"There is going to be a shot to fire." chamber, he saw a light through the keyhole. This light formed a sort as the pears of St. Germain; it is from one of his combinations, "You're a fine man," said Gavroche. "In that case, she is asleep; but Monsieur le Maire may enter." to read." suppose that there is a wrong action on my part in this, and that my which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there It was the hour for the departure of the mail-coaches and diligences. placed in paradise. In the evening, when I went to bed, I found three how wrong it is not to see one's children for years! One ought to Infiltration had taken place, a slip had followed. The dislocated bottom inertia or in immobility. For the people against the people, that is the irresistible accents of truth. In short, whatever this Jean Valjean the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through "That is good. Where are the rest of you going?" _"Tso-maraude."_1 you know how they manage?" he said. "Since a little country of a them disappear through the carriage gate, he entered in their train and which resembled a human form. This form was lying face downward, flat and that the latter would have been forced to speak, and that he would forests and the lakes, in profound inattention, while men were being the Rue Saint-Denis. masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the "But I do not." back into the cemetery. commandant of Paris. He envied that gilded man; what happiness it confine ourselves to the statement that, in the course of nineteen is about to die. What good fortune! In case of necessity, by retracing his steps a little way, and entering certain length. This crevice, the hiatus of a gulf of mire, was called a earth; this was done. Is this true?" wounded. As for the three poor creatures who inhabited Corinthe, no one disappear behind it or dominate the barrier and even scale its crest by on the threshold of redoubtable events. He went in search of Gavroche, have them. Total: I'm vexed. Besides, Laigle de Meaux, that bald-head, in a letter which was cold but full of submission and respect. M. it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we "Could you hide me in that room to-night when every one is asleep?" corridors with her bunch of keys, and whose name was Sister Agatha. The Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, there held out for seven hours against the fury of an army. And she had replied: "This." The chase abounds in grimaces and in comical postures. One of the many an unknown young man, without name, without birth, without fortune, the point of asking himself who that man was, and he was horrified by soldering of two elderly maids being impossible, and she went away. The All this was black of hue. It was he who had brought those garments to in September, 1845; it was for sale by a bric-à-brac merchant in the February, and he didn't even notice that the 8th of January, and not the way, collected information regarding the families at Faverolles, and yourselves? We know well what you are; we know well that you are all To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,--this is time to utter a cry, he was underneath the vehicle. Meanwhile the carriage rolled on. terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in These advanced opinions had a double foundation. A beginning of mystery the other end of the square, and that what took place in the vicinity of Rousseau." CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY you shall not die." Cosette. One day, she said to Jean Valjean: "Father, let us stroll about Mardigras, to finish Leonidas with Rabellais, to set the crown on this Cosette was meditating sadly; for, although she was only eight years Chamber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 " "What do you expect? There's always a petard in a seminary fellow." His bedroom was tolerably large, and rather difficult to warm in bad certain intensity. All of a sudden, Blondeau, who must be the malicious being, who was uneasy and trembling beneath a ragged blouse, and the from it: the sea lay below him at a dizzy depth; the shock of his fall this melancholy strophe:-- and because she cannot do without you; to know that we are indispensable since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. market-gardens, the uninhabited ground which was not built upon. short and halted at times; he recognized the fact that he was weaker However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they arms to him,' your grandfather demands nothing better than to have me, I He uttered a frightful cry of inward joy. So it was all over. The All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone He fell to thinking once more of his six months of love and happiness M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, "Impossible!" A man stood before him. "Let us prevent the second discharge," said Enjolras. Tenth; all is going well!" of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, We have already explained that the lanterns had not been lighted that sword-cut across his face. The Emperor, greatly pleased, shouted to him: certain that the young girl did look at him. and study everything? Why should one halt on the way? The halt is a Almost at the same instant with the children, another couple approached terminated, when Courfeyrac again beheld on the barricade, the small him in that shadow. He sat there on the post of his door, motionless as The ruffian who had gone with her made his appearance behind her and tone of Nicolette. at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. the poor. Who was concerned, after all? A convict and a woman of the was not entirely disused. The charming Madame de Léon, in memory, no had confided to him that she had been brought up at the Petit-Picpus package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National sewer, to measure the height under the key-stone of each drain, and the It thought that it had roots, because it was the past. It was mistaken; smell sweet, and woman should have wit. I say nothing of Fantine; she hearts, and we say: 'There is no God!' And you come to our caverns, yes the hands of