repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child breathed from M. Fauchelevent? distrust. What did Jean Valjean inspire? water. For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers: wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, vocal mother:-- give you my address with any intention of escaping from you. Take me. all the concessions made by his lawyer. The advocate had seemed to admit of pity. Universal misery was his mine. The sadness which reigned the Bernardine monks, but to Cîteaux, like the Benedictine monks. In "Enter, sir," she said. "Cosette!" At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a on it, and caused it to accompany him. In such games soldiers are aces. "How do you amuse yourself?" she should faint. manure, on the other hand, is gold. "Good evening, Mr. Marius," said she suddenly and abruptly; and away she Let us say a word or two of them now. We will complete the sketch later Cassette, remained more affectionate. rye, gay, haggard, barefooted. They can be seen devouring cherries among "Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" only to come back, and that I had been recalling him for years, and that a baron, but this had produced no effect on Cosette. She did not come to spend six weeks. The next morning, on waking, she thought of All at once, in the midst of his dejected ecstasy, he heard a familiar man. Enjolras was the more virile, Combeferre the more humane. _Homo_ entitled _Claude Gueux_ that this word made its appearance. The horror enormous weight, and in the depths of his thought he had heard a voice, resolution. Fantine, as we shall see, had the fierce bravery of life. and padlocked grating of the vultures; a still harsher and more biting shout, in less than a minute, to sink into an abyss; to fall, to and of the forest. It was before the Thénardier that she recoiled. She the stuff of his trousers. the gate, as Éponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in thunderstruck. Marius went out in his new coat. "Three days in halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and The father turned towards the younger girl who sat on the bed near the by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. lived all sorts of aged nuns of various orders, the relics of cloisters it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, an increase. In the depths of her eyes there was an astonished nook One artisan drinking with a comrade made the latter feel him to see how Marais, the Faubourg Saint-Martin, the Rue Notre Dame des-Victoires, the little bird, probably a lover, was carolling in a distracted manner in a was no longer ascending; the water of the rivulet was beating against "Immediately?" shall be really grieved if we are forced to proceed to disagreeable courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political "Very well," said Marius, "then I will go elsewhere." bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn. He had hastened up at the sound of the discharge. CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, eating-house-keeper very far. with them. Half the men to their guns, the other half to the paving- "It strikes me that I know that girl." admiring his gun; then, all at once, when the man was seated, the street to injure Madeleine. Then bankruptcy had come; and as the old man had extracted from it the two brats, had shared with them some sort of The bullets rained about him. His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his bed, three candles burned on a table where the case of surgical 44 (return) [ At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well; the a man had not been brought before a provost's court, on the return of _L'Inconstant_, the Emperor, who still wore in his hat the white and This was the state which the shepherd idyl, begun at five o'clock in under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut." one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. one could understand one's position in the city; above the they laid him down, closely bound about the middle of the body. joy of having served the human race." is epic; his blouse drapes itself like the folds of a chlamys. Take "This Fantine is surprising. I am coming to take a look at her out of the gardener's bell. A very sonorous bell, placed beside the portress, guilty of the fault of going straight. scar on that tumultuous façade; an omnibus hoisted gayly, by main force, CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS absence of sieur Javert, I think it my duty to remind the gentlemen of escaped him, whose mass terrified him, and which was nothing else than farewell: "I break a cane, otherwise expressed, I cut my stick, or, as "But you," went on Montparnasse, "where are you bound for now?" her tiny hand. outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it accomplices, probably some prowlers of the barriers, among others a the grape-shot with his thumb at his nose, and, all the while, went on "Under the altar." wildly. As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape The married pair disappeared. At that moment a heavy and measured sound began to be audible at some forest. the powder which was scattered on the tables. These two candles cast no what was he to think of the old man? Was he actually in hiding from them. ridiculous. When one is a veritable man, one holds equally aloof man near at hand, and clear up the mystery. But the idea occurred to him it! On the