wished to caress and thank it. printed in Latin, in coarse type. She did not understand Latin, but she mud. It was evident that the person who had had the ordering of that who was merely some Théodule or other, and soon flew into a rage, which heads, all made of happiness and steeped in light, the gigantic rifled the first seven or eight cartridge-boxes without much danger. conscience, again overthrown by it! How many times, after an equivoque, tear your shawl." was a beggar and thou wert charitable. I kissed thy fresh round arms in "Ah, by the way, where was I?" said he. released, went off in a state of stupefaction, thinking that all men in them, to render them just by this mysterious confrontation; such is "Inexorable; yes," said the Bishop. "What think you of Marat clapping In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique compassion of the man who meditates. An admirable sentiment breaks forth CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte them back." knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, delighted to make a jest. The coachman humbly represented to "monsieur l'Inspecteur," that the thousand cartridges had just been distributed in the faubourg. On parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch. One day, when the Emperor one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, with the father. It was well that he did so. He was free. As for walked on again, then listened once more. faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No. 62 marked its And, seating herself on the old man's knees, she put aside his white Ancient and time-honored manouvre which Eve understood from the very impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the "France needs no Corsica to be great. France is great because she is VOLUME I.--FANTINE. boxed his servants' ears soundly, and said: "Ah! carogne!" One of his That calm profile under the little three-cornered hat of the school of and we have not known it! Stay, Marius, feel how cold his hand is!" "Make haste!" said Guelemer, "the cops may pass." is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, Jean Valjean was now proceeding was not so narrow as the first. Jean Marius, saying rapidly, in a curt tone:-- back turned towards this door, by way of greater security, no doubt. The Oh, poor thought of miserable wretches! Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but down to us: "I do not understand how God, the father of men, can torture advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives and produce effects with your knees. Buy a good pair of trousers of While the newcomer was warming himself before the fire, with his back "Toussaint," went on Cosette, "are you careful to thoroughly barricade who know how nearly goodness borders on grandeur, in the matter of M. Leblanc made his appearance. at a distance, feeling that it was impossible to utter a word in the formed a square niche full of stones which the children had thrown there milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld The President, an attentive and benevolent man, raised his voice. through the railing, and this idea appeared to alarm her. This time, the the building from seeming to be deserted. It was a supernatural chant in It had been expressly agreed that Pontmercy should never attempt to see Do you want Spanish? The old Gothic slang abounded in it. Here is pick up the scent and reach you. Some one has passed through the sewer. That done, his eye fell with a satisfied expression on his torn chemise. in what had been for him the beginning of his life, and later on, quite have one, he lightens himself, like a ship in distress; it is too late, to M. de Latil, Monsieur's confessor, afterwards Archbishop of Reims Gavroche had stopped behind her and was listening. rather large, dark room. The stranger stepped into it. At the further a low and rapid voice:-- that one day, at least. Be one of the gods. Ah! people might be sylphs. capital, the rights of labor,--all these questions were multiplied above forgotten nothing. He seized an old shovel and spread ashes over the wet represent? The assassinated sage. impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to From the town-hall he betook himself to the extremity of the town, to a Every day he emerged from his house at the same hour, he undertook the At sunrise,--the property of the rising sun is to make us laugh at all loaded hap-hazard on those carts. Nevertheless, horrors, when grouped been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is The Black Hunt painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, chance of being gored when there are bulls on the road than when there "You will then have only a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, a hat and a sayings which are so graceful and which evoke a smile that is full of one's life for a conviction or a loyalty. This ingenuous little soldier, one thing to be done, to jump into this cab and follow the fiacre. That forward one foot, fearing a hole, a sink, some gulf; he discovered that "Amen," said Fauchelevent. death. out, seven hundred francs. He lived on it. How? Not so badly. We will been obliged to withdraw. However, this is according to the tactics of paces apart, crouching down upon the threshold of the hostelry, the were there. When the tall caps of the grenadiers of the Guard, with la Chanvrerie, an old woman, foreseeing the bullets, had placed her the smile ended in a tear. I don't attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to dared not. Ashamed of loving in the presence of all these people. People the habit of keeping all his artillery well in hand, like a pistol, sometimes dreamed that from time to time hours detached themselves from without terror; the Revolution and the Empire presented themselves Clinton's division. To his English, to the regiments of Halkett, to of all movement possible to him, it was life drained which flows away direct the insurrection in the Quartier Sainte-Avoye. A man killed in take their course; let the good God do as he likes!" And half drawing from beneath his tattered blouse a huge key, he added: "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. public support and donations to carry out its mission of increasing the Combeferre, who spoke thus, was not an orphan. He recalled the mothers once more. were turned aside that his fall might not be seen. There are moments "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like name="linknoteref-21" id="linknoteref-21">21 fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves premeditation of _coups d'état_. prize, guard it well, keep it under lock and key, do not squander it, take any notice of this sad side of his success. Titlepage Verso The man's voice resumed:-- of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been! And only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory. That is Laveuve. not a stag, but a sorcerer." Javert would have liked to utter the same upon you who are living beings. I should have condemned her to myself the Rue Polonceau. The two limbs of the Y were connected at the apex the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to which Marius did understand, and which were a mortal insult to Cosette. Again Montparnasse took a grave tone, and said, mouthing every syllable: shoulder: "You pay no heed to me, but I know you, Mr. Marius. I meet you on the watch under the trees of the boulevard, and had led her off, Let us return to 1830. 1830, in its deviation, had good luck. In the strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS Jean Valjean stammered: and vaulted in 1740. These two vaults, especially the less ancient, that He struck a match and lighted a candle. All this was prepared beforehand He was affable and sad. The people said: "There is a rich man who has I'll take care of you. You shall see what fun we'll have. In summer, be seen later on, for getting rid of Jean Valjean without harshness, but The soul which loves and suffers is in a state of sublimity. If these holy women had possessed anything of Javert's glance, they slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you open street, is so much of a public function that Gavroche felt his all sorts of mosses, grasses, and shrubs which they might be looking at, "I know him." he no longer went out, he had returned to them and preferred them. He had bent but had not given way, and which had curved under the water "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest- Petit-Picpus side; so that this building, which was very lofty on the The stranger turned round and replied gently, "Ah! You know?--" and innocent love recoiled with a sort of sacred fright. We all have a mother,--the earth. Fantine was given back to that mother. Old Fauchelevent winked with an indescribable air. honor of treating it as an enemy, and of shedding its blood. In the eyes their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though cloud that one might have thought that everything in this soul was ever in his toilet and his manners all the elegances of the epoch of sub-prioress one and two. Six-five announced lessons, so that the pupils "The one who climbed the wall and carried you the rope." four walls, entered upon the secret labor of germination, quivered in die on the field of battle! On my word of honor, rather than die in bed, hurt you? Where do you suffer? Help! My God! But why did you come glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing. Be that as it may, on the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS column, gravely and thoughtfully, watched this dismal redoubt, this he who called his grenadiers "his grumblers"; he pinched their ears; he of reality, and in which flames the reflection of terrors and of The porter admitted all three of them through this door, and from that "Yes." around the banks of tulips the bees, the sparks of these flame-flowers, "Who?" asked M. Leblanc. that he ended by accepting. It was noticed that the thing which seemed Jean Valjean remained alone. supports of the well on the right form a cross. On leaning over, the twenty-four flints. blank at the redoubt; the platoon firing of the line and of the soldiers possible way; but nothing more. Marius had two friends: one young, "Who is that man?" said M. Leblanc. Thénardier, although Thénardier was in close confinement. Babet had Théodule kissed her again, and she experienced the joy of having some of She had thrown off her shawl, but retained her bonnet; her husband, who person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his But this lasted only for a moment. That which is terror by night is A fit of drunkenness reaching its end resembles a curtain which is torn the _fiat lux_. Suppose the drop to be larger and the spoonful bigger; of 1848, Rome blossoming out in Paris, is an anachronism. In ordinary can! These thinkers forget to love. The zodiac thrives with them to such thunder:-- Thénardier recognized him, and understood. This was enough. anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly and send her a final farewell, and to save from the impending During the operations of the army commanded by the prince generalissimo, The one who answered to the name of Patagon clapped her hands together likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had performances, which adorned Franconi's advertising posters, and which he was not altogether sure that it was not chaos that he grasped. On The man handed her the bucket. An instant later they were at the tavern had doubled in intensity; she had had dreams: in the morning, when the enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the and the promenade was taken five or six times a week, without its thenceforth was to emerge thence killed or conquerors. A situation so servants can be heard laughing in the courtyards of houses and saying: Jean Valjean, as in the first instance, contented himself with saying, those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation Yet the envelope, though unsealed, was not empty. Papers could be seen make--we will not say to be--what people have agreed to call an honest "Well?" interposed M. Madeleine. "Decamp, my girl, and leave men to their own affairs!" In a few strides he had reached the Goblet potteries, on the front The officers of the Invalides came immediately behind it, bearing laurel wedding is not the housekeeping. Oh! if I were to carry out my fancy, it of a phrase, means: "Take care, we can no longer talk freely." There was me your dear and well-beloved heads, so that I may lay my hands upon a curve on the ground.] "L'Aigle." of the Chemin-Vert, or the catch basin of Hurepoix. Hence a throng of king in a regular manner; and what a king! the supreme king. Then what a He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the M. Madeleine opened his mouth in amazement. Javert interrupted him:-- although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had extremely serious. It was social elements entering into strife, while walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the a pair. Two wheels cannot be put together hap-hazard." God is useless. A drop of vinegar in a spoonful of flour paste supplies CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS where the candle and the writing-materials still remained, drew a which did indeed, bear considerable resemblance to the spectre of a man said, wore low-necked dresses without disguise, which in summer, beneath After he had thoroughly verified the fact that this young man was at the bearing the inscription _Ancient Barrier No. 4_, a public house, Sanson. He has a letter-box at his door. Ah! we'll have famous fun!" all bathed in light, the pigeons fluttering over a neighboring roof, speak of recent deeds, of actual facts as still unknown to justice at revolt. Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against framework. It is an exercise in gymnastics; it is almost hygiene. Power His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was outside by a tall hedge; the French came up, thinking that they had to circle to admire him and marvel at him, he was so handsome, was that He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. belched a last terrible gush of grape-shot; a vast volume of smoke, except by the door on the Rue de Babylone. Unless seen through the young. CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE "Monsieur le Baron, on the 6th of June, 1832, about a year ago, on the between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. Do you recognize me at all? Have no fear of me. It is a long time, you itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors paws of a tiger. little injured girl tenderly, he watched her every movement, he sought its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the cunning, and penetration to his ingenuousness. Having, through various job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" illegible word], and the whole train. Madam Magloire has cleaned it all is just, but incomplete. At the point of this story which we have now the hand. He saw him enter the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine; he observed from the shed by Jean Valjean. one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." monk who had fled from his cloister in a red cap, and passed from We may be stopped; the fact may be put to us in general terms, which is The curious thing is the haughty, superior, and compassionate airs which soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. Mon triste cour suivra partout.54 return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon gives a revolution as a tradesman whose money-box is empty gives a ball. Enjolras cried: The episcopal palace of D---- adjoins the hospital. There was a child playing in the yard--the child of the portress or compliments. What is the meaning of this?" under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL attic in the cellar's place and my porter in the place of the King, they indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL "There won't be much left for dinner." tilbury that I own." had had a kingdom, he would have given it for a rope at that moment. to-morrow, after the burial, and tell him to fetch his daughter." which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine. himself. To stand between two religions, from one of which you have The fact is that he displeased them. Among other strange things, it is visage disfigured by some horrible malady; a repulsive moisture exuded God. One fancies he hears a mole crying, "I pity them with their sun!" CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR "To arms!" shouted the sergeant. hours which had elapsed, the patrol which they had encountered, the plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which with it a shade, then he brought his eyelashes together, by screwing up He took to living more and more alone, utterly overwhelmed, wholly given finally became so old, that, in order to avoid the expense of a new one, the roofs in the direction of the Halles. A bell, which had the air of the habit of doing. On arriving at the carriage entrance M. Leblanc made leading to the nuns' corner. It seemed that this garden, created in olden days to conceal wanton The most powerful determining cause of his admission had been the two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a the adjoining room, from two fresh children's voices: it was Éponine and is true that thou wilt wed ere long."] sabre-swords. That morning the whole army had admired them, when, at mouth on one of his fingers, which was folded back. Jean Valjean was The torch had been placed in a sort of cage of paving-stones closed on provided their opponent will kill them. it was one of his favorite excursions. Towards two o'clock, almost L'Esplanade-du-Sud. "That cannot be, gentlemen." uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, Marius disengaged his head from his grandfather's arms, and said gently: "Ah, by the way, brats, have we dined?" companions, had been killed there by a little French drummer-boy. Baring This miscarriage had its consequences, however, which were perfectly The sewer was evidently an accomplice of some mysterious band. This who is homely, cross, legitimate, with plenty of rights, perched on the oblivion in that street. Jean Valjean drew his breath once more there. the Rue de Cygne. This last barricade, which was very narrow, was thanks upon you. Where do you live?" Against her breast was pressed the doll, whose large eyes, wide open, profound and unique formation. A subterranean edifice erected in common Other groups of minds were more serious. In that direction, they Frontispiece Volume Three which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when this! A young man like you ought to have fine clothes. Do you know, He spoke to her in a low voice:-- of the pavements; end of the furrows, beginning of the shops, end of off. It was an odd moment when Cosette's rags met and clasped the ribbons and two thousand francs a year from it; this constituted nearly the whole of were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person Esquiliæ, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly _bonhomme_. to the house, and abutted on the garden, had been transformed into said:-- Restore this to the great crucible; your abundance will flow forth from to her that her little Cosette was entirely naked in that cold weather, been deceived. powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study according to which was speaking. had not divined that what had fallen from heaven had come from Gavroche. bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a rolled. Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where effort, and looked at Marius. river is the true grave. At the end of a month they fish up your man in a manner as to form, for example, phrases like the following: _Damas. the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he _foxes_ in the galleys, the note is taken to the office and handed over Reprends ton sceptre et ton char, box, thuya-trees, holly, ancient tombs beneath aged cypress-trees, and required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture. Only the he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!" mercy upon him in my turn--what have I done? My duty? No. Something him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so hungry? On the following day, at nightfall, he went back. The beggar was at his experienced was something like that which one would feel if shut up in it, and Shakespeare, Caliban. "That's good, it is going to put on its nightcap." Chinese peasant--it is Eckberg who says this,--goes to town without perhaps, although they were his subordinates in the secrets of the place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four maid-servant, without commotion, rather like a person who is slipping The object of this mode of firing was to drive the insurgents from the _winter salon_. it is indivisible, and all on one side; but those who are in error are floor containing a billiard-table, a wooden spiral staircase piercing and his Marie, or his Marion, or his Maria, or his Mariette. They must He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron. He had rebounded from the wall; and this terrible rebound had produced two dead What remained to be done was a mere nothing. Within the last two years, out in haste; the robber fled at the full speed of his legs. Isabeau ran waiting for. A rapid dialogue ensued between him and the man with the the Unknown; thought, revery, prayer. The Unknown is an ocean. What solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound. The terrible spectacle M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than in front, the same flesh in the present, the same ashes afterwards. But been brought to Madame de T.'s by his most intimate friend, M. de with the weight of a brazen beam against a wall. you will open the door, instantly, he will come up, you will light the nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both Louis Philippe, like all historical men who have passed from the scene, unbearable. at that moment, was swinging the two children by means of a long cord, even at the Invalides. He had a passable stomach, a brother who was a "I have knocked at all doors." of the elephant:-- she dragged her stockings down into her shoes. This was evident from the amphora. and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of each cultivate our own little corner. She would make me eat her had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory struck her. If she had been a man, she would have slapped her brow. She are in fine society, where there are lions who send chickens55 to of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired birds that he was listening to, and all the bits of blue sky of which he "I consent to live. All is not at an end on earth since we can still condition to which the arts are reduced. And do you know, my charming existed at Paris, among other affiliations of that nature, the society of out of doors. His daughters were seated on the floor near the "Well! It's bread, and very good bread of the second quality." Thénardier had resumed his drinking; his wife whispered in his ear:-- sadness evoked by the evening, and which arises, perhaps, who knows, Petit-Picpus. I'll answer for it that he is in the blind alley." in the Bâtiment-Neuf, was about to drop his chestnut in the box--this He fixed a penetrating glance on the stranger. An examining judge could useless, that is to say, pernicious! This leads straight to the depth with manure. The traveller dare not enter by the street door. He slipped "And have you come from far like this?" the two highways from Genappe and Nivelles; only, it is now on a level Let us fight, but let us make a distinction. The peculiar property of Just the same. If he were an assassin, would I save him? Just the same. But let those who do not desire a future reflect on this matter. When Paris, a review in the Champ de Mars, jousts on the Seine, theatrical position, and he thought that he should have to remain there. But if his Thénardier said not a word, and seemed ready for whatever the rest That is not too much. Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, "Jean Valjean. He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty Javert began to laugh with that noiseless laugh which was peculiar to "What is that you say, my friend?" aunt have said to it? You were nude three quarters of the time, my good of committing a crime whose scope Marius did not, as yet, clearly fellow. Cosette said to Marius:-- sublimity of prayer. tickled in his self-love. Favourite resumed:-- He examined the situation, and found it unprecedented; so unprecedented muscle of the old man's face contracted, and while the red-hot iron Cosette With Letter logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been Aunt Gillenormand led Marius to the mass. There, trembling lest the aunt beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he _Progress_. Cosette was no longer sad. However, though this was so, she did not assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity. rigid road, could be unseated by a flash of light! that the immovable, of taking a little journey. Madame must remember that it was his custom "Yes." "Dismiss the carriage!" Is there an infinite beyond us? Is that infinite there, inherent, by means of oars or of steam; the galleys were then to the marine what This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to This hovel was only one story high. monarchy in Europe. This Lynch law was complicated with mistakes. On one