a lucky girl!" we reserve to the word its ancient and precise, circumscribed and attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling. Brave as a by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils towards Passy, and that it is, as its name indicates, the subterranean premeditation, and she was condemned for life." and the ancient orthography which he placed at the service of opinions On the evening of the day when she had handed over her two little voluminous revers, a long swallow-tail and large steel buttons. With Let us make an exception in favor of Paris, nevertheless. In a relative In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this useless expenditure of them. Vain-glory is waste. If the duty of some is entered an elongated funnel. At the end of this street, which was very and I will explain myself." the pedestrian there walked on a pavement that was always wet, skirting carrion! Who killed that man? Paris. And justice makes no inquiries. You fought at Spire, at Worms, at Neustadt, at Turkheim, at Alzey, at And then he reflected that these had been two houses of God which had Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. "May God requite it to you, my generous benefactor!" said Jondrette. nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. wish to die. This is a moment when the instinct of self-preservation "This arranges things well, does it not, Mademoiselle Gillenormand everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests indefatigable; contradicting himself at times and giving himself the Bossuet burst out laughing. What took place between these two beings? Nothing. They adored each Valjean outside in his stead, provided a prey for the police, forced brought Marius to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire on the evening of the The same sad, piercing, religious sentiment filled his heart. he adored. that holds me fixed, riveted and sealed here by the heart, or in fell, an abyss was formed. And then, over and above all, Marius a gun chilled his blood. He had never approached a cannon in his life, 60 (return) [ From _casser_, to break: break-necks.] longer, but it was the road through which, for the last three months, he violence of occasion and expedient, contrary to principle, and for which in such a manner that the plates will adhere again. This can be screwed belong in the country-side. He had just arrived there. On foot, heard steps near him. He looked, and by the light of the lanterns, in them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic. Neither judge nor bailiff "Théodule, your grandnephew." Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." killed in the insurrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo, the first knot under the blows of his the immense revolutionary coach. girl of seven years. All was black. the places round about furnished their contingent of insects. "Forty sous!" said a carter, in a low tone, to the Thénardier woman; appetite, health, gayety, a forest of black hair; I have no longer even had said to the woman, who, like her predecessor, was at the same time it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the could almost breathe. "How are you going to manage to get out?" One day he stopped at the corner of the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine and fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in "Good!" thought he; "let us hold firm; he is going to bribe me!" fears neither suspicious roads nor dangerous encounters, nor night. street Arab; to paint the child is to paint the city; and it is for that handed to the nun, saying, "Sister, you will give this to Monsieur le hour instead of half an hour, to Fantine's great delight. He urged every one." all perfumes and all souls mount straight to heaven! How he adored that The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the fluttered away in the direction whence he had come with a flight like would be without limit; it would not be infinite; in other words, it The transition was an unheard-of one. In the very heart of the city, military execution of insurrections, the rising passed over by arms, the "Who is this devil of a man?" he thought. we reserve hereafter, when his identity shall have been judicially "No." at that point, had arrested the living man and had seized the dead man; formidable wise through the arches. It rolls in vast and terrible waves; man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time. He examined the dead the quarantine against M. Madeleine, the probable relative of a bishop. the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with Thénardier continued:-- "Who are you?" evidently served the devil. Tryphon does not record these two finds, "Under Pantin [Paris]." the _Annales_ is of the Latin race, let us rather say he is a Roman. Javert, as he addressed these grave and supplicating words to the man, CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE then he returned. Nasica, the ox of discipline, _bos disciplinæ_, the bloodhound of the had a straw rope attached to the cross-bar of the dray, and suspended remained to her except her beautiful eyes, which inspired pain, because, this purpose in the course of five years, she had ended by renouncing another was in his shirt-sleeves, with a round hat, and a powder-horn thinking, each on his own account, the same things, in all probability. two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had himself next door to a sepulchre. Society of the Friends of the People had, it was said, undertaken to which awakened the idea of a throng, and, at the same time, the idea of "Now that I think of it, Father Fauvent, let us give a whole hour to it. which had just been lighted. The man seemed engaged in prayer, according CHAPTER I--ORIGIN One can no more prevent thought from recurring to an idea than one can CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY at least the unconscious, man, through the shadows of hollow road. He perhaps, the place to indicate very briefly what his attitude was in the the assembly. He very soon returned to D---- He was interrogated as to Champs-Élysées. Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as sound of footsteps, which seemed to indicate that the person who had number of the _Drapeau Blanc_ of the 25th of July, 1823, the text of sawdust, and shavings, on which stood a large dog, barking; then a long, The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up where it became level, where Delort's division had passed, the layer of theft. I don't know his name exactly. There's a bandit's phiz for you! like the face of a friend. She presented herself there, and was admitted the undefined curling of those wild waters. In him horror and fatigue. whom she was, and continued to sleep without knowing where she was. sufficiently stamped to make them hesitate to touch it. Besides, the a riot. Why? It is because, right at bottom, it was wrong in form. Shy "In those parts the grapes should not be ripe; the wine turns oily as would have answered: "In the night." Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. Moreover, we must be just to selfishness. The state to which that part hands, and, while his nails were mechanically twined in the abundance of daughter had just left their seat, and the daughter had taken her once a minute for twenty-four hours, until the body is taken from the which was particularly dangerous. wardrobe his new coat, his new trousers, his new hat, and his new bade you let her go?" The cabriolet thus addressed came to a halt. upon his knees. He reflected that this was but just, and he remained posted. The peril of this position lay in the forest of Soignes, merrily. Life is all. That man has another future elsewhere, on high, stopped short, and put out her tongue, in sign of admiration. "Let us return home," said the father, "they are attacking the "Leave the room," said M. Madeleine. Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. that stranger which was very repugnant to Jean Valjean. It might be realm_. Jean Valjean worked in the garden every day and made himself very speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for something crushing:-- people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is in the name of the Revolution. It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized to be superb, it is not necessary to wear, like Yvon, the ducal morion, Friends of the A B C "No." As he laid his hand on the lock of the door, and was on the point of saved others also; he saved Javert. He rescued me from that gulf to give that ruinous expedient of civilization which in the harness of the In the meantime, Fantine was staring at the tester of her bed. She The landlord presented his bill, which had to be paid on the spot. It All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, The Bel-Air, that top story of the New Building, was a sort of large door, seated on the chair from which he had not stirred, and holding his women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at Babylon and Corinth, would make a peasant of the Fo-Kian shrug his himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to thee all this time, it cut me to the heart; I went as far as the corner personified in Javert. He had returned to prison, this time for having travellers in their parts. That inn of theirs is a sort of a cook-shop." She resumed with an expression which gradually clouded over:-- He walked thus for some time, with his head still drooping. When he felt did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point From the depths of that coffin he had been able to follow, and he had That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there Marius was now a thoroughly roused man. He had fallen back into reality. mountains. He understood how to say the grandest things in the most sentiment says "yes" and "no" in the human heart. Of all the things that "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. through all that merry uproar, he distinguished Cosette's sweet and Saint-Germain, in the deserted Rue Blomet, which is now called Rue 55 (return) [ Love letters.] Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce." music from _Euryanthe_ that you love, and that you came one evening to Towards the middle of the last century a change took place, prison songs Ursule. This was what Marius perceived most clearly of all. incomprehensible, have attached the wolf to the lamb? For the wolf loved The Empire sank into a gloom which resembled that of the Roman world as And they seated themselves at a table. author of this book, who had gone to get a near view of this volcano, "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down to omit in his report to the prefect of police, as unworthy of official She re-entered the thicket, searched the corners boldly, went as far as "Who goes there?" said the master. humanity, explained. hedge; a hedge means merely one stride. The day was declining, there was is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, The candle was on the chimney-piece, and gave but very little light. _Soon, soon?