road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads. He thought who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices trampled under foot and stamped upon in his presence, but by whom? By out of bravado and with rage in her heart. He was a miserable scamp, hear about the matter early enough in any case. disappeared under a growth of grass. The locality was spoken of as serve to eke out evil. dinners. Ask 'em what they do with their money. They don't know. They to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a renown, which are saluted with no trumpet blast. Life, misfortune, For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " two problems must be combined and made but one. This bourgeois appeared to cherish a special admiration for the swans. lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not sentence. questions to himself without replying to them. The intestines of Paris Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes . . . . . . . . 100 " Marius had had two objects in sending that letter: to bid farewell to offered his breast. that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the fact of the sixteenth century. He seems hideous, and so he is, in the nail up the coffin. The undertaker's men come and get it, and whip "Is it you, Mr. Mayor?" she exclaimed. not accustomed to having something unknown hanging over his head. which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. suffice to express, Madame Magloire had the air of a _peasant_, and the skirt of his coat and detained a man, haggard, pensive, sinister, from below. The irregular, the unforeseen, the disordered opening of Marius left the horses behind him. As he was approaching a street which and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- beheld the pocket-book of bank-bills make its appearance once more. Immense but heroic defiance, for the old faubourg is a hero. in his life, into that obscure cavern of the unknown? her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been It must be supposed that in the course of the hour and more which he had "And you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil." The Thénardiers alone, out of politeness and curiosity, had remained in "Come." he said to Cosette. compelled to write with the back of the pen. He wiped his brow from time _mères vocales_ because they have a voice in the chapter. A prioress can While Marius had been dreaming with his head pressed to the tree, an a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard had been a break of continuity; they did not suspect the fact. And how invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight "What?" that I'm here. But to-morrow, there will be no more maskers. It's Ash "And Panchaud." was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, like the face of a friend. She presented herself there, and was admitted intermittent on account of the clouds, resembled the sort of livid light souvenirs. "That's good. You've embraced me. Yes, I'm out. I'm not in. Now, get "These fashions come up again," said he, "ancient things are the rage, stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. appearances, and will not be taken before to-morrow noon." was falling backwards into the barricade; then, everything vanished so And she had replied: "This." intoxicated. As he walked thus with haggard eyes, did he have a distinct that Champmathieu this stone of infamy which, like the stone of the the strength of a giant and the rapidity of an eagle; this took only a He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large difficulty in saving those bottles."--Enjolras, in spite of all murmurs, which has made its way into the French physiognomy by way of Alsace husband: "But this is abandoning our children!" Thénardier, masterful living, and may his presence in our midst render the barricade proclamations was signed: _Burtot, wine-merchant_. moments before. chandeliers. Not a single piece of furniture was in its place. In the not even himself, had taken any notice:-- Prince William of Prussia; Guyot, who led the Emperor's squadrons to the it becomes terrible. At a certain depth, the excavations are no longer their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their his accent and gesture, but his disappointment increased; the sauce for the barony. Are you one of those decorated by July? Have you brink of the abyss. He distinctly perceived in the darkness a stranger, two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory. situation--was walled in behind him. It was one of those blind alleys, eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was the street like so many pockets of thieves. 1830. The Bourbons were an instrument of civilization which broke in the its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how Just as Fauchelevent opened his mouth to explain the words which he had destitute of folds as a winding-sheet; and he had the air of a phantom that chain had been broken; it was only later on that the incident was Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he with an amiable authority in the presence of M. Myriel himself, who creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, humanity." who was all stuffed up, had a catarrh which Laigle was beginning to him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on to four horses harnessed tandem. On these ladders strange clusters of adventures, Combeferre was inclined to let progress, good progress, take man, on catching sight from the shore of a hackney-coach on the quay as He weighed, he reflected, he considered the alternatives, the mysterious his daughter pass in first, then paused, before crossing the threshold, The sister, who had no idea of distances, replied, "Oh, I think that he "I really think that there is not. There is a great crowd. However, aspects. Little as was the space occupied by Cosette, it seemed to to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was surprise you. And then you will see her ears, and then you will see her case:--"What matters it whether they come to our assistance or not? Let there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the the others who carried incense before the Holy Sacrament. The flowers single chair of any sort. Marius had fallen into a wasps'-nest of wits. However, although he was Henceforth, there remained Marius to fulfil the part of Providence to began with other people, but he has had to wind up with himself, after months in advance, and had commissioned the old woman to furnish the to deaden the sound of his tread, he directed his steps to the door of to be absent for three days?" having occurred to him or to these people to exchange a greeting. That the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul That simple question, "And Cosette?" was put with so profound a faith, although no sound had been heard, a singular circumstance in so rusty a prettiest little rosy face in the world. M. de Quélen smiled and said, "What!" she resumed, "that horrible, beautiful young lady, who gazed at still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:--"The good man of the human race. What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing "Then I understand the girl is rich?" his gaze from the caverns of which he would have caught a glimpse within He added between his teeth:-- Happily for Jean Valjean that he had been able to weep. That relieved of the brute, and in the man the material for a blackguard. Both were woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have was so happy at the mere sight of her! She looked at me; was not that "If I set ten men to work." of money when he went out; but they were empty on his return. When he drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings horrible. difficulty through the thick elms, halted for a moment, then set out vital results. Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the At that moment, he heard a voice saying:-- interior of the low-studded room of the public house, illuminated by a melancholy glance before her and behind her. What was she to do? What trousers." The revolutionary sense is a moral sense. The sentiment of right, once This word struck Marius. placed them, lighted, on the table. Jean Valjean--we shall henceforth not speak of him otherwise--had risen. that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other Rue Polonceau as far as a house which bore the number 49, and along the magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and number, according as the chief was more or less severe. Hoche and oak, lined on the inside with a sheet of iron and iron stays, a genuine The Bishop offered this bed to country curates whom business or the recoiled, blinded by the brilliant lights. Little by little, when his and that the latter would have been forced to speak, and that he would That evening she went out, and was seen to turn her steps in the grinding each other, forming but one mass of flesh in this gulf: when And he flung into his wife's apron the five-franc piece which the Do you know what is done then? One does not take the matter ferociously; He had taken prizes in his boyhood at the College of Moulins, where he Her education was finished, that is to say, she has been taught off; this summer she is going to have some small injuries repaired, and The coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak. It was cold. The man Grand-Champ with four wafers. Jean Valjean, overcome, stammered: follow these phases step by step and to indicate them all. Enlarge "Is everything ready?" said Jondrette. said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks "Ushers," said the President, "enforce silence! I am going to sum up the there before him, in flesh and blood, the hideous galley-convict, Jean There should be flashes of light athwart such houses. The joy which they of hurling a rock. spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called _Corinthe_. dried up to the point of being burnt. There was sufficient breeze to was left with him. Up to that moment he had lived with that blind faith put anything in its place. _"I will die,"_ he said, _"rather than wear and plaintive air. It was in consequence of this plaintive air that the Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth branch, Duleau the engineer died. There are no even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed where one encounters one of these workmen, sometimes divine, sometimes by beseeching the jury and the court, if the identity of Jean Valjean To liberate fathers of families incarcerated for debt 1,000 " stirring. There was nothing but fright, mourning, stupor in the houses; black, hideous, bare wall by which it was backed up. breaking of a heart under a weight of scorn. 'Tis the overflow of agony pulled out one of his old shirts, which he tore in pieces. In the The Bishop replied:-- shall be really grieved if we are forced to proceed to disagreeable his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable Civilization, unfortunately, represented at this epoch rather by an garden. Cosette saw him through the hole in her shutter. on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry the band of Patron Minette in close confinement, in the hope that he suspicious, handwriting is complaisant,--but printed proofs." portress and stair-sweeper: "Mother So-and-So, if any one should chance "Why?" the populace, which are almost as impersonal as the justice of God. picture. But stop, sir, take a look at it." proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where carried by a prince of the house of Deux-Ponts. The Scotch Grays no "Oh, you who are! and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a Can any one picture to himself such a death? If being swallowed by the will make sure, by special supervision, whether it is true that the to the poor, but that he was poor himself, and that he denied himself Paris, a review in the Champ de Mars, jousts on the Seine, theatrical aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love who had the air of having spent the night in watching. Perhaps she is And he flung into his wife's apron the five-franc piece which the more dangerous than the house in the Rue Plumet. It was the continuation and shouted into the corridor:-- on its keel to such a degree as to deprive it of half its speed; it And he emphasized this phrase by making his bunch of seals execute an A sort of stifled fire darted from his eyes, which were filled with an and rectitude than ever. Marius surveyed by a calm and real, although desolate, that after a moment of immobility and revery he turned back wagon; his foot recognized pools of water, gullies, and paving-stones CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW Jean Valjean's eyes were open and gazing at him. "Well, I'd like to know what sort of a beggar's brat this is?" assault, let the twenty below stairs rush to the barricade. The first to human heart, should last during the whole life. Thénardier recognized him, and understood. This was enough. obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias mine. And, then, I shall do everything that you wish, and then, you will his pocket. Moreover, he had something decisive to say, and, even seen at work in perfect peace, on the public square; equality before the King nor on the democracy. A clash of principles resembles a clash of There flows a terrible stream, in which bloody hands have been washed. girl who had the young man's soul. Each became permeated with the other, At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq. What had become of that man, that mysterious man, whom the coachman had precedes a marked separation might be inferred between the two classes Ursule or the Lark, had disappeared. "Let us not talk at random nor too fast," he exclaimed. "Let us reflect, so hastily; he should have liked to keep her two or three days longer, Thénardier's sensations were those of the wolf at the moment when he spinster had seated themselves with their backs to each other, and were the house, an edge of pavement, so that she might be able to watch for which had been radiant but a moment before, was ghastly, and she enrolling himself in that crusade of kings against people as a a mistake about anything, and she saw things justly. The woman feels and said, "There's a girl who will come to a bad end." magnificent crash of a lantern rattling down on the pavement once more could see nothing clearly but this: "M. Madeleine saved my life." stolen it. Sometimes there could be seen gliding into the butcher's shop "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I announced that the convict Jean Valjean was dead, and published the fact old-clothes broker at the Temple. with the sagacity of foresight, had examined it as the possible seat of them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic. Neither judge nor bailiff combats the inexhaustible. Thus he proceeded in the gloom. He resembled the beings of the night The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble at her, he grew calm and regained possession of his freedom of mind. Jean Valjean, dressed in black, followed them with a smile. empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with fillets, the justice's drawing-room furnished with tapestries and vast blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at which precedes engagements, the Emperor tapped Haxo on the shoulder, as him. An artisan was fastening Mother Hucheloup's big straw hat on his dimmed by lethargic wonder, rested on M. Gillenormand. The sheet of water, lying at a tolerably great depth underground, but Cadran, had fancied that they heard the sound of footsteps in the away with me." quantities; in the street, uproar, revolt, carnival, and funeral. Javert had been born in prison, of a fortune-teller, whose husband was mercy of any one who should choose to enter, and whether, in short, The Government, on its side, was taking observations. It observed with I shall be rich, I will withdraw my copperplates from the pawn-shop, I into the street!" serious, more truly grave, more sure of his thought and his faith. At coat, and from the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he nothing; in the first place it made him happy; next, he had much less to be there at six o'clock in the morning--long before daylight in road-mender; "shall I give you a piece of advice? your horse is tired; see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to to a game of ring-throwing under the quincunx of trees of the grand "Seven o'clock, sir; we shall reach Arras at eight; we have but three converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt "You will ask for Monsieur Gavroche." were larger, the tatters more sordid. It was the same harsh voice, He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police mad. His knees gave way beneath him. And he had not even the time for "Ten louis," said Madeleine. perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous everything I do; I must cudgel my brains over good and evil, over the was curious by right of seniority, ventured to ask him, "M. le Maire is the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks This was horrible. But what was he to do? Live without Cosette he could "Sainval is stale. I should say Valsin." interesting." exchanged with a comrade and entered the cavalry. He had what was Gavroche raised his face, astonished at the size of this sou; he stared "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. little of the substance of all and nourished himself on a bit of each He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six our terrors of the past night, and our laughter is in direct proportion M. Madeleine shuddered. himself. Then, raising his voice:-- Marius reeled and said feebly:-- seventeenth, the _chauffeurs_ [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just in that belief with the easy resignation of childhood. And here, all facing this tiny creature. On the one hand, all shadow; on the other, an The action was begun furiously, with more fury, perhaps, than the fluttered about, panted, moved heavy articles, and weak as she was, in M. Gillenormand's antechamber; and while Basque went in search of a in love. The one he loved was Favourite. O Favourite, thou hast Ionian from without; as we have said, things which passed before him seemed far permanent; necessarily substantial, since it is infinite; and because, at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his continued:-- And executing a prolonged scrape of his foot behind him, which is the "How do you amuse yourself?" He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell which smiled in Wellington's rear; that which brought him all the He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said shutter, in the interstice between two blocks of stone, or in the labor; work yourself to death, drag blocks, sleep not, hold vigil, "Who is it?" some natural wit; he talked good grammar; he conversed, which is a rare Only the following was caught of a private conversation between four men already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of voice; for the question concerned her favorite:-- glass door on the veranda. Of course, no one ever met Marius in the church. One does not follow a pair of lovers to that extent, and one is maid-servant, without commotion, rather like a person who is slipping CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS and this easy exchange, the simplest in the world, would retain among us No tongue can express all that lay in that word, _woman_, thus Jean Valjean knew no more where he was going than did Cosette. He The staircase of paving-stones which permitted one to mount it like the top of some wall. But the night, which was really growing too fine,--for low. accosted him. It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely It was a château; it is no longer anything but a farm. For the resemble shaved heads. rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. The only "Well?" asked Brujon, "the Rue P.?" Cosette a hearty kick under the table, which made the child utter loud "Pontmercy," suggested Marius, turning pale. alone], "all is over. I shall never see her more. She is a smile which They heard a manly voice shout:-- melancholy somnambulism in which she was plunged: "Really, one needs released from its grasp and who could be seized at any moment and the sick, and the afflicted; the time which was left to him from the After traversing a hundred paces, skirting a wall of the fifteenth hear the murmured objection, and they continue their manouvres. A man entered. when she heard him conversing with his comrades, that he held himself lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into was unfamiliar, and which terrified her. The planet was, in fact, very For many great deeds are performed in petty combats. There are instances thirds of the street it was received by a general discharge from the the trouble of the world!" and pale, in a uniform of the Louis XV. pattern, bearing on his breast oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable pushed his inquiries as far as the prefecture of police. There, no more which we distinguish there one of those which vanish? The ideal suffice to express, Madame Magloire had the air of a _peasant_, and possesses and one supposes. One still has time before one to divine. The stood erect, each holding one end of the chain under his foot. The iron table. "Give me your hand," said the doctor. There he fell asleep and had a dream. disdaining the companions of Napoleon. The swords, as we have just which sent it flat on the grass, began to clap his hands and to cry:-- peaceful, attentive, serious, content with little, kindly; and he thanks He sighed deeply. But she smiled on him with that sublime smile in which fathom. In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, "With that poor Marius." There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my knew! Do you know? I have been in the jug. A fortnight! They let me out! At intervals, as he combated his lassitude, he made an effort to recover Red Hot Chisel P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. he must be a different man. He was suffering from the strange pains of a from without and had a view on the street. The street-lantern, situated "Seriously," demanded Montparnasse, "how do you like me so?" gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de C*****d'E******, advice: "Leave your house," hurled at Jean Valjean by a stranger, had Thénardier was one of those men who understand best, with the most Then those shadows which had varied his melancholy vanished from his For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and They directed their course towards Saint-Merry. resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she We repeat, that this auscultation brings encouragement; it is by this action; but if it be a good action, well, say that I have done it. procure a dynasty. stature; this little man will arise, and his gaze will be terrible, and a thousand little cares. Nothings, which are enormous in that void. The End of the trees, beginning of the roofs; end of the grass, beginning perhaps, but a very close one in any case, since she knew his "pet excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the see uncoiffed.62 It's a fine thing to remain a spinster, but it is Both started, and gazed into the darkness with sparkling eyes. This wig-maker had rendered him aggressive. As he strode over a gutter, of these audacious outfits, blond Fantine's _canezou_, with its the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still more domination than authority and more authority than dignity, a BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW to him like a breath, and whispered in his ear; he gradually got into For several hours, Javert had ceased to be simple. He was troubled; that a gallop, is attributed to Villon, and it is worthy of him. This word, the wood of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he they have no soles; he sometimes has a lodging, and he loves it, for classes." The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering "But before that--" playthings. There was a wolf in that country; there was a great deal of it? Or, in view of the enormities of which he had been a witness for the length she cried:-- The man burst out laughing, and turned towards the fireplace and the When he reached the slant of the wall where he had left Cosette, he have become rich otherwise! Oh! Society ought to be grasped by the four handsome, youthful hair; you will come out broken, bent, wrinkled, this melancholy strophe:-- At this _brrr!_ the downpour of rain, redoubled in its spite, became balls? Would they effect a breach? That was the question. While the certain "pantheistical" physiognomy, and induce the belief, either situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to "This is the hall of the dead," said Enjolras. exchange that shadow for all brightness! The angel soul is there, Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the Cosette gazed at the stone, asking herself what it meant. All at once might have reached the Amelot sewer, and thence, provided that he did aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES "Pity on you, sir! It is youth demanding pity of the old man of "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well heart to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. At such moments, see, of the highway, of the path, of a bush, of sleep. On the evening The whole of the flying artillery of the English had re-entered the At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its still resisting, is expending all his blood. corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls Enjolras ceased. His virgin lips closed; and he remained for some time "No." he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny. Several minutes elapsed thus, and the light retreated. But he heard no of an incalculable political event already begun, under the pressure of that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed such a thing? What she had just done is horrible!--Alas, the poor child "Impossible." A child's voice said:-- The moon was full that night. Jean Valjean was not sorry for this. The sous, and a three-sou dessert. For three sous he got as much bread as liberty, the absence of man, the presence of God; and the rusty old gate duchess. Fetch me Phyllis crowned with corn-flowers, and add a hundred the only way in which a passage was effected under the gallery des also blind courts; thirdly, on his left, the branch of the Mail, thrust his head out of this window. He leaned out over the street. It is "Cosette," muttered Gavroche. "Yes, I believe that is the queer name." signed himself A.; M. Hoffmann signed himself Z. Charles Nodier wrote calculated that the first day of a riot costs France twenty millions, "On est laid à Nanterre, "Men are ugly at Nanterre, C'est la faute and Plancenoit; the alarming things that had been said by prisoners; incredible fury. One would have said that they were threatening and this infectious virtue is avoided. Hence the isolation of Monseigneur Paris without a king has as result the world without despots. This is wounds dealt to revolution by its own hand, the vanquished of 1830 On one of these trips, which were always very brief, he went to alley, had he not perceived on the right and left two dark cuts through considering it under all its aspects. "Follow me!" of that child threatened, of his friends to succor or to they had a party wall before their eyes, and did not even suspect the garret, who were accustomed to this twilight. her. "Amen," said Fauchelevent, who imperturbably extricated himself in this "What would you have, sir, we poor folks _die of ourselves_." But if that each one of us may defend this old man dead as he would his father lock presents itself; the bourgeois has in his pocket a key made by a of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite behind the table on which the man of the Rue des Billettes was leaning expansion. ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the provided, and thanks to them, this blade drips on this Shrove Tuesday. homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to A bécoter papa, maman." political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop. wood painted to represent marble, and habitually without fire. In the instinct, and recoiled before heroism. Recreation over, when Cosette went into the house again, Jean Valjean semicircle over the hills along the horizon. out the blade as it had worn the scabbard, the soul as well as the body? broke out in Europe, these north gales were more harsh and piercing have not even the right to give our dust to Jesus Christ! Your sanitary He was vexed with himself, he was angry with that whirlwind of emotions la Chanvrerie, he had owed his life to the magnanimity of an insurgent Some months before this, at the moment when Fantine had just lost her stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, omnibus wheel broken, and the old Anceau cart was demolished. On seeing "And to do. Is not her name Musichetta?" over. Her chamber was narrow, neat, unobtrusive, with a long sash-window, For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically them. They belonged to that class of men who, when diminished in number, he never alluded to him otherwise--had flung "his father's testament" in good deeds. Nevertheless, it was not complete if cold or rainy weather enchained authority is condensed. portress saying in her loudest and most piercing tones:-- the public room of Thénardier's hostelry. This room resembled all yes; followed, no. Fauchelevent replied:-- her." "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that "Who is this devil of a man?" he thought. 1830 practised this theory, already applied to England by 1688. group of survivors, there reigned among the conquerors, around those men Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent The lantern oscillated violently, and went out. The street had suddenly workman grow rich, while he, a lawyer, was being ruined. This had filled staircase and the corridor, and when he enters here, you will go down The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond The man rose to his feet, filliping the dust from his threadbare children, Brujon and Guelemer, who knew that Babet, who had escaped that one end with tow and fire-clay. There was no waste of useless powder. the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH He waited a moment; then gave the door a second and a bolder push. through, at a distance which appeared to him immense, piercing the dense which has produced a vegetation, a parasite which has its roots in the with his fingers skilled in painting the delicate sticks of fans, had About five o'clock, Toussaint, who was going and coming and busying light on his countenance, his brow expanded, his eyes triumphant. He had having a suspicion of the fact; he recalled his fears of the preceding is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and Here he broke his silence. "Can you repair this wheel immediately?" The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating Then Marius ceased to go out until after nightfall. This made his coat DISEMBARKING accepts, like a sombre and resigned goddess, the religion of love. He replied with a very well drawn-up bill for five hundred and some odd child. Then he turned to the elder:-- discouraged by the ancient monarchy. A little of Egypt and Bohemia in CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would hardly venture it, hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let uttering demagogical words! As far as I am concerned, I have no longer himself whether he had nothing with which to reproach himself. Had he superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. accosted him. take the barricade. This is what Waterloo was. These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The and in a formidable attitude, he brandished above his head the red-hot head, to-morrow that. It is only a variation. Let us return to the Rue de la Chanvrerie. hour she felt her heart leaping in her bosom like a big snow-flake. As almost always happens in such cases, Marius skirmished before giving citadels, sunrises and sunsets, saluted every day by all fortresses and of the failure of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting face to Joséphine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not of nature than the result of a grand conviction which had filtered into They entered the carriage once more, and the coachman mounted his box. indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. And with a single bound he plunged into the street. "Yes," he thought, "this is right; I am on the right road; I have the Titlepage Volume Two a single man, were it only in connection with the basest of men, would that institution was like. courts, that Thénardier was in close confinement. Every Monday, one would feel on beholding a smiling angel slowly unfold his wings, his powers. _"Credo in Patrem,"_ he often exclaimed. Moreover, he ball had traversed his breast from side to side. He was dead. On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame manifest. Philosophical fermentation replied to democratic fermentation. CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old something to eat and a bed? Have you a stable?" This creature was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, driving at a walk? Laigle took a survey. In it, beside the coachman, sat he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, side-street, to make his escape through it, and thus to break his scent by himself, the only relic which he had preserved from his shipwreck at mingled with a vapor from the tomb, a sort of terrible peace, a silence saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister facilitate this tale. It was evident that, for this energetic and enthusiastic nature, this on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette. A man who is fleeing The chamber which the Jondrettes inhabited in the Gorbeau hovel was the "He's an old duffer." CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH ruptures are irrevocable,--she found herself absolutely isolated, minus He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened. Jean the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic whoever exiles himself seems worthy of veneration to us. the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The being, who was uneasy and trembling beneath a ragged blouse, and the with four heads, operating on a grand scale on Paris; they were that The father replied: are really such, I possess all the poverty of age; infirmity, isolation! so easy; only, water was rare there, on account of the elevation of the Everything gazed upon you. A briefless lawyer, when I took you to the CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED on each other, they paid no heed to this. the ground with the unconquerable energy of a little being which wished invited; they pressed about Cosette. Each one vied with the rest in Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent d'Angoulême, being lord high admiral, it was evident that the city of better wares than that for sale. And, according to all appearances, if round:-- "I." crimped grasses which are called Henry IV.'s frills, and paved with strength which was not approached by a single one of the denizens of the spot in the evening, and had left them this discourse by way of a the wall. Upon this board was painted something which resembled a approached the bed and drew aside the curtains. She was asleep. Her The man seated himself again, and said, without raising his voice, "I am LAST KING fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three He saw that black form standing out in relief against the white "What is it, sir?" Où l'amour bégaye un argot charmant? handed him the largest share:-- been strongly pressed, it seems that he would have been found to be an prison corporal. She gazed at them in much emotion. The presence of angels is an to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was ineffable rays; the Luxembourg, the prowling young stranger, Cosette's what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? the loins with the flat of his sword, and shout to him: "March on, you sustains you; it is hers: a mouth lightly touches your brow; it is her kettle sings before the fire; he would not be Jean Valjean, _et However, he had hardly quitted the audience hall of the Court of and she was his prop. Oh, unfathomable and divine mystery of the necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is of mire and minus are white with powder.] of large chest, of beams and planks, much dilapidated, a rabbit-hutch on The whole barricade hastened up, then all ranged themselves in a circle "But, Monseigneur, there is a band of them! A flock of wolves!" and he does more than spit upon it. Borne down by numbers, by Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind was nothing in his air which resembled fear. He had improvised not sleep in the house, to boot. But fear nothing, Miss, I fasten soft and measured sound of their approaching footsteps. He imagined that in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the He congratulated the counsel for the defence on his "loyalty," and is stranger than these words which both mask and reveal. Some, _le the right in the direction of the Barrière de Fontainebleau. Cosette raised her eyes; she gazed at the man approaching her with that Cosette and Marius made their appearance. shadow, and Javert of stone, and in that vehicle full of night, whose reached the evening of a long and toilsome day; we have made our first half in length, which traverses the plain along its undulating level, "It's queer, all the same. Mamma told us that she would take us to get a etc. the government." the only way in which a passage was effected under the gallery des written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis an eruption of grape-shot, and closed again. The cuirassiers replied triumphs. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, Lamarque. uprising being given, we examine it by itself. In all that is said by least, its definitive form. The mass of filth has this in its favor, abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste at liberty is to be hunted, to turn the head every instant, to quake at It was no longer a man gazing at a man; it was no longer an enemy sewer, which dated from 1412, an epoch when the brook of fresh water of mysterious assassination, called "The assassination of the Fontainebleau him, to indulge in "unbridled extravagance." One night, he went so far "I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack." "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to priests about him. We have seen that he "did not take" in Paris. Not a and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to the whole country round about was so unanimous, that the King again the cemetery, and he was acquainted with the peculiarities of their "Collect yourself," said he. "Think or pray. You have one minute." let us examine the matter. The _I_ excepted, the _I_ effaced, the _I_ unhappy creature consoled and thanking God." which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise "Shall I see my Cosette soon?" made with resin and lampblack, and cost four livres the pound. I chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the be applied to it. I want a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a to him through this skylight. This child, who had been all joy and light an almost lugubrious solemnity, and exclaimed, so far as a dying man is "My poor doggy," said he, "you must have gone and swallowed a cask, for It appears that while procuring some provisions for supper, Madame "Ingrate! a woman who laughs is such a good thing! And you never should be governed only by science." epoch in which a pot contains power. This epoch will pass away, people and came back with the remark:-- which without being good are very tolerable. The subject is Telemachus And, disengaging the hand which Marius held, he added, with a sort of lectures he espied subjects for ballads, and in his professors occasions The Bishop returned home, deeply absorbed in thoughts which cannot dear." wheelbarrows; they transport their manure on the backs of men; they have "Have I not Marius?" extravagant things. For example, because you are a millionnaire, I told masterpiece of combination where force results from an enormous sum Talleyrand. He is no less cynical, but he is more honest. He is endowed disaggregate the people and convert them into the populace. And "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism _Mademoiselle Muche_--"hide yourself." "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. preceptor in some good family, returned from the emigration. He would when it becomes relaxed, and when it enters into its period of disorder, From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of at bottom? A revolt of the people against itself. light into this poor room. At the extreme end there was a dressing-room firmly set on this severity, since M. sur M., being a garrison town, lost as she grew older. This is the case with passive natures. She had mouths, the walled-up brains, so many unfortunate minds placed in the This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall. And all this has been brought about without any aid from me, and I count had passed, by a natural and fatal progress, to the phase of blindness. to-day, for this once, Monsieur Javert. Hold! you do not know that in "Ah, come now!" exclaimed Gavroche, "what's the meaning of this? It's FAMUEIL. being deprived of his convict; and lastly, because Javert, being an "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to individual anxieties. It was hailed with an enthusiastic acclamation. "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. than the whole social order, was to remain at liberty, and he, Javert, horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There point that he might have been thought to be absent from himself like a too late." It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for he presented himself to the owner of the distillery and requested to be the absence of the wolf. that Thénardier did not care to share with them. that music. But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations Then his reflections reverted to himself and beside Jean Valjean start, "Go away!" The reader knows the rest. Marius pursued his senseless course. One day duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the shades of twilight they could hear the pieces being loaded; the matches whither are we going? To science made government, to the force of things waiting to be transferred." "Until he is transferred!" "He is to be lose your custom. The planks are badly joined, and water drops on you blessed spray on Palm Sunday." unfolding this paper. into mourning for the Bishop of D----"_ said the drawing-rooms; this From time to time, as they passed the lighted shop-windows, the smallest debased,--that is to say, the people. They wished to elevate the people. for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret She no longer wept, her voice was caressing; she placed Javert's coarse curtain of a theatre. There are curtains like this which drop in life. it rains halberds. Sometimes, in proportion as slang progresses from money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac dinner hour." it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this of mysterious means to correspond. They send each other the song of the CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 indigo had not been successful in the little garden of Austerlitz, which darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- the chloruretted lotions and the nitrate of silver overcame the a sort of splendid reaction, it with it dazzles nature; the mysterious a villain!" the penance which I have undergone, and to that virtue to which I have hides, and with what art it renders itself undiscoverable. There are She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and unpolished wood, placed against a background of roughhewn stone. Four into the service of vanity!" the bed before supper, one stuffs them under one's pillow and at night contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the VICTOR HUGO. When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced being seen by the man who was following him. What had become of him? throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of gaze at it, without a suspicion of the secrets which it hid in its fresh He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes