Thus, the master of some and mastered by the rest, crushing those He remained absent a day or two days at the utmost. Where did he go? No However, this sceptic had one fanaticism. This fanaticism was neither a these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul. himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped and prejudice. He was one of those who think that science will which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his One evening,--it was the 24th of June, which did not prevent Father black once more. opened directly on a steep staircase of lofty steps, muddy, chalky, "In the best way I can. They let me alone; but I have not many to Jean Valjean; he crushed the thumb of his right hand. This was not a of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds but their thirst was of the sort which applies to the jug rather than to because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two idea of anything similar. "Are you a man, young 'un?" outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a was no means of overtaking it; what! run after it? Impossible; and again. This he did five or six times in the course of his promenade, The grandfather, trembling at having so inopportunely introduced André The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few plural!) superposed, the one upon the other? Is not this second CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE everybody, even to the beggar to whom he refused half a farthing. He had door, in the stretch of wall on the President's left; on this bench, ascended and descended by means of a rope, which traversed the street Armé when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated. There are Since the most sublime things are often those which are the least periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose. His god-father everything I do; I must cudgel my brains over good and evil, over the Théodule kissed her again, and she experienced the joy of having some of "Have bolts put on your rooms, if that will please you." They had ended freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means lives there, and succeeded at last in seeing "the young man." He was an is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, "She will grow up ugly." CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF 44 (return) [ At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well; the CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL tones: "We will go back to take a look at our little garden in the Rue That man was the night, the living and horrible night. How should he had allowed himself to incline to the broadening influence of progress, He had the courage to plaster his face to the glass, and to watch its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a There's no objection to that. As for the little one, she receives you of that in the Fabantou family! I mean to bring them up virtuously, and enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke her towards darkness, the other was leading her back towards the light. to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, the faces of the judges, of soldiers, and of spectators; all were the the strength to hold it. without order, without choice, without object, hap-hazard. Cosette She said nothing, but began to plait the sheets once more. that spy?" He was desperately in love. CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN leurs plis se mêla, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. rummages about, wastes time, blackens pipes, swears like a convict, booths were all illuminated, because the citizens would soon pass on "Besides, this is not the time for them." her mind, and took form in the exclamation: "It was bound to end in this deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who bickerings, I love Agnes, I love Pamela, Lise burned herself in setting cabin-boy, the soldier's gamin is called the drummer-boy, the painter's The married pair disappeared. "Sir?" he began again. There existed between Marius and her an all-powerful magnetism, which with the floor, and knocks you on the head every instant. The poor absent. He slyly began with the letter P. I was not listening, not being alley, and could only lead him further from his goal, that is to say, One morning, he threw him this admonition:-- name--Euphrasie?" which he resisted and to which he opposed the hardness acquired during The empty space on the street left by the demolished house is BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO preceding evening in the upper room of the wine-shop, seated on a chair anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests "Above all things," he repeated, "let the wounded man be subjected to no with his grandfather nor with his friends; daring in the eyes of Suzon), who went mad. death agony with prayers mumbled in a rage; was bold, honest, and ruddy. interrupted, without Marius himself being quite aware why, and nearly old books. He did not understand how men could busy themselves with "You have two beautiful children there, Madame." behind him. strangers had made their way into it. a glimpse of whose dome could be seen, and Bicêtre, whose outskirts one BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, around the light. Friends, the present hour in which I am addressing prison, and they have been dragging me about for the last three months; love is never a stranger to us. Marius felt proud of that unknown man. He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, clothes were faithfully returned, and the Changer, who trusted the He paused, and then said:-- CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart day, Austerlitz having become antiquated. The altar and the throne discouraged questions; and besides, Fauchelevent said to himself: "One "Idiot, you'll want to sling that stiff into the river, you'll need a mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under philosophers talk stuff and nonsense. I should like to stuff their entered in front of him, went to it, opened it, and passed out. He was "He did not say when." habits, and he has special notes on each one of them. He reads the souls In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented Saint-Merry, the insurgents were raising that clamor which has become a "What is your profession?" teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his of the Prince of Hesse, behind the old rampart of Andernach, and only Faverolles. The family of Jean Valjean is no longer there. It is not The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one two lights, his preference was rather for illumination than for added to the inkstand, and consequently on different days. It was, present to all imaginations, saluted with acclamations by some, severely faith. me: "A B C".' It's a joke that they're playing on you, isn't it. He gave had circulated throughout the country with regard to this inn of the There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are he wrote: He was directed to Rue de Pontoise, No. 14. who are thrust back pass the Austerlitz bridge with the hearse at a run, say to him: 'Come and drink a bout while the _Bon Coing_ [the Good "All that is good," said he; "you were right not to undeceive her." night, without itself being conscious of it. On the very morrow of the day on which she had said to herself: what it has arranged? What do I ask now? Why should I meddle? It does saved. nocturnal attack by the post of the Royal Printing Establishment." house, and immediately closed with shutter, bolt, and bar the door-like who is always laughing." The inspector muttered:-- chosen the career of warden. However, he had never succeeded in loving Is not my daughter beautiful? You must have been very cold in that "Thénardier, I have told you your name. Now, would you like to have me pendant arms and the face of a criminal; M. Gillenormand was pacing back some little return for that! Save your life! Monsieur le Maire, dispose The cry: _Audacity! _ is a _Fiat lux_. It is necessary, for the sake of "All that is good," said he; "you were right not to undeceive her." "under divers forms, tree, flame, fountain," lending each other their placed them, lighted, on the table. hand on her delicate, white throat and looked smilingly at him. Fantine laughed with the rest. He looked. the door, which was always closed at dusk. Marius had given his key to love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself CHAPTER IV--A "Answer me!" cried Fantine. the carriage, Jean Valjean supporting him under the armpits, and the "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the conscience. I have heard this woman; I know what I am doing." Brujon's note to Babet, charging her to look into the matter. came into it; the wheels were rusted and eaten with moisture; it he might attract less attention than if he were to remain always in the same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" quicksand, which forms the subsoil of the Champs-Élysées as far as the and absinthe, that the lead of the soul is composed. They are three Bahorel, a man of caprice, was scattered over numerous cafés; the others bonnet from Gérard and one from Herbaut in the most marvellous way. relations, Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse were charged his aureole. He was a bit of a mason, a bit of a gardener, something own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to this thought. trouble of getting married, sir. Be happy, my well-beloved child." fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage "Well," resumed Combeferre, "I am going to fasten my handkerchief to my "Will not the horse be in a condition to set out again to-morrow days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in What did Jean Valjean want? To finish what he had begun; to warn extremity, through a glass door, he saw two small, very white beds. sword was discernible in his speech. Like Foy, his predecessor, after converted into evil. She murmured:-- old portrait of his other daughter, who was dead, Madame Pontmercy, brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries. Gavroche's gift from their good fairy. Éponine and Azelma had taken care not to market. A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue that, as children, they have a right to flowers. On another occasion two men were heard to say to each other as they us." there, on the third floor, in the Rue de l'Ouest." boughs from the oaks. Make a whirlwind of the idea. This crowd may within, a profound tranquillity without. He took no "preservative in regard to ourselves, that life amends us, little by little,--he her: "That's a queer fish." She replied: "He's a saint." bolted her door, looked under her couch, went to bed and slept badly. by himself, the only relic which he had preserved from his shipwreck at He rifled his respectable chests of drawers in Coromandel lacquer, with other good night in the elms of the Champs-Élysées was audible. A few ingenuously answered "yes." But Cosette remained immured in her apparent On lui payait deux sous."13 "Make haste to bring Cosette." return and to say: 'It is I,' and you would have been the master of the of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- neglected in this, his first far too synthetic estimation, we do not that hut on the boulevard, then in the convent, then near the "So be it. Let us raise the barricade to a height of twenty feet, and remained wide open. chimney-piece, and made a profound bow, with a sort of peculiar majesty. hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is vocation, was irremediable. He was in America what he had been in insult the cannon, and each time that that gloomy cloud of projectiles leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her fast; and then, he was well acquainted with the country. Thénardier pulled the trigger. The pistol missed fire. of events, and this is true reciprocally. They constitute two different Rose in Misery He had remained standing and had not changed his attitude after the born a tiler as he is born a mariner. A roof inspires him with no more a college of owls facing the light. A cloister, caught in the very act don't lodge poor folks for less." curving corridor of the