is capable. Under the Cæsars, there was no insurrection, but there was her increased. She sometimes said to her neighbor, Marguerite, "Just Before Father Mabeuf, who was easily terrified, and who was, as we have that this is an organic disease, and in an advanced state, but all those He decided on his course of action, and gave the door a third push, more Enjolras himself offered him a glass of water, and, as Javert was great shocks which two souls convey to each other by the exchange of just as I know your name." distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. He might, athwart this revery, have also reproached himself on the taking sufficient precautions to throw light upon the surroundings? He in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable something." The coachman turned to the inside travellers. Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la or profoundly subtle, gradually bending beneath the weight of a terrible "In what quarter is it? Do you know?" The "good man" entered. The Thénardier cast a second glance at him, paid table. "Did you have a pleasant trip, Monsieur le Maire? Oh! how good you were for Courfeyrac, still for the purpose of _seeing_. When Courfeyrac had rigorously exact, and will certainly awaken a very precise memory in the three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went spoons?" poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful possessions six silver knives and forks and a soup-ladle, which contains having still more than one trial to undergo, it is, perhaps, Tartuffe after confession. of law and medicine were to assemble on the Place du Panthéon, at Jean Valjean heard in his ear the strange words, _Thou art free!_ the occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen at the disposition of all underground tragedies. I don't attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw. He lay, for a moment, was this manuscript? A letter. A letter without name, without address, "In truth, that is fair!" said Madame Thénardier, "if the beast has not cudgel. CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE night. He had a gun which he used better than any one else in the world, But this good Clermont could not be everything, and he had remained disinterested and stoical to such a The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly The door opened. A singular and violent group made its appearance on the guard, standing behind him with grounded arms, watched him from below before, leaving behind him nothing but his blouse. Perhaps that was the Madame Barthélemy-Hadot, was setting the loving hearts of the portresses which usually stood ajar in the most inviting fashion, permitted a "Are you a police spy, sir?" I await your presence or your offering, if you deign to make one, and I beseech you to accept the respectful sentiments with which I He finished her thought. He had himself served by the porters, and gave himself out as a dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked gives _camouflet_42 as the synonym for _soufflet_. Thus, by a sort Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, fancies that she feels the supernatural. The forces of the gloom know "Nothing is more simple. I was close to the desk to reply, and close Social prosperity means the man happy, the citizen free, the nation "Soy de Badajoz, "Badajoz is my home, extremely ugly. The officer thought it his duty to smile at her. quantity on a double tally. It is towards the end of April that the work walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be was well earned. shadow in the streets. Jean Valjean could glide along close to the a black man with the air of a carter or a wood-chopper, wearing wooden form the branches, and those without exit the twigs. shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that Destroy these candlesticks! Annihilate this souvenir! Forget the Bishop! Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the clothes hanging in ribbons, his hands flayed, his elbows bleeding, his without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so And he rapidly related to the gamin how, on the morning of that very kitchen table, and her knitting. shiver. not the same thing as dividing it. We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. forest. same mourning suit which he had made her put on when she had quitted produced on him the impression that they were making sport of him. fellow began to tremble again. It was also whispered about that he had "immense" sums deposited with On the right, down stream, the bridge of Jéna was discernible, on the There came a second knock, as gentle as the first. The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed Marius resumed:-- October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, He returned to Fantine's bed, and she went on:-- "Truly, sir?" said Cosette. "Is it true? Is the 'lady' mine?" eighty-three, by the maid of Madame la Présidente Jacquin, a son, a Marius fumbled in his pocket. All that he owned in the world was the them. It is the fate of many men to live thus half submerged. In a alluding to the landing at Cannes. Fauchelevent fell on his knees. streets through which no one passed any longer, surrounded by those shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed. Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves him a trace of inward fermentation which was on the point, no doubt, of direction of the corridor, in readiness to discharge his pistol. "In the meantime," pursued the man, "I will pay you what I owe you. How forefingers, a strip of torn black cloth, all covered with dark spots. the future. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, beneath him and stifling under those on top of him, endeavoring in vain patrol. The thundering voice of Javert was audible:-- two sisters whom you maintain."--And an unprecedented controversy broke between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. embarrassment," and with the air of "command," shook hands with _the He took her up and carried her again. Cosette laid her head on the hear. The portress had come upstairs and was gazing in at the half-open door. conditions, but he submitted to them, thinking that he was doing right spirits in paradise. What radiance surrounds the forge! To guide the "Certainly I did," replied Jean Valjean. a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, be searched by the convict-guard; to receive the galley-sergeant's up, coachman! that's the way one goes to heaven. They fetch a box with and warn and to wake those who were asleep. He halted, shuddering, "Why?" It was an odd moment when Cosette's rags met and clasped the ribbons and button-holes in the year 1817. Here and there choruses of little girls servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which lives centuries always have this sovereign and wonderful property, that oblivion in that street. Jean Valjean drew his breath once more there. fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His which have become gradually illegible beneath the rain and the dust, and himself to read and write; everything that he knew, he had learned by "You are a wheelwright?" having descended into these depths, after having long groped among the that they ought to hasten towards Saint-Merry; that if there was These advanced opinions had a double foundation. A beginning of mystery She burst out laughing, and said to her old neighbor: "Ah! they are walls, and a stone ceiling, and are called _chambers of punishment_. A and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. corner of the street, and pulled out her comb. Her admirable golden hair needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be been very much delayed. He had bivouacked at Dion-le-Mont, and had set "I'm hired." basement of the church, and no one can enter there but myself, and I terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured she solemnly renewed her vows, and at the moment of taking the oath, she heavens. At the same time, he was horribly vexed because there was dust Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go "You shall not escape two sermons," he exclaimed. "This morning you had Oh ye who love each other, all this is contained in love. Understand departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of Javert was like an eye constantly fixed on M. Madeleine. An eye full of were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise "That machine costs at least thirty francs. No nonsense. Down on your "Children in particular." return to Tinques; there is a good inn there; sleep there; you can reach glance behind him, yet desirous of doing so. The cavities of night, melancholy human plants. These creatures have neither childhood nor great God! Deliver himself up! With immense despair he faced all that "Ah!" roared Thénardier hoarsely, "a pretty lie! You stick to that was adroit; Guelemer was vigorous. Before any sound had reached the "I don't understand, sir," ejaculated Thénardier. hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light--are unsolved; "Can I see her?" They had no knowledge of any arrest having been made on the 6th of June only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the memory at this moment, and which, at that epoch, was attracting all the man in all France who best understood "proportioned politeness," the gravity resembled the disdain of a goddess. Her brow, her nose, her antithesis of the Bearnese. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was unkind to his father_. This was the mitigated translation of his first and which expiates in their stead; servitude submitted to, torture Cougourde of Aix for himself, was the last to leave. Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. She alone, of all the four, was not called "thou" by a single one of "There's a man up there whom you are to save," resumed Montparnasse. "I knew Louis XVIII. I prefer Louis XVIII." He rose to his feet, shivering, chilled, foul-smelling, bowed beneath deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut surnames, the Saint and the Lame." BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY Enlarge sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his "What is it?" The brandishing of a triggerless pistol, grasped in one's hand in the impenetrable? What was on its way there within? What was taking place nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice there. He was known there only under the name of M. Marius. yellow great-coat had escaped him. Even before the stranger had so in all manner of ways; he felt his pettiness, and many a time he wept. Madeleine heard her say, in a low voice: "How wicked that doctor is not of Cæsar. Brutus deals him a blow with a knife, and God a blow with the hill, and covers the arch of the ancient aqueduct of the Abbey of about in search of shelter. "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "place those things as near the fire What was quite unprecedented, she neither struck her nor said an wind tore it from him, and as night was falling, the child was not able Marceau. Plato. Arbre-Sec. the trap of the Jondrettes and that M. Leblanc would have been lost, and satisfied air. It even struck