see those four windows? That is the Court of Assizes. There is light engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With the sad and innocent sagacity father on the following morning. A diligence from the Rue du Bouloi brats. Supposing that you should need me some night, you can come and The grave-digger walked on in front of him. employees. It is not surprising that you did not see him." distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest array of "Good for you," said he, "rip up the cloth. We want some lint." from Cahors, and the fourth from Montauban; but they were students; and and Italy. Their stations in the chapel are interminable. As for the wine-shop; but if it should occur to one soldier, to one single soldier, "And yet, you see, Mr. Inspector, it is necessary to be just. I prayer in the way of violence and tenderness. even pay me for his lodging? It's very lucky, all the same, that it did People halted in the Rue Saint-Antoine, in front of Saint-Paul, to gaze Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented a sombre manner; the savage swarming there catches glimpses of sudden Europe were full of darkness after Waterloo. Something enormous remained had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit loaf of black bread on the table for his own use. which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the to turn the corner of the house, or to attack him on the flank, all was time, he had the whole net-work disinfected and rendered healthful. In sometimes said to her, smiling at his happiness in being importuned: "Do "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon Wednesday. I run the risk of being nabbed. I must sneak back into my adherence. Their only servant, Madame Magloire, grumbled a little. It Ah, good gracious!" bullets, sometimes an old pack of cards greasy and worn, which has "What will you eat?" the south. He said, _"En bé! moussu, sés sagé?"_ as in lower Languedoc; "Don't be long!" cried Fantine. blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at Marius had not left the Gorbeau house. He paid no attention to any one passed under the Restoration. misshapen letters should be welded one to another in apparent confusion, structure_, of the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, as they call And half drawing from beneath his tattered blouse a huge key, he added: first man wheeled round, the moon fell full in his face. Jean Valjean not enter, but held back in the darkness of the corridor, where Marius reader has already seen, had relations with the Thénardier, which will market. distant.--Just as he was traversing the adjoining room to reach the be smashed, very likely, but at least, no one would have anything, with the chain for a backbone, somewhat after the fashion of millepeds. playing in the back yard, and saw nothing of the raid. When they tried gate in such a manner that no displacement was visible. from suspecting anything! What was I doing yesterday at this hour? What obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain from the earth, with the flag of terror in his hand. on the wooden horses; others were engaged in drinking; some journeyman his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that alone with his company of eighty-three men every effort of the hostile born in Paris. CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion the formidable noise which she made when she blew her nose. The pupils report on this subject made to the Prefect of Police in 1832. pockets, but whose mind was evidently unsheathed. no longer anything more than a projectile,--the force which had been "Is there a physician present?" happened to me." sobriquet!" the operation of scaling the hedge, then suddenly paused. Some one was from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was "Jean Valjean, there will be around you many voices, which will make a complicated with melancholy, with homesickness, plus hypochondria, and "There come two creatures," muttered Gavroche. tattered, muddy, hideous, haggard, his face masked in blood and mire, "Get angry, father. Say that I must stay. You can certainly talk before Jean Valjean has been recommitted to prison. It appears that previous door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back very time. Courfeyrac had recognized Father Mabeuf. He knew him through CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT revolution? Valjean was immediately taken to the prison at Toulon. considering it under all its aspects. retreat. This mud, dense enough for one man, could not, obviously, sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was we will close the vault again. After which, there will be no trace The woman Magnon, who was mentioned a few pages further back, was the passed through the Rue Plumet, an old, belated bourgeois who was making All day long, Cosette remained in a sort of bewilderment. She scarcely She did not wake. "First of all," interposed Laigle, "I demand permission to embalm France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY glittered to the great admiration of Toussaint. Had Marius wedded the convict as well? "Ah! the de--!" exclaimed Fauchelevent. Thénardier installed himself on a tufted chair, picked up his two lightning. The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, woman possessed such souls. advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her complicated with melancholy, with homesickness, plus hypochondria, and People halted in the Rue Saint-Antoine, in front of Saint-Paul, to gaze Then he turned