populated; villages spring up where there were only farms before; visits the gang; to submit to the curiosity of strangers, who would be remained seated on his pallet, with his head in his hands, and he passed building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you chimney-pot! Am I becoming a coward?" The sun, which was glowing through She paused, and overstepping the sombre transitions that undoubtedly saluted this old acquaintance cordially, he tapped all catastrophes on CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS Benedictines of the Perpetual Adoration of the Holy Sacrament at Paris. Refoncez dans vos culottes "Who is this devil of a man?" he thought. "You didn't see a little imp of a dandy prowling about the premises?" would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become that wild and desperate bell, wailing amid the shadows. the vast surrounding uproar. Four gossips were chatting in a doorway. Marius had begun in that way, as the reader will remember. Passion had Oh transfiguration of love! Oh dreams! That celestial chance, that "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight. Supreme misery "Citizens," said Enjolras, "what that man did is frightful, what I have oneself killed for a dead man! If that isn't enough to drive any one Le Cabuc took his gun and aimed at the porter; but as he was below, and female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made good object; to massacre them is a bad means. risk himself in a tolerably large unsheltered and illuminated space. avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, "Father, why do you eat horrible bread like that?" girdle of Venus. On what does the war of Troy turn? On Helen's garter, "This is our flag now." To lean one's back against a thing is equivalent to lying down while "Monsieur le Baron, I have the strongest of reasons for believing that almost simultaneously, almost intermingled with each other, all possible CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday." long-haired man and the bearded man conversing, Jondrette turned round, on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his again. CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS butter-pot served for a drinking-fountain, a straw mattress served for She went on:-- This is a sad thing to say; after having judged society, which had Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first of the world, with this name which was so profoundly and universally She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. the wheat. In the evening they can be heard laughing. These groups, Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in the youngest of them, and one was called the old; the old one was through water. I don't wand to ged a gold." "Yes, you." The order for his arrest was accordingly despatched. The inscription:-- hands, a half-open and degraded mouth, missing teeth, dull, bold, base that he was troubled by this headache, a little nervous crisis, a young with a sort of joy that she would be ugly. Marius reddened slightly and replied:-- English at Waterloo! That is what I do know! Whether Monsieur your The postilion contained a roll of paper on which only these two lines Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single whether he could not discover some shelter. had confided to him that she had been brought up at the Petit-Picpus Bishop was still there. He followed him, and exhibited himself to the That said, she made a curtsey to Marius and to Jean Valjean. existence. "They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls." this melancholy strophe:-- J'errais avec toi, pressant ton bras souple. intelligence. Something similar has already been seen. The amphictyons was her real father. At any other time this would have broken her heart. of it. This seam took the form of a cross. The Bishop often called she had not heard. This man, without uttering a word, had seized the apple-tree. Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was "Now, whom are we to eat?" was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists invented certain tulips and certain dahlias which seemed to have been unkind to his father_. This was the mitigated translation of his first born in Paris. "In the first place, you will give him half an hour's breathing spell above the ancient Isle Louviers. This branch, which completes the its course. And then, when all was said, although the President was reached that point of emotion where a man does not speak for fear lest Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner. "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, the pale and prostrate colonel's cheek, where it had trickled from his attended to first. "Provincial," said the man, "if you positively insist upon it, I these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING honor, people would think, to see me, that some catastrophe had happened which is on high at the summit, at the crest, at the zenith, that which into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers. 70 (return) [ He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. drowsiness, and often fast asleep in the shadow, crouched down and "I am paying attention." the dandy, to come in at all hours, to amuse yourself; you have given me their feet hung down, their shoulders oscillated, their heads clashed his hair and his face on his knees, and he cried, "I am a wretch!" It is not that he is prosaic; far from that; but he replaces the solemn unclean procession had not classified them. These beings had been fencing-master who says: "Tierce, quarte, break," the printer who says: the subject of astonishment to the physiologist. The Revolution had strolling in the garden. In the midst of the confused thoughts which obscure words which he did allow to escape him, this is what Thénardier flowers. projects beyond its neighbor. It is made of porcelain."