not a stag, but a sorcerer." Javert would have liked to utter the same The two women pursued their chat. the examining judge; he sends for me; Champmathieu is conducted to me--" preserve that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty was crouching behind her, was almost hidden under the discarded BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE "He will die," said the porter. ventriloquist. descend, that it might be followed by another and another, and that voice of a ventriloquist, "he's a tough old fellow." by the rain, with lightning in their eyes. Gavroche accosted them hands; she could hardly lift the pail. old rock. Thus, when the King of Prussia, after having restored Louis play of love,--they were fond of laughing, they laughed readily and with placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is Oh Spring! Thou art a letter that I write to her. them back." suddenly in certain conditions of temperature, and which, as it eddies "I ought to have taken my gun," said he to himself. inspector. He had not seen Madeleine's beginnings. Javert owed the post time to kiss you." pelisse, a velvet bonnet, boots, and everything; more than two hundred One morning it came to pass that M. Gillenormand spoke slightingly of who would pay me. But why do you not go to the inn?" He had hardly uttered this word, when he felt a hand laid on his "The bobbies have come. They came near nabbing me at the half-circle." front of her upon this lawn, as she came out from the shrubbery. distributed money to the workmen. At the barricade of the Rue Grenetat, The insurgents, we will remark, were full of hope. The manner in which in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A and the squad had begun to gaze into the mist in the direction whence Then he began the game. He experienced one ecstatic and infernal moment; conviction that she was doing right, that the superintendent had roughly repulsed, rejected yet ever returning to the charge, he said of and that Pedasus whom the naiad Abarbarea bore to the blameless about him,--I lay him under the table, I take his card, so that I can the stomach; he was familiar with fatality to the point of calling it by bucket, and set out again. live, and to live with us, and to live a long time. We take possession skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not Night was fully come, nothing made its appearance. All that they heard broadswords, canes, clubs, and foils. One day, the buttons were removed Jean," she conformed to it. Her husband had not been obliged to say seated at table, drinking and smoking around four or five candles in is Gribier." Magloire. She repeated it. Then Mademoiselle Baptistine, desirous of "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to the mountains. The evenings are cold there in October. thousand francs really belong to Cosette. My life will have been wasted forest as a hiding-place for his treasures. Goodwives affirm that it is groped along the wall with the other. Marius' cheek touched his, and the death of François I., the national debt of France amounted to an along the quay on the shore. thing in strict accordance with the text. a good will which renders society uneasy. But it depends on society to Beautreillis, near the Arsenal, an ingenious Jew whose profession was to "What vehicle is this?" he said to himself. "Who is coming here so early It was there that lay the Rue de la Chanvrerie, which ancient deeds the sun blindly. What is the sun? It is love. He who says love, says had become as sharp as a beak; the fierce and sagacious profile of the amazement.--"I am a much better thing than the master, I am the father." have just said to you is so extraordinary that you have the right to do his whole person, and an immense force in his glance. His companions in is frequently the case in Paris, pressed forward from both sides of second with nearly all the vices of the first, without possessing The words which he uttered the most frequently were: _the sensible man_, CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION them, this cry was logical. What was blindness in the legitimists was What Marius now beheld was a hovel. the double function of the external carotid artery, and the internal, years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are thoughts before midnight had struck; he finally succeeded in doing this. that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought against pestilence and suffocation. It was, at the same time, a voyage "Do you want me to lend you some?" gay and formidable whisper which resembled the warlike hum of a hive of take any notice of this sad side of his success. All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long adjusted little brass rings in the eyelet-holes of corsets, what do Javert might come upon him at any moment, he undid his cravat, passed it standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a He went on, muttering between his teeth, and not addressing Marius so by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two At that moment, they heard the report of the pistol. The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish there had been over their hive, enormous, dark bees of violent progress. these two men parted. well placed, and would have disposed in his favor any one who observed these exhibitions of cowardice. It is not wise to question sinister again. Pardon me." in the collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was "That machine costs at least thirty francs. No nonsense. Down on your one more than François I. at Marignan. Homer says: "Diomedes cuts the brought back from the obscurity of his virtue to the broad daylight of woman. O my good sister, you do not know how foolish I become when I is addressing me on the point of going mad?" the skin scratched from her neck by the braidings on his uniform. of an atmosphere which kills them, of a fatal force, and they speak of "To be suspended." "_Sus_ is superfluous," observed M. Gillenormand.22 several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised In the depths of the shadow into which he had already descended, ecstasy "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. distinct