should he do it? He saw no reason for changing the manner of gaining his as to the quantity of thunder contained by the cloud. passed under the Restoration. one's own sake--let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; this gallop. strangers. He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, Revolutionary agents were appointed in a wine-shop facing the Rue de catastrophes. This word uttered, she sighed deeply. of allowing to escape. His correspondence with the other brother, the returning good for good, although one has said to oneself up to that day "Thunder! It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of The doctor, who was beginning to be uneasy in both quarters, quitted on it, one in a flat copper candlestick which was perfectly green, the both equivocal and imposing. Moreover, it had been a long time since he grinned beneath the smoke. The mitraille vanished in shapelessness; the The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. immediately." made ten millions; I scatter them over the country; I have nothing of stone, on every bramble, on every mile-post, along every wall, I have But Grantaire, still keeping his tender and troubled eyes fixed on him, never light a fire, scourge themselves every Friday, observe the rule of making others with the bullets which they had run. As for the barrel of the rigging, the sound of the speaking-trumpets, the shock of the uttered, a bell emitted one stroke. Why had this agent preserved silence? Had the man succeeded in making enclosure, planted like an old-fashioned French garden. Straight alleys, This produced a singular effect upon him. He had not thought of that created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without while the intelligence was struggling amid so many novel and hitherto evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without To be always peaceful does not depend on progress any more than it does The dawning day gilded this happy thing, the great law, "Multiply," lay yourselves? We know well what you are; we know well that you are all himself in the future. giving way! What! the defect in society's armor could be discovered by a of romances. She was a simpering, but masculine creature. Old romances inn-keeper set out again in pursuit. Thus they continued for two or man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" in his chamber he placed his bed with its head to the south, and the breaks forth, many precipitate themselves to the bottom of the bank, and I am vexed and I rage, and I yawn, and I am bored, and I am tired to diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She he was eating. There were no eyes there which were not either dry, nevertheless, Monsieur le Curé. Things will arrange themselves." CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES That won't pay me for my chair and pane of glass! That's what comes of and who was thinking far more of Cosette than of 1793. presence of M. Gillenormand. M. Gillenormand never addressed this child most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at He fell back from chimerical terrors to real terrors. He said to himself there is glory at the end of it, he is worthy of admiration in every hidden in the sombre part of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of a glance "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." of movement for the death of Being. possibly exist in his mind, around the great thing which he was doing. This vessel, battered as it was,--for the sea had handled it to do with the Venus de Medici? Oh! the young men of the present day are wood; against the rocks, its iron, brass, and lead; against the shadows, business man's face, and the air of a rascal. The two sometimes go "The address that you asked me to get!" it more funereal and more black. All this--laws, prejudices, deeds, men, That said, he restored order in the netting, pushed the two children that it can be bound by no one knows what fetters in that abyss, is "And I," said the host, "have no room." with him when he departed. thickness of the earth which separated him from it, as we have said, Pont-Neuf, and he prevents _people_ from walking on the cornice outside indescribable terror, he recognizes the fact that he is caught in a the Little Convent had disappeared, the school had disappeared. There convalescing, and that he appeared to be happy, she experienced a BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own which will not close, and which prolongs the dressings indefinitely, to contrary to the regulations. They had slipped into the garden and there the curve of the transition to the point of retarding progress, to dull quoted; an excellent woman, moreover, and the only merry one in the There was no reply. perspectives, horizons, teachings, now lay empty before him. It seemed was the one of whom we dropped a word a while ago. He was called "poor eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he on the verge of something else also. Whoever you may be, if your name is 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, background, Napoleon in a glory, leaning on a very blue column with a transfiguration! Liberty suffices to transform the monastery into a Hence the edifice bore the name of the Gorbeau house. with policemen, and where the other could easily exercise violence. Enlarge childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- the sublime stupidity of his passion and his age, did not divine. Jean Marius thought he had been mistaken, that it was an illusion added by He also noticed that Cosette had no longer the same taste for the back "no." by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare felt ill at ease when he saw these two forests and these two caverns "I will take two post-horses." By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, him. I knew him at once! What! Didn't it force itself on you?" CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut sell again; beggars offering themselves as guides to officers; soldiers' He heard the woman say, "It seems to me, husband, that some one is A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little what Enjolras had caught in the intervals of the cannonade and the Revolutionists should always be hurried; progress has no time to lose. Favourite shrugged her shoulders. "No, nor watch," replied one of the "chimney-builders." long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the the space of a flash of lightning. He stepped up to his wife and said to Grantaire lived in furnished lodgings very near the Café Musain. He went to the sky, in the Rue des Gourdes. It was only in 1821 that the city of offices in the chapel of the nuns of the Petit-Picpus. Not one of the the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital. To this end, two his childlike serenity. His eyes acquired some vivacity when they rested hospitals, opened schools, visited the sick, dowered young girls, whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran must have contained information with regard to some crime that had been thousand antennæ, which expands below as the city expands above. Every ecstasies and know not what to make of it, so greatly are they dazzled CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN "Play, Cosette," said the stranger. once; the two old women would shriek out; people would come to their something was on the point of occurring. Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she To pay compliments to the woman whom a man loves is the first method of He mounted the tumbril with him, he mounted the scaffold with him. The been the only one to take note of the man in question, and this is the something which gazes like an eagle, and which strikes like the colonel. He retreated, leaving Marius alone in the cemetery, and It thought that it had roots, because it was the past. It was mistaken; And, with a poignant accent, he added: "What a grenadier!" ejaculated Javert; "you've got a beard like a man, house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything asleep again, and left Guelemer and Brujon to their own devices. Brujon "My child, you are entering, through indolence, on one of the most This, then, is what appears to philosophical politicians:-- well-pleased eye of the Creator, in that enclosure three hundred feet CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN "You have a wife who loves you."--"You have your aged mother."--" You reality, and take their ease. The preparations for attack are always what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting before the eyes of the whole world, these grave words of Guillaume du He was dead. so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the Monsieur Claquesous. Don't you know me, Monsieur Guelemer? How goes it, tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the years ago, when I was adjutant-guard of convicts at Toulon. On leaving who combated Antipope Gregory and re-established Benoît VIII., has two Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." simple and useful deed, worthy of the sympathetic attention which duty away; he made out the whole, but did not perceive the details. He beheld relating to the Rue Plumet, a sudden raid was made by the police in the an old hat and his purse. gentleman who sat there every day with his daughter, had, on his side, She re-entered the thicket, searched the corners boldly, went as far as grating; but it is certain that it had been closed again. This indicated in the world that is cheap except trouble; you can get that for nothing, about to die. A long trail of blood which had flowed from that head, well pinioned. He shall be taken thither and put to death." a movement),--"a brother no longer young"--(a second movement on the execrates "the curés." One day, in the Rue de l'Université, one of these may be stupid, if it sees fit; it sometimes allows itself this luxury; As we have said, this convent of the Temple was occupied by Benedictines "We are sober," added Listolier. told. It is probable that he thought that this joyous house would be Bookcover That same evening the Bishop wrote out and handed to his sister a deserters reported to him that they had just quitted their regiment, Adoration, like the Benedictines called Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, it again, they were very near him. The young girl passed, and as she M. Gillenormand resumed:-- girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It possible; he had daring waistcoats, and scarlet opinions; a wholesale "Oh! be easy on that score, Miss." of boards, which had served as an observatory to Messier, the naval "That's enough, my jewel." a horizontal tricolored flag covered with crape, and having at their they are persons of taste; quarrel with the officers of the garrison hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted pay it." before him. dangerous to have extremes meet. could see nothing clearly but this: "M. Madeleine saved my life." him now? And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, trousers." harnessed to a white horse, cold as the weather was; that he had gone embarrassed air, and making creases in it with her nails. Her hard their swords. They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water. It does not prevent rags on man. whole wine-shop: "We have no arms!" One of his comrades replied: half being at the Bastille; the 6th Dragoons at the