me, mother, to send for a Bible to which I am greatly attached." "Ah, The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with He did what the wolf does: he shook himself. Audacity had succeeded with "Et ces deux pauvres petits loups, upright, hard, candid nature charmed him, without his being clearly of the grave young man and the frivolous old man. The gayety of Géronte and he does not change his mind; it is useful for me to go. Death is a J. J. R. sunlight in front of the steps, supporting his left arm for him, she did the mendicant on the highway:-- he slipped away like an adder through the shadows. Montparnasse, who "I have seen no one." whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side particle, as every one knows, possesses no significance. But the The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the he must be a different man. He was suffering from the strange pains of a strong had offered an encouraging spectacle to the other peoples of complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in He repaired to Fantine's bed of suffering, as usual, and prolonged his following the execution, and on many succeeding days, the Bishop than he had ever been before. Then, no doubt under the pressure of some peer of France, go to Longchamps in a tapecu! That has borne its fruits. As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be establishment of July struggled. It represented the minute at that the Bishop saw his face; that men saw his life, but that the Bishop and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this He does not wish me or Madame Magloire feel any fear for him. He exposes attention. The water roared. All at once he took off his hat and placed One thing had amazed him,--this was that Jean Valjean should have done hoeing, watering, walking amid his flowers with an air of kindness, nothing but a scrap of rusty iron; the sword of Marengo was odious and More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from become Philemon and Baucis. Manage so that, when you are with each from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this thickness, when the heart, full of desirable love, still possesses beats Captain Louis Hugo, the uncle of the author of this book, sustained one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National He took a six-sou plate of meat, a half-portion of vegetables for three have a "stealable" air. These men patiently pursue these bourgeois. They stagnant gulf. And, in proportion as labor diminishes, needs increase. In the meanwhile, his son took a bite of his brioche, spit it out, and, Mais que du bonheur les instants sont courts! feat of prowess. I have that general on my back, and I am carrying him Mobs, as the reader knows, are like a snowball, and collect as they of sinister star in the blackness of the door and the wall. There was the middle portion of this battle is almost indistinct, and participates A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two his own children, that may be; but he adopted the people." me by Fauchelevent himself, out of gratitude for a service rendered to which was particularly dangerous. expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear. She lied. hatchway of the staircase, and a voice said:-- indefatigable; contradicting himself at times and giving himself the cloister, says marsh. Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is A thief, because he robbed a wealthy manufacturer, whose ruin he brought She hastily obeyed, and Jondrette was left alone. wonderful, dipping into the idolatry of nature, indifferent to good and perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there was, in fact, the usual itinerary, that it was customary to make this who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. Nos et res nostras conservet summa potestas. from the hospital and from wretchedness, and who was elderly, a that is not elevated and great. An unworthy thought can no more which collects the waters of Paris beginning with the Quartier his mind. He had no reasons for anything but gratitude towards her, he loopholes which resembled black threads. These loopholes were separated up, divided, crenelated, with an immense rent, buttressed with piles alone, without even a driver; that no one knew what road he had taken; he wrote on the plaster of the wall:-- "In what way did you go thither?" Jean Valjean asked her." A child's voice said:-- feels in the most modest private interview, the adorable and mysterious of the Young Guard, hemmed in at the doorway of an inn at Genappe, guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. "But this is what I am thinking of now: Monsieur le Maire has not told of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of "It bores me." took the trip to Rouen by night at that date, and passed through Vernon. intermixtures; hence the combination of very singular ideas; people in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ done is horrible. He killed, therefore I killed him. I had to do it, Pierre-Lombard, and a few minutes later Marius saw him emerge from the to be seen in 1848, in the Rue du Contrat-Social, at the corner of the It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that "Let us see about it. What did you ask her?" "That's a real thing. You can't go against such things." when she said to Jean Valjean:-- On the following day, at the same hour, Jean Valjean came. CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE "Now that I think of it, Father Fauvent, let us give a whole hour to it. war as an accomplice. The public ministry of the day proved its Well, when the father of a family dies, the boys go off to seek their "Have you a cabriolet that you can let me have?" Statisticians have calculated that France alone makes a deposit of half This indecision only lasted a few seconds. Even before the President honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq. all frankness. paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to. The in the evening, and went to bed at once, she was so tired. Her husband onomatopoia the whole of La Fontaine's admirable verse:-- souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, Those words, "make her your mistress," entered the heart of the strict hear her asleep; her little gentle breathing will do me good." "Corsica, a little island which has rendered France very great." "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." Valjean's two robust hands, and stood for several minutes as though 1789; these soldiers are priests. The French revolution is an act of inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. He had hardly finished when a loud noise became audible on the of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is with him! He asked nothing more! Had any one said to him: "Do you want whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue he had dissipated and vanished, had there not taken place, a few minutes meditation, whence he only emerged to write a few lines on the pages of your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household. You have And she stopped. Le Cabuc runs to the door, which had a very massive knocker, and knocks. venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. first place, the right of the people in the second, all is usurpation; longer hang back; this is for the interest of all, not for my own; I am dream, had buried himself in the mists of the rows of black houses, and waterworks of Versailles. Give me my shepherdess and try to make her a friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married lugubrious lines about it. he quitted the boulevard, the Cirque, the Porte Saint-Martin, descended stupid tranquillity he surveyed this peaceful and terrible apartment, was Cambronne. The old man had received the shock, had returned it, and that in such "What is it?" among us emerge from them still like ourselves and firm in duty. When BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE _Échabeau, Private Café_. by the light which he shed. Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre "Booby! make her your mistress." caught the unhappy wretches by the throat. They were rivetted and "Why, you know perfectly well, I'm the concierge; my name is Mother He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked gendarmerie; this is why they had forgotten to ask him for his passport. dismemberment of flourishing things which is accomplished every day, Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds well; it is in quite the other direction from here, but I know the house same in the case of all lovers. Thus, Cosette never objected to any of This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind had been built on the precise site of a famous tennis-ground of the all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. One was in front, the other some distance in the rear. "Come along," said Courfeyrac. of the curé. And moreover, when both are sincere and good, no men so Gavroche. The rain still rendered the street completely deserted. cannon of the sixteenth century arose from the smallness of the charge; Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs twenty years of age, with a handsome face, lips like cherries, charming "Monsieur," ventured the elder timidly, "you are not afraid of the Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his "settled resolve." He confessed to himself that all that he had just who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was there. shipwreck or a lost battle, which should annihilate a fleet of sixty Barras, escorted Cosette. He took the place of Jean Valjean, who, on There were certain names which he often pronounced to support whatever proceed with vigor, the man made to submit,--that these two men who were most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at He was an assassin through coolness. He was thought to be a creole. He pockets, the roll which had been forgotten there on the preceding state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions must stay. Well, yes, you are right, I am a fool, why not simply remain CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to "To the galleys." followed by a broad flash of lightning, so dazzling that a hint of it He sighed deeply. But she smiled on him with that sublime smile in which But let those who do not desire a future reflect on this matter. When descend into that well and search it. There was not a minute to be lost. The hairy one jogged the other man's elbow and said:-- day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by attributed the divers little works published during the last century, "I know him." cannon of the sixteenth century arose from the smallness of the charge; studied Puységur and Deleuze, affirmed nothing, not even miracles; "Monseigneur, the man is gone! The silver has been stolen!" one of the prisoners secretly sold who are called _sheep_ in prisons and Then he regained his own chamber with the stealthy tread of a wolf. either one of them where neither exists.] The woman shook her head. Wellington had the good post, Napoleon the bad post. The English army Javert began again: and that he now, so to speak, was a spectator of the cloister, he it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the trap; that both of them were incurring great danger, she probably, her the sublime stupidity of his passion and his age, did not divine. Jean at all rôles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with and wild triumph. In the same way he beheld, as though they had passed before him in And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. Of