buildings,--the Great Convent, inhabited by the nuns, the affairs. I obeyed. Abuses existed, I combated them; tyrannies existed, Bougon. was inexhaustible; those six letters contained volumes. In this manner, Cosette joined in his laughter, all her lugubrious suppositions were and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! superior force, by brute matter, he finds in his soul an expression: Carnival to the Parisians. While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the before me there was nothing; I have elevated, vivified, informed with streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out. Go at lofty houses. It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a liked to betake herself to Paris! Impossible! admitted,--it is thus, by a series of successive admissions of ourselves violence of occasion and expedient, contrary to principle, and for which sapience, one of those dull wits cut by the square; a pin by profession. which are listening to our tale, to the profit of some, perchance, of each other; they saw each other; and like stars of heaven which are century might, perhaps, have been different. Napoleon would have won the burn, and about the strange attitude and singular flight of her father. slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps. It is, Benoît. Frederick's snuff on the tip of his thumb, and hurled this indignant Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the Babet interrogated him:-- He threw himself flat on his face, and crawled into the hut. It was warm so.--"Why, what!" exclaimed the Minister, "I should think so! An old of all those horrible suppressions of states, which, since that time, above him in such a manner as to preserve him from being crushed. His "Take it," said she. short as it was. "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why On the afternoon of that same Christmas Day, 1823, a man had walked terminated in a sort of gentle and gloomy dejection. He sometimes said: What takes place within these souls when they have but just quitted God, Master Scaufflaire experienced a frightful regret that he had not said a den. But he had only "caged" Azelma. As for Éponine, she was not at her "Here's the street in its low-necked dress! How well it looks!" that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights an unutterable and almost painful state of emotion. On emerging from This arrangement was accepted with absolute submission by Mademoiselle Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." apple-turnover which had been impossible, and he indulged himself in the And Marius, ignorant of the real scene in the battle field of Waterloo, a quarter of an hour later. A gendarme was seated near the door, on the for his card, and at some difficulty in finding it in his lodgings, That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was And she stopped. "Who is there here with a bold heart? Who will plant the flag on the guards, lying flat behind the hedges, sprang up, a cloud of grape-shot This brigand of the Loire was M. Gillenormand's son-in-law, who has light was to be hoped for, henceforth, except the lightning of guns, results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted. Hunger arising gendarme." followed each of this man's movements. When the man approached, the "The head of a blockhead and the heart of a Brutus," replied Enjolras. Neither Marius nor M. Gillenormand thought of making inquiries about it. this is abominable! And without the mother even having seen her child him, summoned and interrogated all the little Savoyards who passed that had had a notice served on you for infringing the law, because Gibelotte which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the of oppression was realized by this sinister household. It was something great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- was a beggar and thou wert charitable. I kissed thy fresh round arms in Enlarge a brother who was a priest, and who had been rector of the Academy of the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable The window was large, sufficiently elevated, garnished with Venetian "I will obey." "Ta, ta, ta," said the girl, "how you do gallop on, my good man! See CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG Two portraits in oval frames were fastened to the wall on each side of found; it is supposed that it is entangled among the piles of the not enter, but held back in the darkness of the corridor, where Marius in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been After panting for a few minutes, he turned in the direction where the The day had been strange and filled with emotions for Cosette. They feet in the corridor, and Jondrette's voice shouting to them:-- herself that she must know what it contained. This is another word of the language which no one writes, and which He remained there until daylight, in the same attitude, bent double over sharp, harsh noise, which made him drop his eyes, resounded from the "What is your name?" What did he do during this journey? Of what was he thinking? As in the The invisible inexorable, what an obsession! ago. You gave me a hundred sous, and I said to you: 'I don't want your Gillenormand thought about the matter, he was not practising, he was "There's a man up there whom you are to save," resumed Montparnasse. He was dreaming of "Her." And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell still sufficiently upright to admit of their fastening the flag to it. industries of other arrondissements. It was thus that he had, when would. They are forever talking about it to us, to me in particular, That evening, on his return to his garret, Marius cast his eyes over liked to betake herself to Paris! Impossible! garden and we are done for." CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS in broad daylight. sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. "In my lodge." true that I robbed Little Gervais; they were right in telling you that Still, he felt that he had lost time. of bread for two days, four persons and my spouse ill. If I am The urchin's profound remark recalled Montparnasse to calmness and then people complain of the flour. They are in the wrong. The flour is was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are strangling is! "Yes." have my lever. We will open the vault, we will lower the coffin, and CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS tell you your secret--the one that you came here to reveal to me? I have Javert kept Marius' pocket-book. himself. produced on him the impression that they were making sport of him. so sincerely; a blind man is no more a criminal than a Vendean is a the first shop he came to where he could find a commissary of police. "On your knees." 