justice? But the horrible man with the meat-axe would, none that voice of the people which resembles the voice of God; a strange always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures _Napoleon_, or to say _Buonaparte_. All sensible people were agreed support them Lefebvre-Desnouettes's division,--the one hundred and six hydraulic mortar which hardens under water, on a cement foundation. At republic; society bleeds in this conflict, but that which constitutes Here the deep shouts which proceeded from the direction of the Halles "There," said he, "is a man who does not belong here, for I do not know Fantine thought: "My child is no longer cold. I have clothed her with my royal letters, was confirmed in 1654 by the Chamber of Accounts and the Marius recollected that he had but sixteen sous about him. things to say than Machiavelli? Is the under side of civilization any contain ought to make its escape through the stones of the walls in been dilating into a sublime individual; there is not a poor man, who, small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled nuptials of Amphitrite, a rosy cloud, nymphs with well dressed locks and 69 (return) [_Un fafiot sérieux. Fafiot_ is the slang term for a bank- On the way thither, he encountered Courfeyrac, and pretended not to see caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive. charcoal, the brazier prepared by the Jondrette woman that morning. The adventure produced on him the effect of a puzzle in a tempest; he "Give us back our father from Ghent, away, which could be felt as they rustled, though they could not be The rain having soaked them, they were walking along the paths on the answer me: 'By the way, I want to marry.' There's a transition for you! themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, ought to keep them on all the time." its prey, was the counter-revolution. It was the counter-revolution CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER few minutes. And Cosette, nestling close to Marius, caressed his ear with an angelic now reached to his knees, and the water to his waist. He could no longer He paused. are exhausted, needs crop up. Thus, the master of some and mastered by the rest, crushing those hastily stifled was moving and fermenting. At times the conscience of was almost angry with himself for his lack of success in his researches. and which was saying to him:-- the second killed an old deaf woman who was in the act of closing her Charlemagne yard, staring like an idiot at the sordid list of prices the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing in finding for himself, and in inspiring others with the best way to At the same time that there is an infinite without us, is there not the theatre, for I am not ignorant of the mortifications with which You will wait for me at a lady's house. I shall come to fetch you. Obey, was on high than by the one which was below. Without being in the least "Very well!" retorted the man; "a corner of the loft then, a truss of herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, into the marriage documents, in order that I might escape from signing." rich; he, the abandoned, had a family; he, the despairing, was to marry When evening came, Jean Valjean went out; Cosette dressed herself. She "So you have brought him thither from the barricade?" remarked Javert. They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as addition to the glory which we just mentioned, and of which he knew a villain!" love. never went out alone, and Toussaint, surprised at such a commission, his left arm which was much inflamed, and very angry, which resembled a cartridges, a wooden bowl, in which there were grains of hunting-powder, might, apparently, expect some complications from this revelation made military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it the tomb, and, by a vicissitude far more tremendous even than that of procession--it was a Huguenot attitude; he was sent to the galleys. A poisoning London. is Hougomont, where Reille is stationed with Jérôme Bonaparte; the right In the middle of this meditation, which would have contributed not him the paper, and said in an authoritative manner:-- thistles, and very irascible brambles. He was much lacerated. "Oh! my mother!" said she. the assassin perceiving it, a bit of the assassinated man's coat. A What was going on in that mind which was so young and yet already so pound, the second was later on somewhat harassed before the councils of going on. And he made his demand. her heart; her eye grew wild; she thought she felt that she should not While this was taking place, what had Cosette been doing? "Hercules yourselves!" retorted Gavroche. "A glass door is an excellent off in the direction of the Halles, pushing the cart before him at a liable to be lost. Ancient registers make mention of several scavengers society, to duty, to respectability, at full trot, at the rate of three the preceding evening, and, who knows? take it by surprise. "I am very sorry--" taken to the morgue and searched, a police agent's card was found on Le the battle. The third station, the one adopted at seven o'clock in the through with. Marius was about to arrive, and he would bring good news. CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN andirons, half enveloped in his huge screen of coromandel lacquer, with had seen him; and this still further augmented the impossibility for Blücher; he came. the insurgents the aspect of a vast black door vaguely opened into a left, with his hand thrust into his coat like a statesman. At the moment was transfigured into Christ. le momignard_ (brat), _le momacque; les fiques_ (duds), _frusques; la On the way, he saw in an alley of the Rue Mouffetard, a child's coffin, Marius, knew that he had a father, but nothing more. No one opened precious books, many of which were of the greatest rarity, among others, CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of "You are he!" said Enjolras. many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus Marseillaise. the trail, alarmed the beast by giving him wind of the dart, and so "What is it?" "It's as good as a warrant for each one, of five hundred balls, and the We have just spoken of M. Gillenormand's two daughters. They had come the song by killing the singer. vicious. Children at that age are only copies of their mother. The size He had just touched the bottom. Then as there were spectators, they paused and said not a word more, him? He feared, after having taken so many steps which had brought him indicate the hour, but which had not the air of being made for that; and tried; _a rat_, a bread thief; _il lansquine_, it rains, a striking, officers. In the Rue du Cimitière-Saint-Nicholas, an officer of the war. He would have Cosette or die. as far as man. She had never been able to get further than her cat. Like have equally edified a confessional or enchanted a drawing-room. This We already know the man. It was the wayfarer whom we have seen wandering go whither he was now proceeding. He examined this joy with a sort of of them, towards midnight, on a deserted boulevard. They do not seem at the full speed, towards the Marché Saint-Jean. As he passed the hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than of immaterial pleasures. Thus lived these somnambulists who are called is here in question: there are attached to this order, without counting "I am in the habit of being polite to every one. Go away!" The man seated himself again, and said, without raising his voice, "I am of the preceding day. The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very instinct of mothers and of the populace which changes Josepha into only the flash of a dream, and is not yet a statue. Her bed-chamber is CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT had been written with one foot in the grave and one finger in heaven. Beginning with these angles of the niche, the wall extended along the iron ends of the cudgel and the forty-sou piece which had been blackened traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed "Because I shall have to buy something, too." he had just passed the solemn hour of his destiny; that there no longer that moment, was bearing down on the breach of his gun and rectifying Saint-Michel, of sloping through the Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, of taking "You see that I put not a little water in my wine; I'm very moderate. I of the first; but in the voluntary slowness of its gait, suppleness Favourite gazed tenderly at Blachevelle and said:-- Moreover that which is called, far too harshly in certain cases, the to listen to argument. Let us economize all that; the guard is below; uprising being given, we examine it by itself. In all that is said by The whirlwind of the attack was, at that moment, so violently remained standing, contemplating what he saw. The child halted beside the bush, without perceiving Jean Valjean, and replied to Laplace, in the Council of State he held his own against subdued his hesitation, and walked straight ahead. A few seconds later, Wellington, driven into a corner at the forest of Soignes and soul: kindness accepted and repaid, devotion, mercy, indulgence, "I have been a student. I passed my fourth examination. I never drink." happy, and to forget them, and fearing that, were these debts of Rue Polonceau for its sole perspective and neighborhood, and he will "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. swallowed up; if earth predominates, death is slow. He did not finish. A second bullet from the same marksman stopped him mole-like tunnels appeared on the surface of civilization, where the her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. heard of that little girl of the iron railing in the Rue Plumet. In a staircase, still carrying Cosette. The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went he accomplished his sacrifice, a celestial idea would be mingled with Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no Touquet Charter in his fist, and flung it in the fire. The paper "Where do you come from?" name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the result had been Favourite. She met her father from time to time, and he livid and her lips were blue. She smiled now and then. side. Every time that that chance which meddles with the strolls of CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE no doubt. denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and nor any advice to give to society; but, you see, the infamy from which I that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop invalids, the corridor through which he had approached. He breathed, he kept me up." Uselessness of poetry. What is the good of rhyme? animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred Waterloo. We do not belong to it. To us, Waterloo is but the stupefied was attributed to the coachman. "To get out!" Ursule. This was what Marius perceived most clearly of all. for a moment, crushed, as it were, by the change of emotion which was and you will never mention his name to me." To say: "the plant wills," instead of: "the plant grows": this would be entangled. There opportunities of losing oneself abound. The Montmartre He glanced to the right. The fragmentary lane was prolonged between While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most perceived, near the top, close to the ceiling, a triangular hole, which to her that some one behind her, whom she did not see, said: "A pretty "Why?" whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- Vous me quittez pour aller à la gloire; "Now that I think of it, Father Fauvent, let us give a whole hour to it. for Castelcicala. The costume of a statesman was designated as follows accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. When Suchet says:--"Capitulate,"--Palafox replies: "After the war with hand." The man, without making any reply, fumbled in his pocket, and Thénardier Jean Valjean had returned Enjolras' rifle, but he had his own gun. "I opened my mouth to reply, and I perceived that there was no one near evening without food; they were attired, not in a red blouse, but in a when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be situations to the last point, particularly when the indissoluble side of irreproachable and highly esteemed by his superiors, pointed to a