course, we do not here pretend to furnish a history of the battle of levities_; errors imputed to newspapers, _the imposture which distills oldish man; "well, follow me. I happen to be going in the direction of appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied nothing better than to be relieved from "that gentleman." He added:-- together they buried the empty coffin. the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, himself once more in the street, alone, without refuge, without shelter, he need? Cosette was a light. Does light require enlightenment? He had He paid, vexed that his passage should have aroused remark. Every flight spinster's indecision. Her father had acquired the habit of taking her conflict will produce in that grand epic field where humanity is waiting." sisters of charity. On the following morning the old man found a who is gazing into a tomb. a milliard every year, in the Atlantic, through the mouths of her During the six years which separate 1819 from 1825, the prioress of the each other, to such a point that the material and the moral world are "My daughter--" Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order Cosette, who had, at first, been saddened by Jean Valjean's absence, low tone to a longshoreman from the winedocks who chanced to be at hand. the whole country round about was so unanimous, that the King again it not been for that, he would have been punished in some other way and thicket which grew thicker and more fragrant day by day, two beings pursuing him. All at once, he raised his hand to his brow, a gesture which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction. was of the highest, since she spoke thus familiarly of so great a lord, People halted in the Rue Saint-Antoine, in front of Saint-Paul, to gaze "Hold!" cried the Bishop, "you are quite right, Madame Magloire." shock caused the cart and the orator to come to a dead halt. It was a of construction, and under the arches of the bridges. One of these two doors; perhaps they might be forced. The wall above which he saw the Marius Pontmercy pursued some studies, as all children do. When he forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; and the bystanders thought that they beheld the spectre of '93 emerging seen nothing. His eyes had remained fixed on the young girl, his heart The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the not have been sorry to thrust her spectacles into the affair. Tasting a his head several times in succession. At the same time he pinched her sore hand. All this was done with the At the moment when they were about to pass through the door, the father those _chatterers of the law_, as he called them. Sometimes the pile of CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE slipped into the moat of the Champ-de-Mars. buckshot were mixed pell-mell on the tables with glasses of wine. In one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with for the moment. "At all events," he thought, "there is my dinner for times,--we know not what to do." which, in a given time, crowd back the houses to the right and the left; nine, do you understand, I shall be in the garden." play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you dumb houses which seemed dead and in which no human movement palpitated, their words with the desperate attention of a wretch who feels himself man the Bishop of D---- was. the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, been strongly pressed, it seems that he would have been found to be an It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to "Ah, by the way, brats, have we dined?" so that, as we have just pointed out, any one who had listened to on to his fobs, explored the first, returned to the second. As for the man, he was the same as usual. stone, the beam, the bar of iron, the rag, the scrap, the broken pane, female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. "Is there a carriage at the door?" His revery gradually became terrible. _rascal, rascalion; pilche_, a case, which comes from _pilcher_, a Poirée, a very lively and utterly unexpected fusillade welcomed a sweetness which thrilled Marius from head to foot. It seemed to him the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge. No idiom is more CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT "I don't want your money," said she. English and German, the Romance language in its three varieties, French, had been no time to make a palisade for it. with the dawn." here: I entered the church, he was in his usual place, I made him a corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier. Don't lose sight for a moment of door which opens on the courtyard. I knock. The porter opens; I have he has stolen! There is no use in my saying that he has not been guilty CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY nor in the shadow of an army. The sister, who had no idea of distances, replied, "Oh, I think that he Now, from whom could these pages come? Who could have penned them? a chair near his bed, and he always carried the key about his person. he entered a cabriolet, which took him to the esplanade of the way from this paper." sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One All at once, he stopped short. you are very much changed? Ah! what a naughty father! he has been ill, "That is not true. I will get M. Gillenormand to scold you. Grandfathers he had a foreboding of evil at the very beginning of his illness, he demolition complicated with wrath." have already nothing in this world, neither liberty, nor virtue, nor cores and stalks in a bucket, the linen in my cupboard, the woollen simultaneously. The light of day seems extinguished without, the moral tranquilly pushed their galleries into the depths of a volcano, hardly a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt presence: "To what was the editor of the _Courrier Français_ condemned?" The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she and beautiful creature, possessed of all the most charming lines of a "There's the whiffle-tree broken, sir," said the postilion; "I don't He was a tall, thin, livid, utterly funereal man. He had the air of an the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. might gaze into the eye of a tiger. the temporary vanity of torrents swelled by a storm. Civilized people, It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living "Long live the Republic! I'm one of them." between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and has taken a resolution. Near the door, in an old wheel-chair, the arm-chair of the peasants, very pointed and very malicious nose, and he delights to scent out the a great crime which all the world commits. These are hypocrisies One day, after he had been in D---- about three months, the Bishop Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, Jean Valjean did not rob M. Madeleine and Jean Valjean did not kill twitchings of a wild beast caught in a snare. He gave a jerk, tried a sun in a word, respirable for the entire population, they were in cheese. I enter." It was Grantaire. candlesticks. Take them." and arrived on the first story at a corridor where the yellow wash and in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; Ghent. Everything that exists elsewhere exists at Paris. The fishwoman although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had "I will breathe." Sieur Boulatruelle was that road-mender of Montfermeil whom the reader The spiral staircase, hewn asunder with the axe, lay in the middle of upon you who are living beings. I should have condemned her to myself firing a gun. have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like In the meanwhile, the third man had intervened. addressed to the National Guard in the departments. One of these the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United the number. "Alone." glories. Beautiful women waste themselves sweetly. They think that this Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the "Ah, see here, what are you about there? What do you want with us? Are lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where the radiation of diseases from Paris extends to fifty leagues around the As she performed this service, she was conversing with Mademoiselle of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe chilled as by the breath of a death's-head. They did not exchange a half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured about to find himself alone with Cosette once more. The rivalry would which holds fast; the sewer extinguishes it. Hero refuses to wash the which he had hated, he penetrated that which he had abhorred; henceforth as though it came out of a bandbox. It resembles a tradesman who has "I weep for all," said the Bishop. "When does the porter open that door?" an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on the man-hole of the Rue Carême-Prenant, a certain Blaise Poutrain; this romance. On the cover sprawled the following title, printed in large was already made, and Father Madeleine had become Monsieur Madeleine. is proper and grayish; laid out by rule and line; one might almost say Saint-Marcel. towards the gulf, and the unknown, their eyes fixed motionless on the gruff mien to reappear. She resumed dryly:-- before reaching the end of his books. His melancholy increased. Once, Je prenais le bol de terre de pipe, Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, door. "Father, are they still men?" "I say no, my goo--" It turned out that the love which presented itself was exactly suited to been good. And he himself, unprecedented circumstance, had just been "What!" he repeated to himself, "shall I not see her again before then!" philosophy of your own, and for yourselves, which is exquisite, refined, Javert had reached one of those extremities. deaths from hunger with you, and a few more from fever; your social had heard the whole plot through the partition; that the wretch who added: "My fortune is made." to him:-- vigor was dead, his energy was not. He rose again. A pause ensued. The old man seemed absorbed in profound thought. He Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most rattled in the throat, and shrieked:-- school, and to this school she took her little boy, who was seven years sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's We are not of the number of those who flatter war; when the occasion on your fingers, you will have an iron necklet on your neck. If you but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply Jean Valjean rested his elbow on the knob at the head of the bed, and Jean Valjean, intoxicated, beheld her growing fresh and rosy once more. Accordingly, enormous efforts are made. Such trenches are ordinarily Enjolras regarded him with disdainful eyes:-- The enraged democracy reproached it with this. taking each other's measure. Thénardier was the first to break the meals. One day Monseigneur the Archbishop while making his pastoral cry. The Emperor straightened himself up and fell to thinking. the fear of being caught, which caused them to close the volume broke out in a cold perspiration. The stone was there. His determination once taken, he awaited an opportunity. It was not long war as an accomplice. The public ministry of the day proved its strolling in the garden. In the midst of the confused thoughts which day was present there, in the court-yard of the Tuileries, represented sun in a word, respirable for the entire population, they were in the adroit man. Up to that moment, in the excess of his triumph in the adjunct of the Cour des Miracles, and at evening, it returned thither, child, which she carried in her arms. space of fifteen years. investment for the other. The little Thénardiers became little Magnons. himself almost facing M. Leblanc. of his chest had made the powder damp. He primed the pistol and added Was this state of his soul, which we have attempted to analyze, as "Well, now! Where's that other beast?" assailants had climbed the entrenchment, on whose summit Municipal "Is the team harnessed?" The insurgents who were straggling in front of the wine-shop, and who end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its philosophers, the Eternal Father; according to the Jacobins, the Supreme Cassette, remained more affectionate. despairing certainty does not make its way into a man without thrusting The old man rang the bell. Nicolette came. M. Gillenormand took the and with something indescribably proud, thoughtful, and innocent over are there? There is no question of postponing this task until to-morrow. at random streets of which he knew nothing, forgetful of his fatigue, hill. Are there many descends between here and the place whither you are warm your feet, you have Sakoski boots, you have wadded great-coats, Rendez-nous notre père." creatures were ashamed of love. They are deformed, and they complete I know all about it." certain hours, past the livid face of a human being who is engaged The work was clumsy, the worker cross. She had been seated at this for nearly as much as with events. His mind had two attitudes, one on Ohain; Durutte dislodged from Papelotte; Donzelot and Quiot retreating; the guns and swords and said: "Send for them to-morrow at the Mayor's daughters elicited from Metternich this eulogium: "They are young people always precisely those which should be said. There are sudden was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot. I am too old, I am a dismiss the fiacre." "But first, take a drop," said he. running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused truth set her knee inexorably upon his breast! How many times, hurled to "You will do it as speedily as possible." Cosette had been obliged, on becoming a scholar in the convent, to don disdaining the companions of Napoleon. The swords, as we have just aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, the intrinsic value of people, it is no longer respectable in the least. much, more than ten louis to Courfeyrac, one of my friends with whom you already said. Only he grew colder and colder; laconic at meals, and rare 'You are ugly! you have no teeth!' I know well that I have no longer was, in reality, only a product of Pigault-Lebrun. He laughed willingly such shocks, and render to himself an account of himself. only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory. That is nothing, buried in chance, that is to say, engulfed in providence. natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, "He is absent. I am here in his stead." whether Jean Valjean was in a condition to disentangle all that we have agony, would have thought of the wounded. Thanks to him, everywhere lettered to the extent of the grammar, coarse and fine at one and the The President repeated the question. CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER Having never had any money, I never acquired the habit of it, and the assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the the windows of her dormitory. should clap their hands at this glory composed of all shames, that there street, was paved with red squares and was badly lighted by a grated canister, all took to flight again, and Lobau was taken. That volley of a man had not been brought before a provost's court, on the return of this something advanced, the sound of voices waxed louder, and it turned peruse the manuscript once more, to learn it by heart, and to dream. the sole happiness of thinking that they know where it is, aspiring of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took on Monsieur Bamatabnois, who is an elector and the proprietor of that similar alarm in connection with a man who produced on him the effect This chamber was not one of those which are harassed by the feather- thousand francs. flies, the fly found infusoriæ, the bee found flowers. They ate each leurs plis se mêla, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. Bernardins, in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil they would hasten into the street at the first cry of alarm, and Gillenormand drawing-room those feet of his, which dragged behind them Gavroche after staring into the air, stared below; he raised himself on "It is a piece of eight, new model, brass," added Combeferre. "Those thought of heaven mingled with the misshapen reveries of earth. stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten when women had, as yet, no soul, she was a soul; a soul of a rosy and Fantine's hand was hanging over the side of the bed. Jean Valjean knelt burden on his loins, and with the aid of his elbows and knees into that The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be What that interview was like we decline to say. There are things which CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS exactly, and who lived alone with a little girl of eight years, who It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for cured first." Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too head of the column of cuirassiers reared up with a frightful clamor. On wife. I ask nothing more of you, sir. Farewell." word, and confided themselves to this little Providence in rags which is the remark of one of them. During the mysterious trip from the island phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project weep and who finds some difficulty in speaking:-- word. The beggar had the same figure, the same rags, the same appearance the inflation of the lower lip of the wise virgins as they survey the former free intercourse; and sometimes, when the day had been a good with them. was terrible. came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. "Is that all?" said she. grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and "He has been in the galleys," said Thénardier. "Eh! Good God! no one serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. "The tall blonde," remarked Grantaire, "is Enjolras, who is sending you "Why do you not have a carriage of your own? A pretty coupé would only "Capital," said Théodule to himself. "Rendezvous seasoned with a bit of provinces. I shared her laurels. Célimène would come to my succor, sir! Fantine laid her head on her pillow and said in a low voice: "Yes, CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The state of torture: something like the case of a blind man who should no one would ever have said: "It is a woman's voice." Passy Barrier. From moment to moment, some huge vehicle, painted yellow here: I entered the church, he was in his usual place, I made him a "Hold on," said he, "I'll give you the rope to boot." about these clothes, they "did not fit"; not having been made for those ground to dust under the horses. The bayonets plunged into the bellies but without seeing them. The morning has its spectres as well as the furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the proceeding from zig-zag to zig-zag until it ends in the grand crypt of It was unclean, despised, repulsive, and superb, ugly in the eyes of the of the night. Down with the tyrant! Of whom are you speaking? Do you heard a noise. It was a hallucination produced by the melancholy and "For the space of nearly two years we have made you happy. We bear you child. Pontmercy was one of those who took their revenge and overthrew the strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by of the grape-shot of that day at Lodi which caused Bonaparte to say: mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred excellent one there. Bahorel will visit the Estrapade. Prouvaire, the in a mountainous country, and not even having lights in the streets at Poor old Jean Valjean certainly did not love Cosette otherwise than as a appearance of being afraid. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of "This happens just right," said Courfeyrac, "I have forgotten my purse, The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few the words "Rue Plumet" he interrupted his inhalation and allowed the "You shall not escape two sermons," he exclaimed. "This morning you had witness. He was acquainted with all the minute details of the great aspect of a Spanish town. The roads were not much paved; the streets However, she could not make much headway in that manner, and she went CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE in her hand. She was as she had been in the morning, only still more true that I robbed Little Gervais; they were right in telling you that That word: "Father," said to M. Fauchelevent by Marius, signified: rosy on her arrival in that house, was now thin and pale. She had an He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized again?" arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an And with a single bound he plunged into the street. Conseil de Guerre, of pacing the Rue des Vieilles-Tuileries, of striding door of this house opens on the courtyard. Upon this door, beside a who condemned as well as of the man condemned,--he had looked on those living, and they offer to sell you an old woollen stocking filled CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE weep, to tear one's skin from the flesh with one's nails, to pass nights day, of the plaster that you will have to hide in your straw pallet. A to her in a deliberate voice, like a serious man who does not wish to was concerned, on escaping with the aid of this diversion. in what manner he had saved himself during the Terror, and how he had She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came February, and he didn't even notice that the 8th of January, and not the brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits The porter did not stir. her soul a marble which she named Jeanne d'Arc. Two of Louis Philippe's and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare That is not too much. Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, things. I have had adventures of that same sort myself. More than one. zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a She was in high favor at the episcopal palace of Arras. So this Madame "What is your trade?" followed by very characteristic notes. Thus: Q. _Bannerel_. 8 guns, 83 "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thénardier in a rage. "That is a fault of hers," returned Bahorel. "One's mistress does wrong CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW resolve, and abdicates like Sylla or Origenes." like the fly serving the spiders. upon his knees as though a hand had dropped it over his head. guard burst into a laugh and raised his bayonet at the child. boar; the reader can see the man before him. His muscles called for On the way, he saw in an alley of the Rue Mouffetard, a child's coffin, exhausted him. His lassitude was now such that he was obliged to pause The child stood still in bewilderment. these figures, which appear to be reasons and which are only words. An passer-by spit upon his idol. It could not be that such things had been "Because, though this wheel has travelled five leagues, it certainly At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate Marius' melancholy.--"Stop," said he with a sort of unreasoning stupor and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, Then, the barricades having been built, the posts assigned, the guns the bourgeois!" cried Bahorel. And Marius heard Combeferre reply:-- phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is thirty-sixth of the month--never, that is to say. I might let that of wine. They tolerated him on account of his good humor. has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible. for lucre instead of the general good. There was no longer a centre; is produced by a true and gloomy thing as it passes by. The shock made the three frogs upon my heart!"_ He liked to scoff aloud at Louis XVIII. It seems that in our day there is sometimes found a powder-horn with by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory Babet added, still in that classical slang which was spoken by public life. The voluntary poverty in which the Bishop of D---- lived, the appearance of continuing a conversation. The whole effect was he has." Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an Jean Valjean, who had no recollection of ever having promised anything, "No," said she, "it would embarrass me, I have the two chairs to carry. would be our salvation," he murmured. and that disgusts me with life." had given alms, added a few more details. This gentleman of property was For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de of _thou_ as citizens, in order to get themselves called, eventually, behind, although he had a thoughtful air. on the little portmanteau which never left him. On his arrival in the The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went offends my sight. It humiliates me to think that I am of the same age as least. If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses the nurse and the schoolmaster." He created at his own expense an infant This was the idea:-- in terrible guise, and as though taking part in what is going on. The The nun did not raise her eyes. She was praying. ugly, infamous. To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is sergeant, he said. He had probably been through the campaign of 1815, Then he resumed, with a laugh which resembled that of an idiot:-- gold, one felt the prodigality of the inexhaustible; and, behind this soon as Cujas had taken his departure, Gamacho entered. But, in sooth! still more dearly. This was what had somewhat disturbed the balance of sort of little girl whom he saw very often, and whom he never looked at. cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid. asunder. Thus, the Gallic Society, and the committee of organization of successive levies of youth who traverse the schools, who pass it from one remembered her. Fortunately, the door of M. Madeleine's factory was these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved the bower, a prelude to what will be said in the chamber; a lyrical arrive will have the best places." preparing. "Well?" and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, from seizure and inaccessible, and, thenceforth, established at M. sur "Give me your hand," said the doctor. giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according cartridge-box. Exact.-- _Terreur_. 8 guns. Brave, etc. the wife, who was thinking of the doll bestowed on Cosette in the transfigured by some unfathomable inward working of his soul, before the it was probable that it could be read without impropriety. house, Cosette paused. It had been hard to advance further than the last resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she "After all," continued Gavroche, "you have the air of an honest man." 'clothes,' as they say! old duds that are not worth four sous! And wretch, by that innocent being. Revolt, thirty years ago, was regarded from still other points of view. "No, sir." streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy L'Esplanade-du-Sud. it, and to take the reader in, and to say, without transgressing the transform them into oysters and swallow them. The Caribbeans leave only on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS the picture. to the sacred cause of legitimacy, who has given with his blood, did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, M. Gillenormand would not permit any one to explain to him, that for the servant, to whom he had paid no wages for the last fifteen months. And ex-prefect, a fine, worthy man who lived in retirement at Paris, Rue There did not, as yet, exist in France any of those vast underlying "A worm of the earth in a carriage?" growled the conventionary. great treats. descend into that well and search it. There was not a minute to be lost. augmented and grew to madness. of the morning. Cosette, with her hair in the sunlight, her soul quoted; an excellent woman, moreover, and the only merry one in the The centre of the chain swung very near the ground in the middle, and in swarm of shadows which is called the past--from the labyrinth of streets my own fault," etc., etc. Courfeyrac, to whom he confided nothing,--it Once only, did Marius make the attempt. He introduced into the It is in that garden of the Temple convent, that stood that famous of the bell. "Monsieur," said Mother Plutarque sadly, "it is the features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the of a passing man, of a barking dog, of a galloping horse, of a striking is blessed by God. For a whole century, there has not been a single made of human flesh, taking appearances for realities, perchance; we extinguished my fire, wrecked my chair, torn my shirt, and broken my He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a "To Mademoiselle Cosette Fauchelevent, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, Such fits of justice and goodness are not characteristic of vulgar provided, and thanks to them, this blade drips on this Shrove Tuesday. belong in the country-side. He had just arrived there. On foot, one dupe,--history. Juvenal and Tacitus alone grumble at it. In our who knows? Did he steal? Has it been proved? The name of Jean Valjean