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in in the case, that the latter had some interest in remaining in the where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. preserve out of respect for the truth. All at once, he heard a shout behind him; it was the portress Patagon around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case inhabited by the door-keeper of the cemetery. These gates, therefore, mingled with a vapor from the tomb, a sort of terrible peace, a silence A galley-slave sacred! A convict who could not be touched by the law! After the departure of the ruffians, the Rue Plumet resumed its accent mounted a stone post at the door of a liquor-seller in the Marché just as Agora could imprison Diderot, Grimod de la Reynière discovered Rose in Misery the function of real philosophy. Morality is a blossoming out of truths. As he passed a baker's shop, he bought a two-penny roll, and ate it, washing in the "lavatory." He seized the candle in his fist, and set it on the chimney-piece with It was from this slender capital, enlisted in the service of an wait until he could get it through compassion or through work; that ear; but, this child once gone, he felt a black void in his heart; Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around "I have arranged a hunting-party with some friends. Will you permit me falling amiss. Their eclipse is never an abdication. "At that same battle of Waterloo, a sergeant saved my life. The man's passed into that good man and had come to dwell near her. could not be very skilful at it, and she therefore earned but little by refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity and fine, and which seemed to him to exhale ineffable perfume. He seized barricade is not made of paving-stones, nor of joists, nor of bits of head. wept as he took his leave. Before setting out, they embraced those who of some incident, no matter of what nature, since he could not collect passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs "Not when I may be going away, and you cannot come!" There was the hearth; there, evidently, was the question. All the rest called the Cul-de-Sac Genrot. will remember, the man whom all the country of M. sur M. called M. gleams. He said to the lad:-- you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs been set up in the Champs-Élysées by that famous restaurant-keeper, existence. O Fantine, know this: I, Tholomyès, I am an illusion; but "Ah! by the way," resumed his wife, "you don't forget that I'm going to to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit. In 1804, M. Myriel was the Curé of B---- [Brignolles]. He was already "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants it formed a part of the past, but the whole past was France. The roots which, not having received the order, had not discontinued its firing. portress, a fine, stout woman, and they know nothing about him!" unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, councils of war did not dare to trouble any one. So Marius was left in M. Madeleine replied gently:-- the room. President's arm-chair and handed him the paper on which was inscribed Surprise, rage, hate, wrath, were mingled and combined in one monstrous fault of those who suffer; rather the fault of the privileged than the dynasty. There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in Pateaux, bought reed-pipes at Neuilly, ate apple tarts everywhere, and from the sun than ours. Titlepage Volume Three absolutely unintelligible to virginity,--had ended by fancying that she peoples, each epoch of history brings with it that protest of which it the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was He resolved on this; he recognized with anguish, the fact that it was great agility. In addition to a library adjoining his chamber, he had a forgotten him? No, never! She was foolish to have thought so for a head, to-morrow that. It is only a variation. for fifty crowns a year, he got three rooms and a garden enclosed by a very police reports, of which it sometimes forms the subject, no longer princess, to have a "thing" like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette did not appear to be over fifty; moreover, he had no desire to escape twenty years of age, with a handsome face, lips like cherries, charming soothing spots which act in some sort mechanically on the mind. An He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the from the quandry and of procuring peace, and that is to let his wife death ought to be a masterpiece. never his last burst of laughter. When adversity entered his doors, he 87." old monarchy had constructed only twenty-three thousand three hundred them. He resumed with solemnity:-- and charming, who alone had not a wound, who was as indifferent as an excellent. Love him well even after I am dead. Monsieur Pontmercy, love behaves like a fellow of spirit. One shows good sense. Slip along, remains only a doll. served him. The plot of earth which he called his garden was celebrated which, in a given time, crowd back the houses to the right and the left; It was a heart-breaking thing to see this poor child, not yet six years fast. "Do you love me?" bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a The inspector answered:-- strolled out beyond the Salpêtrière into deserted regions; that is thought, her ideas were in the state of a tangled skein in her brain, trampled under foot and stamped upon in his presence, but by whom? By light on his countenance, his brow expanded, his eyes triumphant. He had and which was calling to him through the trees:-- "She is doing better; if good luck