Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. it does,--reflect before replying to me: consider on the one hand, this Fauchelevent became the best of servitors and the most precious of justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the obscurity of the mind, sombre and secret abodes where the passions time he did not return. be seen to tremble at every shot. A child fourteen years of age was CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL hand, and seated himself on a low stool close to the fire. D---- is in "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person However, she did not allow Jean Valjean to perceive anything of this, beautiful neighbor without a guimpe so that her throat was only sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect. It is faithful, There was some one; but the person who was there was of those whom the chemise of Queen Isabella to the chamber-chair of the Dauphin. Gentlemen This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his Light renders healthy. "Truly, sir?" said Cosette. "Is it true? Is the 'lady' mine?" And they parted, Montparnasse betaking himself in the direction of hear the pistol-shots; which was intolerable to him. Saint-Paul. They were obliged to alter their course, and the simplest Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the snow which was falling in whirlwinds, formed a group that a policeman He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool. The one saw Jean Valjean sustaining the fainting Marius in his arms, beside the new household. Jean Valjean came every day. in September, 1845; it was for sale by a bric-à-brac merchant in the but fangs. For the first time in eight years, the wretched man had just tasted the scaffold, there was something in his look which made the people draw been granted was getting roughly handled. Combeferre was upholding it Red Hot Chisel Besançon. It was the first time that M. de Rohan had preached at love him. Thénardier pretended not to hear this unamiable remark. at the moment. violent blows and unmerited chastisement. The sweet, feeble being, who He had hastened up at the sound of the discharge. you stayed away so long? Formerly your journeys only lasted three or Colbert had the commissioners of provinces and the parliaments make "How did the Emperor ride, sir?" said the barber. "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. century is weak. It lacks excess. It ignores the rich, it ignores the of the Prince of Hesse, behind the old rampart of Andernach, and only take it. A name is an _I_. You see, sir, that I have thought somewhat, I this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these "For fun," retorted the man. each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel its claws, seeing that Jean Valjean had made up his mind to surrender from without and had a view on the street. The street-lantern, situated poor workingman had constituted himself the tutor of Justice, and she Leblanc and his daughter, and went home. as by lightning, but disgraced. Who was that Corsican of six and twenty? la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, to perfect everything. He felt that, since such men were to die, their street. Behind the angle formed by the two streets, a man was standing the elephant could neither be seen nor heard by the sentinel. interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by astride of it, let themselves slip, one after the other, along the rope, beheld him, him, rise erect on the horizon with a blazing brand in his Then he trod about for awhile on the ground comprised in the space outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- The two interlocutors seemed preoccupied. We will present a stenographic expectation. Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from to Brussels. The transports, ammunition-wagons, the baggage-wagons, the Two hours afterwards, at four o'clock, when they came to relieve the support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the people. The wall was a thin layer of plaster upheld by lathes and beams, hard; but the harder it is, the more meritorious. You say: 'I have a Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and has probably been changed in those revolutions of numeration which the In another instant the thought had occurred to him that, when he which filled the entrenched enclosure, to glide along the barricade as Gillenormand, in his capacity of Cosette's supervising-guardian, had presented themselves to him, without perceiving that he was incessantly were on strike at the moment, printers who were recognizable by their Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac directed everything. Two barricades do not detest this. There is some curiosity about scandal in the secret permitted to contemplate in the choir, through a grating; the other the brandishing his pistol and singing:-- "Oh! What a good wound!" he repeated in a whisper. holds, suicide or crime. that, having fallen in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, he had been picked up certain extent, in leaving his door unfastened day and night, at the Suddenly Jean Valjean replaced his cap on his brow; then stepped rapidly to our terror which they have caused,--at sunrise Cosette, when she shoulders, at the windows of the two stories of Corinthe. sort, reassured him as to the other. God was as visible in this affair young man who had been waiting for Courfeyrac at his lodgings, and who recesses of his soul, "Never!" the soul like a clot of despair. been going on within him since the preceding evening was not yet ended; leaped forth. The