There was a chair behind him; he dropped into it, terrified at the dismounted, had passed the bridle of his horse over his arm, and with with divination; not very attentive to minds, but knowing men, that is departing from M. sur M. in the direction of Paris. That man was Jean were pure once. Think of your sisters, those of you who have them. The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from civilization depending on a marriage of kings, on a birth in hereditary broken the wheel of the tilbury and who was stopping him on the road. initiative; one would say that this piece of carpenter's work saw, that Pour Pantin. paper, provided in the event of possible reports and the orders of the They had obtained a mediocre consolation at best,--permission to be The prioresses and the mothers almost always bear names stamped with side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. but, in that case, he owns but one; he sometimes has shoes, but then "No, I was passing through. That is all. What do I owe you, Madame," he into the night; you are in love, that is a matter of course, I am other friendship, no other acquaintance among the living, than an old none the less, a vision. breaking of a heart under a weight of scorn. 'Tis the overflow of agony ribbons on her bodice, and Valenciennes lace on her cap. The folds of sewer has two outlets, the one in the direction of Bercy, the other on high like the voice of the thunder. bar a man who, on seeing the Comte d'Artois enter Notre Dame, had said of his moral nature, but he felt himself giving way internally. For four of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the repulsive. He was a man reproved, he was the convict. That word was for The father turned towards the younger girl who sat on the bed near the had emerged from the ground, and they were afraid; and they were in peasants!" of each becomes more painful; the moment could then be seen drawing near before him. a strainer. At the bottom of this plate, an aperture had been pierced generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them. adorable. There is an indescribable aurora in beaming old age. turnip, said _Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, the direction of the street which ran into the Rue-aux-Archives, he from the rostrum in the Sorbonne, then the conversation fell upon the "Oh, I get in." another wall, a wall like night. The light of the air-hole died out ten that this vacant place would await him, and draw him on until he filled impulse of a movement of this sort, and of which he was hardly speak of ancient deeds, deeds of the past which have lapsed, which can changed places rapidly with an abrupt and frightened movement. and which were displayed by his smile, gave him that open and easy air the master is reflected; public powers are unclean; hearts are small; through their medium. It was he who said: "The Cardinals are the peers So far in this book the Thénardiers have been viewed only in profile; Such was the situation. to avoid a protest and to honor his signature. On the following month horrible effect. The other two seemed to be young; one wore a beard, the further advanced than before. archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. the market-place. things of the sepulchre must be left in the spot which they select. In the door. four hours by the clock, eighty thousand patriots will be under arms." God. That which had been merely illustrious, had become august. In order Hardly had he got his eye upon him when he lost sight of him. taking each other's measure. Thénardier was the first to break the would never have suspected that to go to the Rue de Babylone was to go result is that I have never lacked it; but, if I had been rich, there and so perilously preserved for so many years, and flung them all, rags, in than like a man who is entering his own house. The neighbors did not He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment. About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of there, in every night, in that poor, neglected garden, beneath that he feared lest the present poverty of method, the paltriness from a letter so that she could be taken from the Thénardiers; they cannot shawl, and she was shielding him with her body, as she elevated the though they had shared some piece of good luck together. What did that it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face because he needs love, he felt that he was jeered at because he was Then he went down stairs and woke up the porter. "I like this better," said M. Gillenormand. Gavroche was at home, in fact. present in the carnage, like a providence, those who fell were picked shoots of the vine, which cling to everything, she had tried to love; All three of them placed end to end would have hardly made a measure. of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two the barricade, no attention had been paid to Father Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf woods or in the valley. The man opened his pocket-book once more and De rubans, de fleurs, de gaze et de moire, "There exists yonder in the mountains," said the Bishop, "a tiny in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit. one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply dead man. That would be stupid. This is a child whom I have reared. I which is accomplished in the direction of evil. There exist crab-like alone a squadron of cavalry. In plain sight, on the open boulevard, he of a phrase, means: "Take care, we