portion of the street which he had just passed through, far off in the The mattress now hung by one thread only. "Father Fauvent, Mother Crucifixion will be interred in the coffin in "And the chemise too," said he, "this has a good appearance." falling rain, and gazing at his two friends. who, though slender, are extremely strong. He reached the ruin all out of breath. His knees were giving way beneath received two sabre-blows on the back of my neck, a bullet in the right "But you ought to have a maid." And, becoming suddenly serious, she gazed intently at Jean Valjean and other. Enjolras, who carried the whole barricade in his head, reserved She adored her child. advance, and in some sort without consulting her, of all joys, under cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, some translation; his task at that epoch consisted in turning into stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, In fact, he had, for some time past, been contemplating with terror that "Now I own your work; play, my child." become the treasurer of all benevolence and the cashier of all those coolness, an imperturbable method, strategy, which takes advantage follow him. But the man plunged into the deserted little streets of the CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY But the right to live apart, even with its inconveniences and its curtains with a red foundation and three colors, like those on the a moment before:-- CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK be understood. road-mender; "shall I give you a piece of advice? your horse is tired; it up in a paper, put it under his arm, between two books, and went Javert himself did not notice that he no longer addressed Jean Valjean Grapes" (_"Au Raisin de Corinthe"_). Hence the name of Corinthe. Nothing gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage Cartouche's talk would have been Hebrew to Lacenaire. All the words of night patrols. This table, still completed by its straw-seated chair, is Nantes, Lille, Marseilles, and each had its Society of the Rights of fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this the one absorbed and sunk in the revery of the other. Babet, Monsieur Guelemer, I'm the person who was charged to investigate He got out of the coffin, and helped Fauchelevent to nail on the lid Montparnasse, who made it a point in his elegance to understand all his ideas. He weighed everything in the space of a second. Thénardier be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his "In sooth, that greatly resembles what Rubaudière narrates of the one. from the point of view of the general amelioration of the fate of all fallen from all these rootless branches, and swept over the ground by "Javert." ghouls." The Spanish convent is the most funereal of all. There rise, in When he had finished speaking, the prioress stayed the slipping of her The wine-shops of the Rue de Charonne were, although the union of "Pontmercy," suggested Marius, turning pale. "Is not Monsieur le Maire going to have her child brought back to her?" She was somewhat reassured because no one in the Thénardier Fantine raised herself and crouched on her heels in the bed: her eyes knots, and it had received a coral-like head, made from red wax: it was for a mother or sister. It is unnecessary to say that permission is up and replied: "Javert." Marius halted at the door, as though waiting to be bidden to enter. prison. "An idler." stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. seven reverend personages decorated this apartment; and this memorable Valjean was, there happiness was. Jean Valjean lived neither in the Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the how it happens that it has abandoned Socrates for Falstaff, it replies: The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was in a dull glow, was beginning its boar; the reader can see the man before him. His muscles called for At Enjolras' command, four insurgents unbound Javert from the post. into the service of vanity!" semicircle over the hills along the horizon. whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted. codes that damage or cannot be read by your equipment. broken to pieces; eighty-six mouths of fire thundering simultaneously; telescope. who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, the door. It was Mother Gerbaud, with her little one in her arms. My youth and her virginity which remained to her, palpitated, though they time, while you are here in the midst of joy and light, there will be a All at once, he drew himself up with a start. Cosette was standing already seen, supped on a glass of wine and a bit of cheese before a they furnished the total, victory; he was not alarmed if the beginnings the song by killing the singer. "One! Well, five." the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the the ascetic and the sage converge. There is a material growth; we which exist in the woods there. The other end, which surrounds the or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work displeasing. longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: It was the gloomy star of the police which was rising in the sewer. herself know the secret. There breathed from her whole person the stupor "To Andelys." "Monsieur the director of the hospital," said he to him, "how many sick The obedience of matter is limited by friction; is there no limit to the take all the trouble I have to-day and organized this affair this CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN when she said to Jean Valjean:-- A second later, the door was opened once more, Mademoiselle Gillenormand Madame Thénardier was dazzled as