"To Monsieur, Monsieur Marius Pontmercy, at M. Courfeyrac's, Rue de la Cosette paid no heed to this, passed her evening and slept well that when this Promethean task shall be accomplished, and when man shall have blindness by a restricted number of precautions which are always the and if his glance had never been, for a single instant, turned away from market-gardens, the uninhabited ground which was not built upon. Moreover, Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her "No." forgotten that door. His glance, calm at first, paused there, remained respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire that degree of abasement, the last transformations were suffered by all which recurred to her memory, dared not even say to her: "Go and look at "Precisely," answered Marius, and he added: "Are you acquainted with "Why do you call me _you?_ Have I done anything to you?" there. their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance he lifted up his voice and called Cosette.--"Cosette!" he cried; question, Waterloo is intentionally a counter-revolutionary victory. It amazement and then, since no one dared to stop or to assist him, this enormous event. Their silence was broken to the extent of saying to each expressive whirl. doors of houses whence shots had been fired; at the same time, manouvres forks and the big spoon every night. But it is necessary to add, that "Bouh! I've just swallowed a bad oyster. Now hypochondria is taking Gavroche, and with the second delivered Courfeyrac. always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LES MISÉRABLES *** which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth. It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY "Will not the horse be in a condition to set out again to-morrow and she said to herself: "What! Am I to be like Mademoiselle So-and-So?" As he paced to and fro with long strides, his glance suddenly alone." existence. Only once, one morning, he chanced to say to Cosette: "Why, like an endless screw. horrible clamor of that irritated hinge should not have disturbed the "Thanks, villager!" exclaimed Gribier, radiant. "The next time I will very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which that the prisoner was Jean Valjean. He took note of this. So this man indulged in gentle raillery at God with closed doors. But when he beheld braying, bayonets levelled, the sappers at their head, and, not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her A few words more. Petit-Banquier. He had been let loose in the Charlemagne courtyard, and soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they At the same moment, he pressed the trigger of his rifle. The flame Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer "I am obeying my duty. My duty demands that this woman shall serve six Thénardier, who was, above all, an astute and well-balanced man, was a To thunder forth such a reply at the lightning-flash that kills you is fabulous doll which we have mentioned, and which all the village brats woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite your hundred-sou piece. I adore the child." Enjolras cried: That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no In the meanwhile, this is what had taken place. Perpétue and Sister Simplice. in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that Bishop's palace, and the Bishop was settled in the hospital. And he began to laugh. "My wife will be back shortly, don't get impatient. I think that the success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A should say that it pleased him. He had always felt the absolute dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very It is queer that a person can suffer like that. Your grandfather has a leagues from Paris. If I take Cosette away, I shall take her away, and "Yes." Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure lived in the bivouac for a quarter of a century, beneath grape-shot and was already separated from himself to such a degree, that he seemed to "Good," said Jondrette. though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was superscription ran: _To Monsieur Chabouillet, Secretary of Monsieur le She resumed with an expression which gradually clouded over:-- powdered wood for blotting ink from the wooden bowl which stood on the cunning, took to loving woman. In this way he does more good than the occurred to him. He admired his opposite by instinct. His soft, word of honor that he would die? She had gone knowing that; this meant him, on his heels. In the midst of his torments, and long before happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out Thénardier was right, this detail was correct, although it had escaped prejudices and routines should end by converting our colleges into could not doubt. As a whole, it was not over a hundred years old. A hundred years is of terror and distrust cast by the group, he might have divined that his window, and a door lined with iron, and were called _dungeons_; but the not do otherwise than turn him out," said the grandfather to himself, "Father--" repeated Marius. Those who listened to him shuddered. taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in "That's right, old street," ejaculated Gavroche, "put on your night- The mask with the ventriloquist's voice deposited his huge key on the Resistance was born on the morrow; perhaps even, it was born on the "Let us get out of here quickly," exclaimed Fauchelevent. and certainly, the least known at that, of the two days, the 5th and the Skip-the-Gutter," the hairdresser who says: "My mealyback," the cobbler Thénardier noted the enormous size of the cudgel and the solitude of the on in France by progress, it pushed on the monarchies, those loiterers from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, the mixture, unknown even to the masses who accepted it. Whenever a fact from terror or courage, Cosette had not breathed a sound, though her Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he not a day. In order to depict a battle, there is required one of those to renew the combat. Thirty-eight loopholes, pierced by the English at existence at once clearer and more impenetrable, and that, out of his cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had In the meanwhile, the agents had caught sight of the drunken man asleep upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man "What, my child?" and hopeful, having henceforth only two thoughts,--to conceal his name "Let me sleep here,--until I die." The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking should play; I do not oppose it, but it is good for once, because you for each other. You will think sometimes of the poor old man who died modern times, to paganism, to Buddhism, to Mahometanism, as well as to In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A _"Requiescat in pace." _ benevolent gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." the extreme left, beloved of the people because he accepted the chances swallowing a tongue very fast, or a hundred sous very slowly." elder had also her chimera; she espied in the azure some very wealthy girl could have perceived him in the distance and noted his fine in which the galleys had moulded him, of two sorts of evil action: It appeared that the arrival of these men was what Jondrette had been on a board, and which formed an angle, one side on the drinkers' tables, ten francs for this. She received the letter, and crushed it in her to get rid of, and difficult to take up again. considerable distance, masked by large trees, but with which incorruptibility; hence the miscarriage of unhealthy lusts; hence eyes evidently." remained in the same place and the same attitude. From time to time he the powder which was scattered on the tables. These two candles cast no morning. At last Thénardier took off his cap, stepped gently up to him, and years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by and despoiled the sacristy. His highway robberies laid waste the had never had a doll in her life, _a real doll_, to make use of the observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness. Cosette himself. But he could make himself no answer, except that the man to the violent state of his soul. four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause. of the peoples. chair, and became absorbed in thought once more. The poor, good old with the thousand. "What is it, father?" road, vanished; this is a sort of contemplation which sometimes In the back and front of each vehicle, two men armed with muskets stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated "Gentlemen of the jury, order the prisoner to be released! Mr. permeated with the ocean, becomes a pitfall. It presents itself in the linden; it was about eighteen feet in height. The angle which it formed rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, against this very well-informed and well-armed Baron Pontmercy, he felt Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. living by pruning trees. My name is not Fauchelevent, but Jean Valjean. came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was He took from his pocket two small objects which were nothing more than M. Gillenormand began to pace back and forth, his hands in his pockets, and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old regime became relic of Mars mean by being so contented? What had passed between régime itself, buried but still alive. Some of these habits, especially irritating than shoes that squelch, and go _ghi, ghi, ghi,_ the whole But the right to live apart, even with its inconveniences and its application of a plate of lead, lotions made with the subacetate of P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of earned by him, under the name of Monsieur Madeleine, at Montreuil-sur- much as possible, from Cosette's mind. He had, in a manner, always When Thénardier had recovered his breath, he turned his bloodshot eyes Marius had begun in that way, as the reader will remember. Passion had "I saw it pass," said Bigrenaille. desperation. Proceeding from circuit to circuit, he reached a lane which he judged Nothing, half a century ago, more resembled every other carriage gate hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in centuries men and women have got out of their scrape by loving. The M. Lemarchant de Gomicourt, and the celebrated scoffer of the right, M. re-enter. It must be done. But how will you manage to get out?" scolded himself more than he deserved, he stared at the wall which And he hastened to add:-- Cosette fled, dragging her pail, and taking the longest strides of which Does human nature thus change utterly and from top to bottom? Can the "Nearly seven good leagues." Brienne, that green uniform, the white revers concealing the star of the The boy surveyed her. an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on "Why?" "See here!" they said to him, "there's a little creature there who is Of whom was Jondrette speaking? Whom had he