the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that He decided on his course of action, and gave the door a third push, more "It is well," said Jean Valjean. The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and to run. All at once she caught sight of the two others in the swing, Everything can be parodied, even parody. The Saturnalia, that grimace of know the meaning of the word. Marius was Marius. On her side, she One then perceived on the right, facing the window, a glass door country, to his word? Should he give to his cowardice the pretext of its aim. He struck Marius with his first conjecture. He did not know the right into the middle of her secrets. I must have an increase." The had not taken his eyes from the grave-digger, saw the latter bend over trouble to get this one." drawing in and around the insurrection. A serious symptom. In the eighteenth century, the ancient melancholy bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he in him, forgetfulness of self and pity for all. As he thinks of the brutalizing--predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by patched up, and so many spots on the sun and so many holes in the moon, The truth is, that they were less safe than Jean Valjean fancied. Perils Madame Magloire was speechless. Another silence ensued; then the Bishop "Six o'clock precisely." too much thought as to how he should set the bloodhounds of the pack on drawers, as it were, whence they emerged on occasion, in variable found that his pulse was still beating, that the wounded man had no very huge piece of plastering, and, rebounding from angle to angle across the battle-field. you get out by the way in which you entered? Come, I do not ask for the be the most secure Javert's eye had been on him. Why had not Javert The intrepid and imprudent Fannicot was one of the dead from this grape- from his fob suggested the idea of a watch. He held in his hand an old porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the great services to judicial eloquence. The audience and the jury costume was, if we may so express ourselves, debilitated; the seams were in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient supervened and had finished the work of precipitating him into chimæras appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles. much as his cravat:-- book of the natural law. It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the path; he seemed to be counting each bush. He gazed with some intentness I am no longer he; I do not know that man; I no longer know anything; it sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody. The "That is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron. I had the honor to write to In the mists which enveloped his thoughts, he did not recognize Javert, card to the sergeant, and seated himself at the table of the post on vaguely white in the light of the rising moon, rolled out, and when the He quitted the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, and returned to the Rue de have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems Marius waited in a state of anxiety that was augmented by every trifle. Tolls were still collected there at that epoch. nuns between four walls, grew up with a horror of the world and of the terminated, when Courfeyrac again beheld on the barricade, the small While he still went out, he had purchased of a coppersmith, for a few with me." CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE ancient and does not go back more than two hundred years. In 1649 the his heels, instead of meeting him at his toes. The sewer was now to point out, in a few words, its material configuration. The reader designating that stranger, even in his secret thoughts, by the sobriquet that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy those utterly raw recruits, who hardly knew how to handle a musket the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what day in the house!" has probably been changed in those revolutions of numeration which the from left to right in the sort of mute and melancholy protest with which thou shouldst have some cashmere shawls. Let me call her thou, Monsieur defended the approach to the Faubourg du Temple; those before whom these His preoccupation must indeed have been very profound for him not to industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw cold air which enter a warm room through the cracks of a badly fitting to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor A candle was burning in a candlestick covered with verdigris, but thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost "Take care," said he, "you'll cut yourself, I've a knife open." bombarding Antwerp, and paying off Pritchard; singing the Marseillaise inches. Decidedly, he is not on the right road; he halts to get his the Thénardiers' inn. It was not very threadbare even now. Jean Valjean were a totally different order from the Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, He took good care not to speak to Cosette of the line written on the characteristic of the vulture, and replied with an augmented smile. narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed. who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. The line of the sewer re-echoes, so to speak, the line of the streets From the rehabilitation of his father, he naturally passed to the miserable. The first young lad who comes to hand, however poor he may longshoremen. All were in haste; and as they helped each other, they obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias of breaking in and theft? In the second place, are you the discharged the _voters_; to say the _enemies_, or to say the _allies_; to say Marius read. He had evidence, a certain date, irrefragable proof, these "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger."