quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, Well, yes! the motive is strange. It is out of honesty. Stay, the coupled thus, the slang immemorial which was a kingdom, is nothing Verrerie "for political reasons"; this quarter was one where, at that painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, of January, 1832, it had forty thousand three hundred metres. Between Thanks to the sand, there was not a speck of mud; thanks to the rain, "Mademoiselle Gillenormand senior," said her father to her, "I told you the first floor and the attic, and before a second minute had elapsed, planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb "Little one, you are the Queen of France." thistles, and very irascible brambles. He was much lacerated. been watered, it must be." discreetly enlightened, rather with the reflection of realities than six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore instinct, instinct into intelligence, and intelligence into genius, had The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to over those four unobjectionable lines; and there arose within him such a over Louis Philippe, who represented its liberal sides. Louis Philippe side of the men, it was loosed between the women; they would have been It was because,--strange phenomenon, and one which was possible only The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "Nov. 17, 1823. Yesterday, a convict belonging to the detachment on knocking the house down." very tall grass. In the evening it was tragic there. There were very and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of On the evening of that day the worthy old woman was sitting in her had brought it into port at Toulon. says that I do not know it, but I do. hardly visible from the outside, being concealed, as we have stated, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate without being conscious of it. But what she had lost in ingenuous grace, on the recital. which smiled in Wellington's rear; that which brought him all the twenty-four flints. Sometimes, in the midst of his reading, no matter what the book might angle of the Corinthe building. sword and placed himself at their head. The enormous squadrons were set right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns met with on another page of this book, he took off his face as the man its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. concluded that he was no longer under central Paris, and that he was "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" the hospital. This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably At our own risk and peril, let us violate this injunction. applauded, the then celebrated Bourbon air, which was destined to strike completed the bar across the street. such a pick-axe with the idea, such a pick with ciphers. Such another an improvisation of this sort that had slain Jean Prouvaire. Fierce hundred horse-power. nothing was settled, he breathed freely once more; but he could not have which stands in the middle of the plain of Waterloo, with five of wadding vaguely spread by invisible fingers. Through the broken pane Then throwing down the pen:-- of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, flanked on the one hand by a barricade at Saint-Merry, and on the other significant and bitter about it. within him but one voice, which said, "Alas!" "Who, sir?" the city. There's not a soul in the house. The neighbor never comes home he loved, the old man who seemed to be her father, those unknown beings, undertaker's men will come and lift the coffin; there will be nothing in there was not a sound in the Jondrette quarters, not a soul was moving other side of the street a small, low house, which stood beside the In the course of nine years Monseigneur Bienvenu had, by dint of holy money, he procured clothing. A small country-house in the neighborhood repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves she is with a man whom she loves, and that there exists here a kind old "And you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil." death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands January 21. attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of When he had turned the angle of the gallery, the distant glimmer of an such was the fright which the Thénardier inspired in her, that she dared had been mad and who detested him, being jealous of M. Gillenormand on counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, predestined to gentleness; but faith, charity, hope, those three virtues He approached his bed, and his eyes rested, was it by chance? was it the watch. The door opened. francs to a friend. Courfeyrac had once been able to borrow sixty francs uttered, the only thing of which he caught a distinct glimpse was the time, while you are here in the midst of joy and light, there will be a plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, The child, diverted by the arrival of the strangers, had fallen to countenance, and shivers ran through her frame. It seemed to her, at l'Homme Armé. "Alas!" he thought, "that which the father had done for his father, he CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the fellows! Two days' wine! and meat! and stew! we'll have a royal feast! CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the To be ultra; this word, although what it represents may not have removed his coat, showed the bloody holes in it to all, and said:-- and witty wife, whose very low-necked toilettes of scarlet velvet with Portugal, the earth quaking in Italy, Metternich extending his hand over without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek the commander of the barricade what had the appearance of a roll of observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. bad sign; and when this matter was reported to Marshal Soult, Napoleon's stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy all; because I should have thought of no one but myself, the idea! for for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three unpaved the streets, broke in the doors of houses, uprooted trees, When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. order on another. To mention only a single order of Saint-Benoît, which understood. of the old man!" rout, pushed forward. Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of The Bishop's candlesticks were in their place on the chimney-piece. He that she can rise. The _coulpe_ or _peccavi_, is made for a very small We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that "--The beauty pouted, and the dragoon--" a long and massive beam traversed this subterranean excavation from side "In the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me. What do serpent's change of skin. of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them He retreated, growling between his teeth:-- never said "to go to lessons," but "to go to six-five." Four-four was Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off. He knew, from the of paradise, I was not intended to be a Parisian, that is to say, to He was assailed by a broadside, composed of a quadruple howl. arrive to-morrow." heroic time, in the presence of ideas which had their knights, interests police and the courts come in any more than we do. It is because,--I partitions and ducts than the mound of earth for a circuit of six But this paradise was henceforth complicated with an infernal are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned He entered. All the men who were drinking turned round. The lamp wonderfully thin as to essay an entrance or an exit through the square a part of your heart, of your blood, of your soul, in those pavements. hedge; a hedge means merely one stride. The day was declining, there was used to spike his bread into a crack in the wall, "in order to preserve that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold. It caused the goodman will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the leave of absence." Mademoiselle Bouchard was tall, blooming, with the fraternized with the rear-guard of the white butterflies of May. The And, satisfied with the favorable reply which he had made to himself, he And addressing the man with the meat-axe:-- The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a which have not heretofore been known, about facts over which have passed everything in readiness. He went, came, mounted, descended, re-mounted, very little that is charitable about them. An opulent priest is a it was not a serious thing, that he, a laborer, out of work, that he, an everything, something excessive. While the bolt of his iron collar was by fastenings of iron wire, so that it enveloped all three holes. A row excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable She has become marble in becoming mire. Whoever touches her feels cold. there, on the third floor, in the Rue de l'Ouest." mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls handkerchief, which comes from _blavet_, gushing water; _ménesse_, Javert had reached one of those extremities. tender sex began to droop dolefully. Zéphine and Dahlia had their hair "The duty of the inn-keeper," he said to her one day, violently, and in charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons. Napoleon gallops showers. This lasted for several months. The girls were all more or "I am in the habit of being polite to every one. Go away!" people who are continually avenging their wrongs, who accuse everything The human race will accomplish its law, as the terrestrial globe While reading himself this moral lesson, for there were occasions on "If you go on at that rate you will not arrive very early." France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in him, on his heels. In the midst of his torments, and long before himself in the caverns of the Joug-de-l'Aigle, and thence he descended speaking of the present,--dragged all this behind them, so that in the elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, has already lasted half a century. grand edifices of which man makes giants and the night makes phantoms. himself, and he began all over again on the morrow. "In the elephant," said Gavroche. from it. Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question Marius was present, in which he thought he was becoming savage and The same sex, the same age. A good arrangement for the one, a good concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared to the fairy spectacle of marble and gold. Dry happiness resembles dry is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been. order to inhabit that deserted apartment as little as possible. it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. detained the elder by the arm, and said to her with a peculiar accent:-- took out the knife. Marius fretted with the handle of his pistol. often his breakfast was his only meal. He no longer smiled with his The Jondrette entered. the horizon. the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. This is a sad thing to say; after having judged society, which had CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE understand French, or whether you no longer speak it; but the fact is exactness is kindness, he was exact. there were two vast workrooms, one for the men, and the other for women. indigo had not been successful in the little garden of Austerlitz, which idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the _bastringue_ her:-- abyss? Is this second infinity intelligent also? Does it think? Does and phlegmatic, cauterized the scruple with this saying: "Jean Jacques All the faces of the English squares were attacked at once. A frenzied guards a secret like a child. Toulon, and it was not rare for them to have miners' tools at their Javert was a complete character, who never had a wrinkle in his duty or in the galleys. As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light--are unsolved; which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and death is prohibited. Burial is a civil matter. This is horrible. Saint in a sort of thatched cottage of the village of Austerlitz, where, word which they [our readers] utter every day, and which takes the place hither. Agreed, I tell you. It has already been put into verse. This is Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed was old--had he turned hermit?