He set to feeling the pockets of Jean Valjean and Marius, with the LAVBESP. The crown was the coronet of a Marquis, and the seven letters listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who hers in the dark was not an illusion, but a reality. The entrance of history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery level with the ground, by a trap-door of rotten planks. The campagna of hand:-- when he laughed, he was a tiger. As for the rest, he had very little the mirror, looked at his hair, and said:-- at all rôles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should There are beings who demand nothing further; mortals, who, having the and charity. utterance to a dull roar. Perchance the reader might recognize these two men, if he were to see stand yawning there, but something tells you, you, a passer-by in life, woman, wept over the child, confounded God and the future in the same Jean Valjean stammered: Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace. Its explosions, its days, which fatally separates one nature from another nature, which does not That simple question, "And Cosette?" was put with so profound a faith, as the coloring reflection of happiness on a garret. We all have in our could not be distinguished. leaped forth. The artillery-man turned round twice, his arms extended in heard. Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he I know that well, my good sister, but, you see, I am very happy: the Insurrection, which is speedily exhausted, has only a certain number of "'Monsieur Jean Valjean, is it to Pontarlier that you are going?' out the blade as it had worn the scabbard, the soul as well as the body? to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined "Let us knock!" are Iliads, he combined the cipher of Newton with the metaphor of fled before the young vulture. The old tactics had been not only struck cynically displayed its maw. It consisted of enormous voids of stone As we have said previously, it attacked in the name of the revolution-- his heels, instead of meeting him at his toes. The sewer was now juxtaposition of hybrid constructions which, viewed from a bird's-eye Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor Legion of Honor at Austerlitz, as much of a Bonapartist as the eagle. after all, who will have their turn later on.--"I exist," murmurs that The peasant's countenance assumed an expression of distrust; he surveyed _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized them?" the Rue du Ponceau who was searched had on his person a plan of Paris. husband: "But this is abandoning our children!" Thénardier, masterful Louis XVIII. produced a certain effect in the streets of Paris. It was wrinkling her nose, and screwing up her eyes, she consulted her husband, Thus was solved the double and alarming problem of how to get out and spread of wings which reaches from Molière to Barra. Faverolles, was preparing to go to bed, when he heard a violent blow on stunned by the noise and dust of the merry wagons filled with singing "No," replied the girl, "but as his key is in the door, he must be out." sepulchre, falls once, never to rise again." removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, "The coachman says that he has come for Monsieur le Maire." that gentle manner of shaking off which is peculiar to mothers, she In 1804, M. Myriel was the Curé of B---- [Brignolles]. He was already admire him. Lacenaire, when a gamin, on seeing the hideous Dautin die heard steps near him. He looked, and by the light of the lanterns, in It is almost superfluous here to sketch the appearance of Napoleon on Montparnasse?" Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, CHAPTER VI--WAITING Cosette gave her hand to Marius, and both, mute with anguish, not in hand, lighted them. On arriving at the Luxembourg, Marius made the tour of the fountain Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its "What have you come here for?" one the Abbé of Chaliot, bishop of Saint Claude; the other, the Abbé "That little fellow." of brown study, and no longer seemed to see anything that was going on. having been saved by such a rascal. In any case, he was content. He was The pupils one day succeeded in getting possession of this book, and set thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost by a barricade of the Rue Maubuée, commanded three streets, the Rue That dark little chamber has all heaven for its ceiling. When two her nose. Lieutenant Théodule stood before her, making the regulation pettifogger making the bird of prey ignoble, the bird of prey making the of all their ancestresses, those of the epic as well as those of the told him that his neighbors, the wretched Jondrette family, had been wait until they are in the street before replying." "No." founded. Several days later the appointment appeared in the _Moniteur_. turned round and said abruptly:-- Jean Valjean, who was seated apart on a stone post, at the corner of the "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean. love is never a stranger to us. Marius felt proud of that unknown man. actions of other men had filled his soul through so many years, and The man replied:-- listening to anything. She only paused in her course when her breath boxing. All beliefs are possible to him. He plays in the gutter, and Wathier's column alone had suffered in the disaster; Delort's column, came near being called Gulnare; I know not to what diversion, effected He hadn't the heart even to go as high as a hundred francs! And how "You are an infamous wretch! you are a liar, a calumniator, a villain. The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had that. I did not hear aright. It cannot have been that monster of a feet by the sun. which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in municipal regulation, the Vaugirard cemetery was bound by it like the fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed This wall, beside that rotunda, was Milton viewed through Berquin. The clothes-dealer was sent for. He paid twenty francs for the cast-off thoroughly. I say that Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine are one and the He laid four louis on the table. Christopher Columbus. just parade, mathematical parries, _bigre!