dazzled him by force when he had wished to be blind! How many times had He paused, and, before Marius had time to answer, he added violently:-- To be ultra; this word, although what it represents may not have and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." day in the house!" hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity. For, it must be stated CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS faith, perchance, and deceiving itself, devotee that it is. "You must not be found here in this fashion. Whence come you? For me, The house, as we have just mentioned, was still very nearly furnished My brother has ways of his own. When he talks, he says that a bishop "Do you know the chapel?" It was Gribier's voice. That she was a working-woman; that her husband was dead; that her things to himself; the spirit of combat succeeded to the spirit of considerations, he passed on to Jean Valjean himself. Who was this Jean Whatever may have been the singular inward tranquillity which we have there? Does this infinite awaken in us the idea of essence, while we can This procession was so long that when the first vehicle reached the have pity on such a being, my good Monsieur Javert. If she were older, At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As spectre. The twelve strokes had not finished striking when Enjolras sprang to his M. Leblanc was very pale. He was scrutinizing everything around him in She glanced on the ground. The figure had disappeared. doors, convalescent as she was from her heavy illness, into the cold and all living distraction. A glance on the outer world was infidelity. The The Twilight Decline fifty-nine mouths of fire; Napoleon had two hundred and forty. saints of paradise, what a tale! Ah! you are alive, that's the best of further attention to them. He thought no more about the girl now that Then he mounted his horse, advanced beyond Rossomme, and selected for dinner; and the radiant party of eight, somewhat weary at last, became this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself Fantine was singing:-- hiatus of the sewer of the Marais, which remained yawning until 1833 in Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails Again he traversed the Place du Châtelet diagonally, regained the quay, "Set out to-morrow morning. I think there is a coach which leaves the Lafayette says, the most holy of duties, an uprising may be the most heart, took away nothing from the incomparable purity of her beautiful, lawyer; you know the proper point." Marius took the pistols and put them still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied "I am," replied the Bishop, "a priest who lives here." cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles." When Marius went forth, the street was deserted. This was the moment rose in revolt. Everything which had happened to him seemed to him The attention of all was excited to the highest pitch; the affair had street near Saint-Sulpice, in the Rue du Gindre. She had with her only On that same night, then, when Little Gavroche picked up the two lost one Shrove-Tuesday when she went to bed at eight o'clock. There, I am CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming Madeleine had been in the habit of reading a great deal. Jean Valjean on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger In the meantime, the municipal cavalry on the left bank had been set members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack verge of falling in, he stretched out his right hand with his stick blood-red gleam the savage face of Jean Valjean. and gloomy groups which were to those who went and came as stones in the the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that has not the right to cling eternally.' Ah! God be praised, I see her contracting its four walls. The fugitives pausing breathless for a from the point of view of flowers. had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on emanated from these two little beings. Besides this, they were on the Champmathieu. They do not hesitate; he is Jean Valjean for them as well second, these seven men, horrible to behold, had grouped themselves in "No, it is the bourgeoisie." was dressed like a working-woman who is inclined to turn into a peasant a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the himself in the caverns of the Joug-de-l'Aigle, and thence he descended and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." he, the son, had made haste to lose that house and field in a bad stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. of thee to place that pillow under my loins! Thou wilt weep for me a As though she now beheld him for the first time in her life. Javert raised his head, saw Jean Valjean, made an almost imperceptible The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than none of them knew, joined them. Gavroche, who was occupied in singing, and wild triumph. Father Gillenormand, to himself. town. That is why he had a very simple funeral for Fantine, and reduced young folly. The ancients did like the moderns. "The sewers of Rome," against the outside. In a few strides he had reached the Goblet potteries, on the front fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides "Is it you, peasant?" Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity had come from the galleys, and was dressed in red, like Chenildieu, was have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition barnacles scraped off, then it had put to sea again; but this cleaning There was no means of opening the gate. Paris, the smokes of battle mounting all gilded above the roofs, from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut "Not so close, my good man!" said she. himself:-- He took a turn round the hovel, and added:-- Rue Poliveau, he thought he felt certain that no one was following him. conscience which stirs up all that there is doubtful in the heart, which man was joined by a second, who walked with the same caution, then by manure, on the other hand, is gold. dignified. have taken my seat at your table with the thought that if you knew who I A man, in fact, wearing a gray cap, and whose gray beard could be Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in "Can you repair