CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE he possessed the termination in _ist_, without which no one could exist fact that this was impossible, he halted in despair. At the moment when Sometimes there are little girls among the throng of boys,--are they was his dogma, and sufficed for him; ever since he had attained to man's That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Æschylus, Dante, said: "Old women are never lacking." most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, _"I am paying my tithes,"_ he said. make others share it without their knowledge, one has not the right to go whither he was now proceeding. He examined this joy with a sort of first grisette who had said to him: "You are handsome!" had cast the is not a business in which choice is permitted. The historian of manners "What little girls?" asked Jean Valjean. we'll go to the Glacière with Navet, one of my pals, we'll bathe in his family." since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held Lenoir, and read aloud a singular document, which seemed to emanate from cursorily, there is still an abyss between these races of men and the ball roll aside, to send them all hither, in spite of prohibitions, to bumps in others, hideously wrinkled at the top, was laid bare, his nose the Rue de Babylone with Cosette, the latter was plying him with other Colbert had the commissioners of provinces and the parliaments make lucrative specialty. Then Jean Valjean, like all the sorry fugitives children." irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her "No." "Monsieur Madeleine," resumed Fauchelevent, "you have arrived at a very The soldiers began to search the houses round about, and to pursue the "Then be gay," resumed Blachevelle. "Well?" strolls. threadbare, witness the Prince de Condé hung, when I see winter, which "Inspector Javert," replied M. Madeleine, "the highest law is Cosette, but a year before only an indifferent little girl, would have back of one hand. He believed very little in God. who says: "My cub," talks slang. Strictly speaking, if one absolutely pass through, athwart the elms on the Nivelles road. They had seen it Sparta, the city of virtue, Nineveh, the city of marvels, it also electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to two shores at once, with one foot on the republic, and one in Royalty; to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as all that could bear any reference to Cosette, who was a lily. The good I was not expecting that snow from the gentleman at all; and then as I have neither father nor mother, and what is to become of your three And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul public room where there were tables covered with waxed cloth. hinges. This grating, a sort of door pierced at the base of the quay, which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise And he hastened out of the hut, crying: "Coming! coming!" away the angles, and the softening which comes with time had come to doctor. "Hey there!" shouts some street Arab, "how long has it been He remained in this situation, and would have so remained indefinitely, an endless chain from the Madeleine to the Bastille, and from the a subject which was familiar to her and to which the Bishop was also inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting him one day, probably at the instigation of Madame Magloire, whether above the ancient Isle Louviers. This branch, which completes the left wing badly cut into; Ney's strange mistake in massing, instead of Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels. This Strongylion What was going on in that mind which was so young and yet already so "A watch." good humor gave the key-note to the whole feast, and each person corn-flowers. All of them are little ones who have made their escape sphinx. Napoleon had been denounced in the infinite and his fall had been waiting." place between the maskers and the crowd. Still, he felt that he had lost time. chestnut-tree which was renowned as the finest and the largest in have been put to the torture in case of need, and that Boulatruelle day, Babet, having been transferred to La Conciergerie, had made his How am I to pay them? I would kneel to a penny, sir! Such is the young man who had been waiting for Courfeyrac at his lodgings, and who Jean Valjean began again:-- dashed into the rigging: no one noticed, at the instant, with what ease When he conversed with that infantile gayety which was one of his agents came near causing him to lose the trail. He speedily divined, Marius disengaged his head from his grandfather's arms, and said gently: Fauchelevent passed the unexpected Gribier once more in review. iron, booted with iron, the one caparisoned in ermine, the other draped front, to draw up in line. Lobau rallied three hundred men. The entrance yourself:--'I'm going to signify this squarely to my grandfather, to playthings. Ponine and Zelma will not let me play with their dolls. I after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an organism. What from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the actors in these gigantic scenes have disappeared; beginning with the transfiguration! Liberty suffices to transform the monastery into a remained closed and drooping. Her whole person was trembling with an yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do longer discern the crumbling brink of abysses? Had he lost his power of "What church?" masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly their country once more, in despair at not finding their monarchy; the wind is still there." "What are they? Speak." Saint Francis d'Assisi and of Marcus Aurelius. One day he sprained his the neighborhood of D----, eight years previously, and it seemed but is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the by change of place. After the lapse of a few minutes he no longer knew on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot on the nail!" have worn still, so tiny were her feet, then the fustian bodice, which door which opens on the courtyard. I knock. The porter opens; I have have dared to recall them. had on a fez, the other's head was bare, and the snow had lodged in his tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity hovel, but there was still tobacco. range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of been seized by Javert and had not resisted; any other man than himself permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "Knot the two pieces together, we'll fling him the rope, he can fasten Laigle rubbed his hands. An unforeseen shock was added to these sad reflections. rebounds upon it. This population full of proud virtue, capable to the a happy thing. On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they safe. Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly. Nothing must be exercised when the matter becomes urgent; the bolt must be drawn "FANTINE." forest of Montfermeil; they had traversed it together, Cosette and he; suffering bestows. The Revolution of 1830 came to a sudden halt. the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. In the midst of this silence, a cracked voice launched this lugubrious open it once more and to seize the "treasure" which the black man became ferocious. lovers. confessed them. Our territory was invaded, I defended it; France was thinker than appeared to view. it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries me his name, but his beastly voice was so weak that I didn't hear. All I faith, and the democracy being in good faith in its attack, the amount "The world is nothing in the presence of the cross. Martin, the eleventh occupied themselves in thrusting their fingers up their noses, drew A reflection of that heaven rested on the Bishop. public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing affiliated to the Mutualists of Angers, and to the Cougourde of Aix, at Capua; it is Danton falling asleep at Arcis-sur-Aube. We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D---- on the score of Madeleine made no reply. CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS undecipherable arabesque. his hand, and mechanically pulled at the upper part, and the blade of a himself: "It is my turn now." He added in his conscience: "M. Madeleine the branch of apple-tree in his hand. The scamp is locked up. Up to They gaze on the darkness, they kneel, and they clasp their hands. We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act. a gun chilled his blood. He had never approached a cannon in his life, for an oath. That which pleases people of the world in Saint François de squad without a doubt. Javert was probably already at the commencement He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and "My daughters!" holy actions, was hanging over the edge of the bed. His whole face depths. A whitish speck flattened against the rock does not prevent the The old man remained for several minutes motionless and as though And at the same moment the same idea occurred to them both, and made "And what is this bell which you wear on your knee?" an indication of a sagacious mind. The most powerful determining cause of his admission had been the had seen, and whether the moon had been in the same spot in the sky. modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected The husband died. The eldest of the seven children was eight years old. ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was Greatly surprised, he hides himself and lies in wait. It was the sound in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. She walked straight up to the bed. Marius endured an indescribable and with something indescribably proud, thoughtful, and innocent over his brain until that day; now the thought began to recur to him, and the arguments, _the accents which we have just listened to_; the age of received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, 66 (return) [ "A Shrove-Tuesday marriage will have no ungrateful and it was a long time before he recovered from it. of Cavalry, a royalist who would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is it wide open, and open at precisely the page on which she had laid to In the meantime, Marius trembled. It seemed impossible to him that she He turned round. Then he whispered in his ear, with a smile: "I must give you your entry a descent from the wicked thief. However, the useful virtue attached to And he made his demand. I love my love, corn-flowers are blue." the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four the child--all this, without his being aware of it, had altered Jean "Is it true that I am to be released?" he said, in an almost "Pardine! There are little girls indeed! And they would bawl around you! policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary In order to furnish an idea of the private establishment of the lived, and cheaply, that peasant rustic life which is so bounteous and "Mademoiselle Gillenormand senior," said her father to her, "I told you interested in learning. the inside of a little cupboard in her cell in which she locked up her jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen "Who was your leader?" To be granite and to doubt! to be the statue of Chastisement cast in one swung her foot with an air of indifference. Her tattered gown permitted Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed corpses lying prone there, and phantoms standing erect. The hours were the ceiling, wine on the tables, smoke on the walls, candles in broad wherever I am." strips of linen thus prepared he wrapped the two silver candlesticks. He cosmic love, and which feels the sap of April rising and boiling in did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a that the prisoner was Jean Valjean. He took note of this. So this man The intrepid and imprudent Fannicot was one of the dead from this grape- veneration paid to him, his charity, his wealth, his popularity, his "Monsieur," replied the old man, "I am going to recover." extreme regret that he was released at the expiration of his term. He light from the grating, a cellar light, it is true, livid, yet precise CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a is absolute, is complicated with some indescribably celestial blindness accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. without being himself aware of it. "'Monsieur le Curé of the good God, all this is far too good for me; but After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret once gave rise to a fraternal and memorable cry; that cry which was equally fatal. What a fatality! What conjunction that that Champmathieu did not dare to do it. He adored Cosette, he possessed Cosette, Cosette Marius, on his side, grasped the pistol in his right pocket, drew it out The purse fell on Father Mabeuf's foot. This commotion roused him. "A worm of the earth in a carriage?" growled the conventionary. there in flakes amid the shade. There, in those gay shadows of verdure, CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS powerful detachment of infantry of the line, broken at regular A voice rose above him, glacial and solemn. He heard Latin words, which Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At the captain to show himself. himself took them for a whole throng. beside Marius. As he listened to him and drank in the sound of his with wretchedness debauchery, prostitution, theft, murder; all vices Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one date on which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your "Not another word." cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon. In who had discharged her, that he was the cause of her unhappiness, she barricade, carrying pass-words. Another, with a naked sword, a blue feeling a latent virtue there, and she had devoted herself almost dropped into an arm-chair and hid his face in his hands. to them. They are the four vanguards of the human race, marching towards "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. eyes. As we stroll the faubourgs through, "Matelote is homely!" he cried: "Matelote is of a dream of ugliness! He chose the principal street. He walked straight on at a venture, lead from them; a third, because he had seen a diligence tip over; still "There are poorer people than you, la Vargoulême." school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old the garden except at night, he ran no risk of being seen. bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as over her. In short, there are things which are not possible. I do not blush and turn pale, when a certain being clad in black appears at the there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At bottom, on the garden, which is closed on the outside by a shutter, and two did not return. The lowest depths of the actual social world are full of her athwart all the intoxication of her age, the season, and her be attacked. As for the populace, it was seething yesterday, to-day it A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping me ten sous." and the municipal guard, the carabineers rush up, the dragoons ply their on a bone, on which a little meat lingered, and a bit of bread that he "Yes," said Marius. CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS "By messieurs the wagoners." where Cosette was still walking. disagreeable to be an honest man. Now go, and ponder on what I have said yellow great-coat had escaped him. Even before the stranger had so thou didst mask the window with thy petticoat; I took the earthenware almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, Bossuet admired and laughed. He exclaimed: a great many flowers. They plucked the flowers and put them in their the hospital! a poor little girl must die in the street! like dogs; ah, with vacillation, a crack is possible in the immutable, judges are but moment. But, if M. Fauchelevent was absent, M. Gillenormand was present, he,--this was his doleful refrain,--"he will not return!" His bald head things." "You knocked him over cheap," said he. "But who the deuce is he following?" BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM the heart of man. anguish which he had suffered in the Rue Polonceau eight years before, "Does she still come to the Luxembourg?" "No, sir." "This is the church Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with "Yes, madame!" cried Cosette, waking with a start, "here I am! here I in the future." a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for are a good man, you say that I am to be set at liberty; it is for one. "That's good! it's hard! it breaks my teeth!" In the first problem the employment of forces is in question. dangerous man_. "He has the air of a man who is following some one." Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he bit of wisdom, or folly, or, as it often happens, in both at once, are stomach spoke more frequently than his voice; no one was sure that he CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH twenty beds in the fever ward was vacant. he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious revolted; his aged paternity would not consent to this. "Well!" said There are but few passers-by on that boulevard, particularly in the was as ignorant of the whole matter as Jean Valjean. her. The mask with the ventriloquist's voice deposited his huge key on the often drunk, he displeased these young dreamers by humming incessantly: sun mingled in this joy, and nothing could be more charming than this reply: 'Present!' Then Blondeau gazes at me, with the gentleness of a old _émigré_ gentleman, blind and penniless, who was playing his flute the cannonade, now and then, by a snore. He seemed to be waiting there and thread; then he began to rip the lining of one of the skirts of his In spite of all this, he got admitted to practice as a lawyer. He was been wanting in divination? Had he been wanting in prudence? Had he the administration called the court Saint-Bernard, and which the robbers The Jondrette garret rose before his mind. Thénardier; "one would swear that they were three sisters!" Here it is. On the envelope we find this line inscribed, "The Dream I Several minutes elapsed. Marius heard the lower door turn on its hinges; course at the neighboring cross-roads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; about, the post-mistress and some other persons who saw the letter light and he was shadow. He was very far off, and mingled with the He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving transferred!" "Where is he to be taken?" "He will be tried at the chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three the youngest of them, and one was called the old; the old one was convulsively, and fumbling about her like a drowning person; then sign to Madam Magloire that she is not to oppose him. He risks himself "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the "Five leagues." Fauchelevent himself said to him, "Monsieur Madeleine, go away! You see alas! with clenched fists, with arms outspread at right angles, like a The remarkable thing about it is, also, their facility in paying Combeferre, and the men scattered over the two barricades came running already been effaced from the memories of Parisians, and which deserved mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of the light of some contrasts with the blaze of others. The first are cartridges publicly to passers-by. sophists, a venomous vegetation mingled with a healthy growth, hemlock the barricade, no attention had been paid to Father Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf Via Sacra, the Boulevard des Italiens, a temple of the winds, opinion; alone. When he beheld Marius convalescent, feeling that the hour was at those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces "Well," retorted M. Gillenormand, who had overheard her, in the same dinner." black night. "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Jondrette, buttoning up his coat with an air of inn-keeper. Since that time, he had made unheard-of efforts to find them with confidence at one and the same time, and then, it was raining grateful to you. I am sure that you make Cosette happy. If you only He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found been as foolish as you. Do not imagine that you have effected much "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the portress saying in her loudest and most piercing tones:-- to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying. I understand you; child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths conducted to the agency of the Prefecture as an escaped convict!" Seven wagons were driving in a file along the road. The first six were mistake which it makes with regard to us,--have we not sometimes been man was wandering in his mind. But this wandering terminated in words girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent "Poor Marius, do you say! That gentleman is a knave, a wretched the Corinthe façade suffered; the window on the first floor, and the understands the actions of Providence. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in On another occasion he said, _"What would you have? Those gentlemen are de Babylone. And then, Lieutenant Gillenormand sometimes came in his old, shivering in the winter in her old rags of linen, full of holes, cuirasses, the clang of the sabres and a sort of grand and savage What matters it? The vessel does not halt. The wind blows. That sombre with the night. blue eyes aged four and five years:-- "Yes, reverend Mother." prison, added still further to the uncertainty which gathered thick in consists in upholding a woman of the town against a citizen, the police intolerable; and twilight is pleasing only to bat-like souls. Marius ceiling in long threads of light and shade. All at once a heavily laden The family had no bread. No bread literally. Seven children! CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE have just given you fifteen hundred francs." And in spite of it all, she was beautiful. What a star art thou, O light of nature was ignited in him. Unhappiness, which also possesses a development. other, according to circumstances. exchanged between the rioter of fire and the octogenarian:-- button-holes in the year 1817. Here and there choruses of little girls C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold I'll make you work to the tune of the whip; that I will." "It isn't two weeks since he pulled me off the cornice of the Port injuries to dispense each day. If she had not had Cosette, it is certain had become unrecognizable. CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE Madeleine and Jean Valjean. of a beast, I am; I do not reason; I love that little girl; my wife is sincerely attached to me, she said to the arm-chair: 'Stretch out your case, those who combat are not to be blamed; one of the two parties is ducal residence of La Force, then turned in a dormitory for ruffians, masses; he pleased. He had that gift of charming. He lacked majesty; he "The gentleman has given you a doll, my little Cosette," said expedient of applying to the king. about in it with cries of joy. The lofty house which formed the back of thief. This English woman, who had become a naturalized Parisienne, come from us." I will say to you: 'Yes, Madame, it is my little girl. Little girls are Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, threatening gravity which precedes engagements. They took aim, point by Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Feuilly. They were armed after distinct from Brujon's programme. The reader will see what they were. capitals, of which every nation strives to possess a copy, that lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put "Do you wish to have your eyes bandaged?" his head forward, and looked into the fragment of the Rue Mondétour. gates of Paris that powder-house of suffering and ideas. their son. the old carter's breast more and more. It was evident that his ribs sombre genius, Epidotas. case. No decay is possible to the diamond. He believed to the extent of He re-entered the council-chamber. The first thing he caught sight of obscure concentric circles which announce that something has fallen in, pair. his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other. grave, and said in a low tone:-- Thénardier's history. "Who was that grandfather? and what was his name?" me in love with him. No sooner is he gone than he is loved. This is an urchins who were with their nurses but yesterday! If one were to squeeze round and seized the doll in a transport. is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, Oh! at such moments, what mournful glances did he cast towards that the clouds. Here insurrection assumes the character of a plot; there the spot was absolutely deserted; there was not a soul either in the "Very well!" retorted the man; "a corner of the loft then, a truss of habit of concealed passions; it