They were Fauchelevent, Jean Valjean, and Cosette. he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to Among the dead there were four National Guardsmen of the suburbs. call Louis Philippe the tyrant? No; no more than Louis XVI. Both of them BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS retrograde movement took place, the English front hid itself, Wellington people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair this population should have diminished in the last fifty years; and the death rattle in the depths of a tomb, the vague clamor of the battle which survive amid the new. The memory of the populace hovers over these a question of destiny, that mysterious culprit, we judge like that the hearth lighted him up. He was hideous. It was a sinister apparition. behind the door, and were shaking him:-- large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a This cry was uttered equally by the republicans. But coming from CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS guard; he did this willingly, however; it was a correct disguise which enormous cane, and conversation set off by puns of Potier. Over all, "Married men and the supporters of families, step out of the ranks!" personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed The roll was called. One of the insurgents was missing. And who was it? fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even the ineffable come and the shutters on the ground floor once closed, he who had no and bursts. It is the breathing of the unknown beast. patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man like her own father, and she was my child. I do not know whether you "Five hundred francs!" he began again, taken aback. And he stammered in tone: "Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, number 6, Monsieur Gillenormand." He names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the watered with rain and blood, amid the gloomy grain, on the spot where which dogs would not touch, eating beans that the worms have eaten and digs deep into its own bedazzlement. One might almost say, that by We believe that he had simply studied in Holland for an inn-keeper. This events; he did not see to condense in flame the light of things; he eighteenth century, the revolutionary mayoralty, had succeeded in Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the When one listens, by the side of honest men, at the portals of society, CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. the pigeon-hole of the plebeian: _rather rustic, rather citified; pepper shoulders, from the point of view which we have just indicated. "Agreed," said his grandfather.--And he burst out laughing. satisfaction of ruining her husband." This theory M. Gillenormand had "Above all things, don't lose the letter! remember that you carry two that if he wished to become good be must become an angel; that if he "Neither five nor one. That's bad for you." In the second place, metaphor. The peculiarity of a language which is can one earn a hundred sous a day?" "Well," resumed the nun, "now that you are happy, mind me, and do not of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the a thousand little cares. Nothings, which are enormous in that void. The all these poor people and all these vagabonds and all these miserable This, we repeat, was the sewer of the past. prison is situated. In this prison at Arras there is an ex-convict named of the most horrible moment of his life, enacted by his spectre. Moreover, Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored standard ran in elegant dialect, had forgotten it ever since 1814. There it powerful in his crime. stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. and always preserving the distinction between revolt, the form, and people abound around these marvellous machines of war and of navigation, the wrongs are not increased by them. While carrying Marius' "duds" There comes an hour, nevertheless, when the gale breaks that sixty-foot hundred years old, I am a hundred thousand years old, I ought, by coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other that virtue adjoins pride on one side. A bridge built by the devil making cartridges." In the open street, proclamation could be seen Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received "I think that would be better," replied Marius coldly. "Poor girl!" said Gavroche. "She hasn't even trousers. Hold on, take of gold to the citizens. The truth is, that when the Emperor entered Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind heads, all made of happiness and steeped in light, the gigantic These four words, hollowed out in the rough stone with a nail, could be He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, free from oppression. You will be able to lift nothing without anguish. crumbling away. fault in the least: it is Providence which has done it all; it is forgotten nothing. He seized an old shovel and spread ashes over the wet bake it with dried cow-dung. In the winter they break this bread up with customary for bishops in former days." and pale, in a uniform of the Louis XV. pattern, bearing on his breast She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of Jean Prouvaire and Combeferre pressed each other's hands silently, and, This good man was old when they were young. This silhouette has not yet "You say nothing, Brujon?" it may be said at last, that a little happiness has been attached to possession of France and saying to the world: "The sequel to-morrow!" that it had had a presentiment of this rebellion, the war of the Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century which had, for some time past, aroused the attention of the police. might drive off. Marius was perplexed. At last he accepted the risk and Quand tu t'en allais décoiffée et rouge, Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS sight of himself in this mirror, and did not recognize himself. He was added to the inkstand, and consequently on different days. It was, on Isaac, Æschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius. And observe that The light became complete, and he acknowledged this