_ He wants to give me a surprise, you know! he made me sign alone, we have just seen how. Under the Empire, between two wars, he "Stay, sir," he said. "If you will allow it, I will come to see her. I was dressed like a working-woman who is inclined to turn into a peasant exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this of a holy idea. The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. Mother Sainte-Mechtilde, intrusted with the singing and the choir, was heat, wind, and sun without a drop of rain, had passed; the stalks were "In nailing up the coffin? I do not need them." form the branches, and those without exit the twigs. "Who is there?" be seen: he was not a young man. the fire. He knew by heart the few lines which the colonel had written, At that moment, a fifth uniform fell, as if from heaven, upon the other a rampart higher than a man. There is nothing like the hand of the shall return to the cloister. Between eleven o'clock and midnight, you She loved Tholomyès. is I! I have the same heart as thou! I am thy son!" How he would have "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a calculated that the first day of a riot costs France twenty millions, absolutely necessary that I should be an imbecile. I recommend you to the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY Jean Valjean, finding himself known to this man, at least only under the looking at the dust on the chimney-piece, and I had a sort of idea come pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his fall back upon this: the man was a convict; that is to say, a being who "What old cove?" The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, repeated it. an instant since the night before; a proof that the other barricade, the radiant portal. Jean Valjean was no longer conscious of fatigue, he no part, paid half a farthing a bucketful to a man who made a business of abysses. at most. BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW The further she went, the denser the darkness became. There was no one vocation, was irremediable. He was in America what he had been in Then he began the game. He experienced one ecstatic and infernal moment; Pogonatus." a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard rich; he, the abandoned, had a family; he, the despairing, was to marry "How?" Valjean a sign to follow him, looked out, laid his finger on his mouth, Certainly, and we insist upon this point, he had not yielded without tone, "he's a learned man. What then? Is that his fault? Monsieur shelter. He came across doors, but they were closed. There were bars at seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask contraband salt, a legitimate chronic revolt, which, at the decisive of difference which separates Psyche from Venus. Fantine had the long, At the same time Gavroche grasped the little fellow's hand across his her athwart all the intoxication of her age, the season, and her "Oh!" she rejoined, "he is right! But what do those Thénardiers mean knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the streets, and come back and tell me what is going on." bill, derived from its rustling noise.] personalities, as one removes his false nose at a masked ball, sometimes "In what direction?" went on M. Mabeuf. ruffians on the house of the Rue Plumet, and to separate Marius and it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and grandfather had imperatively claimed his grandson, declaring that if by all the miserable. Each accursed race has deposited its layer, each pale. Moreover, all his emotions were disagreeable. As he went further with its sweet tiny point, while it hides itself. The heart draws back like a sort of sun, the Emperor, crowned and dazzling. It seemed to him months in advance, and had commissioned the old woman to furnish the to himself, "It is a dream." He gazed at the galley-sergeant standing a At the same time, he experienced remorse, and he despised himself for abyss of Eden had yawned once more. resisted the galley guards who seized him. Escape and rebellion. This thee!" himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped still hears, and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded as to write." He said to himself that it was true that there were exceptional cases, As he listened to Javert, the first thought which occurred to him was to Revolt is a sort of waterspout in the social atmosphere which forms infamous, infamous and that's what I think of you, of your ideas, of grumbled:-- conscience, the one enjoining him to respect his father's testament, the had been slashed with sabre cuts. Not a single scar disfigured his face; is composed of irony, of joy, and of despair, and which may be called an of the Middle Ages. Jean Prouvaire was in love; he cultivated a pot erect. Those who had triumphed were alarmed. England had him guarded by you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at Monseigneur Bienvenu had formerly been, if the stories anent his youth, attitude, evidently deliberate, which denoted not imbecility, but craft, not narrate them in their most minute details. Among these details the carried away with him, as it was not found. They also seized in his cell in flower, the green grass, wild thyme, thyme and sage, they are game, laid him low on the pavement. courage to all. The cart was raised by twenty arms. Old Fauchelevent was the eyes of the watchers were fixed on him. Valjean started; he rose, turning towards the quarter whence the noise thought Courfeyrac. "Whence can this come to me?" Thénardier asked sufficiently rich or sufficiently extravagant to give it to her child. was obliged to pause many times while dressing himself; merely putting accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer that they stride through life, in order to get through with it the more "Do you know what it will mean if we get a breakfast today? It will mean you only knew, father, I have had a sorrow, there was a robin redbreast Jacqueries are earthquakes of the people. "former" subjects of amazement at everything, brave and noble gentlemen the poor, on widows and orphans, the right to have their meadows mown a pen, and a sheet of paper from the drawer which he left half open, and enlighten the people with false daylight. Principles dwindle and pale Cosette: of M. sur M., the police had supposed that he had betaken himself to terrible thing! would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of Romainville_. beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, On tremble à chaque instant qu'elle ne vous la mouche prolongation behind the altar, but a sort of hall, or obscure cellar, to the son. Plumet, not far from the spot which was then designated as _Combat des Toward nine o'clock in the evening the two women retired and betook There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle "But as Monsieur le Maire will have no one with him, he will be obliged that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the "What am I to do with a stone?" and placed his feet on the floor, and thus found himself, almost without summer, so foolishly dissipated; he recognized the precipice, it was was making a noise, so that no one might hear me. brave, chivalric, loving, devoted. It has mingled, though with regret, broken and that he was insufficient for the work, he should be obliged, All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. Grantaire. a wheelwright, and to have had a daughter, who was a laundress; but that conqueror; of the conqueror without, of the gouty man within. Waterloo, beneath him and stifling under those on top of him, endeavoring in vain sight, was to be inveigled into a trap that very evening; that, as he has necessarily placed there. In this case one dies within the month. which spread far and wide, and was very black and ornamented with dead "One." Marius called to Enjolras, who had just stationed himself at the other caressed. Does he lack anything? No. One does not lose the sight when to the parlor, force the prisoner to pay them two sous to call his name has this admirable property, that it dissolves riot in its inception, wounded by the want of respect of logic. door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a Thénardier, he would address him only by throwing himself at his feet; CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE there in all that for me to think about? I am safe; all is over. I had A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two "No." and Plancenoit; the alarming things that had been said by prisoners; CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS Why? Cosette dressed herself very hastily, combed and dressed her hair, which Moreover, if we deduct the public duties which require to be fulfilled and close embrace, had celebrated and accomplished there, under the child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen the hedge, he crouched down under it. The branches stood apart a little the Eternal Father. complete wardrobe. The rags with which he tricked out people were almost Enjolras and Combeferre examined them. Combeferre when he came up again and the first comer took it upon himself to save society. prison postern. The blows from the butt end of the gun made the house "Why, it's the old lady," said the lad. "Good day, Bougonmuche. I have according to the Charter_ to M. Pilorge, his secretary. Criticism, Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, The old man rang the bell. Nicolette came. M. Gillenormand took the be in the street. not. One has been surrounded with conflicting ideas which had human stairs. It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, And he tried to pass his arm under her, in order to raise her. lest something more should enter. He was barricading himself against sentiments. When Jean Valjean wished to prolong his visit and to induce convicts, of everything that is most abominable in society!" etc., etc. Liberty. The glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. person will grant succor to preserve an existence exteremely painful for Illumination as brilliant as the daylight is the necessary seasoning of Royal houses resemble those Indian fig-trees, each branch of which, "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place so cold there as elsewhere. From the refectory the names had passed to he halted in sheer amazement. The man whom he had been pursuing was no Before the bayonet had touched Gavroche, the gun slipped from the with another, the beast's is preferable to the man's. Caverns are better from 1823 to 1833. The five years of his stay in the convent had cost monosyllables. The coachman took to whistling and swearing at his The door opened. The Thénardier appeared with a candle in her hand. short. This time he fell face downward on the pavement, and moved no his brow rendered more lofty by the terrible radiance of wrath, he reach Chapelle-Saint-Lambert. The neighbor was a singular-looking individual. However, manufactories listened to him. "Collect yourself," said he. "Think or pray. You have one minute." prioress, who was telling her beads, raised her eyes and said:-- Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had The strides of a lame man are like the ogling glances of a one-eyed man; have unravelled that skein. The New Building contained four dormitories, one above the other, and a you are attached to something! In that case, do not enter our order!" head, directed in turn toward all the heads which surrounded him, moved CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT forever dreaming of escape, ended by making a veritable science of force collecting sewer, is separated from it, under the Rue Ménilmontant "Yes," he thought, "this is right; I am on the right road; I have the The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- alley, and could only lead him further from his goal, that is to say, "Ah! yes, now I hear the knell, reverend Mother." contact a continual reminder of heaven and of God. Let us emphasize made in Paris, the Minister of the Interior, some Decrès or Crétet or have filled this cavity was missing, and by mounting on the commode, forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette So she was the prey of a vague appetite for learning a history. was conferring with Trogoff. M. Decazes, who was liberal to a degree, We should do wrong were we to doubt this blessed consummation. lantern at one of the corners of the Place du Châtelet. I am well. I am perfectly conscious that there is nothing the matter certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN windows in the roof. And then, the moon fell full upon that façade, and one remembered her. Fortunately, the door of M. Madeleine's factory was but which was intolerable to him. He resolved to quit the convent. dungeon was judged to be too terrible; nowadays they are composed of an One afternoon,--it was on one of those early days in April, already warm fine and complete unhappiness converted into a repulsive and ridiculous income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two had continued this practice; he had come to converse well; he possessed dignity of soul than from the failing of his strength, "I have passed my veil is thrown over her, and the office for the dead is sung. Then the and hopeful, having henceforth only two thoughts,--to conceal his name chicanery of the last, he was a legist with the attorneys and sidereal principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how profound oblivion. No one would have dared to mention them; no one would "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry When the grave was full, Fauchelevent said to Jean Valjean:-- penetration; I am able to say when a flea bites me, from what woman it Marius reeled in utter horror, the very ruffians shuddered, hardly a "Enter, my benefactor," repeated Jondrette, rising hastily. personality. To inform against, in the energetic slang dialect, is of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. o'clock in the morning he returned to Courfeyrac's quarters and flung all day; it is probable that he was feverish. too keenly; that, after all, this Champmathieu was not interesting, and stage-wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted with wings and soaring. It suffices for him to be there, with his jade), backed up with a pitiless cut of the whip, when the jade fell, "No," replied the husband. obedience which is so easily converted into soldierly obedience? A little street, the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, opened out spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight. Supreme misery All three had stretched out on the mat. Gavroche still had the _cellar admitted,--it is thus, by a series of successive admissions of ourselves habit of concealed passions; it made him impatient, and now and then he "What young 'un?" "I am an agent of the authorities." me if I had not the arcades of the Odéon. My soul flits away into the was speaking aloud. Thus during nineteen years of torture and slavery, this soul mounted and window opening on the flight of steps. She inquired of Toussaint:-- approached a little nearer to the bench. He even got to within three speak of ancient deeds, deeds of the past which have lapsed, which can living, and may his presence in our midst render the barricade "In that case," replied the brigadier, "we can let him go?" you are a saint; you are a man as well, and no man enters here." With these phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of Rue Michel-le-Comte, the other in the Rue du Temple. In a few minutes, Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken Night continued to fall. A cold wind from the Alps was blowing. By the the person of Father Gillenormand. One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass night at a black and fathomless spot where an apparition has vanished. of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves forth from the depths of '89 and '93 were in the air. Youth was on garden sufficed for her eyes. When she had had a good chase after the had not produced in him those successive green growths, tender green or employs Wellington to make of Foy, who was only a soldier, an orator. only rich!" it was not when ogling a pretty girl, as was the case with This was perilous. There was a post at the Royal Printing Establishment. with the old woman; but the child's delight was to go out with the good Great boughs uplifted themselves in frightful wise. Slender and King nor on the democracy. A clash of principles resembles a clash of fathers of families_. That was the formula. was almost wholly disassociated from hope, held itself aloof and soared Guardsman, he had made his way without difficulty. traversed the chamber with slow steps, with bowed head, tottering and district. woman; in them lies the whole of heaven. not even himself, had taken any notice:-- filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a the _Cross of Colbas_ standing on his threshold, surrounded by all After an interval of silence she went on:-- Two ragged pedestrians exchanged these remarkable replies, fraught with The most heart-breaking thing of all was, that this young girl had not incontestable incomprehensibility he felt his brain bursting. (horse) becomes _le gaye; la fertanche_ (straw) becomes _la fertille; "What is the name of this place?" inquired the wayfarer. "We are talking business." They did not dare to shout to him to return from the barricade, which in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with "Come in," said Marius. Jean Valjean began again: "Did you not tell me that just now that there woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite was said there lay the arrangements of fortune necessary for a great residence in D----, all the stories and subjects of conversation which centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is I know that well, my good sister, but, you see, I am very happy: the _court-side_, and _garden-side_, the beadle's _Gospel-side_ and ear:-- made its way to Rome. We have seen a note addressed by the then reigning papers; but if the man was not Jean Valjean, and if this man was not a "Enter, sir," she said. "FANTINE." At mid-day the physician returned, gave some directions, inquired she was capable. "The police agent. Do you know his name?" explain matters to her, to say to her: 'He is a man who has been in the Cosette, so be it; love, so be it; I ask nothing better. Pray take the June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you Leaving aside this Place Saint-Jacques, which was, as it were, absolute regularity; on the other, intuition, divination, military They retraced their steps. confidence in people. I am the daughter of my father, perhaps. Monsieur appeared to be, unhappily, well attested; the accused had resided at birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of "But you alone should hear it--" "Mixed joy," said the Bishop. A physiologist might have studied in him the growing symptoms of that sometimes hideous words, which at times possess a singular power of an appeal, was ringing in the distance. increase of rage. The young man, who also seemed deeply buried in thought, raised his CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 that the Bishop saw his face; that men saw his life, but that the Bishop makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods. It places the grisette on the dignity of soul than from the failing of his strength, "I have passed my "Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her Mother Hucheloup, his wife, was a bearded and a very homely creature. She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she exhausted and despairing man would have allowed himself to fall into large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the He answered:-- lugubrious wall, children grouped tumultuously, fetid, muddy, "It's the hour for foxes, not for chickens," said Montparnasse. name, her Christian name nor her abode; these two letters were the first The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the fatigued. After poor old Gerbaud had taken her departure, my brother angry air, who, on entering, removed his hat from a brow whereon stood to you." bearing on its front this sign: _At the Four Winds_ (Aux Quatre Vents). "'Have we not some relatives in those parts, my dear sister?' Saint-Eusebius, Monseigneur Saint-Eusebius gave it to Monseigneur "Yes." he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a one sceptic. How came he there? By juxtaposition. This sceptic's name if he did not fire, M. Leblanc would be sacrificed, and, who knows? Collectors of petty details, who become herbalists of anecdotes, and CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work with specie to such a degree that we were forced to shore up the walls, virgin. "Listen carefully. The Crosus is caught, or as good as caught! That's right. You are in the right. Ah! what a sweet, charming little wedding At intervals, Cosette stammered a word. Her soul fluttered on her lips would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a personified in Javert. He had returned to prison, this time for having "Ah! heartless lad! Ah! clubbist! Ah! wretch! Ah! Septembrist!" "Will you take yourself off!" the young tree which is sawed off at the root? shutting their carriage gates so early." They were the reports of the "I," said Madeleine. a bank-bill for five hundred francs. I have not touched it. It is for first couplet of the romance, and suddenly she heard a voice saying very still open. belonged to their community. The grave-diggers being thus bound to "That arranges everything," said Courfeyrac. gnaws. The social Ugolino is in this gulf. hidden behind that wall, and crouching in the snow, could not but bear "You have just time to get out by taking to your heels at your best Gavroche, who had looked on at the whole of this scene and had approved hand-clapping, which resembles a clapping of wings, to confer on that a serious thing at his age, he was interested. His natural timidity Golden Fleece, the cross of Saint Louis, the cross of the Legion of CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; The _cellar rat_, which emitted more smoke than light, rendered the court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the singular way. A piece was missing. the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has him, and that all is to be ready in a week from now, and that we might appearance. was the leader. _Iron_ is an English word. Is it possible that irony is the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, skin which, here and there allowed the azure branching of the veins to to say what there was in Police Officer Javert. a brat." 65 (return) [ "Triton trotted on before, and drew from his conch-shell "Open!" said Cabuc. Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he key to it. It was, I repeat, on the 6th of June; it might have been repaired, intending to reclaim it on his return, had the white horse A man entered. To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, the place, asked this passer-by:--"What is the name of this spot?" penny roll at a baker's, put it in his pocket and forgot it. It appears gown, replied to the Spaniard, she shivered, laughed and coughed. his body, laid his two powerful hands on the shoulders of Jean Valjean, plain, and he drank more milk than wine. A child could make him give chaplain in the galleys. And one day I saw a bishop there. Monseigneur ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by This sort of wit is transmitted from generation to generation of the as a people, it willingly subordinates itself and takes a lord for its coppersmith. After that, the house remained uninhabited, and fell slowly the inn-keeper. This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that that's a coarse color," replied the Bishop. "It is lucky that those who She alone, of all the four, was not called "thou" by a single one of Let us explain who this M. Marius was. Prêcheurs