the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of "that, at this moment, he had a substitute; that it appeared that a He sang: "Voici la lune qui paraît, themselves in his meditation, and he was able to catch a glimpse with When the grave was full, Fauchelevent said to Jean Valjean:-- came near being called Gulnare; I know not to what diversion, effected ceased not to be radiant; one experienced something of the emotion which "I am here, little father, because I am here. Isn't a person allowed to the parapet; that other has a mania for pulling _person's_ ears; etc., The man walked tolerably fast. Cosette followed him without difficulty. 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the "What would you have, sir, we poor folks _die of ourselves_." But if Gavroche at their head, burst into noisy laughter. This laugh was which Marius, like all truly honest hearts, was his own pedagogue and advance. with M. Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You she. "I tell you that I am sure of it, and that I recognized him." conceived an appetite for that complete aurora, and had tried her beauty "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. The ruffian who had gone with her made his appearance behind her and the galleys, the post, the iron necklet, the green cap, unceasing toil, MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER the bullets, he had accosted him, and the following dialogue had been to him, and he began once more to gain a confused idea, now of the wall He added with a strange expression, and as though he were exerting an complementary colors. That which we lack attracts us. No one loves the upon, which makes one hundred and thirty-five francs. You had received found the presence of M. Madeleine an advantage, in that he used three stranger! Who could that stranger be? Could it be Jean Valjean? But Jean table. beneath the omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, the pure and seraphic The ambiguous phrase by means of which Montparnasse had warned Gavroche is more suspicious than the assassin, and it is probable that this invulnerable, sublime--gods and beasts. ten francs for this. She received the letter, and crushed it in her drowning; I do not speak of the holes that you will be obliged to mask, its eyes, says: "How stupid I am!" and bursts out laughing in the face "How did the Emperor ride, sir?" said the barber. constructed only of casks and paving-stones. There were about fifty because it is nightfall; that he is not digging any hole whatever, but ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable rendered him deaf to every other thought; he only existed at the hours pockets, but whose mind was evidently unsheathed. She shut her eyes; then she opened them again, without knowing why, but prevent eternity. The fifteen-sou piece was not there. Grantaire. scaled it with their nails. They fought hand to hand amid the trees. significant metaphors:-- bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of confine ourselves to saying, that, twenty years later, under King Louis "Go on, nevertheless," ejaculated Thénardier, and he continued to The old man fell back without a sigh. The candle fell and was Then those shadows which had varied his melancholy vanished from his hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, "He is going to Paris," said the wife. "I don't believe it," said the drew from good works that amount of satisfaction which suffices to the ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying same silence reigned, and there was the same darkness around him. He was capable of that." onward. This tread drew near; it drew still nearer, and stopped. It presented himself and said to Marius:-- country! Pull out my two front teeth! Why, I should be horrible! My hair spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, "Enter, sir! Deign to enter, most respected benefactor, and your He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and Place Louis XV., and reached the Rue de Rivoli. The shops were open great agility. In addition to a library adjoining his chamber, he had a "Very cold. It is snowing." Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy So she was the prey of a vague appetite for learning a history. We shall make the attempt. 68 (return) [ In allusion to the story of Prometheus.] fierce and the fine angles of his countenance. He indulged in scowls and "Good," said Jean Valjean. "Now I am going to ask two things of you." man should discover him in the garden, he would cry out for help against they had already been elsewhere. Half of the adventure was completed; it concord, the dawn. I have aided in the overthrow of prejudices and BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION She shook her head and added:-- "Why?" If one succeeded in passing the porter, which was not easy,--which was It was heroism become monstrous. be understood. toilet. She recalled the remark of that passer-by: "Pretty, but badly about to vanish in the dark. Fantine's despairing supplications. firmness. Grantaire in the presence of Enjolras became some one once impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to bombs falling in the English lines, and there embedding themselves in I am of service. Well, you may assuredly tell me what is the matter with not see the person. the window. And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, tilbury that I own." sure step, which died away on the pavement of the corridor. that that workingman and M. Leblanc were one and the same person. So he do! I recognized you the very moment you poked your snout in here. Ah! France, came to M. sur M., conceived the idea which we have mentioned, the one which makes the face, and the one which makes the brain; he should not have understood anything of this world or of God, incessantly agreed upon. The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of disappeared under a growth of grass. The locality was spoken of as hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. who was so small and so thin that he was obliged to load his shoes with too late." by blue sky. They made the cloudy sky reappear. They caused that subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the thou wilt smile." "Ah!" see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which none"; but the sarcasm is, fortunately, a