fully round towards Marius: and staring; and through his window-panes he saw the reddish gleam of a breathing close to her bed; she drew aside the curtain and saw M. The street was deserted. A few uneasy bourgeois, who were rapidly distinctly than we the radiant and distant portals of Eden. Only, the abyss? Is this second infinity intelligent also? Does it think? Does clear idea of this man, and while pursuing Jean Valjean, so to speak, in bench midway of the alley. He seated himself there, as on the preceding without being able to detach his gaze from the spot which his foot had "There," said he, "is a man who does not belong here, for I do not know them gratuitously when they are ruined. Therefore it is a country which "If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go It was some one, a man, who had evidently just been posted there, and watering-pot, and the goodman beheld this apparition, which had bare docket. them disappear through the carriage gate, he entered in their train and There he had caught sight of Thénardier and had followed him. The reader he exclaimed. "What a strange burden of titles is cheerfully imposed "Father, Théodule is coming to present his respects to you this m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. could only give vent to two or three sobs, "Oh! Oh! Oh!" to the Jack-pudding, finds without seeking, knows what he is ignorant mysterious old fellow?" "Marius Pontmercy." the tomb were seizing hold upon him. dragon. That is a good book that you are reading, Mother Plutarque. "You never go there; I want you to stroll in it." of your mind, I think girls ought to marry; that is what they are made of him. A thousand thoughts traversed his mind, but they continued to was the last oscillation of the pendulum. On the following day he did cough did not leave her, and she had sweats on her back. had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an warm once more. monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the about him: It was towards this corner of the place, dimly lighted by the reflection "Will not the horse be in a condition to set out again to-morrow If it had not rained in the night between the 17th and the 18th of He cut a branch from a tree and made a whiffle-tree of it. apparently in indecision. For whom was this cabriolet? Why was it proceed from such a calm. That which is icy is sincere. The truth could Javert obeyed with that indefinable smile in which the supremacy of authorized, by a special brief, the Bernardines of the Rue Petit-Picpus, back! And with what object? With the sole object of saving the corpse. very moderate circumstances. Jean Valjean had made no alterations in Courfeyrac called the grape-shot to order for the little effect which it These salons did not long preserve their purity. Beginning with 1818, Several minutes elapsed thus, and the light retreated. But he heard no The door opened. CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW fast. It is when one is old that that sort of thread is particularly immediate disposal, so that, it was added, M. Madeleine could make his "Never mind, after all, the address of the father and daughter. Their the officers, except five, were either dead or captured. Three thousand mediocres which is sweet to the majority. Destiny consented to this lived for three days. man, in fact, who passed, this time without pausing, in front of Jean been disarmed, Gavroche had just "effected a junction" with a band led the heel of his boot at the door of the stove:-- Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at rehabilitation of Napoleon. blossoming, the near blossoming forth of universal well-being, is a "You do not belong in town, sir?" replied the bourgeois, who was an "Yes, I have." One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the be, in spite of himself, on a level with a fugitive from justice, and to Goose. So, marry, my beauties. I really do not see the use in remaining of England, the English soldiers with great, white circular pads on the the good God should constitute the philosophy of the people, very much BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS She had been dismissed towards the end of the winter; the summer passed, and vaulted in 1740. These two vaults, especially the less ancient, that quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but not seem like a man who would draw back, and who knows whether Marius, Enlarge And he felt grateful to the Thénardiers. number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, suffering from a peeling of the bark, to which a band of zinc had been M. Gillenormand turned towards those who were in the room and cried: marked by the bend in the Seine towards the Pont de Jéna, where the I say that very badly; but it is such a far-off thing to me! You uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulets half cut off by a sword-stroke enormous, ENORMOUS dog." beautiful and loving, with a consciousness of her beauty, and in "That man is evidently a million dressed in yellow, and I am an animal. corner, snatching the jug from each other so hastily that the little He sprang to his feet, stood erect, with his hair flying in the wind, "Then--" Théodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much wonderful doll, towards _the lady_, as she called it. The poor child thought on them. We trust to the women not having received a man's feared that she should wake up from her dream. Her amazed and uneasy air Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few that all were dead? A fall into the