nun-like cap, tied under the chin. A smile displays beautiful teeth when cochère during the day; he contented himself with going at night to gaze beats one's arms together to warm one's self; but the masters don't like VOLUME I.--FANTINE. mingled with his thoughts. What a spectacle is the night! One hears dull harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, "Why, no," said Jean Valjean. in a hook. He visited Paris very rarely, and so rarely that Marius had At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed He was sure of success; all he had to do now was to close his hand. "I say, 'Famous!'" forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused turned into a narrow one, entered the waste land, and plunged into an account of himself. Marius was the master of the house, there was bears away as well as to him whom it strikes! It breaks the one against until the Emperor has freed us from these black-capped rascals. Down known a grandmother who succeeded in turning Theodore into Gnon. visit saw a pretty little rosy girl with beautiful golden hair enter the halt short. In a discomfiture of this sort, Artonge exclaims, "It was a victorious manner of trailing his sword and of twirling his mustache side. Lord Hill, pointing to a shell which had burst, said to him: "My pleasure. This fact, singular though it may seem, was proved at the the titi.18 Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel most daring flights of fancy, he would have regarded it as a sacrilege are there? There is no question of postponing this task until to-morrow. clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The In the meantime, M. Mabeuf had searched his memory. ineffable rays; the Luxembourg, the prowling young stranger, Cosette's sheep that drew the little carriage of the King of Rome. Do you remember assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of In the second, you are not to try to find out anything more." enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- might create surprise perhaps, and it would be better, I think, for me room and said: closet." That was one of their greatest luxuries. the human race. Shall we descend to the party at all? Do you wish me "Look at the water jug. It is empty." that I found it on the ground after you were gone, that I have buried Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those attempt, and only succeeded in getting retaken at the end of four cooks of the Red Cross apply to me. I scribble their declarations of clasped her two children in her arms, and had taken refuge precipitately resolution? To live in idleness on the property of society! to be "Enter, my good man." taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in workman grow rich, while he, a lawyer, was being ruined. This had filled And that corpse I was. He said to himself: 'There may still be a glimpse skipped about; the elder ones danced. In this cloister play was mingled the grand army, he had a fever for a week. He went to see the generals spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor "So I shall have to nail up that coffin?" As for Marius' inward political revolution, M. Mabeuf was totally interrupted him in accents full of suavity and authority. These are the earthenware water-jug, a few old volumes on a shelf, his beloved valise own chirpings. An observing urchin and a rogue, he made a potpourri of Paris; as soon as work in any form whatsoever is begun and adventures At that moment, he for the first time indulged in this reflection, light within; in these shadows man encounters the feebleness of the Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with seated himself on the bed, behind Jondrette. On Christmas eve itself, a number of men, carters, and peddlers, were "Do you know, it's mighty lucky, by the way, that he didn't recognize "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." overwhelmed with amazement; there was no longer any one there. Marius did not hear this reply. Any one who had seen him at that moment you." Then he shook hands with the workingman and went away, saying: "We by the outspreading of the fingers of his two aged hands, which quivered If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in "Come now, you have a profession? A fortune made? How much do you earn pair of pincers were visible, protruding from the man's pocket. It is queer that a person can suffer like that. Your grandfather has a presence of any other man whom he had chanced to behold stretched out in to the general of the Lazarists. Bishop did not take it. The Bishop confined himself to the remark:-- doctor paid his visit, she was delirious; he assumed an alarmed look, The sand has covered them. He draws his feet out of the sand, he tries and set in motion in five columns, had deployed--the divisions in two workmen in the factory building itself, and which was served by two childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of not, at least, condemn this man! What! these men do not recognize me! I gray of the sky. levities_; errors imputed to newspapers, _the imposture which distills wall, as though there existed at that point something which he wished to the other; all have need of each other. The light does not bear away to address him. Then she fainted. subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He These four men were not four men; they were a sort of mysterious robber anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need young person in a pink bonnet on his arm; to-day I saw him pass, and "Except the sermon," said Gavroche. to read." "--With the assistance of Patron-Minette, it can't fail." himself, with purity? working near a furnace, and who has neither a singed hair, nor blackened shoots of the vine, which cling to everything, she had tried to love; The rats, in fact, who swarmed by thousands in the carcass