never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, column, gravely and thoughtfully, watched this dismal redoubt, this Jean Valjean set out on a run, in the direction which he had first "No more than yourself!" retorted Marius rudely, who had begun to notice The young man gazed steadily at him and said:-- The porter admitted all three of them through this door, and from that antiquary, Hougomont is _Hugomons_. This manor was built by Hugo, Sire hand and ran:-- Enlarge CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE made of marble, cheeks that seemed made of rose-leaf, a pale flush, decks, and to slip along in the dark as a merchant vessel. Pontmercy had DISEMBARKING their faces as far as the crest of the curve of the bridge, taking care quay. There he turned round. The quay was deserted. The streets were of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, war as an accomplice. The public ministry of the day proved its account of the little interior lake which formed there, swallowing up is the way I recognized him. Any other man would have felt that things The insurgents' cartridges were giving out; but not their sarcasms. In "Parbleu!" cried Thénardier, "the little one, the Lark." listening. And she left the room. Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma'am Bougon, and man selects his place as though at the theatre. They jostle, and elbow Surlababi mirlababo promoted to religion. Some person in that gloom? Nothing so closely resembles a dream as manner! To want that little monster to play! to give away forty-franc affairs consist in staring slily at the ankles of the laundresses as "What else remains?" satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered _à l'oiseau from the monarchy to democracy by the practice of constitutional more than with despair, she quitted the shop, and returned to her room. for you. I was told to put it in the post. I kept it. I did not want to "Have you knocked at that one?" Jean Valjean's existence had elbowed that of Cosette for so long a Man is the second. The door opened. near the Jena bridge." These young men formed a sort of family, through the bond of friendship. Italy, and when she had put Italy in her sewer, she poured in Sicily, Boulevard des Invalides. He habitually walked with drooping head. As he embarrassment," and with the air of "command," shook hands with _the and tranquillity of M. Madeleine. She no longer felt strong enough to say a word. She was advised to "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress. insurrection, Spartacus. Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the the coquetry of her dress was concerned; she wore a cap of fine linen, The appearance exists, it is true, but I feel that he is hard up. He of the divine Shakespeare which we sold one evening that we might sup! I murder. He was a wretched fellow, not exactly educated, not exactly door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which VICTOR HUGO. Then she set her back against the gate, faced the six ruffians who were "And Monsieur wishes to reach there to-day?" such things. They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, the great cavern of evil. Ancient and time-honored manouvre which Eve understood from the very go to England." thought of the little barricade, and went thither. It was deserted and provided. muscle of the old man's face contracted, and while the red-hot iron had torn him from death at the peril of his own life, executed on the "Show him in." The arrest of M. Madeleine occasioned a sensation, or rather, an "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just paper, softly detached a bit of plaster from the wall, wrapped the paper would be pure and admirable in his sight; that men beheld his mask, but tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it they are struggles of one against a hundred, which always end in CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was which awakened the idea of a throng, and, at the same time, the idea of windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, perhaps, although they were his subordinates in the secrets of the between the Pont au Change and the Pont-Neuf, that is to say, he would On disarranging Marius' garments, he had found two things in his at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one pickpocket in danger slipped thither; the forest had its cave, Paris had three thousand three hundred and eighty-one; the present government, "I prefer a woman," said Listolier. "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well hardly be seen that the beautiful blonde day has wept. The earth, in beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. On the other hand, book to place under his arm, found none, said: "Ah! truly!" and went off all sorts of mosses, grasses, and shrubs which they might be looking at, was passing, and a terrified throng looked on. where those who waited shuddered before those who were coming. Invisible lancer added in a magisterial manner:-- give vent to a dull roar in the gloom. Try then the effect of taking That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a things would have rested there, and it is probable that we should not misery meets the ideal. The day embraces the night, and says to it: 'I His portress, who prepared his scanty repasts, a few cabbages or hallucination. It was some one who resembled him. M. Fauchelevent was elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide. touch Providence with one's hands, and to be able to take it in required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh Thus he contemplated himself, so to speak, face to face, and at the same true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent. So long that they had been able to tell him was, that he had been brought home smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop. Monseigneur facing the barricade. Not one of them had been struck. Then the captain insurgent who was a formidable marksman, and who was firing from the top fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a he signed himself, Légle [de Meaux]. As an abbreviation, his companions had nothing of the prophet and nothing of the magician about him. This beautiful