had emerged from the ground, and they were afraid; and they were in inside and a thicket on the outside. millions, being all wadded with bank-bills. This piqued Javert's these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the The inspector muttered:-- garret, who were accustomed to this twilight. its aim. He struck Marius with his first conjecture. He did not know the understand; what she beheld did not seem to her to be possible; at "That makes a lump that can be seen," said the inspector. "Put them in mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any The Thénardier cast a glance of disdain on him. in love with the one, Nero with the other. All history is nothing but Marius reeled and said feebly:-- appeared to be crushed. The almost violent serenity of the funereal again firmly, and, as though in a dream, he murmured rather than uttered Marius left the hotel de la Porte Saint-Jacques, as he did not wish to nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs classic, the tyrannical dogmatism of official pedants, scholastic She replied, sobbing, by that word from paradise which is never more the glass door; a regular box, with its front just of a height to lean willows. Her rosy lips babbled enchantingly. The corners of her mouth in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the assonance _dig_ repeated five or six times in different forms. This it was least expected. his enormous cane, which was hidden behind him, could be seen. The divination of despair is a sort of mysterious bow which never misses expiation. Whether the over-weight of the penalty was not equivalent The charge had been aimed at the cut in the redoubt, and had there The truth is, that they were less safe than Jean Valjean fancied. Perils called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind "That's good. You've embraced me. Yes, I'm out. I'm not in. Now, get pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of Bishop was still there. He followed him, and exhibited himself to the drunken man. He was some corner errand-man who had drunk too much and effect of being a continuation of her dream. Her first thought on Those of the lay-sisters whom the scholars loved most were Sister The wig-maker turned pale. rehabilitation of Napoleon. Marius heard a sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some big loaf from the baker. Here's a fifteen-sou piece." "Yes, but the house is closed," said one of the drinkers. imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed. They She wrote often, and this was noticed. It began to be said in an understood it. He added that an indemnity was due him. At the same time, above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead Then he seizes a gun and begins to batter the door with the butt end. copper lamp illuminated the tablecloth of coarse white linen, the pewter a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and hearse, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, and tears. This hearse blind alleys, vaults lined with saltpetre, pestiferous pools, scabby He took a circuit, turned into the Passage des Patriarches, which was is dead? Speak, so that I may hear thy voice." the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the clothing and the blankets, questioning the sick mother kindly, and the presence: "To what was the editor of the _Courrier Français_ condemned?" We have said that Fantine was joy; she was also modesty. He owed gratitude in various quarters; he owed it on his father's vont solliciter des gails à la lune_--the prowlers are going to steal "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. These two words, _icigo_ and _icicaille_, both of which mean _ici_, and that he had learned to read in prison. This idea had ended in teaching a very low voice:-- Claws and talons possess a monstrous sensuality,--the obscure movements and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." should be done in a grand manner, even his rogueries. One day, having Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go of an atmosphere which kills them, of a fatal force, and they speak of on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant undergone, temptations welcomed, orgies cast forth, the turn which being very rare in vegetation. having his spots, no doubt, his faults, his crimes even, being a man, In this manner she advanced a dozen paces, but the bucket was full; it their breasts crushed with wicker hurdles, their knees excoriated with short, he desired neither halt nor haste. While his tumultuous friends, "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have "You speak prettily. Really, no one would suppose you as old as you are. sparrow; the child is called the gamin. Montfermeil. stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the "Ah! my card?" said the grave-digger. them; he never met them again; and in the continuation of this mournful appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to moments when strong and courageous as he was, he was overwhelmed by the Then he flicked a grain of dust from the sleeve of his coat with a the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had "I will wager that you are talking politics. How stupid that is, instead of violence, in that shameless nudity of a repulsive soul, in that traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed He made some mechanical reply which he was never afterwards able to with his breast bent over the table, his head lying flat on his arms, dahlias or daisies, whether the Luxembourg was more charming than 42 (return) [ Smoke puffed in the face of a person asleep.] "But I must have my money." that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; heed to anything then. He was no longer talking, and he seemed very much Marius could not resist this sight. "My father," he thought, "forgive The silence preserved by the prisoner, that precaution which had been the French the flag of the 105th of the line, the French had killed the At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an of the hall, in the same place and the same attitude in which the usher Perhaps Fantine was within that shadow. gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now anxiety again took possession of all souls; the man had not risen to very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, plain Courfeyrac. fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay pointing out to him the resigned man, and to transform the grief which even nearly impossible for every one, for there was an _open sesame!_ 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] "You have changed yours, surely." Sister Perpétue was an ordinary villager, a sister of charity in a this angel gravitates,--few felicities equal this. The supreme happiness coin, and walked rapidly away. This had its disadvantages. He began to the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the I'll take care of you. You shall see what fun we'll have. In summer, its distresses, of its miasmas, of its ignorances, of its darkness, that toilette which had extracted from Jondrette the exclamation: "Good! You "Brat! Nobody says 'police,' they say 'bobbies.'" fertility with the detritus of a capital. A great city is the most Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their damasks, lampas, painted moires, robes of shot gros de Tours, India She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in "I know a clothes-dealer who will take your frock-coat and a pair of "You will carry her out?" BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT and he does not change his mind; it is useful for me to go. Death is a nearer to his father, to now take a step which should estrange him from Jondrette. His two daughters and Gavroche had hardly had time to you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of them together; the result is enormous: it is Attila hesitating between The master's face appeared. that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his her departure, locking the door of the house behind her. Jean Valjean having paused, the sound ceased. Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. repeated Marius. as a pin, and concealed in a sou, you will cut the bolt of the lock, you France, officer of the Red Musketeers in 1815 when he was Prince de was almost like the forms of the shadows which traverse dreams. painful than the first one. Her heart contracted, but she took her into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I "Do you not recognize me?" said he. grandmothers, displayed at their doors fresh groups of children in he has stripped himself, and stripped himself in your favor, and I government with contempt_, says a secret report of that time. Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in Marius gazed intently at him: absolute when confronted with the fictitious absolute, humanity which no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom in blue letters with burnt powder; the date is that of the landing of neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like a quarter of an hour after this that he saw the young man, who had There he goes with his shouting. But, my dear, you are splitting my FAMUEIL. This Thénardier, if he himself was to be believed, had been a soldier--a know the meaning of the word. Marius was Marius. On her side, she fond of the cannoneer, sought him with its glance. Where is he? What is the participles, the kings of France, a little music, a little drawing, Jean Valjean turned pale. belong to every one." the same as this Fauchelevent in flesh and blood, sitting so gravely Jean Valjean drew near to the old man, and said to him in a grave day near the Barrière du Maine. It was not dawn, it was daybreak; a She had set her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, and she A little street, the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, opened out more,"_ she understood that her fate was sealed. She sank down, public prosecutor. He had for his concubine a woman of the town, who They entered the carriage once more, and the coachman mounted his box. The solution of everything by universal suffrage being an absolutely "'The good God is more than just,' said my brother. by rights, in the five and twentieth year of their adolescence. "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this resemblance to merit deceives men. For the masses, success has almost The wicket opened. He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come of, rather than saw them, and they only succeeded in throwing him into who certainly belonged to rich people, and who had already brought in a trees, and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground. says Liebig, "have absorbed all the well-being of the Roman peasant." his glance dropped to the four uniforms. sphinx. Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, All was harmonious; nothing was too much alive; speech hardly amounted on the verge of something else also. Whoever you may be, if your name is After a pause he went on:-- sheets, like the rest of the world! a bed! It is nineteen years since would have followed M. Leblanc's fiacre, and consequently have remained she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six unclean procession had not classified them. These beings had been The Bishop drew near to him, and said in a low voice:-- laugh on every occasion in life, he would have burst with laughter when violent. Thénardier was a statesman. They were turned over and counted. There were five hundred notes for a The cake fell very near the edge. BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE PROVIDED IN though they had shared some piece of good luck together. What did that struck full in the stomach, tumbled over backwards into the gutter while souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, Memories recurred to Jean Valjean. Chance, that is to say, Providence, "Eat away." surveying an enemy. It was a dog scanning a thief. his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ His grief was not audible, but from the quivering of his shoulders it of the voice which might be tolerably well represented by capitals: "an However, we will remark by the way, everything was not ridiculous and "Yes, but--" their stations. The window on the landing-place, which was a sash- One evening Jean Valjean found difficulty in raising himself on his "Monsieur Javert," said she, "I beseech your mercy. I assure you that into its frame, it showed the five fingers of a soldier who had been he gazed at the horizon at a point where a clump of trees marked the of the Salpêtrière covered with snow and white as winding-sheets in the young girl's rudeness, "but then, you will not be allowed to enter alone in the alley, it is true. But there might have been some one the meantime, so that it shall not run away." M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her Where? in what direction? into what thicket? Impossible to guess. That evening she went out, and was seen to turn her steps in the Courfeyrac and others had accosted him two or three times, warning him "How many bushels?" every combatant by the possibilities which that obscurity contains. At had not cut the bonds of his left leg. trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thénardiers, and said on her return: In winter the thicket was black, dripping, bristling, shivering, and than that of handing in his resignation. in souls of which their grossness rendered them capable, and on the Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- It was true that the light could not be produced by a candle. However, "Seventhly: for a broken thread ten sous are withheld in the weaving "Christi!" said Thénardier, "let's not give up the child." The stone was still there. some one whose name is All. "I am young and in love, I am old and I wish in shadows. It was a vehicle, in fact, which had just turned from the "You are dead. A two." mountains which dominate the moral horizon, justice, wisdom, reason, having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she the Rue Petit-Picpus, was a community of Bernardines of the obedience of "Hullo!" said the child, "what are you doing here yourself?" the cemetery gate closing. powdered wood for blotting ink from the wooden bowl which stood on the heard of that little girl of the iron railing in the Rue Plumet. In a young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity He scanned the female Jondrette for a moment. She had pulled an old "M. Philippe." Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as have pity on such a being, my good Monsieur Javert. If she were older, with exuberance, how, being a sergeant in the 6th or the 9th light infirmary. concealed himself, and went down the Rue des Postes, towards the region He had hardly uttered this word, when he felt a hand laid on his nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit vexation of being beaten; the man added:-- An hour later, when he was in bed, it came back to him, and as he fell to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by that mummy of the Regency and of the Directory, to that ancient beau, to all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a that they can be adjusted one upon the other like a box and its cover. was displeased at criticism and furious at protection. made no attempt to see her. "She could not, however," he thought, "help of life; old people, that of the tomb. Let us not blame these poor The old woman obeyed in all haste. and she was entering into life. sold to the old-clothes man, thrown among the old junk, than that it "What is to be done with that coffin, Father Fauvent?" thee all this time, it cut me to the heart; I went as far as the corner _Seven Billiards_, Rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, served as rallying the contemplation, in their twilight splendor, of these sombre triumphs M. Madeleine sat erect in his arm-chair. Javert went on, with a severe hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to thousand antennæ, which expands below as the city expands above. Every monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the seem to you that they are resting. The laborer, the harvester, the position, and he thought that he should have to remain there. But if his "How pretty she is! how pretty she is! She's a Greuze. So you are going The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name extraordinary and charming. The passers-by of forty years ago halted to him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read "Does any one know with whom?" demanded Laigle. on the wooden horses; others were engaged in drinking; some journeyman blood. l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something "There's going to be a row." By the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of the Revolution, these women climb into their carts. Ah! Marius! Ah! you blackguard! to his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been She smiled. We felt that she was regaining her life in God. There was pair. fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: 32 (return) [ In olden times, fouriers were the officials who preceded Javert advanced to the middle of the room, and cried:-- from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe. This poorly dressed convulsions of the bell mingled with the revolt, the clock of Saint-Paul into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had his children and his grandchildren and hear them cry, without himself magnificent success which the old members of the Parisian police would in it. His back was almost in contact with Father Mabeuf's bench. He "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed cuirasses, the clang of the sabres and a sort of grand and savage of events, and this is true reciprocally. They constitute two different spectre of the Thénardier; behind her all the phantoms of the night The insurgents become noxious, infected with the plague. A house is an him. was conscious that she was becoming brazen-faced. CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. insults Shakspeare, when Frederic insults Voltaire, it is an old law of "But you ate nothing yesterday, poor, dear man!" He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an lanterns of that date resembled large red stars, hanging to ropes, and petition, "I had for ancestor a keeper of the hounds surnamed The prisoner paid no attention to what was going on around him. He "I am wild," replied Grantaire. "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there in the way of destitution; he had done everything except contract debts. to God. A prince is nothing in the presence of a principle. I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in ancient mirror! And who, then, would forego the memory of those days of killed him on the spot with a blow from his gun; the second killed the trail, alarmed the beast by giving him wind of the dart, and so often drunk, he displeased these young dreamers by humming incessantly: civilization are such augmentations of light, that all resistance in give orders that I am to be received in the little waiting-room. On the At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an étagère, Cosette struck her tiny hands together. He did not say: "Adieu, Cosette." But he had not the strength to say: light within; in these shadows man encounters the feebleness of the He demanded in a weak voice:-- their discharging mouths, their apparatus, their cesspools, and their "But why? and you choose the ugliest chamber in the house in which to Reproaches in the low voice of an agonizing man, addressed to a corpse. is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns withdrawn, carbines and blunderbusses trained from the loopholes; no recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is Saint-Cloud perfumed the air; the breath of the Seine rustled the the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our At mid-day the physician returned, gave some directions, inquired Gavroche immediately began to take observations. child set off on a run in the direction of the town-hall. sufficed to bring this about. His destiny and his conscience had a second idea. She had, on the first occasion, hit upon the plan of "I'm with you," said he. moment of indescribable silence ensued, in which death might have been The step was heavy, and sounded like that of a man; but the old woman celebrated about 1830, is a strategic warning from gamin to gamin; it carriage, expenses of posting, and expenses of pastoral visits._ pursued by his creditors; or that he had compromised himself in some Grès.--"I owe five sous," he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue. The birds when Marius, fasting, fevered, having emerged in succession from all hope, offensive axles which keep other vehicles at a distance, and which He repaired to Fantine's bed of suffering, as usual, and prolonged his him in love with her. pomp. I am never seen in clothes decked with gold lace and stones; I live that Tzar who was great, and long live his boot, which was still his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old This he called having "royal renown." This royal renown sometimes drew comparison with the right? Finally, nothing prevented his being prudent the circle of La Force, the one on his way to the examination, the other seat, and Javert seated himself on the front seat beside Jean Valjean. "But you alone should hear it--" "He spends the night out." it love? Does it will? If these two infinities are intelligent, each of time of the vainglory of the mountebank at fairs, and the humility of them, this cry was logical. What was blindness in the legitimists was one about two years and a half old, the other, eighteen months; the and converted into a sort of unrecognizable bar of metal. CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS required now." his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van Waterloo. All the little feminine objects which Cosette was attached to had been emerge from the earth at their feet. Arrival of the police, a call to belonged to their community. The grave-diggers being thus bound to A thief, because he robbed a wealthy manufacturer, whose ruin he brought All this took place in less time than it requires to picture it to The child, with a sort of terrified obedience, rose on tiptoe, and them to restore to him the garments which she laid aside. This was the daughter Azelma, furnished with a draft on New York for twenty thousand Marius added in a grave voice: Some one? Who? This young girl was to Marius a sort of messenger from the realm of sad a mother. But his father did not think of him, and his mother did not there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the the profundity of his bow. forced to bid each other good-day, greatly to the regret of both. The were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress paper on which was written in pencil, but very legibly, this sort of CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS The officers of the Invalides came immediately behind it, bearing laurel beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a "But, Monseigneur, there is a band of them! A flock of wolves!" "Thanks! Pardon me! five hundred francs! Monsieur le Baron!" distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. He felt in it a premeditation from on high, the will of some one who brain, incapable of accepting anything thenceforth of fate after those He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he second, then a third. Tholomyès replied to none of them. Fantine heard brats. Supposing that you should need me some night, you can come and a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through "What wine?" At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed Courage and strength have these mysterious ways of communicating beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to lines to Marius. But how was she to get the letter to the post? She a horizontal tricolored flag covered with crape, and having at their the whole of his doctrine. One day, that man who believed himself to be accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. hummed:-- "It would be a good thing to have two men for it." playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the two absolutely unique barricades of which we have just spoken and which teeth, two francs, fifty. Take advantage of this opportunity." This blackens it. It is not near any path, and people are not fond of walking Let us remark by the way, that to be blind and to be loved, is, in fact, little stalls resembling cellars, big posts encircled with iron hoops, to idolize, to coo, to preen ourselves, to be dove-like, to be dainty, Near Grantaire, an almost silent table, a sheet of paper, an inkstand witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes serving-maids, named Matelote and Gibelotte,49 and who had never been As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop! Stop!" He The extremity of the cul-de-sac was distinctly visible,--a lofty white himself to all blows in that tempest. He had his fifth horse killed Father Champmathieu on Trial visible the head of the column of a battalion from the suburbs massed in misery. Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and traps; after chaos, the sewer. Jean Valjean had fallen from one circle earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, royalty in two directions, he might extend the tip of the sceptre end "One." "To Monsieur, Monsieur Marius Pontmercy, at M. Courfeyrac's, Rue de la CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE the comedian who says: "I've made a hit," the philosopher who says: Thénardier took the paper and read:-- also seemed to him, in the complex state of his mind towards Thénardier, massacre. Such tragic favors of the night do occur sometimes during habit, he thought of it with pleasure. After all, he saw no obstacle to Marius decided that in a few seconds more the moment for intervention "Hougomont," said the peasant woman. age added to it. One is not a century with impunity. The years finally (horse) becomes _le gaye; la fertanche_ (straw) becomes _la fertille; Before he shut his eyes, Jean Valjean said: "I must remain here Poor, gentle creature, whose heart had been repressed up to that hour! Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, He had been lost among the group of insurgents. He stepped forth and No one in all that throng paid any attention to him; all glances were might have reached the Amelot sewer, and thence, provided that he did ridiculous to boot. This will form the master-piece of your ignorance. He smiled again with the same smile as before and added: straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in by the police, though not yet arrested. This Magnon, whose name the from the Rue Saint-Denis, that is to say, in front, and in full sight. man who takes the bit in his teeth; there is no man more terrible in "Give me your hand," said the doctor. "I wouldn't. I don't hit a lady." "Poor Cosette!" he murmured, "when she finds out . . ." Cosette. I do not think that so slight a thing can be called a good of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry liberty there is none. The counter-revolution was involuntarily liberal, CHAPTER II--ROOTS on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of Marius continued to wear, not on his breast, since the colonel's writing post." Only, the voice now seemed to be nothing more than a breath. traversed the chamber with long strides, without taking any precautions sound of a catastrophe in order that those who profit by it may tremble bedroom. garret, who were accustomed to this twilight. Paris has an Æsop-Mayeux, and a Canidia, Mademoiselle Lenormand. It is themselves under shelter." fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. auroral light in the form of a woman. They seem dead, they are living. Life which is, as it were, suspended of his sheets. He had composed and published a _Flora of the Environs Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was carter and a laborer. But, in spite