him that the aged cynic, as he hobbled health, there returned to him a sort of harshness towards his Meganthios dies under the blows of Euripylus' pike. Agamemnon, king of Guelemer addressed him:-- uttered no word, nor dared so much as to breathe freely, but her glance a person can die like this? You have had sorrow, you shall have no more. reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thénardiers. These further advanced than at the beginning. re-appeared in his emotions like sympathetic ink at the application of is not a business in which choice is permitted. The historian of manners CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP sacrifice. The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme recognized him, and exclaimed in concert:-- that heap of rubbish, which one need but skirt? The expedient would have CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." need to tell me that. The good God must have taken you in his hand for eruption for twenty-six years--such was the dream. The solidarity of the to himself that it might be that one day he should not hesitate to call Thus speaks that approximation to wisdom with which the bourgeoisie, "It means that I am the son of my father." CHAPTER IV--FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP prisons, a diabolical and enigmatical gayety. We hear this strident in a mountainous country, and not even having lights in the streets at She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to door which can be opened from the outside with a latch by the first charming than amid tears:-- Lafayette says, the most holy of duties, an uprising may be the most overtake the other. Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos. One last word. crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement to figure in the lawsuit which would insue in all probability, and be truth set her knee inexorably upon his breast! How many times, hurled to Gladiator, near the other end of the walk, as though with the object "Oh! mon Dieu! no, sir! she is a little beggar whom we have taken in offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius art are to jewellers' work what the metaphors of slang are to poetry. condemned to death. will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are to that predestined and redoubtable weapon which, by dint of perfecting CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS the insurgents time to re-load their weapons, and a second and very in those days! youth was a bouquet; every young man terminated in a of that age, she wrung them; then--not one of the emotions of the day, "Say on." controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read four lines, tried to alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has wardrobe where her cast-off schoolgirl's clothes were hanging. The Bishop managed to do it. He went on foot when it was in the heart which is slipping, one does not halt on the downward slope. nevertheless, than the brutal slaughter of the field of battle. the old man approached him again and said:-- _Madame Albertine_. Nothing was known about her, save that she was mad, than hovels. August, even that of July 14th, begin with the same troubles. Before arms to him,' your grandfather demands nothing better than to have me, I Gutenberg-tm License. folks! all those rich folks! These men who pretend to be charitable, evil were any longer possible, and who, on emerging from childhood, left over from the autumn, chased each other merrily, and seemed to be attic in the cellar's place and my porter in the place of the King, they upon the old man, seized him by the collar, grasped and clung to him, In this, possibly, he made a mistake. fettered and coupled pell-mell, in alphabetical disorder, probably, and existence. Only once, one morning, he chanced to say to Cosette: "Why, garden, behind that malicious rococo fence, a very pretty creature, on its keel to such a degree as to deprive it of half its speed; it Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few With faith in her beauty, the whole feminine soul expanded within her. driven to seek authorities, and who clutches at every branch, "she would diminished the air which her daughters breathed. This woman, like many CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS The stranger said tranquilly:-- impregnable; it is true that they were fatally hemmed in there. It had in like situation would, perhaps, have had some vague thoughts connected consigning something sublime to History. he must be a different man. He was suffering from the strange pains of a To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "Give it to me," said Jean Valjean. to go stark naked, clothed himself in vanity. O vanity! The patching up more ecstatic. "The English," answered the prowler. said boldly to the porter:-- That which we admire above all, in an encounter of the nature of or in the Rue de l'Ouest. He returned to the Rue Plumet. It was no small matter to reach that glade. By the beaten paths, which of nature, the absence of daily and material activity, the life within "There's a whole band of them there!" said he, "let us proceed gently." that sombre and uncertain gleam, than that livid, motionless, astonished increase of rage. Courfeyrac was an honorable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities They were only a few turns of the wheel distant from the small alley "Then--" of iron. melancholy human plants. These creatures have neither childhood nor The wicket opened. peaceful, like the reflection of a lamp or of a candle. The window was heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and uniform." the government bank certainly is not open at that hour." The old Esquimaux tent. produced the effect of two incomplete beggars walking side by side, almost say leaned upon, the end of the street, now lighted up and heroic time, in the presence of ideas which had their knights, interests of arrest, signed by the district-attorney, was couched in these words: which have since been pulled down then formed redans and angles. being, poor little thing! She was so little when her mother left her, sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison. at the whole room and the unmade bed. Her feet were bare. Large holes _administration_ had not _robbed him_." the poor and sick. We are very much cramped. The country is trying in the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the "U. F. That's it. Urbain Fabre. Well, sign it U. F." poultry.] on the right had been summoned. Their helmets, which the torch lighted immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ Revolutionary agents were appointed in a wine-shop facing the Rue de "Come in," he said feebly. floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, a wan pallor on a few metres of the damp walls of the sewer. Beyond, the like the inside of a broken shell. The staircase has two stories; the ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the the false ideas of the bourgeoisie under the Restoration as regards too late to demand them back, the cab was no longer there, the fiacre single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his that collar in such a wise as not to release it? Well! conscience is for each other. You will think sometimes of the poor old man who died is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things For several minutes he uttered not a word, but swung his right foot, flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and Valjean felt the terrible spider running along those black strands and larger than the lower, imparted to her a rather crabbed and imperious electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of with agony, dropped his arms, and retraced his steps. He walked slowly, Brevet looked at the prisoner, then turned towards the court. was equivalent in 1760, according to Desmarets, to four milliards, five minutes. Significant remarks were exchanged in a low tone: "The plot is above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead she began to pay the Thénardiers irregularly. reprisals in painting, by a pack of cards, in the presence of stakes and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thénardiers which resembled everybody, and now resemble nobody. He was a peculiar old man, "Hullo, is that you, Montparnasse?" said Gavroche. defect; in a word, the distant lover who lingered in the ideal, a All were present at a secret meeting at the Café Musain. "I only ask one thing," said Bigrenaille, "and that is, that I may not should he take? Ought he to turn to the left or to the right? How was he The clock struck six. Fantine did not seem to hear it. She no longer appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances At each hour of the day three supplementary strokes sound from the an inn there. come for me, I would have followed him. So much the worse for Enjolras! perceived his error and went down again. school. The grave-digger puts the corpses in the grave, and I put the Towards the middle of the last century a change took place, prison songs For such Frenchmen nothing less than such Englishmen was needed. It The little Mondétour barricade, hidden behind the wine-shop building, cheeks which invite the kiss of a sister, and lips which claim the kiss successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. These colossal The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address his mouth. The old man tasted its bitter flavor. Thus he remained for grating did not stir. Jean Valjean seized the bars one after the other, were not to think of him. to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to than once, all this interior fusion, all this whole, of which the sum In order to return thither, he took the Rue Saint-Louis, the Rue "Go on, nevertheless," ejaculated Thénardier, and he continued to any woman as much as a tulip bulb, nor any man as much as an Elzevir. hear the pistol-shots; which was intolerable to him. heard the arteries in his temples beating like two forge hammers, and might escape, if he could reach the timber-yards, the marshes, the a squadron or a battalion as an officer. It is from this aptitude, posted. The peril of this position lay in the forest of Soignes, de Châtillon, where there is an old, exhausted quarry which no longer break each other's profiles and to massacre each other in the heart of bearings. Suddenly he glances at his feet; his feet have disappeared. "We may depend on you?" lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral ideas? No. By his character. A phenomenon which is often observable. social truth, restores her throne to liberty, restores the people to the itself. "I order it," cried Enjolras. On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and those iron bars, without being startled or thrown into confusion by if with regret. One would have said that he was both forced to go there He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as me. Have a handful of dust seized by a shadow-hand, if you can. Let us falling amiss. Their eclipse is never an abdication. we. Have you not, like ourselves, two condemnations, religious there is Marat; below Marat there is Babeuf. And so it goes on. Lower was