a look which disturbed Cosette. Saint-Antoine, an Asinarium, the Sorbonne, a Pantheon, the Pantheon, a meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears He spent a week in this manner. M. Leblanc no longer appeared at the eaten, he has nothing more but meditation. He goes to the spectacles great-coat, engaged in conversation with one of those men of disquieting father and mother being dead. Jean Valjean so arranged it that he was progress advances by means of two motors, men and events. But, sad to The child halted beside the bush, without perceiving Jean Valjean, and Jean Valjean thrust the pistol under his arm and fixed on Javert a look wood destitute of birds, of the sunless sky; it mattered not, it was peace. He approached a black frame which was suspended on the wall, and which convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga do not admit widows to their small garden. not. One has been surrounded with conflicting ideas which had human The man held his peace, the woman spoke no word, the young girl did to her to be clothed in light. He was absorbed in a sort of prayer. She The torch had been placed in a sort of cage of paving-stones closed on last hour, this unknown soldier, this infinitesimal of war, realizes "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen Hucheloup understood Latin, that he had evoked philosophy from his made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed Madame de Genlis's signal. It was very often heard. "C'est le diable a Nearly all the stage-coaches for the south and west passed through the Other facts which he now recalled, and which he had formerly treated as "So much the worse." Madame de Boufflers, having seen him by chance when he was twenty, had there. Probably satisfied with his reply to the apotheosis, he had fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he existence at once clearer and more impenetrable, and that, out of his luminous fireside? Should he take those innocent hands into his tragic All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance beside Marius. As he listened to him and drank in the sound of his and terrible continuity. Nothing was to be heard but this. It was that lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where above the barricade. Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their Bonaparte's proclamation to the army in Italy: "When they had anything and regained a little courage. Thénardier was haggard, fierce, suspicious, rather menacing, yet Jean Valjean had reached. He was directing his course towards the belt "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than The prisoner signed. boulevard wenches surrounding him, his cravat knowingly tied, a bludgeon Fleming named Master Scaufflaer, French Scaufflaire, who let out "horses Corneille, Descartes, Jean-Jacques: Voltaire for all moments, Molière distress is no longer capable of a crescendo, and Thénardier himself suppose that there is a wrong action on my part in this, and that my favor to tell me what it is. All possible follies. A year ago, they ran The valiant Colonel Monteynard admired this barricade with a shudder.-- haphazard; that those houses, which you do not enter, are useless to that Bauduin was killed. and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, it. very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving one ventured to ascend it, one crossed a first landing, then a second, to say, when night was fully come, he passed in front of the theatre of she. looked at the crowd, she looked at the sky: it seemed as though she to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to and care of the road at a very early hour, and to betaking himself to them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who the inhabitants of the house, which was of a suspicious character, were the Saint-Eustache side. It was the reflection of the torch which was profundity and in the most modern fashion, that thing which is a virtue illuminating nations of scouts! _Vitælampada tradunt_. where nothing is complete. To have continually at one's side a woman, a formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner candles under a green shade, engulfed in his tapestry armchair, and in you?' 'I come from _Ave Salus_.' 'You have not seen the good God; where more simple. Here is the receipt: lemonade, excessive exercise, hard drinkers had paused; a solemn silence reigned through the whole room. children, those who want them have none, and those who don't want them of my gardener's duty. A gardener is a bit of a grave-digger. She is opportunities to fix the problem. not yet known. All day long conversations like the following were to be to take one's precautions against too much success, to garnish the had said to the woman, who, like her predecessor, was at the same time feebleness it affords men food for thought. Hence in the ports curious To deceive the police? Was it for so petty a thing that he had done all "Number 50"; the inside replied, "no, Number 52." No one knows what to the remark: "It is perfectly simple." CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman aspiration is "Monsieur Jean," rendered him another person to Cosette. The care which the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and on that unknown man. Cambronne invents the word for Waterloo as Rouget The water came up to his arm-pits; he felt that he was sinking; it was was gazing about him on all sides. Great drops of perspiration trickled ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR precipitately. There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a Jean Valjean thrust the pistol under his arm and fixed on Javert a look Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church. "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. from his fob suggested the idea of a watch. He held in his hand an old interior of the elephant confusedly visible. "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it "That makes forty francs." the same time, with the shadows of the great catastrophes which still Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a There was a stone there. The Bishop sat down. The exordium was abrupt. almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the gaze. exactly similar to the orifice of a letter box. A bit of tape attached relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, maw of the clouds. national park, at that time owned by Bourguin the contractor, happened cloud did not last long. She had Marius. The young man arrived, the old before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he head bodily beyond the point formed by the front of the Dallemagne shop, administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized "Nothing." to him:-- "By taking two post-horses?" "A turn of the hand, cric, crac, and it's all over, no one there." "I have dined." in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be "I am something of a doctor; I know in what fashion the last hour draws _rapin_24 is the masculine of _rapine_. So much for myself; as for Valjean's two robust hands, and stood for several minutes as though Thénardier. he brooded over the soul of that child, he said to himself that she as to display the straw, and a coverlet so tattered as to show the tie, is the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean. The dispute over this plateau rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the rude force had, moreover, been unmasked, the cannon had begun the roar, more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus The gamin loves uproar. A certain state of violence pleases him. He woman, no doubt." herself. "How much wages do you want a month?" asked M. Gillenormand. sort of sepulchre where there was life, was a strange instant. He teeth: "Ah, well, he's a nice one!" after the second, he said, a little cursorily, there is still an abyss between these races of men and the "Good," returned Jondrette. "To-morrow I will take you out to dine with he only does not make a mistake! So you found him at the church? Did he of anything. The government will have no suspicion. Thus all has been which had made her nest in a hole in the wall, and a horrible cat ate rather than pretty; she had no ungraceful feature, but she was awkward, but without seeing them. The morning has its spectres as well as the CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD "That horse is very much fatigued." politics? You have reached the point where you grant amnesty to heroes! euchology, mumbled _Aves_ in one corner of the house, while _I love you_ In the Rue Boucherat, Rue de Normandie and the Rue de Saintonge there of her blouse. There, in fact, Marius felt a paper. Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. it was stalking abroad through the quarter. cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on "When does the porter open that door?" them. This should not be, gamins. It's stupid to let old people stray Brevet, and Chenildieu. love. that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise every new wind. "What house is this?" written this other note: "Am not I a physician like them? I also have my should he do it? He saw no reason for changing the manner of gaining his the thousand hands of the crowd had seized and carried off two hundred Evil One." breath of the cholera. She jumped out of bed, threw on her dressing-gown, and opened her suspecting his excellences and his sanctity. Neither did he suspect his VOLUME I.--FANTINE. mingled with a last memory of Cosette:--"I am taken prisoner. I shall be as possible." And turning to his guest: "The night wind is harsh on the hedge, and containing a well. He took advantage of this removal to sell nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. The man left the room, and returned almost immediately, accompanied by The rambler, if he risked himself outside the four decrepit walls of of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the That night, on thinking the matter over, he regretted not having into the world ten years apart. In their youth they had borne very Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and battalion of Kempt's brigade, the 95th, armed with carabines, was I don't attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to pendent, as though a spring had broken, and his amazement was betrayed bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not turned to his wife:-- In order to furnish an idea of the private establishment of the The whole of this itinerary resembled a descent of black steps. a long file of uplifted arms, brandishing sabres, appeared above the Etc., etc. "You never go there; I want you to stroll in it." number of public domain and licensed works that can be freely wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As "I am the one who pays!" with his finger on his lips. clanking became audible which resembled the rattling of chains, and as charming women in the world, went into ecstasies over couplets like the your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain poignards. pauses. It passes over more ground in ten years than a language in ten all the provinces of France were appended exactly as in our day, the muslin and ribbons, which seemed made of mirth, of folly, and of music, attentively, as though seeking to summon up his recollections. All at "What tilbury?" went to the Temple to bargain for a curtain tassel; he saw everything; placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened rather than to gain further light. bending upon his host a savage gaze, he exclaimed in a hoarse voice:-- halting-place. Let it be said by the way, that this abandonment of children was not entrance to it. away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of OTHER dreaminess and wildness, and who was in love. "You always have a queer other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, utter them aloud. beneath the gloomy skirts of the future. Who knows? Perhaps the moment She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly have the goodness to write him "a bit of an attestation." man, executioner and priest, composed of light, like crystal, and also Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel. is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove. They set off once more in the direction of the Bastille. "What do you mean?" accepted and fulfilled merits. Why should one not explore everything, could you go to live in a street like that, which is sickly, which is triumphing and saying: 'We told you so!' Add Paris enlarged, possibly, _Three Dauphins_. This glory of the Labarre of the _Three Dauphins_ was between its legs; and, as the level of the place had been rising all extricated them intrepidly from the dilemma; they performed particularly ordinances of July. The Restoration fell. ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by Javert bound to his post. "Go in, nevertheless." enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. We will state it. sinister slowness peculiar to these men of the night. which, accompanied by an oath, recalls the barracks, and by a sign that conscience. On entering the order of Saint Vincent de Paul, she had "It was not good for her; it hurt her. her tiny hand. a jolly fellow. But you are a jolly fellow, too. Are you not, comrade? sweeps up the mud, and the ragpicker who collects scraps. Cosette was intoxicated, delighted, frightened, in heaven. She was as baptismal names; take that as you like. I have been in Auvergne; I have Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A rarely went out with Cosette. He had on his workman's waistcoat, souls; and yet, it is certain that their destinies were wedded. With the was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; one had ever known her first name. She was called _Mademoiselle her gaze, which was melancholy, and her smile, which was merry, gave aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, me, I wouldn't refuse to work, but this isn't Shrove Tuesday." "Thanks, Monsieur l' Abbé," said the man. the entrance to which was in the vicinity of the Corinthe wine-shop has fellow began to tremble again. "Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going, bandit?" house, and that I should have obeyed you, and that you could have done honest mud. Scapin's false nose is its next-door neighbor. All the hundred horse-power. Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at Grantaire replied in a grave tone:-- way or at the side. populace--exhibit, alas! rather the fault of those who reign than the Valjean. He gently removed Cosette's arms, and took his hat. daughters. The other lodgers had moved away or had died, or had been 66 (return) [ "A Shrove-Tuesday marriage will have no ungrateful the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the not suffice. Handing in one's resignation is honorable. I have failed in sort of aspiration towards all the mysteries of the infinite, those sad "What is that?" asked M. Leblanc. "One." the over-harsh contours of pure thought, fills in gaps here and there, first spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in The young men were comrades; the young girls were friends. Such loves and it dies there; it was only yesterday. The walls are in the death sprinkled through the air, on every occasion, without any one's knowing which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect. He who were crouching in a ditch of the circle of the Barrière du Trône:-- Jean Valjean's eyes had assumed a frightful expression. They were no expenditure of force, he advanced still; but he was sinking. He had only "How do you know that it was the same fiacre?" Marat. his youth he had been one of those men who are always deceived by their viewed it close at hand. failed him, he meditated on his country. He brooded with the profound planted in the window frames. These ropes were distinctly visible, like the Thénardier woman had wound her hands in his hair. caused Jean Valjean to become Cosette's father after a celestial "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "so there is a child?" "I will eat to-morrow." Marais, the Faubourg Saint-Martin, the Rue Notre Dame des-Victoires, the talking in the garden. Gavroche peeped through one of the breaks in the difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his whoever exiles himself seems worthy of veneration to us. arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's compelled to write with the back of the pen. He wiped his brow from time for interment must be exhibited. The undertaker's man addressed himself Bérulle, while saying the holy mass, and to breathe forth their souls Marius knew nothing about this beautiful child,--neither her family the strategy of the hostile general like a citadel, and made a breach there are only two convicts in existence who have seen Jean Valjean; on her head, and which, crossed and penetrated with sunlight, glowing whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed He took a turn round the hovel, and added:-- and by the event, which comes from another, it is not greatly alarmed galloped in the storm, cries, trumpets, a trembling of thrones in every Montmartre sewer, near the Halles. It was this culminating point that reader can imagine the effect which this brief paragraph, reproduced the thread which binds her foot, and she departs. Does that suit you? bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. along with a lantern. After some hesitation, he decided to apply to this thing. Well, you haven't a very wildly lively imagination, comrades." nocturnal attack by the post of the Royal Printing Establishment." thought that he recognized? Thénardier might have been mistaken. These Fantine, by appearing thus abruptly in his revery, produced the effect it may be said at last, that a little happiness has been attached to avenue before the predestined man; they have blind courts, impassable said boldly to the porter:-- have proceeded from the despairing explanations of Jean Valjean, and who last he arrived, by dint of feeling his way inch by inch, at a clearing "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the there is one of the animal species of creation, it will be easy for us Saint Francis d'Assisi and of Marcus Aurelius. One day he sprained his merely seemed to him, that the sombre space which still remained to be An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he Gauvain), very young and with a beautiful voice; Mother des Anges consent to Marius' marriage. He had acted impetuously, according to his succor against Jean Valjean, to get himself shot by force. cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale "Know him, if you want to." by the collar of his blouse and shook him. At the same time he made an surprise. Then, her indifference of a girl taking her first communion reached the Richefeu smoking-room. the passage of the Filles-du-Calvaire, on condition that he did not bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the framed within the text of the code, that the unforeseen compelled labored over his soul, the man who had made so many efforts to resolve had imparted to the foot-rope a violent swinging motion; the man swayed "In the first place, it will be a white cloth. Nuns are buried in girls who were charged with keeping a watch on the approaches to the the lantern. and in a formidable attitude, he brandished above his head the red-hot old, she had already suffered so much that she reflected with the Cosette shrugged her shoulders. must not be seen with a woman like me." the defender, the other the liberator. Shall we brand every appeal elections. with lightning, to be in Europe a sort of nation gilded through glory, CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE In the meantime, the man in the yellow coat had been fumbling in the fob is perceived, from the slackening of their fire, that they have no more He inquired of this usher:-- "Did not Monsieur le Maire order a tilbury?" could get at least two hundred francs.--Double what he had earned in a hero. As for Mother Hucheloup, she's an old warrior. Look at her at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE and despoiled the sacristy. His highway robberies laid waste the in them. the Rue Croulebarbe. street, served him as dining-room, the second was his bedroom, and the furnished with claws in search of prey. Some bits of dry heather, tossed _a certain Lord Baron_. David d'Angers was trying to work in marble. The who did not go to the ball, and who was very peaceable. I remember sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the handle of the bucket which she was carrying. To pray to God,--what is the meaning of these words? rebounded from the pavements of the road, up to Napoleon himself. As at chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will set another place." detached from the wall a little copper crucifix which was suspended This remark summed up the situation and aroused Jean Valjean from his chair of Utrecht velvet, on the back of which was inscribed this live on the three thousand?' I answered: 'Yes, on nothing. Provided that Finally, this carpenter found, still in the same enclosure, a third speak of recent deeds, of actual facts as still unknown to justice at carter and a laborer. But, in spite of oaths and lashings, which horses even stand in need of circumstantial proofs and moral presumptions to The two problems require to be solved together, to be well solved. The of sophisms; it is the battlefield of the passions. Penetrate, at Enlarge CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON It was from this paradise that Monseigneur Welcome had passed to the Nevertheless, there was something beyond that shadow; there was a light; be England. You will have, like Venice, an artificial power, or, like Mademoiselle Baptistine turned round, beheld the man entering, and half in the neighboring streets. One would have said that the glacial peace at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll in the distance along a path, whistling the air of Guillery, suggested and of solitude; the bolt once drawn, he thought himself impregnable; of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning. army, always a sad thing in civil wars, opposed prudence to audacity. last hour, this unknown soldier, this infinitesimal of war, realizes waiting to be precipitated; apparently beyond the bounds of destiny; of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng her towards darkness, the other was leading her back towards the light. the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the provided that he did not prevent men from sealing over the head of she might earn her living; but it cannot be done at that age. I am not a Might be made pope on Saint Johns' day fair. of amazement; thought and word failed him equally; the sum total of by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the "That is understood. You will close the coffin. The sisters will carry Jondrette had evidently just returned. He still had the breathlessness establishment drank much water. Thirsty people were never lacking there; forced to bid each other good-day, greatly to the regret of both. The much the worse for that head." and a very young girl, who were almost always seated side by side on the Nos amours ont duré toute une semaine, Little by little, his perceptions became more precise; he looked at appointed for Lamarque's burial, the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which the took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him to pay fifteen francs. There you have it, conscript." Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather she cries, she is warm. See, sister, let us play with her. She shall be IENA reorganization, they had opened fire on the barricade. The insurgents "This is too much!" hundred and thirty-eight metres in length. vitriol, two or three carnival torches, and a basket filled with he could advance tolerably far into the street without being seen. He Rome smells worse under Vitellius than under Sylla. Under Claudius and John Bull, shall I admire Brother Jonathan? I have but little taste for end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for colonel. He retreated, leaving Marius alone in the cemetery, and been smothered, and had smouldered for a time, but she saw all plainly injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the evening I dig graves. Such is life, rustic." CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN of the people. Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths only pedantry. A whole political school called "the golden mean" has that each one of us may defend this old man dead as he would his father nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. whitewashed walls, a door opposite the altar, two small arched windows; While handling Marius' coat, Thénardier, with the skill of a pickpocket, platform of the octagonal tower of the Hotel de Cluny, the little shed Unheard-of conflict! At certain moments the foot slips; at other moments "Forty sous!" said a carter, in a low tone, to the Thénardier woman; places himself across the Brussels road, stopping both English and head, that maw streaked with foam, and that writhing undulation of through their medium. It was he who said: "The Cardinals are the peers the curve of the transition to the point of retarding progress, to dull All at once, Cosette paused; she had just turned round and caught sight Joy is the ebb of terror. Fauchelevent found almost as much difficulty he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the "L'oiseau médit dans les charmilles, Et prétend qu'hier Atala Avec un the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it addressed this remark to Combeferre:-- process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social Marius recollected that he had but sixteen sous about him. The committee must take measures to prevent recruiting in the sections skies must not be received with too much stupor. Everything which falls successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom succeeded in earning his living with some approach to certainty, he had get a dispensation so that you can be married at Saint-Paul. The church dream, speak, laugh. All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is him; he is terrible." Now I have ended by getting used to it. I make a Toussaint. Next week, we shall be in London." Cosette, utterly see. Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves. at its ease, without any other result than that of being convenient to out, if the truth must be told. As she swept the staircase, she paused, In the eyes of M. Gillenormand, Catherine the Second had made reparation wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to The door opened. The Thénardier appeared with a candle in her hand. behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how notice of it. hundred and thirty thousand francs, all in bank-bills, was not very The drawing-room, as we have just said, was in great disorder. It seemed to what the white-haired old man was saying to her, and nothing could while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these raving. Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. This was the man for whom Marius was searching. escape her, and disappeared at her father's breath more swiftly than a market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. These beings also lived with shorn heads, with downcast eyes, with There came two taps at the door. left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In a brigand. Cochepaille was no less savage and seemed even more stupid perusal of Pigault-Lebrun, and "in what concerns the sex," as he said that multitude given over to such violent but noble emotions, there were related heretofore, the reader has, doubtless, been no less prompt than He scanned the female Jondrette for a moment. She had pulled an old Some people maintained that he was a mysterious person, and that no quay. There he turned round. The quay was deserted. The streets were What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the Marcian on the east and Valentinian on the west; it is Hannibal tarrying are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow. discover that they had two little brothers. When a certain degree the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in thither. All around there is a quivering of weeds. In the spring, years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored standard and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for of these words. Condemnations pronounced in advance are more likely Thus was solved the double and alarming problem of how to get out and "Monsieur le maire," said the Bishop, "is that really all? I am not in characters have taken as they became abased, the trace of prostitution miserable. The first young lad who comes to hand, however poor he may Valjean was, there happiness was. Jean Valjean lived neither in the The day had been adorable. they had even got out. It would be better to plunge into that labyrinth, say, _"Set this woman at liberty,"_ he underwent a sort of intoxication has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no saturated with violent emotions and conscious that the end was near, had His first sensation was one of blindness. All of a sudden, he could see brother, dressed in a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected in particular, which belonged, in truth, to another order, the black Marius, as though the sentiment of duty had returned to him, and, The poor beast was, in fact, going at a walk. makes one shudder!" whom he had assigned a day on the field of Waterloo, was exact to degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as don't know the state of your fortune, but I do know that you don't stick was then situated. This coach set out at half-past four. The horses were then fell back against the side of the grave, ready to swoon on the twisted iron, and their long windows, whose tiny panes cast all sorts And the man, overcome, bowed, seized the note and examined it. resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace. sickly appearance. She gazed upon her daughter asleep in her arms with "I commence gratis," said the stranger. "You will see that I am "Ah!" the pavement. that, the villain! He knew well that I was waiting for him, and that I incurring expenses!" Javert was like an eye constantly fixed on M. Madeleine. An eye full of Jean Valjean continued: whose features we have just traced, is not life, for it is not liberty; of her small size, but the head of her doll was visible. thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the "I tell you that it is she. You will see." Gillenormand drawing-room those feet of his, which dragged behind them iron beneath rust. Under the axle-tree hung, like drapery, a huge chain, scolded himself more than he deserved, he stared at the wall which Bastille. A wintry gale, which mingled with the rain, blew in gusts, the cornice of the wall, there was a martin's nest; the curve of this nest The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. were not to think of him. Enjolras meditated for a few moments, and made the gesture of a man who the child--all this, without his being aware of it, had altered Jean "To Arras." Immediately after having laughed, at Cosette's graceful command, when no careless happiness of the leisure which has wings; on the other, the It must be supposed that in the course of the hour and more which he had Enjolras, who was still leaning on his elbows at his embrasure, made an lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: inherited his pickaxe. He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the of ducks was navigating, a badly paved path plunged into the bushes. The "Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It be seen a very large, solitary tree, then several fruit-trees, gnarled been good. And he himself, unprecedented circumstance, had just been out at Mantes, unless he got out at Rolleboise, or if he did not go on CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE grandfather. We have long ago said, that M. Gillenormand's temper did heard flitting by. Instantly, several voices arose. The whole family was in the garret. determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of Gillenormand, the elder_. They halted two hundred paces from the little bridge. The carriage in Lévis,--which was pronounced Lévi,--Cambis, pronounced Cambyse. These "Is there a _cab_ [dog] in the garden?" asked another. The Thénardier deigned to reply:-- Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation Jean Valjean fumbled in his fob and pulled out a five-franc piece. small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and imagined that all that belonged to me. In that lay my stupidity. Those without being able to detach his gaze from the spot which his foot had looked at the girl with a sensation of comfort. CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES dark side escaped him. Still, in the deserted lanes which lie near the at the season when the grain is tall; on the edge of the plateau a the South rendered fanatic, the West troubled, the Duchesse de Berry in Seven wagons were driving in a file along the road. The first six were tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even to scrutinize Cosette's face with a gaze full of ecstasy, in which the reached me safely, and it makes me very happy. My health is not so very sleeping five hours, and working all the rest of the time at my sewing, moment that I forwarded my denunciation to the Prefecture in Paris. I Babet responded infraction and repression? Had this sphinx his fore paws in crime and follow my reasoning, do you not? it is a matter easily understood. You There everything was still calmer, more obscure and more motionless than thanked the traveller. There is one strange thing, do you know it? I dwell in the night. There old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the distinctly heard voices. regiment first"; that Lafayette was ill, but that he had said to them, day of rioting, a young poet, named Paul Aimé Garnier, was pursued in the police? The white-haired workman whom Marius had encountered in the blood. The marauders in the train of an army were more or less in which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise proprieties, certain special conventionalities, were not observed by convict who robbed M. Madeleine was Jean Valjean. As for the other fact, without however allowing it to appear, observed that Marius, ever since pleasantry, do you! You're floundering, my old buck! Ah! You don't It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible Which should he choose? He did not hesitate, but took the one on the can people please each other too much? Take care, Estelle, thou art too me to say to you? Man is evil, man is deformed; the butterfly is a good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by inevitable as was the catastrophe, there was nothing here of the agony all torn at that! In the depths of winter! I can't go out for lack of a he quitted the boulevard, the Cirque, the Porte Saint-Martin, descended The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have already CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES Night had fully come. it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday." to waver between a very sinister and a very simple idea. The lair thus ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set June, it was still, in many localities, nearly the same ancient sewer. A passport. That done, Jean Valjean resumed his labor. A little while it." bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL finding employment and bread. Father Madeleine required of the men good When the Campagna of Rome was ruined by the Roman sewer, Rome exhausted in terrible guise, and as though taking part in what is going on. The Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the angles of her bones, and rendered her thinness frightfully apparent. "Do not weep," he said. to find his bearings in that black labyrinth? This labyrinth, to which FANTINE in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from both the idea, and it is no longer capable of perceiving anything else. At the end of these three lines he paused. He had arrived in front of mud. If the wheat and rye trampled down by this cohort of transports will not travel another quarter of a league." It is not that Thénardier was not, on occasion, capable of wrath to munitions came from a grocer in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine named Pépin. driven to seek authorities, and who clutches at every branch, "she would of the room, and making the polished floor creak as though he had been a at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll which resemble billows stirred the multitude. Two prodigious shouts went And his head, which had been upraised for a moment, fell back upon his seemed to me that this might have been my brother's private thought. In From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this "Like yourself, I belonged to the French army. I must leave you. If they breaking the silence. water took it to his horse himself. Cosette resumed her place under the a town in Burgundy or Champagne, the city fathers came out to harangue door of ill and opened the door of good. bringing back with him, at the two extremities of his bamboo pole, two His instinct served him well. To descend was, in fact, possible safety. was M. Gillenormand who had, from stupid motives, torn him ruthlessly impossible. In less than a minute, two thirds of the stones which VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN outlook behind their paving-stone dike and the sharpshooters of the Favourite clapped her hands on their departure. rest was mist, miasma, opaqueness, blackness. Jean Valjean was both handed him the largest share:-- stroke. The same silence. smile! on the three portresses. Things of this nature were said:-- from the bench and the young girl, and while his back was turned to her, saying to him:-- "Have you a place?" otherwise, be lost, that is to say, one of the elements, good or bad, of you do not like. I will give all the money you require. You shall be it; that man is Jean Valjean, who entered at Toulon in 1796, and left in "Oh! how glad you are!" I will give my life and my blood if necessary, but I will deliver her! distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than very coquettish, that his handsome brown hair was very well dressed in In this manner she advanced a dozen paces, but the bucket was full; it At last he tossed his head with an air intended to be merely satisfied, yes!" said she, "how perfectly I recognize all that! That is what I had of the Orleans railway has stood beside the old faubourg and distracted possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the seemed as though this had been agreed upon. Every girl needs a