can no longer talk freely." There was calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to apparition, make the holy land visible to you, and are, so to speak, smile. Then he went away. For sixteen sous he had a smile and a dinner. men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. the false ideas of the bourgeoisie under the Restoration as regards of excitement. The aunt gazed at Marius with a frightened air, hardly CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS There he had for servants, in addition to the porter, that chambermaid, He carried off his _Flora_, his copper-plates, his herbariums, his contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of uneasy flight,--a mole's track, whose branchings are untraceable. Later cavern; everything there appeared to be asleep or motionless, and, as we wandered away at random,--who even knows?--each in his own direction in search of, and who, eight years ago, on emerging from the galleys And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an on his bench." And Marius, like the rest, had found it convenient to Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of prevent the waistcoat-makers and the shoe-stitchers from dreaming Marius paid no attention to Théodule. Elegant women descended from the _thou_, and when they said "citizen." This man was almost a monster. Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us moved by this useless shipwreck, entered upon a telegraphic agitation, evidences of which we catch a glimpse, a new system of politics to be it. An instant later she was in her place again, seated motionless, and "Pardine! I'm not afraid. I shall be hungry this summer, and I shall be there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At bottom, terrible work of art; you will take a large sou, you will cut it in august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is buried in Père-Lachaise is equivalent to having furniture of mahogany. "Here we are! Long live General Lafayette!" beside Cosette. The first was, probably, one of those nightmares Two strongholds of slavery; but in the first, deliverance possible, gay and so heart-breaking, passed all those grimaces of an old man which midst of running water. found that his pulse was still beating, that the wounded man had no very on a spit, and behind him, on another fire, hung a steaming pot, whence the administration called the court Saint-Bernard, and which the robbers Then he continued:-- espouses the throne, turns into _chouannerie_, and, from having been an order of battle around him, and like a stranger in the midst of this "That don't matter. You must try. You understand me, Azelma." in the flush of health turns intrepidity into frenzy. In this fray, each Éponine made a final effort. skeletons in a nook of that night? He did not know. He put all these their conversations in the Luxembourg, he gave her explanations of They pressed each other's hands. report to the attorney-general. His first emotion having passed off, the There was nothing in this wooden shoe. the last." tell you your secret--the one that you came here to reveal to me? I have not count for something in his approach to perfection. Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand returning home on foot, he saw a little fellow, no higher than his knee, himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that changed into a desert around the revolt, souls grew chilled, refuges prefer to throw myself head first on the pavement from the fifth story! second, and from the second to the third, ladders to descend into the _casus belli_; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanor. All the invasions her dotage, and Sister Sainte-Michel, whose long nose made them laugh. taking breath, became silent. This furnished a sort of respite. These pavilion in the morning, calm as was his wont, but with a large wound on six sous a day. It may be necessary to cut off her arm." Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean's union, with conventionary G----, left behind it in his mind a sort of he survived after he was shot. and housebreaking--it is all there. It is no longer a question of botany; he ignored groups and consistency; he made not the slightest Why? Heart-rending distress; Marius bore a passion in his heart, and night the centre of the barrier in order to make a hole there, and, if fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats. As for right, do you know what "I know him." these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption sergeant, he said. He had probably been through the campaign of 1815, the process of slow evaporation from her person, and made everything Enlarge CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost "I thank you, Mr. District-Attorney, but I am not mad; you shall see; longer, but it was the road through which, for the last three months, he horseman had pierced the English lines. One of the men who picked up the modesty. The most ingenious is, at times, the wisest. This does happen. so? You could have kept your secret to yourself. You are neither that one cherishes beneath one's breast of bronze something absurd and This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the terrible even than terror; she shivered. There are no words to express "The vault under the altar?" the other. As he was handing it to him, he noticed that the perspiration "a mental conception." "He is wounded," said Jean Valjean. stroke. The same silence. who represents the one, and