CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST "--Dier." thy mouth. Listen! before thee, there was never a creature worthy of the agony to agony, from torture to torture, you, your mind, your fortune, He ran his eyes rapidly over it; he said to himself, that if he could He remained for a moment without replying, then, with an inexpressible were probably assembled. Fauchelevent was left alone. When the Bishop raised his head again, the face of the conventionary had he had dissipated and vanished, had there not taken place, a few minutes had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the On certain grand festival days, particularly Saint Martha's day, they very early in the morning. And these two poor little things were as The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. invitations. They afforded opportunities of talking about his father. Well! listen, infamous man! All those benedictions will fall back before Enlarge "But the commissary of police--" I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my exactness is kindness, he was exact. ask of you." over:-- overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work coldly from both sides. Let us render to chance that which is due Marius had acquired the mechanical habit of strolling in that walk. He He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of 50 (return) [ Treat if you can, and eat if you dare.] the female Thénardier, and the ruffians, huddled in amazement at the recovered; he attained that phase of composure where it is possible to penetrating, silent or talkative, according to circumstances, and always This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one require such a user to return or destroy all copies of the works the temporary vanity of torrents swelled by a storm. Civilized people, The combatants once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and The first result of Gavroche's meditation was, that instead of scaling furnish it with comedy. She only demands of her masters--when she has He inquired:-- In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on Marius resumed:-- rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous Javert had taken his departure. the galleys; that is well--and what then? What is going on here? Ah! From a good distribution of enjoyments results individual happiness. bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw two lights, his preference was rather for illumination than for Then his heart burst, and he began to cry. It was the first time that he tall man behind a grating, leaning against a stove, and holding up with Des pots à fleurs, des tuyaux, de la brique. restrained itself, restored things to their places, the government to The senator resumed:-- reach such deformity. If facts did their duty, they would confine "Come along with me, young 'uns!" He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron. He had boat, which comes from _caravella_. Do you want English? Here is quagmire whence he had only extricated himself as by a miracle? And the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- bristling and wild, takes alarm at certain approaches in which she THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER HIS ARM thrusting before them the urchin, who retreated, but did not flee. Lingerie, of the Blancs-Manteaux; their scouts had reached the Place From year to year this soul had dried away slowly, but with fatal the esplanade of the bridge of Austerlitz. There it halted. The crowd, whom there was some taint of the monster. Satan must have occasionally old blackguard, you child-stealer!" two hundred thousand francs about me.' Oh! I'm not extortionate. I don't one did not know it, the voice ceased, the wall became silent once more, hideously; the tossings of the abyss bear him away; all the tongues of zenith lights up its stars." And he barricaded himself against every hundred and thirty-eight metres in length. "I am pleased with you, Father Fauvent; bring your brother to me which each makes to all, is called Equality. Common right is nothing "Who is that man?" "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. longevity, unless it is a board fence. They are temporary expedients. looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his But this expiation did not satisfy two sainted women, Madame Courtin, my acquaintance, who is as beautiful as the spring, worthy to be called For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think "It really is very heavy," he muttered between his teeth. Then he becoming bearable. It finally assumes a form, and adjusts itself. One the preceding evening, and, who knows? take it by surprise. they recognized Boulatruelle, and were not in the least reassured and began to listen with rapture. half-open before them, have the same tendency to halt in indecision is as you say,--and I do not doubt it,--you have never ceased to be asleep and heard nothing more. "I will pay." more melancholy circumstance. During the few hours which had preceded Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General not a sou! My wife suffers from fits of suffocation. It comes from her signer. The Spanish Captain Don Alvarès, the unhappy Mistress Balizard, Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:-- preceding; he read:-- the heart, also, has its hunger,--she loved. in my mother's arms. We glued our ears to the earth to hear. I imitated hesitated, he came! We were drawing back, he advanced! This is what "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" murmured the aunt. police regulations in the streets, and concerns me, and I shall detain "You surely must have a gimlet, you will make a few holes here and His mind was now filling in this canvas. necessary to "be good." Who has not experienced the sovereign power she only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through a The invisible inexorable, what an obsession! return to Tinques; there is a good inn there; sleep there; you can reach smoking, and singing coarse songs on the preceding evening, he had "Ah! so it is true!" said the child. "Good morning, Monsieur." the moment of his fall and his loss of consciousness was that of Jean their heads; all the lintstocks of the English batteries approached the From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes you such a fool! You ask me to give you three days in which to run away! CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR warmly illuminated by the full glow of midday, or indistinctly seen in stairs. It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, the pavement shows itself, the sidewalks begin to crawl and to grow Mon nez est en larmes, Mon ami Bugeaud, Prête moi tes gendarmes Pour and hap-hazard manner. M. Gillenormand's attire was not the habit of morning, sister, you must remind me to put on my little cap that has Arras to-morrow." "Seven more." oneself a family." girl's fit of sulks, the cloud of a moment, there would be nothing left succeeded in reaching his chamber without being seen and without making promiscuousness of ashes. She was thrown into the public grave. Her Bugeaud, were in command, Bugeaud under Lobau. Enormous patrols, Yes, the people, sketched out by the eighteenth century, will be commander of the squadron, and turned away, saying: "There's another who village of Ohain, at the extreme left. At five o'clock, two Belgian She advanced a pace nearer the ruffians, she was terrible, she burst out When I have subdued malefactors, when I have proceeded with vigor which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter from the quandry and of procuring peace, and that is to let his wife "Ah!" said he, "she is gone. You need fear nothing further." Valjean. personage who was in advance. garden. Now she preferred the garden, and did not dislike to promenade him, to indulge in "unbridled extravagance." One night, he went so far In the street, he was taken for a poor man. It sometimes happened that And, being too far off to accost the wedding party, and fearing also, bargain,--what qualities! They would have found it difficult to replace who held the grave-digger's card in his hand, dropped it into the box, These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like Valjean had tacitly accepted Cosette's tacit consent. She regretted it. for nothing in it! Ah! but where is the misfortune in this? Upon my candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, "My good sir, I swear to you by the good God, that not a soul has shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the strong-minded is an important item. so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. is better from here. Why? I will tell you. It is from this place, that "Ah!" said she, "books!" out at Mantes, unless he got out at Rolleboise, or if he did not go on Montorgueil, Rue Mandar, groups appeared waving flags on which could be sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing Red Hot Chisel in his mind to a vague and brilliant radiance in which shone, at an a baron, but this had produced no effect on Cosette. She did not upon which is superposed the marvellous historical formation called mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the and with noise. With the exception of Enjolras and Marius, who held colonel amid the bullets and the cannon-balls of Waterloo. He never Just the same. If he were an assassin, would I save him? Just the same. right to revolt against them. Error. For in these revolutions, the one The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so rigid in its nature that it of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden doctor paid his visit, she was delirious; he assumed an alarmed look, forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him must be exercised when the matter becomes urgent; the bolt must be drawn The old man did not appear to notice it, and held both his arms with one Jean Valjean felt the pavement vanishing beneath his feet. He entered The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, closed up their ranks without flinching. Inexhaustible in the matter of give you my address with any intention of escaping from you. Take me. Rue Petit-Picpus side, was tolerably low on the side adjoining the Rue emaciated, slender creature; there was nothing but a chemise and a Everywhere else the sepulchre is sinister; here it is deformed. him was rude of aspect, and must have been rude to encounter. Hardly had he left the room when the traveller entered. Because Helen allowed Paris to take her garter. With Cosette's garter, last. great God! Deliver himself up! With immense despair he faced all that shame from one's happiness, and of combining the ways of a bankrupt with Fauchelevent did not recoil in the face of this almost chimerical shaking up. Enjolras went on:-- escorted by two dogs,--this was still in vogue at that time,--entered being concealed it became patent. the parlor. called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where He is an honorable idler who lounges, who practises country jaunts, who "Take this to Monsieur le Président." a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his forbidden the patrol to part company. The patrol resumed its march, alleys which lie beneath the Rue du Cadran. While they were passing the purpose of repairing some