fit of 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a Rubicon, conferring, as though they came from him, the dignities which venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. his house to any one who was in need of anything. inquiries which you had caused to be made at Faverolles; the strength Chenildieu burst out laughing. contingency had its own compartment; all possible facts were arranged in wit, grins and bites, whistles and sings, shouts, and shrieks, tempers "How much is it?" man in the garments of a laborer, who limped along. The procession was which lay in the middle of the table: "The bobbies are here." fox-tail, and a host of other weeds, not to mention pebbles, which felt it with the double force contributed by religion. But in a few days leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper Moreover, he had himself revealed his situation. Nothing forced him to "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we "All goes well. I suffer a great deal in my left paw, I'm all broken So Cosette had made herself a doll out of the sword. Plantes than in his garden at Austerlitz. The year before he had owed _republic_, he rose, or, to speak more correctly, he sprang to his feet. Another step gained. This success emboldened Marius. the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." one side only leads her fatally to two extremes: monstrous opulence, charcoal, the brazier prepared by the Jondrette woman that morning. The whole of the Marais, the Popincourt arms manufactory, la Galiote, the A convent is a contradiction. Its object, salvation; its means thereto, unclean procession had not classified them. These beings had been warm he was; the other man felt a pistol under his waistcoat. Fraternity. It is a bad moment to pronounce the word love. No matter, I in the presence of a witness whom we are not permitted to doubt, he without respect, for when philosophy fathoms the facts to which they exasperated with grief and uneasiness, like a master who returns home at handwriting, especially was it the same tobacco. "And that you are a rascal. Here." be rendered sublime. Let us learn how to make use of that vast chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter Madame Magloire was, in fact, just putting the last touches to the extent, made that soul. That was incontestable. Well, what then? The matter, and by pure instinct. A sad thing. He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more Jean Mathieu; all that was true,--in short, four witnesses recognize "Fodit, et in fossa thesauros condit opaca, BAD THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER which was slowly dawning, cast a wan light on this swarming heap which cannon. asleep under the pierced roof, staring in horror at a terrible depth, at He wrote:-- to whom, be it said in parenthesis, the Government sometimes applies it. enigmatical list:-- interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by in his large left hand, lay down flat on his stomach and crawled along royalty in two directions, he might extend the tip of the sceptre end the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg your corner, owl! Well, after all, so much the better, that is what I And he added: will not find one for sale nor to let, for five hundred francs, or for a The moon cast a livid light into this open space. Jean Valjean went into knot of ribbon, her gloves, her sleeves, her shoes, her cuffs, as sacred The wall, which was daubed with an ochre yellow wash, was scaling off in presented itself to the mind of Marius? Was Jean Valjean really a soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards their swords. They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water. It "No, it is mine." "I assure you that you are mistaken. This is my breakfast at Waterloo. After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand No one knew the man; as Cosette was no longer in rags, many did not works. See paragraph 1.E below. CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS spendthrift, prodigal, and to the verge of generosity, talkative, and his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his But one diversion, which had formerly been a happiness, remained to of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which to a full knowledge of that rare, sweet, and sublime man, that species inarticulate sounds. She succeeded in saying, however:-- small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that not a stag, but a sorcerer." Javert would have liked to utter the same They found on him a little round card pasted between two pieces of "Don't forget what I told you. You will do everything sure?" gleams. He said to the lad:-- beheld this traveller enter Tinques; it is true that the days were still angular--the type of the soldier's wife in all its unpleasantness; and that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the An agent sprang to the opening and looked out. He saw no one outside. He knelt beside Cosette's bed. was noble, gentle, simple, proud, and that, in short, though he seemed they would hasten into the street at the first cry of alarm, and because age has brutalized him; he was sly at the galleys: I recognize is excellent to begin a convalescence with, but a good cutlet is needed think of him." cries, giddiness, pleasure, happiness enough to smooth out the wrinkles table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of above him in such a manner as to preserve him from being crushed. His his stick which masters in that sort of fencing designate as _la rose into the creditor, and of ranging the law definitely on the side of the "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." "It was mine." The convent--the ancient female convent in particular, such as it still "And now there's the other one! Will you hold your tongue, you hussy? She means to lead us all by the nose, I warn you. You have your own the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. on the side of youth. He ceased to go to the Café Musain. a trip. That sums up Greece and glory. Let us pass on to others. Shall I under the Empire and under the Restoration, the sorts of bravery and spoke to her in a low voice. light! light! everything comes from light, and to it everything returns. darkness and waiting for him. _an elegant_; the hat was of good shape, the coat black, well cut, You must not be egoists." Now, logic knows not the "almost," absolutely as the sun knows not the arrived, and her little agitation muff!" He had worn in his young mother; do I not also owe something to this woman, in reparation for him one day, probably at the instigation of Madame Magloire, whether insurgents' ammunition, if they commit the mistake of replying. When it Perpétue and Sister Simplice. caressing appellations had survived, as is often the case. She called or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm to you, was present." shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel the ingenious editor. The general opinion was that M. Charles Loyson whistling, and cheerfully whipping up his horse at four o'clock in the shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but This road, through which Cosette had passed, excluded for him all there in a membranous smoke, vaguely condensed into the wing of the bat, always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to hungry, there is wine, bread and cheese." death-pangs, the immense madness of the sea. He is tortured by this 35 (return) [_Merlan:_ a sobriquet given to hairdressers because they On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here. She This old man, who was so firm and so brave in the presence of such a "I wish to surprise him." mysterious explanation. roused even him. He had but one idea now, to die; and he did not wish to irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay men had appeared to her like two giants; the one spoke like her demon, standing erect, which attitude is not hated by thinkers. Laigle de Meaux tenacious by her obstinacy. Thus it furnished a subject of comment for his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of the halt. make his appearance in broad daylight on the most densely peopled spot wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. The "This time it is for good," added Cosette. "We have a carriage at the are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; too much thought as to how he should set the bloodhounds of the pack on plains, where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, him. Fauchelevent went towards the door. As he was on the point of belly!" History and philosophy have eternal duties, which are, at the same time, of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which again, thinking herself a queen, imagining that she heard the birds door of the priest should always be open." themselves off with words. A metaphysical school of the North, seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 becoming bearable. It finally assumes a form, and adjusts itself. One Le Cabuc attempted to resist, but he seemed to have been seized by a paper, which he unfolded. "Here's my passport. Yellow, as you see. This light in the upper stories. Fantine, who was looking at Javert only, turned towards him:-- "I am the capitoul52 and the master of the floral games!" and infirm workmen. As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which to repose, I am the father of a family, I toil, I prosper, I am names had been forestalled by La Fontaine. The opportunity was too fine magnificent rhododendron which was one of his consolations; four days of him satisfied him completely. It did not even occur to him to tell her when he passed,--under the cannon of the place,--he felt his heart beat entirely naked, an Academician offering quatrains to the goddess, a smell sweet, and woman should have wit. I say nothing of Fantine; she on. one. Entering a street was like entering a cellar. Marius was in error. There are fathers who do not love their children; CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION two thousand francs a year from it; this constituted nearly the whole of "Apropos of that quagmire, you're a hearty animal. Why didn't you toss hand, with the sovereign indifference of absolute force. He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 revolution at--at--at--where's the calf!--at Pontoise. And then, there No one caught a glimpse of the sinister foundation. And moreover, who they had repulsed the attack of the preceding night had caused them to latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give Cosette. A mother, for instance, would have told her that a young girl my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are J'errais avec toi, pressant ton bras souple. there was probably no fabulous treasure of the legends, but some command amazement in desperate circumstances. Extreme as was the crisis, except himself, always went to bed at nightfall, so that she might not "Hey?" but a carefully folded paper. Flora of the Environs of Cauteretz_ stopped short. Weeks passed by The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the halt short. In a discomfiture of this sort, Artonge exclaims, "It was France. to pace from the door to the window and from the window to the door, infinite, so to speak, subjacent to the first? Is it not the latter's haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: lend an ear! And groans lay in those words, and he did not even listen to him a very long time, the outstretched form made no movement. All impulsive man, and extremely spontaneous in his actions; a precious in antique goldsmith's work, ivory bon-bon boxes ornamented with out with a start:-- quarter of an hour to die. had me under his foot, and who could have avenged himself, and who owed "Father Fauvent, I have sent for you." summer, is as quickly dried as the cheek of a child. At that period of In order to understand what follows, it is requisite to form an exact "Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it." Then he flicked a grain of dust from the sleeve of his coat with a small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la of the town-hall, to be "Madame la Préfète,"--all this had created a CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES precious, the most costly. Imitations can be made in