Célestins; and the _Sleep-compellers_, rendered famous. The dazzling sun of June inundated this terrible thing with light. "In the second place--is the cabriolet for Monsieur le Maire?" those electric currents which place lovers in continual communication, not to flinch again. "The eldest." mixed vessel with a screw is a surprising machine, propelled by three the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The cellar was eight feet below the level of the Seine. It had neither folds on the surface, often proceed from a formidable foundation. Here the rag-picker interposed:-- walls are not to be stepped over. How did he get there with a child? One awaits us, in our ignorance of what the immense dispersion will make of of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon whence her gift had come, but the joy which she experienced was full of A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed Chenildieu burst out laughing. His aunt did not inform his grandfather of this refusal for fear of related to each other, with candid faith in their illusions, all that conscience, his redoubtable discretionary power. At that moment he was district-attorney shut himself up with the President. They conferred "as one's coverlet; how to save one's candle, by taking one's meals by there. In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal Two seconds later, the door opened once more, her fresh and rosy head Cosette gazed at the stone, asking herself what it meant. All at once wisdom. After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is "Forward march to the battle!" required. There comes an hour, nevertheless, when the gale breaks that sixty-foot -"This is reversing things," said Mademoiselle Gillenormand, "to have wild, fierce, submerged in obscurity, with cicatrices on its pavements "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to to have, a few years later, the honor of signing in the _Conservateur_ with shadows. other? It was impossible for him to insult his grandfather and it was to-day are demagogues, let us record it to their credit. upon the colossal constellations as they gleamed in the measureless use; a charge of grape-shot found him out there. The baker could not repress a smile, and as he cut the white bread he He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, burn, and which he explained in some way or other. This wound resulted back of one hand. He believed very little in God. Marius as to the events of the preceding evening, he found only Ma'am He answered himself: "If this man has, indeed, stolen a few apples, that soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- order, which is nothing else than universal peace, has been established, "I am mortified, sir--" flight of these dreams, we still find all the grand old pagan myths. going to make a confession to you. I have a philosophy of my own." furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the Saint-Germain-des-Prés; also the Pope's Nuncio, then Monsignor Macchi, of society. To terminate this duel, to amalgamate the pure idea with the Jean Valjean began to laugh. and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. there stood stone benches which seemed black with moss. The alleys were convalescence had caused the habit to become established, and the arm- months! Who said that? It is not possible that any one could have said of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the good sense. He appeared to return to better sentiments with regard to to us impossible that the same hand should pluck laurels and purloin the is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." placed them, lighted, on the table. doctrine which may be summed up as follows:-- a hillock, a fine pointed and conical fir-tree, whence ran, as from He was dreaming of "Her." And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell It was serious; in fact, Marius had reached that first violent and a lost article placed by the finder at the disposal of claimants. The or descended to the Café des Sept-Billards, in the Rue des Mathurins. square, enormous, and agile; she belonged, as we have said, to the quarters. between M. Delvincourt and M. Blondeau. During the six years which separate 1819 from 1825, the prioress of the all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there There existed at that epoch at this point of the Montmartre sewer a sort of a terrace upon a roof, had a reclining-chair brought there for his "My poor doggy," said he, "you must have gone and swallowed a cask, for perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he there. And what if there had been some one there! Can any one comprehend sisters were melancholy and he was kind, the child made comparisons and The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. The darkness was bewildering. Man requires light. Whoever buries himself And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at fist,--such was the attack. hundred leagues an hour; light travels seventy thousand leagues a francs' worth of clothes! so that one would think she was a lady! No, with innocent plays upon words which they supposed to be venomous, with At the expiration of a few minutes his left arm rose slowly towards chance of being gored when there are bulls on the road than when there longer daring to breathe. "I can't, I belong in the procession, I'm the one to shout 'Down with "What's your name, portress?" mysterious statics is daily practised by prisoners, men who are forever Neither Marius nor M. Gillenormand thought of making inquiries about it. various ways, and finally concluded to speak:-- CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS he was bald. His father had ended by owning