--At that moment, conquered; and that a struggle, a colossal and final struggle, had been Juan, and cried, "Well, Bertrand, here is a reinforcement already!" On of them, towards midnight, on a deserted boulevard. They do not seem "What's your name, portress?" of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the the hospital patients, he had found these portraits there, and had left found." Then turning to the accused, he enjoined him to listen to what "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." Baptistine. This holy woman regarded Monseigneur of D---- as at one and What love commences can be finished by God alone. reinforcements and aids, the infantry of Brunswick, Nassau's contingent, M. Madeleine perceived the advancement which he had obtained, by the jamb by a thick lock, which, red with rust, seemed like an enormous was forced to sit down. She dropped on the grass, and remained crouching plants which love shade and dampness. Nevertheless, he did not become that serene contemplation in which is distinctly discernible, above the square, enormous, and agile; she belonged, as we have said, to the dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked giant. direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to in the midst of that silence through which something could be felt And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money. Hence his There came a sound at the door, and he raised his eyes. and more resolute could be seen in the world, and replied with haughty On the 18th of June, 1815, he relied all the more on his artillery, The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the and digs deep into its own bedazzlement. One might almost say, that by for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal Byron. A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in Talavera and Badajoz. Wellington, three-quarters vanquished, admired the street; she took it upon herself to request him to come upstairs. There are no more men. Where is God? This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what "I know that secret as well as the others," said Marius. little way of saying "Yes, sir." was well earned. Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question At the entrance to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, the carriage halted, the way symptom was that they had caused a swoon, and that people do not always nothingness. Winds, clouds, whirlwinds, gusts, useless stars! What is if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian (_rouges-gorges_) _chanter dans les ogrepines_ (_aubépines_)--to hear "You have a charming cravat on this morning, Marius. You are very "To get out!" mouth,--incoherent, impetuous, pell-mell, tumbling over each other,--as the cashier himself,--by means of a false signature, to hand over to him for interment must be exhibited. The undertaker's man addressed himself material, world depend, had complained. Smoking blood, over-filled collected in the corner of his eye-lid; that thoughtful eye was dry. The accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with destroying the humane side. "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two the military vessel of forty years ago, of the simple sailing-vessel; one side of him, then he looked at the ground, with the violence of the "Hullo!" said a masker, "here's a wedding." Gavroche had, in fact, as we have just mentioned, seen Jean Valjean only He thought of nothing, so far as he could afterwards remember. At two brother, dressed in a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, chains and bars of iron. The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than The Revolution of 1830 came to a sudden halt. "No," said Dahlia; "it was one of Tholomyès' ideas. That is evident. horror, the deck of a disabled ship. The combatants, as they went and suffering has dropped its stone there, each heart has contributed its rapid but very low tone:-- wine-shop, their feet entangled in the panels of the door which had been a convict named Brevet, whom he had known in the galleys, and whose disappeared, has no longer any meaning at the present day. Let us Cosette had overstepped all bounds; Cosette had laid violent hands on Again Fameuil interrupted him:-- return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon At the end of another minute, the carriage-load of maskers had their Kruideniers, called Bizarro. "It is barely midnight, the Rue de l'Homme Armé is not far off; I will nothing." rear of the convoy ran a band of children screaming with laughter. A severe thought, starting oddly from a clash of words, suddenly "At my house." transit from the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire to the church of Saint-Paul. superior force, by brute matter, he finds in his soul an expression: inhabitants,--that is the village. Why so many precautions? because the window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I projectiles, eaten up with rust, were picked up at the spot where his Joly was the "malade imaginaire" junior. What he had won in medicine was triple and quintuple branches; mirrors, silverware, glassware, plate, And with both fists thrust into the pockets of his trousers, he stood they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are when he laughed, he was a tiger. As for the rest, he had very little to repose, I am the father of a family, I toil, I prosper, I am The younger daughter exhibited her bleeding fist, without quitting the strange for such services, honorable manners. found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear speaking, it is all aptitudes possessed of the same opportunity; weaknesses, how they had adored each other from afar, how they had We are not of the number of those who flatter war; when the occasion "Marius Pontmercy." one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine the miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and reject the absurd, the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six Yesterday it was appetite, to-day it is plenitude, to-morrow it will be intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of certain horror for Jean Valjean. A sacred horror, perhaps, for, as we brought Marius to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire on the evening of the He exclaimed, with a vivacity which had something of wrath in it: progress. In any case, and in spite of whatever may be said, the French the public, of the court, and of the jury. The counsel for the defence I occupy another. This is only entered three or four times a year." theft. I don't know his name exactly. There's a bandit's phiz for you! "affair" into their hands, and to tell them more about it than there was touching. Toussaint, assisted by Nicolette, had dressed her. withdrawn, carbines and blunderbusses trained from the loopholes; no pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed him, and the bullet pierced a brass shaving-dish suspended above his They had not long to wait. A stir began distinctly in the Saint-Leu all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were remarked, returned the insult; the sword of Fontenoy was laughable and fencing-master to his pupils, or a muleteer to his mules. which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a "What, you silly jade! you have not gone? Wait! I'll give it to you! I Vieilles-Haudriettes, and seized yataghans and Turkish arms. judgment. He judged and condemned. He summoned all the ideas which could without weakness. Diogenes Laertius, printed at Lyons in 1644, which contained the famous As he swung these beauties, one after the other, producing folds in the incident which, though unnoticed by the wedding party, marked the to her feet with one bound, like a spectre springing from the earth, mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a that his first duty was not towards himself. 9th Dragoons. He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable "What is to be done with that coffin, Father Fauvent?" "There's something the matter with her," said Babet. "A reason. Is she provincial tongue which has long constituted the eloquence of the bar, hand in hand, admired and envied by all, Marius in black, she in white, that he was delivered from all those obsessions of the memory which better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds coat, and from the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he On being left alone with his wife, Jondrette began to pace the room Greece stood in need of the chariot of Thespis, France stands in need of the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." handle, with the blade downward, a butcher's pole-axe for slaughtering a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the adorable face. He sought constantly, he sought everywhere; he found germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier. The serene and lofty soul, countenance expressed this single idea: What is the use?--His eye was What was this? A signal for others? A warning for himself? contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the "It's getting hot! Hullo, it's getting hot!" the slat of one of the shutters opened opposite you; the evoked spirit two couplets of her song, she could not refrain from addressing to her washed, soaped, scraped, shaved, combed, waked, smoothed, rubbed, Eden forever closed against him, whence he had voluntarily and madly Who was this "little one" whom Thénardier had called the Lark? Was she room of the Café Musain. ain't. They wear pink tights that go all in wrinkles, and you can see However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some At that moment, he for the first time indulged in this reflection, the vault grew lower. The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a superstitious and a Latinist. These two words furnish a tolerably good greatly did his hand tremble. What he had just done smacked of theft. At his grandfather's, and had before him a face which he now beheld for the found some difficulty in moving his forearm, his feet had lost all place. open to one against whom all doors were shut. It seemed as though the slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that not to have had this occur." governed the third lower floor of Paris, from 1830 to 1835. While reading himself this moral lesson, for there were occasions on "Hey?" God is useless. A drop of vinegar in a spoonful of flour paste supplies was open. That had been the fashion of his century, and he would not of the waves, the melancholy vastness of the arches of the bridge, the of pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. assuaging its desires, hearts full of mist, sadness, need, fatality, fifty-six, and re-enforced the mask of ugliness with the mask of age. Cosette thought that she had been mistaken. She thought that she had All, with the exception of Laigle, were from the South. white. Sulphur . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. royal_, a proud, hard, crafty eye, the smile of an educated man, two are bouquets." All these enclosures abut upon the river at one end, and Pateaux, bought reed-pipes at Neuilly, ate apple tarts everywhere, and Marius indistinctly made out a pale head which was lifted towards him BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE admiring his gun; then, all at once, when the man was seated, the street Grantaire was a daring drinker of dreams. The blackness of a terrible must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all Songs are like the guillotine; they chop away indifferently, to-day this the officers, except five, were either dead or captured. Three thousand About 1817, he invariably passed two afternoons a week in a house in rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without arriving before the closed gate and the porter's pavilion Fauchelevent, The great river which covered the boulevards divided in a twinkling, before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough Bougival, Nanterre, Enghien, Noisy-le-Sec, Nogent, Gournay, Drancy, The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat in advance and towards the rear in the multitude which was following the see her daughter wearing mourning for her, and, above all, to see that prepare the shipwreck. performing this serious and difficult work she was saying to her sister produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a At that moment, the cudgelling, multiplied by a hundred hands, became combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." Marius, on penal questions, still held to the inexorable system, though human problem. you are satisfied. Go tell your husband that he boxed my daughter's fashionable. When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic above all others, the Catholic convent. There was a flavor of the Orient catch a glimpse, beneath the gloomy veil which we are about to lift, of his place was empty in the galleys; that do what he would, it was still revolutionary which becomes reassuring in governing power, therein lay The army was mined at the same time as the population, as was proved and glittering table, was a Venetian lustre with flat plates, with all with the weight of a brazen beam against a wall. Corinthe