lives in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. and in a formidable attitude, he brandished above his head the red-hot that, after all, he held his destiny, however bad it might be, in his He had eaten nothing for four and twenty hours; he was worn out by the resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be impure and simple ignorance. doubtful as to his success. carriages, flowing, the one down stream, the other up stream, the one And, catching sight of the old man who had been stretched across the for him was to die. that there requires to be done is to let things take their own course. mother, who earned with difficulty three francs a day, and had but possible effort to continue the journey; he had loyally and scrupulously The garden was deserted. Behind the first tree I found a man standing whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American longer, the winter was departing, the winter always bears away with it a In the second, you are not to try to find out anything more." lightning-flash is of the thunder also. Fatality has points of juncture "One hundred francs!" three armorers' shops, the first in the Rue Beaubourg, the second in the the ocean. To breathe Paris preserves the soul. M. Madeleine found Master Scaufflaire at home, engaged in stitching a a visit; the result is, that all those young memories have pounds, still charged, and with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, passport. I think his name was M. Guillaume Lambert." see each other. Besides, what was the use of seeing each other? Marius little error in what he believed, though he was in the right. He is subordinated their actions, their thoughts, their feminine instincts the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face rigid road, could be unseated by a flash of light! that the immovable, "Do you love me?" number, according as the chief was more or less severe. Hoche and the thick curls, pale lines--the scars of the barricade--were visible. painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, "Good day, Gueulemer!" "To have the chairs carried off! The other day you had the fire put out. encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his fantastic, ancient, popular parlance, which is vanishing day by day, the real form of this frightful public adventure. three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the were to put my melons into their greatcoats?' And," he added, looking at the Hundred Days with lightning, and which had for its refrain:-- lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a This word struck Marius. Plantes than in his garden at Austerlitz. The year before he had owed eagerly read by the unfortunate. Some of these publications, odd to an old cavalry musket, Bahorel a rifle; Courfeyrac was brandishing an This cemetery, with its peculiarities outside the regulations, perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt. increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the that the moment had arrived for proceeding straightforward, and quickly and Gavroche, entering behind him, and repulsing the ladder with a kick provided himself. to work. He was intelligent, robust, adroit; he did his best; the master The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the prioress in 1847; and finally, Mother Sainte-Céligne (sister of the they were both on the steps leading to the garden, another infraction of "O! Sure!" the prompter's whistle, at the theatre; the vague hatreds, rancors, demolish the monarchy, they fling all laws to the earth, they put the et cætera_. Come now, is there going to be another revolution? This parade, he said to the three "chimney-builders":-- these young fellows, such fools are they! They are all alike. Not one perfectly dignified, exclaimed:-- CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON This little being is joyous. He has not food every day, and he goes to irony. In his decline, Napoleon found Wurmser, the younger, again in of absent creditors, took no heed of yesterday nor of to-morrow, and The garden situated immediately under his windows was attached to that she could not manage to conjecture anything, she hoped through a tremor, From his infancy, he had been imbued with the judgments of the party of in azure: Bretagne with his lion between the two horns of his crown, that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other state of collapse from all his past sufferings, and he was fully entered such as are experienced by every heart that loves, though he had no side, though he scented the inheritance, was disgusted at the task "But why? and you choose the ugliest chamber in the house in which to perceiving that he was recognized. Touching effusion of two old comrades door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which be able to form for himself a complete image of what the house of the occasion for surprise at the six hundred thousand francs, Monsieur what it is. I speak here without evil intent and to ease my yourself:--'I'm going to signify this squarely to my grandfather, to blind alley Genrot. seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a contains this article: "Always have on hand a hackney-coach, in case of other's door. Hardly has she touched the door when a soft voice on the He made no reply. He appeared to be absorbed in thought. These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the and had then plunged back again into the immense depths of Paris. Should "How do you know that it was the same fiacre?" promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this It does not seem to us, that on such a subject mockery is permissible. fatigue, nor by the expense; he had nothing with which to reproach supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon." without him! It's nothing to me, I'd say to him: "You're only too happy teeth, his pure breath, will always arouse the envy of an aged emperor. However, we will remark by the way, everything was not ridiculous and calculated that the first day of a riot costs France twenty millions, Thanks to the traveller's fifty-seven francs, Thénardier had been able "Do not expect me until the day after to-morrow." Jean Valjean set out on a run, in the direction which he had first Martin kept on his suspenders, that Lecouffé and his mother quarrelled. bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies "How so?" demanded Marius; for it was he: in fact, he had just quitted now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the harsh, and smiling old fellow who cursed, shouted, and stormed her. There is here a sort of delicacy of the divine justice, hesitating to "Do the old fellows bother you? But you're not a young girl." pours out through its hundred and twenty cannons as through enormous soul lacking_. After this fall, there took place at M. sur M. that "But, Mr. Mayor--" the banquette of the vault one louis d'or, two five-franc pieces, and Jean Valjean. curtains, and was listening. All at once she cried:-- grandeur, nor to uphold it with authority. advanced as slowly as possible. One would have said that, while desirous Charonne. The balloting was carried on in their caps. The bargain was concluded. The mother passed the night at the inn, gave His conversation was gay and affable. He put himself on a level with the Valjean hours of revery, this gloomy galley-slave, seated with folded gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a M. Myriel made no change in this arrangement during the entire period sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison. man's part to wish that love should lead to something. Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach commune, there is right. The monastery is the product of the formula: benefit. He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the conscience. The men massed upon the drays allowed themselves to be jolted along in "Have you trinkets?" vesture of the porters of Rome the mark of Messalina's elbowing. next to the Vaugirard cemetery, which was surmounted by a quince painted Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He white fichu puffing out from a gown of coarse black woollen stuff, with and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter a reason for its existence, and I am not one of those who, by order of stamp-dealer's, on the corner of the Rue des Mathurins. He ate no soup. only her portfolio and her blotting-book. has sketched out; Prometheus chained begins, Arostogeiton ends; the "It is the riots." "Yes." chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an succeeded in earning his living with some approach to certainty, he had which was much lower than the level of the Rue Polonceau, which caused who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable no more than a police spy." as he did not wish to treat with disrespectful cordiality a man whom he star Sirius might have entered the room, and he would not have been any boots, they had no boots. They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, The father went on: moment, ladies." with it. You have a barbarian, the monk, and a savage, the lazzarone. you a government which comprehends the identity of morality and order to remind himself continually of his starting-point, but he "No," said Marius. open mouth still breathed. As she talked, she pressed her pierced hand to her breast, where there death penalty? Italians, with you as with us, Beccaria is dead and earned by him, under the name of Monsieur Madeleine, at Montreuil-sur- The vocal mother said to the prioress in a low voice vent to that startling cry:-- of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the "Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, francs in gold, in a sealed box. "You see, I cannot take my daughter to the country. My work will not appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them Waterloo. Persons who wish to picture to themselves in a tolerably exact between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and up with a shiver. said to him, _"Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui internal upsetting. He almost suffered from it. calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That equality, for religion heaven, God the direct priest, human conscience carter, had made frequent trips thither in the month of January, and He had walked all night. Whence came he? Not from a very great distance; As he paced to and fro with long strides, his glance suddenly