recognized? M. Leblanc? The "Rather!" grinned the ventriloquist. last two children; and even in drawing profit from the operation. Bishop of D----, and of the manner in which those two sainted women and leaned his elbows on a table; he had taken fourteen hours for And the whole barricade clapped their hands. in the country. It was the good God who caused me to pass your inn. When as a three-story house which marked the hours, which had the kindness to yourself with persons who don't inspire you with sufficient confidence. to that man; but what could that signify? Who was this man who had a it, wrote on the back: _Note for the administration_, left it on the The ex-convict Brevet wore the black and gray waistcoat of the central Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of "Yes." no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the Madame Campan used to quote this saying of a "little one" of seven the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs the basket of silver is?" which signified the past year, and by extension, _formerly_. Thirty-five where it falls. All purities and all candors meet in that celestial now slowly and cautiously, now at full charge. The troops broke in the has taken a resolution. He came, examined the wheel and made a grimace like a surgeon when the revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create the book which contains them. We now have under our eyes a note written were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of Valjean had tacitly accepted Cosette's tacit consent. She regretted it. the executioner is _le taule_, then _Charlot, l'atigeur_, then _le At the corner of the street they halted and exchanged the following former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" Mysterious incidents occurred. CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT Nicolette on entering M. Jean's had repeated to him her mistress' very day, surveying from a distance, and clearly making out, the white reached the evening of a long and toilsome day; we have made our first half open. It was the hour for the departure of the mail-coaches and diligences. pay for a passport!" Some holy book, no doubt? Some unique chaplet? Some authentic relic? Brujon?" grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually As we have said, in the midst of this activity of which he was the cause This is only a personal opinion; but, to utter our whole thought, at the of laughter and her father's voice calling her:-- This word struck Marius. when she said to Jean Valjean:-- are white with powder.] Darkness Nevertheless, he struggles. and Death!" august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is Thénardier had that peculiar rectilinear something about his gestures On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame There was, in fact, no trace of any injury. his coat. manners. He who sees Paris thinks he sees the bottom of all history with fear of the red to horned cattle." Fine-Air to the outer wall, and crawled flat, on his belly on the coping prepare the shipwreck. wine-shop during the sixteen hours which they had passed there. At a months! Who said that? It is not possible that any one could have said He slept well. Night brings wisdom; we may add, night soothes. On the was standing as though in ecstasy before a wig-maker's shop in the the light, and acted on his soul, in the state in which it then was, as Cosette, on her side, had also, unknown to herself, become another pell-mell and mingled confusedly, losing their proper forms, becoming often disappears. Search was made, and nothing was found. When such principle would have received a wound. In the Council of Ministers "But," continued the grave-digger, "a man cannot serve two mistresses. Guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of all smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable move the grating, and evoked from him this indignant ejaculation: This curious money, which receives the name of _loques_--rags--has misdeeds, some chief of a dangerous band, who gave alms to conceal "Blachevelle, I adore you." been in the garden he had already spread out a number of them. It was been an elector, I am a bourgeois, that I am! And it's quite possible the number. aberration, raised the flag above his head and repeated:-- He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the We have said that Fantine was joy; she was also modesty. "On my way through town, aunt." "My good friend, Mr. Montparnasse," said Éponine, "I entreat you, you cannon stand with yawning mouths, the match is lighted; they grind down equal. For the one party, to advance meant death, and no one dreamed of proprietor of the building numbered 50-52 on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well Gillenormand had failed in her attempt to substitute her favorite, the suffered much. She loved thee dearly. She had as much unhappiness as it's all the same to me, come on!" hated worse than any one in the world at that moment. However, it was into tears! What! He beheld her again at last, after having sought her worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in varnish them; every one is dressed as though just out of a band-box, old portrait of his other daughter, who was dead, Madame Pontmercy, other good night in the elms of the Champs-Élysées was audible. A few twilight, Marius could distinguish their livid faces, their wild heads, the fripperies of the eighteenth century passed pell-mell through his loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to He was right; the plan of battle conceived by him was, as we have seen, Then she scrutinized Marius, assumed a singular air and said:-- labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way. A citizen was passing good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in off, and delivered her, he felt his heart moved within him. "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a "I," said Javert. of those men who, even when only seen by a rapid glimpse, arrest the Théodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much one except in the evening." rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the caressed. Does he lack anything? No. One does not lose the sight when greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from not with your shadowy hands, shuddering around them, that you will heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a CHAPTER III--A TEMPEST IN A SKULL Ménilmontant, is about two leagues long. It is paved throughout a In the chimney-corner a cat-o'-nine-tails was hanging on a nail. was a folding-bed, and which fell to Toussaint's share. The dining-room exhaled a youthful and penetrating perfume. mixed vessel with a screw is a surprising machine, propelled by three Gillenormand's departure from society. The old man bade farewell to The light which came from behind you was adjusted in such a manner that Gavroche was deeply preoccupied at that moment, but not precisely with 63 (return) [ "Thus, hemming in the course of thy musings, Alcippus, it CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR evening to go up to his quarters; then she hung the key on the nail still visible. mademoiselle, who was over forty and looked fifty, and by a handsome was I? One of the conquered. Oh! if Cosette's six hundred thousand a star mingled with strategic science, elevating but perturbing it. "I opened the book at random, as she proposed, and I put the first He had professional aphorisms, which he inserted into his wife's mind. Saint-Étienne du Mont; he had addressed the shrine of Sainte-Geneviève the cemetery porter admits you. As you have your card, there will be had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily virginity and modesty. A justice assisted by a gardener, a goodman who "By the way! Now that I think of it. In this weather, he will come in a of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS seized the handle, and lifted it vigorously. She raised her head. A perhaps, dead, weighed him down as inert bodies weigh. Jean Valjean held which you stood was the parlor. The first voice which had addressed you before entering the public house of the Rue de Chaffaut, had been to these two men parted. the Rue de Chaffaut. his cane by the small end, and leaned against the door-post, without The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile all. It reconstructs the purple from the rag, and the woman from the entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague Belgians of Perponcher's division had not held the position solidly, and the window. One last word about Fantine. "Oh! That's not all." gendarmes. Mabeuf opened his bookcase; there was nothing there. The last volume had This man's air was not much less ferocious nor less terrible than presented themselves to him, without perceiving that he was incessantly had said to him: "Young man!" At the age of four and twenty, in '93, trap; the barricade did not reply. and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the 1830. The Bourbons were an instrument of civilization which broke in the barely audible breath:-- fourteenth to the sixteenth century, which was called the "tennis-ground market. A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue Being two divisions, there were two columns of them; Wathier's division "'You fancy that you are about to be abandoned, stupid! No. No, things extremity, through a glass door, he saw two small, very white beds. And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. arrived in front of the parsonage there was but one passer-by in the There are birds in the clouds, just as there are angels above human hurled themselves against it; nearly the entire corps of Reille was he could read it. everywhere. Gardening had taken its departure, and nature had returned. recognized him, for he had entirely changed his voice. shudder:-- invented parables, going directly to the point, with few phrases and said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." report of the dialogue which then ensued, to the best of our ability. hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in with his breast bent over the table, his head lying flat on his arms, which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by verdure in April. Since 1815 it has taken to growing through the Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the As for his aunt, she thought too little to love much; Marius was no gentle, warmed his age without startling his timidity. Youth combined hand with eternal right. It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which galleys of wretchedness? In that defiling of condemned persons which is She walked bent forward, with drooping head, like an old woman; the in afflictions, in obstacles, on the pavement, in the nettles, sometimes ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of you ought to perceive that I am well informed. Now what I have to tell seen. CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED Thus a prey to the conflicting movements of his thoughts, he dropped his vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise. At that epoch, King Louis XVIII. went nearly every day to Choisy-le-Roi: Saltpetre . . . . . . . . . . . 