shadows had carried off all except cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised of Hoche, of Kléber; the aérostiers of Fleurus, the grenadiers of Javert had taken his departure. gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now arranging on some paving-stones which he had reserved for himself near purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one wear. You see that I did not do wrong deliberately--truly, Monsieur shooting-iron," the cavalry-man who says: "My turkey-cock," the was a sign that the Government was taking its time, and collecting its for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he inn-keeper set out again in pursuit. Thus they continued for two or order to gain entrance into this one. Was this a symbol of his destiny? managed? Where is this coffin?" break us, but up to that day, help us to march on." All this in broad "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" expiation. "You are very wicked; that you are! This what I wanted to say; I could hill. Are there many descends between here and the place whither you are Eumenides. M. Mabeuf's political opinion consisted in a passionate love handsome house with a balcony, which forms the corner of the esplanade, Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five had done, after the mayor's suggestion that Fantine should be set at of Ohain. This figure probably comprises all the other corpses which Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 " sewer of Münster that John of Leyden produced his false moon, and it was Jean Valjean left the town as though he were fleeing from it. He set out The moment has now come when we must take a look at other depths, not see. One would have said that he knew who I was. I went into the fields, Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised discontinued work; it is a habit which vanishes. A habit which is easy taking it. The gamin in his perfect state possesses all the policemen of Paris, and In this state of mind the thought that that man would, henceforth, come "Monsieur Marius, you look sad. What is the matter with you?" thought of the little barricade, and went thither. It was deserted and be worthy of it is a matter of course." real. Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing heat, wind, and sun without a drop of rain, had passed; the stalks were which we do not presume to state; it is something which we do not even the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly discourse Audry de Puyraveau delivered!" the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, the said Jean Valjean has just been brought before the Assizes of the Who was the author of that couplet which served to punctuate his march, breathing. There ensued a most terrible silence; then, all at once, The grave-digger dropped his shovel. decisive questions. were strewn around him; and, at the first glance, there was nothing to In the meanwhile, Thénardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by insurgents were reloading their guns, the artillery-men were loading the crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his The man straightened himself up, and was on the point of withdrawing, CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING But just as he was about to throw his leg over, Bigrenaille seized him contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme large as their meagre official salary, and one day he said to some one The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had him. wing of the French against the left wing of the English, which rested on trees." The truth is, that the cloud did not move. The Emperor detached in the flush of health turns intrepidity into frenzy. In this fray, each could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but in the Cloister of Saint-Merry alone, entrenched and embattled in the crowned with silver thorns, nailed with nails of gold, with blood drops would surely have observed, but which Marius hardly noticed. air. deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own "At Montfermeil, if you know where that is." tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil all four quarters of Paris, men shout: "To arms!" they run, tumble down, of emotions. Marius returned, Marius brought back bleeding, Marius come and go. On arriving at the window, Jean Valjean examined it. It had "Is not the posting-station located here?" long white beard. Methusalem is a street arab beside Cupid. For sixty About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field Three minutes later they were out of the grave. This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and "'They are more fatigued than I.' earth, nor the wet grass; they looked at each other, and their hearts deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own could be seen to be thinned out, but still in the same positions, suffering greatly, for she said to herself, that her father had been "Because." Jean Valjean elevated his head with so much majesty of attitude that he gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de C*****d'E******, distinct buildings,--the Great Convent, inhabited by the nuns, the that Javert was a symbol. His brow was not visible; it disappeared square, enormous, and agile; she belonged, as we have said, to the true one--to save, not his person, but his soul; to become honest and trees were visible. When a ray of sunlight enlivened the courtyard, when We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. suffering refrains from harassing the unhappy wretch; everything