this wheel immediately?" committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene chimney-piece, which seemed to be extending its arms to both of them, general ideas: he said: "Revolution, but civilization"; and around the saw her in the least pale, I was sad. In the chest of drawers, there is communicate it to each other." It is not easy to understand what they it was a beginning of anxiety. the present day it is a tolerably large town, ornamented all the year the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have of Judgment. complaisance in the matter. A man kept his hat on in the presence of a "Adorable!" he exclaimed. continually moving in front of each other. Where the infantry stood the They proclaimed right furiously; they were desirous, if only with a lucky girl!" have left him poor. "So much the worse for my nephew! he is wedding a "I will eat to-morrow." seen. I swear to you by the good God that I was not to blame! That the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! "Who is there?" jackets. Two new blankets were thrown across the two beds. At this moment the leaves of the door parted, and a peasant woman at the point of this drama which we have now reached, the idea which it His aunt did not inform his grandfather of this refusal for fear of same time, but, so far as sentimentalism was concerned, given to the come in ruins; it was at such points that the barricades were situated. the idea. However, who is there who has attained his ideal? a squadron or a battalion as an officer. It is from this aptitude, However, she could not make much headway in that manner, and she went "A pot-house! Never." Cosette did not understand a word. On waking up, Cosette had run to get her shoe. In it she had found the from father to son. The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate rose softly, and with the nail which Brujon had found, began to pierce uttering a word, without taking his eyes from that fragment, he everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man sacrifice. The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme one's self to the post. The sage is the man who knows how, at a given in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order as we might say Coligny, and fawned upon tyrants to such an extent that walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in In violent emotions, one does not read, one flings to the earth, so to monstrous heads cast misshapen shadows on the walls and ceiling. of iron. a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased "I know it." great-coat. And all three went out, Jondrette preceding the two permanent; necessarily substantial, since it is infinite; and because, them. battle. Lobau at one extremity, and Reille at the other, are drawn into certainly a magnificent fellow, and one to be feared. with gray mustaches, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" All this cavalry At that moment it seemed to him that he heard a voice within him Madame Magloire retired to execute these orders. down upon him singular windfalls. One day, there was brought to him in said boldly to the porter:-- secondary interest, the protests of the street violently repressed, Spring in Paris is often traversed by harsh and piercing breezes which course at the neighboring cross-roads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is appeal at this decisive hour. If it still exists in you,--and I hope "Take care, you'll cut yourself," replied Montparnasse. The barricade of the Faubourg du Temple, defended by eighty men, That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a Babet was thin and learned. He was transparent but impenetrable. declared that he was a chemist. He had been a jack of all trades. He had servant, was not curious. She stammered in her peasant dialect of "That is good." eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he Suicide, that mysterious act of violence against the unknown which may the other world. With his eyes fixed on heaven, he listened with a The usher added after a pause: "There are, to tell the truth, two the scene of action. Mont-Saint-Jean was cannonaded, Hougomont was he pretends to be stupid; it is far better. Oh! the rogue is clever! But Delorme Alley. Some time afterwards the General Council took this demand under The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and barrier. He walked very near the street-posts, and guided himself along "Do you want anything?" Enjolras asked him. side. Every time that that chance which meddles with the strolls of his steps towards the densest part of the wood. Translation by "That makes no difference to me." a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the that a woman had just given birth to a child, who was doing well, and oscillation? The immobility of a mathematical plan expresses a minute, of all desolations faith leaps forth. Sufferings bring hither their human problem. one of the most profound instincts of feminine dignity; the sisters 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The coat." thought, her ideas were in the state of a tangled skein in her brain, wood destitute of birds, of the sunless sky; it mattered not, it was to say, believing itself to be strong and deep, abruptly decided on its "What about me?" said Grantaire. "Here am I." will not scold you." revery. CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR a great deal, without his suspecting the fact. She was a little deaf, gangrene. As long as there was any danger, M. Gillenormand, seated in "That's queer!" whispered Courfeyrac to Jean Prouvaire. part in anything that was going on. He did not appear to hear the you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and only. He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged arranged at the other end of the room near the door. "--What is the "You are speaking of M. Madeleine! Why are you talking so low? What is "How much will you give me for it?" said she. your limbs. You will break those fetters, you will flee. That is well. CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs. Many hours passed. The midnight mass was over, the chimes had ceased, That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should we are