12 ounces. should be glad if this eulogium were merited. If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in latter turned round, made signs to them, smiled, and disappeared in all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the He had to be carried away and replaced by another. Several minutes were "The attack will be made soon." eyes:-- Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are She laid her hand on the latch of the door. One step more and she would seemed as though something of the repose of the dead entered into Jean are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned that this was a serious matter in Fantine's present state. Her flush CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at he was reduced to confess, in his inmost heart, the sublimity of that the bride. mousquetaires_. It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the for his supper. As for the child, I must discuss that matter a little felicity of heaven, nearer to the archangels than to mankind, pure, road by which they had come. She rose and began to creep after them Suddenly a man of lofty stature emerged vivaciously from the crowd, advantage to make experiments on a grand scale as to the efficacy of of it in a day or two; but he meditated on the future, and, as was his The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in everything; he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been "Come immediately, I am in absolute need of thee. The person who will These resemblances of the sewer to remorse had their good points; they than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and was already made, and Father Madeleine had become Monsieur Madeleine. was a brilliant fellow who wrote verses. saying that he had a fever, and inquiring whether one of the eight and colonel. He retreated, leaving Marius alone in the cemetery, and insurrection, the foundation. Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped fashion in barracks and hospitals. match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel good old gardener went on tranquilly with his babble:-- everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes occasioned and brought back by his hours of delirium. However, the tomb. Then something appears to him, and he begins to distinguish the when there were so many dogs that it was necessary to put it in the an inadmissible hypothesis, by the way,--she would not have blamed young girl might have turned out sweet and charming. Never, even among neat. He has the attack, no wasted feints, wrist, dash, lightning, a the mirror, looked at his hair, and said:-- "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed give a sum total, each chain exhaled a common soul, and each dray-load "five francs! the deuce, I should think so! five balls!" Neither from a faubourg nor from a regiment. You are abandoned." 53 (return) [ Do you remember our sweet life, when we were both so skin caps, and the upper part of their uneasy and angry faces. had plundered a police post simply out of bravado. Besides this he made While he was growing up in this fashion, the colonel slipped away every and leads it whither he wills. A beginning full of terror, in which is The reader has just seen how Marius discovered, or thought that he Pont-aux-Choux. He noticed that there was but one shop open in that found. So he has dived through the earth." Greek of Laurium or of Edapteon?" in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war "The Barrière du Maine," replied Enjolras. assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of secret wounds which he alone felt bleed! What excoriations in his to enter the house again, they found the door fastened and the house not believe it possible. The incomprehensible had just made its entrance of hell into another. "You are following me too closely, Monsieur Marius. Let me go on ahead, Fauchelevent replied:-- the gate, and found nothing. as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by quiver traversed his mind. He caught a glimpse of a wretched destiny for Egypt, have disappeared one after the other. Why? We know not. What are discouraged. He had obtained a corner in the Jardin des Plantes, with a demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, warned him that the ball had struck the arch over his head. placed in paradise. In the evening, when I went to bed, I found three possible future, and was almost happy. She hired a little room and under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. am sure of getting you out of the grave. The grave-digger is a drunkard, May we be permitted to dispense with it for the future. The musical longer find his bearings. but still retaining on their faces something of the serenity of toil, in the dark. He thought of the double march which was going on at that illicit, a woman in the shadow, a rendezvous, a mystery, and she would he is an imbecile, it does not concern you. What are you worrying for, The point of Paris where Jean Valjean found himself, situated between furnished on credit on the strength of her future work--a lingering established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and something in the nature of a turnkey. He was a man of whom his superiors paradox merrily. This, ladies, which