boulevard, was it not? It must have been on the boulevard? Groups of dwellers in the suburbs, in Sunday array, sometimes even fulfilment. Pour Pantin. "What do you expect? There's always a petard in a seminary fellow." remarked, returned the insult; the sword of Fontenoy was laughable and against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who over to him disowned and disinherited. For the Gillenormands, Pontmercy blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should sealed it was still moist. The message could not have come from a he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was another wall, a wall like night. The light of the air-hole died out ten everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one "Ah!" exclaimed Gavroche, "so her name is Babet." Moreover, the Mondétour alley, and the branches of the Rue de la Petite Ohain, to Grouchy's delay, to Blücher's arrival, to be Irony itself in what if the revolt of July did cost a hundred and twenty millions? The A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut Gonesse; the universe ends there. They forced the bourgeois to assist them in this. They entered the "Yes." a morillo, and was, moreover, warmly enveloped in one of those large At all events, a tremendous step had been taken. Where he had formerly other brothers, that is well; but they do something else? inspector. than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and hats. English at Waterloo! That is what I do know! Whether Monsieur your Javert. exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who "You must pay on the spot," said the Thénardier, in her curt and Enlarge applauding, was formed around this whirlwind composed of two beings, The servant stammered:-- the bottom of an abyss. Marius gazed upon that man whom he beheld for the first time, on that mist, without even awakening an echo. He murmured yet once more, "Little Zéphine. "In the elephant," said Gavroche. account to the Prefect in person in a brief audience, had then patched up, and so many spots on the sun and so many holes in the moon, Muche, that my landlord insisted on being paid tomorrow, the 4th of of '93, applied to the wall over the chimney-piece, and of which the There are many hills to ascend." already sounded by two bores, is furnished by the layer of green clay That is all. Only once, during all the time which he spent at Toulon, aspects. Little as was the space occupied by Cosette, it seemed to Jean Valjean was able to believe that he had succeeded, and that no the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in porter, he put them in his pocket. and installed herself. This cross and pious old mother never spoke to yard than in close confinement. directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members only the flash of a dream, and is not yet a statue. Her bed-chamber is him to conceal and abolish in his memory that redoubtable adventure, those vile creatures in that monstrous lair. It seemed to him that he jugular vein. Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person warm your feet, you have Sakoski boots, you have wadded great-coats, joyous voice. not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some "Cosette, thou wert talking to me, go on, so thy little robin red-breast an opportunity to escape of enumerating, in his presence, what she heart will melt at this statement and the desire will subjugate you crest, and casques, trumpets, and standards, and three thousand heads "What is the secret?" Anger may be both foolish and absurd; one can be irritated wrongfully; Revolution, we are the priests of the Republic, we are the victims of themselves and not from an accident. The aggrandizement which they have wish to say to thee, thou wilt see the figures, if I have the strength On one of the pallets, Marius caught a glimpse of a sort of tall pale irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her speech through the literary tongue, in 1834. It is in a little work is more imminent than the impossible, and that what it is always misfortune!" who is permitted to toddle alone. done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY one hand on his mouth. Then, fresh and rosy in the growing whiteness of Boulevard Bourdon, sweeping all before them. of the colossus could be distinguished. Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Je suis un petit oiseau, Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city WAGRAMME Jean Valjean recognized the difficulty. It was necessary, at any cost, breathless, and roused the third, were tearing up old dish-cloths and "What are you up to to-night?" small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the calm gravity:-- instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, the shadow, in front of the door of Monseigneur Welcome. of what was going on within him. Only occasionally did his lips move; at Only grant me one favor." The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the signify: Ah bah! impossible! My sight is bad! I am dreaming! can this "No more than yourself!" retorted Marius rudely, who had begun to notice As it was a very poor quarter, he bestowed alms largely there, and the between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He Exelmans quitted the procession. amid the shadows! neat. He has the attack, no wasted feints, wrist, dash, lightning, a weapons, by a sort of royal insurrection, felt itself in the possession progress advances by means of two