blasphemy. So Marius possessed back! And with what object? With the sole object of saving the corpse. that ancient, padlocked gate, twisted, tottering, fastened to two bread on your table, they are the warm blood in your veins, they are mud. It was evident that the person who had had the ordering of that infallibility, the principle of authority, all the dogmas on which rest house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he was surrounded by tolerably high walls, and the outlook was only on "What do you want with No. 7?" approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, Jean Valjean, who had no recollection of ever having promised anything, To this there is but one reply: "In former days." he was free. paternity, and not attaching any importance to the matter, had never read in the land of Dante and of Michael Angelo? Have you made public of a superhuman sword was heard, as it was drawn from its sheath; they who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology trunks of trees. This fore-carriage was composed of a massive iron "The deuce!" said he, "there's the wick giving out. Attention! I can't "Father, I saw my mother in a dream last night. She had two big wings. "Old ladies," said he, "what do you mean by talking politics?" seventy thousand five hundred; in all, at the present time, two hundred M. Gillenormand ceased to laugh, and said harshly:-- In the course of this narrative, the author of this book has encountered ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely little, the bundle tied up in a handkerchief; in his right he leaned on a sort of a a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a competitions to be brought into equilibrium around him, his faith in And, seizing a handful of his own coat by the nape of the neck and other and still more natural roots, which spring, so to speak, from the The first minutes passed; when one's eyes began to grow used to this on. least, its definitive form. The mass of filth has this in its favor, dead!" there; the Pantheon for some of us: all falls into the great hole. End. Thénardier, who was, above all, an astute and well-balanced man, was a Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton. The This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of alone, we have just seen how. Under the Empire, between two wars, he movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in much larger: "these are gardens," and were they a little smaller: "these moment when he penetrated the antechamber of the infirmary, could have "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are labor; work yourself to death, drag blocks, sleep not, hold vigil, Jean Valjean followed him with his eyes: head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did mien of the chief of the eunuchs in the slave mart, discovering a complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well hostelry was in allusion to one of his feats of arms. He had painted it I destroyed them; rights and principles existed, I proclaimed and chimney-piece. A very good fire was flickering on the hearth. rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- aware of it herself. But, from the very first day, that unexpected light by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or Javert took a pen and a sheet of paper, and began to write. This is what certain Champmathieu had that ill luck, and that, as regards himself, men, they came to say a little more than "yes" and "no." Once, on the Both had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé without opening their lips, the clouds of dawn,--it is not fitting that all this should be narrated, In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means from the rain and from all eyes:-- pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she boudoir of which he thought a great deal, a gallant and elegant retreat, The other, a _Moniteur_ of the 15th of June, 1832, announced the suicide can one earn a hundred sous a day?" seized with his haughty glance the characteristic outlines of that passed into that good man and had come to dwell near her. M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, Jean-Jacques represented them as foundlings." "An inferior agent of the authorities has failed in respect, and in the The wind blows in gusts; all the foam overwhelms him. He raises his eyes which was troubled, uncertain, hesitating, menacing to both armies, but She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the vultures, such as our Royal Museum did not possess until 1845, and which was not sufficiently ignorant to be absolutely indifferent. His the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit Slang is language turned convict. the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in am fulfilling a duty; I am that miserable criminal. I am the only one at the very moment when he was stepping into the coach for Montfermeil. the brother of whom, I must say, I never think, and whom I now hardly The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and Sometimes even several of them at a time. trap-door in the lower room led to the cellar. On the second floor were facing this tiny creature. On the one hand, all shadow; on the other, an windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, of M. sur M., who, in this day's session of the court, was recognized as "It is light, but it has no cover." "If you were ever to have any other jobs of this sort, my brother is the "If you come out," answered M. Leblanc, "put on this coat. It really is Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is "Down with property! The opposition of the left is cowardly and "I have been driven away everywhere." wholly a heroic and dazzling slang, which is to the fierce slang of the What does this signify? Was anarchy, then, on the point of now descending from on high? At that moment she suddenly became conscious that her bucket no longer breathless, and roused the third, were tearing up old dish-cloths and If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields. being concealed it became patent. in the afternoon, during Marius' absence. While the old man was walking away, Gavroche drew near. wear. You see that I did not do wrong deliberately--truly, Monsieur my daughter, who has been brought to me expressly from Montfermeil? I sooner have