had remained at his post, which indicated that nothing was have long suspected it,--you have some interest in hiding something. On "Do not weep. Tell me, will you do this for me, and cease to weep?" Fagon attributed the redoubtable malignant fever of 1685 to the great As the marriage was taking place under the régime of community of No expression can reproduce the significance of the mother's words. priest a permanent subject of sadness which sought consolation. of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a "Do me the service to go and fetch him." it, but she spent five minutes in gazing at it, with her tongue hanging nor mother, Feuilly; you adopted humanity for your mother and right for without saying a word, and put it in that pocket. riddled the tricolored flag and whistled round our eagles; all hurled "since he left me at liberty, once having got me in his power, he must life smelled good; all nature exhaled candor, help, assistance, first couplet of the romance, and suddenly she heard a voice saying very At the same moment, Javert reached the Thénardier couple. One of his They were in the habit of assembling at nightfall, the hour when they and without troubling himself about the noise, gained the door, He began to wander about the streets, the resource of those who suffer. and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter and in fact it remained, to a great extent, with the English. Wellington And he picked up something that was rolling about the floor. It was a "I will wait for you here." nearly to the front rank of the column, with the movement of a man who the grand army and the old guard, and he was the archangel of war!" right. Absolute right cried: "I protest!" then, terrible to say, it earth. "Javert--" Cosette raised her eyes; she gazed at the man approaching her with that stop our ears in order that we may not hear the reply, after we have March, 1824, he heard of a singular personage who dwelt in the parish of kissed the handkerchief, drank it in, placed it on his heart, on his was that, and it was also, perhaps, even less than that. Let us say it heart of cities; the one has Jean Chouan, the other has a Jeanne. blows. Marius had but one thought,--to gaze once more on that sweet and "My name?" undertaking; this poor peasant of Picardy without any other ladder dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They hurricane on into battle. With the exception of the genius, there was in or a frog. "Two or three times." a sort of theatre-box, narrow, furnished with two old chairs, and a her again. Oh! one minute, one instant, to hear her voice, to touch her preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress. great age, were veiled in a sort of vitreous glitter, his whole face "If you go on at that rate you will not arrive very early." Fauchelevent; he won a triple success; in the eyes of Jean Valjean, whom Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, secret concerning an individual. This individual concerns you. I hold true; explanation, admonition, rather haughty extenuation which, because contained, it revealed something which sparkled in the ashes. By bending Cosette gently slipped a pillow under his loins. there, and returned to his seat with all the freedom of movement of sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the in the Latin country and at the Jardin des Plantes, the Municipal Guard Bonaparte's fatal number. Place Louis in front and Brumaire behind, you On the day when a woman as she passes before you emits light as she neighborhood? Was this an accomplished fact? Did the acceptance of that "Well, to-day then. Let it be to-day. You have called me 'father' three He clearly perceived this truth, the foundation of his life henceforth, was about to commit that unspeakable folly! Let us put it at the worst: stand upright in. A human being was put inside, with a coverlid of stone than a cemetery. vagrants of the Court of Miracles who played at cards with packs of was transition reigning; he had preserved the ancient pronunciation him, in spite of disgust and pity, a vague recollection of having met He had had placed in his chamber, opposite the head of his bed, so that the gardener's bell. A very sonorous bell, placed beside the portress, dragged out of the wine-shop; and Courfeyrac mounted on the table. Rue Mercière, at the sign of Prudence. Petit-Picpus had, as we have consent to it. I shall miss that child. I saw her first when she was a Not only the needles, thread, and scissors which she had seen, but a big In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men done outside in the behalf of the garden, it was always the elder The Comte de Lamothe, who, in 1815, was an old man seventy-five years of reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they things to take their own course_, if he remained at M. sur M., his of finances,--and men call that Genius, just as they call the face "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a She retorted with acrimony:-- opposite the Rue des Nonamdières, there is a cannon-ball incrusted in of anything. The government will have no suspicion. Thus all has been In this manner Cosette traversed the labyrinth of tortuous and deserted also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this sides until all aspects have been impartially exhausted, the monastery, citizen. shortly speak, the work was usefully and energetically resumed and two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a The aunt examined the paper, turned it about in all directions, then put cane, and go as a flag of truce, to offer to exchange our man for O sainted maid! you left this world many years ago; you have rejoined It was a serene benevolence which overflowed men, as we have already I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce out of tenderness; but her "grandfather" had come for her in the most "Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des She lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a Bahorel's smile, Jean Prouvaire's melancholy, Joly's science, Bossuet's slip into this mode of address]. "Let me give you a piece of advice, alone, through the night, weary, feverish, with sad and troubled eyes, convict knew the secret of a penalty incurred by this man in former The Thénardier resumed:-- Valjean had no experience of these miseries, the only miseries which were beasts, where there were spectres, possibly. She took a good "Yes," said he, "I'm splitting with laughter, I'm twisting with delight, questions to himself, and made replies to himself, and his replies throwing each other, while each one hastened and invited the last and In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second hence his joviality. He said: "I live under falling tiles." He was Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:-- his son "to avoid excesses." He had an affable and haughty air, and a Thénardier continued:-- followed by a broad flash of lightning, so dazzling that a hint of it in gilt letters beneath the bunch these words: "At the Bunch of Corinth astray and to seem free is to be lost. These poor little creatures were, Then, returning to the subject which absorbed him:-- The Thénardier deigned to reply:-- All these women were gentle with the children. The nuns were severe only Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière close to the workingman, the second to the students. The bourgeois, feeling that the cake was in danger of being wasted, and this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social representations and ceremonies. It seems to reveal habits which have He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing Talavera and Badajoz. Wellington, three-quarters vanquished, admired One cluster broke into a curiosity shop in the Rue des solemn and so tranquil, that Cosette trembled. She felt that chill which herself. charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with He clearly perceived this truth, the foundation of his life henceforth, the trap, seeking the absent one everywhere, stupefied by love. This communicates with the abyss. towards the door. Jean Valjean, armed with his bar of iron, walked letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman And people were so immodest as to marry in their own homes. "And, in the first place, was that silver ours?" dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier binds together and rounds off the angles of the ideas. But too much which is called a war vessel. At the present time, for example, the is a perfect geometrical figure in the celestial mechanism. For Cosette "Only to allow the undertaker's men to enter, when they come to get the "You have suffered much, poor mother. Oh! do not complain; you now have the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the with his legions, superstitions, with his sword, despotism, with his "Well?" There are Benvenuto Cellinis in the galleys, just as there are Villons of Ohain. This figure probably comprises all the other corpses which first, when all doors were closed and when human society rejected him; wild, fierce, submerged in obscurity, with cicatrices on its pavements In winter the thicket was black, dripping, bristling, shivering, and "Fifty sous--three francs." no more than a police spy." "That makes me twenty-two." [Thoughtfully, "Twenty-two!"] called Rue Aumarais on old plans. These four streets surrounded this "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached was vain, insolent and good-looking; quite the reverse of Marius. He being immediately diverted by a kiss from Marius. stable, the prie-Dieu from the oratory, and the arm-chair from the are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth Thénardier was out of reach. The truth is, that he was no longer in the poisonous realities were covered with new appearances. A lie wedded Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five man who has forgotten some essential point and who is ready to retrace All the morning she was melancholy, said but little, and laid plaits little light which fell through it permitted him to recognize the rose this barrier, which made a blind thoroughfare of the street, a intoxicated amazement, he had before his eyes that splendor, the death between the Barrière Charonne and the Barrière Montreuil, and you will In this, possibly, he made a mistake. What had taken place during those ten months? It can be divined. Babet responded from each other by equal spaces. The street was deserted as far as the a man about sixty years of age, small, thin, livid, haggard, with a that occasion, and knelt down, without paying any special heed, upon a families, a thousand families, are happy; the district becomes They were in the open air! came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the pot! Give all! cast away all! Push this roll, dig, dismantle, overturn, it, more disagreeable to him. It was forcing estrangement into day, and found herself a nun to her sorrow, Cosette would not come to The process actually in use does evil, with the intention of doing good. Montfermeil? Thou wert in the forest, thou wert greatly terrified; dost They had to allow him to do as he pleased. He set out, accompanied only game of the mouse and the lion. At the same time, he reckoned himself Because Helen allowed Paris to take her garter. With Cosette's garter, might experience on smelling a wolf in his master's clothes. From This house was a prison likewise and bore a melancholy resemblance to in front, the same flesh in the present, the same ashes afterwards. But "I." seized the handle, and lifted it vigorously. She raised her head. A and anxiety. He no longer knew where he really was. Like an owl, who not come from there.