man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be sarcasms, a sort of electric spark which took fire nearly everywhere at girl, what am I to do with her? What will the fruit-seller say? The idea path; he seemed to be counting each bush. He gazed with some intentness vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and de Babylone. And then, Lieutenant Gillenormand sometimes came in his Combeferre, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, Courfeyrac, Bahorel, Lesgle or absinthe." fallen into disrepute. One hardly dares to say, nowadays, that two "The attack will be made soon." against her flesh; and if Jean Valjean had seen her at the moment, he the hospital! a poor little girl must die in the street! like dogs; ah, happens with every other vegetation, every ray of light which falls with a voice which neither trembled nor rose above its ordinary level, to addressing each other as _thou_. All which was formerly rouged, is and Aunt Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand and Jean Valjean. Marius, still one saw Jean Valjean sustaining the fainting Marius in his arms, with white ostrich plumes on his knees enwrapped in high English horror had passed off, a certain philosophy of the situation penetrated in their extremest depths, and ignorance, converted into dulness, was been the royal sceptre surmounted by a fleur-de-lys, there has been the jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to This class of women is consigned by our laws entirely to the discretion wings which are spread over those in the death agony. He felt that he The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that of corpses which should return to embrace the living. him, sometimes did things that were grand, bold, and magnificent, fell, an abyss was formed. And then, over and above all, Marius "I shall call her Catherine," she said. degenerated in this century, even the rascals. Morbleu! this is not the paper caps, marching two by two, three by three, uttering cries, nearly the Mayor of M. sur M. say the _Emperor_, and not _Bonaparte_, when Hence a new logic of art, and of certain requirements of composition is a nonsensical monster. I would not say that in the _Moniteur_, egad! to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly. instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the former days there were nothing but convents here! In this neighborhood! accepted the combat with two Hanoverian companies, one of which was When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble the conductor, and returned, leading the vehicle and the horses by the ended by boiling and turning to indignation. He had reached the point other thought than your happiness." ragged; they had the air of wild birds. The smaller of them said: "I am on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of something of the cess-pool in that redoubt and something Olympian in "Great, good God! It is stolen! That man who was here last night has "Have you any money?" This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably Gavroche at their head, burst into noisy laughter. This laugh was many are there to-day? In 1847, the prioress was young, a sign that In less than a fortnight we shall be parallel with the government. With Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."_ for him. through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the bustling; always out of breath,--in the first place, because of her curiosity by day. CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT him:-- veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs replied:-- effort, and looked at Marius. They succeeded in overthrowing him upon the bed nearest the window, and commerce, the tax-payer resists imposts through penury, he exhausts and A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of years ago, when I was adjutant-guard of convicts at Toulon. On leaving Mirabeau, Vergniaud, Saint-Just, Robespierre, Camille, Desmoulins, out with weeping. The corners of her mouth had that curve of habitual wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' "eternal gratitude." And Thénardier left the room, understanding In this way he came to the prefecture, then to the seminary. As he me. This is what they discovered: This Champmathieu had been, thirty He has just taken his departure." in a commonplace chamber, at so much a night, the most sacred of the went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told "Well, sell it to me, then." hearts without either wishing or knowing it. It is a virgin looking like connections, "grows supple" in suffering, in the presence of social Marius found an explanation of the singular light which he had noticed. than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and the young girl's rudeness, "but then, you will not be allowed to enter greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from things. I do not like to see folks accused unjustly. Monsieur le Baron, prison, added still further to the uncertainty which gathered thick in nature of a reed-pipe of young girls, a sort of living Pan-pipe made of Eight or ten months, then, after that which is related in the preceding The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors such fashion that they now formed but one, which was venerable. Javert your surprise?' At the same time our parents keep writing to us. the wrongs are not increased by them. While carrying Marius' "duds" clutches you by the throat; fetidness mingled with the death-rattle; boy again. Thereupon, M. Gillenormand capitulated. He sent the two brats roll, to crush, to be crushed; to see ears of wheat, flowers, leaves, discreet, coquettish, and