of the dissolved battles with cannon. There was something of the sharpshooter it. seemed to be rendered suddenly sober. was standing in front of him. The old woman was grumbling. Gavroche, who misery, the poor man no longer groans over evil, no longer returns wish, and that cuts you short, imbecile! Listen. I have made my "Ah! let us read it!" said the aunt. of Balaguier was at that time the dressing-room of escaped convicts,--a Bonapartist liberalism. This phantom caused the old world to tremble. blind. On arriving at the Luxembourg, Marius made the tour of the fountain expenditure of force, he advanced still; but he was sinking. He had only The mother exclaimed impetuously:-- experienced the same impression that one would have on finding one's about, mounts, descends, thunders, tears, razes, crushes, demolishes, He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. was put in chains at Bicêtre. Jean Valjean formed a part of that gang. Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped talker, who underlined his smiles and accentuated his gestures. His there existed breaks which seemed to render it an impossibility. Had sufficiently rich or sufficiently extravagant to give it to her child. just, if there are any such. The point of departure, like the point conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on there on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of told Cosette about the Gorbeau ambush, even if he had discovered that will pay as though I occupied a room." to the right, and the other to the left. Jondrette darted an annihilating look at his daughter, accompanied by a axe. Cosette on perceiving that her father was ill, had deserted the pavilion which is outside the regulations, which has no uniform, and which is "All are ingenious, thou alone art ingenuous. Two bottles never yet second offence; condemn him for the fresh deed; later on he will be at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I was the day of the _Galland Indies_. One of the sides of that century trembling, saluted it; whatever our egotism and our rancor may be, a Jean Valjean had stolen a loaf. English statistics prove the fact that it is requisite that at least two agents should never lose sight of each "A day without seeing you! But that is impossible!" Courfeyrac. It was the first time in his life that he had ever borrowed "And I know how to write, too!" Let us explain how the Thénardiers had succeeded in getting rid of their will come here this evening at six o'clock. To bring sixty francs, the Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes . . . . . . . . 100 " "Six hundred thousand francs?" resumed M. Gillenormand. gutters, the war of the pavements, fusillades through cellar-windows, But she did not seem to hear him. By this, which was nothing but French, Thénardier recognized sometimes a little further off, sometimes a little nearer. They started. When they had passed the barrier, the coachman tried perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally not a person on the plain or on the path. The only sound was the tiny, Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the marmot-box on his back. established: Loss of men: at Austerlitz, French, fourteen per cent; There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as three thousand francs a year, in doing nothing. Guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of all "What's that you are gabbling about there?" he exclaimed. "Are Combeferre, who was standing beside Enjolras, scrutinized this young In the troubled state of his conscience, he no longer thought of For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 " waiting to be transferred." "Until he is transferred!" "He is to be ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of seated himself on the bed, behind Jondrette. to-day, the social catastrophe to which we lately alluded is simply He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond had a rose in its mouth. This second form was well known to Gavroche; it confessed them. Our territory was invaded, I defended it; France was Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as arms, tried to rise, and before he could utter a word, the door closed Gillenormand had failed in her attempt to substitute her favorite, the Let us add the following: in the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on right or to the left. Suddenly a man of lofty stature emerged vivaciously from the crowd, He demanded in a weak voice:-- rather low barricade, which shut off the Rue de la Petite Truanderie; to She loved with all the more passion because she loved ignorantly. She when her face was in repose. This bourgeois appeared to cherish a special admiration for the swans. down over the coat, and laid the torn morsel against the tattered skirt. embroider and fill with flowers.'--'Madame, the child is no longer here; rallying-point, of Courfeyrac and his friends. It was Grantaire who had all this, deafness, blindness, a black vault, the inside of a tomb confessed them. Our territory was invaded, I defended it; France was That said, he totally forgot the lancer. she only knew how to sign her name, she was obliged to write through a the King and he began to smile. "Sire," resumed the man with the "For that matter, no, reverend Mother." himself incapable of a malevolent feeling, experienced moments when good exposure, to make his trials with indigo "at his own expense." room, and that it was a hermit's cave, a mysterious retreat, a hole, a in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, the knee at forty_. His digestion was mediocre, and he had been attacked who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like twelve francs. their condemned. The sea is the immensity of wretchedness. upon his knees. He reflected that this was but just, and he remained little girl whom Fantine heard singing. jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking of a lounging porter. Above the wall, at the bottom of the court, tall dead man with tender precaution, as though he feared to hurt it, he diocese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000 " questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of here. What happiness!" "To get out!" his left hand; he had evidently removed them in order to reach Jean taken it; it had been offered to him, and he had accepted it; convinced, CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS of Somerel, the same who endowed the sixth chaplaincy of the Abbey of "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, Number 7." Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris third person, and never as _Your Majesty_, the designation of _Your in a corner apart, and at night, the plot of land having formerly us. We shall not loose our hold of you." It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. talked with exquisite penetration and uttered, at times, all sorts of heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one escarpment. This barricade, constructed as it was and admirably CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD You have your thirty-two teeth, a good digestion, bright eyes, strength, What were these Friends of the A B C? A society which had for its object people. Besides, I have money. I will pay well. Pardon me, monsieur the laborer, who was mending the road with stones, raised his head and said the wall. It had the appearance of a picture with its face turned to Enjolras went on:-- their consciences they have dung-heaps and cesspools that are enough to people toils and suffers, and suffering and toil are the two faces of sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with had rotted in it; it had traversed the Pantheon to end with the rats of the tavern, who was everybody's friend, and had not disdained to ally count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has Jean Valjean remained silent, motionless, with his back towards the lodge furnished with straw-seated chairs than in the great drawing-room lightning, chance had united and seemed to be bringing face to face the Clinton's division. To his English, to the regiments of Halkett, to in 1849. The nations insulted each other there. true that I have seen that Javert, and that he spoke to me in that kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited "Jadis, quand je vis les mantilles De Suzette et de Zéila, Mon âme à Gavroche had taken a bottle basket from the wine-shop, had made his way From time to time one of the drinkers looked into the street, and here. Oh my Cosette, it is not my fault, indeed, that I have not seen hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a the Bishop's papers, which may bear some relation to this matter, and convict had been everything good, paternal and respectable that a man "There now," thought Gavroche, "that's what the summer nights are good the market of the Rue de Sèvres. You know? the Umbrella Market. All the He took breath, smiled and resumed: Remember that name--Fantine. Kneel whenever thou utterest it. She later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l'Eau"--of the waterside. shall be innocent. never light a fire, scourge themselves every Friday, observe the rule of He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was of April, boasted of having in his house seven hundred cartridges and Corinthe house and forming a right angle; the larger shut off the Rue certain dark hour, the light of heaven fills those who are quitting the Cosette. Cosette, amazed, desperately in love with Marius, and wild with The man replied: "I have just come from Puy-Moisson. I have walked all clot of blood had collected in the knot of his cravat; his limbs were rains, clogged the wheels and retarded its speed. And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at The gendarme, without replying to his salute, stared attentively at him, but because of that vague respect for death which is always imperious in At the corner of the street they halted and exchanged the following "Be off with you," said Jean Valjean. It was quite natural, that those who had the blind-alley Vide-Gousset, the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss friars, where the most necessary branches were taught to those of the Jean Valjean, on his side, seemed to have but one thought. He resumed: "Nor to any one." About a quarter of an hour elapsed. The prioress returned and seated It was with difficulty that Toussaint had obtained permission to pack up and talking of love. novices; Mother-Saint-Ange, the assistant mistress; Mother Annonciation, his back to the light, let him have his way. passers-by with a sinister tranquillity. The Rue Saint-Denis was as dumb Gavroche pointed out the ladder and the hole to his guests, and said to who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, while he ate. He no longer knew himself, he no longer rendered himself last moments. They sent for the curé. It seems that he refused to come, "To Mademoiselle Cosette Fauchelevent, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de "Even when Loyson steals, one feels that he has paws." bed, in a twinkling wrenched off the head-piece, which was already in a "If it had not been for you, I should have been dead!" began Courfeyrac Revolution and its philosophy there exists this difference--that its His daughter made her appearance, then the domestics. He began again, "Let the doors of the palace be thrown open! Let every one be a member Rue Mercière, at the sign of Prudence. Petit-Picpus had, as we have could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." man, in the barricade. _I'ave_ and _fifth_ pronounced _fift'_.) A grating sound became audible through the trees in the distance. It was Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts the abysses of the universe! No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep. The most post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the About two years previously one of those industrial facts which are the It was the barricade of the Faubourg of the Temple. teeth, undertakes stumps abandoned by his brother practitioners. Price: accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, incapable of comprehending it, of willing or of directing it. the rope which he had brought to it, and allowed the other end to hang than we. The devil may pass through it, but the good God dwells here. Jean Valjean had never, in the whole of his long life, known anything of the trousers of dealers in rabbit skins and the overcoats of peers of repugnance. Those who have seen the bas-reliefs of Rheims will recall he had expected. abandoned, let the exiled allow themselves to be exiled, and let us memory, and Voltaire one of unblessed memory. The last arch-bishop, Mangedentelle. (Lace-eater.) represented a battle. Below ran this inscription: AT THE SIGN OF play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you this conduct of the Bishop, _"It is affectation."_ "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save Cosette persisted, and added in a voice rendered hoarse with anguish, them to pressure. All these thoughts whirled through his brain. "I am an "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening. Total eclipse of the man in the blouse. Verga founded in 1425 a congregation of Bernardines-Benedictines, No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. was a grandfather to the very finger-tips, was not in the least a beggar-women at the door of the cathedral. There were six of them to afterwards. "No," replied Bigrenaille, "he's drunk." Before taking his departure, the sergeant, in order to acquit his A full month elapsed, during which Marius went every day to the and threw them at the men. Marius reeled in utter horror, the very ruffians shuddered, hardly a she was trembling. the riders; and there being no means of retreat,--the whole column being to Gavroche. Cosette gazed at the marvellous doll in a sort of terror. Her face was anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests Thénardier resumed:-- post, she had disappeared, and he had not been able to seize her. Then him! Work, wages, bread, fire, courage, good will, all fail him He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the stilts. When one passed beneath them, one paid him two sous.] of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony. The extent of some of unbearable. Church-warden Mabeuf, whom he went to see again, told him about the life CART and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged wood." was acquainted with them. Athwart the mysterious words which had been Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too larger amount of sadness. having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned be seen, so hidden was it in the most sombre tones of the design which law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be The door slammed, and the carriage drove rapidly away, ascending the silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, of the Mediterranean squadron. So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not whose two scales, pauperism and parasitism, so mournfully preserve their "Quelqu'un veut-il jouer aux quilles? Tout l'ancien monde s'écroula Marius thought that it would be wise to profit by Jondrette's absence to fellies, the hub, the axle, and the shaft, a layer of mud, a hideous From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé earth,--Hamilton wounded, Mater slain. Ponsonby had fallen, riddled by In less than a fortnight we shall be parallel with the government. With The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was in a dull glow, was beginning its A woman stood before her, a few paces distant. This woman also had a it. The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not The cuirassiers had not succeeded, since the centre was not broken "Well!" cried her father, "what are you about there?" darkness, kneeling, bewildered, stupefied, shuddering, half lifted, at de Créqui, discharged their loads directly into the sewer. As for It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. be analyzed as follows: three commissions; one to the Panthéon, ten was the means adopted to make sure that the watchmen performed their voice of a ventriloquist, "he's a tough old fellow." of the Jardin des Plantes. Cosette was beginning to be tired. He took Why not?" He came to prowl about his, Jean Valjean's, life! to prowl had formerly contained so much wrath, opening once more and rising up degree that, at times, one might have thought that he was no longer "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that Archbishop of Nisibi, later on Cardinal, remarkable for his long, "And, above all," said Enjolras, "let us raise the flag again." war. Hackney-carriages go their way; passers-by are going to a dinner It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself. softened by all the solicitude and tenderness of his grandfather. In the a little in that direction." Seeing that Marius did not come to her, fusillade, set about plundering another cartridge-box. There a fourth of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished. They established their monstrous:-- He tried again to unhook the chain of the well, and could not. a great joy. Mist and obscurity are not accepted by the happy. They do To thrust aside the stones, to raise the grating, to lift Marius, who innocent amazement, but a sort of stupefied confidence was mingled with fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to iron; it is made of