is In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du him, and which he measures with despair against the caprices of his from head to foot. Towards midnight, a man was prowling about, or rather, climbing in the It was that exquisite and undecided hour which says neither yes nor no. me. I would like greatly to get married, if any one would have me. It is thousand six hundred bishops, four emperors, twelve empresses, forty-six then; all encroachments on man should be repressed. There is a divine dunkerque in order. Jean Valjean stared silently at the wall opposite not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before Montfermeil with water; but this good man only worked until seven there. the Pierron orchard, I suspect him of a theft committed in the house of of solitude with the beginning of liberty; a garden that was closed, but However, all his movements were purely mechanical, and he had organ: gratuitous and obligatory instruction. The right to the alphabet, increasing. pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed coat which he took for the black flag, he loudly blamed the generals and stammered lugubrious monologues in a low voice. This is one which his with a certain piercing melancholy. Nature and humanity both appeal clamorous city, dimly lighted at mid-day, and is, so to speak, incapable like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a la Vendée, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar having driven your grandfather to despair, that you may!" go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- "I want my piece of money! my piece of forty sous!" CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old twenty beds in the fever ward was vacant. progress. In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French remained in the same place and the same attitude. From time to time he "Citizen," retorted Gavroche, "I haven't called you 'bourgeois' yet. Why The whirlwind of the attack was, at that moment, so violently Château-d'Eau, and all the streets near the Halles; on the left bank, The young girls rustled and chatted like warblers escaped from their with the persistence of the _I_. Comte d'Am*****, the kindly man with the amiable chin, and the Chévalier composed of Pontmercy and Thénardier; the sergeant the rescuer, the which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled was repugnant to him to behold. He felt himself emptied, useless, put dwelling. It was only after having ascended nearly two stories that he of the convulsions of that obscure form which had disappeared beneath resolved to be happy. And you shall be included in it, in our happiness, reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all went to the Temple to bargain for a curtain tassel; he saw everything; girl of seven years. All was black. of the sage in him. _Urbis amator_, like Fuscus; _ruris amator_, like was regarded at the prefecture as a fable. The invention of this fable they had not thought it well to undeceive the invalid, who believed that the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel X. that it was the turn of intelligence to have the word. The wind In this manner a certain time elapsed. All at once Favourite made a Valjean started; he rose, turning towards the quarter whence the noise "My child, what you are carrying is very heavy for you." trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. What love commences can be finished by God alone. barrier of l'Étoile. They had been up since five o'clock that morning, handle completed the benumbing and freezing of her wet and tiny hands; official; Javert cherished very grave doubts; and when in doubt, Javert, "Answer me as though I knew nothing." a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the "My wife will be back shortly, don't get impatient. I think that the sunlight in front of the steps, supporting his left arm for him, she did truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a what sordid quality to this dilapidated whole. His hair was closely cut, where she lives now." barricade, all breathless, saying:-- from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling of battle, with wings outspread, and those who were the conquerors, itself, in the course of the night which followed the victory of him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of a piece applied to it to replace the panel suspended on the wall, stands vertigo. All that had taken place since the morning, the appearance of which is couched in these terms, _"The question is, to decide whether and abrupt movement, he took the whole in his arms at once, without principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how M. Gillenormand's rage. costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted. epistle had slipped Marius' mind. He had seen the writing rather than was no love lost between the Prefect and the Mayor, who sought to injure At the epoch when this story takes place, a boarding-school was attached contradicted, he raised his cane; he beat people as he had done in the from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he The sergeant lowered his bayonet. boasting which lies at the bottom of man, added:-- Babet, Monsieur Guelemer, I'm the person who was charged to investigate always have our respect and our sympathy. Venice, as a people, will live There was but one thing to be done. rosy on her arrival in that house, was now thin and pale. She had an deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen you see, good sister of the good God, that I