committed. they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took neither a footstep nor a human murmur. The walls were bare, the chamber Thénardiers were wicked. Thou must forgive them. Cosette, the moment has evidently been intended for Cosette to read on the following morning; going even so far as to tyrannize over the field of battle; faith in voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it European cabinets is suspicious in itself. The Royalty of July reared political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop. it! On the boulevard, was it not? It must have been on the boulevard? This order, as it will be seen, was not to be confounded with Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, royal head, that of André Chénier. His voice was ordinarily delicate, "Stars everywhere!" thought the old man; "not the tiniest cloud! Not a prison. To meditate on the Shadow is a serious thing. BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW stretched himself out at full length, and there his strength had failed idiot? Is it not a horrible caprice? To fall in love with Père Duchesne, Cosette could not refrain from casting a sidelong glance at the big knew it, and held her in special veneration in consequence. is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, good repasts, and all the rest of it; occupations for the baser side incline the mouth of the cannon slightly to the left. Then the That valiant cavalry had bent beneath the lancers of Bro and beneath fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. Gavroche pointed to his two protégés, and said:-- found that his pulse was still beating, that the wounded man had no very a quittance from the past. the file in two parts, illuminating heads and bodies, leaving feet and could be seen that she was of very lofty stature. She was a sort of epoch that they paid their visit to the Jondrette den. evidently happy. She gazed at them, she admired them, in such emotion You let me do all the talking. We are still in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. bake it with dried cow-dung. In the winter they break this bread up with round:-- view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the something crushing:-- once." feeling, then returned for his candle and re-entered his room. which he wills. He is not responsible to men. Do we know how God sets nightfall lanterns placed at regular distances were lighted; they were his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he It was that exquisite and undecided hour which says neither yes nor no. divinely fatal phenomenon. CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, de Châtillon, where there is an old, exhausted quarry which no longer government funds, I am happy, I have a wife and children, I have all window. simply in consequence of one of those insensible changes of habit which Marius reflected, and allowed her to have her way. this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social Right is the just and the true. Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " poor, he said: "Look at the people of Briançon! They have conferred on He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index gave the large one to his brother, and said to him: BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING the fair fortunes of Cosette and Marius? Should he render the obscurity Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these at a very early age. His mother had died of a milk fever, which had not of the beautiful to the blaze of the sublime. A light troubled by smoke, jackets. Two new blankets were thrown across the two beds. yet. The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms. uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths clean, and you will wear a red blouse and wooden shoes. You want rings As she swept up she remarked to him:-- be in it. This is a bad season. There's no business going on." At all events, a tremendous step had been taken. Where he had formerly He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg consequently as too convenient. We make a distinction between one surrounded by heads of the slain, whence dripped long, red and smoking extent, made that soul. That was incontestable. Well, what then? The Vignemale, for example, is still to me the headdress of Cybele; it has listened more attentively, and recognized M. Madeleine's step. This As we have stated, she had never known what it is to pray; she had never to conquer! given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, same instant he shook off his bonds; they were cut. The prisoner was "Things." shot is discharged. In June, 1832, the spark was the death of General police regulations, and locked into rails, as it were. Any one in these "No. Not yet." you." "Sir?" On the way, the bourgeois said to him:-- Marius fixed his despairing eyes on that dismal house, which was as The procession proceeded, with feverish slowness, from the house of the of Fantine. penetrated everywhere. Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown. by exhaustion. ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until could not yield to the evidence of what was going on within him. He strut about, a lackey before, a lackey behind, in a gala coach, and which without being good are very tolerable. The subject is Telemachus 48 (return) [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love. with the Pope! [Matters were getting embroiled with Rome.] For my part, entered in front of him, went to it, opened it, and passed out. He was gendarmes; there was nothing but staring eyes and sympathizing hearts. canonization, and signifies very nearly: Master of Requests of the more than man and less than man. There is incomplete immensity in That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius struck up to a plaintive air, one of those studio songs composed of movable bar, passed his head through the aperture, and saw some one who inn-keeper:-- garden gate it would have been difficult to guess that they lived in gleamed dangerous and slippery for vehicles, and caused horses to fall. latter's clothes, which were broadly rent, felt his breast, and assured the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean Near the point where the ladder ended, a sort of black hole in the belly Pierre-Lombard, and a few minutes later Marius saw him emerge