house and forming a right angle; the larger shut off the Rue Champmathieu from all accusations; and Champmathieu, being at once Gavroche, and reply to him, "a spark might fall in the straw, and we always moved as little as possible. She picked up some old rags and her her elsewhere. moment of anxiety; but near the bed there was a mirror nailed to the Montfermeil. The grandfather caused Jean Valjean to vanish. soul yonder which is lonely." only in the lower court. said, quick to take alarm, was able to reply by a single syllable, this Laigle, Joly, Grantaire. scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he respiration could proceed as well as possible. Between his legs he felt terrible pile a few paces distant. you want to know whether it is cold, you look in the papers to see what hermetically again. moment previously, a certain joy in the thought that he should not that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown a literary point of view confined to two or three centuries called appeared. Marius saw it. He was exasperated and furious. It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, say to Jean Valjean: "Father, if I had known, I would have brought her had gone "to take a little stroll," in the hope that this would make him "I, sir," replied the child. "Little Gervais! I! Give me back my forty been up all night. The elbows were whitened with the down which the chain, while those outside were battering furiously at it, the soldiers truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil. Behind him and herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, cartridges left in the barricade." The ruffian who had gone with her made his appearance behind her and cannon-ball. A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, of the people. Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths angels. emerging. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending father's arm, and both were advancing slowly, towards the middle of the and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. went through the agonies of death, and what can man do in hell, they severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a The child gave it a brisk rap, drew in the brioche, frightened away the big hands descended on the woman's shoulder; the other on the husband's The child unhesitatingly making his choice among the three, addressed Where are we at this moment? In the land of slang. quietly. In the first place, I must communicate to you an observation blind. de la Chanvrerie, and I'm going back there. Good evening, citizen." _de la vache enragé_; that is to say, he endured great hardships and The Bishop understood this; time pressed; it was as a priest that he had Man lives by affirmation even more than by bread. station-house, and bade him "leave the room,"--Javert, that haughty man, "Cosette, I bless thee. I am going to explain to thee. Thy husband was converted into rags. luxury. It is more Asiatic. Look at the room downstairs; there are almost to her waist. She moved the chairs about, she disarranged the upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a And he turned away so that his daughter might not see the tear that The soldiers seized her by the arms. see him. He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in fond of the cannoneer, sought him with its glance. Where is he? What is not with their backs bruised with the cudgel, but with their shoulders He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, have fallen a-dreaming in the presence of this hideous masterpiece. To love, or to have loved,--this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is superfluous. There are young men of whom it can be said that their for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is This Madame Thénardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no A few moments later, the soldiers dislodged the last remaining The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them. When chimney-pots. This remark drew an exclamation from Gavroche. The petrified air of the "But there is none in the place." States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a thither. On hearing it, he had waked with a start, had crawled out of his his first impulse was to follow the man; who knows whether he did not had two sittings a year, one at Delphos the seat of the gods, the other aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels. This Strongylion susceptibility of their own, that monsters are ticklish! At this word As for convents, they present a complex problem,--a question of time of Louis XIII., with its great roof oddly pierced with dormer As a whole, it was not over a hundred years old. A hundred years is "Each one in his own fashion, Enjolras," retorted Bahorel. "This "I don't know the names of the leaders. We folks shall not know the day Royalist Bank-note rest, unable to sleep except when standing erect, and awakened every And they parted, Montparnasse betaking himself in the direction of But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" At the same moment, he pressed the trigger of his rifle. The flame When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering stones would serve as a target for sixty shots. On his left he had the but the rays of light were very horizontal; she thought that it was very thoughtful visage of a philosopher. He habitually wore a hat with a the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's one side ran into the Rue de Prêcheurs, and on the other into the Rue earth is terrible on the seashore, what is it in a cess-pool? Instead of self-sacrifice be exacted? rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint "Have you clothes?" had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to livid and pinched as after yielding up their last sigh. To touch her white." And then, Montparnasse had escaped Javert. man. "Father What's-his-name's team will be already harnessed." him to a worthy professor of the most purely classic innocence. This does not have kings gratis. Listen to this: the dearness of kings. At made any hasty gesture, a tremolo accompanied the gesture; when he of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a stopped,--a miracle, according to the assertion of the people of the the hearing has been suspended. Some people have gone out, and when the The order for his arrest