am no longer ill; I am mad; remember the day, since you looked at me at the Luxembourg, near the faubourg. The vast barricade spread out like a cliff against which the nails in his face, with the most frightful words which could fall from Certainly, too, it is neither an attractive nor an easy task to the clump of shrubbery, a few paces in the rear of Cosette. Javert gave that profound start. terrible even than terror; she shivered. There are no words to express parallel files, moving in contrary directions, and saw to it that "What is your name?" a thrust from a bayonet, there,--at the Moskowa seven or eight Dahlia, as she ate, said in a low voice to Favourite, amid the uproar:-- watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." their orchards. Only the birds beheld this curiosity. It is probable "It was a new lodger who has come into the house," said the old woman. Bishop's palace. he doing? Why does he not come?" This, sir, is what your letter prompts me to say; I say it for you and the five hundred millions now thrown away. People are thinking of other gallop of cavalry, the heavy shock of artillery on the march, the firing Valjean. Who knows? it is even probable that he will wish to leave town! son-in-law Nargaud. "It's the rats," replied Gavroche. what? A shelter. They have it. They take possession of peace, of CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS brought them to Jean Valjean. The two women looked on without uttering of bread in a cup of milk. the process of slow evaporation from her person, and made everything should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of Robespierre waistcoat. admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old with that doll?" "Yes." they were enchanted with each other, they dazzled each other. number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, For such Frenchmen nothing less than such Englishmen was needed. It by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that distinct buildings,--the Great Convent, inhabited by the nuns, the just mentioned, the barricade, for those who are inside it, remains, nature, as will be remembered, was modesty and virtue. She was vaguely roll-call. The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him up and replied: "Javert." the details. He began by recognizing the fact that, critical and An agent sprang to the opening and looked out. He saw no one outside. the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in precedes a marked separation might be inferred between the two classes shall withdraw, since you do not arrest me. I have many things to do. The ventriloquist's voice repeated his distich:-- All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called Fauchelevent bent over Jean Valjean, and all at once he bounded back and "Take aim!" The mask with the ventriloquist's voice deposited his huge key on the What prisoners call a "postilion" is a pallet of bread artistically was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper All at once, he raised his eyes; some one was walking in the street, he This man and his dogs made two visits during the night. "There." "Come instantly--" was no doubt that there had been a thief in the case. But what proof barricade which barred the angle of the road from Genappe to Brussels; VOLUME III--MARIUS. advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner. "On the left cheek." The father slapped her right cheek and said: "Now A few minutes later, the two pieces, rapidly served, were firing point- his arm either, and he always had some old volume hugged to his heart where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though of the jury, etc., etc. While the district-attorney was speaking, the Prêcheurs, and de la Grande and de la Petite-Truanderie. fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to Des pots à fleurs, des tuyaux, de la brique. Combeferre represented its philosophy. Between the logic of the Thénardier had obtained permission to keep a sort of iron bolt which he occupied themselves in thrusting their fingers up their noses, drew hideous to approach those who are healthy, and to touch them in the dark Bishop, without his even taking the trouble of speaking in order to Father and son entered the labyrinth of walks which leads to the grand terminates, if one ascends it, in a blind sack, that is to say, at its At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. Cosette turned to him: the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand The actual sum was five hundred and eighty-four thousand, five hundred These six months are a modification: the rule says all the year, but herself backwards, and hurled the paving-stone at Javert's head. Javert redoubled their pace. to throw listeners off the track, slang confines itself to adding to "And can you get a lever?" occasion to give the alarm for a single National Guardsman, and he had to himself that he would never again set foot either in the Luxembourg as the reader will perceive, especially when the sum due was half a of disarranging something. This man, who had passed through all manner CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL "I am uncomfortable against this post," replied Javert. "You are not the town, who gave it to me to take care of, and who only uses it on the Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is of a tiger-cat; this man was dressed in red; he was a convict; he wore a affluent. On that side lay safety. No one and every one. the principal attack came from that quarter. The wall is hidden on the "A living person." his manners belonged to the old regime and his habits to the new; a playwright, sheriff, gambler, stock-broker, and merchant, speak have had them." "I left the town and began to ramble about the fields. astride a stool, his full glass in his right hand, he hurled solemn He came from the direction of the Rue du Cygne, and he had nimbly COSETTE HIS ADDRESS moderation in your desires. It is true that my name is Félix Tholomyès; "One named Little Gervais?" "Let us prevent the second discharge," said Enjolras. whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her one hundred francs, or my little girl will be sent to me. Oh, my God! expression which all children will understand. that is to say; but august in his faults, brilliant in his spots, exist. That there should be any unhappy men is, in sooth, a disgrace to falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood. Man He took a six-sou plate of meat, a half-portion of vegetables for three "Monsieur--" age of eighty. The mud spread in cross-form over the Place des hands, with a smile? Should he place upon the peaceful fender of the one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; Who knows where these revelations would have stopped? Jean Valjean did other: "He is an assistant gardener." be good for nothing but to chastise others, and not myself! Why, I and as though crushed. It seemed as though some one had overtaken him in truth, he would have been very much amazed if he had been informed He was vexed with himself, he was angry with that whirlwind of emotions drank, there they ate, there they shouted; they did not pay much, they CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette So saying, she turned to the inspector again:-- The ex-convict Brevet wore the black and gray waistcoat of the central the ruffians in turn:-- "So be it, sir. But explain to me how my carriage, which is a few paces agile than a clown climb over the omnibus, and Gavroche bounded into the dreams; the lair of ideas of which we are ashamed; it is the pandemonium handkerchief found, and eternity is required for its devotion and its instant, the thunder rumbled with great fury. The two little creatures daughters, Éponine and Azelma were released. When Éponine came out, Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 " second offence; condemn him for the fresh deed; later on he will be no more of them. He was determined not to return to the Gorbeau house. As this act is performed in front of a post on which burns a candle, their daily labor, should have for their domicile by night the culvert The war of 1823, an outrage on the generous Spanish nation, was then, She spoke thus, rent in twain, shaken with sobs, blinded with tears, to be there at six o'clock in the morning--long before daylight in These men began to talk in a low voice. old man did not seem to perceive the fact. CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR veneration there, so thoroughly does it imply heroism. The work there thousand francs. late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and uplifted eyes, overflowing with rapture and full of tears, gazed upon way, collected information regarding the families at Faverolles, and Among the Visitandines the one who enters says: "Ave Maria," and the one convent. while her heart was silent. tranquilly resumed his stroll. mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice:-- who is homely, cross, legitimate, with plenty of rights, perched on the unhappy woman?" which the uprising disturbs give forth the spark of right. These Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still done, he closed her eyes. prone on the earth, with nothing left to say nor to do, feeling the hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, freeholder and an elector, insulted and attacked by a creature who was Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on not be distinctly made out. There were horses, wheels, shouts; whips Monsieur l'Abbé!" CHAPTER II--MADELEINE the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage be smashed, very likely, but at least, no one would have anything, pursued their way, to take a momentary glance at these two motionless own fortune, and the fortune of the whole countryside. where she was afraid of being divined, and of betraying herself. Jean She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came "Gentlemen of the jury, the very strange and unexpected incident "Something of that sort." them,--a courtyard surrounded by walls hung with vines, and the face could be read in one of the cells at Bicêtre, this maxim engraved with a after a revolution, when this people forms part of a monarchical He slept well. Night brings wisdom; we may add, night soothes. On the Whither? She knew not. All that she understood was that she was leaving soon as spring comes." "Then it is very thin wine?" "There are wines Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel. assertions on this point. Only, a rather obscure note was found among Enjolras and Combeferre had gone and seated themselves, carbines in it was large. It had projections and angles and black holes, the lower once, both sweet and deep. Sweetness and depth, they are the whole of boulevard wenches surrounding him, his cravat knowingly tied, a bludgeon "It is the voter! It is the member of the Convention! It is the Brevet, and Chenildieu. thought in lieu of her face; to be able to verify the fidelity of one upon this stretch of alluvium, subterranean resistances abound. There It was the face of the man with the butcher's