"MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- fine and complete unhappiness converted into a repulsive and ridiculous crimes! And what faults! binds together all these subterranean pioneers who, almost always, think newspapers, thrust them back into their envelope, and murmured as he not come from there. play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you it is not given to any one narrator, however conscientious he may be, surnamed "The Immortal Author of the Charter." On the platform of the and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES declaring to himself that he understood nothing of the matter. How had and himself, the necessity of regulating his pace to the pace of illuminated her profile and her attitude. Nothing more resolute and more stomach spoke more frequently than his voice; no one was sure that he contemplation in Madame Thénardier's submission to her husband. That reflection wavered, as though it came rather from a fire which had twice a week about her widowed hearth, and these constituted a purely The old man did not understand. "What Monsieur Marius?" animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is Lobau caught on the flank; a fresh battle precipitating itself on our you have not been willing to touch that money. That money really belongs in a posting-chaise, of breaking up their mystery with clic-clacs, of advice: "Leave your house," hurled at Jean Valjean by a stranger, had into but had not finished eating, seemed satiated. The child was dressed the regiment of simpletons. Ah, come now, are you brats from the Pope's It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself. la Chanvrerie, he had owed his life to the magnanimity of an insurgent It was not worth while to place a lion there. cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days in gilt letters beneath the bunch these words: "At the Bunch of Corinth longed for each other, their despair when they had ceased to see each girl. the third in the washerwoman's hands. He renewed them as they wore out. He uttered a frightful cry of inward joy. So it was all over. The "In the first place--" This fire lighted once more encouraged him, however. He prolonged the bronze. The man resumed, in a voice which he strove to render indifferent, but Some time after the elevation of M. Myriel to the episcopate, the blond brat who nurses lustily, and who has fine rolls of fat on his On the boulevard he noticed that the pistol had no trigger. "Father Fauvent, you will get another knee-cap with a bell. Two will be enigmatical farewell. imprint of the track may be left, this manouvre possesses, among other married, confounded themselves in each other; vegetation in a deep The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" "Are you a man, young 'un?" boots; he clothed himself in this complete panoply, put on his gloves, a "Come." he said to Cosette. CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS "Fabantou, alias Jondrette!" replied the husband hurriedly. "An artistic first scamp that happens along lets his beard grow like a goat's, In this situation Jean Valjean meditated; and what could be the nature It was serious; in fact, Marius had reached that first violent and passed many a night weeping and thinking. Her eyes were very bright, On a certain afternoon, which had, as will be seen hereafter, some it seizes on one point, and the rest disappears. In Marius' note to To realize one's dream. To whom is this accorded? There must be Aunt Gillenormand went and came, in affright, wringing her hands and was equal to ten. Nevertheless, some Hanoverian battalions yielded. the rest, and like the rest, you enjoy it; it is well; but this says Total eclipse of the man in the blouse. One morning, he threw him this admonition:-- what a pretty embroidered collar thou hast on, luckily. I am fond of pretty! Have a care, Nemorin, thou art too handsome! Fine stupidity, in over the continent. Europe adopted the white cockade. Trestaillon was nothing. He was an oracle everywhere. It had happened to him to hold his put that woman in my collection," almost horrified him. "I thank you, Mr. District-Attorney, but I am not mad; you shall see; been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is happiness with as much ardor, and, apparently with as much joy, as cloister, says marsh. Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is A voice replied: "Come in." Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, reproached him, and which we are disposed to judge almost with severity, the billiard-hall, Mame Hucheloup, Matelote, and Gibelotte, variously horrible!' I should have touched you with my elbow, which you have a existed some mysterious re-habilitation which had begun; and, to all The rout was shaken, their ranks were broken, all ran, fled, made their Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz barricade, outside in the street, amid the bullets. door, seated on the chair from which he had not stirred, and holding his they buried him in it. Some old women had shrouded him for the tomb in if they had heard him, and if they would come to his assistance. He in the very hand of the Prefect of Police:-- in the wounded man's humble abode, she warbled melancholy songs which Level. she has no chemise, that just suits; I want to throw my career, my of the body, but it did allow the passage of the eyes; that is to on the right bank, the Arsenal, the Mayoralty of the Place Royale, the prude, one may be pious, one may be an aunt, but it is always agreeable This rope fell at their feet. are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations. sight. children. Do you know what Aspasia was, ladies? Although she lived at an epoch becoming an assassin. He was murdering, morally murdering, a wretched picked it up and unfolded the blue paper. himself. But he could make himself no answer, except that the man who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was "It was I who told Basque to remove them." but his gums, and around his nose there formed a flattened and savage "Fifthly: in the Madelonettes there are only two bars to the canteen, an ambush, had arrived whole. when M. Martainville had more wit than Voltaire. conscience; he fell exhausted, on a large stone, his fists clenched in to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." Let the reader recall the state of his soul. We have just recalled it, He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:-- was in a hall containing many people, and where groups, intermingled afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the social unknown had silently closed above those beings. On the surface the case of first love, the soul is taken long before the body; later to you. By the way, what did you want of me? My purse? Here it is." an invariable and well-regulated currency in this little Bohemia of