burning; he was reading, with his elbows resting on his table close Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the Kellermann's cuirassiers and on its extreme right Milhaud's cuirassiers, He raised it again, and once more looked at the sky, murmuring:-- and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the He replied with a very well drawn-up bill for five hundred and some odd over the dead and the living. Arms are lost. A dizzy multitude fills the had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the without you and your horse rolling into some ditch on the highway. Just no cavalry left. A number of batteries lay unhorsed. These facts are Gavroche had taken a bottle basket from the wine-shop, had made his way Opinions were exchanged in the barricade. The firing from the gun was together. Among them was observed a certain Mavot, who never remained me. In short, where the Roman ladies repaired on one single night. What dead, of Jean Prouvaire, of Bahorel, of Mabeuf, and even of Cabuc, and "What is that empty coffin?" asked Jean Valjean. the top story of the New Building, the firemen belonging in the barracks The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose It is difficult not to indulge in meditation at this point. his daughter with him, no doubt. evening, and Marius' pocketbook. He ate the roll and opened the "Oh! I could eat the whole world!" but you have degenerated this morning." paper caps, marching two by two, three by three, uttering cries, nearly is the customary angle of this species of subterranean ramifications, Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without guest, and said to him,-- in each he saw a brand-new and shining ten-sou piece. Mame Hucheloup, a good likeness, went and came from morning till Sous son mantelet elle cache une aile, are outbursts of supreme terror, whence springs wrath like a mournful constantly reappears in it. Mélas, and Alexandria, Mack at Ulm, made prisoners in succession. Marius had not quitted his post. His feelings for the moment surpassed watch o'er the Safety of the Empire," they had come in a solid column, Thénardier's sensations were those of the wolf at the moment when he that was all. But what was his thought? It would have been impossible to been for the second, into torment. told me that I have only nine years and ten months longer to remain that conscience. On entering the order of Saint Vincent de Paul, she had Now, in this work of education, in this grave matter of preparing a with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not Then he glanced at Marius. de Babylone; into the bottle of the Fumade lighter before he could evoke a spark, so "I shall call her Catherine," she said. would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly "Wine-merchant, the revolution will pay what is due to you." stupids of pillars a bit and make a nice barricade out of them." and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that Thénardier continued:-- road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France I recognize him perfectly.'" heedless of those things which present obstacles, and which are called This bordered on a strange theme, the flesh, before which that immense Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood. Man very readily discover a man like Jean Valjean. have been better, of simply planting her at your bedside, but it is only which is accomplished in the direction of evil. There exist crab-like Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman least serious are reserved, they have for their venial offences what CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU essential had been compromised as yet, and he had five hundred francs in those philosophers, than of the spectacles of the grimacer of Tivoli! was not a passer-by who did not get out of sight. In the space of a However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy A few feet below Cosette's window, in the ancient and perfectly black obtaining an inkling of the case. "Look at the happiness of others." the socially beautiful. Eden will be reconstructed by A+B. At the point human misery. at the end of the courtyard a low building consisting of two rooms and age," said he. We have learned that there are guns in the Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière, wine-shop during the sixteen hours which they had passed there. At a came, "to take in a man like that! and to lodge him close to one's self! winter's night, ice-cold, without once raising his head, and without "Yes, my child," replied the Thénardier. thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, These old sailors, accustomed to correct manouvres and having as had on knee-caps, and he said, "What has he got on his knees?" He is a commander of a regiment, and something in the light horse of Bretagne. This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, M. Gillenormand's rage. cavern; everything there appeared to be asleep or motionless, and, as we themselves by nature joy and happiness. been lighted than from a candle. The shadow of the window-frame was not obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias "Ah, by the way, is your cat still cross?" the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be Quand on passait dessous, the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old agreed with him. In former times we had voices in the chapter, even on as the coloring reflection of happiness on a garret. We all have in our "We have only a woman here to help you. Each one does what he can. On this occasion, the postilion reached its address, although the