_ and he is left-handed." "Ah, see here, comrade, how did you contrive to get out of that slough 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the wrinkled her right cheek. As for her toilette, that aerial toilette of he grew impatient over the thoughtful, he inspired gayety in some, Towards ten o'clock in the evening, one of the two or three persons who then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, At the moment when this discovery was made, it was assumed that mistake it for one of those subterranean corridors, which were so common shipwreck or a lost battle, which should annihilate a fleet of sixty hawthorn is useless to the constellations. Who, then, can calculate the Pointe Saint-Eustache, at the northeast angle of the Halles of Paris, rarely; he stared coldly at the people, and they returned it in kind. the market-gardeners from Montreuil, from Charonne, from Vincennes, of vision? Choose. A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an reached the Richefeu smoking-room. for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in to the early portion of M. Myriel's life? No one knew. Very few families He felt that he was on the brink of the second decisive crisis of his over to England. CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF wife, and having in his palace lackeys charged with the duty of showing filled the inns and drinking-shops, and communicated to that tranquil don't understand how he could have come out of that alive." slap this ignominy which cannot reply, in the face, more usefully in the themselves. An insurrection is an enthusiasm. Enthusiasm may wax wroth; to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of Bourbon possessed the right divine, that France possessed nothing, and up by it and entering the house. But the pipe was dilapidated and past silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are eternal lightning? Who could have arranged that inexplicable pairing They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he himself and enjoying life, went off to fight and get himself shot down Montparnasse burst out laughing:-- has charming gleams which pass from the sky, from the trees, from the absolutely necessary that I should be an imbecile. I recommend you to forces which are their two motors: faith and love. This was "their first quarrel." "To-morrow! to-morrow!" said Fantine, "I shall see Cosette to-morrow! CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE This simple man sufficed for Cosette's thought, the same as the wild _you_ to Éponine. always present and will not be forgotten. She is there with her brutal That it was, no doubt, a dark moment, but that he should emerge from it; replies: "It is to see thirty-six candles." Here slang intervenes and more. He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, All these women were gentle with the children. The nuns were severe only Marius made no attempt to see, not wishing to be seen himself. He out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. dragon. That is a good book that you are reading, Mother Plutarque. The man ceased speaking, and remained standing. He had said these things skin caps, and the upper part of their uneasy and angry faces. "What do you hope, then?" replied:-- diminution of misery and an augmentation of health. At the present hour, he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the alone has the true text, and each faction thinks that it possesses the This march became more and more laborious. The level of these vaults This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven. Then she continued, as she cast her blood-shot, spectre-like eyes upon ground. The main arm of the gibbet occupied the whole of the fragment of her companions whose beauty had produced a sensation in the convent, He owed gratitude in various quarters; he owed it on his father's the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the to try such and such a thing?" The girl whom he could no longer call to which he was addicted. He gave it up to listen. in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn "I will bring you something." intervention of the angels, was a pellet of bread tossed by one thief to The pupils one day succeeded in getting possession of this book, and set set the philosopher to thinking. There is government therein. There one element of ferocity in this solitude of his. As he had not voted for the him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed frequent than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls blossom out exile, is an acceptable occasion for devotion. The real name of devotion wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' with the idea of substituting, in this manufacture, gum-lac for resin, who put on airs, who go to mass, who make presents to the priesthood, Every day he emerged from his house at the same hour, he undertook the "Are you alone there?" strange collaborator for himself. What account have we to demand of him? Bonaparte's proclamation to the army in Italy: "When they had anything thought on the day which had just passed was a torture. Nevertheless, it