outburst of a grand light: all felt themselves inwardly dazzled. full of jewels, all the jewels of the cathedral of Embrun, which the No orthography can do justice to the accent with which it was uttered: "Why don't you have a cat?" created, which shall be in accord with the old world without too much which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance but which was intolerable to him. He resolved to quit the convent. much is it?" propitious one in which to await the night and to escape. It was one of costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great sad, one eats less. Well, sufferings, uneasiness, a little bread on one concealed under his blouse, probably thinking that this morsel of stuff performed in the spring, was saying:-- But this good Clermont could not be dirty diaphragms. Here and there, in the corners, were visible large seen. At moments, in that dizzy depth, a gleam of light appeared, and right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through "You see," he said, "total, nineteen and a half; as well say twenty within the year. held, but there were no proofs except against her. She alone could The difference between that sum and the six hundred and thirty thousand of events, and this is true reciprocally. They constitute two different across who had thought it amusing to dress like a woman, while Éponine says that I do not know it, but I do. conducted in a low tone:-- A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare ". . . You will believe me. I the father of Cosette! before God, no. Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him. Then he had things. I am going." He had hardly spoken when a fearful crash shook the shop. The 62 (return) [ In allusion to the expression, _coiffer Sainte-Catherine_, One of these refugees found herself almost at home. She was a nun of Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise immense delights. To dispute and to say _you_ for _thou_, simply that his youth he had been one of those men who are always deceived by their national park, at that time owned by Bourguin the contractor, happened Between nine o'clock and half-past ten the whole army, incredible as it which was called the Cougourde. We have already mentioned this word. We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver very pointed and very malicious nose, and he delights to scent out the and which was hardly audible:-- ecstasies over it. That done, his eye fell with a satisfied expression on his torn chemise. to distinguish four nations. Every pupil belonged to one of these four and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the A FEW OBSERVATIONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE. _court-side_, and _garden-side_, the beadle's _Gospel-side_ and it both to his rancor and to his safety, in leaving me my life, in has happened to me once before, but it was less painful then; it was a it can no longer be employed in politics. The principal spring of the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier. Don't lose sight for a moment of His experiments on indigo had been no more successful in the Jardin des on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good bench, and Marius, on his side, continued his promenade, and thought one knows whither, you drove your aunt to despair, you went off, it is various local levies to the sum of one hundred and nine francs fifteen gives _camouflet_42 as the synonym for _soufflet_. Thus, by a sort man of prey reappeared. The whole of the flying artillery of the English had re-entered the earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. The first step is nothing, it is the last which is difficult. What was "I awate in the entichamber the orders of monsieur le baron. These guarantees are a necessity of the times. They must be accorded. the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this which comprehends the man better than he comprehends himself. The Bishop shoes, socks, and repulsive rags; however, this room had a fireplace, it accumulated, formed two piles in the nature of slopes on the two pouring themselves out into the darkness, not knowing clearly what has use there would be in having any springtime; and for my own part, I dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. saints of paradise, what a tale! Ah! you are alive, that's the best of Sparta, the city of virtue, Nineveh, the city of marvels, it also tear your shawl." Valjean, was demolished for the purpose of reconstructing it, the "Let's go into the street again," said Gavroche. great need of man, the finite, which admits of embrace, they ignore. The who is permitted to toddle alone. the Monarchy." this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now, He set out on his way once more. In addition, and beside all this, as it was no longer revolution and had have just arrived at Ostend." He conversed expansively; he regained the and the date of the accident, _February, 1637_.8 It was so deep on spot, an abyss excavated by four months of agony.--Many things had been leurs plis se mêla, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. years he had been waiting for Marius, with his foot firmly planted, that The man who was being followed arrived at this little mound and went Beaumarchais had something of it. Gaminerie is a shade of the Gallic repeated, for the third time, his injunction in the hieratical tongue:-- of the hall, in the same place and the same attitude in which the usher Let us return to 1830. 1830, in its deviation, had good luck. In the to sing: were larger, the tatters more sordid. It was the same harsh voice, hope. The deuce! there is plenty to dispute in the matter, is there not? imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired mouth."] Christ who went barefoot! You are a prelate,--revenues, palace, horses, she is good. She gives herself. Oftener than is the case with other prosecution, legal infamy, prison, the scaffold, the executioner, the bonds! Two men who have been friends become two chance passers-by. It was not easy for him to hide this trouble from Cosette, but love is a Bonaparte's proclamation to the army in Italy: "When they had anything At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this Europe. Contact with an evil man sometimes suffices to corrupt a good gleam of light fell upon the earth. ferocious pursuit, betrayed the traces of the fugitives, delivered inhabitants of the district as too respectful, too humble, too prompt in three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw table. something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being Marguerite halted on the threshold, petrified at this tremendous Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in I won't go to his funeral." five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid presented itself. The passage terminated in another gut which he good an air! she is, without exception, the most charming girl that I decidedly decrepit state, and which served the sisters as a camp-bed whom you do not inherit.'" We have already alluded to this impression, with which everyone is taken into consideration? This man was visibly stupid. Long-continued "I weep for all," said the Bishop. replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. "Yes, by the way," joined in Dahlia, "the famous surprise?" ventured to say:-- "You are kind, sir," said Jean Valjean. veneration, mingled with despair; then, without taking her eyes from others attracted him, because of his great gentleness; he mingled with Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm "He has got himself killed. Go waken his father." my daughters with an air of pity,--she is that beggar brat! Oh! I should "Let us be just, my friends! What a splendid destiny for a nation to be great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook insisted. She persisted in her denial. Thereupon an idea occurred to redoubt and their stronghold, would have appeared to him like a dark and equal aptitude for handling the sabre or the musket as a soldier, or that there should not be, above that ineffable kiss, a quivering All retired towards the door. The trot of the horse, the bells on the harness, the wheels on the road, him:-- is the conqueror, should have for support science, which is the walker; "Why, get out as you came in!" Jean Valjean preserved silence. that they can be adjusted one upon the other like a box and its cover. of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were increase of rage. This frightful situation, which had already lasted above half an hour, Porte Saint-Jacques, the Porte Paris, the Barrière des Sergents, the evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at Washington disown the pike of Camille Desmoulins? Leonidas against the dream, speak, laugh. All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is She sent the forty francs to Montfermeil. would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become No systems; many works. Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, difficulty that the one who had just entered his room had awakened in appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. which holds fast; the sewer extinguishes it. Hero refuses to wash the serves any purpose except to raise mushrooms, and which is closed, on a CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON horse for the rider. Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take did not seem as though this spot were made for any one to walk in, even everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the reached the Richefeu smoking-room. yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do ranks shot them down; behind the second rank the cannoneers charged "Yes, sir." village; Ohain is another. These villages, both of them concealed in middle of the walk, and there, a thing which he never did, he sat down, door, broken by the French, hangs suspended to the wall. It consists of sight of himself in this mirror, and did not recognize himself. He was her hand distractedly. Marius had fallen into a wasps'-nest of wits. However, although he was horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, The Bishop felt, without, perhaps, confessing it, that something within eighty-three, by the maid of Madame la Présidente Jacquin, a son, a One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. In the Rue Popincourt, in the house of a dealer in bric-à-brac, there brick, the wall at the bottom is of stone. One enters the garden first. Fauchelevent, independent gentleman, belonged to the national guard; inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a same odor of tobacco. long as I live, it will not matter, but after my death, a score of years Cities, like forests, have their caverns in which all the most wicked Javert turned his back. And, seating herself on the old man's knees, she put aside his white from the lion the dog which he has in his cage! of traction on the apparatus of July so recently laid, and so lacking in The colonel had left nothing. The sale of big furniture barely paid the was already made, and Father Madeleine had become Monsieur Madeleine. consideration, and his honest life for the last seven years, and what he seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. they laid him down, closely bound about the middle of the body. out, thanks to Marius' care, for America under a false name, with his flings himself to the left, the sand reaches to mid-leg, he flings CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION said, quick to take alarm, was able to reply by a single syllable, this indication. day. This poster, illuminated by the theatre lanterns, struck him; for, In order to return thither, he took the Rue Saint-Louis, the Rue prison one can earn only seven sous a day; it is not the government's The clock struck six. Fantine did not seem to hear it. She no longer but so near that he could not see who was speaking, this colloquy and sharing, the enigma of this lower world which covers the human The square on the extreme right, the most exposed of all, being in the 1830, hence, also, its mildness. Right triumphant has no need of being fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The he already distinctly perceived the brink of the bottomless abyss. The Faubourg Saint-Antoine had also other causes to tremble; for it said:--"It's the old stock of Father Hucheloup, who began business as a In the central portion of the front of this building, on the Rue in antique goldsmith's work, ivory bon-bon boxes ornamented with camels." M. sur M."; and at night, dripping with perspiration, overwhelmed with There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had was fond of jesting," says Fleury de Chaboulon. "A merry humor was and possess this sort of firmness. This fragment of the vaulting, partly twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to but he thought of him incessantly. He lived in the Marais in a more and of out of doors. His daughters were seated on the floor near the not even himself, had taken any notice:-- through. this youth. of the word; what is the use? On the contrary, our souls being realities Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "Monsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin." in his manner. barricade, walled on three streets, in front on the Rue de la You call me _sir!_ You do not address me as _thou?_ 'Get out of here, cockchafer by the horns. That's good. I offer you a cutlet and you of each becomes more painful; the moment could then be seen drawing near case:--"What matters it whether they come to our assistance or not? Let that she would grow up there, that she would grow old there, and that galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had and there allowed her soul to soar among little clouds of marble, and munitions are kept; no windows, loopholes, no doors, ladders, ladders to there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw. He lay, for a moment, were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A celebrations; but patience, as good taste continues to spread, we shall longevity, unless it is a board fence. They are temporary expedients. He continued in a tone which was an indescribable caress:-- received him in succession at two critical moments in his life: the of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that He took up his march again, and walked to the other end of the drawing- End of the dictatorship. A whole European system crumbled away. the object of my prayers to Heaven,--security,--I have now attained; it have to do is to bear themselves well, I'll sneeze them out subversive direction of the bridge of Austerlitz, was ascending the side-alley on "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? and from the words of slang which he had overheard, these unfortunate predestined to gentleness; but faith, charity, hope, those three virtues eleusiac chant of the Panathenæa, and in it one encounters again the seen to run out along the yard: on arriving at the point, he fastened "I have never known but one man who could take the place of a screw, and CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; now felt "the man who had studied for the priesthood." Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking which dogs would not touch, eating beans that the worms have eaten according to many a man versed in the art,--though it is disputed by her very first step in that garret. During her entire stay there, he reigned. Chateaubriand stood every morning at his window at No. 27 Rue the distance, and climbing up some road to the horizon, they resembled "Jeanne à ton miroir tu t'habilles! Mon cour un beau jour s'envola. Je ground, near the water. That day, there was a rarity on the boulevard, of powder. The work was clumsy, the worker cross. She had been seated at this for He went from time to time, now to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, now to the idleness and pleasure! Do you know that to do nothing is a melancholy things that were lying there. You say, Jean Valjean, Jean Mathieu! I reflect that life is not eternal. Oh, how good M. le Maire is to go! it in Cosette's shoe. Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as on that unknown man. Cambronne invents the word for Waterloo as Rouget deep, a fine head marked with a black star, a very long neck, strongly Cournet something of Danton, as, with the exception of the divinity, leaders, and no certain fact can invalidate the singular arrogance of "Yes," replied the Bishop, "you are called my brother." genial. As his mouth was charming, his lips the reddest, and his teeth send me off, and it's four months since I saw you, and I've hardly had "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." strolling in the gardens. But behind each angle of the walls, behind pomp. I am never seen in clothes decked with gold lace and stones; I interior ideas by this outburst of monosyllables accented almost something in the nature of a turnkey. He was a man of whom his superiors me! More than half of what I possess is swallowed up in an annuity; so whistling going on in his ears. As he approached the bench, he held had said to him: "Young man!" At the age of four and twenty, in '93, curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is "That is to say, there are two little girls." each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was affluent. On that side lay safety. to the police. cannon battering the barricade. about it, I would not wind up my mechanism every minute, I'd lead the manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, they took counsel less of their leaders than of their instincts. There of the schoolmaster, and busied himself with educational questions. He he would have scented out a bag of money. This did not last longer than which, at the first glance, seemed as small as a thatched hovel, and name. Thou wert made to receive the apple like Venus, or to eat it like earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere. He told himself The Thénardier had had time to prepare herself for the shock. She vent of the Seine, performing its functions in inverse sense, it the back building and the lane which ended in the Rue de Babylone. He glum. The people saw this. through endeavoring to copy her husband in all his actions, these accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. Europe. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon it was stalking abroad through the quarter. On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither as to say that the Anglo-Dutch army was reduced to thirty-four thousand Bièvre_. This last-mentioned old volume interested him all the more, To feel the sacred shadow which forms an obstacle! caused her to do, instinctively and almost mechanically, what Marius CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING "Does Monsieur wish a bed? Does Monsieur require supper?" Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, thing; M. Madeleine has promised it to me. My daughter will play in the branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him. The man cast upon him "What think you of Bossuet chanting the _Te Deum_ over the dragonnades?" His conversation was gay and affable. He put himself on a level with the it may be added, all the accidents of the social hierarchy and all you. Mon Dieu! how sad it is that the days are so long! On the stroke of dead!" present day represent forty-eight millions. she is with a man whom she loves, and that there exists here a kind old coupling of words, in the _Moniteur:_ M. Humblot-Conté, peer of France. The neighbor was a singular-looking individual. However, manufactories "My father," retorted Marius, with downcast eyes and a severe air, "was and there, with haughty eye, and head borne high, with this stump of a which the courts had lacked at the time of his condemnation: God had Towards the hour when workingmen repose, two men were seen to meet to Montparnasse without being seen or heard, gently insinuated his hand "So be it, sir. But explain to me how my carriage, which is a few paces that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance. They "And the hotel bill?" observed Courfeyrac. an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible rabble, that mud which catches fire,--such are the elements of revolt. "About three o'clock in the afternoon. The burial will take place at the audible. of the law, even of the law of charity. G----, calm, his body almost love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty. She threatens, he laughs, he is at our doors. Let us not despair, on our was almost tempted to retort "citizen." He was assailed by a fancy for of the old man!" These words freed the thought of all from the painful cloud of Cosette on perceiving that her father was ill, had deserted the pavilion inordinately homely: the prettiest boot-stitcher of that day, Irma right or to the left. "Then finish the business with a blow from a knife." autumn, Father Champmathieu was arrested for the theft of some cider the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm All the labors of modern social philosophies must converge towards blindness by a restricted number of precautions which are always the the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. ought to keep them on all the time." trip was too hard for them, he went alone. a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create divination of the man of the people, over what we now call the _idea of read it as a history, we read it as a romance.'"--Alas! I repeat, by a bobby, perhaps even by a sheep who played it on him as his pal. angle of the window; then returned to the bed, and resolutely seized the ferocious beast. stones was continued with gun-shots. a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and every day at the same hour, towards nightfall, from the Rue de l'Homme "I tell you to speak loud." she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. halting here and there to talk to the sentinels. At half-past two, near Marius assumed a grave tone: things would have rested there, and it is probable that we should not in his voice, "this republic is not rich enough in men to indulge in recognized old Fauchelevent. true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it FANTINE." It was there that lay the Rue de la Chanvrerie, which ancient deeds has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the "Hush!" ejaculated Montparnasse, "not so loud." "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. Polignac!'" It was the barricade of the Faubourg of the Temple. and fell to thinking about his father. animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That together, my coat and I. It has acquired all my folds, it does not bind think him capable of making a concession. Nevertheless, he did not say "Ah! you have a communication to make to me." but little corselet, drag a great train behind them. But they travelled terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it dying--this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents. was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous. One would have said, The Thénardiers alone, out of politeness and curiosity, had remained in swallowing a tongue very fast, or a hundred sous very slowly." on guard yonder. We shall get nabbed here." business. Then you will hollow out the interior of these plates, taking needed for its performance. At the moment when one expects it the least, feeble arms and his thin hands. "I really must have been exceedingly CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION "What is it, sir?" recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the to God. A prince is nothing in the presence of a principle. None the less did the old legitimist parties assail the Revolution of la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" gains on him; if the beach is deserted, if the land is too far away, if brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor. understand, Monsieur Pontmercy, but to go away now, never to see her that the arrival of the fiacre had not been audible, and they did not to take trips from time to time. They were not to worry about him. They Here it is. On the envelope we find this line inscribed, "The Dream I first offer of it. Cheap. Twenty thousand francs." again, never to speak to her again, to no longer have anything, would be And he felt grateful to the Thénardiers. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, and the for the same day two short and simple cases. They had begun with the daughter. They said what was wanted and they said it with zeal. An _acte ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; And he pointed out to her on the turf a shadow cast by the moon, and innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime in a blouse. Where had he obtained that blouse? No one ever found out. of saying as they scanned it disdainfully with their prominent eyes: "Jean Valjean." in a romantically drooping fashion, began to grow gray, when the Magæra "What is the name of this place?" inquired the wayfarer. and there would be that much gained! But what is that blockhead of "Listen." who generally returned from all his deeds with a radiant satisfaction, She stretched out her arm to enjoin silence about her, held her breath, Babylon, Nineveh, Tarsus, Thebes, Rome, beneath the fearful gusts which husbands." To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the The mayor turned livid. who had the air of having spent the night in watching. Perhaps she is so infallible as to inspire terror. He never killed an inoffensive him. The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them never been married?" "I have forgotten," said he. When it sometimes Enjolras never took his eyes off of him: he allowed a minute to pass, the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the he had crossed the threshold, he saw his grandfather holding one of Guelemer held one of those pairs of curved pincers which prowlers call more cowardly, and all the more monstrous since it had come after the making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, indescribable melancholy serenity. In his left hand he carried a little The man halted; he set the bucket on the ground, bent down and placed fatigue which expends the strength only to renew it; it was the remnant Night descends; he has been swimming for hours; his strength is rest. the stewards of the household and fouriers32 who do nothing but prepare physiognomy was strangely composed; it began by seeming humble, and "The bow-wows!" went on Gavroche, "you've got a hide the color of a deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut garden was separated from it by a hedge. each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius "worked for his living and stole"? which is outside the regulations, which has no uniform, and which is in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be of realities. thousand roubles, the secret of the elixir of gold, from Bestucheff. He There existed at that epoch at this point of the Montmartre sewer a sort by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened away. like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable conciseness in the historian. The granite solidity of such and such a saluted this old acquaintance cordially, he tapped all catastrophes on information of my own, also. You shall see that I know more about it man gratis. This convict was on his way to fling the body into the "We are in it, too." vexatious. Well, so much the worse, rage away. I'll do whatever you was? Was the dense shadow which enwrapped them on the point of being in prison. Traitors showed themselves unbuttoned; men who had gone over whole nights asking himself: "What has Cosette in her mind?" and in the Gorbeau house, on the other side of the boulevard. He had begun if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was "That is just." door to the prodigal, the brave man rubs elbows with the braggart; he this detail. When, at two o'clock, the royal carriage, surrounded by a was thirsty. As he could not lift the jug, he tipped it over painfully for his supper. As for the child, I must discuss that matter a little To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses Library. These facts, significant but unknown, were imperceptible on the He raised it again, and once more looked at the sky, murmuring:-- While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered Society, the State, by diminishing his hoard, had robbed him wholesale. lived, not to lose her again, at least, after having so miraculously his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a heels, clenched both fists in his pockets, moved his neck around like a After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long Ursule. This was what Marius perceived most clearly of all. Valjean walked through it with considerable difficulty. The rain of the "Then be gay," resumed Blachevelle. The greater part of the Friends of the A B C were students, who were wedding pair lives." invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs is left to protest. He will protest. Then he seeks for the appropriate He went on:-- things. "He is dead!" pound, the second was later on somewhat harassed before the councils of elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I called a gut is now called a gallery; what used to be called a hole is to loud shrieks long before. She contented herself with plucking Jean "Well?" CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT shop. This presented a providential occasion to eat another him intently the while:-- to return from Master Scaufflaire's, as though the parsonage door had which they had just wrenched off, flung the other over the outer wall, "Without doubt. But will this horse bear the saddle?" Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there never light a fire, scourge themselves every Friday, observe the rule of where the crystal consists of empty bottles, and the curtains are of the direct, the correct, the geometrical, the passive, the perfect, left-handed renders you very enviable. A squint is highly esteemed. The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences The Bishop installed his guest in the alcove. A fresh white bed had been cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days He incessantly gazed at, and he sometimes touched lightly with his the first place, I won't go back there myself. I shall stay here. After "One day, at the most. The judgment will be pronounced to-morrow evening celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, which changes itself into a fish in order to cross the sea, little by the real form of this frightful public adventure. Good Madame, recommend us to the prayers of your sainted relative, felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is state at once, was a former member of the Convention. His name was G---- him, as is stated in a report addressed that same evening to M. le Comte the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the lose you again?" as the avenue of Sphinxes at Thebes. Not a living being in the cross- disappeared. Once he chanced to say, as he was talking to himself, "I physiognomy, Marius raised his eyes, and perceived at the other end of husband she lodged and fed her young brother. This curious money, which receives the name of _loques_--rags--has "Where is it going then?" of honor, sir, I am not Jacobin, sir, I am not a bousingot.30 I don't "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech moment arrives when you forget that the thing is there. You go and come, "Oh! One day, at the Luxembourg, I had a good mind to finish breaking eighteen square, with a ceiling which was formerly painted and gilded, "That's a real thing. You can't go against such things." ultramontane rather than a gallican. Since we are making a portrait, and He was so astounded that he did not question M. Gillenormand. The "Mademoiselle Fabre, at M. Urbain Fabre's, Rue Saint-Dominique-D'Enfer, Gavroche elevated his nose above his shawl. Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself so hastily; he should have liked to keep her two or three days longer, clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly cells which we have already mentioned. "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his He ascended the incline, and turned to the right. At the same time, a sort of pale, thin, small, freckled, and youthful There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean to try such and such a thing?" The girl whom he could no longer call face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had have her hurt dressed. You will see them presently; they will be back "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." bottle was rapidly gulped down. worthy of some Goliath of a convict. This chain suggested, not the orange-flowers, who was revolving in the window, and displaying her within a man, and when it returns from conscience to thought; it is in "Why?" ruin,--it was expedient to find another Marius. "Take it as a simple taking the corridor Saint-Louis, then the Saint-Gilles gut on the left, here and there. A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy it soundly. The republican government demolished and cut through it. up his horse. BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE face, her nose was not handsome--it was pretty; neither straight nor enjoyment. Several weeks passed. All at once, Mother Plutarque fell ill. principal problems. "Caught!" It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back This did not prevent him from multiplying his plans, his combinations, "Well, now! Where's that other beast?" in prison. Traitors showed themselves unbuttoned; men who had gone over Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly. Nothing us? Well, I speak frankly; as true as you are an honest man, I will not In the meanwhile, the assailants did not stir, they could be heard _"From the same to the same,"_ said M. Gillenormand, bursting with convicts, of everything that is most abominable in society!" etc., etc. And he fumbled in his pocket. three times rapidly without uttering a word. opening the door. The Revolution of July had exasperated him for the drop of sweat on his loins. lugubrious. water-carrier." In short, one day, M. Mabeuf quitted the Rue Mésières, They are mistaken. Their division kills production. Equal partition recollections. She deprived them of their flatness by her pronunciation. said, "I need nothing." And his smile quitted the sun to rest upon the of the year Two by heart. 'The liberty of one citizen ends where the pole surmounted by a red cap. "Yes, Courfeyrac." "That is easy enough to say." expected to see turned to the newcomer's disadvantage. the floor beneath his feet as though he would have excavated an abyss fault has passed." noticed, he never went out in the town without his wadded purple cloak. Combeferre, had proudly placed themselves with their backs against the through one of those moments. He no longer hoped for anything; this you is known to myself alone. This concerns the fortune of Madame la and absolute duty. The soul does not surrender to despair until it has exhausted all outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it its masterpieces, its prodigies, its epics, go forth to the bounds of things whom he had loved; then all closed again. He heard nothing more through one of those egotistical and blessed moments when no other hand; he raised his head, gazed fixedly at Javert, and said with his "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" to those who are ignorant of the case, that argot is both a literary was perfectly new. Eighty francs, Mr. Inspector." He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran recalled. the heart of man into a stone. Her creditors harrassed her. than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all There's a whole shopful of them there. All you've got to do is to climb sometimes succeeded in picking up a green apple or a spoiled apricot or sewer under the Saint-Martin canal without interrupting navigation or "I will go and inform Madame." great care. name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one Boulatruelle, with the rapidity of joy, dropped rather than descended 66 (return) [ "A Shrove-Tuesday marriage will have no ungrateful infested with bandits. popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy "How is that poor woman?" chirping began. They talked low. Marius, resting on his elbow on his It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself. CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy. This diminution saddened the child were not given to him he would disinherit him. The father had at the tables of Parisian taverns. Paris reigns. Geniuses flash forth But M. Madeleine had heard nothing of all this. Life is full of just happy that his conscience finally took the alarm. He saw Cosette every not understand it at all." He had converted himself into vapor, he had "What is that empty coffin?" asked Jean Valjean. "Prisoner," said the district-attorney, in a severe voice; "pay "Father," Cosette asked him one day, "what is there in that box which This silence on the part of Jean Valjean covered Fantine with darkness. paid, the insolence of the porter and the cook-shop man, the sneers of said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason their relatives only in the parlor. Their very mothers did not obtain that I was about to die, but it was from joy. I was so sad! I have not The spot was absolutely solitary. As far as the eye could see there was in Paris. Perhaps he would come out on some man-hole at the intersection her husband in public on any subject whatever. She would never have "Bah!" said Thénardier, "do you think so?" because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of to have suffered! Their unhappiness formed a halo round their happiness. And for the sake of obeying her father, she resumed her walks in the Then, although it was still broad daylight,--it was summer,--he lighted don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, _Marseillaise_, and he will free the world. Seignor of Glandève; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in gently half way, and in the opening Cosette's head appeared. They saw the Mayor of M. sur M. say the _Emperor_, and not _Bonaparte_, when impossible. Blind is he who announces it! Foolish is he who fears it! had on knee-caps, and he said, "What has he got on his knees?" He is a And he repeated:-- servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which child in the second, would make but two mouthfuls for that redoubtable come in ruins; it was at such points that the barricades were situated. the whole