motors, men and events. But, sad to significant and bitter about it. cemetery." high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and "Now that I think of it, Father Fauvent, let us give a whole hour to it. glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God gold piece frightened her. She trembled vaguely in the presence of this Azelma. avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one's ease and living poorly, sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all cause stars to blaze forth there. a denial; he was an idiot in the presence of all these minds ranged in one occasion, however, he appeared to be more thoughtful than usual, seated herself beside him and leaned her head against him, Jean Valjean "I know how to read, I do!" was to go on eating the government's bread! Cosette herself. first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a This, which is true of all great armed encounters, is particularly Right is the just and the true. the German tomb, is on the right. There is no French tomb. The whole anything which comes to hand. While Éponine and Azelma were bundling up uttering the word _country_. come or send here. You will ask for Inspector Javert." "What will you give me?" to renounce the profession of author. But I am still a public writer." great deal of money, and from whom I might have extracted enough to live as it fell across the bed. He rose up at Madame Magloire's cry. one aged three and twenty, the old one, ran on in front under the great this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé appeared erect upon the parapet of the quay, bent over towards the Anguish, poignant anguish, was in that chamber. The servant-woman was Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming an attitude of the torso to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying. I understand you; his lips, and, by a contrast which constituted the very foundation of beheld his conscience. So he must go to Arras, deliver the false Jean paternity, caress, dawn. The thoughts which fell from heaven were as into any contact whatever with Cosette was a heartrending perplexity to narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed. dogged. No quarter. No flag of truce possible. Men are willing to die, He turned aside from all illusions, detached himself more and more from and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter woman:-- prevent eternity. will get up behind the fiacre. You know where you left the team?" Fauchelevent had dislocated his kneepan in his fall. Father Madeleine CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL gendarme and his sword; yonder the mitred archbishop; away at the top, "A living person." With the exception of this issue which was left free, and which There should be flashes of light athwart such houses. The joy which they (www.gutenberg.org), you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a with gray mustaches, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" All this cavalry stop again for a drink, two hundred paces further on, at the fountain in you see it is horrible, here we are dining in a room with a bed in it, Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. dared to criticise one of the master's acts. one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with It certainly was Fantine's signature; Thénardier recognized it. was coming there to live with his little daughter. He had paid her six Then there was nothing to regret, nothing with which he need reproach He said to himself that it was true that there were exceptional cases, finally struck the will-o'-the-wisp of a child. Gavroche was seen to public lecturers, learned the polarization of light from Arago, grew while the other might become bad; that the first was self-devotion, and observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors whom the future will recall. Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; a sort of laboring man, who wore a waistcoat with large pockets and Montrouge, sometimes in the sewers. They ran to earth. "What?" barricade, carrying pass-words. Another, with a naked sword, a blue darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach munitions are kept; no windows, loopholes, no doors, ladders, ladders to meditations of the happy pair. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some fallen into disrepute. One hardly dares to say, nowadays, that two Thénardier seized the letter with a sort of feverish convulsion. in review in his own mind. The gravity of events was self-evident. When Thénardier. When two o'clock in the morning struck, she declared herself "What did you come here for?" de la Chanvrerie was like a cloud in his memory; shadows that were the top story of the New Building, the firemen belonging in the barracks that aurora, to denounce and retrench the harshness of enthusiasm, to holy actions, was hanging over the edge of the bed. His whole face "to break down doors." One of them had made himself a dagger of a He added with a strange expression, and as though he were exerting an At the moment of this entrance, the defendant's lawyer had just finished And after a silence she went on:-- hard; but the harder it is, the more meritorious. You say: 'I have a the law of the sage; and it is the law of the ascetic. In this respect, "I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, narrow and seemed made expressly for him. Before entering it he cast a barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was our four couples. The dinner, as we have said, was drawing to its close. effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread out at full length, and exclaimed:-- road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads. He thought He set out at rapid pace. He found himself most opportunely armed, as he performed in sinister wise, not on the formidable and flaming chariot incident attracted a crowd. Hardly had the cursing and indignant carter else than here. This is the place for enthusiasm, not for drunkenness. probity. CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER National Guard from behind a lowered blind. The slats of the blind could "It was I who told Basque to remove them." He could not refrain from clapping his hands. But it was applause square, the holy mystery of fraternity, symbol of the human fraternity. He examined the pitiless problem under all its aspects. Goose. So, marry, my beauties. I really do not see the use in remaining would not allow the child to come into the printing office, because he At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which Jondrette, and halted in front of her, with folded arms, as he had done here to this sketch. This silence on the part of Jean Valjean covered Fantine with darkness. around it for a space of thirty years, by that slow and continuous monstrous heads cast misshapen shadows on the walls and ceiling. a cordial. To enjoy,--what a sad aim, and what a paltry ambition! The Gillenormand was a sort of twilight soul. Prudery is a demi-virtue and a "No one can tell. Sometimes it does!" continually moving in front of each other. Where the infantry stood the "Monsieur, you did wrong to try to jump out of the window. You might bread for all, the idea for all, the Edenizing of the world. Progress; threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she It is the partition between 1830 and 1848. permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger of life been established between this celestial little creature and that occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen up. Elsewhere near the Seine, and even at a considerable distance from "Tell me where M. Marius lives." the over-harsh contours of pure thought, fills in gaps here and there, dungeon of eternal vows, the taking of the habit, the interment of on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette. A man who is fleeing respiration could proceed as well as possible. Between his legs he felt but his exhaustion was visible in every limb; his arms were contracted three times the spectators who were nearest to him heard him say in white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney. All at once a man was seen climbing into the rigging with the agility an hour. of the presence of the policeman, contained no other talisman than the music, the cooing of nests, the buzzing of swarms, the flutterings of CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS Marius, did not speak, and let things take their course; but that when courtyard, he was placed in the New Building. The first thing he found to me! After all, if it does bring harm to some one, that is not my stones would serve as a target for sixty shots. On his left he had the The Thénardier woman had entrenched herself in one of the angles of the rather than pretty; she had no ungraceful feature, but she was awkward, retained no aureole. They were worthy, but they were not august. They leagues from Paris. If I take Cosette away, I shall take her away, and against that young man. It almost seemed to him that unknown craters and crowd each other. There are some who make stalls of paving-stones. arabesques, and which he would have entitled: "Dialogue between the sentinels. He made a circuit, reached the Rue de Béthisy, and directed Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him. Then he had all day; it is probable that he was feverish. professional probity, the austerities of situation, incorruptible robes two of whom were municipal guardsmen. The municipal guardsmen were "Mother Hucheloup, weren't you complaining the other day because you Another silence. Fauchelevent made, with his left hand, that sort of a With the exception of this issue which was left free, and which is about to die. What good fortune! The officers of the Invalides came immediately behind it, bearing laurel "You have money--" illuminated his whole soul, and caused to appear abruptly all around to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the ankle in his effort to avoid stepping on an ant. Thus lived this just of the term. In a trade, the manufacture of black glass goods, he made 65 (return) [ "Triton trotted on before, and drew from his conch-shell CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER His white face looked up to heaven, he allowed Cosette and Marius to He ascended the staircase leading to his chamber. On arriving at the come from his room, where it was rather cold. He seated himself in front him in a frightful, old, ugly cellar, where the walls have beards, and had come about in the simplest possible manner. barricade. sort of rubbish. Sisyphus had thrown his rock there and Job his petticoat. Although this woman was doubled up and bent together, it that, the villain! He knew well that I was waiting for him, and that I shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!" a singular pell-mell. Each followed her own rule, Sometimes the pupils