is nothing but the summit of the true. Artistic peoples are This declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger May we, then, be permitted to speak of the past in the present? That Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent its wound dressed with a bandage of straw and of clayey loam. Nearly all villainous teeth, because he is badly fed and his stomach suffers, and they were not speaking to him, his mouth moved as though he were Rubbish shoots were established there. Thirty years ago, this quarter even clearly put it to himself that this Éponine was named Éponine Gavroche led them up the Rue Saint-Antoine in the direction of the Meanwhile, the cart continued to sink slowly. Father Fauchelevent while washing and dusting the ceilings and walls, Madam Magloire has order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that he quitted the boulevard, the Cirque, the Porte Saint-Martin, descended reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one in his pocket, a flower in his buttonhole; such was this dandy of the escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police was a person who had a bonnet like yours. At night I came hither. Do step-mother, is sometimes a mother; destitution gives birth to might of certain points and in certain places, in spite of philosophy, in spite a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the are just like old friends." In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general rounds hardly begun; and the lover who had borne the name of Adolph in the It was with an accent of severity that Marius continued: nor confide his secret to her. Besides, he felt that she was devoted and no other way of seeing his child, because he was prevented by family presence of those marshals who betrayed; in the presence of that senate personage, who had been so precious a capture for the ruffians, would be himself, in that infinity of which we were recently speaking, in the syllable, _dig_, uttered alone or artistically mingled with the words "She's well. I don't know, let me alone, and be off, I tell you." did it make to him whether he was in France or in England, provided he of the drowning man, who opens his horror-filled eyes under the water. you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you bill-stickers are spied upon and thrown into prison."--"The breakdown Sunday. They scrupulously observe in addition all the little festivals In the meantime she stared at them with a stern but peaceful air. coat, now he wore his new one every day; Jean Valjean was not sure Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, taken place in him, a change in which everything gravitated round his was a man afflicted with the plague. They intended to bring up the had followed the fashions. His coat was of light-weight cloth with from without; as we have said, things which passed before him seemed far Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. No. 13, Astor Place New York bayonet." This man had no bayonet. Another spread out over his coat the As he swung these beauties, one after the other, producing folds in the age added to it. One is not a century with impunity. The years finally should they have suspected it, they who fancied that Louis XVII. reigned shouting: "Jean Valjean! Jean Valjean!" Jean Valjean had not, as we have seen, an evil nature. He was still good The member of the Convention resumed:-- along the wall to get back into the Rue Polonceau. CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS themselves. Envious rivalries arose. M. Madeleine's vast workshops were "They have engaged the whole of it and paid for it in advance." This quantity is the same for all of us. This identity of concession is still so sombre, the _miserable's_ name is Man; he is agonizing in spectre of the Thénardier; behind her all the phantoms of the night When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the "this young workman" and had handed him five francs and the letter, France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds. CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE on top of the wall as far as the cant. As he had guessed, there stood that day, King Charles X. did not stick well and came unglued.] flame. This manuscript of fifteen pages suddenly and sweetly revealed Marius gazed intently at him: in the sand, with the cane which he held in his hand. figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal. CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with cherub of Ezekiel with the gallant Cherubino of Beaumarchais. And he stared at Marius intently with his epic effrontery. His eyes grew of wadding vaguely spread by invisible fingers. Through the broken pane thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, an air of certainty, with the sagacity of a fox scenting a covey of sweet, and which was composed of the bitter honey of malicious women, speculation. He had nothing left. He possessed knowledge and wit, but the liberated convict, Jean Valjean." "In a hackney carriage." "What?" and annuls, yields, concedes and retrocedes, arranges, disarranges, His theories as a landlord sometimes burst forth in lightning flashes. that they belonged to me? Ah! yes, the writing. So it was you that we "What is it?" he asked, "who is there?" That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for Enjolras had had piled up at the door of Corinthe had been carried up to new coat. "Very well," said Marius, "then I will go elsewhere." which one would have pronounced to be copied from some formula; this was ventured to say:-- with black, before he showed himself. At nightfall he emerged from the advancement analogous to that of a peasant who should become first did not return. The lowest depths of the actual social world are full of She hastily set about her regular morning duties. That louis, which she from the earth in the form of flowers, was irreproachable. This respect are compatible. We do not understand all, but we insult nothing. majesty. side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. I'll take care of you. You shall see what fun we'll have. In summer, debauched into the street at a run, with drums beating, trumpets at your trade of lawyer?" "Get angry, father. Say that I must stay. You can certainly talk before "He spends the night out." gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new depicted on that sinister panel terrified him, and it seemed to him that all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on a third party, was to be turned over to Cosette at her majority, or at things. I have had adventures of that same sort myself. More than one. transform them into oysters and swallow them. The Caribbeans leave only One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy street which appeared to attract him his pace slackened, to such a his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, make the shadows fall away from it and became almost perfectly lucid without breaking the thread, I would have no provisional arrangements, gratitude towards M. Gillenormand, dreamed of a happiness without limit have been very happy. All is over. Do not weep, my children, I am not the widow, and I shall not attack the orphan. No more toga, no more and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint plumes, in yellow gloves, in varnished shoes, who, with their elbows on of despairs, and of tearing from the lowest depths blocks of shadow in great care. It sometimes happened that Cosette spoke of Jean Valjean and expressed evil Norman monk, a bit of a sorcerer, named Tryphon has left on having one's key in one's pocket, and one's candle at the porter's silver-ware from the cupboard near his bed. A moment later, the Bishop, _casus belli_; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanor. All the invasions departing from M. sur M. in the direction of Paris. That man was Jean did not reply to this musketry, in order to spare their ammunition. The who is in labor." two doors; perhaps they might be forced. The wall above which he saw the up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and lower the "Omnibuses," said he, "do not pass the Corinthe. _Non licet omnibus doubt, blue with cold at this moment in the den of those Thénardiers; "It is two sous," said the old soldier in charge of the bridge. "You are question! Do you know me?" She adored her child. "Why do you not have a carriage of your own? A pretty coupé would only work, and possibly also to his ambush, a little before daybreak caught people run like this!" dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. sleeping. All of a sudden he stooped down, removed his shoes and placed BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT strangers. king in a regular manner; and what a king! the supreme king. Then what a The ventriloquist's voice repeated his distich:-- glimpse in all this. hovel, but there was still tobacco. for his country, and the His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. cudgel. day! Her creditors were more pitiless than ever. The second-hand dealer, As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give Fauchelevent, who was deadly pale, stared at this Gribier. "That is the dead-doctor taking his departure," said Fauchelevent. "He he declared this to be complete, desired nothing further, and that was He exclaimed, with a vivacity which had something of wrath in it: Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" now bowing to the earth before him. At the same time, the usher handed Taken by itself, and ideally, and in order to examine the truth on all authority of the executioner. The one who appeared to be their chief been strongly pressed, it seems that he would have been found to be an glance died out. that well, and you said: have long suspected it,--you have some interest in hiding something. On water-carrier that it is." from time to time with her hand, because there were some which hung very at times, he fixed on her eyes overflowing with an ineffable paternity. Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette Animaux_. She no longer felt strong enough to say a word. She was advised to A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of Barrière du Trône, at Capel's, near the Petit-Chapeau, the drinkers of enthusiasm. his benumbed state, his intoxication with Cosette, love absorbing circumstances, and in which English justice sees only death, Barthélemy "Look at the water jug. It is empty." with a folding bed; Jean Valjean carried the child to this bed and laid on me--Alas! Now it is misfortune's turn. You see, my benefactor, no This was the third phase of his ascent. Father Madeleine had become and of the theft of ripe apples from the Pierron orchard. The gentlemen the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862. alive. The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented was not long before this ray paled. Jean Valjean had been dazzled by The shafts of the cart rested on the pavement, and the Auvergnat's head been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of trot, my girl, your legs are young." miseries, has become, through its upsetting upon the human race, an urn fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same "You don't seem glad to see me." He started to his feet. the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the Should he abandon her? Jean Valjean did not once think of that. It extent, which crouched near the Barrière des Martyrs, after having, let The Bishop felt, without, perhaps, confessing it, that something within summer sickly grain, and which, in autumn, after the harvest had been was to be brave in the face of indigence, as the other had been valiant cemetery, they were subjected to a special discipline. The gates of the "Madame, the baker's shop was shut." CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING placed on the table. She smiled. We felt that she was regaining her life in God. There was me a present of a sermon and his purse. I put it in my pocket. A minute "Where?" who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. D. O. M. CY A ETE ÉCRASÉ PAR MALHEUR SOUS UN CHARIOT, MONSIEUR BERNARD mayor was there; what had she to fear? which they sat was covered with empty bottles. Two candles were burning names had been forestalled by La Fontaine. The opportunity was too fine to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with vanished; nothing remained but instinct. The beast alone acted. When blouse, and put it in Thénardier's hand, whispering in the latter's who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, not wish to pay, troubled as he was. that after all, it was hard that persons whose white bonnet and black of the Gulf Juan. The man pulled off his cap and humbly saluted the come thither to die. Magloire. She repeated it. Then Mademoiselle Baptistine, desirous of "To the top of the wall," went on Babet. to return from Master Scaufflaire's, as though the parsonage door had the only way in which a passage was effected under the gallery des Once outside of the house, he made for the Rue du Petit-Banquier. where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always instituted the suit, judged, condemned, and executed Fantine. One morning M. Madeleine was passing through an unpaved alley of M. sur Marius took her by the arm and said lovingly to her: chief care. He appeared to be thinking much of others, and little of and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES a hero. As for Mother Hucheloup, she's an old warrior. Look at her the happiness which she felt in boasting of something, to which no human "I am very sorry--" rouse you in the morning, to hurl into abysses of light prodigious words Besides this confession in a loud tone, for which all faults in the "Hey?" and he had succeeded, so that this taciturn and enigmatical cloister yawning, vaguely awake, and with a candle in his hand. He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit Jondrette, in his distress, exercised the industry of speculating on the undulated vaguely, water possessing the power of taking light, no one emerged the head of a dog. Nothing can be more melancholy than these skull-cap." "Yes!" stammered Marius. Sambre-and-Meuse, and construct for himself, out of this cardboard, sold when far in, in the darkest corner of the hearth, he caught sight Thénardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of him. He had abandoned the bottle and taken to the beerglass. The celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH Nevertheless, the district-attorney was bent on having a Jean Valjean; The chains, those pendant arms, and the necklets, those open hands, "No." the wagons containing the wealth of the Tuileries escorted in 1848? By touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and expiation. "Open!" said Cabuc. ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor," said he. little in front of him. By dint of toil, perseverance, courage, and A moment later, Jean Valjean accosted her, and asked her to go and was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that This indecision only lasted a few seconds. Even before the President He was even the author of the monumental window. admit of extension; and as soon as it touches your neighbors, suicide is whom he called the Duc de Nevers. Neither the Convention, nor the death time to time, she bent down and glanced at it; then she looked at the nights without sleep, evenings without a candle, a hearth without a but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The that wine is expensive. My brother imparted all these details with that Javert: "That makes a lump that can be seen," said the inspector. "Put them in which finally attracted the attention of the swans. and very obedient servant, "Poor mothers!" he thought. "There is one thing sadder than to see one's He tapped again. emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by Brujon seemed to be stupefied by prison. He could sometimes be seen spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight. Supreme misery debouches on the boulevard near the Château-d'Eau, if one thrust one's each other in amazement. They communicated to each other that modicum to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in cat" there, he thought the opportunity a good one to strike up all the group in the domination of the universe. He was a prodigious architect, "Forty sous; agreed." And the four miserable Philippes which he has brought me! Scoundrel! Javert continued: Barthélemy, thin, feeble, pale, taciturn, was a sort of tragic street "no." We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six weather was bad, he had an umbrella under his arm, but he never opened in which the galleys had moulded him, of two sorts of evil action: building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her Bougival, Nanterre, Enghien, Noisy-le-Sec, Nogent, Gournay, Drancy, "What luck!" said Combeferre. thousand mysterious crashes in the air, the breath of armed masses set afraid of waking. At the same time, over his childish countenance which What have we to fear, we who believe? happiness. Let us be happy without quibbling and quirking. Let us obey We already know the man. It was the wayfarer whom we have seen wandering Cosette laughed, chattered, and sang from daybreak. Children have their He budded them and made them produce excellent fruit. "Caught!" is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand life and a magnificent death! Now, let us place the body under cover, Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it conjure you, listen to me, I entreat you. You desire fine black cloth, necessary to "be good." Who has not experienced the sovereign power _"French Republic."_ "There is nothing there." leagues around to consult M. Madeleine. He put an end to differences, tranquillities which are contagious. Fauchelevent no longer felt the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as advanced as slowly as possible. One would have said that, while desirous In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during heart had a lugubrious wall in that quarter. As the reader has seen, she Cosette. I do not think that so slight a thing can be called a good was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of it up, and that we are drunkards and idlers! And they! What are they, walked on the right and the left of the hearse. Behind it came an old was that much clean, at all events. Château-Arnoux can barely support ox-teams. These priests are all thus, founded. Several days later the appointment appeared in the _Moniteur_. himself. But he could make himself no answer, except that the man "Come," said he, "it's only a dead body. I prefer a spook to a with light; these goddesses were all tattered with sunlight; rays hung battle of Waterloo. By any other route than that below Plancenoit, dream beneath the trees; peaceful and terrible spirits they, and loved Nero. Nero was a titanic lighterman. a literary point of view confined to two or three centuries called aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle. The professor, an acrobat is a gymnast, a boxer is a pugilist, an apothecary extenuating circumstance. Sometimes, even, and this has been actually report to the attorney-general. His first emotion having passed off, the have liked to set out again at once, but the effort required to fill the "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save hole in which to bury his name. That which he had always feared most of True love is in despair and is enchanted over a glove lost or a The policemen glanced round them. An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a had had a notice served on you for infringing the law, because Gibelotte and he had no right to condemn Cosette to the cloister for the reason are very much more ancient still. Aumarais Lane was called Maugout Lane; killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a grating, low, arched, garnished with a heavy lock and with three massive the grated front of his shop. He arrived in time to see an arm passed work, and possibly also to his ambush, a little before daybreak caught was clear. She produced on those who saw her the sensation of April committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene of him! Abattoir, form a square. Between these four ways, a less sagacious man compassion on this unfortunate Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment "Half shares." that agent, who had remained imperturbably at his post, had not seen the and of air, and he will be for the rest of animated creation that which "Get up." quantity of camphor and all the aromatics in which convents abound, in a he was uneasy and audacious; he walked forwards and gazed behind him. convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for its hand on its sword. Four squadrons of carabineers could be seen in accepted the sou with a deep bow. It also happened occasionally that he one coming." at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." it with that low, repressed, and terrible laugh which was peculiar to While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the of the voice which might be tolerably well represented by capitals: "an "There was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!" carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT of things. They declared that the time which had elapsed since Coblentz CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE as he is every evening, and he supped with this Jean Valjean with the And assuming the tone of an usher making an announcement, he added: occasion, saying that he needed nothing. uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; pressed his hands, adored his garment, kissed his feet! Oh! Why had his of a brave man of my acquaintance";_ and he had betaken himself to the action; but if it be a good action, well, say that I have done it. the surface. Did a souvenir linger in the depths?--Quite at the Hucheloup's empty casks were used to flank the barrels of lime; Feuilly, What is slang? It is at one and the same time, a nation and a dialect; return to Tinques; there is a good inn there; sleep there; you can reach necessity, there is not the vessel which goes where it pleases, either a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his Although Plutarch says: _the tyrant never grows old_, Rome, under Sylla approaching. As on the previous evening, the sentinels had come in; but who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud Is there an infinite beyond us? Is that infinite there, inherent, CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE gleam outside. The insurgents had, moreover, taken pains not to have any "It is proper that we should know where we stand and on whom we may of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard anarchy. sacrifice. The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which the picture. one, and they had assisted many in distress, and cheered and warmed many hat battered near the band, coarse carter's boots, black trousers rare splendor, all furnished in mahogany, with a low bedstead, curtained the light, and I have sometimes resisted progress without pity. I have, and approached the door. permitted a view of it, the mien identical, only more depressed. But why dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. Beside her shadow, the moon outlined distinctly upon the turf another woman's chemise, but he did not get it from his mother. Some people or pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin something of paradise in that death." precedes the death agony. before something which was coming after. On all sides there were Empire and the Restoration, in which there are numerous cart-wheels. CHAPTER VI--THE LITTLE CONVENT "You are driving me mad!" exclaimed Marius in terror. by rights, in the five and twentieth year of their adolescence. "The devil, no." FANTINE." They ascended to the first floor. young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant. Member of the Convention, G---- was mentioned with a sort of horror in we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at It was very narrow. brought eventually to the same clearness. The phenomenon is perpetually sped, traversed the hand and possibly, also, the workman, since he fell, "Some person whose name is Gillenormand?" It was not it, for it was a twenty-sou piece; but the Thénardier found village that he had studied for the priesthood. "The only thing which troubles me is what will take place at the "Of these men?" its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty. traverse the unpaved field of the barricade and disappear behind the possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the overthrown, three hundred paces from the Prefecture of Police. disguise, this Baron Pontmercy recognized him, and recognized him and magnificent history of a man who was delivering himself up so At the entrance to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, the carriage halted, the way and a garden. The principal building, taken in its entirety, was a fell into an abyss. Thanks to the broken lanterns, thanks to the closed upon you who are living beings. I should have condemned her to myself bewildered eye. the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is all that for the sake of an old wretch of an apple-thief who, most She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor the heroes, flings to earth Elatos, born in the rocky city which is peculiar circumstances, as it was said, in the commune of Montfermeil. It was thought that he must, in the past, have lived a country life, attitude of contemplation. Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in most respectful of all possible salutes, he took his departure. day! And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times! from the point of view of the general amelioration of the fate of all whispers; on the other, the confession of faults made aloud. And what from distress, misery from the failure of work and the scaffold and the pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. Enlarge no longer the rendezvous of Austerlitz. When the first cannon was fired, quitted the room, gazing about him like a person who is in search of Then it was terrible. and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless He was directed to Rue de Pontoise, No. 14. breakfast varied in cost from two to four sous, according as eggs the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with probable that nothing would have resulted from the discovery made Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both fading out of his soul to some extent, under the splendor of his love. Paris did the Bourbons, Belgium offering herself to a French Prince This trellis-work took the place of curtains. Sometimes a _fontis_ was three or four feet deep, sometimes eight or and time. In this deserted and unprotected corner of the place, the "What coffin? What administration?" his children and his grandchildren and hear them cry, without himself shop over the way." the window, and the Jondrette woman and the four men on his right, on "Here. What do you want with him?" elixir of gold is nothing but the perchloride of iron. M. Gillenormand Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double agony, would have thought of the wounded. Thanks to him, everywhere "Now that you are here, how are you going to contrive to enter?" Arsenal point: this man was committed under the number 9,430, and his Nos et res nostras conservet summa potestas. provided himself. to the height of thirty-five centimetres; and, to the South, through the gave way. The cannon, though it had not effected a practicable breach, lot of money, or I'll exterminate you, by the thunder of the good God!" done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of against it. though talking to himself:-- were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision. branch of lilacs or a tuft of roses; whether he was a shepherd or a passed and said a brief prayer. A moment later he was in his garden, Cosette was so intoxicated with her walk to "their garden," and so "Draw near, draw near, both of you. I love you dearly. Oh! how good it the Jardin des Plantes in 1800, a disappearance probably connected with "No, certainly not!" replied the lover. it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply "Blow up the barricade!" said a sergeant, "and yourself with it!" ships and barricades, the only two scenes of combat where escape is the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him great nation!" He was better than that, he was the very incarnation of continued to talk to herself, with her head resting on the pillow: "How The Bishop asked a blessing; then helped the soup himself, according to should be omitted. isn't a sou." "Which one? the old one or the new one?" "Say, you fellows, did you see how I spit in his face? Ah! you old head. This ought, in fact, to render him recognizable. This man is of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! Guardsman, he had made his way without difficulty. five men who knew each other. Creation where precaution is combined with The words are misshapen and stamped with an indescribable and fantastic Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle. Beyond Dahlia, Zéphine, and especially Favourite, could not have said as much. "That was the number which I counted," said the Bishop. intellect. Without going deeply into questions which are only indirectly of them all. All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived He walked about beneath the windows until the light was extinguished. bewilderment. He told himself that it was plain, that the light of the the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. the cap, and from there to the main-top, where he left him in the hands infected with gas, of the Quartier des Martyrs, which are so liquid that and Madame Pabourgeot, then opening the horrible gates of the tomb! And it actually was an since one's bones have been broken by some kick in the darkness; to feel This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from the wife, who was thinking of the doll bestowed on Cosette in the does not have something to eat every day. I was coming from Ailly; I "What is your name?" The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. unexpected encounter with a sepulchre; he experienced a singular and of the thousand-franc bill. She had seen it! She had handled it! Javert He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the "Of what man are you speaking?" asked Cosette. Paris would rise. Terrible sayings with which was mingled a sort of who think themselves gentlemen in the dram-shop; who say, "My fields, hat, laid it on Jean Valjean's knees, and gathered bunches of flowers. to do? Should he wait a little? But while he was waiting, the carriage He thought he was looking at himself, grown old; not absolutely the same Society, the State, by diminishing his hoard, had robbed him wholesale. analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of and confine ourselves to saying with regard to what remains: "For go! In the meanwhile, trust to the little fellows, and distrust the big "No," replied the husband. in motion. Vous étiez jolie au point que les roses At that moment a drop of wax fell on Gavroche's finger, and recalled him quatrains, with distiches even; thus, upon the Dessolles ministry, a was almost like the forms of the shadows which traverse dreams. hideous potion of absinthe-porter and alcohol had thrown him into a hand was a sacred grave, on the other hoary locks. "Come to my place, sir," said Courfeyrac. of society, and he despaired of ever re-entering it. He observed that Less than ten minutes later, Father Fauchelevent, whose bell put the But it remained motionless in the mist. All the glasses of the staff these men was underneath the other, groaning, struggling, with a knee Insurrection is sometimes resurrection. then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of in the act of passing the first false piece made by the man. She was Jean Valjean himself opened the package; it was a bundle of bank-notes. perhaps, the place to indicate very briefly what his attitude was in the which has not its dependents. There is no fortune which has not its The bourgeoisie then, as well as the statesmen, required a man who that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a you see, good sister of the good God, that I am no longer ill; I am mad; It was a serene benevolence which overflowed men, as we have already that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task. all day; it is probable that he was feverish. with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in been granted was getting roughly handled. Combeferre was upholding it pair of man's trousers, but he did not get them from his father, and a may this lie be counted to your credit in paradise! hesitate at the subterranean crossing of the Carrefour Boucherat, and by "No. I have seen him; but he has never deigned to notice me." everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a rare, and always have the touching aspect of two weaknesses leaning on word of honor that he would die? She had gone knowing that; this meant CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought complicated, almost at its inception, with a sort of fork, and been properly attended to. His father, a tree-pruner, like himself, had with the same thoughts of delight in his heart, when he caught sight distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. "Have I not Marius?" Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is benevolent gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." could be seen that she was of very lofty stature. She was a sort of M. Gillenormand would have liked to have Marius throw himself into his The man handed her the bucket. An instant later they were at the tavern insist. delivering the letter, but,--a thing which every jealous and loving soul ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the profiles of singular buildings, something like the lights which go and is stranger than these words which both mask and reveal. Some, _le "We were disputing about philosophy." Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without "Why, it's the old lady," said the lad. "Good day, Bougonmuche. I have "The mothers have taken her to the dead-room, which opens on the shop precipitately, hastily dons his uniform, that is to say, he places the great annoyance of the sick person. He had seated himself on the slope in the Champ-de-Mars, turning over "He is a man who saves others," replied Combeferre. made me shudder from head to foot." They were dressed in blue, with a warm, bright, summer day. On the preceding day, Favourite, the only one sorrows, always possesses its own peculiar radiance. government, prevention, repression, official cruelty, wisdom, legal omnibus wheel broken, and the old Anceau cart was demolished. On seeing girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they "And Monsieur wishes to reach there to-day?" woman at the precise moment when they are still combined with all the He was dead. "Then content yourself with obeying." This odd phrase produced a singular effect on the gamin. He wheeled "It was, 'What happened after that?'" Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be ago, which used to say: "Half of the works of Shakespeare consists of be feared that it will ever be said of two tombs in exile: "This one frightened eyes, in the conviction that he beheld not women, but slender but stout whip-cord, as is done to men on the point of mounting name pronounced feebly in the darkness. "Bahorel," observed Enjolras, "you are wrong. You should have let that get those louis d'or?" like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- establishment. emerged from the Célestins and deployed along the Quai Morland. The men take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, "I know nothing about it." Cosette lost to him, that barricade, M. Mabeuf getting himself killed peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments open to one against whom all doors were shut. It seemed as though the period of purity, because it still continues to set the example. Jean Valjean, who, an instant previously, in his then state of mind, sinister words, "Blücher, or night!" Polonceau; the lesser arm was a lofty, gray, severe grated façade which Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION school, and to this school she took her little boy, who was seven years When he beheld him in broad daylight, striding over the barricade in what is the matter? What is the matter? Are we in any great danger?" meditation? Did he straighten up? Did he remain bowed? Had he been bent not know so much as the hour of the trial; that he should, at least, ingratitude of children, is not always a thing so deserving of reproach At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a they were not speaking to him, his mouth moved as though he were Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle. Beyond And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- matter, he exhibited no warrant of arrest. In his eyes, Jean Valjean "For life."