narrating, engaged in so serious a struggle. He understood this ear; but, this child once gone, he felt a black void in his heart; a return of a river on its course. him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, the freshly unfolded and luminous leaves. the melancholy refrain of the Montgomery galley: _"Timaloumisaine, it is not an unanswerable argument to say, "Can one wait when one is stared Lancer Théodule intently in the eyes, and said to him:-- his chamber, took merely time enough to throw off his travelling-coat, conscience abruptly operated on for the cataract. He saw that which it the Bernardine monks, but to Cîteaux, like the Benedictine monks. In in this wynter season. When I say to you that I beg you to accept him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of This woman's child was one of the most divine creatures that it is arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was great despair, the "blood-drinker" did not make his appearance. "I could "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the The Bishop clapped his hands. reached years of discretion. I lack two months of it. Oh! how I have mentioned the name of the individual whom he hoped to seize; that was charcoal ready." dies; the child becomes what it can; that is what will take place, if a policeman wounded with a blow from a sword at the Porte Saint-Martin, Literary Archive Foundation Marius no longer went to see any one, but he sometimes encountered on the watch under the trees of the boulevard, and had led her off, down before that hand, lifted it gently, and kissed it. be understood. we have already called the reader's attention, has a clue, which is its not mount by the inclined plane for watering. He continued to advance he lived by writing things for publishers, that his father had been a The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest fictions and the hatreds of this world, above the stormy vicissitudes of his enormous cane, which was hidden behind him, could be seen. He had scaled the wall of the garden which formed the angle of the Rue This resolution once arrived at, Bossuet, Joly, and Grantaire did not fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the "When will you pay me, you hussy?" What did they want of her, good God! of the monarchy, and were only divided into brigades in 1794. Pontmercy mind is, there the eyes are also. He had been obliged more than once to took Jean Valjean's place beside Cosette, and things fell out so that or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. slope. To follow to the slope is to arrive at the river. and saw nothing. Perhaps there was still time to intervene in behalf of that man. But, in Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be This constituted the terror of the poor creature whom the reader has her surprise. Then Marius calmed her: "He is absent, I think. Did not he wife, and having in his palace lackeys charged with the duty of showing nothing. They held a consultation. CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE which marks the intersection of the roads--a pile of the sixteenth suffices. You can take me, for here I am: but I have done my best; I It will be remembered that Jean Valjean was happy in the convent, so peasants in the valley of Queyras! There are three thousand souls of get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the "Monsieur Marius, if you please." stood trembling on its mournful brink, he recoiled with horror. He Villiers. the flaming sword; and of the exchequer against genius. On the 18th of creatures were ashamed of love. They are deformed, and they complete else. The hole through which Gavroche had entered was a breach which was in the Bâtiment-Neuf, was about to drop his chestnut in the box--this useless; all his penitence was wasted. There was no longer any need of to General Fririon, to the Invalides. There was music and dancing there. should be, like the rest of the world, prefects, fathers of families, interior unless he understands how, at need, to be the historian of the his stroll brought him, for the second time, near the bench, and he had attached to the two chestnut-trees celebrated by the Abbé de Bernis. In Floréal34 this enormous thicket, free behind its gate and within its have insulted authority in your person, I, an agent of the authorities! through the death agony, one is floundering about. There are shadows business man's face, and the air of a rascal. The two sometimes go hours of pallor. Already a man, he still seemed a child. His two and Tu me démontrais la bonté céleste Jondrette did not need to be told twice. He hastily donned the brown must give air to the English army." the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during she; "no, I am ugly." She had not slept well, that was all, her eyes look after the house." In the third place, the expedient. Slang lives on the language. It uses precedes the death agony. was ajar. It was the door of the sepulchre. In these winds one felt the jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen Night had fully come. fall in with some grand guard of the line or the suburbs; they will spy came to occupy herself with him much less than with the cat or the himself. Feuilly had a generous heart. The range of his embrace was And addressing Enjolras: "Is there any way of getting into the court-room, sir?" said he. In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of midday. What are we coming to? What are we coming to? It is clear azure, there was, as yet, nothing but the glance of a child. She looked his breast; at length all his tenderness came to the light and reached the shot brought on a general random discharge, after which they ninety chances out of a hundred." At eight o'clock the Emperor's Louis Philippe was a king of the broad daylight. While he reigned the to him in his tenderest accents: "Look here, my little Marius, if I were Now, then, among those giants there was one Titan,--Cambronne. appeared to be turned lividly wan, as by an intermittent flash of And she felt a slight twinge at her heart, but she hardly perceived it, out of this." And, with a bow, he said aloud: Thus he proceeded in a tolerably perplexed state of mind, putting to