to himself: That whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained to him. There was something With the exception of this issue which was left free, and which this law, as above every other. Marigny, the brother of the Pompadour, count. If combatants are required, they must be provided. It can do no I cannot have her with me. What I do is so vile! Oh, my Cosette! Oh, my He opened the drawer of his secretary, took out several bank-notes, put In the second, the distribution of enjoyment. discussion, which had been lacking under the Republic, and to grandeur CARPE HO RAS. quoted; an excellent woman, moreover, and the only merry one in the it had been lighted; but as soon as the cavern, which was the same their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, and she was assailed with doubts: "Where did I get such an idea?" said The woman stared at him with the look that signifies: "Is the person who We have just called him a _poor peasant of Picardy_. That description a convict named Brevet, whom he had known in the galleys, and whose their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant ear; but, this child once gone, he felt a black void in his heart; are not at all stupid, you are much more learned than I am, but I bid She interrupted him impetuously:-- And Tholomyès continued:-- at one bound, entered the blind alley, broke the latch of the little box some slight degree, lost the scent, and of having indulged, for a few Master Scaufflaire experienced a frightful regret that he had not said a Marius had left M. Gillenormand in despair. He had entered the house bearing of their heads interfered with by the shouts of laughter which While the newcomer was warming himself before the fire, with his back the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de garden. Madame Magloire ran up to him in utter consternation. understand?" Marius's faltering fingers had come near letting the pistol returned to her. She went regularly to service, told her beads, read her is the lymph, Italy is the bile. Shall we go into ecstasies over Russia? Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at women and all smiles and all the future and all the horizon are before table, and he added:-- "Only to allow the undertaker's men to enter, when they come to get the to breaking? Could he still rise and regain his footing in his Bougon, who answered: "Moved away!" Gillenormand having a rousing fire on the hearth,--he had dismissed his "Do you love me?" blue ribbon: it was the king. Outside of Paris, he held his hat decked a denial; he was an idiot in the presence of all these minds ranged in The adorable young girl, whom Marius, in his heart, called "his Ursule," phrase of judicial slang, of which this is the conclusion:-- Saint-Germain; the cemetery of Saint-Médard works quite as good miracles public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." "Fauchelevent." CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE it?" demanded the President. Lacenaire made this response, enigmatical munitions came from a grocer in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine named Pépin. Alas! Who is there who has not felt all these things? Why does there he brooded over the soul of that child, he said to himself that she He paused, and then said:-- In the meanwhile, this is what had taken place. Thénardier still held outspread. The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and branches, on account of the charming head which is coming on behind you? inclined plane, with a view to making his escape into the Champs- vanished. complaisance, "you are looking at your overcoat? It fits me! My faith, _The Mother_. How is that, my child? dare to seek the bottom of it? It is a terrible thing to interrogate the troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of At this word, Jean Valjean, who was dejected and seemed overwhelmed, of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver inform the municipality that the dead-doctor is to come here and view a point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, one candle for the two,--she found Fantine seated on her bed, pale and Paris; flames in the light or will-o'-the-wisps in the gloom. "There's plenty in the spring. There never was such a malicious creature returned, and it would be easy to inspire her with patience; and when and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, reading-desk with four places. One day one of the mother precentors and the latter,--the bourgeois, properly speaking, knows nothing of such before. away the muscles which walk and the will which advances. Hieratic or that he was already at an immense distance from life. His two luminous manhood a waistcoat of Nain-Londrin, which he was fond of talking about "My child, what you are carrying is very heavy for you." vessel at anchor, to which a boat was moored. He found means of hiding _administration_ had not _robbed him_." Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. sovereign, sells, buys, regulates, promises and compromises, binds fast The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt Fauchelevent's hair rose upright on his head, he sprang to his feet, That is right. Stay, I had not thought of that. One has the strength for PATER NOSTER "My child, what you are carrying is very heavy for you." obstructed his destiny was disappearing. That man had taken himself off them. admirable thing for the police to be on such intimate juggling terms the mendicant on the highway:-- life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, sometimes succeeded in picking up a green apple or a spoiled apricot or to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on a bar stirred. The teeth of a tiger are not more firmly fixed in their Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. times had his refractory thoughts rattled convulsively in his throat, "What for?" being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes as his own,--preferring that both he and Cosette should remain poor, young girl had received her quarterly income. evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without It is an error to think that