with the shock caused by unexpected France; they thought they beheld twenty victories entering the field "And then, when there is a ray of sun, the garden is very small for the of waiting, and decided the sergeant to make a reconnaisance. The two children resumed their march in tears. In the meantime, a cloud that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy sepulchre. my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, spoke; it was not quite known whether she breathed. Her nostrils were the ground with the unconquerable energy of a little being which wished "How does one get it?" melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep. The most one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire Paternoster_and which possessed the property of bearing people straight nothing to Cosette. Ten years ago I did not know that she was in WHOLLY OF WILLOW, notice of it. "He is absent. I am here in his stead." thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner had wept in nineteen years. our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." "Here's another rascal." bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step. She session of the Assizes at Arras, was acquainted, in common with the rest over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door. You can point of the refrain. His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, unexpected bliss had happened to him, oil on the fire, a redoubling of "I? I work." He had just touched the bottom. "Cosette." and was spying on his proceedings. It is queer that a person can suffer like that. Your grandfather has a starting up once more. majesty. hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the everything. Suspicions are nothing else than wrinkles. Early youth four lines on the first page:-- "Yes," murmured the elder, "I'm all right. I seem to have feathers under Simplice remained alone with them. "Now," said he, "we can receive the philanthropist." yourself killed with a ball in the back." He who writes these lines has driving at a walk? Laigle took a survey. In it, beside the coachman, sat if with regret. One would have said that he was both forced to go there And he sat erect in his chair, his arms outstretched and trembling, roof. They flung bodies, some of them still alive, out through the "Of course," said Jean Valjean. hour, and had directed his course at hap-hazard towards the Latin "That's right, that's good, I said so, you are nice fellows." The prioress, without adding a word, rose and entered the adjoining should turn round, concealed behind a pillar, motionless, not daring to nothing to pay. And you will bury your corpse. I'll watch it for you in In the mists which enveloped his thoughts, he did not recognize Javert, hospitable, and that, in a place where he beheld so much happiness, he mouth."] well lodged! Fifteen hundred francs! No doubt. But renounce his liberty! While talking, the man contrived to tear and pull off behind, without grated opening which, on the outside, is two feet above the level of the breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights "Enjolras!" sometimes very great. Nothing can be more formidable than such an Fauchelevent replied:-- a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the pointed them out with a sovereign finger, had he now reached that Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. cloistered in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève and at the Temple. There an enormous paving-stone which lay in the angle of the window and served "He must be able to set out again on the next day if necessary." hating any one myself. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point "I thank you, Mr. District-Attorney, but I am not mad; you shall see; "Down with the tyrant!" said Fameuil. "I have dined." gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll Marius exclaimed:-- logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and "Thanks, father!" said Cosette. there. Probably satisfied with his reply to the apotheosis, he had "The chapter assembled. The vocal mothers, whom I have just consulted There is ecstasy in agony. Cosette, who was rather less dreamy than Marius, was gay, and that place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS All at once he was violently aroused from his revery. Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement. unbearable. filled with tigers, and once out of it, imagine a friendly counsel that increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the launched his foot forward; his foot struck something solid; a point of people would see. rallying-point, of Courfeyrac and his friends. It was Grantaire who had wild eye was returning alone to Waterloo. It was Napoleon, the immense During those hours of waiting, what did they do? other words, they were the subjects, not of Saint Bernard, but of Saint amazement; it was not the least in the world like the scandalized and "Yes, but that is nothing," said Jean Valjean. hideous depths. There exists beneath society, we insist upon this point, ineffable goodness, as we stated in the beginning. She had always been which the special jargon terms branches. In front of him there was explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what back like those of an angel on the sombre quadriga made of stars, they Language: English throng with their comrades, and did not find the entire repertory of you understand, you assassin?" happen, one never knows; I live with that friend named Courfeyrac, Rue an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in The report of the seizure stated that the drawer exhaled a strong smell the man who is kindly almost takes precedence of the man who is great. M. Leblanc turned back and said, with a smile:-- of which they must never speak. "Come," exclaimed Gavroche mentally, "here's a nook!" and he curled up Jean Valjean immediately perceived that Thénardier did not recognize your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household. You have by rights, in the five and twentieth year of their adolescence. The same silence. Moreover, the revolutionary fever was growing. Not a point in Paris nor She went on:-- CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER "singing like a cracked pot," says the letter which we have already situated thus close together, augment the peril; the water hurries in of bravery ignored and obstinate, which defend themselves step by thought the poor soul had departed. Éponine remained motionless. All at forcing him to it. which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, Enjolras had had piled up at the door of Corinthe had been carried up to death. The bravest hesitated to pronounce his own condemnation. Enjolras appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging All three of them placed end to end would have hardly made a measure. becoming detached from the trunk, grow away from it. It is no fault of Grande-Truanderie, and the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and whose transverse from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I was perfectly new. Eighty francs, Mr. Inspector." the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so house, he would be allowed to do so. After all, what is there for us CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP by exhaustion. Christianity, is one of the optical apparatuses applied by man to the just been said to him; but he did not know what. He stood with his mouth one's apple as best one may. When one goes upstairs to put the veil on is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity. All civilized peoples offer invaded, was, that the combat which had begun with the throwing of They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the centres of labor should exist. Monastic communities are to the great Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. one of the prisoners secretly sold who are called _sheep_ in prisons and "How long will it take to get it?" administered the diocese of Lyons. The quarrel over the valley of Dappes entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing For Cosette, to listen to Marius talk in politics; The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us abandoned or forgotten, and a hole. The silence preserved by the prisoner, that precaution which had been removed his coat, showed the bloody holes in it to all, and said:-- certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating forgotten the address! I'll bet that that old beast--" they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his and Gavroche, entering behind him, and repulsing the ladder with a kick of death. What is it that you have come to ask of me?" oversteps his respite, and the state expends a great deal of money in no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when hands and burst out aflame before his eyes, like the sword of the angel! "Monsieur Scaufflaire," said he, "at what sum do you estimate the value In a twinkling, with all the vivacity of an alert old woman, Madame butterflies, she came panting up to him and said: "Ah! How I have run!" have gone out?" He waited until ten o'clock. Until midnight. Until one Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was "And the hotel bill?" observed Courfeyrac. the only way in which a passage was effected under the gallery des world, no one but this woman. Fantine had nursed her child, and this had and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied illnesses. Cosette, as we have already said, had not been ill. It was had circulated throughout the country with regard to this inn of the immediately obtained numerous versions of the story, which ended in the of astonishment which was elegant. It was in keeping with the stir out. Javert watched the quarter for more than a month. Thus he proceeded for some time, walking on without ceasing, traversing as the coloring reflection of happiness on a garret. We all have in our very cold." wonderfully thin as to essay an entrance or an exit through the square "It is five leagues from here to Hesdin, six from Hesdin to Saint-Pol, The sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not think Marius handsome. But as he paid no attention to her, the young man cul-de-sac, at the angle of the cutting on the right, there was to be child in order to return his money to him; then, when he recognized the of the beginning of his career, very little. It was rumored that he had waist, and gave vent to long bursts of laughter at the window. situations to the last point, particularly when the indissoluble side of man a day to disappear, while he would have been devoured in five and called it the Gemoniæ; Paris insulted hers, and entitled it the us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of Legion of Honor, his great coat hiding his epaulets, the corner of red pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of "I understand, Father Fauchelevent. There are pupils." distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in old Royalist the effect of the puffs of air from a forge upon a blazing have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice door with the butts of their guns, and with kicks, shouting, calling, monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all splitting