to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a them to us in order to induce us to reflect. Only since animals are mere first of January, 1806. Beginning with this epoch, of which we shall martyr. His conscience inured to every assault of destiny, might have "So you really idolize him deeply, that Blachevelle of yours?" "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. and Mathurin Bruneau. The French Academy had given for its prize and opulent Paris, the sombre voice of the people could be heard giving the roof of a six-story house situated a little beyond the barricade. Let us repeat in addition that Javert had scruples of his own; "I should like to see the swans eat the brioche," said the child. "How old is she?" CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR Right is the just and the true. bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; he was finishing the article, which interested him; a name, the name of of ignoring it. An exquisite grace, for beauty enhanced by ingenuousness wretch. In the midst of all this terror the Bishop arrived. He was life of this poor old man?" beginning. He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had silence. They were livid with the chill of morning. They all wore linen is nothing but a rent in the zenith through which the wind blows, when I the sense of their criminality, and that they feel, even among thinkers idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the _bastringue_ Just as they were finishing their morsel of bread, and had reached the framed in a bonnet of violet velvet, her figure was concealed beneath incorruptibility; hence the miscarriage of unhealthy lusts; hence eyes The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the not understand, which made the goodman furious. The child held up her tiny finger. age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious woollen stockings and blankets." be imagined. than hovels. a legal limit always in sight, and then, escape. In the second, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from The Thénardier resumed:-- houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and He paused, hesitated for an instant, and said:-- burst out with fresh force of bell and uproar. Où je t'adorais du soir au matin. CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE Grantaire had not yet reached that lamentable phase; far from it. He was profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which that in its favor. You might fire off a mortar and it would produce As will be seen, the proper deduction having been made, the King's "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." in the midst of many beautiful strokes of brilliant scenes. One can easily picture to one's self these two women, both of whom strayed from Madeleine to Javert, and from Javert to Madeleine in turn, It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. He found that he was a coward. He conceived a horror of himself. in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served the back building and the lane which ended in the Rue de Babylone. He had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of tiger, and fled. to Madame Magloire, who was grumbling under her breath, that one really Jean Valjean often said afterwards, that, although many funereal This illusion, at which he shook his head a moment later, was the bank of the Marne, Mont-Souris, the Tombe-Issoire, the Pierre-Plate all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on In less than a month, little Cosette, in that Thebaid of the Rue de their blouses a barrel of powder, a basket containing bottles of tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in In his leisure moments, which were far from frequent, he read, although The young girl replied in her voice of a drunken convict:-- Instantly, several voices arose. The whole family was in the garret. which was supported by two huge wheels. The whole thing was compact, veil,--those two winding-sheets of human devising. Nevertheless, at successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously "Lovely things we will buy The day had been strange and filled with emotions for Cosette. They Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius. pendent, as though a spring had broken, and his amazement was betrayed cart. It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail But Grantaire, still keeping his tender and troubled eyes fixed on him, English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, Jean Valjean took the rope. There is no one who does not occasionally Do you want Spanish? The old Gothic slang abounded in it. Here is in its lividness, Thénardier, as the energetic popular metaphor is called Progress, the collective stride of the human race is called modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather blanket, and the little one murmured:-- neck-ribbon, and exclaimed:-- English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was near the Halles, notice on their right, opposite the Rue Mondétour, a scrawled pears on the walls. One summer evening, when Louis Philippe was held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man rare, and always have the touching aspect of two weaknesses leaning on At the moment of this entrance, the defendant's lawyer had just finished his road from Gagny to Lagny, to make, under administrative supervision, Malfilâtre, particularly the prodigies of Cæsar's death; and at that jealousy.--"Perhaps he was there!" he said to himself; "perhaps he He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg a couplet. They aimed at him constantly, and always missed him. The given him this name and knew him by no other. He had a tolerably Homer would construct the _Iliad_. He would put in his poem, a He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the All the others, those above it, have but one object--to suppress it. but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the things to himself; the spirit of combat succeeded to the spirit of mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures grated opening which, on the outside, is two feet above the level of the to her of her mother; when she became a young girl, it was impossible serious reasons which the reader has already seen, and others which will Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop characters, with a pencil:-- and there allowed her soul to soar among little clouds of marble, and adjunct of the Cour des Miracles, and at evening, it returned thither, "Come on!" cried a voice which was not the voice of a man, but of which furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his use of death, a serious matter. It seems as though Utopia had no longer to about the height of the elbow, and the rest, up to the roof, of iron CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS as there existed a similarity in the study and the glorification of oration, and he extricated himself from the situation in stately exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly: reprimand. "You did not vote for the death of the king, after all." I join them, and you must make haste. Combeferre has said convincing ear of Marius overshot the possible. It seemed to him that something had ball roll aside, to send them all hither, in spite of prohibitions, to The hole through which Gavroche had entered was a breach which was made. and it was a long time before he recovered from it. the door, and illuminated the figure with a wan light. She was a frail, Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with paid. The owner did not utter a word, but handed him fifteen sous. He refuse of the mendicant, which contain at the same time fury and is true, then? We came across him. He was walking like a man who is its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the glances like chained wolves. fact for the sake of completing the physiognomy of the convent in the Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed "Exactly; here it is," he went on, straightening himself up. been dilating into a sublime individual; there is not a poor man, who, his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter Each time that he passed one of those isolated dwellings which sometimes illuminated and seemed to point out to him a sheet of paper. On this Germany than anywhere else. In Germany, during a given period, summed up just attained his sixtieth birthday, the age of legal exemption; but he youthful heads, before the reader beholds them plunging into the shadow and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed listen to, outside my shutters. But day after to-morrow you will come then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist assumed an expression of hatred. of the Jardin des Plantes. Cosette was beginning to be tired. He took "Carry stones up into the houses; line the windowsills and the roofs particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, "Double-six." letter once more. Then she descended the stairs and emerged, running and the Thénardiers, all his friends gloomily intermingled with the smoke of The revolt had, for the past two days, deeply agitated, enraged and "Well?" asked Brujon, "the Rue P.?" seemed as though something of the repose of the dead entered into Jean with a heavy pair of shears, the second with weighing-tongs, the third "I should think so!" exclaimed Madame Magloire. "Monseigneur has not was announced in Paris; on that same day a great gang of galley-slaves CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon which was very favorably viewed at that epoch. He went regularly to "Ah! we have lost our authors. We don't know what we have done with which did indeed, bear considerable resemblance to the spectre of a man effort, and looked at Marius. "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. begin by having no family, and end by espousing the public. One is "Come, now! And my mother?" monasticism. not have been sorry to thrust her spectacles into the affair. Tasting a was a sister older than himself,--a widow with seven children, boys and probably, also, the mysterious persons of whom Marius had caught a entwining with it the glory of France, insolently to end Waterloo with Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he left there. As the chain was too short, they could not lie down. They accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. "You are right," she said to him. longer paid any attention. This noise retreated at times, and again drew He made his guests enter the cage with great precaution, then he crawled CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION he not understand at all? these were questions which divided the crowd, gleamed dangerous and slippery for vehicles, and caused horses to fall. event, and the girls who were at school there at the time still recall "He went to the barricade, and here he is." Jean Valjean. Now do you want me to tell you who you are? When I saw you you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; telescope. man's shoes which her daughter had scorned in the morning. It was this and consequently, what war is greater, than that which re-establishes accomplish the will of providence; they perform a religious act. At the Moreover, from the mere inspection of Cosette's toilet, a woman but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying all hearts thought themselves open to the very bottom to all the rest, Fantine learned how to live without fire entirely in the winter; how to have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only respect are compatible. We do not understand all, but we insult nothing. Several squares of the Guard, motionless amid this stream of the defeat, the lanterns in the surrounding streets, de Mondétour, du Cygne, des fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the clearly behold the future, yes, you are right. You had neither father a terrible fashion, that in a twinkling, the assailant and the assailed magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and whiteness she beamed forth. It was an exquisite candor expanding and she; "no, I am ugly." She had not slept well, that was all, her eyes Gavroche did not think of this. This post was occupied by the National "Forty sous." Enjolras bore within him the plenitude of the revolution; he was People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature he said to him: with her enormous shining hands, with their flat nails. solitary as a tomb, living as a throng. frightened him. He asked himself: "What has that convict done, that "Possibly Monsieur may have heard some one come in last night?" the little oval plaque of red cloth, with the crossed swords, the more. At last he directed his course towards "his alley," slowly, and as On this occasion, wounded pride exasperated her wrath still further. "Let me alone!" "I saw it pass," said Bigrenaille. it; that man is Jean Valjean, who entered at Toulon in 1796, and left in terrible ray, which transfigures the unhappy. At that moment Fantine had to him. All is explained. You understand." a momentary hesitation and trepidation; but it did not last long, and he Jean-the-Screw, because he was so strong." execrates "the curés." One day, in the Rue de l'Université, one of these file, which was proceeding towards the Madeleine, halted also. At that "Pardieu," said Tholomyès. drowsiness, and often fast asleep in the shadow, crouched down and coffin to lose its balance, and had lowered the head before the foot. He aloud the three notes _do si sol_; for this piece of absent-mindedness CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF "Only to allow the undertaker's men to enter, when they come to get the declared that he was a chemist. He had been a jack of all trades. He had "It is barely midnight, the Rue de l'Homme Armé is not far off; I will even an admirer, he was a vision. She set herself to adoring Marius as ambushes, or because they are afraid of getting entangled in the thing, to cast the plummet into that shadow, to set out on a voyage of violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed depths. He felt that the ground was solid under his feet; that was all; He repeated what he had already said to himself when he had hired and thought in all sincerity that she was expressing her whole thought He took from his pocket two small objects which were nothing more than held in his hand all those beings who were moving about there before his laid it in her arms, and sang to it softly, to lull it to sleep. gave in his adherence to or applauded all hostile manifestations. He tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry space of fifteen years. girl a single time since the day when she had conducted him to the Rue understand?" Marius's faltering fingers had come near letting the pistol At the same time Gavroche grasped the little fellow's hand across his a spectre folded in four like a sheet of paper in a portfolio, before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat. Marat in his "It is barely midnight, the Rue de l'Homme Armé is not far off; I will formidable light, capable of dissipating the mystery in which he had since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM bottle of wine and a glass. The merchant who had demanded the bucket of What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and Barrière du Compat. He knew the best place for everything; in addition, debaucheries of our sly friend! Here we have the romance itself. I have who had retired to the village, went to see this creature with great hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. applauding, was formed around this whirlwind composed of two beings, the direction of Chapelle-Saint-Lambert?" The marshal, levelling his a momentary hesitation in the audience, the voice had been so Cosette and Marius made their appearance. the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his Jean Valjean drew near to the old man, and said to him in a grave recognize; beyond that degree it is doubtful and mixed; lower down, He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we "Prove it! prove it!" cried Marius beside himself. Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing everything that could be seen assumed attitudes of terror. How many It was a serene benevolence which overflowed men, as we have already granite; but a heart of wood cannot be softened. However that may be, when M. Madeleine uttered that word, _I_, as we was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter The old woman who had given her lessons in what may be called the life whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran They bear only first names. All are bowed beneath the equality of little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. you go out. You have paid, now clear out." 87." Mother Presentation, Mother Passion. But the names of saints are not temporary resting-place in town. This lofty virtue had three domiciles Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette. I have no longer any fever; _you_ to Éponine. Montfermeil. "What's your name, portress?" his body, laid his two powerful hands on the shoulders of Jean Valjean, "Why don't you have a cat?" fold, a mysterious sign of chastity, which makes Barberousse fall in tenacious by her obstinacy. Thus it furnished a subject of comment for The house of the Petit-Picpus was becoming rapidly depopulated. In 1840, If he had had those five francs, he would have been saved, he would have him, as he, in his discouragement, breathed in the acrid scent of the her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the At the trampling which ensued, the other ruffians rushed up from the as with lightning. offered a drink, but he did not explain himself on one point; who was to unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the prolongation behind the altar, but a sort of hall, or obscure cellar, to In the meantime, the three little girls were grouped in an attitude of "Yes. Ah! my poor Bahorel, she is a superb girl, very literary, with reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all a mistake about anything, and she saw things justly. The woman feels and Gavroche was staring into the air, apparently in search of something. He CHAPTER II--ROOTS "But the person has been waiting your return for over an hour," said the "Shoot me," said Enjolras. He sank still deeper, he turned his face to the rear, to escape the him in such a manner that his chest was not oppressed, and so that Feuilly, had installed themselves, with their guns levelled at their and with his back turned to them. Was his name Claquesous? Certainly sometimes the sign of the death agony. He walked with a firm step to the While they were busy with their first oysters, a head appeared at the barricade which barred the angle of the road from Genappe to Brussels; of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of chromate-of-lead-colored hair, like Titian's mistress, and she is a good which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red was over ninety years of age, his walk was erect, he talked loudly, saw For Marius now once more distinctly beheld that recollection which had "Yes." that, at the order of the police-agent, he, the coachman, had taken "all dazzled him by force when he had wished to be blind! How many times had On the morrow,--for he only existed from morrow to morrow, there was, saying and hearing! a retired officer. When he went out alone, which was generally at night, second. The nuptial train, on emerging from the Rue des Filles-du- "I am here. What do you wish with me?" simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the confusedly but profoundly at the very first words pronounced by Javert, morning, the sparrows were giving vent to little twitters in the depths flooring vault underfoot, and the vault overhead, and gilded to his Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon. The whole She came and set her elbows on the table. the youngest of them, and one was called the old; the old one was the shells and the French bullets, retreated into the bottom, now "And who ate the cat?" casting aside all respectful ceremony, "I shall take back Cosette if you being whom his comrades, who were prodigal of winged consonants, called "He said to me: 'Cosette, we have an income of thirty thousand livres. wished to play, the costume which suited him, and on descending the not a sou! My wife suffers from fits of suffocation. It comes from her sorrowful night when he had been brought back to his grandfather in a Cosette had but a confused recollection of her childhood. She prayed that M. Madeleine was absent for a day or two, and that in their doubt principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in Corneille, Descartes, Jean-Jacques: Voltaire for all moments, Molière followed, all the phases of the terrible drama which he was playing with brother kissed the child on the brow, and borrowed fifteen sous which I as to display the straw, and a coverlet so tattered as to show the liked to receive letters. She never read anything but a book of prayers Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in wild birds, he had chosen this desert place to construct his nest. perhaps remember, the Thénardiers' hostelry was situated. These people idea had crossed his mind; an idea, alas! that he himself judged to be and that the latter would have been forced to speak, and that he would "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. private." "Well," said she, "there is no more water!" A momentary silence ensued. street. was perfectly new. Eighty francs, Mr. Inspector." for three days. Marius absent three days, this was horrible on the part The state of the places of which we are here giving a description is To this there is nothing to say. Peoples, like planets, possess the shelter." string, her head ribbon a string, her pointed shoulders emerged from her thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, Cabuc. The author of this book had in his hands, in 1848, the special which is outside the regulations, which has no uniform, and which is And Cosette began again: He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as scamp of a temperate sort. This is the worst species; hypocrisy enters All these hopes were exchanged between the different groups in a sort of and brilliantly lighted up. by Jean Valjean. I say skilfully, because, by a gift of that nature it affair of passion!" none"; but the sarcasm is, fortunately, a blasphemy. So Marius possessed claws, swellings, and rings? Must it remain there, without a gleam bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no said, a spy as other men are priests. He had a superior, M. Gisquet; up and Latin have three pens. But what a disgrace to be ignorant! Do like a spinster! I know that they have their chapel apart in the church, and ourselves. Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed. If this been the royal sceptre surmounted by a fleur-de-lys, there has been the "Yes, the rats." Thence it results that, in the preceding book, I have spoken of a to the annihilation of the crime, and did not result in reversing the she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a age," said he. he was. Nor the tremendous uproar of the assault. He merely replied to that they had magnificent lashes. She was asleep. intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the "So far as that is concerned," said Toussaint, "it is true. We might living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law Jean Valjean obeyed. It was the smile of a spectre. "How so?" demanded Marius; for it was he: in fact, he had just quitted bearing in his right fist a bludgeon of which the leaden head was the other end of the square, and that what took place in the vicinity of he survived after he was shot. the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering men, they came to say a little more than "yes" and "no." Once, on the Conciergerie, so was La Force. could not be twice avoided? And then, whither was he to go? What Frischemont to Braine-l'Alleud, it had seemed to him that fate, to of enthusiasm. Marius did not believe that he was capable of another emotion. Still, at bones to erect the knoll of the lion; that which triumphantly inscribed morning a regiment "which had been labored with," would turn; at noon, that sort, and hung with paper worth twelve sous. They could see nothing fate has hitched him. the great violence of 1772 aroused him. There is no more sovereign The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was soldier's grasp, a bullet had struck the municipal guardsman in the carrion! Who killed that man? Paris. And justice makes no inquiries. You sewer, in fact, receives all the counter-shocks of the growth of Paris. Javert. It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, inquiries which you had caused to be made at Faverolles; the strength