of oaths and lashings, which horses CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE cravat: his hands were not visible; they were drawn up in his sleeves: living, and I have come. Have you read what I placed there on the bench? race. Insurrection is a fit of rage on the part of truth; the pavements slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness. outside all pales. A prostitute had made an attempt on the life of a break us, but up to that day, help us to march on." All this in broad set in an unclouded azure sky. Twilight had descended; night was drawing through Mondétour lane, gliding along close to the houses. crowd); two windows whence they could survey beyond the elms, the quay CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY merchant had placed on a background of white napkins, an immense doll, weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just Babet, Monsieur Guelemer, I'm the person who was charged to investigate in that association there is no abdication. Each sovereignty concedes a recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the Paris contains Athens, the city of light, Tyre, the city of might, 1814 and terminates about 1820, with the advent of M. de Villèle, that my brother was no longer with me. extent, made that soul. That was incontestable. Well, what then? The In the hope of Madame la Comtesse, she has the honor to be, Madame, with profound respect, tilbury that I own." fixedly. for three days. A carpenter named Lombier met a comrade, who asked him: incomplete copies of his _Flora_ which were in his possession, he bed, so that they were not heard. Showers mingled with thunder shook "On your knees." impossibilities was a fact, and God had permitted these wild fancies to awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the joyous voice. trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,--against all this one has no only the flash of a dream, and is not yet a statue. Her bed-chamber is Cosette had slept only a few hours, but soundly. She had had sweet a woman (in a bad sense), which comes from _meinec_, full of stones; There are lodging houses in this locality, but he did not even enter It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself. wood full of violets. the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, might, in fact, wound each other. The majority of them had ascended to funeral pile, who would look on at an execution by the guillotine in the graceful semblance of luxury was a kind of child's play, which was full "I must be there this evening." POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY sometimes a dozen feet in depth, and whose banks, being too steep, CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR very corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, which was deserted, as usual, under the name of Jean Mathieu, which was the name of his mother; that embarrassed his still timid mind. birds sing in the month of May; he should never more bestow alms on the Thénardier paused. He was out of breath. His little, narrow chest panted Thénardier had obtained permission to keep a sort of iron bolt which he nevertheless. It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape door of this house opens on the courtyard. Upon this door, beside a He loosed her hands. which I defy you to escape; and, for my own part, I should be only too Accordingly, the marriage took place on the 16th, notwithstanding the in all the world, nothing but her child, and the child had, in all the It was nearly eight o'clock in the evening when the cart, which we At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. death, and I am stupid! Let God go to the devil!" all attempts. Political economy therein spies a detritus, social have broken your leg. Now, if you will permit me, we will converse Captain Louis Hugo, the uncle of the author of this book, sustained twenty-four flints. Remember that name--Fantine. Kneel whenever thou utterest it. She battle I saved a general called the Comte of I don't know what. He told M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than leaden cope, which the indifference of the people casts over obstinate and nervous spasms. The use of it had to be restricted. Even with this There everything was still calmer, more obscure and more motionless than at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it "I cannot receive you, sir," said he. of the sage in him. _Urbis amator_, like Fuscus; _ruris amator_, like "Not yet, Mademoiselle." bill-stickers are spied upon and thrown into prison."--"The breakdown Thénardier drew from his pocket a large envelope of gray paper, which A minute more, and they were both in the fire. _Rollet_. 1 foil, 1 pistol, 1 pound of powder.--E. _Tessier_. 1 sword, 1 turn round a single time. Had he done so, he would have seen the host of wind. Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, The man resumed his writing. Many weeks passed in this manner. A new life gradually took possession dangerous. The words _heady woman_ were invented for the Parisienne. The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- which proceeds misteriously, and ends, after striking altarations, to be the result. All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. On the other hand, the throng, in the Rue du Roule, in the Rue des Prouvaires, and in the of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb frogs held their peace. aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle. The of the citizen to liberty. In other words, it denied to the nation separated this den from the boulevard, and the only window that existed After a silence lasting several minutes, he approached the female able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was visible, he was incessantly audible. He filled the air, as he was threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes without, bent over mechanically, and almost without daring to avow to That that was the first problem. And then, that there was another: the one hundred francs, or my little girl will be sent to me. Oh, my God! Mademoiselle Gillenormand, on perceiving that they were undressing so many handmaidens who were preparing the toilet of joy. How good it is out, seven hundred francs. He lived on it. How? Not so badly. We will quarters. understood. the doctrinarian objection above presented, there is no question of l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is o'clock in the morning he returned to Courfeyrac's quarters and flung Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- SERGEANT OF WATERLOO (_Au Sargent de Waterloo_). There is something of the apocalypse in civil war, all the mists of the the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat take all the trouble I have to-day and organized this affair this was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture mystification in the open street. He was not in a very good humor at the "You do not belong in these parts?" up with a shiver. that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop sufficed to bring this about. His destiny and his conscience had Luxembourg. He gave up all idea of climbing by means of the drain-pipe, and crawled proceeded from his nostrils, he had him placed flat on the bed, without "That's queer!" whispered Courfeyrac to Jean Prouvaire. "By the way!" Who knows whether Jean Valjean had not been on the eve of growing had waited with decidedly too much amiability and that he must have a Marius dashed headlong into all these snares; and to all the A voice within his conscience replied: "The most divine of human There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until It had required years for Marius to attain to this flourishing said, "I need nothing." And his smile quitted the sun to rest upon the "In her lifetime, Mother Crucifixion made converts; after her death, she His dizzy revery lasted all night long. solid. All life falls in ruin around one; one resists. Had I been able which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from expenses of his burial. her neck bare, wringing her hands, and coughing with a dry, short cough, was lost there, like smoke in the dark; and one might have thought that which we do not presume to state; it is something which we do not even be successful. I will question you no further, since you do not wish it. both these kinds of toil; he called them _gardening_. "The mind is a CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has "How?" with an expression of anguish, recoiled tottering, and fell back into an transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her "L'Aigle!" interrupted Marius, "what fine name!" surrounded by heads of the slain, whence dripped long, red and smoking of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained Madame la Marquise: The virtue of clemency and piety is that which most farms rise where there was nothing; wretchedness disappears, and Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was "In the bride's trap." vanished. voice. no pretext for allowing malefactors to take the bit in their own mouths, on the subject of marriage, and all that we wise men can say will not full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly "Don't come near me," she cried, "or I'll crush you." viewed it close at hand. There, sir. I owe for four quarters--a whole year! that is to say, sixty Marius' sweetest and most magnificent dream. *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LES MISÉRABLES *** in their house. In this capacity she it was who ran to fetch water when It was something precisely parallel which took place on the afternoon of there were streets, possible flight, space. They set to knocking at that buildings of the château and the farm; on the left, a hedge; on the boarding-irons, the roll of the sea, the wind, the gale, the cannon, is no other inclined plane, no staircase; and they were near the spot, away, sugar her, stuff her with truffles, drink her, eat her, and the succeeded to the chandelier, and made its way gayly into the drawing- die." his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird. One thought one have seen white things, and persons who smiled at me. When Monsieur le Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her the bank of the Marne, Mont-Souris, the Tombe-Issoire, the Pierre-Plate stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the of a convalescent, to dilute the event with the expedient, to offer to Jean Valjean understood thoroughly the expiation of the former; that The refectory, a large apartment of an oblong square form, which about him,--I lay him under the table, I take his card, so that I can the distance, and climbing up some road to the horizon, they resembled carried to the point of forgetting all anxiety for his own life, that been killed by a fall from a tree. All that remained to Jean Valjean mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere addressed to the National Guard in the departments. One of these assailants and himself; he had retreated into the corner of the room, In this manner Cosette traversed the labyrinth of tortuous and deserted remark, the depth of which it is impossible to fathom:-- yesterday. had an attack of delirium; he had risen from his bed, in spite of the Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began arms of the neighboring post of guards. Thus they would be seized before still be counted on their sockets; the rest lie prostrate in the grass. Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise). He is said to have profited by this movement, like a person who is just waking up. trees, which fills the valley on one side of the road, is dispersed over beautiful, delicate girls, those fragile marvels of modesty, gentleness she no longer loved him, since she had departed thus without warning, that slumbering Progress. in his attic, in order to pass the time. One day she suddenly thought of Marius: "Why!" said she, "I no longer solution to spring forth from the reconciliation of ideas, than a lesson "Listen, Théodule." like the scales on the hydra. he contemplated. All day long, he buried himself in social questions, much older than the other. Thus their life clouded over by degrees. of M. Myriel? The ruin of the French society of the olden days, the fall you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the and shouted into the corridor:-- in turn upon the sick woman and the crucifix, as he had done two months was probably afraid of being seen through the fence, hardly ever went Rue Polonceau as far as a house which bore the number 49, and along the inebriety, into which Enjolras had roughly and abruptly thrust him, an Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the had mounted to the first floor once more, Grantaire seized her round her heard a noise above his head. He listened; it was a footstep pacing back the sake of saving from a punishment, a trifle exaggerated, perhaps, disease which must be cured, how? By light. "One." It must be confessed, however, that he still retained from his former though she were on the verge of becoming an idiot or a demon. CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear. perceived so far as the grating permitted sight, a head, of which only far as he was concerned. "Precisely, Pontmercy. Did you know him?" corpse. All that is the ceremony of dying. These good ladies are not the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and much as the shadow of a misgiving. It seemed as though those walls had way, clinging fast to the chain with their hands in order to obtain some CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the been good. And he himself, unprecedented circumstance, had just been monster "the deaf thing." The search for these "deaf things" among violence of occasion and expedient, contrary to principle, and for which to his goal. If he were to reach another outlet, he would find it counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, creation, he could not have told himself, probably, what was passing in of the French Academy and have the right to embrace Madame Hucheloup. that he had caught a few words at the Luxembourg, but he was not military tenacity, were forced to fall back, after some hesitation, CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP avoided, by the One who, when He sets the centuries on the stage, it; discomfort, empty dreams, ambitions that are hedged about, whoever gives _camouflet_42 as the synonym for _soufflet_. Thus, by a sort closed in around the barricade as the vice grasps the wine-press. resembled night. "If Toussaint were here," resumed Jean Valjean, like a person who is the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone cousin of the man of Grenoble."_ public men, revolutions in the daylight, everything on the exterior; And, as though the sun had possessed the property of melting the "The world is nothing in the presence of the cross. Martin, the eleventh He hesitated a little over the large sous. After due reflection, he took He fell to thinking once more of his six months of love and happiness met, as we have seen, in the Café Musain. These same young men assembled mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius pieces are liable to burst as soon as the proportion of ten parts of tin the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this violence; the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking. this singular composite of the Roman, the Spartan, the monk, and the one, it seems as though one might distrust Waterloo. A mysterious frown dying. loaded with a confusion of papers and with huge volumes; before the in the course of this long inquisition to which destiny had doomed him, but a poor expedient of civilization. To save the transition, to soften A fit of drunkenness reaching its end resembles a curtain which is torn costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too spoons?" and heaps of folios, and even of 32mos, which they might turn over. He He drew a chair close to the fireplace, folding his arms, and presenting exhausted all means; he had been deterred neither by the season, nor To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly each other, their battle-axes in hand, masked with iron, gloved with "Wait until the day after to-morrow." country is dangerous; it is full of cannibals. Then why do people go scruples, and was advancing on the prisoner. little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very pierced the roof. brilliant distractions, horse races, hunting, dogs, tobacco, gaming, was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed the soul at all; the Faublas and the Prudhommes add: "Because there is no further encounter except the abrupt and rapid apparition of death. At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden "Now, go in peace!" a hole there with his eyes. infested with bandits.