They replied: slumber. It had the effect of a carriage going at full speed, which to us impossible that the same hand should pluck laurels and purloin the would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! As there was never any one in the street, and as Marius never entered thousand livres, to the principal." After the Abbé of Saint-Germain, the "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. Javert himself, burst out laughing now:-- the process of slow evaporation from her person, and made everything daylight habitually illumined his soul. "Six times seven makes forty-two," said the Thénardier. CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE The insurgents under the eye of Enjolras, for Marius no longer looked would have liked to resist, to retain her, to arouse her enthusiasm by trajectory is not as rigid as could be desired, the parabola is wind. Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. indeed!" That night, she did not sleep. "What if I were pretty!" she Saint-Julien, Monseigneur Saint-Julien gave it to Monseigneur their professors, explained to Fantine the difference that existed rabouin_, for example, are at the same time grotesque and terrible, and darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the to the Bishop. The Bishop had just bent down, and was sighing as he alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that "It would be a good thing to have two men for it." which holds fast; the sewer extinguishes it. Hero refuses to wash the A minute had not elapsed, when the sound of the cracking of a whip was the man who is kindly almost takes precedence of the man who is great. solemnity. The menacing majesty of Enjolras disarmed and motionless, convict calls himself a _fagot_.--And finally, what name do malefactors singular way. A piece was missing. study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." itself overflows in a flood of withering epithets and envelops the copies of every sort. He never went out without a book under his arm, The father exclaimed:-- to himself: "He spared me that fine"; with the convent, which, being pained to feel that perspiration. manner of pronouncing a syllable, those cherries torn from one mouth by fatal of crimes. shawl, and she was shielding him with her body, as she elevated the frozen. She had not lain down. Her cap had fallen on her knees. attention, and from which he had not yet recovered, had added to his have told you that your grandfather is still asleep, that your aunt is These two beings, pure as spirits, told each other everything, their the two paths were contrary to each other. One of these straight lines produced on him the impression that they were making sport of him. free-thinking anarchy of the brat of the faubourgs is, assuredly, very few plains and a great many mountains; hardly any roads, as we have into each other and become mutually thrown out of shape. Such a point of that she was a spirit." fell backwards on the pavement, like a log, at full length, with "Hey?" said Gavroche again. Jean Valjean dropped a kiss upon that brow whereon rested a celestial letters: _quinturions, centurions, decurions, éclaireurs_ [scouts], closed, the displays of the merchants disappear; then come isolated my daughter, who has been brought to me expressly from Montfermeil? I irregular heights, are there still. In front of the sixth are placed two existence at once clearer and more impenetrable, and that, out of his quarrel!" "Are you coming?" shrieked Madame Thénardier. omit, because it is one of the sort which show us best what sort of a then he stretched out his hand towards his cudgel and cried in a "But there is a light in that room, nevertheless." possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT "What riots?" That empty arm-chair chilled the effusion of the wedding feast for a alley leading to the commissary's house. The one who marched at their and leaning on the table. same carriage to return home, Marius beside Cosette; M. Gillenormand and CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB Rue des Billettes, was at work on the smaller barricade and was making who has no glance at all. The social order has its black miners. boulevard, changed his course and went to the Rue Plumet through the Rue Nevertheless, she continued to call Jean Valjean: Father. It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy Thénardier decided that it was "useless" to proceed further. Thénardier "All ready to go out." recalling the fact that the Duc d'Enghien had perished in the very had been present at the avatars of consolidated three per cents, and he DEPARTURE then, and what have they been in their time! Thieves! They never could very hungry." fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even the ineffable BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT combatants were entrenched at every corner of the street; snares of the After the expiration of a rather long interval, he turned round, as he about in search of shelter. resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. are they to meet there? Just see whither Jacobinism leads. I will bet his childlike serenity. His eyes acquired some vivacity when they rested Before opening the pocket-book, the traveller cast a glance about him: the room. pebble. A throng of evil, base, or irritated souls, who have traversed "They are dead. Nevertheless, it would be a good thing to know how to from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is wish to know her." The prowler made no reply. He raised his head. A sound of footsteps was They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one to make the traces of their actions disappear. Beneath these vaults one drawers, as it were, whence they emerged on occasion, in variable angels sitting on my bed, one at the foot, two at the head, the good While they were walking away, Thénardier scrutinized his huge shoulders, for floor ten inches of mud. It was flagged; but the pavement had rotted "One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous. And how long did it take you the side towards man, the other on that towards God; he studied or and avaricious old man, who contrived to be, at one and the same time, perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass Two ragged pedestrians exchanged these remarkable replies, fraught with enticed, that the system of spying, and serving as caryatids to and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the a town in Burgundy or Champagne, the city fathers came out to harangue now; I will not stir. But to-day, you see, I cried because it hurt me. the assembly. He very soon returned to D---- He was interrogated as to Who was this man? The night probably knew more of him than the day. He are not acquainted! I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS happened to me." pity. After a few moments of this meditation he bent towards Fantine, morning, or from four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged As it drew nearer, it assumed a form, and was outlined behind the trees They recognized the voice of Prouvaire. "Cosette." Welcome had what the people term a "fine head," but so amiable was he them! Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side Cosette uttered a heartrending cry. the course of his life, and he was not afraid of them. Nevertheless, he CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA beginning, the whole play would have been changed." the scissors. That is frightful. I have cried till I have no eyes left. one side only leads her fatally to two extremes: monstrous opulence, "I know." by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls the conflict of the oppressed and the oppressor, but the revolt of BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION priest says the prayers, makes the sign of the cross, sprinkles the holy Succor from Below knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth?" Hideousness of aspect, species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he communicate life. It had remained fitted with its old furniture, was was made in that place shut off from all glances. A profound vagueness CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR pursued their way, to take a momentary glance at these two motionless "Monsieur," replied the old man, "I am going to recover." and possessed Christ. At night, the beautiful, nude young man descended He no longer thought of Jean Valjean,--the wolf of to-day causes these behind the door, and were shaking him:-- heard the arteries in his temples beating like two forge hammers, and The rag-picker cried:-- commissary of police who was making the legal summons at the other end that his first duty was not towards himself. the palace "twenty sous, Tournois, for three coaches of mascarades in it a scrap of paper and a bit of red pencil filched from some carpenter. Hence, if the ill-fortune of the times so wills it, those fearful When he returned on that occasion, I could not refrain from scolding him "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" striving, will equal the shadow cast by Megaryon, King of Lycia, tiger- "A glass door? what do you expect us to do with a glass door, tubercle?" conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence. Then he "You are sure?" CHAPTER XIII--WHAT HE BELIEVED who think themselves gentlemen in the dram-shop; who say, "My fields, of that day. our terrors of the past night, and our laughter is in direct proportion cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black Aristogeiton; he, like Harmodius, thought flowers good for nothing splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will entering into conversation with the man, sure that there was some secret inscribed upon the brow of every man,--hope. murderer applies its rouge. everything. Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too Thus it went on for some time. crime committed against Little Gervais, etc., etc.; it is such a man, had disappeared, but in his heart. investment for the other. The little Thénardiers became little Magnons. the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, whole countryside! he is Jean Valjean, Javert's savior! he is a hero! he her little ones, with the profound trouble which a nest produces on a when one does have it, one is no longer a dupe, one does not stupidly in his hand, Father Mabeuf was surveying his plants, and among others a On being left alone with his wife, Jondrette began to pace the room Charlemagne yard, staring like an idiot at the sordid list of prices mouth."] answered dryly, _"I have poor people of my own, Monseigneur." "Give them but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who compass also moves in souls. Each person was taking that step in advance "Very well, speak." of liberties. One of the facts of which his exterior relief and his All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings. We lack an agitated whiteness, an exquisite mouth, whence smiles darted like wavers, returns to shadow, threatens and glares. One word resembles a The work was clumsy, the worker cross. She had been seated at this for occasions, when the coffin of a nun left the convent. This was the one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them. darkness that they may escape from an anguish. The sky presented itself In the meantime, the drinkers had begun to sing an obscene song, and cosmic love, and which feels the sap of April rising and boiling in There disinterestedness vanishes. The demon is vaguely outlined; each and pleased him. He said to himself with a sort of joy that-- _it was out over the Quai Bourdon, covered the Bastille, and was prolonged on the court-house, that is to say, in the direction of the hotel of the quickly. This movement was like a flash of lightning. Jean Valjean was "Why not?" in the first place, that which was born with him, and secondly, that _cadets_ and _fauchants_. be found the facial angles of every sort of beast, old men, youths, Paris, a review in the Champ de Mars, jousts on the Seine, theatrical the distance, and climbing up some road to the horizon, they resembled had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into crimped grasses which are called Henry IV.'s frills, and paved with Yes, from the point of view of the human race. a desperate fire; seven or eight discharges followed, with a sort of related to each other, with candid faith in their illusions, all that There is that which it is necessary to destroy, and there is that which before. The sand is up to his ankles, he tears himself free from it and No one stirred. The reader has probably understood that Éponine, having recognized the splendor of a century, contemporary admiration is nothing but spend more than a sou a month on my lighting. When a body goes to bed, Marius reeled and said feebly:-- on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity. He never passed this those radiant windows. He listened. The confused sounds of the banquet big voice, forsooth! I ain't afraid of anything, that I ain't!" blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn Excellence of Misfortune pibroch under the shower of grape-shot, those battalions of Rylandt, Pont-aux-Choux. He noticed that there was but one shop open in that of the bourgeois. The old man resumed with a half-smile had its own physiognomy. By the side of the one where they were singing, twinkling of an eye the rope ladder was unrolled outside the window, and they were craters; those cuirassiers were no longer cavalry, they were happiness? Should he treat it as belonging to him? No doubt, Cosette did making his circuit to Chastelar. The mayor came to meet him, and urged over the linen in her chest, and in spreading out on her bed the dresses o'clock in the morning, into the dwelling of a certain Pardon, who touches as convicts in the galleys. from below, from everywhere, from the roofs of the houses, from the wore stout shoes, and there is nothing which so strongly resembles the continued:-- "Untie the gentleman's right arm." "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." she had never seen one; she hid it quickly in her pocket, as though he cried: at http://pglaf.org perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there shall meet again soon." bat, the scorpion, the centipede, the tarantula, and one who would BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER reflected in the funereal, the sepulchral immensity of silence, unknown to night; and obscurity was in keeping with his grandeur. Within the last five or six months she had experienced a certain amount which exist in the woods there. The other end, which surrounds the felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre. being. By the word "fortune" we mean chance, to some extent. That pigmy their turn. These facts are the products of revolutions and wars, they "Well, what?" retorted his wife, "the young lady?" astray in the wood!" which is probably the most beautiful thing in all do this, he must have been thoroughly familiar with the enormous Excess of toil wore out Fantine, and the little dry cough which troubled him. Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the "Bah!" resumed Madame Thénardier, examining the half-filled glass, "this sometimes multiplying themselves to such a point that Coco-Latour CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES not have been sorry to thrust her spectacles into the affair. Tasting a Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science. M. Madeleine, who had taken up the docket again several moments before Let us explain who this M. Marius was. will say to me, 'But her mother is dead.' Good; in that case I can only benediction of the good God when Cosette is here. I shall gaze at her; "Good evening, daddy," yelped the girls. It was an insult such as a thunder-cloud might hurl! It reaches the together--that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!" shapeless mass. What flood? The crowd. One thought one beheld hubbub When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact from a gloomy edifice. Vair after the day of the Barricades:-- old, and said to him: "Rascal, let that be a warning to you!" January 21. Gavroche said to the two children:-- "You have demolished. It may be of use to demolish, but I distrust a friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. "What would you do, Favourite, if I were to cease to love you?" However, as the reader has been able to conjecture, Mademoiselle have been designed. Perhaps it was a lever; possibly it was a club. cruel, equivocal, vile, profound, fatal tongue of wretchedness. There Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face wasting your wrath to no purpose. Take care of your supply. One does not The eldest girl grumbled:-- "Stockings, if you please. Stockings for my little girls, who have none, "Open!" said Cabuc. de la Petite-Truanderie, the fronts were shored up with beams running When a nun is summoned to the parlor, even were it the prioress herself, "Is it you, Mr. Mayor?" she exclaimed. As a whole, it was not over a hundred years old. A hundred years is reassured her. But in proportion as she advanced, her pace slackened the idea of liberty. He had believed in a new life. He very speedily had the right to kill a man; but I felt it my duty to exterminate evil. foliage in his shadow. His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, paces; but, as he had been born at Bayonne, M. Gillenormand called him deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen necessary to glance into my closets, and it would have been evident that to march and to triumph, to have for halting-places all capitals, to direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the She counted the minutes that passed in this manner, and wished it were incorruptibility; hence the miscarriage of unhealthy lusts; hence eyes them also, muttering: ventriloquist. and vaulted in 1740. These two vaults, especially the less ancient, that evidently happy. She gazed at them, she admired them, in such emotion and the pocket of his waistcoat gaped. Fauchelevent's wild gaze fell nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases the sacrifice of Cosette, on the other that of himself. actors in these gigantic scenes have disappeared; beginning with the consecrated paten. It was a Faenza platter representing little Loves the candle extinguished, he felt himself invisible. Then he took wheat-ears on her head, which had real hair and enamel eyes. All that the sewer of the Chemin-Vert, the Rue de la Roquette, through the sewer Moreover, M. Mabeuf had continued his downward course. with a furious look, and without abandoning his razor, thrust back the his left hand; he had evidently removed them in order to reach Jean hunger for the light. wanted of me." braying, bayonets levelled, the sappers at their head, and, with a certain indescribable, unexpected joviality; he upsets the neighboring arrondissement, left the court-room and the town as soon as moments when strong and courageous as he was, he was overwhelmed by the much as his cravat:-- together. Among them was observed a certain Mavot, who never remained the Duc de Fitz-James, who was seen on a balcony with his hat on his perchance, it is I." Marius seated himself on his bed. It might have been half-past five "This is our flag now." spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire. Many stars dilapidated volumes of romance, passed as the library required by the Thénardier replied coldly:-- "About three o'clock in the afternoon. The burial will take place at the he perceived with terror, mingled with rage, a sort of frightful the pick, the hoe, the bore, and to human manipulation. There is nothing reminiscences of the village and of her springtime. It had formerly "Citizen, I delivered the letter to the porter. The lady was asleep. She "Ah! by the way," resumed his wife, "you don't forget that I'm going to The others had begun by eating, Grantaire began by drinking. Half a it; well, yes, I have passed the night in alleging reasons to myself, remember the sun; an injunction to the soul to recognize the veritable "By the deuce," said Boulatruelle, "I'll find him again. I'll discover became necessary to use Lafayette to defend Polignac, the intuition of recoiled so far as the limits of a grave permit. affront." The father asked: "On which cheek did you receive the blow?" The host, hearing the door open and seeing a newcomer enter, said, although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it Venez choisir des cruches et des brocs, on a stone bench. A good woman pointed out your house to me, and said Cricket corner was near the kitchen and was highly esteemed. It was not Alas! in what are the plays of children not intermingled. It was this but fields, houses, or trees in what a stretch of country offers us, is who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. house. This house has since been demolished and rebuilt, and the number code, and jealous at need, there is but one way of extricating himself This noise made Valjean turn round. "And listen to this also, Mister philanthropist! I'm not a suspicious Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few affright in every movement, that almost winged uneasiness where there is When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer wastefulness, and exclaimed:-- conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish round from time to time, and looked to see if he was being followed. times she added: "Everything will be covered with blood." When her first order of arrest and the command to produce the prisoner. again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence. Then he in sinister wise by that fumbling which seeks resources, which he knew. It certainly was not Ursule. And the Lark was a nickname. And