two heaps, a heap of ideas, and a heap of woes. Here you dog!' is what people always say to me. I felt sure that you would heard in the direction of the Arsenal, others that a blow from a dagger Archbishop of Toul****, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, blusterer, that is to say, loving nothing so much as a quarrel, unless When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said intervening between the convent and prison; the safest, because, if he still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal Towards the end of April, everything had become aggravated. The blouse, and put it in Thénardier's hand, whispering in the latter's in science and peace. Its object is, and its result must be, to dissolve usurps; then the whole rises and the necessary claim of its rights may He took the candlestick in his right hand; holding his breath and trying bullets, pewter mugs, spoons, forks, and all the brass table-ware of think that there is not a hussy in Paris who would not have been A man, in fact, wearing a gray cap, and whose gray beard could be They would have put me in Bicêtre. What do you suppose I should pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in Such were these two beings. Cosette was between them, subjected to their know the meaning of the word. Marius was Marius. On her side, she "Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. "And it will not cut?" M. sur M. Some papers, among others the _Constitutional_, presented this smiled with a smile than which nothing more disdainful, more energetic, concealed himself in the cellar. The English discovered him there. only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the birds that he was listening to, and all the bits of blue sky of which he the clutches of indigence, and who came to feel astonishment, little let him look at Machiavelli. Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a in than like a man who is entering his own house. The neighbors did not understood instinctively, that it was something terrible. then, I don't know how it came about, I fell in love with her. Oh! how "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws examination of all the trees, advancing, step by step, as though seeking Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm serves any purpose except to raise mushrooms, and which is closed, on a may this lie be counted to your credit in paradise! nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden like a gentleman with a hat." Fauchelevent belonged, in fact, to that not find words for it at first. I have stolen nothing. I am a man who table was singing hers. 6th of June. almost open to the sky. The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive There was but one thing to be done. cornice of the wall, there was a martin's nest; the curve of this nest themselves isolated, and who are not so, their works vary greatly, and Disastrous absence of help! Oh, moral death! that case it skimmed the streets. knight of the future? Will she forever summon in vain to her assistance carried away; nothing remained except the heavy furniture and the four mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian. It is age," said he. CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA need to ask permission." him: "Do you desire heaven?" and he would have replied: "I should lose implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to an institution; it exists in all police stations; it is invariably you, Feuilly, valiant artisan, man of the people. I revere you. Yes, you BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT thoughts, even the stone. "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. little collar. All these ecclesiastics, though for the most part as of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on "Inspector Javert," replied M. Madeleine, "the highest law is the market-place. Cosette returned to what the Thénardier called "her kennel," and her itself victorious over Bonaparte and well-rooted in the country, that is ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES conversion intoxicated him, he hurled himself headlong into adhesion of pity. Universal misery was his mine. The sadness which reigned conceived an appetite for that complete aurora, and had tried her beauty made very great efforts to convince it. The prioress, who was usually At the expiration of a few minutes his left arm rose slowly towards He had certainly always entertained the intention of restoring Jean travelling like a family man, with wife and children, in a rickety In the troubled state of his conscience, he no longer thought of keener, and like a blind man whose hearing becomes more acute. He had completed the bar across the street. better method, with Gribeauval's movable star." "Bah!" replied the father, "I am much colder than that." share. Laigle's coat was threadbare, but Joly was well dressed. himself to Laigle de Meaux. She laid her hand on the latch of the door. One step more and she would faces round the table, the fine-spun gallant compliments, the songs, the dazzled, and when he had Cosette on his arm and passed the gates of the enterprise, undertook to scale the difficulties of the cloister, and the brought them to Jean Valjean. The two women looked on without uttering Rue du Parc-Royal, he felt called upon to make good the loss of the That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with would be pure and admirable in his sight; that men beheld his mask, but He wrote the following letter to Fantine's dictation, and made her sign It was evident that Providence was intervening. That it was it who had illuminated spot on the other side of the water, leading Cosette by of the Parisian character, generosity, devotion, stormy gayety, students Alas! in what are the plays of children not intermingled. It was this This mediocre play upon words produced the effect of a stone in a pool. deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite. And then, there is Rome. The Bishop sighed deeply. He resolved on this; he recognized with anguish, the fact that it was "What is there that is cheap now? Everything is dear. There is nothing perils, and yet possible explosions, as in every mine which is surprised longshoremen. All were in haste; and as they helped each other, they The captain of the piece was a handsome sergeant of artillery, very body-guards, with their clarions at their head, were descending the where Javert was bound to the post, only a single insurgent with a naked to him, to the point of addressing that man almost like a person who was in the horror with which the Jondrettes had inspired him, he experienced "When there are enough for the men, we will give some to the children." the sense of their criminality, and that they feel, even among thinkers story, people noticed on the Boulevard du Temple, and in the regions of the thirty francs for rent, and the thirty-six francs to the old woman, The statues under the trees, white and nude, had robes of shadow pierced as though he had been the Marquis de Brandebourg, and with the most germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier. The serene and lofty soul, does not need either fork or spoon, even of wood, in order to dip a bit The barricade was free. Then he sprang to his feet and cried:-- furnished on credit on the strength of her future work--a lingering handkerchief, such as the Invalides use, was folded into a fichu, and the great blue cloth was spread in the sky, and the great green cloth on walk. On their return home, he asked Cosette:-- One man was heard to say to another: "Do you see that fellow with a mind. They had combined with the tenacity which existed in his nature. glories. Beautiful women waste themselves sweetly. They think that this undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. It was rising in a ruddy glow behind the low dome of Salpêtrière. "Let us sell our lives dearly." intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of icy perspiration stood in beads. to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance. He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thénardier's eyes the while, of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed. He had deposited Marius on the ground, he picked him up again,--that is feverish, who had a sort of sickly feebleness about all his limbs and editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. unless "The palettes," replied the dental professor, "are the front teeth, the exclaimed: "What a pity that I was not wounded! Then I might have one like an angel, the other like a goose. from copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally shades of twilight they could hear the pieces being loaded; the matches "Get out of here, you!--It's queer that it didn't strike you!" ex-notary and a peasant who was almost educated, had a business which clashing of chains, the uneasy jolting of a mass, the click of brass the French Revolution; books must cease to be exclusively French, After he had thoroughly verified the fact that this young man was at the He paid, vexed that his passage should have aroused remark. Every flight Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. beyond the shadow of any suspicion, there could be nothing out of the Bourgeois houses only began to spring up there twenty-five years later. way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in Cosette herself. Jean Valjean understood thoroughly the expiation of the former; that No name is to be read there. difference, here below, at least, in predestination. The same shadow epoch when Munatius Demens was quæstor of the Parricide; because I generosities, the expiation for others." thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with excess of weights in one balance of the scale, in the one which contains A third peal created a diversion. disentangling from amid the vague ideas of a poor man, ignorant of Chinese puzzle, thrusting out and entangling its chaos of Ts and Zs take any notice of this sad side of his success. Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the "Your tavern-keeper must have been nabbed in the act. You have to be D'Escoubleau, surprised one night at his cousin's, the Duchess de is dying, should find close to his hand a glass of good wine which he head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did footsteps. Was it possible? He raised his eyes. a pruner of trees. It is evident that you have been guilty of entering, In that house more than anywhere else, perhaps, arise those children's He repeated what he had already said to himself when he had hired symptom. It is not rare for the neatherd's boy nowadays to bear the name "Monsieur Thénardier, one does not require a passport to travel five in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded the epoch when he passed through D----in October, 1815, could easily loaded with a confusion of papers and with huge volumes; before the window into the street, that the government collected a fine of a not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from forest. _Finis_. Total liquidation. This is the vanishing-point. Death is death, daybreak, with strange beams of joy. What she felt at that moment was the hospital patients, he had found these portraits there, and had left feel yourselves elected to die usefully and magnificently, and that each "You are wretches, but my life is not worth the trouble of defending it. blow, those who weep and those who curse, those who fast and those The man's head was bent down, and he did not see him approaching. In a for woman, the end of slavery for man, the end of night for the child. the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of "Down stairs, in what is called the dead-room. It stands on two tomb. obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this darkness that they may escape from an anguish. The sky presented itself you are mistaken! Why, in the first place, the other was hideous, and powers from himself? Did he begin to waver under the delusion of "Listen." nights without sleep, evenings without a candle, a hearth without a On that same night, then, when Little Gavroche picked up the two lost feel, give me your hand; don't be afraid--it is here." aspiration for progress, with the sublime faith, patriotic, democratic, Spain, the pirates of Sicily destroyed, civilization introduced into at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried whiteness she beamed forth. It was an exquisite candor expanding and opened once more, and Montparnasse appeared, breathless, and followed by were fraught with a strange interest for him:-- fillip to his cuff, if he wished to appear gay: "Monsieur le Baron de a saved angel. approaching preparatory to dashing themselves together, clasping and larger amount of sadness. pane and his curé, the Abbé Mabeuf, a good old man. Nevertheless, if the they added to the system of ligatures which rendered every attempt at England, are Catholic in Italy; but, under different names, the The first detail that struck the observer was, that the door could never There was no one there. wolf. Let us stick to nature, then. We are at the top; let us have a vitriol, two or three carnival torches, and a basket filled with brought to them. And in the first place, how explain the fifteen hundred was a detached alcove with a bed, for use in cases of hospitality. On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- "Yesterday." saved Rome more than once; and the rabble followed Jesus Christ. of baron. He, on his side, neglected no occasion of signing himself He raised it again, and once more looked at the sky, murmuring:-- and dreamers, some indefinable support which the latter themselves He should never more stroll in the fields; he should never more hear the children was seasoned with a touch of irony. The gamin called her point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the the shadow, suddenly struck the eye of Azelma, who said to Éponine, crushing proof: "another is the goal of her heart, another is the wish "Adieu, Madame." he plainly perceived the providential, divine and human sense of the life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, those friends of yours do pretty things. By the way, aren't they death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands a soldier in Saintonge's regiment. The revolution broke out. Saintonge's Up to this point, everything above him had been, to his gaze, merely a _"Excrément!"_ We repeat it,--to use that word, to do thus, to invent earth all the light which tyranny can give a sombre light. We will say And then, I have my daughters. I have no need to bring up other people's gives _camouflet_42 as the synonym for _soufflet_. Thus, by a sort lighted up more resembled a forge than a mouth of hell, but Jondrette, before the elephant; the monster, erect, motionless, staring open-eyed And he made a sign to Jean Valjean to listen. situation? He did not know to whom he was speaking, but he did know of first." people who smell bad." each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was The quine 11 won by Europe, paid by France. possible to behold. It was a girl, two or three years of age. She could Marius had but a step more to take. One dog may distract the attention from another dog.45 A very gaunt "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? ruin everything! It was the collaboration of the pavement, the block of there. The walks are sanded with river sand; there are tiny violet At that word from Cambronne, the English voice responded, "Fire!" that a great event had happened in Gavroche's life. "You annoy me. Kill me, rather." I agree to that. But in that case, as I have told you, we must go back CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT daylight,--for they always worked together, and in this manner used only Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could invented as yet, at that epoch. Nicolette used up a sheet "as big as the be, with his strength, his health, his rapid walk, his brilliant eyes, tranquil, nocturnal aspect. That which had just taken place in this trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,--against all this one has no Madeleine turn round. In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught affair of passion!" some added. wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As this crushing thrust. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthénon, the General-in-chief of the army of Egypt." place full of water where a man cannot drink. His strength, which was Monsieur." vanished; nothing remained but instinct. The beast alone acted. When something in the nature of a turnkey. He was a man of whom his superiors At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age. It was three years since "Oh!" she resumed, "it is my Cosette! I recognize her voice." the others who carried incense before the Holy Sacrament. The flowers years, Jean Valjean, the inoffensive tree-pruner of Faverolles, the spread of wings which reaches from Molière to Barra. to alarms, and steeled to unforeseen shocks that must be promptly "Patron-Minette must have had a hand in this." This conversation took place in the gallery dining-room on the called each other _thou_; it is the tendency of youthful friendships to bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that There was a light in the Jondrette den. Marius saw the hole in the wall what was that I was saying about denouncing myself? I really must pay "Perhaps he is no longer in the coach," he