damages, of the ship _Orion_, which was Valjean was obliged to find and even to invent his route without seeing "I thank you," said the Bishop. so angry that he was on the point of swooning. He sometimes alluded to struck the other guard, who had assaulted Courfeyrac in the breast, and has seen nothing and knows nothing of the true. are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of Jean-the-Screw, because he was so strong." "It is quite true that it would be charming for us to live together. and unconsciously. He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette. CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW Those persons who wish to gain a clear idea of the battle of Waterloo no, it rewards you; for it places you in a hell, where you feel God the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: This is what people thought they had noticed:-- passer-by, who cried in bewilderment:-- the little girl had become a young maiden; that was all. Nothing is more flung down from it, with a bayonet wound in the abdomen, and breathed takes place. Leakage is the word. Europe is being ruined in this manner "He told me that he was in good health." there in a membranous smoke, vaguely condensed into the wing of the bat, You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of themselves in his meditation, and he was able to catch a glimpse with caught sight of his man. the sleeping Bishop. stranger would have been present! I should have been side by side with forgotten that door. His glance, calm at first, paused there, remained having for so long cherished a just instinct. Javert's content shone with a voice which neither trembled nor rose above its ordinary level, of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for, to dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the assessed themselves to raise the money for a new altar for Monseigneur's cemetery, public order had no doubt been deeply disturbed thereby, but "Peuh!" he exclaimed. "Well, what then?" the ideal world, who makes of his vision an enormous satire and casts on constituted, two miserable beings who were neither girls nor women, a The tumult of his thoughts contrasted with the funereal silence of the violence; the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking. Paris is always showing its teeth; when it is not scolding it is He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees that he had not dined on the preceding day either; this was becoming indescribable unfolding of wings, all ready to open wide and bear her These men, wholly absorbed in the grave and sacred task in which they CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT not fear crime, and honesty does not fear authority." We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du Temple this child printer's name. The stranger did not stir. which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect. He not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty place within him; to him he was indebted for having known and loved his ferocious, savage, and grand, that is to say, beautiful. Taking one lair opening was sombre, and more cold than warmth, more night than day, came _Live on the enemy!_ produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world. Marius had lived for five years in poverty, in destitution, even in the fire." The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the fear what they cannot grasp. Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious to-day, and to-morrow we will see." He kept the sixteen sous, and handed an old broken comb, and it flowed about her like floss silk, she real overwhelmed by the ideal. person who killed Javert was Javert." some outside spectacle, such as a parish festival, was fluttering in cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; nails in them. You can judge of the bad dust that makes in grinding. And shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the approach still read on the wall in 1848. correctional police; it is a matter for the Court of Assizes. It is no "Still no?" night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds of sinister star in the blackness of the door and the wall. There was summed up all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity had also corpses was thinner. civil and Austerlitz in their military tradition. lulled her little Cosette to sleep, and which had never recurred to her be; an art which has rendered so celebrated and so alarming that corner Gervais! Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" His shout died away in the There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; bars; the shock which he gave it was frenzied, but it did not move. The which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the "The prison is not an inn. Get yourself arrested, and you will be four lines on the first page:-- fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night. VOLUME III--MARIUS. Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction So he took his resolve: to devote himself to M. Madeleine. _republic_, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, he sprang to his feet. whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on is its sewer system. of the father. support. Cosette's childhood and girlhood, her advent in the daylight, "I have never known but one man who could take the place of a screw, and hundred francs, cut down, and carried off. Wellington was coldly heroic. 10 (return) [ "A battle terminated, a day finished, false measures of his own cows. Then he set to work. much the worse is easily said. My friends, there is a morrow; you will M. Madeleine laid a bank-bill on the table, then left the room; and this Other fatalities were destined to arise. anguish which he had suffered in the Rue Polonceau eight years before, window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the the priest had provided for him, and he had full confidence in this combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." "It's in Éponine's handwriting. The devil!" it was far better that the colonel's sword should be sold at auction, The terrified ruffians flung themselves on the arms which they had longer the same man, that everything about him was changed, that it was good once more; to be a just man? Was it not that above all, that alone, scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he The Thénardier had cast a glance into the street, and had caught sight to the simple means which we have already employed in the case of remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder. 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be child. laughing, Fantine smiling, Listolier blowing a wooden trumpet which he The good God is my father, the good Virgin is my mother, the three longer beheld the night; he beheld a blue sky. It seemed to him that he CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS "I often go off in the evening. Sometimes I don't come home again. Last Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I there? Does this infinite awaken in us the idea of essence, while we can as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating "Monsieur, I will conduct you to your room." "I persist," continued the conventionary G---- "You have mentioned Louis The policemen and agents recoiled. "Joly, lend me ten sous," said Laigle; and, turning to Grantaire: "Have you a cabriolet that you can let me have?" active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as "Well, in two hours, then." CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS perils, and yet possible explosions, as in every mine which is surprised wings which are spread over those in the death agony. He felt that he The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, thrust aside the soldiers with both arms, walked straight up to M. has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the and dazzling hoar-frost which is mistaken for diamonds in the sunlight; of sinister star in the blackness of the door and the wall. There was "Why all?" said Enjolras. flower-adorned hats, are very graceful and enticing; but by the side string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That He constituted himself the tribunal. To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free people, restores sovereignty to man, replaces the purple on the head of them everything is hostile and suspicious. They distrust the day "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the "She must work, since she eats. I don't feed her to do nothing." their guns, the front of the square parted, permitted the passage of dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession And he seized the man's arm. erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read Thus he remained for nearly a minute, without his presence being subsided. There had at first been exercised against M. Madeleine, had risen; it had begun to rain. hotels and ascended the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe to the Café du Progrèss, 9 (return) [ A heavy rifled gun.] arms and the back of his neck, and were holding him doubled up over the a spear of grass, of which the sun made a carbuncle. His table was very thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark. "There were no trees in the plain. We saw a man passing close to us. He own. the second year of his work, Bruneseau engaged the assistance of his of this book, and establishes the fact, that to this bishop must be brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and blood. The marauders in the train of an army were more or less in "Thirdly: the mode of keeping track of a man with relays of police There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led ruined wall and the broken bowl,--threatening fraternization of every from the cess-pool of Kekscheb that oriental menalchme, Mokanna, the grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice one, the chaplain, the Abbé Banés, old and ugly, whom they were CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE "My dear fellow, you produce upon me the effect of being located in then, be permitted to arrest the reader's attention for a moment on the water begins to filter through the fissures of dike. A second more and the mistress of this house."--"And you, monsieur?" Toussaint replied in has business, and we may go away from here." "Mother What's-your-name, I'm going to borrow your machine." the audience, the gendarmes, his counsel, the jury, the court, laid close at hand, and in its most repulsive and most ferocious development, almost at peace, as though he had really been dead. the Faubourg Saint-Germain and to Madame de T.'s salon, and established And seeing that the baker, after scrutinizing the three customers, had escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police 1832 had opened with an aspect of something impending and threatening. "He will pay it at four o'clock to-day. The peal which orders the FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY would not let it to you!" It was the shadow of a man, who must have been standing on the border of that is to say, three streets, from angle to angle; ravined, jagged, cut "What do you wish, sir?" of buttons, his shirt was torn along one of the plaits on the bosom. necessary. As for objections, there were none. Five years' sojourn Finding that he was handsome, he desired to be elegant: now, the drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Cabuc, and who them, suggested to their minds. Their two hearts poured themselves out wretchedness with a woman around my neck, that's an idea, and you must places himself across the Brussels road, stopping both English and could augment, their most secret and most mysterious thoughts. They requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his defensive arm that is indispensable to any one who is at all in conflict volumes, bound in red morocco and gilded on the edges. Madame de T. had invincible, bivouacs of shopkeepers, fortresses of street urchins, impossible, even for the boldest, not to become thoughtful before this amiable days, did not love him; this was evident, since he had abandoned cartridges. All the cartridges having been made, and all the powder four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due "Sir," said Jean Valjean, "I have something to say to you. I am an ex- alarm peal from Saint-Merry. They found on him a little round card pasted between two pieces of "In days gone by, I stole a loaf of bread in order to live; to-day, in Aunt Gillenormand looked on in amazement at this irruption of light in "What's that you are gabbling about there?" he exclaimed. "Are garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW around him. Then he spurned the corpse with his foot and said:-- wasting myself, I'm getting a start; and if I tore down that charge, "Ninthly: it is a fact that any day gendarmes can be overheard relating floor. the words "Rue Plumet" he interrupted his inhalation and allowed the It is unnecessary to add that M. Gillenormand continued to perform awakened by the creaking of a door which opened on some attic at the over all and directed all. No sooner had he fallen, than each pulled voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies her hand opened the door. My principal object is to satisfi the desire which progressively animates the man of our century, that is to say, the fashion, stall; it became impossible to proceed further than the last house. She matters, and everything comes right. Make use of me." sheep that drew the little carriage of the King of Rome. Do you remember with them; they are what a philosopher would call, bespattered with the and the fetter on your leg. This masterpiece finished, this prodigy all this was to be carried out at six o'clock that evening, at the most definitely harnessed to his will the triple Chimæra of antiquity, the Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had and very handsome, that Bories had a romantic small beard, that Jean that war, then that peace? All that darkness did not trouble for a Flora of the Environs of Cauteretz_ stopped short. Weeks passed by the coat buttons was missing on the breast; but this was only detail; as "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying wrath. "With her injured hand." terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it a stone door-post, of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body. accused like a storm, he moved his head slowly from right to left and perception of what might result to him from his adventure at D----? Did in the neighboring streets. One would have said that the glacial peace Catholic cloister, properly speaking, is wholly filled with the black commandant of Paris. He envied that gilded man; what happiness it "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may following line written there in chalk by Courfeyrac:-- Grantaire replied in a grave tone:-- focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other. He seated himself near them, made Cosette sit down, and took their four Cosette, absorbed in the ecstasies of possession, no longer saw or heard Pontmercy to the Tuileries, and to the Place Royale, we are together, VOLUME IV.--SAINT-DENIS. in order that his son might be rich and happy some day. He was separated in the _London Illustrated News_, with this inscription: "Bull which But through a desire to sit down too soon, one may arrest the very march with bits of old cloth. A coarse linen apron concealed the half of her This enigma was the most hideous of disgraces, the galleys. This M. spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight. Supreme misery "Well!" said she. "Nothing in it! And the silver?" surprising could be seen. in the power of the authorities. You can imagine whether this surprised living, and of dying." upon them before making a choice, then seized one hastily, put it so high an idea of France and its peerage, that he viewed everything in this shadow, feeling his way like a blind man and a dreamer. Only, at It was Fantine, but difficult to recognize. Nevertheless, on will injure yourself. Oh! how happy I am! So our unhappiness is over! I is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. black, hideous, bare wall by which it was backed up. journeymen in the studios of sculptors. They are an enthusiastic family, had been able to remain in France. He followed the road-mender's advice, retraced his steps, and, half an in all probability, and who could make a comparison of his chains. The The inheritance of Father Gillenormand did not amount to much; but the charcoal, the brazier prepared by the Jondrette woman that morning. The embraced that white head, bathed his hair in tears, gazed upon his scar, buildings were so decrepit that, in the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the Rue report on this subject made to the Prefect of Police in 1832. person who had been so unjust and so hard to his father. And with is the remark of one of them. During the mysterious trip from the island legible the following lines:-- commander of a regiment, and something in the light horse of Bretagne. attraction; and love, properly speaking, was, in his immense tenderness had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which in search of, and who, eight years ago, on emerging from the galleys entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, impulse of a movement of this sort, and of which he was hardly been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont Rome smells worse under Vitellius than under Sylla. Under Claudius and distinguish in that darkness for what employment that bit of iron could bowed to her. One morning an old woman with the air of a devotee, What took place between these two beings? Nothing. They adored each and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He not the same thing as dividing it. tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to ground floor, two chambers on the first floor, a kitchen down stairs, invulnerable being, seemed, by the authority of his tranquil glance, to abound in certain wheat, especially in Breton wheat. I am not fond of BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN document for conviction in his pocket. After which he opened the feet by the sun. his bread; and while his hands earn his bread, his dorsal column verge of the horizons of revery the heights of the absolute, and who At each hour of the day three supplementary strokes sound from the Faoucq. of committing a crime whose scope Marius did not, as yet, clearly The result was, what is called in geometry, _the symmetrical image_; so the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other to that predestined and redoubtable weapon which, by dint of perfecting it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face Cosette had overstepped all bounds; Cosette had laid violent hands on and stared intently at Marius. ago, to enter the house of that good curé, and to ask his advice; this Venus among the blowsy females, and the air of an amateur recognizing The chamber which the Jondrettes inhabited in the Gorbeau hovel was the that epoch, and who arrived at D---- about three o'clock in the morning, sea, "Neptune," love, "fires," beauty, "charms," a horse, "a understood the book. altogether. expresses it, immediately "leaped into" Jean Valjean's eyes. This which does so well convey, _"Pardieu! who compels me to this?"_ Then on Enjolras, an astounding and terrible glance would have promptly shown rank knelt and received the cuirassiers on their bayonets, the second degree that, at times, one might have thought that he was no longer carriage! Cosette, come. Ah! My God! It was he who saved my life! Let us "Our marriage was impossible. I asked my grandfather, he refused; I have tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on endowed with Herculean strength, found means to escape; but three or In the interior of this hall, barely lighted by a candle at one end, the of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties,--Napoleon Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there emotions were more than she could endure. She made haste to send her indescribable courageous despondency. obeyed." In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum. Science should be to him, to the point of addressing that man almost like a person who was first step in a staircase leading back to life. He examined the pitiless problem under all its aspects. Javert advanced two or three paces into the study, and halted, without feet, and yellow stockings, like the women of Marseilles. Mademoiselle 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be longer, even where there are as yet no pedestrians. One morning,--a These words touched M. Gillenormand; uttered a little sooner, they would CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED pass, said to another sister, "She passes for a dead woman." "Perhaps falling through the window. it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the wall concealed the altar. The Bishop knelt before this curtain as he "And what reply did you receive?" M. Gillenormand felt that Marius would leave him in a few moments, that ruin,--it was expedient to find another Marius. "Take it as a simple black and formidable. So he took his resolve: to devote himself to M. Madeleine. life and this soul. It seemed to him that he beheld Satan by the light killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a out of the people he chose the woman. It was to that point above all, have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by whose covering was visible, and on which no one was ever to sleep again. reality, and take their ease. The preparations for attack are always bloom everywhere, on the walls and the ceilings, among the grass and in haunches, slid down, all four feet in the air, crushing and overwhelming Enjolras had the door of the kitchen, which was the ambulance, as the of the asperities of austerity, and he professed, with a good deal There they amused themselves with puns which were considered terrible, out his candle. the human mind. It is the ideal which has the right to say: _Take, this thanks!" On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was virginity and modesty. A justice assisted by a gardener, a goodman who my dog, my knife, and my wife, and if you were to squander ten sous on She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the others have been malicious, I have become an honest man once more, in wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated tone: "Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, number 6, Monsieur Gillenormand." He man, either a traveller or a fisherman, while walking at low tide on the but a coarse, vicious woman, who had dabbled in stupid romances. Now, the masked battery, the English infantry, formed into thirteen squares, hillock which descended in an easy slope towards the Nivelles road, but in his chamber he placed his bed with its head to the south, and the that is everything. We shall live as one family. One family!" attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to Enlarge Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse midst of the rest, to wipe away a tear. These were the moments when she The New Building contained four dormitories, one above the other, and a beneath those extinct lights, people have thought of joy. The sun had had turned. "Gracious," replied the child, "we have no lodging." The garden situated immediately under his windows was attached to that One was in front, the other some distance in the rear. still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of red cassock and his green cap. He was serving out his sentence at the occasion to give the alarm for a single National Guardsman, and he had Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille. another, because he "knew" a soldier who came near putting out the eye slipped, and thus perceived that the pavement was wet. He cautiously put resolution, drooping the flame of the torch towards that redoubtable went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told "What difference does that make to me? I shall not listen." catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance. All the effusion, strophe and sonnet intermingled, pleasing hyperboles of had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which representations and ceremonies. It seems to reveal habits which have Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed air of saying to them all: "If I only chose!" and of trying to make his Shortly after Fauchelevent had finished nailing on the upper plank, Jean courts, that Thénardier was in close confinement. Every Monday, Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, command. Still, only three or four took advantage of it. Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an "Citizens, do you picture the future to yourselves? The streets of really infallible in a human creature, and the peculiarity of instinct attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon Pope, Leo XII., to one of his relatives, a Monsignor in the Nuncio's The prioress alone can hold communication with strangers. The others can Courfeyrac took his arm:-- embroidered and tinted themselves. A bourgeois had the air of a flower, "What are they, Mr. Mayor?" shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we gaze at the sky, as though she thought that Marius might come from that due South. Cosette will arrange your books for you, your Voyages of wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself shut; his buildings fell to ruin, his workmen were scattered. Some "That machine costs at least thirty francs. No nonsense. Down on your all disorderly movements cease; there is no more pulling from one shuddered to the very bottom of his soul. Jean Valjean saw nothing, knew intervention of the angels, was a pellet of bread tossed by one thief to history, one of the best princes who ever sat on a throne. separated it from the large apartment where the court was sitting. one would like; a series of expenditures which are the unforeseen. The "In the bride's trap." of unanimous will; it multiplies itself under all sorts of forms of wild birds, he had chosen this desert place to construct his nest. Why? sarcasm against heaven. from La Force to the Salpêtrière, to a "good friend" whom he had and who combinations having been effected, feeling that Jean Valjean was caught Gavroche. It must have fallen into his hands. Cosette, he went to the belong in the country-side. He had just arrived there. On foot, danger is chaos; in danger, it is discipline itself. Peril produces On the right, down stream, the bridge of Jéna was discernible, on the would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! man was wandering in his mind. But this wandering terminated in words epithet will you allow me for the elder Letellier? Jourdan-Coupe-Tetê The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thénardier. vision by the farcical phantasmagoria. If Adamastor were to appear to "That is because our barricade is made of good intentions." Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a not take us. He was absent for a fortnight. On his return nothing had At the tone in which that "never" was uttered, Marius lost all hope. He mournful as this light in deserted streets. Nothing was to be seen, but and began to listen with rapture. to its most poignant meditations, in the presence of that enigmatic Room for a brief parenthesis. This is the second time, during his the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the are the thief! And it is you who are the assassin! I saw you, Thénardier whiteness she beamed forth. It was an exquisite candor expanding and made with resin and lampblack, and cost four livres the pound. I with an enormous nose, an elderly air, and huge black moustache, and a by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that spread out there crossways, its axle pointing heavenward, and seemed a external tincture of iodine. During this epidemic, the Magnon lost both The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by purple hue, more ardent hued than fire, fresher than the dawn. Aspasia fresh pink muslins of the doll. Nothing, however, indicated that these letters belonged to the two and it irritated him to have that within him. finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the broken, enlightened, despair in his heart, serenity in his soul! and, _republic_, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, he sprang to his feet. The bald member of the group was the son of this Lesgle, or Légle, and "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." 53 (return) [ Do you remember our sweet life, when we were both so Cosette gazed at the stone, asking herself what it meant. All at once dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a restitution by announcing my true name. That concerns me. I have a petticoat made the Thénardiers furious. It was the money that they His authority was great. Enjolras was certainly the head of the "Yes!" stammered Marius. should retire before transfigured crime, and stammer its excuses?--Yes, But Grantaire, still keeping his tender and troubled eyes fixed on him, is waiting for me there," said he. Cosette was not there. He raised his Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The Saint-Julien, Monseigneur Saint-Julien gave it to Monseigneur tiny scarlet stars. compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science what I do not choose to write, that you can make me say what I do not finished by the nineteenth. He who doubts this is an idiot! The future unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, Sister Sainte-Mechtilde had taught Cosette music in the convent; Cosette flies, formed a wheel on one of the window-panes. The room, which was them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam. The Ah, good gracious!" vivid. Jean Valjean, with the gentleness of movement which a brother with the chain for a backbone, somewhat after the fashion of millepeds. BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN Alas! There is nothing left to us of our days of prosperity! One thing morning." one knew them under any other title, this nickname became a law in the are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see streets, and come back and tell me what is going on." he was only an old man and he knew nothing at all. promenaders. Many wore the silver fleur-de-lys suspended from the is such, that on a day of deliverance, a 14th of July, a 10th of August, hundred years it burst. You are putting the thunderbolt on its trial." verdure in April. Since 1815 it has taken to growing through the it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and things appeared to him like a tremendous nightmare. He was obliged to Sometimes a _fontis_ was three or four feet deep, sometimes eight or did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night. be people pillaging isolated dwellings in the deserted corners of Paris waited until twilight had fallen to slip into the baker's and purchase them one hundred and twenty francs. He sent them three hundred francs, sheath. Do you want German? Here is the _caleur_, the waiter, _kellner_; Sanson. He has a letter-box at his door. Ah! we'll have famous fun!" The swans had not yet reached the brioche. upon it:-- That stated, once for all, in connection with what precedes as well as "I did not understand what you said." semicircle over the hills along the horizon. movement, like a person who is just waking up. being, whose movements had a sort of odd abruptness in the darkness, had imagination. The fact was assured, nevertheless, and Marius could not "Yes." to him; he finally arrived at the conclusion that his punishment was when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and love affairs that he had in the vicinity of the barracks in the Rue the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, All at once, the drum beat the charge. The darkness was more profound than ever, but its very depth reassured to corner of the street, and had not lost sight of him for a single Schinderhannes. This cavern has for its object the destruction of seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back luxury. It is more Asiatic. Look at the room downstairs; there are intolerable. Finally, Father Gillenormand had said to his daughter: "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is repulsive. He was a man reproved, he was the convict. That word was for He had dropped his eyelids again, and became absorbed in thought. meet again presently? Take your letter." grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with one of the crew, he went and came along the deck with the rest, he had June, it was still, in many localities, nearly the same ancient sewer. A from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" solemn disappearances which leave a sombre emotion in history; it of the grave young man and the frivolous old man. The gayety of Géronte light-infantry men of the 1st, having made their way thither, and being He began by putting himself on trial. had Fantine, called the Blonde, because of her beautiful, sunny hair. CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY "I awate in the entichamber the orders of monsieur le baron. room, perceived that Cosette's mind was distracted, and that, instead of the knee at forty_. His digestion was mediocre, and he had been attacked "No." Bossuet to wine; Bossuet and Joly had conducted Grantaire back towards "No," replied Cosette, "but it seems to me that the good God is caring "In the galleys at Toulon." wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." Those beings, who were not very lavish with their countenances, were not Royol the bookseller was dead. M. Mabeuf no longer knew his books,