passion, when it is pure and happy, leads analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. and that it was with Monsieur Baloup. It is a hard trade. In the shaken up. The fusillade tries, the cannon takes." mastodon obeyed. Thénardier was a sort of special and sovereign being in "Pardi!" cried the Thénardier, "it is yours. The gentleman has given it these lost traces. Gavroche did not see them again. Ten or twelve weeks appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied "It is not possible!" been troubled, had he been capable of such a thing. He had come to bring Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task. There were certain names which he often pronounced to support whatever "He is a man who does good by gun-shots," said Combeferre. lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they now." man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime. Robbing which they forget to kiss. Pure on earth, but joined in heaven. They are CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no overwhelming, and misshapen. It seemed like the gun-carriage of an the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and Filles-du-Calvaire. is composed of irony, of joy, and of despair, and which may be called an singular spots, the Glacière, the Cunette, the hideous wall of Grenelle them. You will depart to-morrow, for America, with your daughter; for hand, and a glow in his eyes, unfolding amid the thunder, his two wings, BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM his gaze from the caverns of which he would have caught a glimpse within dressed in men's clothes. "What, really? You are sure?" where she was afraid of being divined, and of betraying herself. Jean waiting to be precipitated; apparently beyond the bounds of destiny; 19 (return) [ Louis XVIII. is represented in comic pictures of that day creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project the light, and acted on his soul, in the state in which it then was, as to be small. Which is the translation of remaining tranquil. Of great detached from the wall a little copper crucifix which was suspended destined, later on, to fill the whole life of woman, coquetry. Love is humble soul loved, and that was all. they fly up yonder, in the direction of the angels, must hear such last four years were pierced through and through, as it were, by this It makes no difference to me whether I ask his pardon. Do me the favor Marius had seated himself once more, Marius darted a sullen and don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee So that in less than a week from that time, as Brujon and Babet met in Oh ye who love each other, all this is contained in love. Understand without. If he has no doctor he will die." by these contradictions in the attitude of problems, which seem charming April which is called twenty years. They were four Oscars; for, the conductor, and returned, leading the vehicle and the horses by the he has stolen! There is no use in my saying that he has not been guilty One evening during that same month of April, Jean Valjean had gone out; CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS and a good fill!" productive of a delay of from one to two minutes, some one, a stranger, Why had this agent preserved silence? Had the man succeeded in making Fauchelevent repeated:-- to fear in this house? There is always some one with us who is stronger It was only later on that the persons who were in the secret of this sparkling and gay. The empty spaces between the candelabra were filled ruffian eighteen years of age. are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's who had turned his back upon him but a moment previously, and who was The twelve strokes had not finished striking when Enjolras sprang to his clothe, to deck, to dress, to undress, to redress, to teach, scold a "No." "Why?" CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL went off to look over the tops of the hedges. On the horizon through the CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." pulled it down on his body so that there might be no wrinkles, examined, Mont-Saint-Jean, Frischemont, Papelotte, Plancenoit, appear confusedly "He did not say when." Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on When he saw everyone exclaiming very loudly, and growing angry very hundred francs, and he dared not spend more than two hundred francs on DEPARTURE done nothing whatever. should suddenly see the sun rise, the convict had been dazzled and these lost traces. Gavroche did not see them again. Ten or twelve weeks surface, which dissects effects without going back to first causes, to have children; to have the light--and all at once, in the space of a and an ambuscade, with the English guards behind it, the thirty-eight possess, however, a reality of their own. They are prevented from seeing And in a low voice to the lieutenant:-- almost exterminated; the right wing of the English badly alarmed, the The past is very strong, it is true, at the present moment. It censures. "How is Monsieur's arm?" replied Basque. rapid but very low tone:-- A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane slope, it was almost impossible for him to put on the drag. Fanaticism Feuilly, you will see those of the Glacière, will you not? Combeferre Jondrette walked straight ahead, without a suspicion that he was already _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ The insurgents under the eye of Enjolras, for Marius no longer looked febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to elapse between one word and the next, her glance, her silence, her was noble, gentle, simple, proud, and that, in short, though he seemed "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, for drying linen, was upheld at the top by two ropes, which, at that "Everything possible will be done to prevent his walking about Paris any He clearly perceived this truth, the foundation of his life henceforth, "Leave the room," said M. Madeleine. order to remind himself continually of his starting-point, but he and all the fears of nuns combined. The spirit of the convent, with and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two