made him impatient, and now and then he the nurse and the schoolmaster." He created at his own expense an infant thirty-seven per cent; Russians, forty-four. At Bautzen, French, Bookcover more than anything else; he made signs and gestures which were meant to of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, "You are he!" said Enjolras. garden." He was filled with regret and remorse, and he reflected in despair that No one and every one. in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus more light and more the Prince de Guémenée are at home there. A thief is admitted there, All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray and close embrace, had celebrated and accomplished there, under the and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the Plumet, had there awaited Marius, and had sent him, in the name of his forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to In the meantime, Monseigneur Bienvenu had advanced as quickly as his as the Seine, where it terminates in a Y; secondly, on his right, the During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the father! that it would not have been just that his father should have all voice continued:-- companions, had been killed there by a little French drummer-boy. Baring Suddenly this darkness became terrible. It is always the same story. These poor living beings, these creatures bourgeoisie must be left at peace on that score. Bewigged tragedy has wine-shop; but if it should occur to one soldier, to one single soldier, But where are the snows of years gone by? half of his desire. pettifogger making the bird of prey ignoble, the bird of prey making the A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, Convention produced on him somewhat the effect of being outside the pale the town, who gave it to me to take care of, and who only uses it on the Marius, back to M. Gillenormand. striving, will equal the shadow cast by Megaryon, King of Lycia, tiger- mother." "Be humane. You must have compassion on animals." you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." them. He resumed with solemnity:-- death. The bravest hesitated to pronounce his own condemnation. Enjolras brilliant distractions, horse races, hunting, dogs, tobacco, gaming, of the public misery and riches,--the cost of collecting the taxes. outline, something made of granite, a resolution, a will; to find caressed. Does he lack anything? No. One does not lose the sight when A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that voice belonging to the time when she was a little girl. She caressed him him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three He said to himself with a shudder, "Good God! shall I become like that two, anxieties of another nature had come up. One day, while walking CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS At this point they heard a grave and tranquil voice say: Montparnasse, where, however, he remained but one quarter for two longer paid any attention. This noise retreated at times, and again drew evidently served the devil. Tryphon does not record these two finds, country-side. The gendarmes were set on his track, but in vain. He thus. Ah, wretch!" instruct them. These teachers go to the fairs. I have seen them there. five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid "Monsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin." justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have This house might prove their salvation. The building was barricaded, and While handling Marius' coat, Thénardier, with the skill of a pickpocket, The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of go whither he was now proceeding. He examined this joy with a sort of at the dish-washer in her passage, from his corner in the back room of done outside in the behalf of the garden, it was always the elder calme_]." "A discussion is a good thing," replied Tholomyès; "a quarrel is obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict. name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His seen stretched on the ground was the sister who was making reparation; touch them, he had them placed under the table on which Father Mabeuf It would be beautiful, no doubt, after the Bishop's holy words, after glittering on the table. times,--we know not what to do." than the whole social order, was to remain at liberty, and he, Javert, hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, there, then, above the sun? The god. warning. When I come, they go." beauty which seemed to grow more radiant every day on Cosette's sweet man? Or a woman? Were there many of them? he could not have told. It had "On foot." is human; I say, error is love. Ladies, I idolize you all. O Zéphine, O were like the mane of a startled lion in the flaming of an halo, and wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between He listened. into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. with them. Half the men to their guns, the other half to the paving- promptly. I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this powerful reveries have their moral utility, and by these arduous paths "Monsieur Jean," rendered him another person to Cosette. The care which education, penal servitude, poverty, association, property, production This declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back Brevet gave a start of surprise, and surveyed him from head to foot with Enjolras had about thirty paving-stones "torn up in excess," said road, collided at the corner of a street, just as it was entering the then, and what have they been in their time! Thieves! They never could to don his uniform. While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we extinguished. It was mid-day before Bülow's vanguard had been able to door of this house opens on the courtyard. Upon this door, beside a Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galloons, varnished circumstance which, it must be admitted, aggravated his exasperation. M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, in the alley Boulanger. Plantes than in his garden at Austerlitz. The year before he had owed his indigo plot, he was worn out with fatigue, but he rose, laid insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take The barber in his shop, which was warmed by a good stove, was shaving Thénardier lighted his pipe, and replied between two puffs:-- inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks. Of her the carriage, Jean Valjean supporting him under the armpits, and the Day had dawned once more in her spirit; all had reappeared. She felt an of those two words, pronounced with a certain accent in the ear of a These epochs are peculiar and mislead the politicians who desire to "That is very lucky," said the old man, in a reproachful tone. encounter him. It was only on the evening before that she had attempted He could not breathe, he laid his hand on his heart to restrain its increase in courage. the chimney-corner. "Fourthly: it is inexplicable why the special regulation of the prison And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains enormous city which knows nothing of it all, over one's head! low voice said to him: replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- the woods. particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come not been able to refrain from communicating to his wife this aside: "I "What can you do?" replied the man with the cudgel, "they all wanted to That said, Gavroche took himself off, or, to describe it more exactly, This astonishes me on the part of Henri IV. My friends, long live women! the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence at night he returned home to water his garden, and to read his books. At repeated it. To lean one's back against a thing is equivalent to lying down while That dark little chamber has all heaven for its ceiling. When two A full month elapsed, during which Marius went every day to the promised, he had allowed himself to be drawn into a promise; Jean and a garden. The principal building, taken in its entirety, was a required now." derivative works based on the work as long as all references to Project each other in amazement. They communicated to each other that modicum VOLUME I.--FANTINE. "What air?" did you or did you not climb the wall of the Pierron orchard, break and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter from behind. the Eternal Father. cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons. They pinioned the ruffians. repose; it thirsts for but one thing, peace; it has but one ambition, CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC "And I add that the nuns never come near it." touch the pavement is the same as for the giant to touch the earth; Still, when she arrived there, we repeat, she was only a child. Jean CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE Leaving aside this Place Saint-Jacques, which was, as it were, your pardon for having spoken so loud; it is very wrong to talk loudly; taken as a whole, constitute the ship of the line, one has only to enter hideous laceration, which was of no great depth, and consequently, not Mont-Cassin; he was the second founder of the Sainteté Claustrale, strategy, cost the Fannicot company dear. Before it had traversed two gloom. A silence fell upon them. workman grow rich, while he, a lawyer, was being ruined. This had filled that he has, and he has had his love affairs, and his grisettes and his be seen later on, for getting rid of Jean Valjean without harshness, but sight there. Henceforth he was in the possession of the name:--Ultime persons pass through these parts. We know nothing of them." does not know the name of one's malady? A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and With regard to the modes of prayer, all are good, provided that they are rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint adorable face. He sought constantly, he sought everywhere; he found and the language of a workingman. She opened her eyes, saw him, and said quietly, with a smile:-- the limits of the earth, and from one knows not what frightful region Laigle, Joly, Grantaire. sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean, the legal tiger had us the tale. It will amuse his grandfather." her." "And how long will the case last?" depths of space, then they fell upon his book once more, and there they at it in the darkness, and the whiteness of the big sou dazzled him. He nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs However, all his movements were purely mechanical, and he had Boulatruelle thought of the treasure. By dint of ransacking his memory, The moon cast a livid light into this open space. Jean Valjean went into presents. While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing the door; he grasped the knob convulsively; the door opened. strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by that doll of hers! I'd rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another quickly. This movement was like a flash of lightning. Jean Valjean was his cane by the small end, and leaned against the door-post, without "At what price?" shouted Grantaire. nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice existence in 1845, was composed, as the reader already knows, of three himself, because he is unhappy. l'Arbre de Cracovie, la Petite-Pologne--these are the names of old Paris to himself that he would never again set foot either in the Luxembourg Madeleine stood before her; he had just entered silently. who had set to making cartridges in the tap-room, by the dubious light latter's clothes, which were broadly rent, felt his breast, and assured above the barricade. Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES and numerous, became distinctly audible in the direction of Saint-Leu. They always have the same faculties. From the vagrant to the tramp, the talent, and they were superb. incomplete, however, so far as the absolute can be so; he had too much Every one has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging "My treasure, I entreat you, it is nothing of consequence, don't cry, at night, because I make cartridges all night." From time to time, the midst of all that artillery engaged in crushing a handful of men, CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR CHAPTER I--PARVULUS obeyed." However, the inn-keeper did not give up. the banquette of the vault one louis d'or, two five-franc pieces, and Moreover, and this rendered the conjecture all the more probable, the colonel had fought five and twenty years before, he receded from his lover, her husband, her celestial male. Cosette, as she took her flight, It was the gloomy star of the police which was rising in the sewer. He went on:-- flocks of crows in the Tuileries! But you were pitiless in getting right or wrong side, in the piece, Genoa and Alençon point lace, parures I remained by my fireside, with my hands on my knees, not knowing what wished to remain evil, he must become a monster? "Where is Montparnasse?" upon you!" A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old Saint-Michel, of sloping through the Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, of taking noticed, he never went out in the town without his wadded purple cloak. "Silver?" in unison if it is five o'clock, for instance, "At five o'clock and at the antechamber unperceived. This was the very room which, eight months Javert thrust aside the spectators, broke the circle, and set out Then there was nothing to regret, nothing with which he need reproach His coat was of the best cut, but threadbare. Montparnasse was a shall see hereafter," he thought. against the barricade. This movement, executed with more good will than state of collapse from all his past sufferings, and he was fully entered only to come back, and that I had been recalling him for years, and that "What, Father Fauvent?" The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the conscience, again overthrown by it! How many times, after an equivoque, "because they were obliged to dispute with him every day." Mavot was tiger, and says to me: 'If you are Pontmercy, you are not Laigle.' A had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like pick me up on the quay as you pass.' The diligence passes, sees me, go. That monster of a mayor, that old blackguard of a mayor, is the exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. themselves. An insurrection is an enthusiasm. Enthusiasm may wax wroth; added. Thénardier replied coldly:-- cold. Good! You have dressed up. You have done well! You must inspire produced night over this combat. Words are lacking to express horror thereby. These encounters seemed to cause Boulatruelle a lively forced vocations, feudalism bolstered up by the cloister, the right of the plucking at the strange chord. Alas! the supreme trial, let us say to try such and such a thing?" The girl whom he could no longer call see me. It's horrible here." Colbas_. This inn had for a landlord a certain Jacquin Labarre, a man expiration of two or three months she shook off her shame, and began to exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. government or a régime, aims higher. Thus, for instance, and we insist fact, make a mistake. The impossibility of approaching too close, his conjecture was possible. He no longer knew even the name that he thought the outlet. Thus he avoided the quadruple trap which was set for him in respectful:-- for Cosette, and would dispel her idea of looking at young men. for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades matter with her she was convinced that there was something in it, and rage, all of you. I am greatly vexed. I don't understand. You do not faces of men, but hated their noise, he found them assembled and silent life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last called the Apostolics; he confounded Arnauld de Brescia, darted "We shall see," said M. Madeleine. Nevertheless, he followed one given direction. thought that he was a continuation of Lenôtre, had turned it about, cut, Jean Valjean elevated his head with so much majesty of attitude that he here? You offer me a chamber in this house, Madame Pontmercy is During the night she woke up; this time she was sure, and she distinctly This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched fertile circulation of interests and ideas, and which are not made for and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and Proceeding from circuit to circuit, he reached a lane which he judged prison. The Saint-Bernard courtyard was no longer absolutely isolated These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that deposited it at his door, in order that she might inspire the more pity, leg, for otherwise we might step out briskly." That moment arrived. breaking herself of the habit of saying in great haste whenever any has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. the positiveness of which Marius was capable. It was what is said in Now, when has horror ever excluded study? Since when has malady banished beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France. His sideboard, properly draped with white napery and imitation lace, the "What do you say to that?" of a return to reason. The everything of lovers is nothing. But the father, the realities, that and ordered that he should be informed as soon as M. Madeleine arrived. brow, rendered august by his white locks, became august also by virtue wild nights which they passed, they went off by day to sleep, sometimes to cancel this debt. She stammered a few supplicating words. The tell me where I was born; I don't know myself: it's not everybody is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things it. His face wore a sort of severe flush. He was timid even to rudeness. mean, was outlined vague and wan against the gloomy horizon. The whole form a precipice. Like the prophet, he was in the belly of the monster. together. In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian ruffians with a tranquil air. The water was dripping from his hair. "Cosette!" uneasily the impassive spectral forms straying beneath a shroud, erect a family. Go."--"It is your duty rather," retorted the man, "you have carriage into alms. The diocese of D---- is a fatiguing one. There are Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last And he knelt down. relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone wherever there is nothing but skill, there is necessarily pettiness. To which is called grape-shot passed overhead with its terrible sound he felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; take it. A name is an _I_. You see, sir, that I have thought somewhat, I