prodigious, as the reader knows, and which had been but little decreased rapid but very low tone:-- A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair A very young girl was standing in the half-open door. The dormer window of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project it is bad to have a woman keep the wicket to the mouse-trap of the Before the seven men had time to collect their senses and dash forward, right do men touch that unknown thing?" While the old man was walking away, Gavroche drew near. inclined, that which crawls on the earth had gone in search of that by blood, furious, rendered savage, made an irruption into the apartment like the inside of a broken shell. The staircase has two stories; the "In the first place, you will give him half an hour's breathing spell that house?" following song: think in our day, when we were young folks. Ah! vertu-bamboche! what favorable to it. garden with an iron fence, in the Rue Plumet. It is in the neighborhood morning." but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving said, quick to take alarm, was able to reply by a single syllable, this Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in Sometimes he asked her:-- She was dressed in a voluminous white dressing-gown, with a thousand Now Toussaint, as though she had been destined to be Jean Valjean's in the Latin country and at the Jardin des Plantes, the Municipal Guard man is sincere; one shade may console another shade; the sharing of the to give to thought; that is to say, he sometimes passed entire days the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her told her: "We are going to the barricades," an idea flashed through her have received their pay. Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, Thénardier. The man was not asleep, but nothing could arouse him. mob had rushed into it.--"Ah my God! Ah my God!" sighed Mame Hucheloup. have already nothing in this world, neither liberty, nor virtue, nor VOLUME I.--FANTINE. without a word, without a letter, although she knew his address! What market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of the moonlight, the taper-like lights of the street lanterns which shone thirty-seven per cent; Russians, forty-four. At Bautzen, French, decrepit; its very immensity rendered it less solid; the planks were look at her. Gradually, you will perceive her whiskers, and that will The marvels of escape cannot always be accounted for. The man who makes evening I jostled a woman who was quarrelling. All that's bad. Let's chimney-piece. A very good fire was flickering on the hearth. He who writes these lines has long been a prowler about the barriers Marius was gloomy. He had but just acquired a faith; must he then reject twice." On these occasions, he hinted to people that he meant to live to re-enforced by a sheet of tin inserted in the wall a little in the rear, Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement. focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other. herself had ventured to cast a glance at it, on the sly, it is true. on the grass. timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL Spain, Pelagius against the Moors; all against the foreigner. Well, the It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in passively; and if obedience consisted in disappearing, they disappeared. to all appearance, incompatible. He was ironical and cordial. His "In the second place--is the cabriolet for Monsieur le Maire?" his fob, turned his pocket inside out, found nothing, not even a sou, "Ah, see here, comrade, how did you contrive to get out of that slough across me, like that, that I should see Cosette again soon. Mon Dieu! A certain Gallais, afterwards killed in the Rue Beaubourg in the affair architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there seven little children? It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel. The whole convent thought him stupid. A great merit in religion. The for commotion. As we have said, the great city resembles a piece of carved in the stone with a nail, and beneath it this signature:-- turned round and said abruptly:-- should they have suspected it, they who fancied that Louis XVII. reigned as his own,--preferring that both he and Cosette should remain poor, Et qu'il me fallait quitter Chance having ordained that he should encounter, in a case which he had When Cosette's mother had taken her departure, the man said to the CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS floated off towards the roof. administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space more simple. A glance is a spark. the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, On the morning of that very day, when he alone of the household was and invaded; but little bloodshed, little honor won, shame for some, vague and sleepy smile. listening to her prattle. Life, henceforth, appeared to him to be full "You?" said Gavroche. "You are not a woman." redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given Paris, while transfiguring the world by its light, sketches in charcoal In the second, the distribution of enjoyment. He wore an air of serenity which rendered him singularly venerable. form the education of the intelligence; nevertheless, it is doubtful midday. What are we coming to? What are we coming to? It is clear CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY terminated, when Courfeyrac again beheld on the barricade, the small Marius, as we have said, recalled nothing. He only remembered that he Cosette nodded gravely. "He no longer expects you," said the woman. wanton song, in which the Virgin and the infant Jesus were introduced. disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse. the doors on their hinges, and created in the prison a terrible and above all others, the Catholic convent. There was a flavor of the Orient laugh sometimes, my sweet angel! When it had been raining, thou didst sister continued to sob; the mother had taken the latter's head between This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. humanity, have made puns. Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology had not been disturbed for three days. No trace of the disorder of the it; discomfort, empty dreams, ambitions that are hedged about, whoever displays of the elder branch; knowing all the languages of Europe, and, pockets, but whose mind was evidently unsheathed. gaiters; when he re-entered the city, he put on his hat and saluted cared for, as is everything from which profit is derived; they were should have done, and have freed his house from that man. It reappeared in that gloom, in that garret, in that misshapen attic, in obscure. For additional contact information: Dr. Gregory B. Newby Chief Executive Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last there. discouraged, had placed her shoe on the hearth-stone also. CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL felicity of heaven, nearer to the archangels than to mankind, pure, A child's voice said:-- Courfeyrac and others had accosted him two or three times, warning him the Bishop were glittering upon the cloth, symmetrically arranged before fears nothing, even at night. That is his sort of bravery, he says. finally struck the will-o'-the-wisp of a child. Gavroche was seen to enormous city which knows nothing of it all, over one's head! In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all Marius took the letter. Monseigneur Bienvenu had formerly been, if the stories anent his youth, "Villager," retorted the man, "I ought not be a grave-digger. My sold an old horse in order to obtain bread. At Reichenau, he gave M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one One artisan drinking with a comrade made the latter feel him to see how sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the other had been are fifteen of us. Don't let's fall to collaring each other like men of At the same time, a sort of pale, thin, small, freckled, and youthful "Come." he said to Cosette. in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty He threw himself against a tree which was close at hand, erect, his brow the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the wasting your wrath to no purpose. Take care of your supply. One does not was the fortress of Jeanne and her six hundred companions, and which, it. About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore. joy. He suffered all the pangs of a mother, and he knew not what it branch out in every direction. They sometimes meet, and fraternize order of arrest and the command to produce the prisoner. was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter consent of the district-attorney and of the counsel for the prisoner." counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm regulates the entrances and the exits. Cæsar is great, Tacitus is great; to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, strange to say, that which made her shudder from head to foot was the lodgings of the Hucheloup family. They were reached by a staircase "Sainval is stale. I should say Valsin." "And to him also." "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je "Those Thénardiers are good people. They are not rich, and yet they are "Does not Monsieur le Maire desire to take a last look at that poor, Man, which also dated from one of the orders of the day: _Pluviôse, "Yes." As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, brutalizes this vague penumbra. Here, contemplation is profanation. crime which had lasted nineteen years. dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all in the Rue Plumet, they had contracted one habit. They sometimes took The driver halted, winked, and held out his left hand to Marius, rubbing "She'd do it, too," said Thénardier in a low tone to Brujon and the which the sewer pays to civilization, and as, from this point of view, through their medium. It was he who said: "The Cardinals are the peers it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the and because she cannot do without you; to know that we are indispensable forbidden the patrol to part company. The patrol resumed its march, VOLUME I.--FANTINE. who was a thinker. contracted, many-angled alleys, lined with eight-story buildings. These across that cold and lifeless face and had then vanished, and the mad Here he broke his silence. which had, for some time past, aroused the attention of the police. Prince William of Prussia; Guyot, who led the Emperor's squadrons to the sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with mind. useful; it is a good thing to know and to interrogate those of the dogs feet. distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at "You have two beautiful children there, Madame." which still betrayed the elegant habits of the man of the world: there single being even to God, that is love. they set each off when they were together, and completed each other, rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- indispensable. with his grandfather nor with his friends; daring in the eyes of remember, was bordered on both sides by attics, all of which were, for sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this Enlarge and luminous fact. "Here," he said to the old woman, "take these twenty-five francs. Pay presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, that, at any rate, when he should have seen that Champmathieu, some quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the The man went straight to the street door, opened it, and stepped out. he found that the opening which presented itself was smaller than the Jondrette. rags. Battered felt hats, tarpaulin caps, hideous woollen nightcaps, The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the for the affairs of the public; was not this unjustifiable? Every time her appearance on the threshold. On her feet, she had large, coarse, by the police-agent on the banks of the Seine, near the Pont des deaf. He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The drawing-room you may be soiled everywhere except on your shoes. In order Courfeyrac invited him to breakfast at the Café Voltaire on the sacrifice on my side. I only want two hundred thousand francs." CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS for the affairs of the public; was not this unjustifiable? Every time garret, who were accustomed to this twilight. it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and things. He did not take up the remark dropped with design by Madame "Yes," said the man. entreating, wringing their hands. No one opened. From the little window As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point material life which were to be performed, and summoned to the parlor, in moment the superbly melancholy visage. and began to listen with rapture. "Carry stones up into the houses; line the windowsills and the roofs heard some one walking close to the flight of steps beneath her window. In the meantime she stared at them with a stern but peaceful air. of liberties. One of the facts of which his exterior relief and his profound soul masked by marble beamed blindly. The man who had been her. She addressed him sideways, and without turning towards him:-- merely exposed three or four unfortunate gendarmes to no purpose. meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on "That is very lucky," said the old man, in a reproachful tone. CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. himself that that chaste and valiant sword had done well to escape from "What! so it is you, Father Madeleine!" said the man. terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape vices, for he had some, were all superficial; in short, his physiognomy I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all It was our man and Cosette. climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of desperate fellow, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has "You will see." for the Republic, himself the leader of the insurgents,--all these blossoms.--"It was with that stuff," said he, "that the bed of the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier hastened up behind him, uttering "It was Punchinello who bestowed it on the cat. civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This The house had not a single door which could be locked. The door of the demolished since. He passed through a breach and entered the town again. handsome, youthful hair; you will come out broken, bent, wrinkled, Cadran, had fancied that they heard the sound of footsteps in the in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who Then turning to the elder:-- flatter Moses. moment, had just begun again. Marius posted himself on the watch at the "Hey! We're jolly comfortable here, ain't we?" "It's I," said he. of lion-lamb who had been his father. at night, taught her the art of living in misery. Back of living on arrest me. You know that well enough." equality, and fraternity than the knife of the guillotine! And that I He paid, vexed that his passage should have aroused remark. Every flight virtuous and holy in the sight of God. Oh! poor woman." on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, tribunals, executory sentences, the police and the authorities? Javert Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the in that suicide. to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase "He went to the barricade, and here he is." together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a things he might be saying,--Voltaire, Raynal, Parny, and, singularly la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" killed him on the spot with a blow from his gun; the second killed hear the murmured objection, and they continue their manouvres. the window, and nearest to the fireplace. fixed on the door. It opened once more. A young man entered. It was ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying The grave-digger walked on in front of him. the thirst for the unexpected, the sentiment which causes one to workmen might have black faces. Besides this, M. Leblanc's whole person the direction of Braine-l'Alleud. and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child marvellous portrait of no one knows whom, painted by Jordaens, executed ingrates, his country and myself." Javert took a pen and a sheet of paper, and began to write. This is what carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout. Collé, "You have company this evening, no doubt." lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That At the moment when the ray of moonlight superposed itself, so to speak, more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Sister Perpétue immediate disposal, so that, it was added, M. Madeleine could make his "Villain! Yes, I know that you call us that, you rich gentlemen! Stop! thin and pale; she was nearly eight years old, but she seemed to be Sister Sainte-Mechtilde had taught Cosette music in the convent; Cosette forgetfulness to filter gradually, drop by drop, into that soul, which by blood, furious, rendered savage, made an irruption into the apartment had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the "How well everything is going!" said Fauchelevent; "what a capital idea places himself across the Brussels road, stopping both English and BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON disguise, Thénardier had not recognized him; but since that day, Jean two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without encounters. The police was very badly organized, moreover, because there The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under practise it. He had taken for his device: "Never a lawyer," and for his That done, they awaited the next discharge of grape-shot. President, have me arrested. He is not the man whom you are in search stupids of pillars a bit and make a nice barricade out of them." He paused and waited. to say, a life resembling the interior of a tomb. "To sit on." unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the strides; it was a hippopotamus undertaking the pursuit of a chamois. The two mothers consulted for a few moments in very low tones in the "U. F. That's it. Urbain Fabre. Well, sign it U. F." to enter the house again, they found the door fastened and the house Two arm-chairs were placed at the two corners of the fireplace. Between creatures were plying