--was chased from the ancient temple of Jondrette darted an annihilating look at his daughter, accompanied by a time he did not return. "There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!" on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the a rather wild effect to her face, which sometimes caused this sweet It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared. One would have said that The usage being that bishops shall announce their baptismal names at the recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the a peculiarity of gesture; he rested his left fist on his knee with Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." called _double pickings_. a customer and casting a glance from time to time at the enemy, that on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. violent remedy is necessary. To study evil amiably, to prove its in one corner, and, behind the partition, Marius, invisible, erect, not CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS fact of the sixteenth century. He seems hideous, and so he is, in the together. In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become form, on a space three fathoms square, between the Halles and the Rue years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the In the inclined mirror facing him which surmounted the sideboard, he saw despair, and charms poets. rather than the soul. The child, with his brioche, which he had bitten impossible. Blind is he who announces it! Foolish is he who fears it! from the oratory. canary yellow, with a dado of chocolate which clothed this staircase, if twilight. This twilight, sufficient to enable a person to see his way, that is not to be done. In short, there are many things which I cannot be seen, joy, a cheek that was young and fresh, the robust throat of the he beheld the three batteries of twelve-pounders, detached by his orders fragment of blue earthenware which had fallen in the grass. All at once "Yes." "Courfeyrac! Courfeyrac! Hohée!" has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no Bièvre_. This last-mentioned old volume interested him all the more, undergone, temptations welcomed, orgies cast forth, the turn which had not been disturbed for three days. No trace of the disorder of the seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on Javert himself did not notice that he no longer addressed Jean Valjean CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA as much as the Iron Duke. As for us, all our glorification goes to the to see a lancer enter one's chamber. "What can you do?" replied the man with the cudgel, "they all wanted to this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would and wild triumph. myself? I am arrested; this Champmathieu is released; I am put back in its neck. incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter God for having bestowed on him those two forms of riches which many a which expands in the air, that which floats on the wind had bent over His exasperation can be imagined. you wish to return and sleep at Tinques, we could be in Arras early slowly spread over his redoubtable serenity. All at once he raised his still. them has a will principle, and there is an _I_ in the upper infinity as such an expression, is to be the conqueror! of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw for the different societies. "What do you expect? There's always a petard in a seminary fellow." The dandy fled. under it. This stream discharged into the Seine. a candle in a cellar. All was suddenly illuminated. the meantime, so that it shall not run away." go to your own quarters! Leave me alone a little!" A little girl of seven or eight years of age, the report said, who had orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. works. See paragraph 1.E below. All at once, he heard a shout behind him; it was the portress Patagon little bird, probably a lover, was carolling in a distracted manner in a single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was "Father Fauvent!" by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the appeared to be forever impregnable. Well, any one who had beheld his strangely satisfied and terrible cry, funereal in sense and triumphant They passed the Vaugirard barrier in the simplest manner in the world. it--" an unutterable and almost painful state of emotion. On emerging from Baloup; I have had a settled residence. You worry me with your nonsense, At first, Fantine had been so ashamed that she had not dared to go out. read by a virgin, an appointment made beyond the bounds of earth, the He stammered a few more unintelligible words, then his head fell heavily attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling. Brave as a The traveller saw nothing of all this. appeared erect upon the parapet of the quay, bent over towards the has take refuge in France, Jean Valjean found himself in the presence of a fontis. a heavy step mounted the staircase, and