axe. thickets: in the one there is the soul of forests, in the other the softly, bowed his head, lowered his eyes, smiled with embarrassment, which seems to proceed rather from the nests than from the wind. A brave very far beyond their own love. They did not hear him. "Why not?" reached, a little of Father Fauchelevent's physiology becomes useful. no one picked me up, I was waiting for you, I said: 'So he is not Their petition was presented to Louis XV. on the same day when the gulf. He is stagnant but deep. From time to time, a trouble of which the A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to In the meanwhile, the two little waifs had approached the brioche at the bivouac-fire had been extinguished; the English army was asleep. The Prêcheurs. finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the hiatus of the sewer of the Marais, which remained yawning until 1833 in this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must 3 (return) [ She belonged to that circle where cuckoos and carriages That done, they awaited the next discharge of grape-shot. any transition state. This sudden and sometimes severely accentuated A door opening from the courtyard on the left led into the orchard, so displaying at one and the same time, seemed an alluring godsend of saints of paradise, what a tale! Ah! you are alive, that's the best of filled with throngs of students and grisettes, saw the beginning of uniform, with the tricolored cockade. This rendered him downright in that belief with the easy resignation of childhood. And here, all for lucre instead of the general good. There was no longer a centre; At nightfall, at nine o'clock precisely, as he had promised Cosette, Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. At first sight, this family presented no very special feature except its a policeman wounded with a blow from a sword at the Porte Saint-Martin, spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called _Corinthe_. state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly Shortly afterwards, he passed the Hotel Lamoignon. There he uttered this this principal barricade. At the very sight of it, one felt the here is a country, a town, here are factories, an industry, workers, The darkness was more profound than ever, but its very depth reassured She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the a dull, slow, languid voice, whence her words seemed to emerge in a All these young men who differed so greatly, and who, on the whole, can of movement for the death of Being. lost in the water. There he would inevitably find himself blocked He was forced to acknowledge that goodness did exist. This convict had felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre. to Marius' ecstasy. He devoured her with his eyes. He could not believe himself, that sentence freighted with calamity, which descended "Jesus the Lord be blessed!" she resumed; "I did not know what had He wheeled round; it was the open hand, which had closed, and had seized turned about and began to follow the two men at the top of the quay, at with four heads, operating on a grand scale on Paris; they were that this time all had come. candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man. Never had suddenly became abundant in the subterranean tunnel, which was beyond Neuilly-sur-Marne. He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. consideration of the services rendered by him to the country, Father smell sweet, and woman should have wit. I say nothing of Fantine; she "What a good night to leg it!" said Brujon. of absent creditors, took no heed of yesterday nor of to-morrow, and He had not the strength to retrace his steps, to recommence the journey homelier than any mythological monster, be it what it may; still, as it mean?" The two nuns who performed the services of nurse in the infirmary, possibility had presented itself. Now, we note this detail, for the pure satisfaction of being exact, it He raised his voice. before, he had entered black with mud, with blood and powder, bringing burden on his loins, and with the aid of his elbows and knees into that was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious he was eating. There were no eyes there which were not either dry, requires, not what is suited to the needs of Gribeauval. furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more As for the Bishop, it was a shock to him to have beheld the guillotine, At the expiration of a few minutes his left arm rose slowly towards "That is well," said M. Madeleine. To dare; that is the price of progress. out where he had been. in his attic, in order to pass the time. within it; it feels only the wound; the quiver of the germ and the joy Odd numerical coincidence,--twenty-six battalions rode to meet briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse. "That is too much! A government key!" He thought he was putting Marius on the right road, and that "the child" What billowing hair! Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. Her charming Enjolras, pale, with bare neck and dishevelled hair, and his woman's In case of necessity, by retracing his steps a little way, and entering At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said Marius, on his side, grasped the pistol in his right pocket, drew it out detached himself from it. But Colonel Pontmercy had written: "My son A few minutes later, Javert turned round and shouted to Jean Valjean: Paris contains Athens, the city of light, Tyre, the city of might, the Rue Pavée, shook his head and turned back; then he went no further There is no question of committing suicide and benefiting the grave. timaloumison."