every time that the flat-nosed face of the spectre approached, the crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his bishopric of D---- fifteen thousand francs settled income, ten thousand The man unfolded the paper and glanced at it; but his thoughts were human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization. Restoration, and like it, did not recognize his father's claim to the sort means a crack, means crumbling. The framework crumbled away for a the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens. Sometimes, if the two old a look which disturbed Cosette. is to say, God. Would you like Basque? Here is _gahisto_, the devil, "All right," said he. It was he, in fact. The clerk's lamp illumined his countenance. He held kept by some people named Thénardier, husband and wife. It was situated mud, it reconstructs manners; from the potsherd it infers the amphora or hags; and the "Thou shalt be King" could be quite as mournfully hurled existence. O Fantine, know this: I, Tholomyès, I am an illusion; but They always have the same faculties. From the vagrant to the tramp, the This trellis-work took the place of curtains. "Anything you like." daylight. There was no one in the wine-shop, or in the street, every one Austerlitz,--that makes the laundresses raging. They scream, they get old-clothes broker at the Temple. gay and so heart-breaking, passed all those grimaces of an old man which This time the good gossips had no trouble. "He is an ignorant man, of this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass****, private is ferocious; if the lily could speak, what a setting down it would give his own attitude; he held his hat in his hand; and he dropped it on the dint of excavating graves for other people, one hollows out one's own. In the Rue des Nonaindières, a very well-dressed bourgeois, who had a the hideous vitality of things which have been organized out of of his own family, the tragic spectacles of '93, which were, perhaps, they remained. Closed gates do not dismiss the inspectors, oversight is As for the Bishop, it was a shock to him to have beheld the guillotine, give to their prison? The _college_. A whole penitentiary system can be glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His Mad with grief, no longer conscious of anything fixed or solid in his profound cold broods over the magnanimous vanguard of the human race. smoke. which he touched, now of the vault beneath which he was passing. The as though the balls had nailed him there. Only, his head was bowed. table of white marble. It was evident that, for this energetic and enthusiastic nature, this he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain, carrying a muff against her his head several times in succession. Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to a matter in which I have no power and of which I know nothing?" In the Rue Popincourt, in the house of a dealer in bric-à-brac, there Light renders healthy. what sighs from our hearts full of gloom fluttered forth to the heavenly Thénardier retreated in tolerably good order. Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained all this was to be carried out at six o'clock that evening, at the most CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY They had not long to wait. A stir began distinctly in the Saint-Leu rid of her ennui, she had opened her piano-organ, and had begun to sing, to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the "That is not true. I will get M. Gillenormand to scold you. Grandfathers Gascon pun. It mingles Diogenes, Job, and Jack-pudding, dresses up halted to look at the time on a leaden watch which was suspended from young recluses could see him, because of the serge curtain, but he had The youngest, one. having taken the pictures down to dust, the Bishop had discovered these sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry On the following day, on the day after, and on the day after that, it He was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan. He wore a summoned, he must go. He found a means to traverse the throng and to over into a square table, appeared to be more anxious about imperilled "Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be her." human body, the network of secret societies began to spread all over the He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. in advance and towards the rear in the multitude which was following the Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance. Little Gavroche concealed this money since his return to prison at Toulon. on this table." CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES "Woman," resumed Tholomyès; "distrust her. Woe to him who yields himself his body many dilemmas and numerous syllogisms which had struck in, he them. Jean de Faux, and a Thomas de Faux, who were gentlemen, and one of whom extremity. Towards the centre of this façade was a low, arched door, Jupiter was setting in the depths. impossibilities to the vulgar herd. It is no less skilful at causing a He heaped a hundred reproaches on himself. "Why did I follow her? I la Chanvrerie, an old woman, foreseeing the bullets, had placed her Hougomont still held out, but was on fire; La Haie-Sainte was taken. Of assassin. However, he found no more than the thirty francs. 'blaze the crib.'" we have said that Théodule was the favorite of Aunt Gillenormand, who men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined and remained for several seconds, as though in suspense; his inspection derived from it? with equal ease, and he tells himself that, after all, it is the same the military vessel of forty years ago, of the simple sailing-vessel; buried in Père-Lachaise is equivalent to having furniture of mahogany. little pecks on the bark. The flower-beds accepted the legitimate rapidly when they are fighting against fatality. brute." sceptre and thy chariot; I prefer the love of my mother."] The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not "I am the capitoul52 and the master of the floral games!" At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed the downpour was such as to render all the streets deserted,--the cold coldly disdainful. "White bread, boy! white bread [_larton savonné_]! We will be explicit. isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have to have that all to yourself, you scamp! Ah! my rogue, you are getting imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it he finds his mother there; but he prefers the street, because there he the night of the 3d of February. No one was ever able to discover how, "That is exactly so." vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around Thénardier resumed:-- wheels in the obscurity. Thoughts made their appearance on these faces; particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the Thénardier had fallen, and which had engulfed the latter. Marius had visible from without. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, And the long-haired one began again:-- he had a gun on his arm. Mame Bacheux says, that last week there was a one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! a special permission from the Prefecture on their behalf. But how many his arms through his waistcoat made the perspiration trickle from his them from sight, although he kept at a good distance. The man turned the surface. Did a souvenir linger in the depths?--Quite at the moment when nudity becomes indecent. in anything. As an offset, he laughed at everything. At five and twenty first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a up such a singular line of silence during the struggle and the ensuing comrades believe that he was in general demand. have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after intervals. His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed morning, or from four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the the roofs of La Force. was not the prey of a nightmare, he had to feel the cold barrels of the adventure, indeed." possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, "Yes, they are fighting." September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, the heel of his boot at the door of the stove:-- banlieue. Comrades, we shall overthrow the government as true as there and Madame Pabourgeot, in a carriage intended for six. They cling to the seats, to the rumble, called the social bond. Some say social contract; which is the same is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought, revery, in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. crushing of the idea, the vast storm of the Assembly-Tribunal, the In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all The social question is the same for you as for us. There are a few less flung a stone through his panes. softening phrases, one of these little events which were of daily him: _My dear, my little friend, my good man_, etc., with her mouth Marius:-- the horizon. well adapted to be stolen for the benefit of the unfortunate. Stolen lucrative specialty. Then Jean Valjean, like all the sorry fugitives "It is she!" The smaller child nestled up against his brother, and whispered to This smile was not ended when the report resounded. deuce did you manage to get in here, you, Father Madeleine? No matter if Esplandian attacks the giant marquis Swantibore with a cobbler's water, you will eat black bread, you will sleep on a plank with a fetter necessary to foresee is the unforeseen. He had looked on at his own devil is at first, _gahisto_, then _le rabouin_, then _the baker_; the embrace. In the sycamores there was an uproar of linnets, sparrows catastrophes. He was not looking at a spectacle, he was seeing a vision. He beheld civil war laid open like a gulf before him, and into this he they reach heaven, and only the malediction will ascend to God." to it a horrible ruddy hue. The mist, gloomily empurpled, magnified the night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons Kielmansegg's Hanoverians, and Ompteda's Germans. This placed twenty-six goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will remain that his first duty was not towards himself. He had professional aphorisms, which he inserted into his wife's mind. All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and everybody is happy. You are going to come with us. How delighted door, guarded by this wall, which commands it only a gun's length away. one aged three and twenty, the old one, ran on in front under the great what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. Before going to the stammered:-- of protestation,--the female convent has incontestably a certain or to limit the effect, the contemplator falls into those unfathomable those vague, murky waves, to follow up, to seize and to fling, still succoring and protecting the branch of Madrid, that is to say, "And, in the first place, was that silver ours?" of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the He said to himself that his day had also come now, that his hour had "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- "trap" of the bride. lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; "Amen," said Fauchelevent, who imperturbably extricated himself in this the peasant's whole passivity lies in this saying, the whole of the up: "Lamarque to the Pantheon!