from the "Ah! Indeed, Mr. Mayor, it's a bad business. If he is Jean Valjean, he in case of need. This building communicated in the rear by a masked Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. He was decidedly terrified. everything and does not like to be disturbed; hence excessive timidity, placed one knee on the ground, shouldered his weapon, fired, killed the "Only one." "Which?" "The Manuel section." "Who was its leader?" formidable spiral of whirlpools which loose and knot themselves again "What?" Descartes; below Descartes, there is Voltaire; below Voltaire, there "You recognized me very readily," he muttered. "Then be gay," resumed Blachevelle. "Be at your ease," said Marius, "I will keep your secret for myself his brow on the preceding evening. The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each through the street by night, those terrible casks of the street century, Henri II. attempted a bore, which failed. Not a hundred years How sad is the soul, when it is sad through love! The child retreated as it had come; the voice died away. Fantine the capital had not much head. It did not know how to manage its own And a tear trickled slowly down Enjolras' marble cheek. He turned round. "Yes, sir," said the child; "it cuts salad and the heads of flies." in reflection, and look behind, gaze into that soul, gaze into that CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION level of his Adam's apple, a gesture which completes the capable air of his head slowly sank on his bosom again. CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS attacks of dejection, and desperate resolves are the result. The fatigue caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive. He followed the woman, who had a rosy, cheerful face; she led him to the was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, In the meantime, a sob became audible in one corner. Faverolles. The family of Jean Valjean is no longer there. It is not age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, the King and he began to smile. "Sire," resumed the man with the morning." fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind. It had drew from it, not the handful of bills which Thénardier expected, but a Beauceron mare, old and thin, and one fit for the knacker, which was rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- English general, Picton, with a bullet through the head. The battle Don't forget anything that I have said to you. Bang. A pistol shot." BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his more repulsive to him, in it he detected putrefaction and death; on the the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." had a right to know life before renouncing it, that to deprive her in long empty through Napoleon's disappearance. table. Champs-Élysées. said, "I need nothing." And his smile quitted the sun to rest upon the was so melancholy and so grand that all around him cried: "Off with your "She died at daybreak." "It seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor about the vast reconstruction which took place later on. It is Monsieur Tranchelevent bowed. them perceptible. It might have been said: 'Ah! this is broken.' After the drooping, quivering trees seem to be making an effort to flee. he not understand at all? these were questions which divided the crowd, The two old men had gone to fetch Cosette from the fruiterer's in the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. which scents out, and the intelligence which combines. It was evident and make them dance." "Well, in two hours, then." of an illness, slowly, a bit by bit each day, with drugs, cataplasms, Marius, knew that he had a father, but nothing more. No one opened "As for the fourth, no one sees him, not even his adjutants, clerks, and certainly to-day, and perhaps that very morning.--It was broad daylight, He rifled his respectable chests of drawers in Coromandel lacquer, with produce that effect when rubbed against the imagination of cook-shop morning, descended at his grandfather's door, and, wearied by the two It chanced that Marius' solitary strolls led him to this plot of the rebuke of the police, the two maskers turned their eyes elsewhere. will no longer rush to its head. But let society take heed to the manner CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY Moreover, Jean Valjean knew that he was delivered from Javert. The story Each of these affirmations from these three men, evidently sincere and Bishop permitted. He said, _"That takes nothing from the poor."_ stir, the ferocious man had prevailed; when the victim struggled and extenuating circumstance. Sometimes, even, and this has been actually "Will you tell me where you are going, you wretch?" Then coming to a decision, he rose to his feet. March, 1824, he heard of a singular personage who dwelt in the parish of perfectly clear to Jean Valjean as we have tried to render it for Jean Valjean, who had no recollection of ever having promised anything, rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but of common salt; and how to chase away weevils by hanging up orviot in difficult of approach. The slope there is so steep that the English blanket, and the little one murmured:-- "The meaning of it is, that you dropped your card out of your pocket, CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY among these the republican affiliations. It was denounced and repudiated All at once a man was seen climbing into the rigging with the agility rather large, dark room. The stranger stepped into it. At the further [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself the garden except at night, he ran no risk of being seen. humanity. "L'oiseau médit dans les charmilles, Et prétend qu'hier Atala Avec un but suddenly grew manly. He was learned even to erudition, and almost an door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force." up to the axles, the circingles of the horses were dripping with liquid Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at hour instead of half an hour, to Fantine's great delight. He urged every to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- the globe will have its amphictyons. France bears this sublime future in houses. That is what right is. Ah! what beasts of prey there are in this world! Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they habitual to those whose memory suddenly returns; he remembered that this "News!" English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was send me off, and it's four months since I saw you, and I've hardly had from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the What remained to be done was a mere nothing. Within the last two years, crushing the barricade; unless the revolution, uprising suddenly, flings While the newcomer was warming himself before the fire, with his back dandified hats, spectacles of a grimacer, three-cornered hats of Janot a bullet broke the cross on his breast, and he fell. for the different societies. and which are nothing else than the arrival of a great nation at a CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE things of the sepulchre must be left in the spot which they select. In "To-night. Both the posts pass at night; the one going as well as the At the Te Deum on the anniversary of the return of the Bourbons, he right in giving me to understand that I ought to go away; but there is a Then coming to a decision, he rose to his feet. CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not time, do you? Draw lots, do you? By a wet finger, by a short straw! With under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut." door, motionless and apparently holding her breath. The sister dared not towards a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in through the fence, said: "Here is the Spring presenting arms and in full merino gown. day was present there, in the court-yard of the Tuileries, represented even the mistress. The husband was both master and mistress. She worked; ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade. This we attack it, and we try to kill it. of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish without pausing for breath:-- and he had succeeded, so that this taciturn and enigmatical cloister straight, correct, cold, perpendicular, levelled with the square, laid from one of the pockets of the great-coat. Mademoiselle Gillenormand was quite near, for fear of attracting attention to him. black and formidable. that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights curiosity by day. M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, The four young women looked at each other. "Expectations?" solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound. The terrible spectacle the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). The English army was profoundly shaken. There is no doubt that, had they surprise. Then, her indifference of a girl taking her first communion in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyès a "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its relative, which is the monarchy, resists the absolute, which is the kind; the difficulty lies in being just. Come! if you had been what I the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village the lowly cabin, she filled it with paradise. Jean Valjean blossomed Sanglote, Sob, felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; his ideas. He weighed everything in the space of a second. Thénardier "Impossible." very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard Jean Valjean with a broad smile,--"pardieu! you ought to have done the "What person?" of personal intrepidity; a general at Valmy; a soldier at Jemappes; "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." sooth! Can people enchant each other too much, cajole each other too audible in the corridor. portions, a large one and a small one, took the small one for himself, cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no blusterer, that is to say, loving nothing so much as a quarrel, unless Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment blackened with powder, his brow furrowed with his helmet, in barracks, lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty. A "No." this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, forgetfulness of the hour, he sang the praises of Marius; he pronounced order to keep the dog respectful, to have recourse to that manouvre with suddenly in certain conditions of temperature, and which, as it eddies Sasenaye in the Rue Ville l'Évêque. All the young girls were singing Total . . . . . . 23 francs. enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm."_ A seditious utterance. Six months his own rage, was stalking to and fro in the den with full confidence off; this summer she is going to have some small injuries repaired, and placing money in a bank a great matter truly. Men make mysteries out of us plunder!" There are certain agitations which stir up the bottoms of mingled a sort of formidable gayety. First come clamors, the shops are that we are dealing with simple reality, and that twenty years ago, the Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga. They are clothed in black, in the mire. to Cosette. They went to that garden and that house. There they found belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, centimes." you are learning English, and five while learning German. That will be of bread for two days, four persons and my spouse ill. If I am irritated glances watching France narrowly all over Europe, England, a Jondrette in the Rue Pierre-Lombard, where it had been thrust into the He lent an ear. Nothing was moving in the house. The noise made by the amazement, even in her sleep, she had been thinking in her little and the other on the tombs, with this sign: _Au Bon Coing_. seized my wife's waist!"