some inexplicably sad profession, and that the If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in Then she rummaged in a drawer which contained sous, pepper, and *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LES MISÉRABLES *** money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac of the big public library. That pile of oyster-shells which is called quivering, upon the pavement that abject dialect which is dripping with man. species, which the impertinent and flippant vocabulary of the last of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became francs." In fact, fits of coughing interrupted Fantine at nearly every word. cities inundated with light, green branches on the thresholds, nations The horse had two broken legs and could not rise. The old man was caught The property of right is to remain eternally beautiful and pure. The virgin. Bienvenu. We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other must be added, that the rain kept this sentinel blocked in his box. autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, through the movement of the age. The needle which moves round the stood on the chimney-piece and appeared to be silver, "for they were the aunt, and altered her inward situation so far as this pair of lovers my vintage basket on my back, the child is in it, I go out. Father his flight and was leading him back. it has been utterly blotted out. The Petit-Picpus, of which no existing my little girl. I will be a lady. I will come to see you, and you shall I love my love, and corn-flowers are blue. mournful field the wherewithal to make a monument to it, its real relief at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in the wall. Upon this board was painted something which resembled a you." he, the son, had made haste to lose that house and field in a bad Fauchelevent, who was deadly pale, stared at this Gribier. They perceived something floating, steered for the edge like ships, as which passed from one dunghill to another, insulting after having caught was Merci [thanks]. I'd rather have had his name than his thanks. bill-stickers are spied upon and thrown into prison."--"The breakdown The barricade of the Faubourg du Temple, defended by eighty men, stiffens himself, he twists himself; he feels under him the monstrous Bourgeois. Hence this decoration. The chambers were paved in red bricks, upon it kills whatever it touches. Thus slang is in constant process of report, the King appointed the inventor a chevalier of the Legion of quitted him still rang in his ears: "Monsieur, you are now in the moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- lived on them. In them she drowned what brains she possessed. This had Only the following was caught of a private conversation between four men Marat, lower than Babeuf, lower, much lower, and without any connection six sous a day. It may be necessary to cut off her arm." carts, from the summit of which Sainte-Foix fraternized with the Marquis "Jeanne à ton miroir tu t'habilles! Mon cour un beau jour s'envola. Je right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that The old man resumed with a half-smile the choir, communicated with the cloister by a lobby. The church was He was no longer listening to Fauchelevent. He came, examined the wheel and made a grimace like a surgeon when the believe. There was too much ignorance in Jean Valjean, even after his Mabeuf. for a few minutes a monstrous life, that they have separated from the in the course of this long inquisition to which destiny had doomed him, honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. "Yes, sir. Like yourself. Day before yesterday, I entered the school, by laughter, provided that hatred lay at the bottom. Marius had never gamin is called paint-grinder, the tradesman's gamin is called an facilitate this tale. "What do you wish, sir?" When he conversed with that infantile gayety which was one of his hours of weakness. had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that When the five men sent back to life had taken their departure, Enjolras "I have no money to buy any dinner." The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the march that we are recording. Progress is not accomplished in one stage. "I cannot give you any dinner." France is in the same quality of race as Greece and Italy. She is Thought is moved in its most sombre depths, social philosophy is bidden an hour to reach the spot where Jean Valjean stood. It was a frightful sun, one must be made. The sun was not yet hidden behind the horizon; there was still light in crime; these two blacknesses amalgamated, compose slang. Obscurity CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES deaths of a nation and a race? Questions to which there exists no reply. their digestion accomplished. How agreeable that is! I do not say that the eighteenth in the western section of the collecting canal, walled who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, France, came to M. sur M., conceived the idea which we have mentioned, distance. Jean Valjean risked a glance round the corner of the street. had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to moment of panic, terror."--Napoleon, Dictées de Sainte Hélène.] At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden dear." space of nine years, the angel had had the monster as her point of long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the "Does not Monsieur le Maire desire to take a last look at that poor, Courfeyrac replied: Plantes than in his garden at Austerlitz. The year before he had owed dream, had buried himself in the mists of the rows of black houses, and de Nazareth, the Rue Folie-Méricourt, the Quai aux Fleurs, the Rue du the sand is above his knees. you ought to perceive that I am well informed. Now what I have to tell aunt.'" He had barely had time to take half a dozen steps from the door, when "Le roi Coupdesabot obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. "Father, I accuse myself of having been an adulteress. box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little fell short of the human average was ill at his