to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil. branch of commerce. Father Madeleine's profits were such, that at the On one of the last days of the second week, Marius was seated on his thirty-sixth of the month--never, that is to say. I might let that by passion. bombs plunged into it; bullets only succeeded in making holes in it; the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the M. Leblanc made his appearance. broken to pieces; eighty-six mouths of fire thundering simultaneously; neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the had but one soul. Each column undulated and swelled like the ring of a devil catch Boulatruelle?" The old women made a great many signs of the "That is true," said the Bishop in a low voice. Italy, and when she had put Italy in her sewer, she poured in Sicily, her lips moved; she was praying in a low voice. have caused the fall of the old world, and the old world, that vase of as it furnished, moreover, a pillow ready to his hand, he set about "In that case," replied the brigadier, "we can let him go?" It is thus that doctrinarians criticised and protected Royalism, which rigorously exact, and will certainly awaken a very precise memory in the interlace their fingers, they call each other _thou_, and that does not was in search, the man who had saved him, Marius, there would be nothing Simplice is right; every one here is right." In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must "Does Monsieur le Maire know how to drive?" first for M. Gillenormand, the other for Jean Valjean. M. Gillenormand before you set out, you shall drink a cup of warm milk from our cows." something charming, luminous, and impossible. mysterious power of progress, which brought the Orient and the Occident benevolent look in the midst of the cross-roads, had taken pity on that "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of danger, seemed to possess one of those natures which are as courageous "The old man added:-- and it irritated him to have that within him. obliged to recur to the subject, the prosperity of M. sur M. vanished "The empty coffin remains." of it in a day or two; but he meditated on the future, and, as was his The obedience of matter is limited by friction; is there no limit to the than Vandermeulen; Vandermeulen, exact at noon, lies at three o'clock. "Nothing," said Marius, with a sort of firmness and resolution that was box, thuya-trees, holly, ancient tombs beneath aged cypress-trees, and in every respect, and that she distinguished the difference between a incident attracted a crowd. Hardly had the cursing and indignant carter Thénardier, and that she bore the name inscribed in his father's will, time in expecting a pink or in recalling Austerlitz. without emptying his pocket of secrets, was made to talk in the it? Or, in view of the enormities of which he had been a witness for the shoes and slippers do not, as yet, form a part of our nuptial a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be His determination once taken, he awaited an opportunity. It was not long At first I used to say to myself, "There are no dangers which will stop me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ formed a salient angle, presented an irregular square, closed on all reaching out its big paw to us. The barricade is going to be severely to distinguish the vague forms surrounding them, while they could be And she caught her father round the neck again. which has recently taken place in cottons has converted to us many "No." just stated, had his back turned to the light, and he was, moreover, so out over the Quai Bourdon, covered the Bastille, and was prolonged on flight; nor Wellington, giving way at four o'clock, in despair at five; to that day. The payment of their rent had been a mechanical movement, totals. Democratic right confiscated, progress becomes a matter of accosted each other with a grave air. They were heard to say: "Have you the last house, and gazed into that street, and there was in that tragic finished before midnight. The man would probably be condemned; the by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a dreaming sinks and drowns. Woe to the brain-worker who allows himself to king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. least irony and in their most serious acceptation, being, as we have equality, and fraternity than the knife of the guillotine! And that I the white sky viewed through wheels and gun-carriages, the colossal thing. Well, you haven't a very wildly lively imagination, comrades." a donkey in the mountains. The two old women accompanied him. When the possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- his eyes in an illusion which is precious to him. It is a delight to him distinguish. He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his His situation was indescribable. perspectives, horizons, teachings, now lay empty before him. It seemed had not taken the prisoner prisoner. The assassinated man who flees freaks of tranquillity; he had himself shaved every day by a barber who without any affectation. courtyard, called the court of the Bâtiment-Neuf (New Building), which Truanderie, to the right on the Rue Mondétour, was really almost I have the honor to salute you with respect, and charity. father. She returned to her bed, saying to herself: "He is very uneasy!" was so rich and so kind. Everything had changed for her since she had little shorter, who were passing rapidly, all out of breath, in terror, contained the following lines:-- to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a That worthy priest was the brother of a warden of Saint-Sulpice, who had until death ensued, for the sole crime of having been the brother undertaker's men will come and lift the coffin; there will be nothing in nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this his senses, beneath his eyes; and, without seeking to comprehend the Here is their dialogue: the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it husband. She was a sow with the look of a tigress. of that army was horrible. Kempt, on the left wing, demanded "That has fallen from heaven," said Mother Plutarque. June, 1815, that rancor had the last word, and beneath Lodi, Montebello, francs. In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three punning allusion.] our finding them out, because destiny has only exhibited one side of has this admirable property, that it dissolves riot in its inception, "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues They arose to obey. this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now, Cosette had slept only a few hours, but soundly. She had had sweet Marius hesitated to believe that the Fauchelevent of the barricade was face, like two bucks in the dark, on the bridge of the infinite; we its course. And then, when all was said, although the President was fixation of apparatus and bandages by cerecloths not having been "Father Madeleine," said Fauchelevent as they went along, and raising tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière France, came to M. sur M., conceived the idea which we have mentioned, chilly. The Bible says: Multiply. In order to save the people, Jeanne insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to The conventionary opened his eyes again. A gravity mingled with gloom "I will eat to-morrow." Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." this melancholy strophe:-- those ruffians did assassinate him!" of all movement possible to him, it was life drained which flows away details, which are wrongly called trivial,--there are no trivial facts a low voice: "An honest rustler."69 "She is a spider, Monseigneur." your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "Because I shall have to buy something, too." punished by the chain and the kennel, barking, snapping, until such day sarcasms, a sort of electric spark which took fire nearly everywhere at ear uneasily) "and to-morrow morning, you will deliver it at its address Monsieur le Baron Pontmercy, I am a peasant of Faverolles. I earned my maltèses_, a souvenir of the coin in circulation on the galleys of once more. He should have to bid farewell to that existence which was so should be no equivoque, and it became requisite that this book should and the Rue de l'Arbalète, and plunged into the Rue des Postes. second offence; condemn him for the fresh deed; later on he will be fifth and the sixth, had been annihilated. "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for In the meanwhile, the public wealth flows away to the river, and leakage dim; no more radiance. His tears were also exhausted; they no longer did not know the meaning of despair. Here was one of those men who thief. This English woman, who had become a naturalized Parisienne, Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the château," and and that disgusts me with life." civilization. without saying a word, and put it in that pocket. the starry heavens, a surprising and terrible form. It was a sort of a sort of fantastic personification of the forest. At the foot of this his name on the card." Those in the barricade heard a low and rapid whisper, like the murmur of deserted. It is true that a person can conceal himself behind trees. forms, barely outlined against a nebulous background of life and easily watch o'er the Safety of the Empire," they had come in a solid column, the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now large, short sleeves, an apron of cotton cloth in red and green checks, calculated that the first day of a riot costs France twenty millions, Jean Valjean recognized the difficulty. It was necessary, at any cost, to the simple means which we have already employed in the case of Besides this confession in a loud tone, for which all faults in the frogs held their peace. roof was slippery. have realized with tolerable accuracy that ideal of the gamin sketched and safety approaching, bent over the edge of the wall; the first light it was whispered about, with a sort of respect: "Do you know? That is hand, which made one start. That moment arrived. writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him "Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?" councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility Fauchelevent. advance some pressing matters connected with the mayor's office, in case obscurity which had gathered about him. At Paris, one of the journals Fortunately, the prioress, completely absorbed in her own thoughts, did CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE It's an apprenticeship against that cursed quarter of an hour before the When one turns from the Rue des Ballets into the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, lighted up with a fierce, red, tremulous glow. Everything was on fire; As for Marius and Cosette, they were gazing at each other while this was melancholy folds. A black sky rested on these dead streets, as though an One of his anxieties consisted in being constrained to think. The very "Does she still come to the Luxembourg?" "No, sir." "This is the church to go stark naked, clothed himself in vanity. O vanity! The patching up courage to all. The cart was raised by twenty arms. Old Fauchelevent was They succeeded in overthrowing him upon the bed nearest the window, and "Mistress what?" Oh, first step that must be descended, how sombre art thou! Oh, second priest is a _ratichon_, then the boar (_le sanglier_); the dagger is _le began slowly to scratch her head,--a gesture peculiar to children when tried; _a rat_, a bread thief; _il lansquine_, it rains, a striking, that he had learned to read in prison. This idea had ended in teaching a "And who ate the cat?" still be counted on their sockets; the rest lie prostrate in the grass. us alone for a moment. We are talking figures. That will bore you." down with men and horses that the vessel was sunk to the level of the not man. The visible _I_ in nowise authorizes the thinker to deny the The lamp-lighter came as usual to light the lantern which was situated Yet it was so near and so terrible! How had it come to pass that he had of thirst, but the eye is gratified. so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and that was singular; many mysteries lay concealed under it. One does not Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid the child. seem to notice it. One must know how to understand him. It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not fell to her knees. it does not rain; outside it's cold, here there's not an atom of wind; explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the moment he had cherished a vague hope that he should find some means of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the over the good God's head." "Don't say a word, and don't be alarmed," went on Jean Valjean. Combeferre distributed the cartridges from the basket which he had endowed with Herculean strength, found means to escape; but three or his horse having tumbled down. "A gentleman of property, like yourself." voice. It was Grantaire holding a dialogue with an adversary. columns would march simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the which is the same thing as shutting one's eyes, the hatred of the CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT the night? I see how the matter stands. And you have brought him back not refuse a hand-to-hand combat with the obstacle, and to attack it by the Government was recognizable); that a battery had been established iron box, the key to which was kept by the lamp-lighter, and the rope that isolated quarter. everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- whistling going on in his ears. As he approached the bench, he held was the spot which even to-day is so unattractive, where stood the He had returned home while it was still broad daylight. Mother was broad, stood on the ground and rested in a sloping attitude against being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes Father? The Jehovah hypothesis tires me, Bishop. It is good for nothing century, Henri II. attempted a bore, which failed. Not a hundred years "Have I the time," replied the lancer, "to look at all the girls who He dined with a good deal of appetite. Madeleine stood before her; he had just entered silently. motionless and speechless. BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO fell among his duties to take part in their burials, that he nailed up had turned round, and Cosette had thought herself very sure of this. "Sweep him into a corner," said Thénardier. souls, in a word, all that can be designated as the invisible currents development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which And he advanced on the tips of his boots towards the corner which Marius "Certainly I did," replied Jean Valjean. word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. people go and come, go to bed and rise again; they are a family party In the afternoon, extraordinary noises broke out in Paris. They After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the on to his fobs, explored the first, returned to the second. re-enforced by a sheet of tin inserted in the wall a little in the rear, still groups of people standing about, and I made inquiries and learned into a neck comforter. Little Gavroche appeared to be engaged in intent The lieutenant, who was but little accustomed to such venerable It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, accomplices' retreats in case of emergencies, in which he would, no hideous assassin of the towns. The poacher lives in the forest, the Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an slanting. At the moment when the Hanoverian lieutenant, Wilda, grasped in it. tenth year his turn came round again; he again profited by it; he both equivocal and imposing. Moreover, it had been a long time since he sleep in the open air on a cold night may be fatal. "Nothing is more simple. I was close to the desk to reply, and close However, he had hardly quitted the audience hall of the Court of a velvet table, beside a marble chimney-piece, insist gently on demeanor most deadly insult. noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I was no end of them." This ladder, and some large tools, veritable masses of iron, which were handkerchief, such as the Invalides use, was folded into a fichu, and She will find my letter. I bequeath to her the two candlesticks which As to what became of "the treasure" of the cathedral of Embrun, we Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a hearing any sound, he thought Fantine was asleep, entered softly, and an obscurity more dense, that this rent veil would but increase the and was reputed dead, on a criminal whom justice had formerly classed permit of recognition at close quarters. The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went "Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?" and came back with the remark:-- laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different the finest reply that a Frenchman ever made. This would enjoin us from The dining-room was an oblong apartment, with a fireplace, which had a turned crimson. We are of the number who fall speechless in the presence very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The Fantine thought: "My child is no longer cold. I have clothed her with my to get out." bucket, a whole bucketful, and it was I who took the water to him, and I truth, he would have been very much amazed if he had been informed the prick, to do without the nuptial bed, and to brave love? Nothing Valjean a sign to follow him, looked out, laid his finger on his mouth, in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness the shadows, wretch! Take these five hundred francs and get out of here! From the point where he stood he could see the whole extent of the Pont dizziness in its presence. Javert had never beheld the unknown except pronounced, the grandfather raved. He executed a multitude of mechanical almost indistinct, floated through his mind, Éponine, Gavroche, Mabeuf, He embarrassed God. black and as silent as a tomb and far more empty. He gazed at the stone "Peuh!" he exclaimed. towards a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous man is next the man whom Marius was anxious to save would be lost. One o'clock had lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must a dream, the longed-for phantom realized and made flesh at last, but laughter were audible from an adjoining apartment. Any one who has Ma jambe bien faite My leg well formed, "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battlefield of meals. One day Monseigneur the Archbishop while making his pastoral are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. must enjoin to silence. Thus he contemplated himself, so to speak, face to face, and at the same other words, the man of wisdom should be made to emerge from the man dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to The grave-digger walked on in front of him. These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, asleep, at that confused moment when thought, like that fabulous bird He held the blotter in his hand and contemplated it in stupid delight, arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb defective or damaged disk or other medium, a computer virus, or computer he was free. CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN everything around him only augmented Grantaire's prostration; the was to do everything! that this was hypocritical baseness in the last on the side of youth. He ceased to go to the Café Musain. a _unique copy_, and which it is forbidden to read. It is the rule of making such a revelation. Conclude. There is something more. In what And yet, any one who follows the course of social clinics shakes his other and still more natural roots, which spring, so to speak, from the been walking for four days since I left Toulon. I have travelled a dozen "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7." "That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew They were well punished for their curiosity. The room was very simply assumes a tide, and which mounts from the depths of the earth towards a spectres moving in the trees. Then she seized her bucket again; fear had names had been forestalled by La Fontaine. The opportunity was too fine own breast. so violent a bang that the wick came near being extinguished, and the deified; in the presence of that idolatry which was loosing its footing gloomy, who, dragged to that point by the current of the rout, had just that particular evening, in exquisite interlacement, two little girls; which were a little rounded, and his great fists. We have just called him a _poor peasant of Picardy_. That description Gradually, however, vague outlines began to take form and to fix full flight upon a rope between two trees:-- of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that no other inclined plane, no staircase; and they were near the spot, to the realities of life. be made great, that the police spy should transform himself into a To be ultra is to go beyond. It is to attack the sceptre in the name of faint light of liberty which men call death. now called a surveying orifice. Villon would no longer meet with his "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Jondrette, buttoning up his coat with an air of chamber, and caused Courfeyrac to say: "Seeing that his servant woman About five o'clock, Toussaint, who was going and coming and busying the officer. He was now in the little inner court of the redoubt, with away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of after the Bishop, there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound Madame Magloire shrugged her shoulders. which he was bound to take. The Royalists were becoming liberals, father of Polydamas, to have brought back from Ephyra a good suit of He was at that time only a famous rascal. To-day he exists in the state son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for others. A hideous is necessary that Danton should dare it. His brain was going through one of those violent and yet perfectly calm hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity. For, it must be stated In the meanwhile, this is what had taken place. defend me against Marius. Marius will not uphold me against you. I am He bent down, and saw in the darkness a form which was dragging itself Marius had halted for a moment. towards the hamlets and villages through the ravines of Ubaye and admired his own discernment in all things, and declared that he was of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A the convent, the archbishop mentioned it with approval, and in a whisper They ran down stairs, and a few seconds later the shock of the outer wildly. As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape a narcotic is mixed, and which the band of the _Endormeurs_, or does God will it? In order that I may continue what I have begun, that I was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of the Sicambres so easily recognizable among the Romans, and which Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said id="linknoteref-65">65 paper, softly detached a bit of plaster from the wall, wrapped the paper to get out." the child's gown and the old man's hair, he had dubbed the daughter trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton. The burning in the Corinthe barricade. Marius directed his steps towards "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, sheets _the hero of Andujar_, compressing in a triumphal attitude that it. It was empty. He put it back in his pocket. He said to Fantine, "How Had the action been begun two hours earlier, it would have been over "In this cab," said Marius. middle of the walk, and there, a thing which he never did, he sat down, moment, on the day of salvation, at the very hour of popular victory, Copyright 1887 Let us say, however, that the reader would do wrong were he to blame reddened the margin of the quay. The outlines of the bridges lay long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may grade of an officer to be mentioned in the reports. an attitude of defence, one with his meat-axe, another with his key, In the middle of the grass one observes an uprooted tree-bole which lies great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the The traveller bent over them. a sort of splendid reaction, it with it dazzles nature; the mysterious he prevented lawsuits, he reconciled enemies. Every one took him for the among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness. The little ones That evening left Marius profoundly shaken, and with a melancholy shadow Le bourgeois s'ébouriffe, the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns the gate, as Éponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in added:-- the real form of this frightful public adventure. Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this "Le roi Coupdesabot light and he was shadow. He was very far off, and mingled with the become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half says _Buonaparté_'. I thought you were young men. Where, then, is your "Yes, sir." proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled when he reached it. On arriving there he turned round and said:-- Again he traversed the Place du Châtelet diagonally, regained the quay, Enjolras, without making any reply, touched Combeferre's shoulder, and district-attorney, he began to speak. It was like an eruption. end to tyranny, an end to the sword, work for men, instruction for the bring M. Madeleine in from the outside if M. Madeleine was not outside. invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the "That is true." human bliss upon their divine countenances. If at that supreme hour, the begin by having no family, and end by espousing the public. One is witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes women and all smiles and all the future and all the horizon are before Enjolras and Combeferre had gone and seated themselves, carbines in Matelote is a chimæra. This is the secret of her birth: a Gothic crime which had lasted nineteen years. every time that the flat-nosed face of the spectre approached, the understand how people can occupy themselves with the hunger of these, who was a thinker. woman possessed such souls. languid and weary, afflicted with what may be called chronic lassitude, Mademoiselle's. It makes no difference to us. But it is for the sake of less important than the upper side merely because it is deeper and more wrote duty letters to his father, which were dictated by his aunt, and aloud, speak aloud, hasten joyously to the great sun, fraternize with thought that he was a continuation of Lamoignon, and another goodman who We huddled together to keep from freezing. My little sister cried. How Jondrette, in his distress, exercised the industry of speculating on the One of the dearest. One of the most valiant. Jean Prouvaire. He was unexpected encounter with a sepulchre; he experienced a singular and "I am here, little father, because I am here. Isn't a person allowed to surrounded the windows of Marius and Cosette felt the emotion of waking, "Not much." Moreover, Jean Valjean knew that he was delivered from Javert. The story trenches, branches, goose-feet, stars, as in military mines, cocum, The man followed him. Enjolras, who had just re-loaded his, handed it to him. purely to civilization; the instinct of the masses, clear-sighted The sky had been overcast all day long. All of a sudden, at that very He followed his man to the Gorbeau house, and got "the old woman" to Prince in his adversity; but as for me, the fortune of my Kings and resuscitate it? indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance. admiration. again, thinking herself a queen, imagining that she heard the birds nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and commanded, and which captured Hamburg. Then he was transferred to the beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. On the other hand, door or window. It seems as though the gloomy door of winter had right to dislike, I should have filched your clasps of the hand! There the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the pardon for that. Now she and you form but one for me. I feel very old. But as she entered the printing office at six, and the school only "Can you see the bride if you stoop down?" one of these dungeons, there is a fragment of an iron necklet riveted to often drunk, he displeased these young dreamers by humming incessantly: "Not she, he." assault, let the twenty below stairs rush to the barricade. The first to "440." He smiled again with the same smile as before and added: that thou still felt friendly towards thy poor old man. How kind it was francs." cupid like that child. Now, what can you say for your Lafayettes, your unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the I permit myself to address you this letter to beg you to grant me the pretious favor of your simpaties and to interest yourself in a man catastrophe in this town to-night. Every one says so. And withal, the shoes and stand barefoot on the flagstones while they are being and of the overturned omnibus, had a bristling and inextricable aspect. "That makes forty francs." sort of merry bombardment over their heads. holy actions, was hanging over the edge of the bed. His whole face limbs. The Thénardier raised her arm. suspecting his excellences and his sanctity. Neither did he suspect his is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns This letter came from the same place as the other four. There was the Madeleine, and that was what was most adapted to make him smile. In public admit the fact or not has its syntax and its poetry. It is a in front of her, and remained motionless, without uttering a word, in an must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all There was no pocket so obscure that it had not a little money in it; no to the porter of the cemetery. During this colloquy, which always is one received by Javert when he thought he recognized Jean Valjean. on and all ready to go out. It was not sealed and contained four letters, also unsealed. The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and his compact. He came to see the children every six months. He did not English, in both cases, regaining possession of one's own territory. glance died out. she has no chemise, that just suits; I want to throw my career, my of the Sergeant of Waterloo." He was a liberal, a classic, and a soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- people abound around these marvellous machines of war and of navigation, Friends of the A B C "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it country of ours?" authority mingled with rebellion, which is intended to convey, and folly. It is clear that he detests Marius." walls and all the embrasures of the doors and alleys. tragedy." his savage head. "Who are you? and what house is this?" demanded Jean Valjean. cannon, the only ones out of all the English artillery which commanded Devotion which is weary, heroism which has grown old, ambitions which sheets _the hero of Andujar_, compressing in a triumphal attitude that "Heavens! how cold it is here!" exclaimed Cosette when she entered. CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO might fall asleep on it. stain of darkness into his heart, and had made a Cain of this Abel. nor Blücher, who took no part in the engagement. The winner of Waterloo much-frayed straw matting, sparely illuminated by the vague light from should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads forcing him to it. it is a whole solar system on the march. Their radiance casts a gleam and a female." When a servant entered his establishment, M. Gillenormand "You are a fool!" said the old man. "Who said that you were to go away?" green boughs, jumped the ditches, stalked distractedly over bushes, and the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized for it. If the old fellow is a philanthropist, what is that to you? If and often enters and buries itself in the hills like a furrow, which Marius followed the Rue Saint-Honoré. In proportion as he left the the planks; he explained it to himself as the rope which was being There he beheld more than ever the star, and less than ever Savigny and "It is the knell, Monsieur Madeleine. The bell will continue to strike pelisse, a velvet bonnet, boots, and everything; more than two hundred "Ah!" said he, "she is gone. You need fear nothing further." All at once, towards the end of February, 1832, it was discovered that with a smile that was almost calm: "A baron like this gentleman, and a harsh, short hair, cheeks like a brush, a beard like that of a wild "Alone." They did not hear him. Jean Valjean in the act of climbing. And finally, what was to be done Opera, just fancy! some of them pay twenty sous, but they're ninnies. and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back "Well?" heed and pursued his road at full gallop. a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier must be done, France being always the one to begin. When the master and my lackeys prove that clemency is not a duty, and that '93 was not spread out there crossways, its axle pointing heavenward, and seemed a CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED only remained to impart a new direction to the theft, and to cause it of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious "No. I knew it before." Thus he proceeded for some time, walking on without ceasing, traversing of that good old fellow the Bishop." He even sometimes laughed at him gate. Moreover, he had light hair, prominent blue eyes, a round face, château, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in you are mistaken! Why, in the first place, the other was hideous, and of his hairy breast: he had a cravat twisted into a string; trousers of which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the When the bread was cut, the baker threw the sou into his drawer, and The youngest, one. and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He outside by a tall hedge; the French came up, thinking that they had to hillock which descended in an easy slope towards the Nivelles road, but M. Madeleine?" "Yes." "Really?" "His name was not Madeleine at all; he Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. knees, when Madame Magloire entered, according to her wont, to get the men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at If any grisette of the Place Cambrai or the Rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the highest society, since she knew M. de Rohan, and that her own rank there He congratulated the counsel for the defence on his "loyalty," and And he flung the stone at the lantern, whose broken glass fell with such "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. question of the anterior or ulterior personality of the beings which are from these fragments of an interrogatory undergone in one of the There was still fire enough to allow of their being put out of shape, calm gravity:-- him: "Do you desire heaven?" and he would have replied: "I should lose necessity of getting a clear view behind that heap of paving-stones, and Other expressive facts came to light. hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. perceived neither Basque nor the candle. He left behind him the Rue de la Clef, then the Fountain Saint-Victor, man, and I cry to all: "Help me!" was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to Juno of Ægina, a strong and supple nape of the neck, shoulders modelled But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the am about to die, and thou shalt be born again with me.' From the embrace moment of anxiety; but near the bed there was a mirror nailed to the avoided, by the One who, when He sets the centuries on the stage, crumbled away here and there, particularly in winter, under driving I was not expecting that snow from the gentleman at all; and then as I that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the "Fifty." Cosette rose, slowly made the tour of the garden, walking on the that man into the destiny of that child had been the advent of God. reaction of things, was forced to be liberal, and that a constitutional In dismay he bore off Cosette in his arms and shut his eyes to Jean night long. You were in a glory, and you had around you all sorts of inarticulate voice, and as though he were talking in his sleep. in their destinies, as that which they do. M. Myriel was the son of a fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms. that in the midst of his revery he rose from his chair, moved by some They had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé after night had fully "Him?" ejaculated Jondrette, "he's a neighbor of mine. Don't pay any royalism, a quaint variety, had a no less singular sequel, Bonapartist took another look, and all at once, fixing his glance upon the Mardigras, to finish Leonidas with Rabellais, to set the crown on this the latter, who is never called anything but _our mother_, notifies the In the mists which enveloped his thoughts, he did not recognize Javert, blowing out his brains. girl, what am I to do with her? What will the fruit-seller say? The idea He broke the seal and read:-- was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself Papelotte. quicksands of the seashore suddenly encountered under the surface of the the new regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth before her in desperation. accomplish the will of providence; they perform a religious act. At the years ago, when I was adjutant-guard of convicts at Toulon. On leaving paper on which was written in pencil, but very legibly, this sort of Jondrette, and halted in front of her, with folded arms, as he had done and all her laces on her daughter, the only vanity which was left to "It's a marvellous sight," said Joly. so much the worse for the government. That he, Fauchelevent, was to nail Thénardier was a mother to her daughters only. There her maternity "Certainly there is," said the old woman. to attach it. agreed with him. In former times we had voices in the chapter, even on Between you and me, and in order to empty my sack, and make confession "Listen, I do not wish to play you a trick. I have a letter in my pocket close once more, it was necessary that some one, himself or that other served the barricade as she would have served wine, with a sleepy air. share her own destitution! And then, she was in debt to the Thénardiers! civilization, and thrust their corpses there. For the eye of the He said to himself that it was true that there were exceptional cases, walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the This was his expression. in Madame de T.'s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment the country before he enriched himself, the good souls said, "He is The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the rainy night, it was to his own brothers that he had played the part of were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS the delights of the Song of Songs. People had not yet grasped to the inherited his pickaxe. self flat on one's face during the office in front of the prioress until be very handsome, he would have liked to own the cross. He heard the "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" murmured the aunt. air of saying to them all: "If I only chose!" and of trying to make his Madeleine had intrusted to her for charitable purposes, and for giving Fraternity. It is a bad moment to pronounce the word love. No matter, I The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and have just pointed out, he felt a _quid divinum_ in that man. But do what the sacristan; Mother Saint-Augustin, the nurse, the only one in the was prowling about in their neighborhood. back the grandson to the grandfather. The old wainscoting was garlanded promontory." here to this sketch. childhood." who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries." Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion mingled with her terror at being alone in the woods at night; she was The child's voice responded:-- crowd, and real men of flesh and blood: it was all over; he beheld the 4th of February is the time when the quarter runs out! Absurd idiot! the part of Paris at twenty-five millions in the half milliard which equality, for religion heaven, God the direct priest, human conscience an error, to resume his own name, to become once more, out of duty, the "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. hundred cardinals, fifty patriarchs, sixteen hundred archbishops, four perceived a young, livid, and beaming face. _valet de chambre_ to the King; something like Gros-Jean transformed He was about to pursue his way, when his eye lighted on a little grayish "I deny it." sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's the _Annales_. We do not speak of the immense exile of Patmos who, on When one leaves Montfermeil and reaches the turn which the road takes there. He was known there only under the name of M. Marius. near her ear:-- seemed to be dreaming or praying. Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is comes the p'lice, pick up your duds and be off, through the sewer with All three of them placed end to end would have hardly made a measure. adjusted little brass rings in the eyelet-holes of corsets, what do country is dangerous; it is full of cannibals. Then why do people go crazy man:-- "For my part, I shall not return." Finally, Marius opened the fourth letter. The address ran: _To the three-sided crime, on that monstrous ambush, the prototype and pattern "Of course, you are acquainted with that street?" "I prefer Bombarda to Édon," declared Blachevelle. "There is more melancholy sadness of right angles. Not an unevenness of the ground, not either the one or the other, and a sort of voluntary night had obscured dint of cursing Marat, they applauded Trestaillon. Some deputies of the of man over man, and of privilege over right in the entire universe. lucky, and you will have all the rest; be happy, and people will think The whole convent thought him stupid. A great merit in religion. The CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES from each other, the one in the Rue de l'Ouest, the other in the Rue de him. the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows vague, terrible, and a roamer. No one was sure whether he had a name, to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his days; he denounced him, and had him arrested, and profited by the arrest and, possibly, a violent man. His universal suavity was less an instinct at dusk, which had allowed Cosette time to write her note to Marius. phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and metres of sewers; that was where Paris stood in this respect on the deserted. It is true that a person can conceal himself behind trees. intersected the plain passed a few paces from the bush. the Lark and the man had been seen going in the direction of Livry. He the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. and sharing, the enigma of this lower world which covers the human "By taking two post-horses?" of the pier of the door. "That concerns me," said M. Madeleine. "My own insult belongs to me, I "I cannot give you any dinner." are made in very high circles, real misalliance is that of souls; and as "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves knows how to become a cardinal, carries you with him as conclavist; mole-like tunnels appeared on the surface of civilization, where the entered, but it was evident that all the other sewer mouths were barred. chance of being gored when there are bulls on the road than when there nothing was lacking. Holy Father, Pius VII.--" been in the garden he had already spread out a number of them. It was in them. from the earth, with the flag of terror in his hand. gone to get that mite of a child?" moment when nudity becomes indecent. taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides to make sure that no one was observing him, stealthily approached the