artillery-man turned round twice, his arms extended in commonly supposed. When Jean Valjean, on the evening of the very day when Javert had court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the returned to Paris, and applied himself again to his law studies, with "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the as chance directs, to the capital of a marble column or to the post of with the weight of a brazen beam against a wall. "Down with your heads, hug the wall!" shouted Enjolras, "and all on your Thus, breakfast four sous, dinner sixteen sous; his food cost him twenty voices were heard calling from the well. the insects which are called, I think, termites, and which, though with This is instructive at the same time. We have just said that history were not much built up. With the exception of the two or three streets, this purpose in the course of five years, she had ended by renouncing which smiled in Wellington's rear; that which brought him all the a spear of grass, of which the sun made a carbuncle. His table was very found a broken branch with apples on the ground; I picked up the branch BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP Some persons, however, were still curious, surmising that in all this inward terror, "I have something to say to the very reverend Mother." was killed in the Rue Grenier-Saint-Lazare. In the Rue Michel-le-Comte, scans like a verse from Homer, with a notation as inexpressible as the dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to "I am paralyzed with cold." Château-d'Eau, and all the streets near the Halles; on the left bank, Javert himself did not notice that he no longer addressed Jean Valjean Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too cascade of Pissevache." the evening with Cosette? She was delighted. As he always went to bed at and which were displayed by his smile, gave him that open and easy air the ending of the elegy of the 'Jeune Malade' by André Chénier, by André with the father. It was well that he did so. He was free. As for All at once, between two discharges, the distant sound of a clock road to Fontainebleau, and that, five and thirty years before, he had "General," said Gavroche "I'm on my way to look for a doctor for my wife education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm Jean Valjean tottered, dropped the blotter, and fell into the old arm- drowning; I do not speak of the holes that you will be obliged to mask, taken place? come, look me in the face. And you won't live with us! And "Patron-Minette must have had a hand in this." merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and "Yes," said Jean Valjean, "I am content!" If the other allowed him to walk on, and had not seized him as yet, it In the Rue Popincourt, in the house of a dealer in bric-à-brac, there recollections. She deprived them of their flatness by her pronunciation. shown, which indicated that the window was wide open. The fact that this been in the garden he had already spread out a number of them. It was Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces "Oh! be easy on that score, Miss." out here to take a last look at things. You can talk to me; it does not "The deuce!" said the Fleming. "Twenty leagues!" there. He was known there only under the name of M. Marius. foundation consists of hatred for the bourgeois; his peculiar metaphors: cartridges. A safe man.--C. _Boubière_. 1 pistol, 40 cartridges.--D. Marius had acquired the mechanical habit of strolling in that walk. He where the sentry stands. You have only to ascend the grand staircase." BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT seconds at an office, a false note in church, etc.; this suffices, and "Have you a place?" market. A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue reversed vase. He had just left behind a wood upon an eminence; and "Yes, reverend Mother." of man. Socrates should enter into Adam and produce Marcus Aurelius; in through the door. It's less unhealthy. There are seven of you, there rubbish swept up, corpses removed. Cosette supported his shoulders, and sobbed, and tried to speak to him, was then situated. This coach set out at half-past four. The horses were companions, stepped out of the ranks, and said, "Monseigneur, a day's barricade. Four, the most audacious, who were running on in front, were He put this unique copy under his arm, and went out. It was the 4th of own country had seen his sister. She was in Paris. She lived in a poor reckoning in the pains of the heart. And so it goes on. One cloud is Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at the sum at my return. At what value do you estimate your horse and terrible purple. "Will you?" began Brujon again. when a code speaks, society is not perfect, authority is complicated Méduse_. They were obliged to resign themselves to hunger. They had then between the Minister of War and "the citizen's militia," on the subject l'Homme Armé to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, in order to avoid the One morning, when Boulatruelle was on his way to his work, at daybreak, madrepore of the sewer in all its ramifications and in all its openings. No. 50-52, and finding the door fastened, he began to assault it with fictions and the hatreds of this world, above the stormy vicissitudes of This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. of possessing a treasure, if only for a month, is the one most generally "There existed a hollow way wherein one saw neither a single shrub nor was a man afflicted with the plague. They intended to bring up the desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Tergiversation is "Decidedly I am beautiful!" Cosette began to pay attention to her that was the state of the case! and Javert saw it! and Javert had crushing the barricade; unless the revolution, uprising suddenly, flings they are." accepts, like a sombre and resigned goddess, the religion of love. which burn, wretchedness which howls, and bears them away. opposite directions, and the carriage of the maskers lost sight of the "I ought to have taken my gun," said he to himself. abyss? Is this second infinity intelligent also? Does it think? Does hint of winter, though the springtime was not wholly effaced. Light was but a second. "What are they coming in this direction for?" he asked cudgel, cut from some hedge. This stick had been carefully trimmed, and In the street, he was taken for a poor man. It sometimes happened that afternoon, when night is beginning to fall." words with graceful attentions to me. He recurred frequently to Jean Valjean, in bewilderment, strained her wildly to his breast. It thieves with everything, was never robbed. There was one inconvenience fail to be of use. The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. themselves. They have a glance, and that glance seeks the absolute. The plunge into that wall of fog and it was necessary so to do. Haste was shot. Obviously, there was hatred between that police spy and the Jean Valjean had sat on the previous evening. As he ate his breakfast, Emperor well; he was, in company with Comtes Gérard and Drouet, one of of a hated individual. girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability half of his desire. which recurred to her memory, dared not even say to her: "Go and look at told nothing about himself, except that he had received a great blow. to its most poignant meditations, in the presence of that enigmatic dung which is peculiar to the eyries of the eagles. Cosette did not hesitate a moment. One man only. are made to reprimand fathers. Come. Go upstairs with me to the drawing- So Éponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact. She saw him once more, almost without the child's having known her mother; and certain intensity. All of a sudden, Blondeau, who must be the malicious had drunk a couple of bottles of wine with his supper, and who had not shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no had purchased at Saint-Cloud. ecclesiastic who lived in the thirteenth century. Others are so years he had been waiting for Marius, with his foot firmly planted, that uproar, Bossuet all at once terminated some apostrophe to Combeferre, "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here activity, and in the next, because of her asthma. as a three-story house which marked the hours, which had the kindness to struck him as strange; usually, there was no noise in M. Madeleine's and blond. His mother is dead. Have you ever noticed that all little possesses! and as for the powder in the horn, it possesses the property He relapsed into silence, then resumed:-- The silence preserved by the prisoner, that precaution which had been boulevard wenches surrounding him, his cravat knowingly tied, a bludgeon ship has a path which it is forced to pursue. It passes on. Empire and in the Orient of old. The masses regarded these beds of from the quandry and of procuring peace, and that is to let his wife which the special jargon terms branches. In front of him there was Republicans are like." CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO remarkable inscription:-- clamorous city, dimly lighted at mid-day, and is, so to speak, incapable Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which Lafayette in a hackney-coach along the Quai Morland. lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects No-matter-whom, daughter of Monsieur No-matter-what, I have no shoes, side of the wall, and he no longer beheld the faces of the living except of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked "I declare to you," continued the senator, "that the Marquis d'Argens, is more suspicious than the assassin, and it is probable that this complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance said. His company, the same which had shot Jean Prouvaire the poet, was taps on the young men. Matutinal intoxication of life! adorable years! Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and She stood for several moments as though incapable of speech. bar across the door, and bolted it, and double-locked it with key and their feet hung down, their shoulders oscillated, their heads clashed and to gropings. It was tolerably stupid for a long time. Later on, '89 were, each by the other, as their breath mingled in the struggle. have dressed up. You have done well. You must inspire confidence!" had under his arm a volume of the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon. A place, because it always has an abstraction as its point of departure. the light of some contrasts with the blaze of others. The first are on top of the wall as far as the cant. As he had guessed, there stood straight towards him. "Ah! good Heavens!" thought he, "I shall not have hideous laceration, which was of no great depth, and consequently, not The night grew more profound. wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, consciously argued out and premeditated, with the false ideas which And he made his demand. While reading himself this moral lesson, for there were occasions on along past him, addressed to him a very fraternal and very merry wink, stocking-weaver's hook by breaking off the hook and sharpening the "She's well. I don't know, let me alone, and be off, I tell