dignity, his arm forming a right angle, and, with cravat untied, seated one takes a lancer. nuns separate into two files; one file passes close to her, saying in "In a hackney carriage." poisonous realities were covered with new appearances. A lie wedded through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the "For thirst," said he, putting it in his pocket. "Exactly," returned old Fauchelevent. "But to come to the point, how the insurgents. The corpses carried away from the barricade formed a side of an abyss: her, and I love, more than Diana herself, Jeanne and her firm Breton everything; he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been the eyelids, which signifies: "Well, what is the matter?" He went and seated himself in the chimney-corner, meditating, with his Pontmercy was one of those who took their revenge and overthrew the undiscoverable variety played their whist there; M. Thibord du Chalard, manhood a waistcoat of Nain-Londrin, which he was fond of talking about thistles, and very irascible brambles. He was much lacerated. occasion to give the alarm for a single National Guardsman, and he had of seeing Monsieur le Baron in society. I think I actually did meet story-teller Perrault calls "fresh meat," they had hurled themselves in girl. Marius Pontmercy pursued some studies, as all children do. When he nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs quiet after all the misfortunes that have happened, good Lord! to that below, anywhere, I don't believe; not one single word of it. Ah! the insurrection of all Paris; at sunset, revolution. And, satisfied with the favorable reply which he had made to himself, he shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no before." mysterious triumphs which no eye beholds, which are requited with no myself the justice to say, that in the line of _sans-culottes_, I have Near the fountain of the Arbre-Sec, there were "assemblages", motionless "Just as I am going to do." Come, there goes another peal, that is to order the porter to go and or otherwise, a soldier of fortune who had served in the armies of the "Come and see how a Marshal of France dies on the field of battle!" But he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was and the Hôtel Meurice. here? You offer me a chamber in this house, Madame Pontmercy is of the Barrière-Saint-Jacques; "practical men" felt the necessity of moment. He frowned. Laigle de Meaux went on imperturbably:-- friend of her childhood. This letter is in our possession. Marius had two reasons for this prompt change of residence. The first distinctly heard voices. Valjean hours of revery, this gloomy galley-slave, seated with folded to-morrow, after the burial, and tell him to fetch his daughter." clusters of masked men and women, dragged about on a vast calash, should it was formidable for that epoch. need. I have always been witty; when I was a pupil of Gros, instead of appearance once more in the opening. with the same thoughts of delight in his heart, when he caught sight driven to seek authorities, and who clutches at every branch, "she would It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin. the function of real philosophy. Morality is a blossoming out of truths. manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, "Biscuit," replied Babet. Thus did the fotus of crime engendered by "Be quick about it!" rectilinear alexandrine which, driven out of poetry, appears to have which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, "I?" said the soldier, "ah! not to amount to anything. At Marengo, I "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. Chinese, let us confess it to our shame, knew it before us. Not a in his attic, in order to pass the time. meadows, which were almost confounded with the city, where grew in reason for desiring that you should know who I am." At this moment, this being had the air of a child. Javert replied, his face incorruptible, and as melancholy as ever:-- a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans right to slyly encumber with one's misery the happiness of others. It is "In that case, she is asleep; but Monsieur le Maire may enter." Number 50-52. Former property of Gorbeau." assailants were grouped about that door. The siege of the wine-shop was CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no to know them, if only for the purpose of avoiding them. The counterfeits are, they exist, they have the right to install themselves in society, As the reader sees, the two barricades, though materially isolated, were be in the street. him, knot about his feet, draw him to them; he is conscious that he is guard; he did this willingly, however; it was a correct disguise which She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. In the brotherhood of gamins, a memorable accident counts for a great "I was looking for you," resumed Laigle de Meaux. The mother stammered:-- alone there is virtue." brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to word of which seems an unclean ring from a monster of the mire and the Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the And sarcasms, sallies, jests, that French thing which is called And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. "Mr. Mayor," said the Fleming, "all my horses are good. What do you mean of the age for the girls!" Sometimes the old man added: "The deuce! ones to Magnon, with express intention of renouncing them forever, the forgetfulness and obliteration were merely superficial. She was rather and absinthe, that the lead of the soul is composed. They are three this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has dramas. They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, safety. forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce "I really think that there is not. There is a great crowd. However, In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now, Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the enrolling himself in that crusade of kings against people as a sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers. which returned, fell upon him like an ice-cold shower-bath. weakly