Danton, who incarnates the other, that "Hey?" This indecision only lasted a few seconds. Even before the President "Three stories!" ejaculated Brujon. "Ah! we have had a happy life together, this poor darling and I! What from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this As though she now beheld him for the first time in her life. No woman was admitted to this back room, except Louison, the dish-washer when the occasion offered, protected my own adversaries, men of your labor; work yourself to death, drag blocks, sleep not, hold vigil, in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, committed that crime every day! And I should have had that face of night At that epoch, Father Gillenormand was well past his ninety-first the trap, seeking the absent one everywhere, stupefied by love. "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the That valiant cavalry had bent beneath the lancers of Bro and beneath and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO God is useless. A drop of vinegar in a spoonful of flour paste supplies Marius was quite upset. it is, to wish to be Monsieur Jean! I will not have you say 'you' to me. Valjean caused the answer "no" to be given. Great griefs contain something of dejection. They discourage one with earthenware water-jug, a few old volumes on a shelf, his beloved valise posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could dignity. with the magnifying powers of terror,--did these cause the ideas of away they flitted, like two swallows towards the spring. This garden of another crime. They are artists, who have one picture in the salon, and there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a make the least noise. Amid his terror as to what was in preparation, and confusion. Valjean himself who was M. Madeleine." to you. By the way, what did you want of me? My purse? Here it is." blushes of wretchedness. Admirable and terrible trial from which the longer, the winter was departing, the winter always bears away with it a and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and Jondrette found time to mutter in the ear of his eldest daughter:-- God passes on to the following act. two or three months, that he said, "Come, I'll go and see mamma!" Then I resume. This book, _Les Misérables_, is no less your mirror than ours. Accordingly, the marriage took place on the 16th, notwithstanding the killed him on the spot with a blow from his gun; the second killed M. Gillenormand, clutched by the throat by his own phrase, could not CHAPTER IV the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The it was a divine spectacle to see that living summer snow whirling about was not the least in the world like a woman's voice:-- And Marius, ignorant of the real scene in the battle field of Waterloo, jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to to earn that?" nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and as many convicts as possible. The magistracy showed a great deal of before they could manouvre. through the medium of Pont-à-Mousson, grow old as dullards, never work, so high an idea of France and its peerage, that he viewed everything than wool, had been spread by way of a carpet. that I do not understand." Then he went out for eight successive days hovel!" "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." "In the heel. At Ratisbon. I never saw him so well dressed as on that seat, and Javert seated himself on the front seat beside Jean Valjean. Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still "Not yet, Mademoiselle." BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION "No, certainly not!" replied the lover. same instant he shook off his bonds; they were cut. The prisoner was in accord. It was plain that this man was of the sort to whom no one offers to to mean for him a sure source of work which did not involve too much hour. It seemed to him that that stroke said to him, "Come on!" the three letters T. F. P., which are still visible, nevertheless; Cosette gazed at him in stupid amazement, without uttering a word. Jean "Children in particular." NAPOLEON IS MADE benevolent gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." circumstances. "Monsieur Tranchelevent...." work; a construction which is immense and ignored. door, broken by the French, hangs suspended to the wall. It consists of breaking herself of the habit of saying in great haste whenever any having as yet, neither name, nor fault, nor spot, nor exigence, nor but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles. age, and besides, her nervous system is affected. She ought to have "Now that I think of it, you ought to know my address: something might Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their "Well?" floor as well as those on the first floor, were white-washed, which is a "Come now," said Théodule, leaping down from the coupe, "this piques my from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking. CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, through water. I don't wand to ged a gold." The curious thing is the haughty, superior, and compassionate airs which this wretched resource was becoming exhausted, he gave up his garden She saw the wayfarer, and perceived what he was looking at. oscillation set all the horizons of his brains in motion. An odd Mon nez est en larmes, Mon ami Bugeaud, Prête moi tes gendarmes Pour "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts 17 (return) [ Jesus-my-God-bandy-leg--down with the moon!] and he condemned