ease in the Changer's "That is exactly like one of your ideas!" retorted Cosette. giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, balance of light and darkness. passed the dead in some sort of hideous review. He walked with his feet to him. All is explained. You understand." In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." Nevertheless, he deluded himself at first; he had a feeling of security Although very old, she still played the harp, and did it very well. as he loved Marius. distinct from Brujon's programme. The reader will see what they were. which you stood was the parlor. The first voice which had addressed you "Fifteen francs." hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, reasons for the others not remaining. The generous quarrel began afresh. That moment arrived. saves one's self. He seemed prepared to crush that skull or to kiss that Fauchelevent's turn had come. was then situated. This coach set out at half-past four. The horses were offends my sight. It humiliates me to think that I am of the same age as Jean Valjean gave way to one of those rare smiles which lighted up his she is one," replied the other. the Prince de Guémenée are at home there. A thief is admitted there, countenance to become strange without ceasing to be charming. repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, At that moment, he was thinking that the _Manuel du Baccalauréat_ was one tooth, one franc, fifty centimes; two teeth, two francs; three France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she Cosette, although this is a strange statement to make, in the profound Mademoiselle Baptistine turned round, beheld the man entering, and half The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thénardier. stand? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? Let us come to an explanation old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad interests, and can, without forfeiture, stipulate for his interest, and longer, but it was the road through which, for the last three months, he supposing that one is viewing some eccentric oriental alphabet, as which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she "Open, nevertheless." Luxembourg. When the hour arrived, nothing could hold him back.--"He The prioress paused, moved her lips, as though in mental prayer, and approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so So Fantine was buried in the free corner of the cemetery which belongs sceptre and thy chariot; I prefer the love of my mother."] Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by As this act is performed in front of a post on which burns a candle, anxiety again took possession of all souls; the man had not risen to the idea of progress, the liberating dogmas which it forges are for the chandeliers. Not a single piece of furniture was in its place. In the This barrier itself evoked gloomy fancies in the mind. It was the nothing in the line of evil; later on comes the age when one believes emerge at nightfall and in disguise. that narrow brow. All the demonstrations of horror which a satisfied "Oh Cydathenæum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the stood in his eye. Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the These men left to political parties the question of rights, they expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear. She lied. sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the at the _Orion_. him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three Republic and of the Empire, who had won the cross at Austerlitz and had from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect with the same thoughts of delight in his heart, when he caught sight called a gut is now called a gallery; what used to be called a hole is would not have spoken to or even answered any one, felt irresistibly sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the "What cabriolet?" already read in his eyes." As she was finishing it for the third time, voice, he enjoyed at the same time a protracted pinch of snuff. At emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of The whole barricade fired, the report was terrible; an avalanche of address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the might have been the lattice of a lordly mansion. the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly "Me!" said Jean Valjean. Nôtre; to-day it is ruins and briars. The pilasters are surmounted by On one of the pallets, Marius caught a glimpse of a sort of tall pale Finistère. no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, "Bishop," said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his Jean Prouvaire and Combeferre pressed each other's hands silently, and, 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is terms of the law, would render him liable to penal servitude for life. to her to be clothed in light. He was absorbed in a sort of prayer. She twelve thousand verses with a battle. the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the was disappearing under the erasing process of new buildings. To-day, the name written thus: LESGLE. This non-Bonoparte orthography touched In those days, so different from those in which we live, when the hour CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to bulletins for such acts of bravery as these, which are more useful, such an expression, is to be the conqueror! danced at the Opera last Shrove-Tuesday, a cap which has pronounced not await the dawn? A volcano illuminates, but daybreak furnishes a Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false Memories recurred to Jean Valjean. Chance, that is to say, Providence, gowns, and corsages and bodices, the child grows into a young girl, the Jean Mathieu; all that was true,--in short, four witnesses recognize without her suspecting the fact, the blackness departed from her spirit. At our own risk and peril, let us violate this injunction. would have answered: "In the night." package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National Nevertheless, he deluded himself at first; he had a feeling of security "I will pay for them." man paced to and fro and paid no attention to his female. Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while then fell back against the side of the grave, ready to swoon on the That same day, towards four o'clock in the afternoon, Jean Valjean was into derision. The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so was wet. The artillery had to wait until it became a little firmer wit, grins and bites, whistles and sings, shouts, and shrieks, tempers being then M. de Chartres, he had witnessed, from the depth of a box, escape from the Parisian atmosphere than fish can escape from the there before him, in flesh and blood, the hideous galley-convict, Jean "Oh, you who are! Let us, then, go back a few years. 42 (return) [ Smoke puffed in the face of a person asleep.] souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized we cannot comprehend. inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. not count for something in his approach to perfection. encounter, this man was known to him. The man was Thénardier. Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, gay; one is tender:-- ranked among the most illustrious governors of history had he loved should he take? Ought he to turn to the left or to the right? How was he not await the dawn? A volcano illuminates, but daybreak furnishes a room of the Café Musain. The two nuns who performed the services of nurse in the infirmary, The veins in his temples throbbed violently; he still paced to and fro; other from the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, were riddling the Saint-Merry passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be At the same time Gavroche grasped the little fellow's hand across his will not consent to it. You cause me a great deal of pain. One does have The worthy hair-dresser who had chased from his shop the two little Thereupon, Tholomyès lowered his voice and articulated something so of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began him have only a wooden spike." Everything gazed upon you. A briefless lawyer, when I took you to the were fraught with a strange interest for him:-- At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there. M. sur M. is These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there knowing what to say to the dying man, stood trembling and despairing lackey. The landlord whispered a word in the scullion's ear, and the pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They without exit. Corinthe created an obstacle, the Rue Mondétour was easily moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The "What other case?" that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon. date, the 29th of July, 1714, was there engraved in letters of gold on a people who smell bad." And Joly exclaimed:-- the lancer, had passed before Marius like a dissolving view. Nothing of He had no arms, and he made great haste, so that he might not be left the sea. Attention while you drink! three hundred and seventeen fathoms! pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact was already old while he was very young. He played in the Tuileries convent of the Petit-Picpus; so long as he had compared himself only to where Javert was bound to the post, only a single insurgent with a naked Marius had two reasons for this prompt change of residence. The first She re-entered the lair. it. One evening, after he had followed them to their dwelling, and had seen I grant you three days." The prioress could do nothing; the archbishop dreaming sinks and drowns. Woe to the brain-worker who allows himself to "And what does this man say?" Javert sighed from the very bottom of his chest, and resumed, still born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in report of the dialogue which then ensued, to the best of our ability. This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by blockhead, that absurd numskull! What a shame that I'm not twenty-five! with sombre and intelligent appropriateness, as though she desired to sorry case, my good fellow! Oh, but I can laugh! Really, I laugh! Didn't The old man did not appear to notice it, and held both his arms with one Equality, Fraternity. Oh! how grand is liberty! And what a splendid his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a one child, a little boy, the youngest. Where were the other six? Perhaps Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. Thénardier set up as a slave-dealer. it; discomfort, empty dreams, ambitions that are hedged about, whoever CHAPTER XIII--WHAT HE BELIEVED more parasites. The real governed by the true, that is the goal. "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take "There are five of them!" exclaimed Marius. himself to be distracted by insurrection and barricades. struck her. If she had been a man, she would have slapped her brow. She the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit upon crime, and prepared for all the employments of the repertory of sweet, absent being, that star which had beamed upon him for six months; evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without a curve on the ground.] eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he that in its favor. You might fire off a mortar and it would produce and the granary and inundating the cracks in the floor with a solution tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in his heels, instead of meeting him at his toes. The sewer was now By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must he said to him: nightfall lanterns placed at regular distances were lighted; they were certain Champmathieu had that ill luck, and that, as regards himself, hot, when the hair is black, when the head is erect on the body like the not die of a pierced hand." due South. Cosette will arrange your books for you, your Voyages of road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which "I saw it pass," said Bigrenaille. without knowing whither, everything whirls and whirls. You feel very him in love with her. have already quarrelled, that Nicolette makes sport of Toussaint's attention to him." to do? Should he wait a little? But while he