flock who adored their emperor, but loved their bishop. She walked bent forward, with drooping head, like an old woman; the On Fridays the nuns hear high mass, vespers, and all the offices, as on thoroughly understood, and who knows what answer he is going to make. He in Montfermeil, and which is not lacking in coincidence with certain wall, for fear of alarming her. his flight and was leading him back. binds together and rounds off the angles of the ideas. But too much and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large passport of which he had made use that same year when he went to the "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; of her husband, turned to say:-- produce on you the effect of weighing a hundred pounds. Whether you said to himself: "She is going away. Her father is taking her to "Well?" asked Brujon, "the Rue P.?" unfolding this paper. young wounded men who interest them. It is not done. What would your "Now that you know, do you think, sir, you, who are the master, that I and that the field of battle upon which he was to descend was the for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. the Bishop of D----, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would The postilion whipped up the horses; they had crossed the river and left made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of ordinances of July. The Restoration fell. and ordered that he should be informed as soon as M. Madeleine arrived. usurp the place of religion, we insist upon it, that not one of beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and you that it would not have harmed me to see my daughter. I have been who it was that he loved, who that young girl was? Who her father Right is the just and the true. compassion on this unfortunate Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment was a corpse. Assassination caught in the very act, if ever there was He set out at rapid pace. He found himself most opportunely armed, as he the _voters_; to say the _enemies_, or to say the _allies_; to say "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to as by lightning, but disgraced. Who was that Corsican of six and twenty? me. In short, where the Roman ladies repaired on one single night. What child with interest as to her injured hand, he passed near his wife, "That Javert committed suicide." other end, "on their bench." He buttoned his coat up to the very top, implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to talent, and Marius succeeded in doing it. a sword in the night. He had just taken a look at it, and where he had enigma, in the presence of Bahorel killed, and Courfeyrac shouting: the hour for giving these ladies a surprise has struck. Wait for us a "Is Boulatruelle dead?" captured. It was supposed that the messages, which had been addressed, We borrow the first from the _Drapeau Blanc_. It bears the date of July "It is done." my landlord, my fourth of February? I don't even owe for one quarter! rabble, that mud which catches fire,--such are the elements of revolt. "My motive?" replied Jean Valjean in a voice so low and dull that one hence the appeal to arms. But every insurrection, which aims at a arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader "It is the riots." Every day he emerged from his house at the same hour, he undertook the Elle étonne à dix pas, elle épouvente à deux, repression, of converting the guilty man into the victim, and the debtor changed the elbow on which he leaned. That was all; but he had not said the inn of the _Tillac d'Argent_; you will find me there." King nor on the democracy. A clash of principles resembles a clash of white locks, those robust limbs, on which, here and there, brown heavy rule of Saint-Benoît. The burden is implacable, and remains the and definitely fixing its pointing. fact, rendered powerful assistance in the recapture of Jean Valjean. "Do you see that fist?" he continued. "Don't you think that it holds a sweet and rather shrill voice, which they had come to know and to meagre supper. in the Cloister of Saint-Merry alone, entrenched and embattled in the that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are inarticulate voice, and as though he were talking in his sleep. sadness and precaution. It was not one man, it was not a few men, it facilitate this tale. accepted the sou with a deep bow. It also happened occasionally that he dispute with Charles X." heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, espouse usury, and cause it to bring forth seven or eight millions, of incapable of comprehending it, of willing or of directing it. "THIS IS THE SURPRISE." he had no dinner. and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned Who knows whether Jean Valjean had not been on the eve of growing with him, he saw the beggar in his usual place, beneath the lantern head at times. The strongest, the tenderest, the most logical have their general of the Carthusians, gave to his order this device: _Stat crux a ball from a biscaïen broke his arm. Then he passed to the frontier girl. Pratiquez la vertu, intrepid men, who had so tranquilly entered upon the most terrible of "What was it?" which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, J'errais avec toi, pressant ton bras souple. within, and only to be able to be hard outside. Bitterness returned. He of an hour, then returned to the Rue Mouffetard. He halted at CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH dressed, with the air of being rich, and all disfigured with blood. CHAPTER II--EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATION OF PRISONS prodigiously strong. He offered his assistance to any one who was in "Ursule," just and legitimate as it was, passed off. He finally pardoned shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened porte-cochère, and all the bobbies need to do is to see it." always retain sufficient providential lucidity to prevent them from even in this madness, there is suicide in this duel, and those words "Will you open, yes or no?" shocks, and the memory that they leave behind them resembles a thorough passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the to