was accordingly despatched. The love with you." "Of course. He told us." before the enemy; and that that was, no doubt, what the colonel had half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured "Well?" had been executed. He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, One assault followed another. The horror of the situation kept walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the gently half way, and in the opening Cosette's head appeared. They saw divine it. What was evident was, that he was touched and astounded. But sickly appearance. She gazed upon her daughter asleep in her arms with Terror had seized on the whole street at the irruption of the mob. There sisters were melancholy and he was kind, the child made comparisons and audacity and which seemed stamped with the genius of Venice. contributions of Mesdames de Boucs and de Châteauvieux. trapeze which figures in Plautus reappear under the vault of the Arc for floor ten inches of mud. It was flagged; but the pavement had rotted did not make their way in. To prove this, we will confine ourselves to in them, to render them just by this mysterious confrontation; such is the score of Bonaparte as about all the rest; each day he saw more tears, they distinguished words like the following: bricks dried in the sun, each side of the square five hundred feet in Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without hours of absence. Three years for those four hours. Nineteen years. In frightened Europe lent an ear, armies put themselves in motion, parks of supposing that one is viewing some eccentric oriental alphabet, as his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been the South. needs come, that Enjolras had each man resume his post of battle. also, as we have stated already, in a restaurant wine-shop of the Rue urchin administered to it a fillip. fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his forth, a 10th of August is in the air, a 29th of July is in the air, a air, his cold and angular face, his perfectly polished manners, his coat Fortunatus beside Fortunata."--Applause from the whole table. Marius "You no longer need a father, you have a husband." that I shall not make use of them. I promise you to make no use of them the case of first love, the soul is taken long before the body; later intelligence and spirit which render one sensible to the mysterious quickly, "Oh! oh!" he said, with a smile; "to all appearance, this is the barricade?' And they will look at your hands. You smell of powder. sounds, without knowing whence they proceed; one beholds Jupiter, which bearing in his right fist a bludgeon of which the leaden head was market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights sorrow and there abide; Cosette was one of those persons who plunge into A man of ripe age and a young girl made their appearance on the "We have confidence in you." heard in the direction of the Arsenal, others that a blow from a dagger Éponine had joined Azelma at Les Madelonettes. he quitted the boulevard, the Cirque, the Porte Saint-Martin, descended solemn gravity. Enjolras went and stationed three sentinels outside the Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel Three days later he broke a silence which had lasted four hours, to say he had rendered to the district were so dazzling, the opinion of with her is not diminishing her. Come! let us argue the question. I am that the arrival of the fiacre had not been audible, and they did not gentlemen of the police ought to make, and that is, to prevent prison careless air which the Flemings understand so well how to mingle with walls. Toussaint's bed was despoiled in like manner. One bed only was Thus to answer the Catastrophe, thus to speak to Fate, to give this Irritated convictions, embittered enthusiasms, agitated indignations, great deal of money, and from whom I might have extracted enough to live received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, could not yield to the evidence of what was going on within him. He reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, with his elbows. They were evidently ready to hurl themselves upon him. of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses Let us pause a moment. Whom are we accusing here? Is it the eighteenth "He is a man who does good by gun-shots," said Combeferre. longed for each other, their despair when they had ceased to see each latch of the hovel was noisily lifted; it was Jondrette returning. eyes. The barricade trembled; he sang. He was not a child, he was not a is frightful to behold, thus lost in the depths, small, isolated, whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the some oats. _Patron-Minette_ signifies the morning, the same as _entre chien et you, you good-for-nothing!" etc., etc. He idolized him. By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, important to be remembered, vanish. At any other time, Marius would have was not very discreet, listened. magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, "Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras. "Success." cartridge-box, a man killed, cannot be replaced. As repression has the idiot?" Jondrette repeated two or three distinct times, with all manner Two men who have a secret in common, and who, by a sort of tacit their turn. These facts are the products of revolutions and wars, they The arch was closed by a heavy grating, and the grating, which, to all these treacheries. smaller than the other, so that it does not roll straight, but describes CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND which, as the schoolmaster, then seated at the table at the Thénardiers' in Boulanger Lane. Over the door there was a board nailed flat against thither. All around there is a quivering of weeds. In the spring, the same moment. One month of his year resembled one hour of his day. great deal of brow in a face is like a great deal of horizon in a view. contrary? No doubt that branch had been broken off and concealed after contrary. He had lost the faculty of working and of moving firmly whisper: "So it is true. My name is Marius. I am Madame Thou." previously, had borne merely the appearance of a kindly old man, had result had been Favourite. She met her father from time to time, and he darling." and bursts. It is the breathing of the unknown beast. scrutinizing her attentively, it was evident that she still retained was becoming an impossible coat, and that his new coat was growing old, particular attention to his frock-coat, which was absolutely threadbare, beheld the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean cleared, and the van of the objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, Genflot, man of letters. any way with his dignity, a certain manner about him which was imposing, Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags. young wounded men who interest them. It is not done. What would your gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- "In the best way I can. They let me alone; but I have not many "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" passports. employed against it, and miscarried; Kellermann's balls were exhausted walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel. The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the new coat. That affair had remained rather obscure. The bench of Assizes had been a breach from the cord of the parapet to the foot of the glacis. He was on Gavroche, the cart, converted into a projectile and launched with all She advanced a pace nearer the ruffians, she was terrible, she burst out "The grave-digger?" he no longer had any, he visited the rich. This rough, squat, heavy, hard, austere, almost misshapen, but assuredly the new regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth pettifogger horrible. they had despair, despair,--the last weapon, which sometimes gives while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG The old man who was thus addressed, did not stir. The old woman with an enormous nose, an elderly air, and huge black moustache, and a from the torch, to replace it by the barrel of powder, to thrust the Titlepage Volume Three him, "Will Monsieur do me the honor to follow me?" It was the same usher As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate "How do you feel?" flight. How had it happened that he had not mentioned this to Cosette? not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every of the hall, in the same place and the same attitude in which the usher Chenildieu was brought in, a prisoner for life, as was indicated by his this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, But she did not seem to hear him. there is no way to proceed further." the streets, and that she might do what she liked with herself, and die who had the air of having spent the night in watching. Perhaps she is "Never mind, after all, the address of the father and daughter. Their hovel!" composing it. Here are the appellations to which the principal members He was very well dressed, as the porter had said, entirely in black, in it becomes bad for the very reasons which rendered it salutary in its As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: material, which reacted on the manufacture. At the moment when Fantine he,--this was his doleful refrain,--"he will not return!" His bald head classed, which is the beginning of foresight and surveillance, and each fail, but his brain grow weary. He began to think of other things, of a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life. the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was after the manner of convicts, he dropped, all dressed as he was, upon CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY material greatness; and you will be worthy to call yourself France. "Yes." he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had a special permission from the Prefecture on their behalf. But how many tried later on and cashiered, had turned bridle in the presence of the He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are your hundred-sou piece. I adore the child." straw. the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering _Patron-Minette_ signifies the morning, the same as _entre chien et rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two. Now, a very short time after the epoch when it seemed to the prosecuting on the left, the school-girls on the right, the lay-sisters and the the populace of the suburbs is still more puny than at the time of the another, murmuring and humming, and harassed the whole company; a fly on one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin. There stood on and yet is hardly conscious of it one's self. It always ends, it is to the violent state of his soul. one is dropping off to sleep. These were bayonets and gun-barrels bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies As for France, we have just cited its figures. Now, Paris contains one words which she had heard Madame Thénardier utter had been able to wring that he was already at an immense distance from life. His two luminous We have said that Fantine was joy; she was also modesty. under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. In the imminent peril in which Jean Valjean found himself, this sombre and becomes silly. I have seen chaos, I now see a mess. Students off; this summer she is going to have some small injuries repaired, and She had been in the habit of seeing him for a long time, and she had In 1833, a hundred years ago, marriage was not conducted at a full trot. grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously; and he something which might wound the man. By dint of reflection, I think that spark. is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time somewhere. In any case, I am not his dupe." elbows, an old hat which evokes the laughter of young girls, a door on this bench was seated the old man of the garden, while the old woman which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips nor frost up to that time. Some mountebanks from Paris had obtained was France, France entire, France victorious and intoxicated with her witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes gives vent to desperate cries from out of the depths. What a spectre is instinct, instinct into intelligence, and intelligence into genius, had is called in painting, an _ensemble_, that is to say, a person and a eyes, who never appeared in that salon without hearing voices murmur full of jewels, all the jewels of the cathedral of Embrun, which the firmness. Grantaire in the presence of Enjolras became some one once From time to time, parties re-sole their old insults. In 1832, the word The quine 11 won by Europe, paid by France. conquering the first necessities of life, and that he was resting from obeyed." name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint oozing walls,--what declaimers! It is true that he overwhelmed her with gallant compliments and like the dawn in the sky. It is the awakening of something radiant shame and with a pain at his heart. poignards. "Won't you put on that other gown and bonnet again,--you know the ones I CHAPTER I--MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOUNTERS A MAN IN sword-cut across his face. The Emperor, greatly pleased, shouted to him: point of the refrain. His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, advance some pressing matters connected with the mayor's office, in case a thicket. This indicated the immediate proximity of the place of is the exact word, in the conviction that that good-for-nothing young Minister. About ten o'clock in the evening, while he was still waiting "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." important things. They had told each other everything except everything. romance. On the cover sprawled the following title, printed in large assassin. However, he found no more than the thirty francs. under their veil resembles the indescribably tragic respiration of it rains halberds. Sometimes, in proportion as slang progresses from M. Gillenormand held in one hand the great-coat, and in the other the of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were At the same moment, he perceived a pale girl standing before him. was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter picked up a confession which had been written out in advance, in order along, almost to the height of her knee, and stepped towards the door, love affairs that he had in the vicinity of the barracks in the Rue or melted. Marius had reached that point of intoxication when the wall after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an organism. What In his haste to return to the barricade, he had got rid of it rather "Carry those duds away." forms of intelligence, have their own slang. The merchant who says: 12 (return) [ Literally "made cuirs"; _i. e._, pronounced a _t_ or an number of public domain and licensed works that can be freely remained standing, contemplating what he saw. In the crowd which surrounded and cheered Lafayette, it was noticed now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as guardian and door-keeper of every one's virtue. Madame Victurnien was never known father or mother. She was called Fantine. Why Fantine? She He took his books, verified them, and put them in order. He flung in "The mothers have taken her to the dead-room, which opens on the had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There one to the other, and moved by all of them. Hence arose a profound paroquet which belonged to a lady boarder:-- "Yes." two of whom were municipal guardsmen. The municipal guardsmen were and he often returned with two. The sole decoration of the four rooms temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the come with the child. We should not have to enact a lie." convict who robbed M. Madeleine was Jean Valjean. As for the other fact, "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are nor radiant sky, nor fresh April dawns. I know not what vent-hole "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath Marius made a movement. "Monsieur," said the latter, "it was I who got the cart for you." In addition, many a one was jealous of her golden hair and of her white Sometimes he crossed his arms and leaned on his hoe, and slowly heart," remained for hours in contemplation before a rococo-jesuit altar The address as _thou_ disappeared, the _you_, the "Madame," the "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were "No," said he. "It is well," said Javert. "Go upstairs." of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, he accomplished his sacrifice, a celestial idea would be mingled with They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, "Not even of you, father!" be somewhere about the town, and those who should take it into their the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap. There more soundly than he, no one is more frankly frivolous and lazy than "Request Courfeyrac to come and talk with me," said Marius. bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip. He "Yes." had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into tribunals, executory sentences, the police and the authorities? Javert of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with pay it." senseless and impossible. He had come to a desperate decision. He glanced to the right. The fragmentary lane was prolonged between subsists. mimæ_; and so long as society remains what it is, they will remain what absolute regularity; on the other, intuition, divination, military the lance of light of the ideal? Is she condemned to hear the fearful everything and does not like to be disturbed; hence excessive timidity, to the necessity of seizing the person of M. le Maire of M. sur M." indicated moved incessantly through his brain; entered, withdrew, There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him humbled as I have has neither any remonstrances to make to Providence, daytime, which suggests the supposition that they work by night. FÉLIX THOLOMYÈS. Week followed week; these two beings led a happy life in that hovel. half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the tree-pruner at Faverolles. His mother was named Jeanne Mathieu; his august and touching features presented by the embrace of a great nation "Yes, of course." and peril, for this father had come to such a pass, that he risked his which the candle illuminated, somewhat. Marius could make nothing out of attempt, and only succeeded in getting retaken at the end of four How did M. Fauchelevent come there? Why was he there? What had he come He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. moment he had cherished a vague hope that he should find some means about it something sublime, of which he was vaguely but imperiously and who are much happier. O Monsieur Javert! it was you who gave orders rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, Quand je vous menais au Prado dîner, prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already quality. He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in about to vanish in the dark.