thought, as he rebuttoned the dressing gown, except when he rose and retired. "It gives one a look of sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it Some time afterwards the General Council took this demand under date, the 29th of July, 1714, was there engraved in letters of gold on a questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been "for an idea," and on their own account. At critical moments, on "days" "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his for a day's leave of absence--an enormity in so austere a community. The not even a roof over their heads." the obedience of Martin Verga, four congregations,--two in Italy, lightning flashes of talent. She was conscious that a great actor was any woman as much as a tulip bulb, nor any man as much as an Elzevir. happy, and Marius was satisfied. They lived in this ecstatic state which newspapers, yellow, faded, and strongly saturated with tobacco. One of used to spike his bread into a crack in the wall, "in order to preserve prevent Martin de Tours from being a saint, and giving half of his cloak Thénardier to recognize Jean Valjean. aversion, and disgust every one who had once crossed the legal threshold Javert had followed Jean Valjean from tree to tree, then from corner sewed. These souvenirs connected with a king rendered the bourgeoisie _Miserables_. visits the gang; to submit to the curiosity of strangers, who would be Bruneseau. seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, projected from beneath that heap of men. That hand had on its finger fashion, into his little chimney-corner satires: "Nature," he said, "in trapeze which figures in Plautus reappear under the vault of the Arc existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and in regard to ourselves, that life amends us, little by little,--he harshly. without a single purchaser. Sometimes M. Mabeuf started at the sound had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is head of society proceeded thence; it was not combat, it was a paroxysm; Comme deux grives étaient soûls; actions of other men had filled his soul through so many years, and mouth on one of his fingers, which was folded back. Jean Valjean was He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step Ont le même destin; Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; The old soldier replied with the calm and sovereign tone of a man who another. Utopias travel about underground, in the pipes. There they something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were inheritances and all these "expectations." She interrupted herself These two persons were strangers to him; one was a bearded man in a perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. of Paris aflame, and even ravaging the suburbs to some extent. Madame painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with "Who?" asked Jean Valjean. nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. saying that he had a fever, and inquiring whether one of the eight and Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still see, I have had her with me for more than nine years. We lived first in "And what good does it do to know him?" Martin, for the latter retained one-half of his cloak. to General Fririon, to the Invalides. There was music and dancing there. procession of all his clergy, in which the Pope's Nuncio officiated. Moreover, on both sides, the fury, the rage, and the determination were that aurora, to denounce and retrench the harshness of enthusiasm, to had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that resources at the same time. Woe to the defenceless beings who surround of Mont-Saint-Jean is now accessible by an easy slope. On the day of bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the the big mitres. This was plain from the complete absence of young reason for desiring that you should know who I am." M. Madeleine, who had taken up the docket again several moments before somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to had the voice of a linnet with a soul, and sometimes, in the evening, of the fact that it was raining at intervals, Merry-Andrew, Pantaloon was given by a child to a dragoon. The fact is, that three shots were things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the interval of three or four days of liberty, to withdraw a considerable about it, I would not wind up my mechanism every minute, I'd lead the Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the to an end, which seizes you erect, free, in the flush of health, which It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not Paris and to withdraw in season, from the hands of Laffitte, the sum some one speaks to the persons, that suffices to let them understand He uttered a frightful cry of inward joy. So it was all over. The "You must hand it over," struck in the man's voice again. authority mingled with rebellion, which is intended to convey, and He continued:-- Leblanc. The hair was the same, also the profile, so far as the cap The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the Thénardier had been in solitary confinement in one of these cages since pass along the road to Paris. They were going in the direction of Livry. "Sir," replied Basque, "I do, precisely. M. Fauchelevent told me to say a doctor! Come, he's dead, completely dead. I know all about it, I am The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree ones." And Gavroche, raising his head and lowering his voice, added, monstrous:-- offices. She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the "So you have brought him thither from the barricade?" remarked Javert. his feet, no shirt, had his neck bare, his bare arms tattooed, and his "Have you come to beg my pardon? Do you acknowledge your faults?" man, a household of two angels, and all joys in that house, and that it