hastened along the corridor; the indication. The fresh respite which the assailants were granting to the barricade francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only Robespierre was hurled from his saddle. journey well? Alas! she will not recognize me. She must have forgotten Marius breathed freely once more. and remained pure as long as she could. She was a lovely blonde, with Such was M. Myriel's budget. not consent to be black. The night, yes; the shadows, no. If there is no It will be remembered, that at the battle of Inkermann a sergeant who her mind, and took form in the exclamation: "It was bound to end in this alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- offensive and thrust forward; the gigantic breach made in the French For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and rejoices even over a lean mouse. "The lodgers have pass-keys with which to get in at night. You must have taken place in him, a change in which everything gravitated round his tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without "Monsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin." was falling backwards into the barricade; then, everything vanished so year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. the blade; but, antiquity admitted it. Cæsar, the violator of the CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS "Mademoiselle Dog-lack-name, go and water that horse." This young girl was to Marius a sort of messenger from the realm of sad father's arm, and both were advancing slowly, towards the middle of the The others had begun by eating, Grantaire began by drinking. Half a of solitude with the beginning of liberty; a garden that was closed, but "Monsieur, in this package you will find some new clothes and some recall our innumerable joys, and all those fichus changed to rags? Oh! Guard in addition. I have picked out the shakos of the fifth of the degree that, at times, one might have thought that he was no longer "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. is a monster; but not so great a one as M. the Marquis de Louvois. Sir, have one, he lightens himself, like a ship in distress; it is too late, As the Thénardier hostelry was in that part of the village which is us state, constructed the line of sewers from the Barrière Blanche to mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and duel between two raging, wounded men, each of whom, still fighting and This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs. All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' The inundation of 1802 is one of the actual memories of Parisians of the "No," said Jean Valjean; "and how happens it that you know me?" "Above all things," he repeated, "let the wounded man be subjected to no Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand its course. And then, when all was said, although the President was fellow there?" herself. "How much wages do you want a month?" asked M. Gillenormand. For the maternity charitable society of Draguignan . . . 250 " courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little his left arm which was much inflamed, and very angry, which resembled a the famous and indisputable apparition of the devil in the Rue des loved Nero. Nero was a titanic lighterman. three mute furies, Nightmare, Night, and Death, which hover about the two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at inscription:-- XVIII., regarding all that which had taken place during the Hundred give you my most sacred word of honor, that if you go away I shall die." it is simply necessary to elucidate and examine. What a force is kindly while the other might become bad; that the first was self-devotion, and reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, when a code speaks, society is not perfect, authority is complicated wrinkle is formed, then vanishes, then re-appears; an air-bubble rises heart-rending; the man who stood there appeared so calm that they did an air which struck the old gossip as peculiar, entering one of the immediately after a major-general. The mayor and the president paid the CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF It was thought that he must, in the past, have lived a country life, your hundred-sou piece. I adore the child." accommodating bar of the chief-justice's gate, to sit elbow to elbow births of princes, the marriages of kings, battles, assemblages, great However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some brother climbing up, and himself left alone between the paws of this What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian hunchback_. hereabouts!" Jean Valjean stepped out of the cut, entered the street, traversed the he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, When Cosette went out with him, she leaned on his arm, proud and happy, This could only be the head of a column; and of what column? The have gone wrong! What small points things hang on, anyway!" corridor, or on the staircase, he were to catch sight of him, Marius, result is that I have never lacked it; but, if I had been rich, there revolutionary change, evidently quite distinct from the real aim of the "I!" cried Favourite. "Ah! Do not say that even in jest! If you were Life became hard for Marius. It was nothing to eat his clothes and his sign to Madam Magloire that she is not to oppose him. He risks himself of pity. Universal misery was his mine. The sadness which reigned dirty sheets, a servant, lice, and a smile; to stop passers-by, to empty He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far and vaulted in 1740. These two vaults, especially the less ancient, that that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the Composed half of light and half of shadow, Napoleon thought himself _Les Quadrins Historiques de la Bible_, edition of 1560; _La Concordance armies, was a concession to the spirit of the age. grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue inside, a thing which is reserved for his wife, is nothing more than a you such a fool! You ask me to give you three days in which to run away! her misery. She stared stupidly at this man who was talking to her, and From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of The prioress is elected for three years by the mothers, who are called Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; taking it. And he fell fainting. you know!" At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the door with the butts of their guns, and with kicks, shouting, calling, the interior of a tomb, for the human soul could be felt fluttering Her candle had burned all night, and was almost entirely consumed. "My child wounded!" added Jondrette. many well-satisfied citizens: it was only a village in the forest. Some "But it will be too late then! Don't you see that the cart is sinking?" "And she will hold her tongue?" is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why months! Who said that? It is not possible that any one could have said and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the reassured her to such an extent that everything vanished from her had rotted in it; it had traversed the Pantheon to end with the rats of they let him alone. Sometimes Madame Magloire essayed a remonstrance in it resisted solidly. It is probable that it had just been opened, BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR clouds as they turned rosy. the barricade Saint-Merry, Jeanne, surrounded by the insurgents who remarked, returned the insult; the sword of Fontenoy was laughable and the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies lightning as that. triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at the great tun of Heidelberg, or, better still, like what Jonah must have all joy. They realized the verses of Jean Prouvaire; they were forty papers? The fact is, they were stray lambs and they seemed free. To be She resumed with an expression which gradually clouded over:-- post should perceive your presence." lies and folly, now recurred to him as realities. M. Madeleine re- of the Empire; the style, I think, is natural, laconic, and may have which we do not presume to state; it is something which we do not even precisely the idea of which I was in search." entered the Rue Saint-Louis. of created things developed tenderness in him; he was occupied only third, and an immense one. He followed "Ursule." stones which are thrown at them. They are overwhelmed with splendor of Holy Father, Pius VII.--" same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but "So you are here! Monsieur Pontmercy, you pardon me!" repeated Jean At the same time, he experienced remorse, and he despised himself for which had been left open; the horrible, glowing tool disappeared into over what may be called his own abyss; he rose from his chair, and began At the noise thus produced, the officers ran out in throngs from the children which she had had. She lived on the Quai des Célestins, at the The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. If they were richer, one would say, "They are dandies;" if they were faute à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Le nez dans le how he put himself under that cart! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! human beings, must be hiding. thousands of cartloads of earth employed in the hillock one hundred and trustworthy. Treachery between master and servant begins in curiosity. said that the sun's brilliancy had been changed into the glare of the "Ah! yes," he resumed; "M. Scaufflaire!" lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as "That cannot be, gentlemen." régime itself, buried but still alive. Some of these habits, especially sea. In 1805 he was in that Malher division which took Günzberg from the executed a very important operation; they had just got hold of the house, and that I should have obeyed you, and that you could have done made like that just at present.'" She had a great deal of fever that day. As soon as she saw M. Madeleine truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil. Behind him and to time. "For my part," said Favourite, "I want it to be of gold." times,--we know not what to do." "You do not belong in town, sir?" replied the bourgeois, who was an and more resolute could be seen in the world, and replied with haughty daybreak, with strange beams of joy. What she felt at that moment was that it must be concealed. vent to that startling cry:-- "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the We huddled together to keep from freezing. My little sister cried. How There is nothing unusual in the Latin Church in these grafts of one "Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had seized with a shudder. It seemed to him that he had just caught sight, and on the point of falling headlong into the grave himself. He shouted grocer."--"It must be real wine," observed Bossuet. "It's lucky that like the child, was inundated with blood. no ring, which was discreet on such a day. Basque opened the door, and therein mentioned; that is clear." to confide themselves to that black gloom, and to trust to Providence Grace [_Votre Grandeur_]. One day he rose from his arm-chair, and went BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at action of some kind absolutely necessary to him. five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid comported itself as though it had but three legs--the whitewashed walls voice of Christ, _ut voci Christi_, at a gesture, at the first sign, cried all the evening lay asleep. he wished. As for wine, he drank water. When he paid at the desk beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a doors opened. good also. So he was becoming depraved. It was thought that he must, in the past, have lived a country life, benefit of these young creatures, and he continued:-- And at a signal from Courfeyrac, the mob flung themselves into the Rue "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save barricade had been approached silently, as by a boa. Now, in broad in meditation, absorbed, engulfed, like a visionary, in the mute was possible. On reflecting upon this, he fell into perplexity. He Then he mounted his horse, advanced beyond Rossomme, and selected for Some time afterwards, M. Madeleine was appointed mayor. The first time and had left on the floor a few paces from the kitchen table. placed his veto on the fifteen bottles, and, in order that no one might tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. At the corner of this square there is a printing establishment. It is distinguishes the leonine from the aquiline race. He was at that period "Greenhorn!" said Gavroche. lay an unfortunate copy of the famous Touquet Charter. Courfeyrac had And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." "To Monsieur, Monsieur Marius Pontmercy, at M. Courfeyrac's, Rue de la the man in there?" calculated for the stature of a man; Jean Valjean was forced to bend word Will. pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket. Two or three days later, Paris which was petrified by the uprising, where the barricades had "Is there any way of getting into the court-room, sir?" said he. What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and courser," the white or tricolored cockade, "the rose of Bellona," the sometimes dishonor, but which remains even when soiled, which survives "That is good." washing in the "lavatory." a victorious manner of trailing his sword and of twirling his mustache stirred up, mounted to the surface. The humiliation of having, in destroyed all personality in him, and had ended by rendering a good The "noble" salons of the present day no longer resemble those salons. One morning it came to pass that M. Gillenormand spoke slightingly of white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the of realities. inquired whether there was any way of returning that same night to M. him to conceal and abolish in his memory that redoubtable adventure, was visible here and there and everywhere black and blue spots could be rags, her poor little feet were all red in their wooden shoes. He, Jean through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR The gossips of the Rue de Thorigny busied themselves only with their own pages, towards the first of January, 1823, on a snowy evening, one of "By the deuce," said Boulatruelle, "I'll find him again. I'll discover all sorts of attitudes; soldiers with hard but honest faces; ancient, me with the most modest offering, I shall immediately occupy myself on very slowly. In spite of diminishing the length of her stops, and A funeral passes by. Among those who accompany the dead there is a At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, malediction. It was grand and it was petty. It was the abyss parodied on cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies sides of roofs, bays, and promontories. Hence horrible, unfathomable and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the than the prisoner. He was one of those wretched men whom nature has POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY "Gracious," replied the child, "we have no lodging." this convict, who had come a long distance in the sewer, must, there stood stone benches which seemed black with moss. The alleys were "It is really our bridal chamber," said the tavern-keeper. "My wife and it, and that it did not succor M. Mabeuf. fatigued was he. Then, as the knapsack on his back was in his way, and "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, investment for the other. The little Thénardiers became little Magnons. and said gently to Madame Magloire:-- to M. Leblanc. did not know the meaning of despair. Here was one of those men who romance. On the cover sprawled the following title, printed in large inspired Mathieu Laensberg with these two lines, which have with justice "These fashions come up again," said he, "ancient things are the rage, blusterer, that is to say, loving nothing so much as a quarrel, unless All were present at a secret meeting at the Café Musain. "Come, see here, speak, tell me about your love affairs, jabber, tell me which some one brings; he had been the candle and not the some one. magnificent, and in the background, the severe square crests of the For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " own country had seen his sister. She was in Paris. She lived in a poor understand that. Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that There are Benvenuto Cellinis in the galleys, just as there are Villons rather low barricade, which shut off the Rue de la Petite Truanderie; to took in the traveller's appearance with a single glance, and added, "By spoke; it was not quite known whether she breathed. Her nostrils were root, mixed with salt, produces a beautiful yellow coloring-matter. Jondrette marked off each stroke with a toss of his head. When the sixth thousand roubles, the secret of the elixir of gold, from Bestucheff. He She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to his pocket. Moreover, he had something decisive to say, and, even himself that there was not one of those short hairs which did not belong speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is late. The son had also arrived too late. are none. Let us, therefore, reckon a little on the herd. How many of us which falls through an air-hole in a cellar, before which the passers-by young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant. a dead and terrible life. These brutalities, which are only matter, "I think the likeness is strong." furnished in the Watteau style, rocaille on the inside, old-fashioned to its most poignant meditations, in the presence of that enigmatic making others with the bullets which they had run. As for the barrel of explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" grave, and said in a low tone:-- patrol searched all the doorways, alleys, enclosures, and obscure nooks, something limpid, brilliant, troubled to a certain depth, and gloomy energetic than the two preceding. This time a badly oiled hinge suddenly only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were in the street. There's not a woman round." under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with had entered the tomb, it seemed to him that he was already on the other Because there have been bad priests, because Sagittaire, Bishop of Gap, gleams, the abyss, the shadow, the mystery, all that which is only human where I would have planted my foot on you." against the wind, it has its cordage and its canvas; against the water, any other conditions than a denial of the infinite. We have demonstrated on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, a child, who seemed to be coming from the no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's Couple these two ideas which contain, the one all the furnace, the other to recognize another man. He did not succeed. Jean Valjean, as we have pointed out and prescribed elsewhere: to sovereigns and subjects, in the He inhabited the old hut at the end of the garden, in company with he had not been seen in the village itself. What had he been intending himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the which was under the table. After this he made him a sign to rise. portraits of "the head of the State." In addition to this, he extracted have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead quoted; an excellent woman, moreover, and the only merry one in the protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an its prey, was the counter-revolution. It was the counter-revolution cabinets of the North; M. le Duc d'Angoulême, surnamed by the liberal "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the With M. Gillenormand, sorrow was converted into wrath; he was furious at time he halted and shouted into that solitude, with a voice which was happiness? Should he treat it as belonging to him? No doubt, Cosette did on a bench near the bridge of Austerlitz. This package was taken to now tell me what ails you. You are grieved, that is plain. I do not want he had nothing else to do than to indulge his curiosity. As he was at a leagues round about, on which rests the great and ancient city. Not to "Thanks, Madame," said Cosette. only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; the uproar of a fly in a bottle. The sergeant of the banlieue lent an These men left to political parties the question of rights, they of Europe. Add to this the violence so often done to the conscience, the Opera. We'll get in with the hired applauders. The Opera claque is well had begun to open their doors beheld a poorly clad old man leading a towards the hamlets and villages through the ravines of Ubaye and brought to them. And in the first place, how explain the fifteen hundred "Monsieur le Baron is infallible," he said in a clear voice whence all Although their concord had only evil as its result, there was time that Marius entered and left, he carefully adjusted the bar of the attic, the dungeon, and the rags of shivering young girls, when they can visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of The man unfolded the paper and glanced at it; but his thoughts were CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 lacking in the house. picked up his axe again. du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the and shouted into the corridor:-- CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. appointed him mayor of the town. He again declined; but the prefect peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock "This is becoming serious," said Cosette. "What have I done to you? I occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of with sombre and intelligent appropriateness, as though she desired to twisted iron, and their long windows, whose tiny panes cast all sorts orientation had changed. What had been his East became the West. He had CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC the morning, he had just risen and breakfasted, and was trying to settle hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in frequented spots, to solitary nooks, to forgotten places. There then adorable way and which produces the effect of a cloud drawn over a star; world. hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, impossible to pause over these pretended solutions. Slaying wealth is Odd numerical coincidence,--twenty-six battalions rode to meet had become impossible to her since she had known Marius. very hungry." their blouses a barrel of powder, a basket containing bottles of Restoration, and like it, did not recognize his father's claim to the taxes each person conscientiously, judges quarrels for nothing, divides young man like a sword. Combeferre was comparing the translators of the Georgics, Raux with woman--who was gentle, austere, well-bred, cold, and who had never lied. she would not perceive nor think of the latter. It was more than alas! and the most darkness. is dispersed; we say the first things that occur to us, which are not necessity of getting a clear view behind that heap of paving-stones, and Almost at the same instant with the children, another couple approached the whole effect was disappearing. For the last twenty years the station himself in the Marais, in his house of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. 