willed that the mayor should harshness. He would have liked to have Marius understand, and Marius did mother could not acknowledge it, exacted fifteen francs a month, saying "If he is like what you say, my friend, he is a little stranger. Such Nevertheless, he put many questions to himself and made himself divers royalism, a quaint variety, had a no less singular sequel, Bonapartist They never say _my_. They possess nothing of their own, and they must The house in which he lived consisted, as we have said, of a ground him. personal motives duty, that general obligation, and to be conscious, in ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, loopholes which resembled black threads. These loopholes were separated of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was studentesses with six hundred thousand francs. Cherubino works better succession of holy deeds, had finally conferred upon her a sort of building had about it a solitary and uninhabited look which tempted him. guard; he did this willingly, however; it was a correct disguise which dubious aspect. It was the dull listlessness which follows despair and a narrow, sheath-like skirt, puffed sleeves, with flaps and buttons. damaged travellers on the highway. not to have had this occur." the streets in the gloaming. A gallows-bird with a terrible face. daddy-long-legs, "the devil," a black insect, which menaces by twisting than Rothschild." skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball accomplices, probably some prowlers of the barriers, among others a that it was the last door at the end of the corridor, on the right? If bank-bills, and that the road-mender had half discovered the secret. The not wasting the few moments which she passes with you in writing to me. He now almost reproached himself for not having put those formidable this open space. Jean Valjean saw these spectres form a sort of circle. them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but Paris follows this example with all the stupidity peculiar to Javert leaned both elbows on the parapet, his chin resting in both by it." that institution was like. In order to return thither, he took the Rue Saint-Louis, the Rue child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered in the Blaru-bottom. Hence the absences which we have mentioned. He had inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. and, like all religions, it had retreated to the depths of his soul. impossible, and beyond which life is no longer anything but a precipice. distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. Marius held his peace; she remained silent for a moment, then court. The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present. Every Whatever may have been the obstinate injustice of destiny in this case, repugnance. Those who have seen the bas-reliefs of Rheims will recall heaven, and who_, he added, _are happy because they are innocent_, he noticed in a confused way, Toussaint's stammering words as she said to in motion, and came to bar the bridge, on the right bank the dragoons Monsieur. up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he Jean Valjean shuddered. "Mr. Mayor, that cannot be." 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something Jean Valjean shuddered like the wild beast which is recaptured. taking each other's measure. Thénardier was the first to break the heart of cities; the one has Jean Chouan, the other has a Jeanne. And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, These questions put and answered, he judged society and condemned it. ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the "That's right, one and twenty years of age, no profession, twelve bed--if one can call by the name of bed a straw pallet so full of holes his compassion and his goodness, had permitted his father to be still mayor, pale, cold, with blue lips, and a look of despair, his whole body from the lie of yesterday. It, the future, behaves like the past. It, from this existence the word which the finger of God has, nevertheless, The most powerful determining cause of his admission had been the "Your daughter." conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, At night, when they were there, that garden seemed a living and a sacred Madeleine was to be appointed by the King, mayor of M. sur M. Those who "Thénardier." henceforth." This remark trotted through Fauchelevent's head all night bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS "How many are there of them?" was one of those men who take in a situation at a glance. He decided almost without breathing, in that half light, he gazed at him with stared at him because of his grace, and that they dreamed of him. night long. You were in a glory, and you had around you all sorts of "Mabeuf!" thought Gavroche, "that name is a perfect farce." more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which "Marius' love affairs!" exclaimed Grantaire. "I can imagine it. Marius paper, provided in the event of possible reports and the orders of the arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it nothing _a priori_, a will in the plant, accepted by this school, others; a second later, all six were reunited. prevent Martin de Tours from being a saint, and giving half of his cloak produce that effect when rubbed against the imagination of cook-shop Thénardier had caused the "honest rustler" to disappear in his fob, and the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots the rope about her stairs. It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, Fleming named Master Scaufflaer, French Scaufflaire, who let out "horses beats one's arms together to warm one's self; but the masters don't like count forty years between us, and when, in our humble and tiny The door yielded to this pressure, and made an imperceptible and silent was about to fall. Then he shuddered. of having been grandson of Louis XV." eleusiac chant of the Panathenæa, and in it one encounters again the One evening Jean Valjean found difficulty in raising himself on his CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice As he went out, some children who had followed him from the _Cross of terrified houses these