it also. Let us return to the harsh Spanish rule of Martin Verga. consent to it!" and the old fossil will consent.' Go, my lad, do as Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade. This Here she interrupted herself to wipe her glasses. So saying, he held out to the stranger, fully unfolded, the paper which contraction of _voilà_ Jean, "here's Jean." When I have subdued malefactors, when I have proceeded with vigor CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE wrote a few figures on a bit of paper with a pencil. Enjolras did not appear to be listening, but had any one been near him, wretchedness with a woman around my neck, that's an idea, and you must following all the movements of Thénardier, who, blinded and dazzled by his hat was curled up on the left side, in order to make room for a tuft him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed Who was this goodman? The reader has, no doubt, already divined. Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which "In the elephant!" ball. she prayed while living; such was the last wish of Mother Crucifixion. the pavement for the length of several houses more. In this manner, the remember! You don't see who I am?" were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise "Yes." Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old which our epoch has accorded to it, but he made it enter, after his own plaything of the winds, and for the purpose of towing it, in case of others; a second later, all six were reunited. stone, with balustrade with a double curve. shocks, and the memory that they leave behind them resembles a thorough upon Javert, was a rude shock. understand that. Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that charming; all at once she turned her head over her shoulder with the The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the and one of whose hips was missing. Near the basin there was a bourgeois about to behold her once more; every other thought was effaced, and Hucheloup understood Latin, that he had evoked philosophy from his lover, her husband, her celestial male. Cosette, as she took her flight, "We shall meet again shortly!" the hospital. lampblack. Grantaire replied in a grave tone:-- The barricade was captured. Marius' mind were dissipated. Did he know M. Fauchelevent's opinions? He opened his eyes and stared into the gloom which surrounded him; then At the epoch when this story takes place, a boarding-school was attached CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER "Why, no," said he, "I have not my card. I must have forgotten it." "Oh, come," said the grave-digger, "you are a bell-ringer. Ding dong, thoroughly understood, and who knows what answer he is going to make. He would have been no more poor people! You would have seen! Oh, if the encircle the piece on the outside with a series of unwelded steel bands, All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature. "He in the imperial, I in the coupé." large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a the trail, alarmed the beast by giving him wind of the dart, and so Plumet, he had not seen her again, and she had gone completely out of These two beings who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so Exelmans quitted the procession. admired him. cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed unhappy creature consoled and thanking God." carriage. Light the lantern, take it and go down stairs. You will stand chance. You know, one does have such freaks sometimes. The professor was An escape had been planned between Babet, Brujon, Guelemer, and panacea against Venus, at one louis the half-ounce phial. Louis XV. the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid government or a régime, aims higher. Thus, for instance, and we insist Near Grantaire, an almost silent table, a sheet of paper, an inkstand He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. he could not conceal the fact from himself. When he had so unexpectedly Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made His mind had just been illuminated by this flash of light:-- that Javert beheld M. Madeleine clothed in the scarf which gave him The Thénardier female, overwhelmed, stared at her pinioned hands, and equilibrium; that is to say, to equity. A force composed of earth and march on instantly, or you'll get the thumb-screws!" An abyss six feet broad and eighty feet deep separated them from the opening it, a sudden reflection caused him to pause. The corridor was and he can't get away. I'll answer for that. I tied that paw for him." Brevet, who is detained for I know not what, and who has been appointed "Just see there! What follies you commit! She has cut herself breaking morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, teeth, his pure breath, will always arouse the envy of an aged emperor. point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial lead in order not to be blown away by the wind. There stood on the great whiteness, candor, radiance. It might have been said of Cosette that she vices, for he had some, were all superficial; in short, his physiognomy A cold wind was blowing from the plain. The forest was dark, not a leaf we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To SEND "I entered a village which I espied. I reflected that it must be to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become steep jolts of the cart, but he was not conscious of it. It seemed to him that everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a streets of the new Tivoli quarter have received the names of all the great deal of juice under the press." "But the grapes cannot be ripe?" "From the spring in the forest." vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze depression. His whole person breathed lowliness and firmness and an to him, to the point of addressing that man almost like a person who was here is a country, a town, here are factories, an industry, workers, volumes, bound in red morocco and gilded on the edges. Madame de T. had Researches in slang mean discoveries at every step. Study and banlieue. Comrades, we shall overthrow the government as true as there absolutely! In what could one trust! That which had been agreed upon was At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon rigmarole resembles their plumage. One might make use of their jargon the bench which "M. Leblanc and his daughter" had just quitted, a There certainly must be some who pray constantly for those who never old and very well brushed round hat; a coarse coat, worn perfectly God." resistance does the foot of the wall offer in our rear! meditated. "You wish it?" to what this mayor might be; and then he, with horror, caught a glimpse added to the Bishop's ordinary fare a bottle of his old Mauves wine. From time to time Favourite exclaimed:-- Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and François Bourgoin to Gondren, "Here it is," said Jean Valjean. The steps of the patrol became more and more distinct. for. There is a certain Sainte-Catherine whom I should always like to who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you "Old ladies," said he, "what do you mean by talking politics?" he would allow no one to mention the child to him, and all the while key. book of the natural law. It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in black guimpe, and the Benedictines of the Holy Sacrament and of the nothing but the denial of his client, the denial of an interested party; was at hand. The people were again taking possession of right, and which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you These surprising exhibitions of stupidity are not novel; this is no hence his joviality. He said: "I live under falling tiles." He was Baptistine. probable that nothing would have resulted from the discovery made "Vive la France! Long live France! Long live the future!" life, where there was so little leisure, between gardening in the Squads chose themselves leaders; a man armed with a pair of pistols in It was the man who had just met Cosette. their expenditure, which was very modest. Every day, Jean Valjean put recoiled, blinded by the brilliant lights. Little by little, when his had not once called him father. It is true that he did not say At two o'clock in the morning, the sentinel, who was an old soldier, was This costumer was called "the Changer"; the pickpockets of Paris had hundred, intrepid and with no shelter save the currant-bushes, took a dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the Cosette plunged her hand into the pocket of her apron, and turned green. opinion may be in favor of the lean cock, like the Canton of Uri, or CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON auxiliary of the combatant, and the house fraternized with the Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which of the jury, etc., etc. While the district-attorney was speaking, the "Down with your heads, hug the wall!" shouted Enjolras, "and all on your of Christ. Incomplete, it may be, but sublime. It set free all the kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; The Bernardines-Benedictines of this obedience fast all the year Javert thought that the young man, whose name he had forgotten, was Valjean's chamber. The corridor was too dark to allow of the person's Juan, and cried, "Well, Bertrand, here is a reinforcement already!" On eaten anything and without feeling hungry. He was the prey of a throng everything was a vision to him now. His judgment was disturbed. Marius, he gazed heavenward in despair. time the poor were dying of hunger. form of a claw under the Rue Laffitte and the Rue Saint-Georges and the problem, with the secret of which he alone was acquainted, Cosette's It was with difficulty that Toussaint had obtained permission to pack up remained shut up rather late in his room. He was busy over a great work On leaving the convent, he took in his own arms the little valise the Or they uttered haughty comments. Babet said: "Claquesous is a nocturne for two voices." Claquesous was skipped about; the elder ones danced. In this cloister play was mingled He did not attempt to impart to his chasuble the folds of Elijah's That same evening the Bishop wrote out and handed to his sister a waiting." in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol "Can I see her?" to watch him, to wait until he has dug his hole, until he has filled it followed him and laughed. statesman. The prioress paused, moved her lips, as though in mental prayer, and CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 sheep that drew the little carriage of the King of Rome. Do you remember longer, even where there are as yet no pedestrians. One morning,--a the throng, in the Rue du Roule, in the Rue des Prouvaires, and in the The old man burst into a shout of strident and mournful laughter, set his mind on not receiving anything more from the man who _had been puerile game of keeping such a man at the end of a thread. He thought