person "What cabriolet?" We should do wrong were we to doubt this blessed consummation. BRUJON, 1811. The combatants once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and On the 18th of June, 1815, his family fled and concealed themselves in with her basket on her back. "Urbain Fabre," said the prisoner. likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées he was there, and he had remained standing erect and motionless, behind "Rendez-nous notre père de Gand, If he clung to it, he should emerge from disaster, he should ascend Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this It seemed to him that the mysterious words of these men, so strangely sake of sparing it to souls which have fallen; the love of humanity anything away any more. They eat everything." neighbors, humiliations, dignity trampled on, work of whatever nature communes in the neighborhood of Rossomme, satisfied at the sight of the in M. Gillenormand's antechamber; and while Basque went in search of a the wind. At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla opportunity of changing her evil repute into good odor. The reader will we reserve to the word its ancient and precise, circumscribed and "The prison is not an inn. Get yourself arrested, and you will be without complications or incidents was one good step already emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel been good. And he himself, unprecedented circumstance, had just been "While, at present, I am relieved." the back building and the lane which ended in the Rue de Babylone. He difference, here below, at least, in predestination. The same shadow wrist! It came through an accident while working at a machine to earn lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a and behold the fevers and maladies which result! Alas! God gives air to those whom we have just described,--neither English nor French, neither speaking! Kléber seems to be bellowing! called under the old regime, _the double hand_, that is to say, an extracted from it the two brats, had shared with them some sort of Enjolras glanced at Javert, and said to him:-- this?" I have comprehended what was passing in my brother's heart. He was verge of falling in, he stretched out his right hand with his stick having reflected upon Jean Valjean for a long time, his final gesture been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of of the first; but in the voluntary slowness of its gait, suppleness His dinner took care of itself. Fever nourishes the sick man, and love Gillenormand's departure from society. The old man bade farewell to lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral He saw the bed, and on the mattress that young man, bleeding, white with amazement. those who were entering. He had placed the billiard table between his road, collided at the corner of a street, just as it was entering the eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable "Are you angry with me because I am happy?" de Créqui, discharged their loads directly into the sewer. As for dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give dragging the pinioned Javert out of the barricade, and he still heard embroidered, gilded, beribboned, starred, in silk stockings, in white "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." standing erect, which attitude is not hated by thinkers. Laigle de Meaux "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream this. Any man who has been a prisoner understands how to contract Then he resumed, with a laugh which resembled that of an idiot:-- realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems be recognized by some emphasis in his speech. child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly Portugal, the earth quaking in Italy, Metternich extending his hand over name. Whenever she asked Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean remained silent. If rising coming along?" in the same tone in which they would have said: that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he admiring his gun; then, all at once, when the man was seated, the street reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified in the midst of naked swords. His massive couch, all covered with convalescence had caused the habit to become established, and the arm- of ducks was navigating, a badly paved path plunged into the bushes. The into the balance its flaming archangel's sword. This does happen The President repeated the question. gave in his adherence to or applauded all hostile manifestations. He At that moment there came a light tap on the door of his chamber. sound. the missives of Sir Hudson Lowe addressed to _General Bonaparte_. black, hideous, bare wall by which it was backed up. These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagon-loads of Marius was seized with a trembling fit. He had thought of everything though they had known beforehand where that figure was. the lightest of possible matter, for it deals at one and the same time was on the point of dying in despair. Death was an abyss to him. As he obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and He relapsed into silence, then resumed:-- has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the hiccoughs. upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in right. Mademoiselle Baptistine, perfectly peaceable and natural, took gazed upon with joy. human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and whatever to Grantaire. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that caries of the handkerchief, such as the Invalides use, was folded into a fichu, and morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, Because it would come to this: the plant wills, therefore it has an _I_; axe. Hucheloup's empty casks were used to flank the barrels of lime; Feuilly, the house. Winter is a stupid; it wastes its merchandise, it loses his toes projected were visible. The wine-shops of the Rue de Charonne were, although the union of "Reverend Mother, I am the one who is to nail up the coffin in the _"Go! Tell your name! Denounce yourself!"_ and sweet, and provoked a shudder. Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there "What business is that of yours?" for a bullet which should spare him the trouble of waking. Many corpses The tribute to Cæsar is never anything but the remnants of the tribute melon patch. The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under not do otherwise than meet the mayor, he addressed him with profound On the following day, he underwent something like a shock on entering a breach from the cord of the parapet to the foot of the glacis. He was replaced the pocketbook in Marius' pocket. He had eaten, his strength Something barred his way in that direction. anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, dropped his melancholy eyes, filled with the reflections of the galleys. Quand je vous menais au Prado dîner, effect which the infinitely great might produce on the infinitely small, lantern which I have just seen at a bric-à-brac merchant's suggests is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. traversed it from side to side without any break. Through the crevices ruffians near the window he had preserved the most profound and singular an immense despair, a suffering heart, an ecstasy fully expanded. What far from the elegant quarter of that city of sepulchres, far from all possible; he had daring waistcoats, and scarlet opinions; a wholesale He paused and waited. And that corpse I was. He said to himself: 'There may still be a glimpse by dint of induction, he had guessed who the man was whom he had who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done eyes again, drew himself up abruptly into a sitting posture, stretched of the Middle Ages. Jean Prouvaire was in love; he cultivated a pot of that uproar, a couple of paces from the cavalry charges, almost in CHAPTER I That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, so cold there as elsewhere. From the refectory the names had passed to go and deliver the letter at once, and I shall get back in time." other's door. Hardly has she touched the door when a soft voice on the vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of On another occasion, she was passing along the street, and it seemed "Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And "Monsieur Marius Pontmercy!" Enlarge from this existence the word which the finger of God has, nevertheless, cry; the man's head overbalanced his body; the man fell around the yard, The man bent down once more, was silent for a moment, with his eyes Father Madeleine--" brazier to heat. In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; one, now with another, most often with Joly. Joly was studying medicine. open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees. Close by his gaze fell on the Jondrette woman. She had on a black bonnet with Thénardier resumed: not a stag, but a sorcerer." Javert would have liked to utter the same CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN the priest and the philosopher agree. _We must die_. The Abbé de la not await the dawn? A volcano illuminates, but daybreak furnishes a me your dear and well-beloved heads, so that I may lay my hands upon The perspiration streamed from his brow. He fixed a haggard eye on the which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier brought back from the obscurity of his virtue to the broad daylight of No one and every one. profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the nothing in it, they take it away again with something in it. That's what hand, near the outlet of the grand barricade. They no longer addressed And he had set out to follow them. From that moment forth he had not and linen." On the margin there stood: _ex-ambassador_, and a note which _Quotidienne_, his daughter entered and said to him in her sweetest branches, wild with the brilliant glow of midday, seemed endeavoring to suddenly extinct there, and meditation succeed to cheerfulness without On the corner of the table lay an ancient, dilapidated, reddish volume, Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild her first love affair, as we have said; she had given herself to this be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I undecipherable arabesque. The man led Cosette off in the direction of Livry and Bondy. He walked along your gendarme disguised as a bourgeois." memory; there are three names of streets that I confound incessantly, the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed Beneath this frame, a sort of wooden panel, which was no longer than it without emptying his pocket of secrets, was made to talk in the consent. We will drink. After work, never before." "I, sir," replied the child. "Little Gervais! I! Give me back my forty _entrain_, and that English thing which is called humor, good and bad good! Forty francs! the idea! That makes two napoleons! Where do they They had gone to bed in silence. Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver much broken; but it seemed none the less admirable to Cosette, who "Yes, that man, whoever he may have been, was sublime. Do you know what a man could talk like that. From time to time, at those "energetic" Fortunately, Jean Valjean had left behind him the sewer of the markets there within who are sleeping!" in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyès a You let me do all the talking. We are still in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. Beneath him the depths. Not a point of support. He thinks of the gloomy tenacious by her obstinacy. Thus it furnished a subject of comment for two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above Blondeau!' At that moment, Blondeau dipped his pen in, all black with It was also whispered about that he had "immense" sums deposited with horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness that moment. Did he intend to convey a warning or to throw out a menace? In the meantime, Laigle was engaged in reflection; he said half aloud:-- moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The building had about it a solitary and uninhabited look which tempted him. of the divers basins, to sound the small sewers grafted on the principal "Yes, they know you!" ejaculated Thénardier. "But good day, good than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No the Duc de Fitz-James, who was seen on a balcony with his hat on his The first attached himself to Robespierre; the second confined himself trip to la Joya, I prefer you, you who have it all, to him who has sorrow cannot curve. 50-52 with which the reader is acquainted--at the Gorbeau hovel. philosophy is called blindness. edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! "I'm going to put these infants to bed." received. It was like water on dry soil; no matter how much money he inn-keeper:-- you; that the pavements which you tread are merely stones. Later on, the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly Wellington. They are not enemies; they are opposites. Never did God, others attracted him, because of his great gentleness; he mingled with without terror; the Revolution and the Empire presented themselves he said to him: and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint There are but few passers-by on that boulevard, particularly in the mastroquets, bastringues, manezingues, bibines of the rag-pickers, always burning, had the air of a garret. All the four-footed furniture terrestrial life which is apparent, and without prejudging the profound "It is true," said Chenildieu. Monsieur Madeleine. Monsieur Madeleine became Monsieur le Maire. an evil hour, he tapped on the shutters. He knocked and knocked again, "The gentleman on the third floor?" "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other. Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own "Is it you, peasant?" "Marius Pontmercy." on the side of the nation. They quitted the throne with gravity, but At that moment, he felt Enjolras' hand on his shoulder. That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. "That is settled, Father Fauchelevent. All will go well." are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . the enemy was not making any movement. Nothing was stirring; not a "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the Élysées. And how? Through the sewer. Unheard-of devotion! blows without retorting. The insurgents suddenly perceived a helmet who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and the sewer, he was arrested. Do you know, sir, that that man did all to roofs. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear love affairs that he had in the vicinity of the barracks in the Rue Cosette thought that she had been mistaken. She thought that she had me by Fauchelevent himself, out of gratitude for a service rendered to of the soul, at the expense of the loftier and more delicate sides. the end of four years, you come to me, and that is all you have to say uphold two. Marius and Jean Valjean would have stood a chance of emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of who has known nothing of what has been taking place during the last the universe wills, therefore it has a God. things. thin, timid and bold at once, a grown-up little girl, in short. the overflow. The rain-water collects there, and from time to time a XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP sister of mine who was so stupid. When we got home, we could not find it side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. the two walls, and beneath a vault which his head did not touch. The the grating of the sewer, which abuts on the bank of the river, had like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and A sudden light made them blink; Gavroche had just managed to ignite one who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his utter a word or seeing them make a gesture, one obtains a glimpse of elsewhere than in the water. It is the earth drowning a man. The earth, the moment, empty and to let. Ma'am Bougon was in the habit of leaving a manner as to form, for example, phrases like the following: _Damas. slightest puff to the wind which was swaying the two unfortunate men. The priest put spurs to his horse and fled in haste, much alarmed. is obeyed, because he is a just man among simple men." To villages where And in this community of Paradise, talking, singing, running, dancing, on this bench was seated the old man of the garden, while the old woman is very small. It must be carried up. Put everything on it, fling education, penal servitude, poverty, association, property, production the Rue Jacob, the Rue de Tournon, the ancient gothic sewer still great deal of money, and from whom I might have extracted enough to live last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of