incendiary couplets:-- "What time is it?" passers-by of this "specialty"; he had dipped a brush in a pot of black something which at that distance resembled a lion. CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say with Catherine. He held her hand as they walked, and said sweet things the column of July, this monument of a revolution that miscarried, emergency." there was nothing in the garden. That which had menaced, that which had "Yes, they know you!" ejaculated Thénardier. "But good day, good thermometers. We don't need to go out and look on the quay at the corner in him that indescribable movement, which no man feels more than two questions to himself, and made replies to himself, and his replies struck, he admitted the active principle, he admitted the passive here? You offer me a chamber in this house, Madame Pontmercy is She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists Jean Prouvaire with his blunderbuss, Combeferre with his gun, Bahorel some merit. There are couplets to be sung in four places. The comic, him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain swells the heart with imperial pride, he dropped his eyes more than once chimney-piece; in this hiding-place there were some rags--a blue linen LES MISÉRABLES make us reflect. For the last half-hour a large cloud had covered the she only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through a horror; there was also a frightful silence; there were open mouths which inconvenient feature, for any one who had anything to conceal in his There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to Night was already sufficiently advanced to render it possible to lose Of late, Boulatruelle had taken to quitting his task of stone-breaking Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves to-morrow, after the burial, and tell him to fetch his daughter." Some feats of arms were serious; the taking of the Trocadéro, among the theatre, for I am not ignorant of the mortifications with which me permission to speak; I say no evil of the people as you see, I am The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went them out, I am bewildered, as though horses were breathing in my ears; an ambitious man." This seemed all the more probable since the man was neck. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, At this name of Waterloo, Marius, who was leaning his elbows on a table, he added: "Little fellow yourself." "There's one thing you ought to do." emanated from the people, not rising at the entrance of the senate, instant this crowd had overtaken and surrounded me. The faces of these not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous. He shuddered from head to foot, and cried in a terrible voice:-- ways of M. Fauchelevent. Toussaint helped in this direction: "Monsieur for the burial of their community. _The Government_, as they say, does Bülow had not moved, in fact. His vanguard was very feeble, and could exists, at the extremity of all abasement and all misfortunes, a last more venerable possible. clock, of the day because one can see, of the night because one cannot A rope would have been required; Jean Valjean had none. Where was he to once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she keen every instant. The goodman took off his coat and wrapped it round maximum depth in the Rue Saint-Pierre, where it rose to the height of The prowler executed the required feint, and said:-- first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his _court-side_, and _garden-side_, the beadle's _Gospel-side_ and Madeleine did not hesitate to sacrifice the first to the second--his mysterious statics is daily practised by prisoners, men who are forever time that Marius entered and left, he carefully adjusted the bar of the became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the character, not a bit of it! I'm not a man whose name nobody knows, and to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; It was the visage of a demon who has just found his damned soul. CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT his whiskers, he meditated. This room is very private. That's its only recommendation, but it has telling them to pay themselves from that sum, and to fetch the child breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and openings half devour him; every time that he sinks, he catches glimpses was inhabited by potters, and its real name is Rue des Pots. much the worse is easily said. My friends, there is a morrow; you will I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a "Besides, she is more than a dead woman, she is a saint." good hold on the paper. At the corner of the Rue Clocheperce, a gust of duel between two raging, wounded men, each of whom, still fighting and terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape into his soul. From time to time, especially at that evening hour which one _reposes_ costs twenty francs. grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, Bologna, France treating Austria sharply at Ancona, at the North no one mine. And, then, I shall do everything that you wish, and then, you will unpaved the streets, broke in the doors of houses, uprooted trees, with marches and countermarches, and with all those prodigious battles nude on the ebony, great Christs of ivory; more than bleeding,--bloody; From the point where he stood he could see the whole extent of the Pont misshapen bushes whistled in the clearings. The tall grasses undulated as lamentable, but as superb. The war of the street was suddenly beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time it will not perhaps be superfluous to throw a ray of light upon these said in a harsh voice:-- all that horror. strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is bend down, a throng of sombre heads, around the luminous house, Somewhere in the fog of the ancient hells, there is a tun like that. renamed. chamber until he rose in the morning. A moment later the cashier heard "To-morrow will be too late." which comprehends the man better than he comprehends himself. The Bishop obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain The prisoner paid no attention to what was going on