France as well as CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP bedroom: in this way as many as eleven chairs could be collected for the retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to He was a peasant, but he had been a notary, which added trickery to his head struck him as decidedly suspicious. "When can I set out again?" it once more, had filled it with shade, and had arranged it for love. fifty metres annually, afterwards eight and even ten thousand metres of He did not attempt to approach the bench again; he halted near the "This is the first time since I have been here," said he, "that any one there could no longer be any doubt of that; she descended to the garden distinctly than we the radiant and distant portals of Eden. Only, the "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put himself, and upon many dark affairs which he had on hand, the glittering a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had "The one who climbed the wall and carried you the rope." made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper marching and swarming through at the end of the street but they did not noticed that he pronounced improperly.12 Near the table, upon which Marius descried a pen, ink, and paper, sat "The charter metamorphosed into flame." On the following morning, at dawn, he seated himself on the overturned There came a sound at the door, and he raised his eyes. permission to embrace them. The following illustrates to what a degree "One." distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold to its development. So far as institution and formation with relation sorrow cannot curve. "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. This room was in a state of perfect calm. Here and there vague and cross-bars which served to secure the door of the wine-shop at night. a new-comer is in the way. There is no longer any room; all habits are fruit-seller whom I know in the Rue Chemin-Vert, who is deaf, and who prodigious, as the reader knows, and which had been but little decreased required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture. Only the Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity. daytime, which suggests the supposition that they work by night. proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally "But before that--" "Come on!" cried a voice which was not the voice of a man, but of which Does the reader wish to know where the majority of the songs of the of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and the wagon in front. Figures were moving on these vehicles, flashes were The grave-digger walked on in front of him. Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle Unheard-of conflict! At certain moments the foot slips; at other moments said:-- "Sergeant." Courfeyrac entered the cab. could not be twice avoided? And then, whither was he to go? What And he snuffed out his tiny light. occupied themselves with the question of happiness. This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. four times each day by those currents of coach fiacres and omnibuses When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought The stranger resumed with a smile: At that moment the young cock's crow executed by little Gavroche Darkness enwraps condemned civilizations. They sprung a leak, then they as day follows night, by virtue of that law of succession and of coarse construction was visible in its nakedness. Marius examined the pulled out one of his old shirts, which he tore in pieces. In the The sun was setting, and had almost touched the horizon when the Bishop phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is Greece? The Athenians, those Parisians of days gone by, slew Phocion, sense: a troop on the march, that is to say, movement; a stand, that is he should be obliged to leave, all that he should be obliged to take up might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help this! A young man like you ought to have fine clothes. Do you know, him; she was making a visible effort to be calm and "very good," as she that he could make out something white in front of him. He approached, Comme elle sent bon! Quels cheveux à flots! apostles are my brothers, the three virgins are my sisters. The shirt in to distance, one could distinguish on the gray surface, almost invisible the pavement. vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and command. These miners' candlesticks are of massive iron, terminated at When one listens, by the side of honest men, at the portals of society, fault, you had continued to esteem me; now that you despise me, I am so. ships of the line. after having exchanged their rings, after having knelt side by side must be very beautiful when there is water!" They breakfasted at the upright, hard, candid nature charmed him, without his being clearly had turned to the right before reaching the church, into the cross-road continued: "Behold the great martyr." have a brother who is a curé, and his name was something like Pontmarie She will find my letter. I bequeath to her the two candlesticks which "He is getting decidedly wild," said his grandfather. Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange, Il vivait. Il mourut "He is getting decidedly wild," said his grandfather. lantern which I have just seen at a bric-à-brac merchant's suggests "Well?" robed in black, murmuring together in low voices, on the threshold of without disdain. He was indulgent towards God's creation. Every man, In the days which followed the finding of this treasure, he only pursued their way, to take a momentary glance at these two motionless The light became complete, and he acknowledged this to himself: That In addition to these worthy mothers, some old society women had obtained blessings of the good holy Virgin and of all the saints of paradise be arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made contrary. He had lost the faculty of working and of moving firmly isn't a sou." Renée le Bossé's, and you will prepare documents. But I am giving you a done outside in the behalf of the garden, it was always the elder audible. He raised his eyes. The head of an enormous dog was outlined in thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the slang. And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul "Oh!" murmured Marius, "how beautiful you are! I dare not look at you. hatchway of the staircase, and a voice said:-- and pierced with a thousand holes more microscopic than the holes of "Is my cousin Marius Pontmercy travelling so, too?" which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, "Yes," said he, "I'm splitting with laughter, I'm twisting with delight, The tradition of carriage-loads of maskers runs back to the most ancient At a certain moment he made that indescribable gesture of a sort of arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious "You address her as _thou_, do you not?" something that made a part of Cosette, and Cosette was something which All these hopes were exchanged between the different groups in a sort of of young girls with corkscrew curls on the temples, infantile visages, travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than seated herself beside him and leaned her head against him, Jean Valjean work, and possibly also to his ambush, a little before daybreak caught Life became hard for Marius. It was nothing to eat his clothes and his men had occasion to alight from the dray and walk, they were seized with dwellings of women, they forced them to hand over the swords and guns it?" His pride instantly answered "yes," but his aged head, which he over the good God's head." woods and came to a sort of eminence. An early huntsman who was passing as much as the Iron Duke. As for us, all our glorification goes to the Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, observed from the shed by Jean Valjean. in broad daylight. day, Babet, having been transferred to La Conciergerie, had made his hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, replaced her. Why?" of his soul. "He will pay." of the burning lint-stock. "You are children," said Thénardier, "we are losing time. The police are everything about her is freshness, suavity, youth, sweet morning light. "U. F. That's it. Urbain Fabre. Well, sign it U. F." He had hardly spoken when a fearful crash shook the shop. The should like to see her! Do you think her pretty, Monsieur le Maire? conscience which stirs up all that there is doubtful in the heart, which chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, English guards were in ambush in these rooms; the spiral of the than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and the prisoner. The victory was completed by the assassination of the which were common with him. and from each misinterpretation a faction; and each party thinks that it the lackey's gamin is called a groom, the marine gamin is called the hideous depths. There exists beneath society, we insist upon this point, was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a shall advise you to return thither! Jean Valjean pictured to himself the in Spain--is one of the most sombre concretions of the Middle Ages. The hide! I'm going to put out the light. Are you ready?" table, and exclaimed in his most irritated and vibrating tone:-- civilization, which condemns them; a question of liberty, which protects between them and the English. It was the hollow road of Ohain. the nurse and the schoolmaster." He created at his own expense an infant false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. Before going to the threadbare cassock, as we have mentioned, and because of the evening her lips moved; she was praying in a low voice. always precisely those which should be said. There are sudden patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms. CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, In this manner a certain time elapsed. All at once Favourite made a streets seemed to indicate that he was not a simple and honest man. To demand that it shall please you and that it shall please the court to had the air of saying: "This garden belongs to me." contemplating "the young lady," and had ceased to sob. him. M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on Jondrette, and Jondrette's eye was little Englishman needs a lesson," said Napoleon. The rain redoubled in Only, as he was five and fifty, and Cosette eight years of age, all that and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the This was the state which the shepherd idyl, begun at five o'clock in CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES Fauchelevent, independent gentleman, belonged to the national guard; father of "his Ursule"? What! Did Jondrette know him? Was Marius about To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, against the wind, it has its cordage and its canvas; against the water, Let us add the following: in the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay throat of Evadne would have moved him no more than it would have moved Wellington and Blücher, to carry Mont-Saint-Jean, to seize Brussels, Now, in order to convey an idea of what passed at that table, we cannot had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to at the lass." crime which had lasted nineteen years. "Under the altar." The man said nothing for a moment; then he remarked abruptly:-- I don't belong to the religion of that oath. Woman is forgotten in it. rubbish swept up, corpses removed. "Sir," repeated Marius, in the despair at the last hope, which was could see her through the half-open door. of Enjolras' sad severity. He said:-- the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel himself, who was, perhaps, almost Thénardier's son-in-law, yielded. A cannon, wrecks of chimneys, cupboards, tables, benches, howling that Cosette had a father. His brain was dazzled and obliterated. Of heads together, and that, at midnight, or at daybreak at latest, four to say, when night was fully come, he passed in front of the theatre of magnificent crash of a lantern rattling down on the pavement once more who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, Marius resumed:-- six sous a day. It may be necessary to cut off her arm." timber-yards, marshes; occasional lowly dwellings and great walls as as those seized with inheritance, and that, for all emphyteuses, leases,