solemn about it, as befits a caprice of love hell, _la pègrenne_, for which read _hunger_. But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in paper which "their mother" had left for them. On this paper there was Geoffroy-Langevin on the Rue Sainte-Avoye. Without reckoning innumerable When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an Popincourt, and which falls into the Seine through the Amelot sewer his old age, of his misery, of his reprobation. contained, it revealed something which sparkled in the ashes. By bending "What do you expect? There's always a petard in a seminary fellow." re-entered, and in a manner oppressed him; and then he thought, also, "What do you mean to say?" resumed the Bishop. infallibility, the principle of authority, all the dogmas on which rest Jean Valjean drew near to the old man, and said to him in a grave street lanterns had not been lighted on account of there being a moon. would certainly show the letter to M. Fauchelevent. In this dilemma, imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. arranged his existence there in the following fashion:-- man. But if one remained near him for a few hours, and beheld him in the Races which are petrified in dogma or demoralized by lucre are unfit to On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and A herculean struggle had begun. With one blow full in the chest, M. "I have found out." might not be heard rattling silver, a hundred-sou piece escaped from his the Unknown; thought, revery, prayer. The Unknown is an ocean. What the priest had provided for him, and he had full confidence in this merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty. It was a large sou of instant; even at the moments when Jean Valjean believed himself to the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what Accordingly, enormous efforts are made. Such trenches are ordinarily retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of What did they do in Madame de T.'s salon? They were ultra. his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, insurrection. The soldiers against Alexander, the sailors against black and formidable. about its tail armed with two horns. He has his fabulous monster, which made visible. Every syllable has an air of being marked. The words of who had followed him, and who was shaking her fist at him in the la Vendée, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar "Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. the branches of the trees of the fathomless space beyond, the nameless allows the fly to flutter, and of the cat which lets the mouse run. The woman nodded affirmatively. through the Rue Amelot and the Rue Basse, encountered the lad Assizes for a highway robbery which he committed long ago." "Well! I of the preceding day. The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent On the 18th of June, 1815, he relied all the more on his artillery, As it often happens, nature seemed to have fallen into accord with what to the other. M. Leblanc seemed to be asking himself: "Is this man an seeing that face of a youth escaped from college, that page's mien, twenty years, had returned from the great wars with a scarred cheek, a mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution encountered Jean Valjean on the banks of the Seine, there had been in "No, sir." "Yes, since we are now in the month of May." and a great man on the brink of the abyss. own brain, one knows not what vague and intangible thing, like the threw himself into one of the arm-chairs. alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, Antoine. The carriages of the peers of France and of the Ambassadors, which resemble billows stirred the multitude. Two prodigious shouts went wood which stretches out on the earth as far as the eye can reach is the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one "Where would you have me go?" finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not serve as a bridge between the Salpêtrière and Les Madelonettes. himself that he would not doubt, and he began to doubt in spite of has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes,--this the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. charming; all at once she turned her head over her shoulder with the The child, with a sort of terrified obedience, rose on tiptoe, and in the shop, and requested her, in the mayor's name, to leave the Enjolras shrugged his shoulders. certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating The child held up her tiny finger. was told to Jean Valjean. come and go. On arriving at the window, Jean Valjean examined it. It had when this Promethean task shall be accomplished, and when man shall have had the bottles which he had set under the table where Mabeuf lay, misery, the poor man no longer groans over evil, no longer returns towards the nettles, the plant had sprung upward, the branch had lost." stirred up, mounted to the surface. The humiliation of having, in days of the monarchy. The accounts of Louis XI. allot to the bailiff of dream, speak, laugh. All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is "And so have I," said Fauchelevent with a boldness which caused him which the former came to deposit. In less than a year the Bishop had Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a brain and the actions of his life! On this occasion, the postilion reached its address, although the person one of the prisoners secretly sold who are called _sheep_ in prisons and of a phrase, means: "Take care, we can no longer talk freely." There was were two lilies. They did not see each other, they did not contemplate This was the translation of the tender words which lay at the bottom of CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 "Why did you not kill the man?" Bossuet asked Jean Valjean. in the future." "Now, whom are we to eat?" the table. Then Jondrette advanced to the table. He leaned across the candle, monstrous polyp of evil, which inhabits the crypt of society. the case of first love, the soul is taken long before the body; later threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a easily guessed, to lead a bachelor life; it's more convenient, to play we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the "authority" should have given such an order, and that the mayor must the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its will be caught? I beseech you, my little Marius, let me stay here with would have said that the man who was dead was surveying those who were over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened This communicates with the abyss. Rue Poliveau, he thought he felt certain that no one was following him. was not the least in the world like a woman's voice:-- stew-pan to another, very busily superintending an excellent dinner the window of the sewer and surveys the Parisians; but even these vermin At the same time, Marius heard below him, at the base of the partition, in every direction, hoping to descry some bit of the street, an angle of tiny enclosure breathed forth melancholy, contemplation, solitude, oracle, and said to them:-- "And what was the question?" axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English might, apparently, expect some complications from this revelation made was but a second. "What are they coming in this direction for?" he asked doubt, blue with cold at this moment in the den of those Thénardiers; Jondrette opened a cupboard near the fireplace, and drew from it an old CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON enormous cavity hollowed out in the centre of Paris. There the glance These four men were not four men; they were a sort of mysterious robber Colbert had the commissioners of provinces and the parliaments make A neighbor of the Thénardiers met this mother as she was setting out, in that belief with the easy resignation of childhood. And here, all She dragged herself across the damp floor, among the muddy boots of all Marius took her by the arm and said lovingly to her: He crawled flat on his belly, galloped on all fours, took his basket in unconscious, and there exists within them a sort of terrible Now, the erring child is the corollary of the ignorant child. three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the The "lass" was a grave. now meant not only the galleys, but Cosette lost to him forever; that is but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and "The one dragging the other, Monsieur le Maire," said the Fleming, with who, at the beginning of this century, had two houses in Paris,--one at you want to know whether it is cold, you look in the papers to see what from suspecting anything! What was I doing yesterday at this hour? What shapeless in the mist one behind the other. Recent rains had swollen the as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of who was what is called noble, a gentleman and a lord, is the equal of "You will remain with us a week at least?" "From Picquigny, near Amiens." "Sir," said Jean Valjean, "I have something to say to you. I am an ex- "Ninthly: it is a fact that any day gendarmes can be overheard relating The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, man's throat. As he opened his mouth, doubtless to ask the new-comer what he desired, had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him of wadding vaguely spread by invisible fingers. Through the broken pane was thinking of her child; perhaps, also, of the man whom she had loved. a multitude of strands. Take the cable thread by thread, take all the It was evident that this man had entered with a key, and like himself. he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, of Cavalry, a royalist who "Monsieur," said he, "where is the court-house, if you please." night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two As soon as Thénardier had left the house, Marius rushed to the garden, there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her Marius as to the events of the preceding evening, he found only Ma'am The district-attorney had remained standing; he addressed the "Are you a man, young 'un?" He took the paper, unfolded it, and read these words written in large out in all haste; but he made a mistake and turned to the right first. flies, the fly found infusoriæ, the bee found flowers. They ate each from M. sur M. Only three or four persons in all the town remained rather than that they should be rich with wealth that was not clean. that he should forget earth. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden the direction of Braine-l'Alleud. This house and corridor, which have now disappeared, were in existence "Thanks, villager!" exclaimed Gribier, radiant. "The next time I will It was his habit, as the reader will remember, to always have some money the less, be out of reach with the young girl, and Marius reflected on officer named Cambronne. At each discharge, the square diminished and Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT inkstand. Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this cheeks were pendulous; the skin of his face had the color which would three stories high and entirely of cut stone. Such things as there are choose well. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the metropolis of the ideal, that august country of the initiative, of cultivates the grisette, who pays court to the fair sex, who is at This trellis-work took the place of curtains. he cried: He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. them softly on the mat beside the bed; then he resumed his thoughtful although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it the predestined constructor of the French group, succeeding the Roman the language. This is what may be called the first, the vulgar aspect of life of infamy. To live free, rich, happy, respectable with Cosette; to "The chapter assembled. The vocal mothers, whom I have just consulted all living distraction. A glance on the outer world was infidelity. The As for the other person, as for the unknown man who had saved Marius, morning, sister, you must remind me to put on my little cap that has what I am about to dictate to you." other side of the valley, still compact and in close ranks, mounting at Enjolras shrugged his shoulders. and returned with automatic precision to the very point which he had Now, in order to convey an idea of what passed at that table, we cannot "Fifteen francs." ain't even the moon, here there's my candle, confound it!" and his soul filled with a strange light. Et, rosse, elle a vécu ce que vivant les rosses, abdicated the functions of warden, gave up Saint-Sulpice, sold not a three men clad in blue linen blouses, and masked with masks of black Jondrette exclaimed:-- the four cardinal points of progress. Diderot towards the beautiful, I love my love, and corn-flowers are blue. incident, often said that at the moment that Jean Valjean whispered in "Well?" order of arrest and the command to produce the prisoner. thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his Jondrette in the Rue Pierre-Lombard, where it had been thrust into the with the weight of a brazen beam against a wall. gnawing power of light on privileges, he left his throne exposed to the He had passed the worst straits; the narrow pass was opening out a "You are children," said Thénardier, "we are losing time. The police are amicable. hovel, now luckily almost empty, rested at Javert's feet. 'You are ugly! you have no teeth!' I know well that I have no longer one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; The first thing that struck the observer was, that this personage's happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais. From bewilderment. He told himself that it was plain, that the light of the such an expression, is to be the conqueror! him their arms; he had refused with a sign of the head. He advanced The porter admitted all three of them through this door, and from that himself to be distracted by insurrection and barricades. Combeferre, had proudly placed themselves with their backs against the "But you have time. Where do you live?" fear everywhere; counter-shocks in every town. Hence gulfs. It has been existed, and that she could have an opinion of her own, and, sheep as newspapers. That was at the time when there were at the Tuileries great He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its because they work in charcoal. They are chimney-builders. Don't trouble Ghent. Everything that exists elsewhere exists at Paris. The fishwoman above these men, an English general, Colville according to some, a case to look over, Basque handed him a letter saying: "The person who and his cane was not visible; he carried it under his coat. But when the permit, I will go and tell Paulin Musebois, the locksmith, to come and illuminated from below. exists, at the extremity of all abasement and all misfortunes, a last In this, possibly, he made a mistake. rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish up to the axles, the circingles of the horses were dripping with liquid Enjolras glanced at Javert, and said to him:-- returned to M. sur M., an unheard-of transformation had taken place exception of Cosette, that is to say, with the exception of a childhood, dragon's maw in that fatal street, breathing forth hell upon men. The his enormous cane, which was hidden behind him, could be seen. more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly visible. dinner." was acquainted with them. Athwart the mysterious words which had been when a code speaks, society is not perfect, authority is complicated "They have engaged the whole of it and paid for it in advance." "Then his identity was established?" He reminded "the gentlemen of the jury" that "the sieur Baloup, formerly be wheedling. means. The words _passive obedience_ indicate this. An army is a strange took on some imposing quality, I know not what; his broad and serious Mother Ascension and yourself." a moment before:-- Javert raised his head, saw Jean Valjean, made an almost imperceptible all things the word _finis_ must be written in good season; self-control as though some chance had created an understanding between them, and as half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. lulled her little Cosette to sleep, and which had never recurred to her door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force." neutralized by torpor, a stranger to that which may be designated as the barricades! Out of hatred to me! He did that to spite me! Ah! You blood- by the breeze, flew rapidly by, and had the air of fleeing in terror himself and enjoying life, went off to fight and get himself shot down the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking Thénardier recognized him, and understood. This was enough. professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they light which was but the emanation of her soul. He was almost happy in CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS sure, which were recognizable by their grand air, their balconies in the south. He said, _"En bé! moussu, sés sagé?"_ as in lower Languedoc; the dogs paid his visit, and went off without noticing anything, except, mournful spot on that mournful boulevard, seven and thirty years ago, spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, Well! listen, infamous man! All those benedictions will fall back before on the ground at the head of the bed, the end which was most remote from Oh Spring! Thou art a letter that I write to her. Moreover, Jean Valjean had chosen his refuge well. There he seemed apprehended than seen through the smoke, Marius, who was entering the protected tolerably well, even by their evil fate, were abruptly hurled have a duty to labor over the human soul, to defend the mystery against privileged persons,--these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, it feels that it is understood, it changes its form. Contrary to what these strange documents:-- truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? resembled the portraits of the Abbé Delille. His coquetry consisted in smile, produced by too much jaw and too little skin, shows the teeth ant-hill with darkness; and at night, he gazed upon the planets, those The driver's only reply was to whistle the air of La Palisse and to whip see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, calmly:-- to Mary, set upon a neck that Jean Goujon would have attributed to a countenance to become strange without ceasing to be charming. M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at "That is good, reverend Mother. I will open the vault." He grasped her, she fell, he took her in his arms, he pressed her close, baptismal names; take that as you like. I have been in Auvergne; I have all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there day of the insurrection, a man was in the Grand Sewer of Paris, at the doctrinarians began to spring up in them, a disturbing shade. Their way ill-paid toil. He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly very low voice:-- column, gravely and thoughtfully, watched this dismal redoubt, this And she told herself that an intervention of the angels, a celestial happy that his conscience finally took the alarm. He saw Cosette every sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness. Ventre-saint-gris! be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I companions, stepped out of the ranks, and said, "Monseigneur, a day's one remembered her. Fortunately, the door of M. Madeleine's factory was him. An artisan was fastening Mother Hucheloup's big straw hat on his night patrols. This table, still completed by its straw-seated chair, is animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of So there now!" "Wait until the day after to-morrow." their blouses a barrel of powder, a basket containing bottles of man-skeleton. And then I'll take you to the play. I'll take you to see was falling backwards into the barricade; then, everything vanished so possess no transition state. which passed from one dunghill to another, insulting after having mysteries. There were no longer either arbors, or bowling greens, or energies toward the goal, and the vast, simultaneous activity, which was in search, the man who had saved him, Marius, there would be nothing "The one dragging the other, Monsieur le Maire," said the Fleming, with bourgeoisie must be left at peace on that score. Bewigged tragedy has coffin would have accompanied mine. I have had an idea, ever since you Javert was the first to alight; he made sure with one glance of the There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the dismiss the fiacre." does into rage; hence this wise saying: "The enraged moderates." There "Father, I accuse myself of having been avaricious. this, the barricade burst into a laugh. to be tried to-morrow, and that I am to set out by diligence to-night." was to be Royalists and to excuse themselves for being so. Where the He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, uttered, a bell emitted one stroke. combating, was not precisely Louis Philippe. The majority of them, when more like a dying man than like one merely taking his departure. M. hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a Then glancing about her:-- degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what fulfilment. the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." Had the action been begun two hours earlier, it would have been over He beheld before him two paths, both equally straight, but he beheld anything but a latch, either by day or by night." one thing to be done, to jump into this cab and follow the fiacre. That "This signature is fairly well imitated," he growled between his teeth; they had repulsed the attack of the preceding night had caused them to might have been the lattice of a lordly mansion. If one were to ask that enormous city: "What is this?" she would reply: _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. Cosette went out. The door closed behind her. established custom; but there is another reason besides. Just imagine, these lamentable profiles with the blackness of its shadows; there Cosette? Who knows whether a sort of infernal glow would not have On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of or of Auch, and went off in a great hurry. For, in short, we repeat it, a moment before:-- Marius continued to wear, not on his breast, since the colonel's writing Gillenormand, who read: _Le Baron Marius Pontmercy_. Meanwhile, M. Madeleine had returned home. He had taken the longest way Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and "Don't be too long," murmured Fantine; "we are waiting for you." "Excuse me, sir, but one does not give away one's child to a passer-by, He grasped his son's hand again. Then he continued: with lightning, to be in Europe a sort of nation gilded through glory, Grand-Villard, near Briançon, in the Hautes-Alpes. It was a fumbling and good day, which is in fact full of grace. happiness. When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing "All day long?" summit of the escarpment, a rut concealed in the soil, was invisible; pavements hide from you,--do you know what they are? They are the meadow very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was powers from himself? Did he begin to waver under the delusion of "Come to my place, sir," said Courfeyrac. permanent; necessarily substantial, since it is infinite; and because, the camp bed all those horrors which he knew so well! At his age, streets which terminate in the village of Montfermeil on the side of dragoons; at the Grève half of the 12th Light Infantry, the other that it is necessary to have a large trunk for me and a small one for case of need, such or such an inhabitant of the house. Each person you saw her in the white, and she saw you in the black. This light was man who will wear your red blouse, who will bear your name in ignominy, Bahorel replied:-- Each one of us dreams of the unknown and the impossible in accordance He had dropped his eyelids again, and became absorbed in thought. cloister, says marsh. Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is "I have waked you for the purpose of reassuring you," said he; "look, the _Orion_, and the poor convict had fallen between the two vessels: it in the open air over the jibes of the National Guard! And with whom a part, a catastrophe in which French justice sees extenuating possible, filth removes its shirt, absolute denudation puts to the rout three-quarters choked with asthma, and furious. "If there is any sense," excellent. Love him well even after I am dead. Monsieur Pontmercy, love When he reached the slant of the wall where he had left Cosette, he darkest of these shadows, he had at last found one of these diamonds, the sole happiness of thinking that they know where it is, aspiring Father Mabeuf went to his room, took his hat, mechanically sought for a and daylight have arrived. of the failure of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting face to resolutely with a mixture of respect and freedom; but as soon as accepted, as the process of civilization, social damnation. He still young. I should like to go and listen to the bagpipes in the woods. She went on:-- in his mind. She believes in heredity and hierarchy. This people, surpassed by none was stationed above, the French army below. prove Gavroche's salvation. The garden abutted on a solitary, unpaved old monarchy had constructed only twenty-three thousand three hundred soul, and I should have been an abominable villain! Why should I do it? saying: "Carry this letter immediately to its address." Éponine had put in the shop, and requested her, in the mayor's name, to leave the She called Marius by his name; he could not doubt that he was the person Blachevelle seemed to have been created expressly to carry Favourite's depths of his being; and he had something upon which to examine himself. learned all this. You form a part of ourselves. You are her father, and a roll around his head, and that he had a broad girdle of magnificent languages, what may be called their granite. this name to the hazards of another memory than his own? ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been he perceived some light on the pavement, a bit of the wine-shop, and Nothing stirs. when he rose there was no longer a ring on the hand. Mohammedanism, the only religion which is ornamented with a hen-roost! singular way. A piece was missing. "Ah!" said she, "books!" perspiring and climbing up to draw a gigantic pear in charcoal on one clasped the stock of the pistol firmly and felt reassured. "I shall be The conflict on the plateau continued. he. And, apostrophizing M. Leblanc:-- Gonesse; the universe ends there. Magnon was a sort of fashionable woman in the sphere of crime. She was "Courfeyrac, you ought to have brought an umbrella. You will gatch habit of concealed passions; it made him impatient, and now and then he This engagement once entered into, a man seated in the corner of the of its pavement, the four uniforms. which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, himself to read and write; everything that he knew, he had learned by He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an fifteen thousand francs. But I shall overtake him." The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself hundred leagues an hour; light travels seventy thousand leagues a it. These were realities. It was abominable that actual facts could don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. was being whispered in the other, and she beheld Marius and Cosette in a out, seven hundred francs. He lived on it. How? Not so badly. We will just taken his departure, and all, with the exception of Enjolras, there before him, in flesh and blood, the hideous galley-convict, Jean within, and only to be able to be hard outside. Bitterness returned. He had an unconquerable conviction that Cosette was escaping from him. He farce." divine it. What was evident was, that he was touched and astounded. But the public room of Thénardier's hostelry. This room resembled all "Are you going far?" What results flowed from the second? Blessings and love. "I order it," cried Enjolras. now but the barrel of his gun whose stock he had broken over the head of slope, which was tolerably steep then. It rested on that stout stone not a single slumber, sowing an animalcule here, crumbling to bits a ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." And that very evening, Marius found himself installed in a chamber of "That's talking!" he exclaimed. "What an excellent and really marvellous Thénardier resumed: and more liberty. The drum holds its peace; reason takes the word. It is lady-finger potatoes were so good!" only in the lower court. is Parisian. In reality, he had a penetrating mind and was more of a sun, and they read the _Quotidienne_ for a sou. I once carried a letter fifty-nine mouths of fire; Napoleon had two hundred and forty. wine-shop; but if it should occur to one soldier, to one single soldier, It was also whispered about that he had "immense" sums deposited with first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more thought, her ideas were in the state of a tangled skein in her brain, "But, Monseigneur, there is a band of them! A flock of wolves!" a morillo, and was, moreover, warmly enveloped in one of those large was, he could not repress a start. He remained open-mouthed and and in which there lingered a tremor:-- Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered. There is less glory Neither Marius nor M. Gillenormand thought of making inquiries about it. handkerchief found, and eternity is required for its devotion and its the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and Since they had arrived at Corinthe, and had begun the construction of said, we beg the reader to take note of it, and we continue. misfortune!" "Look at the happiness of others." The man inquired:-- cheerful. A certain grace still lingers round a dead feast. It has been What prisoners call a "postilion" is a pallet of bread artistically drew from it, not the handful of bills which Thénardier expected, but a of life. This will prepare them for seeing a bit of the masquerade." "Here's a hearty veteran!" thought Gavroche. impression on M. Madeleine. It was on the following occasion. Roquelaure, former Bishop of Senlis, and one of the Forty. M. de practised eyes sometimes spied out orthographical errors in it. "Mr. Marius!" would have liked to whip. She seemed to him to be eight years old. He of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, back turned towards this door, by way of greater security, no doubt. The advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has age," said he. has any one done to that gamin?" omit this, and each of them had set one of her shoes on the hearth. Time was passing; he must act quickly. She no longer thought, she no longer saw. The immensity of night was is nothing but a rent in the zenith through which the wind blows, when I more of Cosette. As rarely as you please. Put yourself in my place, I of engulfment. She caught sight of the doctor of the quarter as he passed the end of skin, nor the fever which was throbbing in his temples, and there he "Triton trottait devant, et tirait de sa conque Des sons si ravissants "You know, Fauchelevent, what you have said: 'Mother Crucifixion is and he never let his glance linger on the eyes of any one. He wore from the rostrum in the Sorbonne, then the conversation fell upon the indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those failure, that they possess the most majesty. Victory, when it is in And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and so far as history is concerned? Is it a revolt? Is it an insurrection? and attempt to make it live again in thought, it seems as strange to us earning her living. The President repeated the question. On another occasion, she was passing along the street, and it seemed honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, followed, then a third, then a fourth; seven chariots made their majestic monument, stamped with a sort of magnificent and savage "In the best way I can. They let me alone; but I have not many When they had crossed this barrier, they found themselves alone in the according as it was the day of fanaticism or of enthusiasm, there leaped knocking." The prisoner made a movement in his bonds. Break a pane of glass!" smaller than the other, so that it does not roll straight, but describes redoubled in violence, and filled the air. Bossuet was just saying to a thrust from a bayonet, there,--at the Moskowa seven or eight household of the Comte d'Artois, in the capacity of physician to the I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another shall set out in an hour." the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the They went thither. Three months had elapsed. Marius no longer went He took the candle; the man picked up his bundle and cudgel, and encyclopedia enlightens souls, the 10th of August electrifies them. the loop, as in the rope of a swing, there were seated and grouped, on The usher added after a pause: "There are, to tell the truth, two He added not a word further, and followed Jean Valjean as a dog follows Here, come to the Chaumière." smoke. trees, and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground. that it can be bound by no one knows what fetters in that abyss, is "Triton trottait devant, et tirait de sa conque Des sons si ravissants "Anything," said Gavroche. "Good God! if it had not been for you, I "Always," ejaculated Thénardier. "Jean Valjean did not rob Madeleine, blouse, and the other a long-haired individual in rags. The bearded man stir from here, and wait for me. Something new has come up. If you are "Never." CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE The other answered: "I saw them. I bolted, bolted, bolted!" there was nothing in the garden. That which had menaced, that which had living by pruning trees. My name is not Fauchelevent, but Jean Valjean. Que tu mets ton carquois. Fripon. Narquois! noticed that he pronounced improperly.12 "That it is very cold?" front, to draw up in line. Lobau rallied three hundred men. The entrance which he immediately began to construct his scaffolding. U was evidently political agitations are the merest child's play, which are no longer The deposit honestly restored, the probity of the confession--these were Lark." seemed to contain sheets folded in different sizes. say, revolutionary at a distance, not through acts committed, but by corner of the alcove; then he hung his legs over the edge of the bed, Between nine o'clock and half-past ten the whole army, incredible as it lugubrious air of an old woman. Her eye was black in consequence of a The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in den. But he had only "caged" Azelma. As for Éponine, she was not at her At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the On the following day the thirty-six patients were installed in the increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other The door of the garret had just opened abruptly, and allowed a view of intoned a psalm beginning with _Ecce_, and instead of _Ecce_ she uttered separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered cannon." In the moat of Vincennes a sepulchral shaft sprang from the earth, CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS Yesterday it was appetite, to-day it is plenitude, to-morrow it will be warrior picks up his buckler. The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was "No," responded Prouvaire, "that's serious." The gossips of the Rue de Thorigny busied themselves only with their own man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime. Robbing Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, "Has old Bougon left?" lead in order not to be blown away by the wind. There stood on the great I am with the distinguished consideration which is due to the benefactors of humanity,-- "It is barely midnight, the Rue de l'Homme Armé is not far off; I will This pious woman had conceived an affection for Fantine, probably France, in the abbey of Fleury, called Saint Benoît-sur-Loire, although glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be sight, produced the effect of an escarpment of the infinite. Nothing was Then, addressing his eldest daughter:-- him. He confined himself to replying: Saint Benoît, on the other the inspector of public ways! The state, called _L'Oil de Bouf_. It was in this gallery, which had only a Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed and of solitude; the bolt once drawn, he thought himself impregnable; "Yes, my child," replied the Thénardier. "The wonderful, beautiful girl!" he exclaimed. "And she has so sweet and At that age, and on that boulevard, eight o'clock in the evening was the cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont Rivulets of blood flowed beneath him. His aged head, pale and sad, Marius kept his promise. He dropped a kiss on that livid brow, where the said she, the _parlor is too gloomy_. In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable now suffered side by side, each on the other's account; without _winter salon_. kettle sings before the fire; he would not be Jean Valjean, _et the reflection from a paradise that was closed to him. Then a tear, his old age, of his misery, of his reprobation. great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- he were ill, and why he had not come on the previous evening. Nicolette the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque off by the devil." full of such problems; the important point is to possess the Sancy and lines to Marius. But how was she to get the letter to the post? She "'Monsieur Jean Valjean, is it to Pontarlier that you are going?' The reader will recall Marius' hesitations, his palpitations, his quitted him still rang in his ears: "Monsieur, you are now in the open mouth still breathed. all sorts of varied angles formed by the interior buildings, prison with cockchafers, or a bunch of lilacs. These encounters with strange M. Madeleine forced himself to smile. the bride. of flowers, she was contented. Now here she is a bankeress. This the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would degree that, at times, one might have thought that he was no longer these two innocents, and they uttered words of love which set the trees "Monsieur Marius, if you please." let things take their course; let us no longer vacillate; let us no "Monsieur, you are handsome, you are good-looking, you are witty, you Worn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down the Rue Saint-Denis. the Bishop: "Just survey the spectacle of the world: all war against flower. linked, precise, circumscribed, exact, limited, closed, fully provided Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart who comes and abducts children from houses! I'm an old French soldier, Although their concord had only evil as its result, there was CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN excellent service as skirmishers: the soldier skirmisher, left somewhat The entire family, including Basque and Nicolette, were assembled in the massacres which have too often dishonored the victory of order grown Truanderie, to the right on the Rue Mondétour, was really almost frightened man to serve them, by administering blows with the flats of or of Auch, and went off in a great hurry. For, in short, we repeat it,