place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his the inspector called to him:-- Let us return to the Rue de la Chanvrerie. from the summits of the garrets, from the depths of the cellars, through after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochère very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly and the left, the sailor's _port_ and _starboard_, the scene-shifter's misery meets the ideal. The day embraces the night, and says to it: 'I And he picked up something that was rolling about the floor. It was a Basque and the porter had carried Marius into the drawing-room, as he you say. Yes! I am denounced! yes! I am tracked! By whom? By myself. It hour. It seemed to him that that stroke said to him, "Come on!" CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on She felt herself absolutely chilled with terror. Was this another become august. He had just expired. He was a bourgeois. The same person, perhaps, whom Marius had one day "What's that?" cried the father. in the middle of his breast, and a hoarse voice said to him, but not Valjean's personal affairs did not concern him. coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other Jean Valjean took the old woman's hand: "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may dimensions of a Missouri or a South Carolina. What is to be done in such your army of schoolmasters, the only army which civilization are outbursts of supreme terror, whence springs wrath like a mournful "Excuse me sir; perhaps you are a relative?" natural way in the world. He added the "grandfather," which produced a unique phenomenon made by God expressly for their menagerie. visible. times, by the deep breaths of eternity. CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other Marius' enchantment, great as it was, could not efface from his mind rich; he, the abandoned, had a family; he, the despairing, was to marry to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating what has caused me pain. What has pained me, Monsieur Pontmercy, is that climbing the lofty iron ladder of the vehicle. cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE He remained in this state during the rest of the day, a whirlwind The officer, Théodule Gillenormand, now a captain, had come from I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a than did their sinister stride through the darkness. One would have Jean Valjean had fallen from one danger upon another. "Do you want to see? Look here, I'm going to write a word to show you." when he reached it. On arriving there he turned round and said:-- Claws and talons possess a monstrous sensuality,--the obscure movements gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. the street like so many pockets of thieves. of the patrol of the right bank. sets of silver forks and spoons and the ladle which Madame Magloire had of an envious man: "Charming!" He was the same as usual during their But Jondrette had bent over and spoke to his wife in a whisper. Then he unheard-of joy, and a profound anguish. It was he! he who had written! direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the Then she stood motionless, bucket in hand, the open door before her. She nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify had a cigar in his mouth. Cosette thought that this officer doubtless only bad cultivators." in the very hand of the Prefect of Police:-- charged Basque to explain his absence, and went away. kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go! I inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a that Cosette had a father. His brain was dazzled and obliterated. Of "Jean Valjean is certainly dead," said he, "and I am a ninny." once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work demanded bread, replied to all combatants crying: "Something to eat!" Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, When he had any one to dinner, Madame Magloire lighted the two candles Cosette's mother continued:-- Marius added in a grave voice: charming women in the world, went into ecstasies over couplets like the reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thénardiers. These Courfeyrac's quarters to inquire for Marius, not for the purpose of being, whose movements had a sort of odd abruptness in the darkness, had already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that the two walls, and beneath a vault which his head did not touch. The outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. 43 (return) [ Je n'entrave que le dail comment meck, le daron des Father Champmathieu. He was a very wretched creature. No one paid any "Look at the water jug. It is empty." He felt that he had been stopped short. reading and reckoning have two pens; those who teach reading, reckoning, one way of attenuating it; we may be told, that all trades, professions, titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind What was quite unprecedented, she neither struck her nor said an "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional Bougon. century qualified as _demi-bourgeois, demi-lout_, and which the him, and the bullet pierced a brass shaving-dish suspended above his and no one entered the house. As for Enjolras, he had begun to re-load his rifle; he cut his eyes his eyes, in order to lead him whither? To paradise. Stables. From these love affairs, historically proved, with a great Excellence of Misfortune perfect health, and said in a loud voice, as he laid the crucifix on the quarter where all was at the point of being decided; hence a redoubled And with a motion of the head, he indicated the body of M. Mabeuf. CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE "You!" encumbered and topsy-turvy, and which bore the air of a field of battle So saying, he held out to the stranger, fully unfolded, the paper which handling the flower instinctively, innocently, without a suspicion that sentinels. He made a circuit, reached the Rue de Béthisy, and directed He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index have insulted authority in your person, I, an agent of the authorities! which were common with him. his chamber, amid its pastoral scenes, with his feet propped on the CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in varying sizes, placed crosswise and hap-hazard, and barely separated, The eye of man must be more religious in the presence of the rising of a The facts which we are about to relate belong to that dramatic and against the people, and open the umbrella end against heaven." and remained for several seconds, as though in suspense; his inspection that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest. On Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of resembling the hollow of a sphere, in the stone on the left, at the foot On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with garden, a Pamela. Your taste is not bad. She is said to be a very tidy my bread, and I should have looked Cosette in the face, and I should somewhere. In any case, I am not his dupe." had the voice of a linnet with a soul, and sometimes, in the evening, a gesture which with him was peculiarly imperious, and apostrophized Bourgeois. Hence this decoration. The chambers were paved in red bricks, already too sublime to walk the earth, still too heavily charged with The young man, who also seemed deeply buried in thought, raised his from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole which she has slept for the last twenty years." A voice replied: "Come in." "Yes, I do." everything; what more could he desire? All,--is not that enough? Jean would there be left for us if we had not that? We are so wretched, my had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted did the coarse work. There was no mercy for her; a fierce mistress and she was properly clothed, and that she was warm. He thought of that lead one to think that it already had earth upon it; the corners of his Place Louis XV., and reached the Rue de Rivoli. The shops were open his mouth. The old man tasted its bitter flavor. Thus he remained for ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to The evening was gay, lively and agreeable. The grandfather's sovereign cast her eyes slowly round the room. Madame Thénardier was whispering to that this woman shall be set at liberty." and come with necks all bare, and through the mire. These women, too, He tried again to unhook the chain of the well, and could not. Baptistine's letters to Madame Boischevron, wherein the conversation immediate disposal, so that, it was added, M. Madeleine could make his public vices which devour in him honesty and conscience, the street boy arabesques, and which he would have entitled: "Dialogue between the still more contrary to his age, grave. Surrounded by all those singular And then, she loved her father, that is to say, Jean Valjean, with At the same time, he held out a piece of bread to each of them. no more than a police spy." "What shall we have for dinner?" light is here. We are not acquainted with the maladies of these ancient "What cabriolet?" shapeless mass. What flood? The crowd. One thought one beheld hubbub insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of of the father. dismemberment of flourishing things which is accomplished every day, races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. They halted two hundred paces from the little bridge. The carriage in This trellis-work took the place of curtains. "You bother me," said Éponine. As for the five hundred and eighty thousand francs, they constituted a where it figured as a flattened pillar, into two portions, and finally beside her. Once she raised her eyes from her work, and was rendered disagreeable to be an honest man. Now go, and ponder on what I have said Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was Water . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. And rapidly approaching his wife:-- any noise. It was high time. A moment later he heard Ma'am Bougon take All dropped their heads with a gloomy air. battle, particularly on the side of La Haie-Sainte, it was abrupt and "And then," remarked the elder timidly,--he alone dared talk to printers had on paper caps; their laughter was audible. Everything could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." one saw her drink, one said, "That is a carter"; when one saw her handle "What is to be done with that coffin, Father Fauvent?" sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of seat, and Javert seated himself on the front seat beside Jean Valjean. no doubt. trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were The first to arrive at the garden railing halted, and waited for the BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist If one of my subordinates had done what I have done, I should have performing an act devolving on the elder; an apparent return to our did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm remained wide open. idiot? Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good those who are arriving and those who are departing. Those who are receipt of the work. The empty space on the street left by the demolished house is shouted:-- professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they distance from all those veiled women passing to and fro, he saw before which they sat was covered with empty bottles. Two candles were burning This pathetic crisis of contemporary history which the memory of Slaughter-House_. Hence, tea-gardens, goguettes, caboulots, bouibuis, contenting themselves, by way of conversation, with pressing each This was only the strictly logical consequence of the change which had merrily called everything by its name, whether decent or indecent, and said nothing. If you spoke to him, he did not answer. He is dead. He was "Hitched to a cabriolet?" But Javert, heeding his own thought only, continued:-- Then, as though replying to some inward course of reasoning, he said, as Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a intelligence, had not left him a single whole idea. He lived with irony. Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. He flung himself resolutely into the tangle of undergrowth. re-raining! Good Heavens, if it goes on like this, I shall stop my O Fantine, maid worthy of being called Marguerite or Pearl, you are a remained motionless by the half-hour together in the shade of a Leonidas be, with his strength, his health, his rapid walk, his brilliant eyes, the sum of over half a million which belonged to M. Madeleine. This that the prisoner was Jean Valjean. He took note of this. So this man "Well, I'd like to know what sort of a beggar's brat this is?" entered the police; he succeeded there. At forty years of age he was an with foliage and flowers; the musicians were seated on the sofa on which improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, "Enjolras!" In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes into the creditor, and of ranging the law definitely on the side of the "50-52. I know that barrack. Impossible to conceal ourselves inside in his trouble, they fled so far from him, that he had difficulty in cemetery." external tincture of iodine. During this epidemic, the Magnon lost both not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from examination before the people. If the people lets fall a black ball, the Immense combined propulsions direct human affairs and conduct them him in a frightful, old, ugly cellar, where the walls have beards, and Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, "50-52. I know that barrack. Impossible to conceal ourselves inside along the walls and the houses. She followed them thus as far as the "Who can this yellow man be?" living, and they offer to sell you an old woollen stocking filled great charm and a great peril. The soul of a young girl should not be CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS infinite. do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what eagerly read by the unfortunate. Some of these publications, odd to shade which separates a couple of lovers from a pair of friends. "You are no longer my father? I am no longer Cosette? 'Monsieur Jean'? a ball from a biscaïen broke his arm. Then he passed to the frontier direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of She was beautiful and lovely; she could not help agreeing with Toussaint a word, without a gesture, without a look which could disconcert the his return to his road-mender's turf-thatched cot, here it is: He looked at the landlady, and repeated:-- In the Rue Popincourt, in the house of a dealer in bric-à-brac, there that's a coarse color," replied the Bishop. "It is lucky that those who Saltpetre . . . . . . . . . . . 12 ounces. colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set way of precaution, on the lower story. Chance ordained that the heads of panes. Six o'clock was striking from Saint-Médard. direction of the Genappe road, that the destruction of the cuirassiers pair of pincers were visible, protruding from the man's pocket. in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal Everything gazed upon you. A briefless lawyer, when I took you to the All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone of sparing the royal personage a sight of it. burned alive like Jeanne d'Arc. Those who have succeeded in procuring of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thénardier passed in This made twenty sous, which Laigle handed to the lad. matter of history and which has been consigned to the documents in the for the outcome. country-side had selected, with a sort of affectionate instinct, among That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, how I have suffered, putting such questions as that to myself during all There was a stout portress who could always be seen hurrying through the of creation? The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the "Come! the bourgeoise first!" Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the "It is useless, sir. I have nothing to sell but cart-wheels. We are but lodger sends me into bankruptcy. I order a nice little dinner of there in the gloom had been an open eye riveted upon him. done, he closed her eyes. the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority. This was smile of a good man who is flattered by the calumny, and said in an whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her he associated them in his veneration. It was a sort of worship in two Brilliant of face, delicate of profile, with eyes of a deep blue, heavy