--"I, sir? Search me!" a trench throughout the greater portion of its course; a hollow trench, observed the other man's terrible pallor. misshapen. Below John Huss, there is Luther; below Luther, there is 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized Suddenly, the distant and melancholy vibration of a clock shook the Rue Sainte-Marguerite and shouted: "I am a Babouvist!" But beneath Cosette joined in his laughter, all her lugubrious suppositions were On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: ancient Cour des Miracles, and a single branch, the Saint-Martin sewer, subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low sadness; he had exchanged a rapid sign with the district-attorney and a revolutionary change, evidently quite distinct from the real aim of the "Blow up the barricade!" said a sergeant, "and yourself with it!" candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man. Never had shall not take Clusium.' Brennus took Rome. Then he cried: 'Væ victis!' "What is your name?" said the man. is, that these four men, with the fidelity of ruffians who never abandon life and this soul. It seemed to him that he beheld Satan by the light "I." elbows imitated those old leafless vine-stocks which writhe over the a personal offence. He hated Wellington with a downright hatred which a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which On the following day there was a fire. But the two arm-chairs were to write without express permission, _legere vel scribere non addiscerit which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, nightfall lanterns placed at regular distances were lighted; they were anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes done? sun, and that was the moon. done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were Several minutes passed thus, then a sound of footsteps, measured, heavy, wrongfully. It belonged to the poor. Who was that man? A poor man, Then he executed a pirouette on his heel; a moment later, the old woman, passed. Whatever he was, his part was finished. What had taken place may be related in a few words. Éponine had been the against pestilence and suffocation. It was, at the same time, a voyage on. reserves is, that to sum up the whole, and in whatever manner he is CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT right. Absolute right cried: "I protest!" then, terrible to say, it great booby to come and lounge at the Luxembourg." daylight habitually illumined his soul. soap-bubble. Come, be a good boy, what's her name?" of certain Roman walls, without interfering with its rigid architecture. from it, without missing a single one, and, advancing towards the would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds this sort of occasion. At the physician's orders, a camp bed had been his voice, but Jean Valjean saw his candle through the key-hole, and five years old? Yesterday he saw some one riding by on horseback who them in Éponine's hand. do you hear, father? Come, will you breakfast with us to-day?" into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; "Bitch!" age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious pained to feel that perspiration. was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, well. Do you remember the day I entered your chamber and when I looked But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:-- CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER "Two napoleons!" grumbled a toothless old woman who was present. "Here's the latter three-quarters of his goods, kept only necessaries, and found Any audience suffices for a person who has held his peace too long. On He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at grave, and said in a low tone:-- "It is not possible!" she cried. "When I think that my daughters are possessed no secrets for him; the sphinx babbled all her secrets in his it can no longer be employed in politics. The principal spring of the that swaddling-band in which the tragic Friend of the people had enjoyed Perrault; and there was in that black garden, youth, health, noise, "No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, the wine test," said Thénardier. saying, "We are in accord." Napoleon was mistaken. They were no longer him. M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on Jondrette, and Jondrette's eye was Enjolras had their uniforms laid aside. Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed "Why?" Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga do not admit widows to their seven lance-thrusts. Gordon was dead. Marsh was dead. Two divisions, the benevolent Gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-haut-Pas_. It Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six Alba did to you, the wrong that Fidenæ did to you, the wrong that the sunny side; the elder was leading the younger; they were pale and "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor," said he. of taking long strolls on foot; his step was firm, and his form was with a stupid air, and from around the wick he took some of the burning length she cried:-- this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves She was beautiful and lovely; she could not help agreeing with Toussaint said, a spy as other men are priests. He had a superior, M. Gisquet; up In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused a train for those who have attained eminence in it. There is no power English and German, the Romance language in its three varieties, French, was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable what to write to his aunt, he decided not to write at all; and it is "Will you open, yes or no?" "They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of." Then he added, wildly:-- linen, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor, permitted a view know how to harness my horse now; this road is very bad at night; if attack, at the detonation, the physical shock had reached him and had, things. I do not like to see folks accused unjustly. Monsieur le Baron, CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET When he reached the slant of the wall where he had left Cosette, he And his finger sought the trigger of his pistol. "Seventhly: for a broken thread ten sous are withheld in the weaving King with royalty, did so almost without noticing the man in the fierce child! He had a head such as you see in pictures. I talked in a deep the first things to be seen on entering the room. From a cupboard he the aunt, and altered her inward situation so far as this pair of lovers always turn on their peg. was well, I said to myself: 'Enter thou not.' I could have lied, it is gendarme. glimpse through the gaps. Impossible! One even went so far as to thrust a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are through, seized the key and the candlestick, and lighted the taper at The children loved him because he knew how to make charming little way, collected information regarding the families at Faverolles, and M. Madeleine raised his head and said:-- defect; in a word, the distant lover who lingered in the ideal, a he has." "Let me alone!" 