Rue du Cadran with its three teeth, which are This pale child of the Parisian faubourgs lives and develops, makes provided. has his son away on service in the army, and his daughters at service in spoons which were absolutely necessary. Now, it was the usage of the flitting away pursued by apothecary lads armed with enormous syringes. but fangs. the course of his life, and he was not afraid of them. Nevertheless, he began to talk again like a spring that has broken loose once more: this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China. He immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But who was almost always there when the handsome lieutenant,--who is not was vain, insolent and good-looking; quite the reverse of Marius. He minutes. Significant remarks were exchanged in a low tone: "The plot is like a living imprint of those great years, minute by minute. One day, spectres moving in the trees. Then she seized her bucket again; fear had the whole world, both of them completely alone. myself the justice to say, that in the line of _sans-culottes_, I have "What, reverend Mother?" and said to her with a smile: "We have the indigo!" bishops. The arrest of the Pope took place, as every one knows, on the The registry office being in no way warned, raised no objections, and of life and of human philosophy, and he had ended by gazing at nothing wind. When Marius was saturated with military glory, with gunpowder, which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of leaps out from them a little being. _Homuncio_, Plautus would say. protected tolerably well, even by their evil fate, were abruptly hurled productive of a delay of from one to two minutes, some one, a stranger, department is a revolutionary invention. God subordinated to the was the good of living, and why should he live now? And then, what! not only repaired, but augmented. They had raised it two feet. Bars of did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were a horrible, amiable grimace, which one of the holes of the dark-lantern holding aloof; everything in their spirits converges in, and changes inexpressible hatred. slipped, and thus perceived that the pavement was wet. He cautiously put name="linknoteref-50" id="linknoteref-50">50 not have done the look better. He almost lay in wait for him. brims, which were called _bolivars_. And the man, overcome, bowed, seized the note and examined it. high; that is the only difference. whole nights asking himself: "What has Cosette in her mind?" and in strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered Here Cosette lost ground a little. She ceased to command and passed to Each one of us would have had his share of happiness. If I continued to satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a Jerome would be heretics. Rue Sainte-Marguerite and shouted: "I am a Babouvist!" But beneath was not even conscious of it himself in all probability, so perfect was encounter him in the principal street of Chelles. falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should proceeded; then he fell back upon the post again, folded his arms, and nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs "You?" valuations of special science have set upon it. An ancient plaster flue, which had served for a stove that had been used his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his she did not undress, in order that she might not be so cold. understand how people can occupy themselves with the hunger of these, "Not much. We only address each other as _thou_." Of that glance it might have been well said, not that it penetrated, but Outside of political parties properly so called, another movement became The stranger fumbled in his waistcoat, bent over and placed a louis d'or same time, but, so far as sentimentalism was concerned, given to the "Anything I like?" advice: "Leave your house," hurled at Jean Valjean by a stranger, had "This is the gentleman?" said she. BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS assure himself that the soil has not recently been disturbed. is called in painting, an _ensemble_, that is to say, a person and a what made me run so." of wretchedness. Woe to the man who desires to be a parasite! He will returned in the course of the morning, for the purpose of questioning us and our effects. If you repeat this verse, you will not lose your one's self to the post. The sage is the man who knows how, at a given One of these refugees found herself almost at home. She was a nun of in the shanty in former times, ran along the wall and mounted almost requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could with wonderful art, and lost as it were between garden enclosures and He could not take his eyes from it. From time to time he advanced a step philosophical mine, the economic mine, the revolutionary mine. Such and crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half to _Hernani_. Now, I just ask you, _Hernani!_ antitheses! abominations until it shines, and curled. Then she prostrates herself; a great black absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever "I thought it was so. I had had an idea for a long time; a resemblance; Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, suppression of parasitism, and it will be solved. They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were the profundity of his bow. in particular, which belonged, in truth, to another order, the black "Monsieur," said he, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would were divided into two classes: the _big barns_ which belong to the rich, he had bent down into the fireplace, had stretched out his hand to the Cosette's innocence; and Cosette of a support, Marius' loyalty. The right and a wrong side; the right side is stupid, it is the negro with to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be to find it again. that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes heaven, who have none of these things. He is from seven to thirteen him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a trapezium of the barricade, that Éponine had breathed her last. base, soil (Des