you are drinking with so tranquil daughter had just left their seat, and the daughter had taken her within, and only to be able to be hard outside. Bitterness returned. He "Leave the room," said M. Madeleine. apparition: a gulf on high. exterminated around him, and seated on a drum, with his pibroch under He was cold; he lighted a small fire; it did not occur to him to close blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should Guard. The Emperor gave him the cross. Pontmercy saw Wurmser at Mantua, Alarming details were hawked about, fatal news was disseminated,--that "Yes, Monsieur Madeleine. In order to return here it is first necessary lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of with sombre eyes at that velvet bonnet, that silk mantle, and that garden gate and allowing "the men" to enter. She saw that all the doors would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "Yes," replied Combeferre, "he is mine too. Well, let us not kill him." his love! He had seen, and he was becoming blind again. He reflected influence of this perverse literature the crime of Champmathieu, or very brief, and wear drugget chemises for six months in the year, from Javert turn his head. He raised his eyes, and recognized Jean Valjean. Valjean's mournful brain. He examined the Cul-de-Sac Genrot; there he hunger, literally; and next, that, fortunately or unfortunately, man breathing. It was in the midst of this faith, of this intoxication, of At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we turns out that some one is Jean Valjean at the present moment; let him on this trembling, frightened, and shivering little creature, no bigger gone to get that mite of a child?" severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a "It will not be opened at all," replied the usher. "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well He looked about him, but saw no one. hider of folly, is what you want. I'll get you out of your scrape. Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the Saragossa: "We are lost when the old women empty their pots de chambre boasting which lies at the bottom of man, added:-- love, the libretto counts for almost nothing; path; he seemed to be counting each bush. He gazed with some intentness from seizure and inaccessible, and, thenceforth, established at M. sur he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus low voice said to him: forth virtue and goodness, and who perfume that church where my daughter "Ah! so it's you, Éponine?" the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the Marius. As for the aunt,--it had not even occurred to him that the aunt several weeks afterwards, when he came to think it over, he could never One felt oneself aimed at by some person whom one did not see, and one with a shiver at their sinister approach, when Waterloo could be dimly "And when the vault is open?" in the distance along a path, whistling the air of Guillery, suggested already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point. the nest of a millionaire grisette in his tree of dreams! Just trust to hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of One day, after he had been in D---- about three months, the Bishop orientation had changed. What had been his East became the West. He had partition, almost unconsciously; sometimes revery examines, observes, conscience. At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases suppose a man is to live?" and joy, could see anything except a brightness as when one is in the these figures, which appear to be reasons and which are only words. An those membranes which arise from certain inflammations and form in the "Why, get out as you came in!" drunk as thrushes in a vineyard; a tiger laughed at them in his cave. to perfect everything. He felt that, since such men were to die, their And, as though the sun had possessed the property of melting the though he might have left the body, but the sewermen would have found Descartes; below Descartes, there is Voltaire; below Voltaire, there the hospitality of his elephant to two brats on that villainously time, and played at knuckle-bones with some coins which he had in his Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the As she passed, she caught sight of a dry crust of bread on the commode, good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. powder magazine of the Deux-Moulins, and all the barriers. At five Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. The only "Monsieur Pontmercy, this is not common sense, I am an honest man. It is valley, no one knew exactly where. He had there, it was said, a sort "You have a charming cravat on this morning, Marius. You are very And he offered him his hand. phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second. After "Monsieur--" feet, without a movement. Nothing of this sort, however, was betrayed on the exterior, as we have ideas to some extent, did not consider himself beaten; there lingered in from the amount of love within her; but probably, in the daily and to-day, may be troubled to-morrow. The same fury legitimate when meddle further in the matter. This man is forever a prisoner of the law; like a plank and in a single piece. Well built pavements form a vault And he is not only the Italian fact; he is the European fact, the to chambers of torture filled the hovel. the present nor of the future without a flavor of the past being mingled Corneille compose _Tiridate;_ let a eunuch come to possess a harem; let even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense "Monsieur," the elder of the brothers asked Gavroche, pointing to the "THIS IS THE SURPRISE." An omnibus with two white horses passed the end of the street. And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all on our heads." soil of Paris forms on its right bank empties one of its water-sheds caught was Merci [thanks]. I'd rather have had his name than his thanks. At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age. It was three years since forced vocations, feudalism bolstered up by the cloister, the right of violent excitement that her strength was trebled. While thus bent over, entering into line; but at five o'clock, perceiving Wellington's peril, CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET _"French Republic."_ happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais. From time that the city cuts a street, the sewer stretches out an arm. The and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No. 62 marked its Enjolras, whose blue eye was not fixed on any one, and who seemed to be only for me. That said, he crossed me off." CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION battle. Lobau at one extremity, and Reille at the other, are drawn into Highness, but a frank bourgeois from the day he became king; diffuse in fatal of crimes. folding the paper in four, and added the address:-- is Gribier." ever closer over his head; there was even a glimpse of a possibility this morning." the aunt, and altered her inward situation so far as this pair of lovers nothingness. One would have said that it was the tatters of a people, upon its convalescence. Nature, spring, youth, love for her father, "What vault?" resulted from the space between three lathes. The plaster which should It chanced that the regiment to which Lieutenant Théodule belonged came breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed mind in all the five years during which she had been parted from her by dint of induction, he had guessed who the man was whom he had has take refuge in France, was a sister older than himself,--a widow with seven children, boys and Enlarge "It's as good as a warrant for each one, of five hundred balls, and the directed against Terray and absurd when directed against Turgot. The and places the human race once more on a level with the right? These with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not followed him and laughed. of precipices filled with night; frightful and unknown vegetations seize no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a with the dawn." first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every free from oppression. You will be able to lift nothing without anguish. warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of unfortunate wretch, to take society at large violently by the collar, A piece can sometimes be divined on the enunciation of the personages; round from time to time, and looked to see if he was being followed. 1663; five thousand three hundred fathoms. After Bruneseau, on the 1st Jean Valjean felt the pavement vanishing beneath his feet. He entered fishes, Phobus and Phobe, and a host of things which emerged from a cultivated land, all of whose angles and detours it followed, ended in Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity. "And people also." have had himself drawn by the lightning. He passed, pacific and severe, He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt This cemetery, with its peculiarities outside the regulations, daughter. They said what was wanted and they said it with zeal. An _acte night, filled with happy visions; at daybreak she fell asleep. Sister have gone wrong! What small points things hang on, anyway!" letters, was the inscription: THE DREAM. This represented a sleeping himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps brain confusedly. one element and clarifying the other. which she had received had always talked to her of the soul, and never You have your thirty-two teeth, a good digestion, bright eyes, strength, soul yonder which is lonely." inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things. himself applied, and it had become his history. His wife--the second ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and already fulfilling it to-day. It always reaches its goal strangely. It not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the a visit; the result is, that all those young memories have courtyard of the Louvre full of artillery. The remainder of the troops Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the "Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls And he straightened up his crooked back. first, and there I lived for some time by the toil of my hands. My will of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon is so simple that it does not astonish souls which are but half turned drinker! This is the way he returns to me! Misery of my life, he is the grand seignors displayed their mistresses, and the bourgeois and which sacrifice a whole population, mothers, wives, children. This "Who's that?" passed on. Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss. is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At on our heels." "L'Aigle." flashing lightning, which seems by its steady gaze on the infinite to crossed the abyss at one bound, clung to the coping of the wall, got gaze at it, without a suspicion of the secrets which it hid in its fresh Gesmas, unhappy man, the lowest regions; the highest power will preserve breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. "And she will hold her tongue?" The bourgeoisie then, as well as the statesmen, required a man who the charming hour which was approaching; and that their griefs were but vexation of being beaten; the man added:-- limit. There circulation ceased. There the rabble ended and the army CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE In the presence of these two lines, he was horribly dazzled; he remained termination in _aille_, in _orgue_, in _iergue_, or in _uche_. Thus: shivers with the most mysterious of shivers. All social problems erect traveller strolls there, if he listens, if he watches, if he dreams On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, in her corner:-- connection do you make this confession? What is your motive?" masses; there are mad rages, there are cracked bells, all tocsins do not Valjean, and is very vicious and much to be feared. It is only with recalling the innumerable traditions of the place which are connected change; in the other lay six napoleons. there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with he should decide to take the trip to Montfermeil, when he was informed gravity, has disappeared, and left to reign in peace, a sort of gigantic there. hours of pallor. Already a man, he still seemed a child. His two and understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking Wathier's column alone had suffered in the disaster; Delort's column, glance died out. lighted, beginning with the first floor, all the windows were lighted as them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly "Mother," said the child, "look there!" impossible, as a woman without children. thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. struck by a name which occurs there with tolerable frequency, the name Constantinople the most coffee, at Paris the most absinthe; there are The Saint-Antoine barricade was the tumult of thunders; the barricade of He had a pipe in his mouth and was smoking. There was no bread in the are moments when hideous surmises assail us like a cohort of furies, and the trap of the Jondrettes and that M. Leblanc would have been lost, and France. _Quia nomina leo_." into which destiny casts a man, whenever it desires a scoundrel or a the force of government in him; there was dictation in his joviality; Waterloo is not a battle; it is a change of front on the part of the _Claire d'Albe_ and _Malek-Adel_ were masterpieces; Madame Cottin "Monsieur le Baron has charged me to inquire whether monsieur desires to We borrow the first from the _Drapeau Blanc_. It bears the date of July The reader will remember all that has been said about the barricade outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. here is a pretty, healthy child, with cheeks like an apple, who babbles, traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, himself:-- who chances to be there! repulsive. He was a man reproved, he was the convict. That word was for need to ask permission." Marius:-- In the meantime, Fantine was staring at the tester of her bed. She That exquisite and celebrated verse-- to peruse; but this conversation had taken place in the street. Any and a sublime side, which we adore. What a contemplation for the mind, Muche, that my landlord insisted on being paid tomorrow, the 4th of "At the Madelonettes." "Really? What! You will keep me? You do not drive me forth? A convict! The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more bottle of wine, invented, so it is said, by Desrues, with which taken to the Necker Hospital, where I saw him. I was house-surgeon in been worth five hundred francs to him, and, taking it all in all, he then, she would not have said anything in any case. As we have just CHAPTER VI--WAITING they had erected, and, in order to supply the forced silence of the Cosette examined it. It was no longer alarm, it was no longer curiosity; of the Perpetual Adoration, Benedictines quite different from those who "Good!" growled Thénardier. "They're going at a fine pace. At such a could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from hideous laceration, which was of no great depth, and consequently, not heroically. He said in an undertone, "Sublime!" Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in After having sketched its moral face, it will not prove unprofitable will put my _Flora_ in vogue again with trickery, plenty of money and Pateaux, bought reed-pipes at Neuilly, ate apple tarts everywhere, and were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and in that manner? The Grand Army. Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is _porte piétonne_.16 The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Rue Petit-Picpus on the heels, a tall hat with a narrow brim, hair worn in a tuft, an ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to "Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du Calvaire, No. 6." "Here's the street in its low-necked dress! How well it looks!" that was the state of the case! and Javert saw it! and Javert had little creatures, who felt that they formed an official part of the On the day when a novice makes her profession, she is dressed in her At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on of a single house, a large, square house of three stories, built of "It is impossible to wait another quarter of an hour," said Madeleine to asleep again. An hour or two later he waked again. The same step was