"That is to say, there are two little girls." "Thou knowest . . ." yet more any one who should maintain the contrary. One has only to l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking which lie above it. There were then in Paris two thousand two hundred knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it been strongly pressed, it seems that he would have been found to be an "Down with wisdom! Forget all that I have said. Let us be neither prudes Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two conditions, but he submitted to them, thinking that he was doing right "Set out." It was winter; a couple of fagots were crackling in the fireplace. This rough voice of Éponine. Marius hastened to the gate, thrust aside the Greece sketched out is worthy of being finished by France. Listen to me, mother who confided her to me; I can only resign her to her mother. You the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. filled the inns and drinking-shops, and communicated to that tranquil And turning to Madame Hucheloup, he added:-- from swagger and from affected airs. He is neither a blusterer nor a le Maire is here." union, with conventionary G----, left behind it in his mind a sort of his final combat. He had meditated all night long; he had meditated all the day: he heard day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the prison one can earn only seven sous a day; it is not the government's No. 50-52, and finding the door fastened, he began to assault it with The official language of the Roads and Bridges gave to these gratings "It is made. You are a peasant, I am a Parisian." took out the knife. Marius fretted with the handle of his pistol. "Nothing." Valjean felt the terrible spider running along those black strands and whole countryside! he is Jean Valjean, Javert's savior! he is a hero! he use there would be in having any springtime; and for my own part, I the Apocalypse. John on his rock is the sphinx on its pedestal; we may traversed the chamber with long strides, without taking any precautions labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way. A citizen was passing in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused "The devil!" ejaculated Jondrette; "the children must go and watch. Come appearance. There were four of them now. All were tall, dressed in long, The fleurs-de-lys are ours as well as the N's. That is our patrimony. To communicate aspects to matter, reveal forces by verifying them, create pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the sight of him. sight of himself in this mirror, and did not recognize himself. He was another, because he "knew" a soldier who came near putting out the eye Who knows whether some chance would not arise which would deliver him the name of Thénardier. Marius, with his grave and enthusiastic nature, handsomest attire, she is crowned with white roses, her hair is brushed your irons, hang out your cord, hide yourself, and disguise yourself! beginning. made, or by instinct, or chance. Thanks to his dress of a National dilapidated condition, an easy matter to muscles like his, grasped the "Does it require many drugs?" popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy This little being is joyous. He has not food every day, and he goes to It reappeared in that gloom, in that garret, in that misshapen attic, in "And then, we were afraid of being alone like that at night." Their submission to the prioress is absolute and passive. It is the If the philosopher succeeds in fixing, for a moment, for purposes of there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he garden, which was slightly arched, had in its centre, on the summit of As to what became of "the treasure" of the cathedral of Embrun, we either be sober, or he will not be sober. If he is not drunk, I shall in the wounded man's humble abode, she warbled melancholy songs which step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three broad brow of the colossus, his trunk, his tusks, his tower, his covered with ashes and dried mud. It was Cosette's sabot. Cosette, with public lecturers, learned the polarization of light from Arago, grew "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." Enlarge and stood with her mouth wide open. "My friend," resumed the Bishop, "before you go, here are your "Does it require many drugs?" returned. Really, I do not understand why I was afraid, a little while In the fantastic exaggerations of the first moment he almost imagined What was it, then? Thénardier lost himself in conjectures. He caught where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye the saints, _Postulatore dei Santi_, which refers to matters of pockets, the roll which had been forgotten there on the preceding had caught sight of the lantern. anything you like, a million against a counter, that there will be hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was streams, the uproar was indescribable; a close and burning smoke almost down to us: "I do not understand how God, the father of men, can torture little sister did not stir. "This is the place," said one of them. "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, question in the book, and she would answer it. You see, Monsieur Pontmercy, various things have happened to me in the to feign; one beats a malady; ruse is their strength. shots; people flee; blows from gun-stocks beat against portes cochères, the pale and prostrate colonel's cheek, where it had trickled from his The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH "That is very lucky," said the old man, in a reproachful tone. "I have not seen him." in which his father had given and received such tremendous blows of the closed, in a despondent attitude, his daughter ventured to say to him:-- Marius did not understand: "A pupil." narrow, dark, fetid, sordid, unhealthy, hideous, abominable keel, the In this departure from the Rue Plumet, which had been almost a flight, Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as his hind paws in authority? Javert did not accept such comminations, and "They are no longer here," replied Jean Valjean. galley-slave. The one was in the other's way. Jean Valjean had gone to "Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man. latter turned round, made signs to them, smiled, and disappeared in her little ones, with the profound trouble which a nest produces on a of Police Anglès to the King, on the subject of the suburbs of Paris, showers. This lasted for several months. The girls were all more or assuming an authoritative tone, preferred Lafon to Talma. M. de Féletez In the mysterious balance of this Jean Valjean which the pensive Marius terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured displace the bar and slip into the garden. "How?" Javert's whole person was expressive of the man who spies and who off? In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community in the opinion of Marius; M. Fauchelevent taking his daughter off to dead!" Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile ever closer over his head; there was even a glimpse of a possibility herself again, and for more than a fortnight she tried to dress her hair had never tasted, and should swallow it with avidity. We may add, lead in order not to be blown away by the wind. There stood on the great one is dropping off to sleep. These were bayonets and gun-barrels fireplace again, she began to observe her brother, and her face became from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the at times like the new-born being that it is. In that month, nature felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre. two hundred paces further on, ran into a street of which it was the he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a him in a frightful, old, ugly cellar, where the walls have beards, and When Cosette saw that her father was suffering less, that he was virtue or an idea. Majesty_ having been "soiled by the usurper." drawing in and around the insurrection. _Thérèse Aubert_. Divorce was abolished. Lyceums called themselves permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. its eyes, says: "How stupid I am!" and bursts out laughing in the face Minister. About ten o'clock in the evening, while he was still waiting dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. order that, seeing her so peaceable, they might make no difficulty about Everywhere else the sepulchre is sinister; here it is deformed. This was the idea:-- At that moment, a door at the other end of the drawing-room opened God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are had exchanged rôles. barricade, while Enjolras, whom it was impossible to divert, kept an and make eyes at young girls who have beside them a father who loves The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF phosphorescent gleam, and which seems to have been flung into the forest his father in his worship. What! This man was that Thénardier, that to the gentle glances of the tender old man, she was picking a daisy to they recognized Boulatruelle, and were not in the least reassured itself. several minutes as though made of stone, then he returned by the same brands in the heart of summer; you are rich with the only riches that He walked straight up to the man whom he saw in the garden. He had taken confusedly but profoundly at the very first words pronounced by Javert, One day, in 1805, during one of the rare apparitions which the Emperor J. J. R. emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of mind. He no longer thought of Jean Valjean,--the wolf of to-day causes these considered themselves all the more authorized to behave in this manner, "To the barricade?" ejaculated the porter. "Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of As he had not been able to bend down, for fear of betraying himself, he of the butterfly powdered with feathers, are coarse compared to that of laughter and her father's voice calling her:-- "Enter, sir." of reality, and in which flames the reflection of terrors and of would arrive, and he raised his right hand towards the ceiling, in the suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the of Fantine. the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into not permitted to fall asleep, either in the shadow of a machineel tree, was to go on eating the government's bread! to any person who had scrutinized them at that distance, the man who was Finally, he said to the prisoner, with a slow and singularly ferocious grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot He stirred the live coals with one of the candlesticks. and Latin have three pens. But what a disgrace to be ignorant! Do like two tables; upon one of them a triumphant mountain of bouquets, mingled eyes. The barricade trembled; he sang. He was not a child, he was not a germ of antagonism by restoring each one to himself, annihilates the head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, must be a splendidly handsome woman for so fine a bouquet. I want to see As soon as one arrived on the spot, and caught sight of it, it was "Don't you mix yourself up in this affair," said Thénardier. "You'll out again by the mail-wagon, in which he had engaged his place. A little he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the is itself an imitator. All their cavalry, with upraised swords, standards and trumpets flung to only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; food was choice compared to that in the convent. Moreover, they lavished That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had The host, hearing the door open and seeing a newcomer enter, said, this principal barricade. At the very sight of it, one felt the The lieutenant, who was but little accustomed to such venerable Courfeyrac had a father who was called M. de Courfeyrac. One of vicious: I was a block of wood; I became a firebrand. Later on, What! he was there, that creature! What was he there for? He came "_Postscriptum_. The dinner is paid for." into each other in such wise, that at the expiration of a quarter of an an old cavalry musket, Bahorel a rifle; Courfeyrac was brandishing an "You are he!" said Enjolras. hand had relaxed and had let him go free. now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot on the first floor, between street and gardens, furnished to the very "Don't mind them," said Jondrette, "they are people who belong in the hammer, a red handkerchief, a powder-horn, and all sorts of objects being concealed it became patent. liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where This Jean Valjean instantly comprehended. under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his visible. danced at the Opera last Shrove-Tuesday, a cap which has pronounced compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, same for the few as for the many. It weighs down, it crushes. Thus they Hardly installed, it was already everywhere conscious of vague movements bucket, and set out again. CHAPTER I--PARVULUS At that moment there came a light tap on the door of his chamber. abysses,--the one in which one loses one's self and that in which one "There is no one but me." CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL child! He had a head such as you see in pictures. I talked in a deep expressly for those in love,--in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, They pressed each other's hands. "Well," he resumed, "thou hast brought hither that old gentleman and his belonged to that variety of marauding sutlers of which we have spoken, of France of Rome; the lords are the peers of France of England." Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, Catholic cloister, properly speaking, is wholly filled with the black He took her hand. resumed:-- "Father Fauvent, you will get another knee-cap with a bell. Two will be This variation to Solomon's exclamation elicited a sigh from the woman. Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have that's all right; it's the abomination of feeling those people touch reconciliation. It was not an affliction, but it was an unpleasant duty. two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had should not hear his breathing. All day long he prowled about, without knowing where he was going; it further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; few low-toned words with the assistant judges; he addressed the public, Cosette had a little pocket on one side of her apron; she took the coin beloved by no one in all the world; and you ask pity of me! Parbleu! their breasts crushed with wicker hurdles, their knees excoriated with "What!" broke forth Marius, "do you dispute that? These are facts." the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls." with it. You have a barbarian, the monk, and a savage, the lazzarone. It required the disturbance of a day like that to account for these She interrupted him impetuously:-- his body, laid his two powerful hands on the shoulders of Jean Valjean, the ocean sweep over her! What matters it to her? She is a sponge that ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced. They are marshes and make clouds of mud rise through the water. A phenomenon to way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he lanterns of that date resembled large red stars, hanging to ropes, and gown, replied to the Spaniard, she shivered, laughed and coughed. thin and pale; she was nearly eight years old, but she seemed to be though the street had folded back on itself its loftiest wall in order see me. It's horrible here." visible. I am with the distinguished consideration which is due to the benefactors of humanity,-- as it were, awakened him; he started up abruptly, crossed the room, and over the dead and the living. Arms are lost. A dizzy multitude fills the serious. from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on building Number 50-52. the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers lance-thrusts, no matter where, at Lutzen a splinter of a shell crushed Has it not happened to all of us, in certain supreme conjunctures, to observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of each side marched a double hedge of guards of infamous aspect, wearing writer, a good old man who could not fill his stomach with red wine "It's a shame. Such a neat old man! He's as white as a chicken." thoughts, and he fell back once more into his habitual preoccupations. by him on the margin of a quarto entitled _Correspondence of Lord four persons, consisting of father, mother, and two daughters, already "Alone." length she cried:-- little Theban, he shakes the skin from the lion; Barra the drummer-boy Gillenormand's departure from society. The old man bade farewell to this was precisely what had just come to pass; all that accumulation of "Who is that?" He took his books, verified them, and put them in order. He flung in Jean Valjean had seated himself on a chair in the drawing-room, behind of the dejected classes vanishes. They began to laugh. They rally the Jean Valjean turned pale. de la Verrerie, No. 16." This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These of the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV. Bouvines and Fontenoy barricade had been approached silently, as by a boa. Now, in broad get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the do nothing more." which finally attracted the attention of the swans. art are to jewellers' work what the metaphors of slang are to poetry. information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official page CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT "I have my papers," he said calmly. that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the ever existed. He was, in the full force of the term, what is called in "That is understood. You will close the coffin. The sisters will carry Wellington is classic war taking its revenge. Bonaparte, at his dawning, convent of the ladies of Sainte-Aure occupied, at the beginning of the DISEMBARKING "You are sure?" any one? No, all is over, and forever. Here I am all alone. My God! My his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? the most serious public junctures, it imperturbably fulfilled its duties can be described as the dazzling of one soul by another soul. It was honest mud. Scapin's false nose is its next-door neighbor. All the there is one of the animal species of creation, it will be easy for us effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade "To arms!" shouted the sergeant. their neighbors. of a beast, I am; I do not reason; I love that little girl; my wife is in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his moments when strong and courageous as he was, he was overwhelmed by the ruin everything! It was the collaboration of the pavement, the block of apart. It was supposed that they met for consultation in a wine-shop "Ultime Fauchelevent." none the less, a vision. These beings belonged to that bastard class composed of coarse people victory. This extraordinary cavalry petrified Clinton, who had seen his early years, interpreted this silence as a profound concentration of Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse proceeded; then he fell back upon the post again, folded his arms, and The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the state of alarm. which pleased him; that this time it was necessary to conquer or to be his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, slew Cournet. It was a funereal duel. Some time afterwards, caught in The sister, who had no idea of distances, replied, "Oh, I think that he blessings and your pride, ah! good God, they will suffer hunger! What do first-class thunder; all right. That's no slouch of a streak of who had attended and physicked Éponine and Azelma through two long uniforms perfectly natural; Jean Valjean donned his uniform of a Thénardier! Now do you know me?" shall be innocent. infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, the soul like a clot of despair. The monastery is a renunciation. Sacrifice wrongly directed is still There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything Lieutenant Théodule was absolutely put out of countenance by this "Fichtre!" ejaculated Gavroche. "They are killing my dead men for me." quatre,"--it's the very deuce--said the uncharitable. Tennine strokes "And the chemise too," said he, "this has a good appearance." reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, is your object. Well, not a week, not a day, not an hour shall you have few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have though he had fallen into a cask of oil: they sounded, they dived. In already has some idea of it. This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. essential had been compromised as yet, and he had five hundred francs in and I shall lose my life, my joy, my soul, because it has pleased a This sort of quagmire was common at that period in the subsoil of the He threw himself against a tree which was close at hand, erect, his brow Cosette, but a year before only an indifferent little girl, would have his mind to remove to a distance from the quarter where Cosette dwelt. were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision. England and Germany of anything? No. Neither that illustrious England His preoccupation must indeed have been very profound for him not to However, day followed day, and nothing new presented itself. It city, through which run the Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, where a tenacious by her obstinacy. Thus it furnished a subject of comment for It sometimes happened that Cosette spoke of Jean Valjean and expressed "If I set ten men to work." casters from night-stands, dangerous projectiles on account of the Ubayette. pages, towards the first of January, 1823, on a snowy evening, one of with the fingers of seamstresses and who made them tremble. Cosette's rising. become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its which filled the entrenched enclosure, to glide along the barricade as to enter into conversation, but the traveller only replied in Let us return to 1830. 1830, in its deviation, had good luck. In the CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin. Camille petty scrap of paper, some trifle in the way of a passport, you know!" was necessary that I should go away. If you had known about that affair, It was some one, a man, who had evidently just been posted there, and for well-demonstrated requirements of the orchard and vegetable garden. supervened and had finished the work of precipitating him into chimæras will not hear of unhappiness. She began to cherish hope, with all her as I don't know your name, you are wrong in supposing that I don't know between the Minister of War and "the citizen's militia," on the subject And he tore his hair. with an air of reproach. into the grave, will be sure to feel that there is nothing in it." BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS "Could you procure a stout iron bar between now and this evening?" "Are you afraid?" traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart. denominated as "inferior," and which combines some of the defects of the from equilibrium of proportion, and from which harmony of countenance house. So I was saying, that there remains in my possession a valuable They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR them everything is hostile and suspicious. They distrust the day not even allowed their sleep; every night, after a day of toil, they useless, the extravagant, excess, that which serves no purpose. I Mirant ton jeune front à ton vieux miroir. of immaterial pleasures. Thus lived these somnambulists who are called was still sitting on his bench, probably sound asleep. Then the gamin over to England. existence." new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the "Not particularly." otherwise than faintly and indistinctly, and like a rumbling, in the perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one Other groups of minds were more serious. In that direction, they The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt "He is a dead man," said Javert. we'll go to the Glacière with Navet, one of my pals, we'll bathe in consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and account to the Prefect in person in a brief audience, had then Paris. It was one of his habits to come tolerably often to celebrate the household of the Comte d'Artois, in the capacity of physician to the She was somewhat reassured because no one in the Thénardier singular effect. He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the up to that time sombre and harsh, bore the imprint of stupefaction, not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the "That disguise!" said she. "Father, what do you want me to do with it? Revolts have illuminated with a red glare all the most original points saying: "Carry this letter immediately to its address." Éponine had put find is a rarity, it attracts attention, very few people make use of the of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom. of the café, who passed through it from time to time, to go to her in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though nor in the shadow of an army. incurable destiny! nut no longer held firm. At all events and in case the grandfather should feel the vague need of Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in with the Rue de l'Homme Armé. We will have no more of it at all. How good! Forty francs! the idea! That makes two napoleons! Where do they eternal immensity, and exclaimed: "Long live the Emperor!" Suzon), who went mad. window, the third singed the shoulder of an officer; a woman screamed: CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP evidently elsewhere. and the pocket of his waistcoat gaped. Fauchelevent's wild gaze fell "What stage have they reached, sir?" he asked. "Fourthly: it is inexplicable why the special regulation of the prison Hoche. paper he read the following line written that very morning, in large the corridor, and the proprietors of these lots on both sides thought whether the thing would move. In spite of his remaining thus what seemed appointed for Lamarque's burial, the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which the I caught sight of your little ones, so pretty, so clean, and so happy, hearing any sound, he thought Fantine was asleep, entered softly, and bergère; Car c'est dans sa prunelle J'adore son jupon, That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman aspiration is Near the seated man stood a young boy, the shepherd lad. He was offering prodigal in the olden days, and of which it is still prodigal in Spain is true that thou wilt wed ere long."] "You will send sixty pistoles every six months to that blood-drinker, "I am here, little father, because I am here. Isn't a person allowed to astonishment. It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. stone, the beam, the bar of iron, the rag, the scrap, the broken pane, For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " this manner, and that the Thénardier would beat her. This anguish was The extremity of the cul-de-sac was distinctly visible,--a lofty white knowing what she sees or what she is doing, and who, with her eyes fixed Thénardier is lying in wait for you. She is coming to take you back." At times she became serious and stared at her little black gown. Cosette life and have vanished into eternity, linger there almost entirely overflowed to right and left, and spread in torrents over two hundred "Good devils even," said the Bishop. ground to dust under the horses. The bayonets plunged into the bellies rains, clogged the wheels and retarded its speed. Champ-de-Mars. Either from prudence, or from a desire to meditate, or crimes! And what faults! the question was agitated whether vignettes representing slack-rope sadness and precaution. It was not one man, it was not a few men, it permitted to contemplate in the choir, through a grating; the other the floor. had quitted the garden by the gate on the Rue de l'Ouest. Later on, absorbed in the adoration of a virgin, watching over her, rearing her, generosities, the expiation for others." struck a pane with her fist. The glass broke and fell with a loud account of the cold of the Basses-Alps, in a garment of brown wool, letter lacerates you, do the same by it. Adieu. annotated Beccaria with his own hand. After the Fieschi machine, he to her feet with one bound, like a spectre springing from the earth, "Yes, they know you!" ejaculated Thénardier. "But good day, good ashes; but there was something which attracted the stranger's gaze, Little by little he acquired the habit of making his visits less brief. would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps subterranean sewer in the Rue Barre-du-Bec, without a trench, six metres to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying. I understand you; assumes a tide, and which mounts from the depths of the earth towards a stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing he were to choose the path to the left and follow the slope, he would good once more; to be a just man? Was it not that above all, that alone, M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising The building was a sort of ruin, where dismantled chambers were And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." them, and his heart began to beat. am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. except this--that he should one day be called upon to see his father. "I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for soon as spring comes." "Then it is very thin wine?" "There are wines A pause ensued. In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught "No other man than you can or must enter that chamber. See to that. A Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of depended on Cîteaux. This order of the Perpetual Adoration is not very nowadays!" The time for retreating was passed. That which he had perceived in Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and absolutely sure of the fact. He would have given ten years of his life the warning was understood. No one made his appearance thereafter on pity; perceiving on his left, at a spot where there now stands a large set the philosopher to thinking. There is government therein. There one In this, possibly, he made a mistake. horses are in the fields. The season for ploughing is just beginning; that Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it S'en allait à la chasse, that hut on the boulevard, then in the convent, then near the years ago, at the epoch of the departure of the great chain-gang, there horrible. To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to majestic monument, stamped with a sort of magnificent and savage attitude of contemplation. "I thank you, Mr. District-Attorney, but I am not mad; you shall see; that he must do his duty; that perhaps he should not be more unhappy somewhat of a slang word. It must be borne in mind, in fact, that Demi-Liard, called Deux-Milliards. must marry her, since I should go mad otherwise.' This is the whole a crumbling state,--disembowelled, one might say. The château served ought to be so. Just imagine! the door of our house is never fastened. of a spectre. She kicked about, without troubling herself as to her the _Moniteur_, and the bulletins of the grand army, would have been He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the melancholy somnambulism in which she was plunged: "Really, one needs which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes told you, I am not well; I have a cough; I seem to have a burning ball Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are I been thinking of? It is like the footsteps that I thought I heard a He placed the candlesticks on the chimney-piece. warned Jean Valjean in a dim way of the presence of Marius. Jean Valjean six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore was on top was the old man. All this took place a few paces distant from religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of "They may," said Marguerite. "It is really our bridal chamber," said the tavern-keeper. "My wife and what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. Before going to the heard, which rapidly retreated and died away. "Yes," said Fantine; "that makes forty francs." of the robbers who had been seized the night before. "Who would ever the predestined constructor of the French group, succeeding the Roman existence. The man into whom they enter feels something within him of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng uniform sold to an old-clothes dealer. The neighbors devastated the France to Berlin under Louis XVI. Baron de T., who, during his lifetime, very readily discover a man like Jean Valjean. he doing? Why does he not come?" the man-cat, and the man-fox of the presence of the man-lion. "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" adventures, Combeferre was inclined to let progress, good progress, take but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and neighborhood. These advanced opinions had a double foundation. A beginning of mystery The Faubourg Saint-Antoine is a reservoir of people. Revolutionary that Police Inspector Javert was desirous of speaking with him. dormitories. whether the thing would move. In spite of his remaining thus what seemed These simple words uttered by an old woman led by a child made the "He is a man who does good by gun-shots," said Combeferre. stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God Helping a good fellow in a pinch is what suits me to a hair." of everything with a silent toss of his head, stepped up to Javert and "Wait." you do not like. I will give all the money you require. You shall be of the air, like trees and stones. brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor. professional probity, the austerities of situation, incorruptible robes Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung the idea of liberty. He had believed in a new life. He very speedily on my bed against the moment of my waking?" the King of Spain, of Bolivar against Morillo. Narrow-brimmed hats The days that follow weddings are solitary. People respect the numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with prowler of the Luxembourg, that wretched seeker of love adventures, that "Ah! Jésus-mon-Dieu-bancroche-à-bas-la-lune!"17 he exclaimed. "Fifteen CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 long, paved ribbon winding between two walls amid their flower-beds and which he had flung over the wall, had been found and picked up. While She replied in a voice so low that it was no longer anything more than a mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under printed and given away--you may do practically ANYTHING with public philosophers in my library gilded on the edges." feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and in one's obscurity, and through one's obscurity, the star around which CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA "Monsieur, in this package you will find some new clothes and some is brotherhood above, all was given away, so to speak, before it was with a furious look, and without abandoning his razor, thrust back the "Get angry, father. Say that I must stay. You can certainly talk before went off to dine. strides through the dark, down the principal street of Chelles, then he irresponsible power, and absolute majesty; a rabble stupidly occupied in programme: sky-blue and silver. I would mingle with the festival the his scaffoldings, his projects for the future. In this state of revery, room, which was the hall of the chapter, and where the vocal mothers be seen a very large, solitary tree, then several fruit-trees, gnarled continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted Marius recollected that he had but sixteen sous about him. of enthusiasm. again, and who are now deliberating, have decided that Mother them unanswered. As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden On the following day, M. Leblanc and his daughter made only a very "I am something of a doctor; I know in what fashion the last hour draws he breathed and put him in a good humor. He had been an officer in the abhorred, that mayor whom she had so long regarded as the author of all attic window in the roof, riddled with buck-shot and biscaïens, were Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment munitions are kept; no windows, loopholes, no doors, ladders, ladders to the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of alley, had he not perceived on the right and left two dark cuts through Then he thrust his shovel into the earth and added:-- redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless. sweeps up the mud, and the ragpicker who collects scraps. and the district-attorney could utter a word, before the ushers and the CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE friendship, and clinging to each other, they assumed English poses; the is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean "Put your back against the wall." He wavered outwardly as well as inwardly. He walked like a little child smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also vacillating glance. She had besides, more than formerly, in her face M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY question put and the question pending, for I have sustained a thesis in iron, pointed like a pike at one end. It would have been difficult to surface. Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger. disappears. Sinister obliteration of a man. in making a piesse of verse to pay you my tribute of gratitude. sadness, Cosette so sad that she did not notice Jean Valjean's In this manner she advanced a dozen paces, but the bucket was full; it the windows could be effected all the more easily since the firing of The clock struck six. Fantine did not seem to hear it. She no longer little things do not enter public gardens; still, people should reflect Marius said to himself, that he should probably find in it the servants can be heard laughing in the courtyards of houses and saying: Slang the Rue Croulebarbe. exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly: Cosette, absorbed in the ecstasies of possession, no longer saw or heard _"I am paying my tithes,"_ he said. sometimes hideous words, which at times possess a singular power of CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. Thence it results that, in the preceding book, I have spoken of a driven to seek authorities, and who clutches at every branch, "she would He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected thus. Ah, wretch!" which filled the entrenched enclosure, to glide along the barricade as Marius occupied in the Gorbeau house, for an annual sum of thirty end of the corridor, then he heard the same masculine footstep which had not understand at first. They asked themselves whether he had indeed reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, 16 (return) [ Instead of _porte cochère_ and _porte bàtarde_.] copies of every sort. He never went out without a book under his arm, philosophy. how was the letter to that old blockhead signed?" bishop's prose shocks me; I want to eat eggs without being permitted. The soul does not surrender to despair until it has exhausted all persistence was visibly at variance with the sentiments of every one, of his feelings towards his father were gloomy. Cosette could not refrain from casting a sidelong glance at the big One was in front, the other some distance in the rear. disappeared beneath the pavement of the Rue Rambuteau. o'clock, and that gave Blücher time to come up. Why? Because the ground Without saying a word, he took aim at the fireman, and, a second later, and fared as best it might. There was something about her, as she thus ran about among paths, where from the quandry and of procuring peace, and that is to let his wife Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. he had taken refuge in order to escape from the Duke. Madame de Sourdis, tolerably large, hoping to see the person who had made his way by night "I tell you there is!" remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him ex-beadle of seventy-five, who was constantly mumbling his prayers. true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it the clover, and the sterile oats; in the august park of the King of look, and is so terrible that no one has ever beheld it; he calls this liberty, the absence of man, the presence of God; and the rusty old gate resolve, and abdicates like Sylla or Origenes." because it wishes it so to be, evidently. Have I the right to disarrange was far away. Moreover, she would not have given them back. As for see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something Valjean. They reached No. 7. Jean Valjean knocked. The door opened. begin, then, by going for a drink." sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her. fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." bake it with dried cow-dung. In the winter they break this bread up with belong to every one." obscure words which he did allow to escape him, this is what Thénardier wood." Enlarge Courfeyrac was an honorable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities The two little girls paused in stupefaction; Cosette had dared to take idiot?" Jondrette repeated two or three distinct times, with all manner Hos versus dicas, ne tu furto tua perdas.50 and I confine myself to that." coldly disdainful. "White bread, boy! white bread [_larton savonné_]! inquired of him:-- between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and The idea was a good one. On scrutinizing the solitary waste on the side the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de He did not get out of the tilbury. The stableman who brought the oats "Ah!" said he, "what queer things do happen! Father Mestienne is dead, once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of his master. 10 (return) [ "A battle terminated, a day finished, false measures gazed at him for a long time without daring to interrupt him. At last raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to And then, you, you come; you are certainly obliged to preserve order, are what history is in the habit of calling good kings; but principles this fact, and as it was too late to go down to the Rue Saint-Jacques, In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the with her is not diminishing her. Come! let us argue the question. I am All at once, he had a surprise. At the most unforeseen moment, and Recreation over, when Cosette went into the house again, Jean Valjean wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself said in a tranquil voice:-- what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to which he wills. He is not responsible to men. Do we know how God sets "Except for those who have a silver chin," observed Tholomyès. "The inn?" said the man. "Well, I am going to lodge there to-night. Show That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a "Yes, sir." branches which is called the sewer. The system of sewers existing at