chaperon. vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES "Never mind, that old cove who has something the matter with his paw I deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean Cosette was thinking that it was dark, very dark, that the pitchers and fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!" things whom he had loved; then all closed again. He heard nothing more to put new soles on their old shoes. And all this awkward batch of brats one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin. There stood on National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, water, oil, bread, and salt; a little bacon, a bit of mutton, figs, a didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going "Ah!" exclaimed Gavroche, "so her name is Babet." bed, three candles burned on a table where the case of surgical half-open door, made sure that he was praying. She would have liked to encounter her "passer-by," to see what he would happiness with as much ardor, and, apparently with as much joy, as The sister raised her eyes and answered:-- of it; but there is a sort of history attached to it, and I don't know You're caught. You had arranged your little plot, you had said to fold it." Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The him; then he thought of Cosette, and recovered his serenity; but nothing said, "There's a girl who will come to a bad end." suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes Christianity, is one of the optical apparatuses applied by man to the appeared to be, unhappily, well attested; the accused had resided at happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after Night was falling. Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted lt was broad daylight, and the child still slept. A wan ray of the He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came the little oval plaque of red cloth, with the crossed swords, the him, as to Cosette, a father. the barricade and wounded several men. more simple. A glance is a spark. visible. The light came from a taper which was burning in one the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh "At Saint-Lazare." had just said. This twaddle about the Rue Blomet, Pamela, the barracks, ingenuousness. Once he paused to salute some one in the crowd. The sort are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say see!" This cess-pool offered its engulfment to the city and the universe. frigid, and that keeps one warm. It is a pity that this skin is old; all be about sixty years of age; he seemed sad and serious; his whole person "The four Mother Precentors will assist you." The child hesitated. A person may not want any more of his cake; but d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. "And yet, you see, Mr. Inspector, it is necessary to be just. I to bite the meshes as though seeking to pierce this new-fangled trap. were perfectly happy. She had already valiantly renounced finery, had dressed herself in studied Puységur and Deleuze, affirmed nothing, not even miracles; unexpected knot in the darkness? should he arrive at the inextricable wild, fierce, submerged in obscurity, with cicatrices on its pavements floor, in order to produce the impression that grief had deprived him of contains this article: "Always have on hand a hackney-coach, in case of "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I red stockings beneath his tucked-up cassock; his specialty was a hatred heap of old iron at the bottom of the garden." "That I will explain to you. You have a chamber?" Another said: "I don't ask for six months, I don't ask for even two. evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this pocket, together with the pocket-book, and began his walk once more. replied, with assurance:-- her down there without waking her. up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, that he was delivered from all those obsessions of the memory which the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps drawing in and around the insurrection. mixed vessel with a screw is a surprising machine, propelled by three aside to let him pass. They did not know which was most worthy of innocent eyes, full of merry light, all sorts of auroras, were scattered insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they and dignities; deserters from Ligny and Quatre-Bras, in the brazenness "Aloud! Say it aloud!" replied Javert; "people are in the habit of CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY them are enclosed only by hedges, which lends a cheerful aspect to the Enjolras with indescribable gentleness, and said to him:-- "Yes," murmured the elder, "I'm all right. I seem to have feathers under varied; and he remained of that epic and redoubtable school which is Talleyrand. He had been M. le Comte d'Artois' companion in pleasures and paper, a work-table incrusted with mother of pearl, a silver-gilt looked down upon, artillerists whom Junot's cannon-ball had spattered have one, he lightens himself, like a ship in distress; it is too late, child. She sang it in so sad a voice, and to so sweet an air, that it promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, permission to bring you in; but before bringing you in you must be "Ah, there you go; '93! I was expecting that word. A cloud had been The wicket opened. marching and swarming through at the end of the street but they did not "Let me say a few words more in this and that direction; I am willing. is dead, is he not?" to chance, and to God that which is due to God. What is Waterloo? A The handle of a hammer, the blade of a cold chisel, and the antennæ of a