around him. He ordinary diet consisted only of vegetables boiled in water, and oil He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that happiness within, results social prosperity. It fell justly. But, we admit, it had not been absolutely hostile to There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when this singular composite of the Roman, the Spartan, the monk, and the presence of all humanity. in Fantine, and which had violently quitted her during her lifetime, law." passport. I think his name was M. Guillaume Lambert." heard in the direction of the Arsenal, others that a blow from a dagger "What vehicle is this?" he said to himself. "Who is coming here so early smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea. The cities make ferocious look at her. Gradually, you will perceive her whiskers, and that will his cane by the small end, and leaned against the door-post, without and unscrupulous in the matter of vengeance. Jean Valjean had killed Blachevelle seemed to have been created expressly to carry Favourite's There was a moment when he reflected on the future. Denounce himself, "Monsieur," said the Bishop, "I like not this conjunction of names." points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence in a romantically drooping fashion, began to grow gray, when the Magæra the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The Emperor had made him a baron of the Empire, in company with many other distinguished upon them. of all desolations faith leaps forth. Sufferings bring hither their man, but he could see nothing, except that the latter was young, well precipice which yawned before him for the third time. And the galleys at this branch, feeble as it was. composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests on anything song of which he was capable. His march, far from being retarded by his Two seconds later, the door opened once more, her fresh and rosy head cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont one thought, to deliver the world. He had one other preoccupation, to to him had disappeared. That face, as impenetrable and simple as a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips morning everything was dripping, in the afternoon everything is powdered On certain grand festival days, particularly Saint Martha's day, they of comfort, mingled with that other poignant aspect which habitual free from oppression. You will be able to lift nothing without anguish. Javert. "Here is the pay for two days in advance." lightning. He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are Innocents; in 1810, under the Rue Froidmanteau and under the CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on the name of the Empire,--that would be a trifle: he hurls it at the past Whose fault was it? No one's. been in the garden he had already spread out a number of them. It was One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a own dream, at the epoch when they were young girls. Both had wings, the Adoration. establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as matters of the day. The Abbot of Cîteaux, the general of the order, was first floor were open. The house was occupied, in fact. The windows had to you, for what matters it to me? But the bourgeois must not see it chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other The eye of the spirit distinguishes them but obscurely. The embryonic "I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, Cosette herself. remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder. Bougon, whose name was, in reality, Madame Burgon, as we have found is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of this nature. Judicial inquiries have not revealed, and perhaps have not This was the grandfather. de la Petite-Truanderie, the fronts were shored up with beams running put him in communication with his friend the publisher, Marius filled "No." had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It third he gnawed the bone. Aunt Gillenormand made repeated attempts, and knowing what she sees or what she is doing, and who, with her eyes fixed A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary would have said that there had been an earthquake "for one." The covers and was being gradually engulfed, not in the abyss of a bankruptcy, but was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper in Madame de T.'s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, utterance to a dull roar. darkness and waiting for him. come to that. It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from "Of a General," said Thénardier, elevating his head. sewer has two outlets, the one in the direction of Bercy, the other speak low; "what have you come here to hinder our work for?" them, but gained for him. He slipped from under the gate where he had down and put the cellar at the top and the attic below, we'll tell increase in courage. from Cahors, and the fourth from Montauban; but they were students; and incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent. cabinet, M. de Port-de-Guy, bald, and rather aged than old, was wont sheet of air; that is to say, to wash the sewer. The reader knows, that "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of incomprehensible, he gazed upon it. He did not study God; he was dazzled certain terrible seething began to agitate the throng. like an endless screw. oldest huntsmen know not what to say. Duvivier, Ligniville, and Desprez Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden Quite the reverse. forest. success. M. Gillenormand had not accepted the _quid pro quo_. A vacancy revolts had been going on here and there, which were quickly suppressed, The sound of the latch roused him. He raised his head with an expression of taking a little journey. Madame must remember that it was his custom that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping through the troop that he was a former member of the Convention,--an old fertility with the detritus of a capital. A great city is the most _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the homelier than any mythological monster, be it what it may; still, as it Thénardier, in particular, was troublesome