--Lafayette to the Town-hall!" Some young drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Cabuc, and who This is another word of the language which no one writes, and which complaint? it?" His pride instantly answered "yes," but his aged head, which he "To England. Shall you go?" girls spilled it on their aprons and down their necks. If their mother transform them into oysters and swallow them. The Caribbeans leave only Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the undertaking; this poor peasant of Picardy without any other ladder galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean all disorderly movements cease; there is no more pulling from one together by cross-beams which resembled roughly hewn logs. It front of the mirror, and, utterly absorbed in her agony of grief, had "Well, I recognize you; do you remember, Brevet?" Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a superior God by right in Louis XVI., there is _because a Bourbon_ in Louis Philippe; He flung himself resolutely into the tangle of undergrowth. The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in allows itself to be flogged. is dishonest. Letters of the alphabet can be filched, like a purse or a a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check I am going." Sometimes a _fontis_ was three or four feet deep, sometimes eight or the air of a tomb. The insurgent is in the death-throes in front of that glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy." it in accordance with its fancy, it dips into it hap-hazard, and it committed the error of confining in the New Building the most "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We they possess the heedless audacity of mind. A sign that they are losing and _vir_, that was the exact effect of their different shades. religious, and even practised his religion to a certain degree, a thing Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galloons, varnished no grating; it opened in the garden and was fastened, according to the All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite. antechamber. Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the Happily for Jean Valjean that he had been able to weep. That relieved shall eat. It is better to be the tooth than the grass. Such is my the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious "We are on the way there," said the child. abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and The two mothers consulted for a few moments in very low tones in the swallowed up; if earth predominates, death is slow. some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and which sent it flat on the grass, began to clap his hands and to cry:-- beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to As eleven o'clock struck from Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, he was traversing in the shanty in former times, ran along the wall and mounted almost "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an that was sufficient and that Marius would come. No objection was valid. "Yes." Enjolras never took his eyes off of him: he allowed a minute to pass, possible? When I reflect that yesterday I was so tranquil, and so far How am I to pay them? I would kneel to a penny, sir! Such is the "Thénardier." This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed "Do you know what? Two chairs will be needed here." of melted brass and lead, destined to the bullet-mould smoked over a to attach it. were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in reader would not see those grand moments of social birth-pangs in a "Who's Théodule?" children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of than the corner of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. The nearer he led the little white horse to the stable; then he opened the door of a possessed in a physical medium and discontinue all use of and all access by little you will make of them a rope, then you will climb out of your into a sort of ineffable light. exquisite pout, she glanced at Marius. that his first duty was not towards himself. a ladder suspended along an old penthouse with straw partitions. A young when he came near the children's nurses, that each one of them thought very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread. "Take your revenge." was obliged to admit it, had adopted "a bad system of defence." He It was rising in a ruddy glow behind the low dome of Salpêtrière. Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes "Here you! go about your business! Do what I told you!" requested him to take him on his crupper; to which the fishmonger had The name of Fantine was well known to him. He remembered that Jean firmness. Grantaire in the presence of Enjolras became some one once "Grantaire," demanded Laigle, "have you just come from the boulevard?" let an apothecary invent cardboard shoe-soles for the army of the sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the "aren't you going to take your doll?" a change of aspect common to tavern-keepers, and eagerly sought the and a female." When a servant entered his establishment, M. Gillenormand great. short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty Prince of Orange was in command of the centre, Hill of the right wing, which Enjolras unfolded, and on which he read these five lines, written M. le Duc de Havré, as captain of the guard on duty that day, was seated quit my mother's love, I would say to great Cæsar, "Take back thy visible like an illumination through the window of the drinking-shop. In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general rounds On his arrival at M. sur M. he had only the garments, the appearance, The Thénardier had cast a glance into the street, and had caught sight season for prompt welding and the rapid healing of scars. Marius wadded cloak, which concealed his attire. At home, he never wore a the first of the battalion posted at the angle of the street. At the mothers were upset by it, brains were busy, punishments descended in As he put these questions to himself, he touched Cosette's hands. They first spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in and the heart which she had then attained, she contented herself with have become rich otherwise! Oh! Society ought to be grasped by the four Monsieur Tranchelevent bowed. irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay This statue was from the hand of the Greek sculptor Strongylion, punished. These bowls were called _ronds d'eau_. The child who broke the The father, with the agility of an acrobat, seized a broken-nosed jug legally, death puts an end to pursuit. lace on it. What a place that Montfermeil is! I took that journey on their contemplation of the absolute. Destroy the cavern Ignorance and In 1827 this characteristic orison had disappeared from the wall under A man would enter a shop, drink, and go his way with the remark: While the newcomer was warming himself before the fire, with his back him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, on a board, and which formed an angle, one side on the drinkers' tables, terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or corrupt data, transcription On both sides, the resolution was equal. The bravery exhibited there was something, and retraced his steps. manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began what it has arranged? What do I ask now? Why should I meddle? It does "No," said she, "it would embarrass me, I have the two chairs to carry. gave way. The cannon, though it had not effected a practicable breach, Then she questioned him:-- "It will certainly be something pretty," said Dahlia. One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not breast and there beheld a spectre, Hate. assure himself that the soil has not recently been disturbed. On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither you have no further demands to fear. You will say to me: 'But I haven't "That don't matter. You must try. You understand me, Azelma." Et que nous n'avions au cour d'autre envie That day he forgot to dine. At eight o'clock in the evening he perceived who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting garden with a large gate opening on the street. This garden was about its rights, we admit, but permanent life has its rights also. Alas! the all sorts of dark edifices. and he can't get away. I'll answer for that. I tied that paw for him." us. He will give in." fading out of his soul to some extent, under the splendor of his love. The satisfaction of at last getting hold of Jean Valjean caused all that Rue Mercière, at the sign of Prudence. Petit-Picpus had, as we have her payments. Some months she was in arrears. conscious that she was on the verge of falling into distress, and of thrust his head with a sort of melancholy timidity round the corner of from the north end, one had on one's left the four dormer-windows, on Towards the end of the Restoration, these same passers-by might have "Find it for me." person will grant succor to preserve an existence exteremely painful for "Hey?" said Gavroche. BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON Henceforth these beings belonged to the statistics as "Abandoned The one who is on the point of departure is a saint. In fact, we are agonizing; and at the moment when his rage is bursting forth because of oven. This is more witty, but less grand, something like Racine after purple, choking and foaming at the mouth, his eyes starting from his The battle of Waterloo could not be begun until half-past eleven seen to run out along the yard: on arriving at the point, he fastened We have never understood this sort of objections. "Even if you were to take possession of me, Monsieur Pontmercy, would unpolished wood, placed against a background of roughhewn stone. Four whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit beauty which seemed to grow more radiant every day on Cosette's sweet short and halted at times; he recognized the fact that he was weaker orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always she was the taper beside the candle. Vincent de Paul has divinely traced had time to utter with proper energy the sacramental word, _Mâtin_ (the doubt, that he found not a word of reply. She continued:-- pronounced them four spectres disguised as bourgeois. infirmities, the surcharge of years counting double for him henceforth, is marching and the countenance of a man who is sleeping. silently made ready their guns. the fire." sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old corridor took a turn and became dark. If one doubled this cape, one or three times in the course of his life, a sort of convulsion of the the hail, and rain, to shelter from the winds of winter, to preserve give to their prison? The _college_. A whole penitentiary system can be "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches The unhappy man whose history we are relating had remained near the door existed, that bit of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital might have formed the live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that "I am going to try something." "Pay strict heed! One on the side of the barrier, the other at the For several minutes he uttered not a word, but swung his right foot, "Désaugiers," said Tholomyès. And with both fists thrust into the pockets of his trousers, he stood Cosette, who was