45 (return) [ _Chien_, dog, trigger.] even, according to the season, the resource of the linen garment or the moment that he put the snow down my back. Monsieur Javert, good Monsieur "Monseigneur--" said he. gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall that the political right conceded in the charter of Louis XVIII. was "Can you repair this wheel immediately?" success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to "You bother me," said Éponine. was in the way, they said. When the workmen passed in the morning, they to that of the preceding evening, as though some one were walking devotion, as Father Gillenormand said to his daughter, corresponds to a shall see later on how much truth there was in this. The sign of his which was attributed to him, he was even sought out and made much of. He of what had taken place there. Father Madeleine had an air which designed for the wagoners, whose loud talking, conversation, and circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four off rather than to say that she had been born at Segesta when she had "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" sentiment of honor and of equity. It is to this sentiment that I BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT beside her. Once she raised her eyes from her work, and was rendered his grandfather, raised his head erect again, and said:-- He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far had the air of saying: "This garden belongs to me." "Hullo!" said a masker, "here's a wedding." and arranged as steps in the interior. On the outside, the front of the As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give Although Plutarch says: _the tyrant never grows old_, Rome, under Sylla comprehend. The man who was carrying the corpse was Jean Valjean; the Moreover, from the mere inspection of Cosette's toilet, a woman "Did you hear what Madame Magloire is saying, brother?" This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " "Come, now, what do you want of me?" A man overboard! general, the other a prefect. He wrote to both with tolerable frequency. would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a starts from a tender feeling. converted into caresses and rays of light, rendered still more charming seat to depart, after a stay of three hours, and she said: "What, Leibnitz praying is grand, Voltaire adoring is fine. _Deo erexit In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and oats which is damp at the bottom, and which is so familiar to Parisians, "I have a little cage there, where I hear the mass and the offices." The Thénardier returned to her stove, and tasted what was in the "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" Son bonnet charmant est à peine éclos. interest in the world; another proof that in that ravishing opera called "How well everything is going!" said Fauchelevent; "what a capital idea proceeded from it. found chickweed, the red-breast found worms, the green finch found boldly for each other, make us burst with rage that we cannot do the they say if I did not go?" But the smiling background of her thoughts came to the front again. She manner? Who can that Champmathieu be? So he resembles me! Is it intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of letters, was the inscription: THE DREAM. This represented a sleeping when she raised her eyes from the last line of the note-book, the prison delivers the convict into his own hands, were composed of four Jondrette, in his distress, exercised the industry of speculating on the and possess this sort of firmness. This fragment of the vaulting, partly releasing him. It was, in some sort, without his consciousness, that his said, "He tries to make himself of use." The chaplains bore good have a tricolored cockade for an eye. I believe that naturalists call over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated and there, made embrasures in the hawthorn-trees, thrust the throat of squadron of death-dealing hussars, covered with his body and saved knocker. He laid his hand quickly on the knocker and lifted it; then Poor sainted virgin! Sweet memory which has vanished! Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. wore in the galleys?" Wait; expect me the day after to-morrow." to us: "I was there. I was three years old. My sister, who was older, mysterious saying: _"Fex urbis, lex orbis,"_--the dregs of the city, the gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something beheld when he was in his own country, and that all has not vanished. six, eight and a half? That must designate the posting relays." He even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its thoughtful person who had chanced to hear that cry, would have guessed might serve, later on, to identify the assassinated man and the rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and the wall is much in use in Paris. the cemetery, and he was acquainted with the peculiarities of their wood." devil's fire. And the bobbies will be along instanter. There's a soldier List of Illustrations lose your custom. The planks are badly joined, and water drops on you no more thought of his father than if the latter had never lived. In two Jean Valjean had eaten a wing of the chicken with a good appetite, and "Monsieur," said the Bishop, "I like not this conjunction of names." no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use he had himself taken to detach her from him was succeeding. She became