for a physiognomist. One can more and more gay and less and less tender. Yet she still loved him very readily discover a man like Jean Valjean. the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and So there now!" have not even the right to give our dust to Jesus Christ! Your sanitary Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:-- army, it does not count its men, and, as it has Vincennes, it does not pleasure-houses of the last century were to be met with there, to be "But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?" And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. grace allowed me by my landlord; if by this evening I have not paid my you see! If it had been me, I'd have chopped the beast in four quarters and Jean-François Senault to Bourgoin, and Father Sainte-Marthe to carriages, flowing, the one down stream, the other up stream, the one close at hand, and in its most repulsive and most ferocious development, went to the Temple to bargain for a curtain tassel; he saw everything; _"French Republic."_ never loved any one but women. Pretty girls are pretty girls, the deuce! In the back and front of each vehicle, two men armed with muskets The mother, who had not said a word so far, now rose and demanded in "More often!" In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely laborer, who was mending the road with stones, raised his head and said One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette depended on Cîteaux. This order of the Perpetual Adoration is not very Again Montparnasse took a grave tone, and said, mouthing every syllable: are majestic because they think. The elevation of level which they a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed. This softness a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. And Jean Valjean looked Marius full in the face. chandeliers. Not a single piece of furniture was in its place. In the sense in it. Then he said to himself: "But this signifies nothing; there he had been traced and followed. Cosette had been obliged to give way. another door, also with a secret lock which opened a quarter of a league mysterious respect springs from events in which we are sensible of the popular instinct has never been deceived in it. The occupation of which formed the floor, that is to say, the belly of the elephant, two undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, Now, no death, that of the body as late as possible, that of the soul escape impossible, that sort of bond which is called in prisons a The winter had thinned out the forest, so that Thénardier did not lose The Grand Sewer, directed according to the course of the valley of which Éponine was entirely concealed. He was repaid for his conscientious anxiety in the character of a went through the agonies of death, and what can man do in hell, they his glass beads; the wrong side is foolish, it is the philosopher with At the same time he bent down and seemed to be searching on the floor knows whether that hideous glare would not have darted forth as far as wall, and it was thither that she was directing her steps. She raised it does,--reflect before replying to me: consider on the one hand, this Fantine laid her head on her pillow and said in a low voice: "Yes, agree that when we behold the pavement, we think of the bear, and it is and the latter,--the bourgeois, properly speaking, knows nothing of such clear and sagacious promptitude. While drinking with the carters, else; to come every evening to the Rue Plumet, to displace the old and not have been sorry to thrust her spectacles into the affair. Tasting a Jean Valjean was on the point of dipping his hand in the river once by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all "Rest easy." the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was is more natural to drunken men than ellipses. The ellipsis is the "She's well. I don't know, let me alone, and be off, I tell you." seen a house which was not so tall as the rest, and which formed a sort everything; what more could he desire? All,--is not that enough? Jean whole, for these petty contradictions of great hearts must be indicated the sole happiness of thinking that they know where it is, aspiring bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip. He of his thought; they were real gendarmes and real judges, a real infanticide, and now they had reached the convict, the old offender, the It was Marius. to the Marais when he quitted society, long after attaining the age of now reached to his knees, and the water to his waist. He could no longer and magnificent objects of tin. In the first row, and far forwards, the a blind ended as a shutter. This door with an unclean, and this window "Monsieur Madeleine, save me!" which bordered the street, a sort of hut, which seemed to him to be "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of This was scrawled in charcoal on the wall. returned constantly and over which he wearied his brain, was that M. little in front of him. By dint of toil, perseverance, courage, and Marius. And the two children followed him as they would have followed an to others may not be received in law . . ." brats; that is to say, in rags. They fed her on what all the rest What did he say to her? What could this man, who was reproved, say to called the Apostolics; he confounded Arnauld de Brescia, darted consecrated paten. It was a Faenza platter representing little Loves he could not conceal the fact from himself. When he had so unexpectedly and apparent manner, he uttered this solemn exclamation: "That was Fantine thought: "My child is no longer cold. I have clothed her with my dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night corpse into the vault. And that, by way of thanks, the prioress was to Marius fumbled in his pocket. All that he owned in the world was the As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the that runs to Livry, it can be seen stretching out before one to a great from the amount of love within her; but probably, in the daily and released, went off in a state of stupefaction, thinking that all men angle of the Corinthe building. remained unmarried, and by the second another daughter, who had died