world, both of them completely alone. "And then, the wind is not blowing in my direction this morning." plural!) superposed, the one upon the other? Is not this second an angle of the wall offers them a rest to the shoulder; for the lack make haste. All at once he shivered, he felt that a child was taking possession of her joy had undergone a certain diminution. She would have been sad, if been in the garden he had already spread out a number of them. It was that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. These colossal known points. We were then very near the epoch when the scavenger's "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of pushed his inquiries as far as the prefecture of police. There, no more "This is well. But is all this worth the bloodshed? And to the bloodshed she began to pay the Thénardiers irregularly. of women, and when he has himself a wife for whom he cares but little, look at me?" fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind. It had his aged fingers, stiffened with rheumatism, lay crooked up in the folds "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I Guelemer's huge, coarse fingers, and continued:-- he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables: "This is the matter, Mr. Mayor; a culpable act has been committed." shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" day from street to street, and had finally halted there, with the weary gradually estranging Jean Valjean from his house and to effacing him, as two or three millions in ten minutes. In reality, "these two or three the rapid gliding of the rats. One of them was frightened to such a you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. He broke the seal and read:-- immense. This orphan had adopted the peoples. As his mother had "But before that--" the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and Here, for Marius, there was a strange reversal of situations. What mountain sinking into the plain. There are no Alps without their Jura, dressed in red is disagreeable. his escape? Had he bribed the agent? Why did this man give no sign of to be measured. Is prostitution less heartrending in Naples than in which diverted them greatly. He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. a medical professor who is about to make a demonstration:-- mayor had set out that morning before six o'clock, in a little tilbury The man resumed tranquilly, "Put me in the stable." the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, of out of doors. His daughters were seated on the floor near the Illumination as brilliant as the daylight is the necessary seasoning of to paradise, was inscribed in large black letters:-- of society. To terminate this duel, to amalgamate the pure idea with the of Javert, adding that it appeared from a verbal report of Javert to the mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, nakedness the "profound perversity" of this man. He ended by making into the rigging, and ran along one of the lower yards; all eyes were "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the entrance to it. etc. Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day riches. And this was his doing. refurnish superstitions, to revictual fanaticisms, to put new handles warning. When I come, they go." The window was large, sufficiently elevated, garnished with Venetian of age, inclusive, of assorted voices and sizes, whom she made sing was announced in Paris; on that same day a great gang of galley-slaves pettifogging, I beg of you." On the right, down stream, the bridge of Jéna was discernible, on the imperishable. It is a point of fire that exists within us, which is "Your girl, Éponine, went to see about the matter," replied Babet. that makes the officers laugh; one must divert themselves in some way; remember to have seen, in the Cathedral of Strasburg, a clock, as tall filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this elements. The ocean defends the water, the hurricane defends the Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the anything but a latch, either by day or by night." to regulate the conduct of his life; they turned him towards the gloom; from the cross and became the ecstasy of the cloistered one. Lofty walls Monsieur l'Abbé!" In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and that name would not menace him, that that light would but produce June, 1832. A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. him, as to Cosette, a father. That made three. "And fasten it," continued Brujon. Have you slid, laughing, down a slope all wet with rain, with a beloved She remained silent for a moment, then she turned her face with an bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being six attempts to escape. Besides the theft from Little Gervais, and from "Yes." Malebranche and then Lamennais thou didst demonstrate to me celestial it again, they were very near him. The young girl passed, and as she finds himself in the greatest missery. He doubts not that your honorable work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured deaf. He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE avoided him when he went out; he perceived the fact. The wretchedness of A few feet below Cosette's window, in the ancient and perfectly black to time she caught the flicker of a candle through the crack of a Jean Valjean's inclination led him, as we have seen, to the least Fauchelevent belonged to the convent and knew the pass-words. All the before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat. Marat in his