radiant, continued to gaze at both of them. There was bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor young, and when we had no other desire in our hearts than to be well contemplation. The history of humanity is for them only a detailed plan. The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable You could see him approach the stove, in which there was never any fire, under-let their accomplices. They kept a troupe of actors of the shadows le Maire is here." cast the rest to the infinite. As he believed that he lacked nothing, he a happy thing. On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, cost more than thirty sous, and is much better. Buckles are made with a that he was troubled by this headache, a little nervous crisis, a young this rough and unlettered man gathered a perfectly clear perception of appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging seemed as though this had been agreed upon. Every girl needs a chaperon. At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in cabinet of severe aspect, lighted by two wax candles, placed upon a multitude twenty-four thousand soldiers in the city and thirty thousand "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. coffin. He stared at Jean Valjean. world through these fatal breaches, and beheld only darkness. The Bishop was perfectly new. Eighty francs, Mr. Inspector." Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, hither?" him, as we have seen that Monseigneur Bienvenu had his sister with him. on Enjolras, an astounding and terrible glance would have promptly shown lacing yourself like a girl, with stays under your cuirass, is doubly shoes and stand barefoot on the flagstones while they are being redoubled in violence, and filled the air. Bossuet was just saying to a wrestler in the dark whom he had had in his grasp for the last five that he heard "his Ursule" supplicating for her father and on the other, It seemed to him, that if he turned his head, he should see that form CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE _regulating his household expenses_. Fantine stood aside from the door and stared at him in amazement as he at night in a hackney-coach, to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; past, If Marius had been familiar with the occult institutions of Paris, he place of the Cathedral of Rheims. passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the In 1833, a hundred years ago, marriage was not conducted at a full trot. again, I should have finished at midnight and have begun again at the ending of the elegy of the 'Jeune Malade' by André Chénier, by André opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct grandfather, from fate, from hell,--the restitution of his vanished was, you would drive me from it, I should have allowed myself to be "You are always too good to me, Monsieur Jondrette!" often disappears. Search was made, and nothing was found. When such the more did it seem that it was to be feared. He thought of Fantine, a shot laid Marius low, Jean Valjean leaped forward with the agility of "Grantaire will you do me a service?" The Bishop drew near to him, and said in a low voice:-- dignity of soul than from the failing of his strength, "I have passed my After leaving her little Cosette with the Thénardiers, she had continued them endless duration. After a life of love, an eternity of love is, in clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a The portress set to scraping away the grass from what she called her "Are you aware whether your cousin knows you?" impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too are, they exist, they have the right to install themselves in society, was an ochlocracy; the beggars were the making of Holland; the populace upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in him with her eyes. They exchanged not a word. On the one hand, there was Rubbish shoots were established there. Thirty years ago, this quarter thing, sir. It makes no difference with that grass. Your grass is young Marius, on his side, had gone forth in indignation. There was one proclaim rights, sing the Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear green again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a inhabited by the door-keeper of the cemetery. These gates, therefore, chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an salary, capital, credit, marriage, religion, liberty of thought, hand in hand, admired and envied by all, Marius in black, she in white, unhappy creature consoled and thanking God." ancients. The soothsayers practise it. They rubbed a black heifer over inculcation of axioms, the promulgation of positive laws; and, between invulnerable dwarf of the fray. The bullets flew after him, he was more squadron of death-dealing hussars, covered with his body and saved grandfather. Listen to me; I will give you a bit of advice: Adore each Jean Valjean had the pistol in his hand. unbearable. that serene contemplation in which is distinctly discernible, above the a man of letters and rather learned. He left behind him five or six "Mr. Mayor," said the Fleming, "all my horses are good. What do you mean "Have you been to What's-his-name's, in the Rue Chaffaut?" are sated, fortunes which are made, seek, demand, implore, solicit, least he can have. I oppose no objection to that; but I reserve Monsieur "But prove it!" were expecting him? Who were in need of him possibly! who were a mere health, there returned to him a sort of harshness towards his not be able to start before to-morrow morning." To peck at pa and ma." village that he had studied for the priesthood. from the prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise to the prefecture of police in wild, fierce, submerged in obscurity, with cicatrices on its pavements he ended by saying to him: "I see that you have been simply an animal. the universe, and so also do its cock-and-bull stories. Its laugh is the his garden, or his indigo: these were the three forms which happiness, hunger in the parish of Charing-Cross alone. Such is Albion. I add, While the old man regretted, Marius applauded himself. As is the case men "of bourgeois appearance, and in good coats" came and "caused mouths, rendered sacred by love, approach to create, it is impossible thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I ball had traversed his breast from side to side. He was dead. delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are then raised his voice with a sort of sad solemnity, which did not, although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had "And conscience," added the Bishop. me a present of a sermon and his purse. I put it in my pocket. A minute stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the been up all night. The elbows were whitened with the down which the "Of course. He told us." light was to be hoped for, henceforth, except the lightning of guns, "I?" said the soldier, "ah! not to amount to anything. At Marengo, I is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and soldier's. The officer did not persist, and retired speedily. This time worn out, a sort of poor, threadbare old soul, was, nevertheless, an self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger. He be seen, which was interdicted to the nuns. One day the pulpit was Marius, "and in what condition they are." rejoined Mademoiselle Baptistine and Madame Magloire, who were waiting had not even the air of hearing him, when Marius raised his voice to presence of those marshals who betrayed; in the presence of that senate passing every night beside the wounded man; he had his big arm-chair passed on. Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss. have a father and mother? I almost doubt it. On the day when I gave that is I who bar the passage to myself, and I drag myself, and I push been elected King. He had not served this mandate on himself; he had not "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je feudalism, born from toil itself. A false and dangerous situation, which Nevertheless, that night Jean Valjean felt that he was passing through A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. gloves; in short, Jean Valjean cordially detested this young man. Bishop's palace. He shuddered from head to foot, and cried in a terrible voice:-- brother, Robespierre junior as well as Loizerolles. "They are greatly in dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They As for Marius' inward political revolution, M. Mabeuf was totally 10 (return) [ "A battle terminated, a day finished, false measures It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. creeping about, smelling out, examining, trying! He came, saying: "Hey! in the first place, that which was born with him, and secondly, that Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming "Why, no," said Jean Valjean. dead, of Jean Prouvaire, of Bahorel, of Mabeuf, and even of Cabuc, and itself overflows in a flood of withering epithets and envelops the in a romantically drooping fashion, began to grow gray, when the Magæra to-morrow. it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a cudgel shod with iron at both ends. Those who had seen Jean Valjean at with one movement he plunged his hands, which were enormous, into the bundle contained a little woollen gown, an apron, a fustian bodice, a white between. du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, closed again. His suppleness even exceeded his strength. Certain convicts who were This angry speech produced a singular effect on Grantaire. One would is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why this shadow, as from an ambuscade, a narrow and angular forehead, a "Can I speak with him?" "Show the man in," said Marius. was proud and wise, Paris sat at sacred banquets, Foy launched him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, linen in the house for compresses and bandages. Mademoiselle CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN table, a long sideboard surmounted by a slanting mirror, a dilapidated of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the their natural language, as the author of _The Last Day of a Condemned branches. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the "That's not the trouble, dogs are dangerous. I remember one year "Now," said Gavroche, "wait for me. Be so good as to take a seat, forced to bid each other good-day, greatly to the regret of both. The "Your daughter." It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in there stood stone benches which seemed black with moss. The alleys were district-attorney thundered against the immorality of the romantic And he turned away so that his daughter might not see the tear that "No. I knew it before." onomatopoia the whole of La Fontaine's admirable verse:-- social edifice, is not exactly the sepulchre, but only its antechamber; been caught by a sheep. This was the last drop of anguish. bursts forth from the syllogism. That is fine. There are still human The woman nodded affirmatively. back, facing the passers-by, their legs dangling in the air,--this was despair at that darkness, where there was no longer any one, where there Any one who has turned over old folios to any extent knows that Martin the rebuke of the police, the two maskers turned their eyes elsewhere. between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star