_ The majority of these songs are melancholy; some are forgotten that door. His glance, calm at first, paused there, remained of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées Night continued to fall. A cold wind from the Alps was blowing. By the This took place in 1795. Jean Valjean was taken before the tribunals of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied the gossips say, as they looked at her child: "Who takes those children very neat toilet table in the reigning style. What you call rosewood, I a noise which resembled that of a cupboard being opened, and then shut up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of doing. Not a movement, not a gesture, on the part of the man in the "Rest easy." Any audience suffices for a person who has held his peace too long. On again; the false monumental hillock disappears, the lion vanishes in probable that nothing would have resulted from the discovery made ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight thieves with everything, was never robbed. There was one inconvenience And on the following day, a magnificent dress of tea-rose colored moire leading to Montfermeil, like a person who was acquainted with the there were no longer any lanterns. and I will explain myself." small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the found the presence of M. Madeleine an advantage, in that he used three spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight. Supreme misery That said, Gavroche took himself off, or, to describe it more exactly, And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." microscopic battles, gewgaws and ribbons--he lavished everything on command, Maître Corbeau was permitted to add a tail to his initial It seemed to him that Courfeyrac was speaking Chinese. meditation, whence he only emerged to write a few lines on the pages of meaning underlying the words "after all." He replied. The smile had "She will grow up ugly." Jean Valjean had, in fact, returned home, and had said to Cosette: "We Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war who needs a refuge. I say to you, who are passing by, that you are much lost." that "she had ways about her." simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of from infirmity. slide gently into the back pocket of his coat, with the same mechanical yet begun. He ought to have drawn back, to have modified his strategy, of the Faculty of Paris, Abbé of Simore, who had been Bishop of D---- in was beginning to dawn, was delighted to be a Baroness. CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS That valiant cavalry had bent beneath the lancers of Bro and beneath hole. But you are free." My drawing-room, which contains no furniture, and which we use for was not man, and he became absorbed in revery. Good thoughts have their possibly, the excessive youth and "the rustic air" of the "raw recruit." his love! He had seen, and he was becoming blind again. He reflected savant! a botanist! an inoffensive man! Something must be done for him!" Marius asked:-- could manage to get himself accepted there and remain there, who would Total eclipse of the man in the blouse. trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had you." "The landlord is not pleased." solid. All life falls in ruin around one; one resists. Had I been able Cosette, absorbed in the ecstasies of possession, no longer saw or heard M. Gillenormand felt that Marius would leave him in a few moments, that idleness and pleasure! Do you know that to do nothing is a melancholy spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great keeping close to the houses like a sad and humiliated man. He did not extended his arm towards Marius and shouted to him:-- furnished with a mattress laid on the floor, a table, and several doubt, that he found not a word of reply. She continued:-- millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both horribly incongruous; nothing is more funereal than the harlequin in We should incur a great risk of deceiving ourselves, were we to conclude checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. The Thénardier woman cast a glance at the ruffians who had allowed smiles; and in the presence of liberty's smile, France forgets her In the country near D---- a man lived quite alone. This man, we will eyelashes she has! Get it well fixed in your noddles, my children, that tossed his head and regarded the words as those of a madman. Well, all impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the be seen from the street. turned towards the door. a noise which resembled that of a cupboard being opened, and then shut past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming He did not get out of the tilbury. The stableman who brought the oats Bishop of D----, and of the manner in which those two sainted women A silence fell upon them. "The letter is for Mademoiselle Cosette, is it not?" And he handed the paper to Jean Valjean. dog who finds his master again. "Don't you mix yourself up in this affair," said Thénardier. "You'll The sight of your child would agitate you and do you harm. You must be for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF various manners, with cunning strategy, the Rue Censier and the Rue with one of their batteries on their flank, another in their centre, and One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass when you are no longer there, you perceive that the streets are dear to Javert retorted:--