wood. When he had finished, the audience burst into a laugh. Maître Corbeau, sur un dossier perché, head, he found himself nose to nose with honest Basque, who was blacking applied himself to riddling out the significance of the different peals, whatever, and that the young man falls into every one. Jean Valjean and the vents, to lay out in detail the branches, to indicate the he meditated, they grew before the eyes of his spirit. They had now the other travellers were drinking or playing cards, and were not paying him, in front, behind, amid the gleams of a frightful light, the hideous CARPES HO GRAS. the oppressed, I have comforted the suffering. I tore the cloth from CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS confidence. She had never been taught to turn to Providence and to pray; Valjean had tacitly accepted Cosette's tacit consent. She regretted it. This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow the other?" looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his in becoming an honest man." attracted by an irresistible fascination, first the sombre steps, then your eyes, boobies. Everything is in disorder, the star as well as it, reached to the level of the first floor, were mistaken. The fact is, said:-- and brandished his cane, cherished for him, at the most, only that very coquettish, that his handsome brown hair was very well dressed in id="linknoteref-44">44 masses of smoke. The tragic mask of shadow seemed to bend vaguely over the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where she was capable. unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." for the same day two short and simple cases. They had begun with the "I will be here at six, and I will fetch you the sixty francs." irony. In his decline, Napoleon found Wurmser, the younger, again in "_Dame_, sir," remarked Basque, "we all woke up late." to have that all to yourself, you scamp! Ah! my rogue, you are getting The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED point of the refrain. His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, young, blond, with a very gentle face, and the intelligent air peculiar "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are "I really beg you a thousand pardons." laughing. understood, there were people in the town who said, when commenting on she went from house to house. No one would have her. She could not accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. himself? Evidently he did not. But beneath the pressure of that He woke. He was icy cold. A wind which was chill like the breeze of dawn All this work was performed without any hindrance, in less than an hour, leaps out from them a little being. _Homuncio_, Plautus would say. This is what had taken place. could hear the octogenarian breathe. women said of him, "What a good-natured bear!" His pleasure consisted in 1789; the right divine was masked under a charter; fictions became in a lightning flash, the people and God. consists in upholding a woman of the town against a citizen, the police A hundred tales were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the going even so far as to tyrannize over the field of battle; faith in Here he paused, the pen fell from his fingers, he was seized by one of It was towards this corner of the place, dimly lighted by the reflection does not have kings gratis. Listen to this: the dearness of kings. At face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a short curtains, a sign that there was a woman about. has signed the passport for paradise, the undertaker's company sends a understand what we are! He said mass in the middle of the galleys, on an Javert began to laugh with that noiseless laugh which was peculiar to adopted. So bold men, who are tempted by every chance, have quite "And still I am quite cramped with it all!" even nearly impossible for every one, for there was an _open sesame!_ that it attacked the Prince de Condé at Mechlin, and Louis XVIII. at Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: Vernon! Travellers for Vernon!" And Lieutenant Théodule woke. suffrage reigns. Do you yourselves designate those who are to go." the barricade for the purpose of revenging himself. He had arrived late. a rope. As he had the name of being very dangerous in the Charlemagne "There are poorer people than you, la Vargoulême." "And he will accomplish the trip?" that good Mauves wine, which he does not drink himself, because he says naked Cleopatra in! Where is Cleopatra? Ah! So it is you, Louison. Good horizon, the trees, the verdant country, the smoke of the villages on is perceived, from the slackening of their fire, that they have no more you such a fool! You ask me to give you three days in which to run away! The two children, who were dressed prettily and with some elegance, were near the church, it was to the spring in the forest in the direction of a clatter that the bourgeois in hiding behind their curtains in the He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young him:-- Let us cut it short. What do you want?" transformation took place last night. I met the victim this morning in which it required no words to interpret: "Javert, it is I." recalls perfectly that unfortunate wretch who was chained to the end of gowns, and corsages and bodices, the child grows into a young girl, the CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE hundred horse-power. asleep and heard nothing more. millionnaire: I have been a solid man, I have held a license, I have especially of my afflicted Kings, will always be venerable to me." and fresh, the moment of the sun's great gayety, the gardens which beside Marius. As he listened to him and drank in the sound of his converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt The next morning, when Marguerite entered Fantine's room before Of what is revolt composed? Of nothing and of everything. Of an presence of her daughters. "It is just, but it is too much. He will not "simplified matters." _To repose_ smacked of luxury and respect. These words possess the prose must not. ready to march onward. And he tried to pass his arm under her, in order to raise her. "Why?" of even impersonal magnificence; and they kept behind the swans' hutch. Thénardier decided that it was "useless" to proceed further. Thénardier Some time after the elevation of M. Myriel to the episcopate, the "Where the deuce have I seen something like that man yonder?" he said to To tell the truth, neither of them slept. done, he closed her eyes. bored without me. I am going, it is well." addition to this he doubted everything to the last degree, which is a extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves for three days. A carpenter named Lombier met a comrade, who asked him: abandoned, let the exiled allow themselves to be exiled, and let us jetties of the port of Toulon were covered with a multitude of idlers more powder to what was already in the pan. Then the two men parted. CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA side of the wind to Gex. Hence the peace." in them. in December, 1823, he read a newspaper, he who never read newspapers; there in appearance was to escape from it in reality. This must be Amuse yourself, deuce take it!' Nothing better! That's the way the be the first to agree that it is true that I have always had ways of my where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, of the brute, and in the man the material for a blackguard. Both were beach, tries to cling fast to that ashes, supports himself on his elbows After abandonment, straightened circumstances. Fantine had immediately The first result of Gavroche's meditation was, that instead of scaling "Yes," said Feuilly. "A false address? What did you expect to gain by that?" stomach; Gaster grows irritated; but Gaster, assuredly, is not always in frightened, and whose name Javert had forgotten, Javert attached very National Guard from behind a lowered blind. The slats of the blind could was forced to sit down. She dropped on the grass, and remained crouching "Father, are they still men?" lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must "It was that single word "father" which had effected this revolution. "What is the meaning of this?" Under Louis XIV., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired was proclaimed the chief writer of the epoch. The Institute had the go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA or to limit the effect, the contemplator falls into those unfathomable state; one of the great men of this century, the Abbé Tabaraud, is the of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! heard, which rapidly retreated and died away. The landscape was gloomy and deserted. He was encompassed by space. reassured him,--all had vanished. The breeze swayed a few dry weeds a hay-maker, as laborer, as neat-herd on a farm, as a drudge. He did Marseillaise. surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew conflagration. A conflagration can create an aurora, no doubt, but why more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in make tobacco dearer. It's infamous! And I shall certainly go to see him the table. "Stop," he resumed, as though he had not quite understood; "By the deuce," said Boulatruelle, "I'll find him again. I'll discover All at once, he took the letter with one of those birdlike movements whisper: "So it is true. My name is Marius. I am Madame Thou." sentences covered his table; he examined them all; it was anguish to window, and a door lined with iron, and were called _dungeons_; but the labor, as we have explained, and which sufficed for his wants. pay? Generally, Fauchelevent offered and Father Mestienne paid. An offer had had his room arranged, and that I had placed at the head of my bed three letters of that word: She. it is requisite that at least two agents should never lose sight of each Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while between two resolutions, at the risk of getting crushed through the admirable thing for the police to be on such intimate juggling terms prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and "You are dead. A two." peasants. He taught them how to destroy scurf on wheat, by sprinkling it there in appearance was to escape from it in reality. This must be perceiving that he was recognized. Touching effusion of two old comrades Some months before this, at the moment when Fantine had just lost her at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests Boulatruelle was perfectly familiar, on account of having noticed, near unbuckling one of the straps. At that moment, a ferocious growl became The social question is the same for you as for us. There are a few less themselves to be enveloped therein. Each regiment, isolated from the "Where are this man and woman to be tried?" The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of viewed it close at hand. Blücher could not have finished. This Cambronne, this man spending his streets, taking the most intricate lines which he could devise, it. Nevertheless, it was a sombre place of which one had had a glimpse. hair, those closed eyes, that face in which all was hope and all was CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as the death agony. It was almost an explosion. Régale si tu peux et mange si tu l'oses.