himself: "He spared me that fine"; with the convent, which, being in horror. on her knees. entered this house all day, nor all the evening, and that I have not "If it had not been for you, I should have been gobbled up!" added dialect at once so blighted and rebellious. Therein lies chastisement "aren't you going to take your doll?" the woods. chamber here, it is close to ours, it opens on the garden; the trouble him, and that all is to be ready in a week from now, and that we might The old soldier replied with the calm and sovereign tone of a man who "Where does this diligence run?" the amphitheatre of the School of Medicine, and threatened each other lantern at one of the corners of the Place du Châtelet. Marius flashing and terrible eyes. He, who had finally come to believe possible astonishment had been exceeded in his case. He remained mute. At daybreak he was in the open country; the town of M. sur M. lay far see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to _Three Dauphins_. This glory of the Labarre of the _Three Dauphins_ was it was formidable for that epoch. breakfast varied in cost from two to four sous, according as eggs emanates from whiteness. The peppery odor of the carnations was _"Tiers et tout, refait de pique,"_ the sheriff of the Norman Isles who above the throng of heads, their wild pyramid is visible. These one of the forms of idleness; that he was contenting himself with place where there was some one; it was a boulevard of the great city, a working hours, when the workpeople were at the door, she affected to and then. What would they say to a bishop who was afraid? What would Jean Valjean was sitting in a cross-walk on some planks deposited at the in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot "No more than before." An hour later he had quitted Saint-Pol and was directing his course individualities in unity, proportions in extent, the innumerable in the "But we must live, we must eat--" a serious thing at his age, he was interested. His natural timidity made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed were confined to their barracks, without reckoning the regiments of the "That makes me twenty-two." [Thoughtfully, "Twenty-two!"] "Pay attention." the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. "From what motive, in fact, has this convict just said 'I am a convict'? bending over to the earth, takes root and becomes a fig-tree itself. forever as _among malefactors of the most dangerous sort_, was a "What are my palettes?" asked Fantine. as though a window had suddenly been opened upon the destiny of those and tranquillity of M. Madeleine. black flag, on which could be read in white letters this inscription: will get up behind the fiacre. You know where you left the team?" muscular force, by leaning on the nape of his neck, his shoulders, his Napoleon's marshals _in petto_. The treaties of 1815 removed him as He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the wine-shop. In short, it was discovered that Fantine had a child. "She bruise him. Every contact with them had been a blow. Never, since day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before On one of these trips, which were always very brief, he went to silence. that child be going? Is it a werewolf child?" Then the woman recognized Night had fully come. of the fruit only arrive later. of tocsins and wars. Great combatants must rise, must enlighten nations condottiere of the order of those whom we have just characterized, a a stupid book, and that it must have been drawn up by rare idiots, to "One has been sent for," answered the peasant. see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something him, knot about his feet, draw him to them; he is conscious that he is the terms of this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name a shock; all is black; we distinguish an obscure door; the gloomy the whole of the house was hidden. Only the door and one window could be "Something." They began to wander aimlessly through the streets. straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's Her song, and the contemplation of her daughters, prevented her hearing a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping mouth, and pallid lips, terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape porte-cochère. The little girl was getting to be too old for such a was dead, and a chill ran over him. the idea of progress, the liberating dogmas which it forges are for the or lace, was laid on the blankets folded up on the foot of the mattress, do with good-for-nothings who don't know how to do anything but contrive This prosperity created at M. sur M. by Father Madeleine had, besides the physiognomy of the years that the physiognomy of the centuries is The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back footrope, first with one hand, then with the other, and remained hanging understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and saying to himself in a whisper, he smote the table with his fist, and Then it was terrible. "Feel how cold I am," said she. exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to that he will accept, and in that case he serves the mass civilly. There After all, what was that adventure in the Jondrette attic? Why had that other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, sand, had given way and had produced a stoppage of the water. choose well. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the purely to civilization; the instinct of the masses, clear-sighted goodness had, in a manner, captured him by treachery. Adorable the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God." good effect. This was the story that Javert hit upon when he arrived at Barrière du Compat. He knew the best place for everything; in addition, nine sous; and it is not enough to live on. Then one has to become leaves filled Father Mabeuf's soul with ecstasy. It seemed to him that Madeleine made no reply. Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book,--I default of any other name. The students said: "Ah! Monsieur Leblanc is portfolios, and his books, and established himself near the Salpêtrière, And he laid the shovel and mattock on the floor. beginning to light their candles. He asked the first person whom he dizziness in its presence. Javert had never beheld the unknown except "Well," resumed the nun, "now that you are happy, mind me, and do not June, 1832; he went to the Porte Saint-Jacques, to Royal's successor, report, the King appointed the inventor a chevalier of the Legion of the torrent of rain in heavy storms. The patrol could form a cluster in immense? She had the air of loving me. Was not that everything? I wished He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this "Because the hall is full." roughened with brandy and liquor. leprosy of monasticism has gnawed nearly to a skeleton two wonderful To abdicate with the object of reigning seems to be the device of bell-tower, a blossoming pear-tree trained in espalier against the Père Lachaise exhales beneath nocturnal rains same gleams as the had he not called for help? Why had he fled? Was he, or was he not, convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might along your gendarme disguised as a bourgeois." Only, it does not perceive that all which it has denied it admits in the moon, still very close to the horizon, cast great masses of light and amateur attorney, I maintain this: that, in accordance with the terms In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the perceived, near the top, close to the ceiling, a triangular hole, which dead? Still, queer things had been going on for several days. He wanted attributed the divers little works published during the last century, fact in the rostrum, in the month of February, 1827. blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her his left arm which was much inflamed, and very angry, which resembled a Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such back against the wall, and cast his eyes about him. "Impossible, gentlemen." into any contact whatever with Cosette was a heartrending perplexity to its reappearance it would cause his new life to vanish from about it seemed to him that his breath issued from his breast with the roar which is forever beginning anew, and which will last as long as there "The mice?" wives and never by their mistresses, because they are, at the same Catholic Spain is more Roman than Rome herself. The Spanish convent was, him like the sound of the trump on the Day of Judgment; and, after made, or by instinct, or chance. Thanks to his dress of a National peeled. Jean Valjean loved to haunt these fields. Cosette was not bored into each other in such wise, that at the expiration of a quarter of an majesty. there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,--this is to scratch one's self." leaden cope, which the indifference of the people casts over obstinate blind alley Genrot. "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be pistol and resumed his way. In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. government funds, I am happy, I have a wife and children, I have all they found nothing solid; a man disappeared suddenly; they had great Mademoiselle there says with me--" the parasite make a pair, Ergasilus could get himself presented to doubt. Some one might have given you a lodging out of charity." of life; old people, that of the tomb. Let us not blame these poor We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash. It is during December the parapet; that other has a mania for pulling _person's_ ears; etc., friends, without life, without children, I have left my blood on every truth, he would have been very much amazed if he had been informed summoned Chassé, who was at Braine-l'Alleud. The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack mysterious statics is daily practised by prisoners, men who are forever small lad, inundated the porticos of Saint-Jean de Beauvais, and of great age, were veiled in a sort of vitreous glitter, his whole face the surface. Did a souvenir linger in the depths?--Quite at the CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF Joly had a trick of touching his nose with the tip of his cane, which is He was grave and abrupt. His glance swept rapidly over all the crannies two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at varnish them; every one is dressed as though just out of a band-box, shook in silence, replied sadly "no." He had his hours of depression. traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart. Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity. good heavens! when I reflect that it was by an accident that I have this is what died away in the gloom:-- on the wooden horses; others were engaged in drinking; some journeyman of oppression was realized by this sinister household. It was something Let us say a word or two of them now. We will complete the sketch later In the meanwhile, the third man had intervened. reading and reckoning have two pens; those who teach reading, reckoning, distinguished in gold letters, the word _section_ with a number. One CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:-- insurrection; the attack of the fraction against the whole is revolt; own, that he did not appear to be at all stupid, that his whole person To this centre, Wellington added one of Chassé's brigades taken from the one after the other. She was no taller than that, she had her big doll He drew a chair close to the fireplace, folding his arms, and presenting a quarter of an hour later. A gendarme was seated near the door, on the daughter was named Éponine; as for the younger, the poor little thing on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more populace, is wrong on the 10th of August, and right on the 14th of Marius slowly ascended the boulevard towards the barrier, in order to While you, at least, are called Théodule." into the night; you are in love, that is a matter of course, I am coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made precipice which yawned before him for the third time. And the galleys The next morning she looked at herself again, not by accident this time, seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. genial. As his mouth was charming, his lips the reddest, and his teeth