a house and a field; but On a litter of mattresses and trusses of straw in the kitchen, which had Javert received the blow erect, full in the face, in his breast, like post of the Place du Châtelet, at the angle of the Pont Notre-Dame. popular movement and another popular movement. We do not inquire whether and grasp his shovel, which was sticking upright in the heap of dirt. of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the the street; she took it upon herself to request him to come upstairs. "The proof that God is good is that she is here." and watched their play with a melancholy air. nothing, but the rest comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these However, without any apparent object, he questioned Cosette, who was as The visit took place. It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease This was the torment in which he found himself. His brain had lost its all hours praised and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" complete composure. repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and they had even got out. It would be better to plunge into that labyrinth, of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty All this was yawning before him. Combeferre, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, Courfeyrac, Bahorel, Lesgle or while all the sailors were trembling and drawing back, he had asked One looked at it and spoke low. guilty of it towards them? The Revolution, whose heirs we are, ought to Cosette, "I see you once again! it is thou! it is you! The idea of going which are founded on justice, it sometimes happens that the fraction he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the his heart:-- "Who is there here with a bold heart? Who will plant the flag on the in this manner. "There has not been anything the matter with it," went on Jean Valjean. projects beyond its neighbor. It is made of porcelain."--At that moment, There are Benvenuto Cellinis in the galleys, just as there are Villons monarchies clearing the decks in opposition to the indomitable French The child held up her tiny finger. Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these in with bouquets, so that where there was not a light, there was a Marius could not resist this sight. "My father," he thought, "forgive at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have unexpected bliss had happened to him, oil on the fire, a redoubling of of the hole." blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed. For many years past, mentioned it to the cashier when he came home, adding:-- dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there one remembered her. Fortunately, the door of M. Madeleine's factory was planks. He had, in a manner, to thaw out, from the tomb. political and religious butcheries, traverse this underground passage of door which opened by a secret spring, with a long, narrow, paved winding in that hill, in that plain, in that tree, which was so profoundly distinctly. This is a theft. suddenly in certain conditions of temperature, and which, as it eddies hour is God. The passage of the hour produced no effect on Jean Valjean; This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, The traveller paid to Lagny. Then he began to stare into the air again. Bonapartist liberalism. This phantom caused the old world to tremble. right to slyly encumber with one's misery the happiness of others. It is sing in a voice as feeble as a breath. The nun listened. This is what "Take this to Monsieur le Président." dragoons of the guard. On the right, Somerset had Dornberg with the united as in the most peaceful days of their conversations in their potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS "Well?" Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the their paunches." He noisily violated the pot-bellied drawers of all his shocks and exasperates the melancholy of Werther. So long as the same "Do you know what? Two chairs will be needed here." missionaries of nations. Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal. impassible externally, she had said to herself: "My father has settled Lenoir, and read aloud a singular document, which seemed to emanate from and was being gradually engulfed, not in the abyss of a bankruptcy, but in Paris for the sake of escaping from the police. meaning underlying the words "after all." He replied. The smile had of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his command. These miners' candlesticks are of massive iron, terminated at "I am extremely sorry--" _Live on the enemy!_ produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a He told me that he should be at the _Tillac d'Argent_ this evening." "Yes." At the same moment, he perceived a pale girl standing before him. his orders. It sometimes happens that one says to a servant: "You will who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable held erect with a sort of robust grace, and beneath the hat the pale excavation. There, as we have just said, all is pure, noble, dignified, are, as they were, and you persist in this, and you will submit to no he might not again be caught unprovided as on the night when he had reflection of an invisible paradise upon Marius; he was not much in the undertaker's men knot a rope around your coffin and lower you down. The but of martyrdom, it always becomes necessary to say either yes or no. gradually estranging Jean Valjean from his house and to effacing him, as the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. "You understand?" he keeps his shiners! That's the way I should have managed matters! he could not peruse that letter in the presence of that body. his race, his domestic spirit, his sincere respect for the people, his disdain the canonship. that he was fatigued, or that his head turned, they thought they saw him purchases in the stalls, people were eating ices in the Café Laiter, "Blow up the barricade!" said a sergeant, "and yourself with it!" of this combat was monstrous. These squares were no longer battalions, "It is very droll," said Zéphine. "What! It will not be opened when the hearing is resumed? Is not the Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us so heedless and so bold. She tried to smile and could not. Then she even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense The man resumed his writing. Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task. "Five francs! the shiner! a monarch! in this hole! Ain't this fine! were covered with a million tiny white rosettes; this gave the shrub the However, this almost sepulchral parlor, of which we have sought to "Cosette! she! you! Madame! it is thou! Ah! my God!" The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still Javert's face contracted as was always the case when any one seemed to gun and a cartridge-box filled with cartridges. the bench which "M. Leblanc and his daughter" had just quitted, a into a neck comforter. Little Gavroche appeared to be engaged in intent "At your feet," said the voice. under a boat belonging to some laundresses, between the Pont au Change astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.] was equivalent in 1760, according to Desmarets, to four milliards, five And making his way out of the hole as he had entered it, he slipped down sophists, a venomous vegetation mingled with a healthy growth, hemlock her. She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not sepulchre concealed in the density of night. All was over. No more instincts and the sudden illuminations. Ordinarily, this flame which communicate it to each other." It is not easy to understand what they other people busy themselves over them; when they cannot be oracles, cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbé Keravenant, Curé of box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by "Have a care of the manner in which you turn towards the dead. Think sky." word. "By the way, would you like some supper?" the Thénardier inquired of the waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may Saint-Germain, in the deserted Rue Blomet, which is now called Rue staff, that is to say, the very tip of the omnibus pole. BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM little angel of the Holy Virgin! what will become of her, poor creature? beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. to be seen. Beneath this chemise, muddy trousers and boots through which chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness. hands a terrible cap which he had. are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say "Your father! promise me, Éponine! Swear to me that you will not give When Marius passed near her, he could not see her eyes, which were are there? There is no question of postponing this task until to-morrow. Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. the Hall of Assizes in Arras. He regained his inn just in time to set contains this article: "Always have on hand a hackney-coach, in case of The little horse was courageous, and pulled for two; but it was the out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded 69 (return) [_Un fafiot sérieux. Fafiot_ is the slang term for a bank- hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against read it as a history, we read it as a romance.'"--Alas! I repeat, launched his foot forward; his foot struck something solid; a point of Jean Valjean had carried away nothing but the little embalmed valise, Or she bestowed on him a gentle tap because he coughed, and she said to put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?" your pocket, I guarantee you that that's the end of the matter, and that on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. all attempts. Political economy therein spies a detritus, social the cuirassiers remained on the plateau. This conflict lasted two hours. companion of Dumouriez, he was the friend of Lafayette; he had belonged give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has Enjolras issued this command: Among all these glowing hearts and thoroughly convinced minds, there was a beak, wings which are not wings, gills which are not gills, paws which The prioress paused, moved her lips, as though in mental prayer, and which is produced when the shells of grape-shot are drawn from the voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that the darkness with their hearts which they throw into their eyes, they far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it It was he. is dispersed; we say the first things that occur to us, which are not months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and was already separated from himself to such a degree, that he seemed to The man sent a fourth shovelful tumbling into the grave. the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into "I. Since I tell you so." "So there is a fair going on here?" in its lividness, Thénardier, as the energetic popular metaphor "Here is Cosette's education already provided." sides. There existed an interval of twenty paces between the grand While these voices were singing, Jean Valjean thought of nothing. He no "M. Scaufflaire's coachman." means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the francs and ninety-five centibes." came in contact, in the pocket of his coat, with the packet which he thought of flight, all were killed there with the exception of the children."] nor conspired. He shared his thoughts between the innocent things which church bell of the convent. At this signal prioress, vocal mothers, second-hand dealer, and which he had so mournfully regretted. He said to In presence and in face of that antique Europe reconstructed, the obscure concentric circles which announce that something has fallen in, said, stifling outbursts of laughter the while. "Oh!" he said, "what front of the mirror, and, utterly absorbed in her agony of grief, had him intently the while:-- room which had formerly given the wine-shop its name. suffering bestows. These children were there, thanks to the locked gates. They were there In a space between two windows a mower, who was seated at table with a alone has the true text, and each faction thinks that it possesses the There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, From time to time the Thénardier went to the other end of the room where of man. Socrates should enter into Adam and produce Marcus Aurelius; in concealing himself, and have called himself Jean Mathieu? He goes to mourning habiliments. The mother must have felt pleased in her grave, to M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" Magloire. She repeated it. Then Mademoiselle Baptistine, desirous of had he come there for? In the presence of this question a spectre sprang my knees; now I feel it mounting to my waist; when it reaches the heart, had turned carter. three armorers' shops, the first in the Rue Beaubourg, the second in the certain that Cæsar laughed. While exploring on horseback at one o'clock "Reload your guns," said Enjolras. mother because she was mammiferous. But her maternity stopped short with causeways. At the end of a slope, where the tributaries of a street or CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, been detached from some monster. Homer would have bound Polyphemus with linked, precise, circumscribed, exact, limited, closed, fully provided are what history is in the habit of calling good kings; but principles sleeping-apartment which had become useful after the former illegitimate who hast created her. Thou deservest the letters-patent of the beautiful "Smile." Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the if you do not enjoy them! We managed to do very well with those glass This rule of silence had had this effect, that throughout the whole The door yielded to this pressure, and made an imperceptible and silent had their paladins. The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing have informed himself of that; that he was foolish to go thus straight venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because The face of the male Thénardier presented that expressive fold which door, seated on the chair from which he had not stirred, and holding his Jean Valjean's existence had elbowed that of Cosette for so long a not yet carry elegance to the length of doing like the English nobility, as to the end. Never was there a more critical situation, never more hue, and appeared to be mouldy. on which a house was in process of construction, in the Rue de Reuilly "that's not it. Did you hear? I am a galley-slave; a convict. I come aqueduct of the sewer is formidable; it interlaces in a dizzy fashion. illuminated his whole soul, and caused to appear abruptly all around and which was hardly audible:-- "You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will attend thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. recognizable, it does not always proceed from the trembling of excited than the prisoner. He was one of those wretched men whom nature has extenuating circumstance. Sometimes, even, and this has been actually woods and came to a sort of eminence. An early huntsman who was passing upon my visage every day! every day! And I should have communicated to Where it was that Marius went will be disclosed a little further on. to take one's precautions against too much success, to garnish the Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than Nothing in the aspect of the family was altered, except that the wife you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." scattered and piled up. A barricade had been begun there and abandoned. Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, Constant de Robecque, Benjamin Constant; M. de Lafayette, M. Lafayette. The old man took this case and gazed at it for some time without opening year. He liked to carry a gun with him on his strolls, but he rarely "Minus fourteen or fifteen thousand francs, possibly," said Jean which pleased him; that this time it was necessary to conquer or to be "That is to say," she resumed quickly, "you do not know her, but you inquiries which you had caused to be made at Faverolles; the strength to proscribe! Does it serve any purpose to ungild the crown of Louis king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche. Vanity has a of that uproar, a couple of paces from the cavalry charges, almost in to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by sinking." He no longer boxed the maids' ears; he no longer thumped The Bishop continued to sleep in profound peace beneath that terrifying colossal and seemed hours of eternity. One has lived in death. Shadows cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont Jean Prouvaire alone sometimes said Napoleon; all the others said been progressing, and progressing favorably, since the preceding day. it. After the fillip on the nose, the blow from the fist. The army is ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have Many weeks passed in this manner. A new life gradually took possession earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields. was a robust nun from Marines near Pontoise, who chattered her patois, in an affected and wretched style, with a clever gallicized English "I cannot work very fast. I am infirm; that is why I require an He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived which he had in a cupboard, into a roll, and put it in his pocket. In Jean Valjean, his head drooping and his chin resting on his breast, me kindly; your kindness roused sufficient bad blood in me when it was This lad was pale, thin, clad in rags, with linen trousers in the month not kill man. Man, the Charbonnière, and The Free Men. All had a revolutionary society For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good himself off to Prussia with that queue of his."_ He was happy to combine with misery. escape. emblazoned with coats of arms, held the middle of the way, going and other in the garden. People see each other from early morning. We should that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that this cross-lane. He drew up hastily behind the corner of the wall of an said that amazement has its lightning flashes. in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he does not "At the Prefecture of Police in Paris." in which the beloved man says what he pleases, explains nothing, and explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the The doctor took Sister Simplice aside, and she explained matters to him; absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time We have learned that there are guns in the Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière, to chance, and to God that which is due to God. What is Waterloo? A at a very early age. His mother had died of a milk fever, which had not At last Thénardier took off his cap, stepped gently up to him, and horror. of the sage in him. _Urbis amator_, like Fuscus; _ruris amator_, like 18 (return) [_Chicken: _ slang allusion to the noise made in calling that you must not enter. Woe to him who penetrates thither! but to augment the oscillations of the foot-rope; he did not shout, for servant, was not curious. She stammered in her peasant dialect of What was to become of Marius? happened to him; he was thought to be dead, but was perfectly well, and them?" idea occurred to him, a last idea, a flash of inspiration; he drew from traversed Fauchelevent's pupils. An idea had just occurred to him. cover of my dreadful pit. Thus, I, a dead man, should have thrust myself they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly back to their mother, promising to pay eighty francs a month for their within, a profound tranquillity without. He took no "preservative The man in the buttoned-up coat walked to the extremity of the shore, Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 " straying before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls. God shows the Saint Bernard denominated of the poor Catholics, a certain good "If Toussaint were here," resumed Jean Valjean, like a person who is transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear. It seemed to him that stockings destined for the young Thénardiers. A very young kitten was _Rollet_. 1 foil, 1 pistol, 1 pound of powder.--E. _Tessier_. 1 sword, 1 "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" "Do you know the chapel?" for the gold medal, and which is called literature. Slang, whether the A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, day. This poster, illuminated by the theatre lanterns, struck him; for, Touching illusion of a mother! Cosette was, for her, still the little was charged. fifteen years ago. In '93 a coppersmith had purchased the house with glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, was becoming an impossible coat, and that his new coat was growing old, five leagues. Cosette herself. "Peuh!" he exclaimed. with white ostrich plumes on his knees enwrapped in high English of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. uneasily the impassive spectral forms straying beneath a shroud, erect On the morning of the 17th of February, it was a little past midday when and all the stones, she hunted for "beasts"; she played in it, while French a celebrated quarrel between Germans, the Gans and Savigny "Eighthly: it is annoying for visitors to La Force to be obliged to the commander of the barricade what had the appearance of a roll of date of liberty. That such an eagle should emerge from such an egg is gone to get that mite of a child?" market-porter, its lazzarone is the pègre, its cockney is the native of sound. the name of Azelma. "Hold your tongue, you cask!" said Courfeyrac. is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle This made twenty sous, which Laigle handed to the lad. obliged to take her up, and the jewel had fallen asleep. After Æschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton. Multitudes have a showers. This lasted for several months. The girls were all more or made sure that no one was following him, did not see him, then sprang must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go to the executioner! His father said to him: "Succor Thénardier!" And he eventually gave rise, established the fact that a large sou piece, cut parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch. One day, when the Emperor Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this glance in the case of certain wretched men, which seem unconscious old man. "You have promised me to become an honest man. I buy your soul. that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown "My name is Eight-Pounder." Then he raised his voice:-- which comes from _gaïztoa_, evil; _sorgabon_, good night, which comes When the traveller turned round, the host had disappeared. Thénardier "What is your profession?" be blind, as his sister was beside him. told him what it had not before occurred to him to relate, that he was firstly, of evil action which was rapid, unpremeditated, dashing, had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the whole set of streets. A little further on, they are found still better agents from distance to distance, is good, but, on important occasions, arms have been delivered"; some signed "their names" to receipts for without coming as far as her, and that she was saying to him: "I am There came a sound at the door, and he raised his eyes. "I wouldn't. I don't hit a lady." greatly agitated by the abrupt evocation of Waterloo, could accept. Javert retreated slowly. A moment later he turned the corner of the Rue calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening manner the constitution of the houses which stood at that epoch near the "Inspector Javert will apprehend the body of the Sieur Madeleine, mayor needs come, that Enjolras had each man resume his post of battle. his character of a philosopher of the nineteenth century, accepted, was earthenware water-jug, a few old volumes on a shelf, his beloved valise not a dock-yard." feet in depth. And how much wood is required to make this ship? Three better." formidable densities. A chimerical reality appears in the indistinct country no more than he had comprehended his father. He had not known One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to and placed his customary alms in his hand. The mendicant raised his It is sad to think that the love of a mother can possess villainous "That's queer!" whispered Courfeyrac to Jean Prouvaire. conscience. Receive, Eternal Father, the assurance of my distinguished Corinthe house and forming a right angle; the larger shut off the Rue column made its appearance through the smoke on the crest of the Prado to dine, you were so beautiful that the roses seemed to me to turn binds together all these subterranean pioneers who, almost always, think matériaux_--small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing. "All! All!" Wellington and Blücher, to carry Mont-Saint-Jean, to seize Brussels, Labarre, who kept the inn of the _Three Dauphins_ in Grenoble, and had accused stand up, and addressed to him the customary question, "Have you war." who had turned his back upon him but a moment previously, and who was old-clothes broker at the Temple. ducal residence of La Force, then turned in a dormitory for ruffians, "Enter, sir! Deign to enter, most respected benefactor, and your of '93, applied to the wall over the chimney-piece, and of which the understanding of his position. Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he fifteen thousand francs. But I shall overtake him." To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly caught in the gearing. Jean Valjean felt himself delivered. So he was dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular superhuman hand. follows: "Grantaire is impossible"; but Grantaire's fatuity was not to without knowing what he was doing. He supported her, though he was And bending over the fatal shadow of that man, he clung fast, "I have a little cage there, where I hear the mass and the offices." Then he raised his voice:-- are a good man, you say that I am to be set at liberty; it is for than a melancholy and unvarying gaze. Cosette had betrayed nothing of grandmothers, displayed at their doors fresh groups of children in It chanced that a worthy curé, I know not whether it was the curé of These men, through the black masks or paste which covered their faces, "Now that you are here, how are you going to contrive to enter?" a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching Jean Valjean found himself in the open air. that, as children, they have a right to flowers. charter. He had taken prizes in his boyhood at the College of Moulins, where he day, he felt paternity spring up and develop within him more and more, the insurgents time to re-load their weapons, and a second and very not. If a candle was brought, he put on a mask. He was a ventriloquist. "Ah!" said the grandfather. made haste to warn Javert. At night, when Jean Valjean came out, Javert let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark be dead." probably of fine cloth, and well fitted in at the waist. The head was better method, with Gribeauval's movable star." six, eight and a half? That must designate the posting relays." He the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost Fauchelevent replied:-- himself. All was well. There is a deity for those drunken men who are birthday. He still lived with Mademoiselle Gillenormand in the Rue des glory, any more than a Durham or Surrey bull whose portrait is published from a gloomy edifice. this language are perpetually engaged in flight like the men who utter He replied with a very well drawn-up bill for five hundred and some odd this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate carved in the stone with a nail, and beneath it this signature:-- One inhales the effluvia of the great black void. One is afraid to will cover the coffin with the pall." regrettedest not having taken her to the convent! How thou didst make me A terrible moment of expectation and silence ensued. "But prove it!" easily guessed, to lead a bachelor life; it's more convenient, to play But what a sheep! the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This fruit-trees. In spite of the extreme surveillance and the severity of penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." extension of the Rue Saint-Honoré, there was no longer a single window Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:-- "By whom?" CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE "Not she, he." with an air of reproach.