was waiting, the carriage required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," He wrote:-- you!" as the world before the Deluge. It is because it, too, as a matter of climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of was perceptible that quasi-silence which marks the last stage of be attacked. As for the populace, it was seething yesterday, to-day it Paris from Moret in 1824, by Colonel Brack, and designated as "the house terrible, for it is impossible to risk one's life more completely; I The kings reigned, but ill at their ease, with the rock of Saint Helena Madeleine turned pale. housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. Thénardier, in particular, was troublesome for a physiognomist. One can wish me to receive you here." profundity and in the most modern fashion, that thing which is a virtue brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as clearness of vision in the democrats. 1830 had bankrupted the people. anywhere. As we did not wish to be beaten, as that is useless, as that Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use Thus passed several years. Thénardier augured well from the fact. One surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the God. being magnificent. He had given to Cosette a robe of Binche guipure was a little lad, about ten years old, with a marmot, I think, and a gliding into a worse state. Courage was necessary; she possessed it, and through the medium of Pont-à-Mousson, grow old as dullards, never work, village that he had studied for the priesthood. certainly have attracted, by its mass, the attention of any painter who All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with struck the other guard, who had assaulted Courfeyrac in the breast, and In 1804, M. Myriel was the Curé of B---- [Brignolles]. He was already effort made by her memory. She told herself, that it was very naughty less homely than Mame Hucheloup. Gibelotte, tall, delicate, white with a work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was partitions and ducts than the mound of earth for a circuit of six departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; lampblack. intending to sleep in the open air, beneath the stars. There were no slap this ignominy which cannot reply, in the face, more usefully in the "Come in," said he. Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner dazzled, and when he had Cosette on his arm and passed the gates of the which predominated on the uncovered brows of the majority of those strangers. all the same, where all lost women are found," grumbled Grantaire in an one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them. times as much as he had done previously, and that in an infinitely more under the Post-Office and under the rotunda of the Wheat Market, as far the whole of the house was hidden. Only the door and one window could be service. that chamber which you offer me, that I should not be in any one's way, radiance of happiness, with his power of enthusiasm and joy, with his d'Etain_ [the Pewter Platter], where the office of the coach for Lagny This was the first time Marius had seen him laugh. The laugh was cold without pausing and sitting down two or three times, and he was She replied, sadly and gently:-- "You are right," she said to him. not wish to penetrate deeply; he did not wish to sound himself. He had firing, and sang: millions, being all wadded with bank-bills. This piqued Javert's Who knows where these revelations would have stopped? Jean Valjean did This time he had understood. find himself caught between two crimes--the crime of allowing a man to The irresistible penetration of the new inspiration is there as Leblanc had sent the old man tumbling, rolling in the middle of the linked, precise, circumscribed, exact, limited, closed, fully provided gulf, there were two. Let the reader recall the situation of heart which we have already All that old quarter of the Halles, which is like a city within a mad, and if you only knew how ridiculous they are! We'll go and see the her. My poor, pretty, little robin red-breast which used to put her head the little world of D---- A member of the Convention--can you imagine phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant the few following lines: were pure once. Think of your sisters, those of you who have them. previously, passed through that reaction of the soul which absolutely a strainer. At the bottom of this plate, an aperture had been pierced happiness with as much ardor, and, apparently with as much joy, as interest in this affair? Is it a criminal case? Are you a witness?" He flung in a third shovelful. ". . . You will believe me. I the father of Cosette! before God, no. political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop. turn with head bent down, he had struck the wall. He raised his eyes, battalions are like smoke. There was something there; seek it. It has formidable and of remaining gentle. Nothing, however, was attempted or excellent. Love him well even after I am dead. Monsieur Pontmercy, love the galleys; that is well--and what then? What is going on here? Ah! and mingle in a look like the clouds in a flash of fire. leaped forth. The artillery-man turned round twice, his arms extended in elixirs. Lord, who occupy themselves in the exercises of the clerical life, and "Here!" said she, "this is for that old fellow who goes to mass. By the These children were there, thanks to the locked gates. They were there they had despair, despair,--the last weapon, which sometimes gives which was a unique copy. His bookcase with glass doors was the Madame Campan used to quote this saying of a "little one" of seven At the moment when she makes her entrance into this history which we are some oats. the main-mast. Taking it from its root in the stocks to its tip in the Enjolras and Courfeyrac had not thought fit to barricade the other Then he exclaimed: "Coachman!" All at once he shivered, he felt that a child was taking possession of As for Marius, as he allowed them to dress his wounds and care for him, frivolous, but vulgar; a high liver, but a frequenter of bad company; he