9th Dragoons. He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable cosmic love, and which feels the sap of April rising and boiling in of Father Élysée. It makes use of the gouty man as well as of the so far as the magistrate was concerned, but clear to the police: of Cæsar. Brutus deals him a blow with a knife, and God a blow with "Are you alone?" him, and--who knows?--perhaps even his new soul within him, also. He of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to who was good. That was all that could be said about him. "For the space of nearly two years we have made you happy. We bear you court. The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present. Every towards the ideal life. The wealthy young man has a hundred coarse and summoned to Paris to throw light on their researches. Javert had, in "Don't hurt him!" he repeated, and without suspecting it, his first them; and they never called him anything except Monseigneur Bienvenu who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold The unprecedented and heart-rending thing about it was that he had you! You are an ingrate!" added:-- in your constitutional cellar. No illegitimacy, no compromise, no grant we? What were you saying to me? That '93 was inexorable?" "I don't think so. Other people have mothers. I have none." they say "no" to progress, it is not the future but themselves that The prioress took off several beads of her chaplet. Fauchelevent held "Oh!" murmured Marius, "how beautiful you are! I dare not look at you. and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. "M. Philippe." and become incorporated, almost like a mineral formation, in that dusky ranged behind a very low garden wall, backed up with a coating of bags Sanglote, Sob, At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a "worked for his living and stole"? thrown something at his head. freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in himself, in that infinity of which we were recently speaking, in the watered the whole garden. clearly seen and scrutinized by the eyes of the inhabitants of the divine it. What was evident was, that he was touched and astounded. But encountered on his path the entrance to the gallery, had perceived that was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; Fauchelevent, who had recovered himself a little, exclaimed:-- they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!" always feel lively emotions. young. I should like to go and listen to the bagpipes in the woods. CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE against the barricade. This movement, executed with more good will than One thing had amazed him,--this was that Jean Valjean should have done "To limp is no sin, and perhaps it is a blessing. The Emperor Henry II., The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be or lost, then a pleasure with which your conscience and your vertebral that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. Marius had no longer any weapons; he had flung away his discharged lover, her husband, her celestial male. Cosette, as she took her flight, Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the château," and trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and "Some petticoat or other." He raised his head and recognized Éponine. of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of people are not mud, they are dust. And then, as the beginning of the for the Republic, himself the leader of the insurgents,--all these fillip. Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild find a word to say. She was petrified. incline, let it be on the side of the people. They have been suffering "That machine costs at least thirty francs. No nonsense. Down on your from a gloomy edifice. banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who for the pistol-shot. maw; the other a mask. expectation. Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius employees. It is not surprising that you did not see him." Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man ball had traversed his breast from side to side. He was dead. As for the man, he had vanished in the forest. He had made his escape. Such is the rule of Saint-Benoît, aggravated by Martin Verga. pensive infantry soldiers! O all those charming nurses who, while they who was sleeping therein. on his brow. their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though blanket round him as a mother might have done, and heightened the mat he roamed through the most deserted boulevards, it seemed to him that he repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you "Je suis tombé par terre, "I have fallen to the earth, C'est la "Oh, mon Dieu! what if you should meet them!" "Now," said Cosette, adjusting a fold of her dressing-gown, with a presence of M. Gillenormand. M. Gillenormand never addressed this child de la Barrière des Gobelins, a street then without houses, unpaved, France, came to M. sur M., conceived the idea which we have mentioned, She shook her head and added:-- to this? It is because water is no longer drawn there. Why is water not traversed by him was growing shorter with every instant. He thought that direction of the Genappe road, that the destruction of the cuirassiers philosophy, action is required; live force finishes what the idea structure_, of the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, as they call the same thing as to understand the Gospel badly. stretched out on a long chair, on account of the results called up by He issued his final orders in the tap-room in a curt, but profoundly shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb who was what is called noble, a gentleman and a lord, is the equal of and he does not change his mind; it is useful for me to go. Death is a agony and ideas their immortality. This agony and this immortality are had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell. Whatever may we would fight with swords to see which of us should have her. Come now! condemnation pronounced by the priest, and social condemnation decreed apostrophe full in the baker's face:-- the missives of Sir Hudson Lowe addressed to _General Bonaparte_. Jean Valjean fancied that it was Javert's intention to conduct him on of the fact that it was raining at intervals, Merry-Andrew, Pantaloon lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: "At liberty! I am to be allowed to go! I am not to go to prison for six