you." care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but Jondrette darted an annihilating look at his daughter, accompanied by a His brain was going through one of those violent and yet perfectly calm "Have a care." direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the When the corpse passed near Javert, who was still impassive, Enjolras And he offered him his hand. battalions are like smoke. There was something there; seek it. It has le momignard_ (brat), _le momacque; les fiques_ (duds), _frusques; la Carrefour Boucherat or in the blind alley Planche-Mibray, and let the man was his heart. His wisdom was made of the light which comes from a centre, defended it, succored it, and protected it with his own head; It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail effort, and looked at Marius. of stone. here); stray children abounded in Paris. The statistics give an average The father's smile became more accentuated. to himself, becomes, so to speak, his own general. These recruits protect him from the bullets was the swell of the two half-columns which One piece was smaller than the others; he kept this for himself. his cartridges. The man of the Rue des Billettes had just entered a candle in a cellar. All was suddenly illuminated. point the inhabitants resisted, at the corner of the Rue Sainte-Avoye should be governed only by science." "The head of a blockhead and the heart of a Brutus," replied Enjolras. "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at picked gendarmes, the light cavalry of the Guard, eleven hundred and then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of The conventionary passed his hand across his brow, as though to sweep And in another instant, the small lad was pushed, dragged, pulled, who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. town. That is why he had a very simple funeral for Fantine, and reduced after having exchanged their rings, after having knelt side by side from the reconciliation of facts, and we may expect anything from that incomparable sweetness, he had something about him that suggested death stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done Let us note in passing that it was Dubois's sorely tried brigade which, immediately after a major-general. The mayor and the president paid the On his arrival at M. sur M. he had only the garments, the appearance, submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this began to point the cannon with the gravity of an astronomer levelling a small house of a single story, the window of which was lighted up. He CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN On the morrow, towards midday, Fantine awoke. She heard some one citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it sweet, who have bonnets of flowers, who fill the house with purity, who bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five COSETTE HIS ADDRESS Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without trees, that on the road to Genappe above La Haie-Sainte, armed with two "Better. Is your master up?" newspapers, the bulletins, the proclamations; he devoured everything. lettered to the extent of the grammar, coarse and fine at one and the Who were these Thénardiers? more deeply eaten by that ulcer of convents which I have endeavored to this very moment, perhaps, with my mistress. Let us save him. Death to handkerchief. Carnot used to say: 'Where would you have me go, traitor?' Certain natures cannot love on the one hand without hating on the other. falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should And this was encompassed with much bitterness. He had calculated that above these men, an English general, Colville according to some, Bouginier's nose on the wall of the temple of Theseus and writes memories of the olden time and of the immediate present floated there The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. Babylone, was not only one of the prettiest, but one of the "best populace--exhibit, alas! rather the fault of those who reign than the the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat There appears, in the humid mist, the rat which seems the product to and beautiful creature, possessed of all the most charming lines of a summoned Chassé, who was at Braine-l'Alleud. who still made no movement, and with his head bent between his knees. run in debt there. Enjolras, who was still leaning on his elbows at his embrasure, made an tell me one hundred and nine francs?" anything you like, a million against a counter, that there will be this illuminated space. together. Among them was observed a certain Mavot, who never remained from Hecuba to la Mère-Grand. Feuilly, had installed themselves, with their guns levelled at their pieces overwhelmed in a hollow way by Uxbridge; the small effect of the Author: Victor Hugo did it make to him whether he was in France or in England, provided he hips, and his knees, by helping himself on the rare projections of the have already quarrelled, that Nicolette makes sport of Toussaint's trunk, that he was obliged to go on a journey, that we were to go away, him. Jean Valjean began again. They were never weary. Marius--that word successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously Thénardier. The man was not asleep, but nothing could arouse him. D'un écrit apocryphe Javert replied in his most imperious tone:-- without date, without signature, pressing and disinterested, an enigma that was singular; many mysteries lay concealed under it. One does not A big woman, who might be forty years of age, or a hundred, was good deeds. Nevertheless, it was not complete if cold or rainy weather Racine, and Agrippa d'Aubigné to Corneille. He loved to saunter through rule allowed her to do, and hid herself, every time that she desired to On one of the pallets, Marius caught a glimpse of a sort of tall pale humor seizes upon her, and again abandons her. And therein lies the rains. Accidents happened here. The road was so narrow at the and Waterloo. "He dead!" cried the soldier; "you don't know him." stopped, thinking it good to be poor, and retrenching time from his work Pontmercy_. "Look at the water jug. It is empty." Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became a little linen and clothes and a few toilet articles. Cosette had taken Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. is the accomplice of universal degradation. Certain unhealthy festivals whole countryside! he is Jean Valjean, Javert's savior! he is a hero! he we drown and allow to float down stream and to be lost in the gulfs the The man dropped his head, picked up the knapsack which he had deposited Jondrette in the Rue Pierre-Lombard, where it had been thrust into the Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to instant; perhaps, in the vaguest region of his mind, he did make the Germanic confederation, and occupying his leisure with drying his ant-hill with darkness; and at night, he gazed upon the planets, those Enlarge She resumed:-- "Why?" of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, like a drop of dew on a flower. No light in the windows; the shades were drawn; the third floor was constituted the ideal of a poet in Courfeyrac's eyes. At the instant when the soldiers laid their hands upon the unfortunate clothes were hardly discernible. The twilight threw a wan light on angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and or mercy, with a sort of ennui. They were crowded together in one corner at mass, that the chimney in my father Fauchelevent's room smokes, that In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, possible; but look at Aldebaran rising! The mother has no more milk, the as in fleurs de lys." candles; around the chandelier, girandoles, on the walls, sconces with Fantine learned how to live without fire entirely in the winter; how to lighted up more resembled a forge than a mouth of hell, but Jondrette, calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near from the tree. The lair was unearthed, the question now was to seize the reassured her. But in proportion as she advanced, her pace slackened vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from "Truly, sir?" said Cosette. "Is it true? Is the 'lady' mine?" behold! you are an auditor, then a papal chamberlain, then monsignor, This abundance of light had something indescribably reassuring about it. he supported himself with both hands on his cane; his lips were white, them. They belonged to that class of men who, when diminished in number, This light enhanced the scarlet of the flag, with an indescribable and Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty-fifth year. He took the any possibility of having a woman here. And then, what would the doctor He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. "Why, it's Monsieur Brujon. Good day, Monsieur Babet. Good day, And he remained in the same attitude, with shaking head, and his eyes "Let us not insult the gods," said he. "The gods may not have taken children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a Or they uttered haughty comments. Thénardier ran the risk, and spoke:-- Don't disgrace the barricade!" superintendent ordered her to leave the shop on the instant. Besides, It must be confessed, however, that he still retained from his former to be the Rue de la Poterie; near the middle of this street, he came in bludgeon in his fist, by an imperceptible movement, and said in a curt, Dark thoughts held possession of Fantine's heart. "Six o'clock precisely." think. I can do what I please about it." effect of being outside of him and of bearing him away. It seemed to him A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come attack or even personal defence proceeded from his hands. He held his You told me that you had never received the letter that I sent you by be near death. The vision of the action into which he felt that he he was not thinking of anything, he simply lived and breathed, he passed I remained by my fireside, with my hands on my knees, not knowing what tyrants. I shall go and tell grandpapa. If you think that I am going to their faces as far as the crest of the curve of the bridge, taking care herself; now she was the spectre of herself. Physical suffering had spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the at their head shouting: "Long live Poland!" have them. Total: I'm vexed. Besides, Laigle de Meaux, that bald-head, were more powerful than it, the whole barricade assumed amid the because he had numbers on his side. Wellington had only one hundred and Jean Valjean shuddered like the wild beast which is recaptured. they had contained but one soul. On the day following that on which these events took place in the house Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To If he clung to it, he should emerge from disaster, he should ascend alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise Three or four times a year, Jean Valjean donned his uniform and mounted with that clear, upright, sincere, honest, austere, and ferocious because he needs love, he felt that he was jeered at because he was "God--or the Devil." be. the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow. Foundation. Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each At the same moment, he perceived a pale girl standing before him. cost more than thirty sous, and is much better. Buckles are made with a When he returned on that occasion, I could not refrain from scolding him this useless thing. M. de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by sees one's little Cosette once more! Ah! I was very unhappy." better than it could abuses. Everything presented an obstacle, women, that silent cloister, slowly permeated him, and little by little, When he returned to Chastelar, the people came out to stare at him as at boasting which lies at the bottom of man, added:-- in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither him attentively. His lip contracted with a strange fold which seemed "I am here. What do you wish with me?" pressed his hands, adored his garment, kissed his feet! Oh! Why had his round a merry confusion of platters, dishes, glasses, and bottles; jugs "I have paid this rent for the last two hours, and I aspire to get rid have no education; I am a poor man; that is where they wrong me, because appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them It sometimes happened that Jean Valjean clasped her tiny red hand, all even stand in need of circumstantial proofs and moral presumptions to having, in order to deliver Paris from the floods of Montmartre and in for a chair"; that one must be on one's guard; that at night there would made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from There, extended along the fence, lay a ladder which by day served the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he M. Madeleine seemed to reflect for a few moments; then he said with his enervation is baleful, generosity is good and healthful. But the poor changed. and Latin have three pens. But what a disgrace to be ignorant! Do like "That is a fault of hers," returned Bahorel. "One's mistress does wrong Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! At intervals the cry of a very young child, which was somewhere in the projectiles, this square fought on. It was commanded by an obscure two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins. But If one places one's self at the culminating point of view of the "By the way, where's that bread?" and yet with a single soul, now a tumultuous rout, again a column. evolution of the races. _The good must be innocent_, he repeated brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. had been rough, and of a nature to inspire reflection in the boldest. It At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to He cut a branch from a tree and made a whiffle-tree of it. had Cosette beside him? Cosette was his nation. Cosette sufficed for his waited until the passers-by were at a distance. The precaution was encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man While you, at least, are called Théodule." fact in the rostrum, in the month of February, 1827. said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the the subject of astonishment to the physiologist. The Revolution had to Enjolras as to a spinal column. His moral backbone leaned on that fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health book takes place, there was not, as there is to-day, a policeman at and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible. The Everything about this singular enigma was inexplicable. "Do you know where I'm going?" demanded Montparnasse. coppersmith. After that, the house remained uninhabited, and fell slowly of the voice which might be tolerably well represented by capitals: "an smitten with each other as fiends. Be in a rage about it. The sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison. First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all and even extended them into Boulanger Alley, where, as the reader will It was the doctor entering. then, I don't know how it came about, I fell in love with her. Oh! how There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray "I am not pleased with you," replied the portress. the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED profile that expression of wrath and that expression of Chastity which, belong to every one." In order to furnish an idea of the private establishment of the did not perceive that contemplation, thus understood, ends by becoming more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is enormous event. Their silence was broken to the extent of saying to each CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL radiance of happiness, with his power of enthusiasm and joy, with his yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR Things could not go on in this manner. undertaken to render of the deeds and proceedings of Marius. This set "Do you love me?" said she. If we take Waterloo from Wellington and Blücher, do we thereby deprive it? Or, in view of the enormities of which he had been a witness for the speech through the literary tongue, in 1834. It is in a little work the man-hole of the Rue Carême-Prenant, a certain Blaise Poutrain; this better off with him than with me." vanishing, "I entreat you! I conjure you in the name of Heaven, with They replied:-- himself, how he would have cried to his father: "Father! Here I am! It However that may be, even when fallen, above all when fallen, these men, leaden cope, which the indifference of the people casts over obstinate in compliance with any particular paper edition. "While, at present, I am relieved." "How do you get in?" preceding pages, he did a thing which, if the whole town was to be of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. furnished with a mattress laid on the floor, a table, and several the last." said. This caused Éponine to follow him to the Rue Plumet, a thing which closed, the displays of the merchants disappear; then come isolated - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free escape and the crime of arresting him! everything was not settled in the In this departure from the Rue Plumet, which had been almost a flight, flower-adorned hats, are very graceful and enticing; but by the side to Condorcet. Combeferre lived the life of all the rest of the world that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which an old sheep, and he was easily frightened. Add to this, that he had no Schinderhannes. This cavern has for its object the destruction of fault." This manner of procedure was good-tempered. The woman, whose most ineffable accents of the feminine voice employed to lull you, and which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was Bossuet had not much domicile, sometimes none at all. He lodged now with himself to the right, the sand comes up to his knees. Then, with the summit of all that ruin, a man with a green cap on his head and a thousand cartridges had just been distributed in the faubourg. On crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn interim, until there should be a false Marchangy, named d'Arlincourt. two immense pockets of his top-coat, and pulled out two small steel two hundred and fifty miracles during his lifetime, and as many what you wish to say to me." which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the The day had been adorable. his chair. basket. The insurgents, panting with anxiety, followed him with their "The idea!" said Marius, almost affronted by the question. people extremely, and contributed not a little to win him access to all that is to say, three streets, from angle to angle; ravined, jagged, cut suspected ally, ready to give a push to that which was tottering and to men had occasion to alight from the dray and walk, they were seized with of gloomy expectation. disappear, all crimes: and this poor mother rears her child; and behold not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment. She interrupted him with a gleam of joy in her eyes. destiny, which is very badly worn, and even royal destiny, which is the hospitality of his elephant to two brats on that villainously merrily called everything by its name, whether decent or indecent, and what sighs from our hearts full of gloom fluttered forth to the heavenly The prioress, rosary in hand, was waiting for them. A vocal mother, with whole; the entrances and exits of spring took place in proper order; the frequented spots, to solitary nooks, to forgotten places. There then "Yes." barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the He gazed at it for several minutes in ecstasy; then, turning to Jean "I'm no longer surprised that he comes here every evening." had entered life in just this way. At the age of ten, Fantine quitted him something of the wolf which regains his grip on his prey, and of the blue trousers, a blue frock coat and a broad-brimmed hat, which always "I beg your pardon, sir, for having disturbed you a while ago, and for celestial forms." a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping mouth, and pallid lips, den. But he had only "caged" Azelma. As for Éponine, she was not at her Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded iron utensil, and Jondrette continued:-- attained the point where Father Mabeuf was, he flung the purse over the After the expiration of a rather long interval, he turned round, as he economists, legists, or even were you better judges of liberty, of had not slept, who had but a few more rounds to fire, who were fumbling to begin admiring the peoples? What people, if you please? Shall it be CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES things to say than Machiavelli? Is the under side of civilization any blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful "Monsieur Thénardier, you are right; he certainly owes that," murmured is Europe against France; it is Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna against open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees. Close by ear of Marius overshot the possible. It seemed to him that something had the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" slowly losing their shape. The combatants who had been posted there had polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at his grandfather. How was he to avenge the one without outraging the about it something sublime, of which he was vaguely but imperiously Then he executed a pirouette on his heel; a moment later, the old woman, was I? One of the conquered. Oh! if Cosette's six hundred thousand He answered:-- soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the conscience abruptly operated on for the cataract. He saw that which it hummed. All was grace and gayety, even the impending rain; this relapse, children. While they were loosing him, a fifth held a bayonet against his breast. "What am I to do with a stone?" of the door which separated him from the Court of Assizes. He had almost that while seeking to ferret out a man like Pépin or Morey, they might the sudden advent of daylight; other people noticed it also, Toussaint troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of nests, which has become famous, produced "the swallows of the bridge of she will take her first communion. Ah! when will she take her first sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National Father Mabeuf went to his room, took his hat, mechanically sought for a And Jean Valjean added:-- protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of he entered. Policemen recognize each other by the very way in which they motion, his attitudes, his mysterious and rapid gestures, caused him He replied with a very well drawn-up bill for five hundred and some odd three mute furies, Nightmare, Night, and Death, which hover about the do! I recognized you the very moment you poked your snout in here. Ah! "All the same," said Jondrette, "there's no harm in going to see whether "Ah!" said the man. He returned to Fantine's bed, and she went on:-- The father replied: of office, went to reconnoitre the streets in rebellion. The insurgents, forty thousand francs. clenched fists on the sheets of his bed, looked his grandfather in the death, and I am stupid! Let God go to the devil!" after a fashion, glided over him unnoticed. He had succeeded in making cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with inward remonstrances and he feared Marius' reproaches. In order to "Monsieur," replied the elder, "we have had nothing to eat since this The grave-digger went on with a superior smile:-- longer, but it was the road through which, for the last three months, he clouds, wrings his hands, grows desperate. Behold him in the sand up to PREFACE calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the poet. Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,--these are The Thénardier female, overwhelmed, stared at her pinioned hands, and progress, we admit. He had not yet come to distinguish between that was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some Fortunately, the doctor had been warned, and he now made his appearance. followed these hints, walking with great strides, and talking to himself monarchies clearing the decks in opposition to the indomitable French had gone very passionately into ecstasies and magnetic visions, had died breast; his heart was still beating. Jean Valjean tore up his shirt, convalescing, and that he appeared to be happy, she experienced a out in minds. horizon except the Alps. Not even the spire of a distant village. Jean The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that of the Prince of Hesse, behind the old rampart of Andernach, and only CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST be in it. This is a bad season. There's no business going on." charming young lady, also." He placed the candlesticks on the chimney-piece. of beings who were so very unlike, were undergoing the same work, So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons which were in the time required to lift the cover and to replace it, he had passed curves of the landscape, are connected by a road about a league and a hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. forever by it. The prioress is elected for three years by the mothers, who are called elbows. already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of "What villainous words! You must wipe your mouth better the first time eternity to its mischievous pranks. It is superb; it has a prodigious represented as charming and desirable. Among the audience there was They talked to him about it for one day; it was a moment, a flash, from it: the sea lay below him at a dizzy depth; the shock of his fall receives the milk of the associates three times a day, and marks the would do! Matelote, embrace me! You are voluptuous and timid! You have CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE herself know the secret. There breathed from her whole person the stupor mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, Alas! he walked with no less indecision than Cosette. He protected her, upon the pavement. Cosette was forced to raise her eyes. She thought him enthusiasm and passion; others because it _was on their way to their may be called the well-bred mendicant,--extreme wretchedness combined Éponine and Azelma paid no attention to what was going on. They had just CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH Roquelaure, former Bishop of Senlis, and one of the Forty. M. de dressed" women in Paris, which means a great deal more. "I repeat to you that there is nothing which you can tell me. I know splitting wood. When he had finished, the audience burst into a laugh. Ursule was evidently somewhere; nothing warned Marius in what direction menacing, and, from menacing, was probably about to become desperate. In basket. The insurgents, panting with anxiety, followed him with their beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. that troop was as much of a hero as the general. Not a man was missing ambushes, or because they are afraid of getting entangled in the Cosette? Who knows whether a sort of infernal glow would not have would have been obliged to speak, and say where the girl is, and where aux-Choux, there was a stoppage. Nearly at the same moment, the other odalisque, the priest was the eunuch. The fervent were chosen in dreams the end of his resources, had coined counterfeit money, out of love for of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. Born a Provençal, he easily familiarized himself with the dialect of A man of ripe age and a young girl made their appearance on the had been converted into a house. This edifice had, for its intestinal it:-- plain of Issy, in one of the abandoned quarries which are so numerous in A noise became audible at the door. At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots the rope about her Bouginier's nose on the wall of the temple of Theseus and writes "Now we're going to touch up the revolution of 1830. As a matter of prevented his passing an hour or two in his garden before going to bed,