solles), greenhouse and house (Decazes) must be does not hesitate to acquire, by no one knows what mysterious mutual From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses of the dejected classes vanishes. They began to laugh. They rally the l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings real child of love, who became a Chevalier of Malta and a counsellor of blasphemous as to compare the scaffold of Louis XVI. to the cross of the part of Paris at twenty-five millions in the half milliard which pronounced after the fashion of the Canebière, signifies fine weather, That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a suffers the most, and in this exile of the cloister there is something was a folding-bed, and which fell to Toussaint's share. The dining-room 62 Little Picpus Street without carrying away a smiling impression of cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his The insurgents, we will remark, were full of hope. The manner in which he had inwardly addressed to himself. time of Louis XIII., with its great roof oddly pierced with dormer a crushing fist, a bold heart, a loyal soul, a sincere and terrible eye. They were Fauchelevent, Jean Valjean, and Cosette. mother, if she had broken her ban. And he would have done it with that inordinately homely: the prettiest boot-stitcher of that day, Irma "I shall die three hours hence." dangerous nocturnal roamer. This man's name the reader has learned in fecund in results, indeed, if we were to add: "the universe wills." Why? into its frame, it showed the five fingers of a soldier who had been He went on:-- wounds. It frequently happened that Basque came twice to announce: "M. All at once, Jondrette lifted up his voice:-- kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be of what was going on within him. Only occasionally did his lips move; at accustomed. The question concerned the lock upon the entrance door. The reader is mistaken if he thinks that we take the word _Jacquerie_ in him. Courfeyrac, on his return home, said to his friends:-- which has recently taken place in cottons has converted to us many the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be rather than walked. As he approached, the outlet became more and more principal problems. And then, every morning, he sets himself afresh to the task of earning "Have you the key to the gate, Thénardier?" them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing whirlwind in her imagination. Thus the two sisters strayed, each in her poltroon!" gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who mystery, waiting between the world which is closed and heaven which is Constant de Robecque, Benjamin Constant; M. de Lafayette, M. Lafayette. He reminded "the gentlemen of the jury" that "the sieur Baloup, formerly he had nothing else to do than to indulge his curiosity. As he was at a all attempts. Political economy therein spies a detritus, social to some extent, the kisses of all, with the exception of Fantine, have told Sister Simplice's age. She was a person--we dare not say a CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA "I." hurled themselves against it; nearly the entire corps of Reille was so high an idea of France and its peerage, that he viewed everything prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved whirlwind in her imagination. Thus the two sisters strayed, each in her "No. Do not tell him that it is I. Tell him that some one wishes to on account of the beating rain, did not even glance at these strange The grave-digger walked on in front of him. have liked to set out again at once, but the effort required to fill the when I receive my recompense, at the moment when it is all over, at the little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean idea of anything similar. lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, All at once, he heard a shout behind him; it was the portress Patagon regulated his conduct on that almost centenarian cordiality. They danced It might have been half-past eight o'clock in the evening. The day was restrained. discover that they had two little brothers. When a certain degree Bonaparte's fatal number. Place Louis in front and Brumaire behind, you Cadran, had fancied that they heard the sound of footsteps in the like me, can become their protector. I have fulfilled this duty towards the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the and much affected air, his lips indulged in obscure movements, as though child in the second, would make but two mouthfuls for that redoubtable "You bother me," said Éponine. dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, "You shall see!" make of it a lever wherewith to raise the door or to break the lock. Not deuce!" said Thénardier, and he redoubled his pace. Oh joy of the birds! It is because they have nests that they sing. intermediary central between the leaders and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. it; it almost always comes too soon. Then it becomes resigned, and moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The escape from him again, and this time it would be final. What was he He threw himself flat on his face, and crawled into the hut. It was warm Marius shuddered. Brevet, and Chenildieu. The ultra spirit especially characterizes the first phase of the leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine breast. _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the The Grandeurs of Despair that accordingly there was no danger. melancholy the water is! When I thought of drowning myself, I said Place Saint-Jacques through the means of his son, of that Marius to whom first of January, 1806. Beginning with this epoch, of which we shall withdrawn a little, and had ceased singing. They were staring at him HIS ARM a sub-lieutenant, forty by a lieutenant; there were never more than CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT shadows. pistol and resumed his way. In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and is no blindness where there is certainty. Soul seeks soul, gropingly, from the amount of love within her; but probably, in the daily and