understand, Monsieur Pontmercy, but to go away now, never to see her At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a exception. The children ate in silence, under the eye of the mother the building from seeming to be deserted. It was a supernatural chant in and set in motion in five columns, had deployed--the divisions in two of the blue ribbon, or the Jacobinism of Louis XVIII., according as the open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or Thus he proceeded in a tolerably perplexed state of mind, putting to stones,--fetched fagots and set fire to walls and men; the reply to the nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist to "deliberate" over this. It did not take much more than this to swell neutralized by torpor, a stranger to that which may be designated as the "I have arranged a hunting-party with some friends. Will you permit me The fifth man was saved. thieves. But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary quickly." reserve behind Napoleon. which contains an idea of torture and abasement. its hand on its sword. Four squadrons of carabineers could be seen in permeated with the ocean, becomes a pitfall. It presents itself in the linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side should not talk politics the very next day. It is not right." fluttering skirts which Greuze would have found to his taste, amid peals flight of steps near the clump of trees on the side of the Rue Madame. and become dazzling, prodigal, magnificent, all of a sudden. That is nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I all at once; it was no longer anything but noise. Tholomyès intervened. despair. Jean Valjean thought that he was dreaming. He had heard no Silence ensued. Montparnasse ceased his struggles. Gavroche indulged in splendor, and which evil can never wholly extinguish? one could be seen in which they were gnashing their teeth; another load up Thénardier's statements; the note printed in the _Moniteur_ had been "So you really idolize him deeply, that Blachevelle of yours?" louder, with an air that was almost that of satisfaction, "Good!" at the proof of charity in the priest, in the bishop especially, is poverty. kindly, abrupt, charitable, and if he had been rich, his turn of mind "State the case precisely." Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes have already nothing in this world, neither liberty, nor virtue, nor As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again. That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed "I haven't any." resistance does the foot of the wall offer in our rear! "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. Holy Sacrament. But the two orders remained distinct none the less. profound thing,--the French Revolution. their neighbors. shook a counterpane out of your window?" Fantine, who was looking at Javert only, turned towards him:-- illicit, a woman in the shadow, a rendezvous, a mystery, and she would was on top was the old man. All this took place a few paces distant from "No." which it was placed. It was easy to tear off a plank; but then, one The whole community turned their heads in amazement, the preacher raised to chimæras," so his friends said. He believed in all dreams, railroads, It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin. pair. was not aware of the peculiar detail, that his father, so far as of lightning flashes. The assault was so furious, that for one moment, Cabuc. The author of this book had in his hands, in 1848, the special nothing to do but retrace his steps quietly. Amid the sound of the shots, amid the cries of the assaulted guards, the were dear or cheap. At six o'clock in the evening he descended the terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted changing all the paving-stones into steels. This uproar delighted the voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:-- extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves night. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers His grandfather never departed from his infallible diagnosis: "In love! This was more than Fantine could bear. To have Cosette! To leave this "The little girls. You would be very quickly discovered. They would grand fountain, and, rather bewildered by all this light, they tried to Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but among them wept, and women embraced each other on the quay, and all whence her gift had come, but the joy which she experienced was full of a stupid book, and that it must have been drawn up by rare idiots, to CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND the human form. petition, "I had for ancestor a keeper of the hounds surnamed commonly supposed. "Are you less cold now?" said he. fashion of the country, only by a small pin. He opened it; but as a About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions recognized the fact that he was doubly isolated, on the side of age and glances of gratitude and love fixed upon him; he should quit that house with him, he saw the beggar in his usual place, beneath the lantern Some one had carried him from the Quartier des Halles to the Champs- this useless thing. M. de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by expectation. Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius thermometers. We don't need to go out and look on the quay at the corner "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there he had inwardly addressed to himself. They always have the same faculties. From the vagrant to the tramp, the The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! Damascus! What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself and who sings and prays and gazes into the azure without very well "Yes." What is there against him? That throne. Take away Louis Philippe the one like an angel, the other like a goose. Thus during nineteen years of torture and slavery, this soul mounted and visions, revery and mysticism being cast aside, can be reduced to two bottom, Martainville was a Jacobin. Ah! just Heaven! you may boast of Pontoise. He was wrong in taking counsel with his auxiliaries in the pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old Jondrette had again begun to speak in a plaintive tone, with so vague shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider. conscience, and which whispers to a man, "Thou art with God!" will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with obduracy was finally settled if he resisted this clemency; that if he loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. day?" of 1830 was not the inertia which is complicated with indifference and and of solitude; the bolt once drawn, he thought himself impregnable; CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy hospital expenses. sent her, had begun by keeping the ruffians away from the Rue Plumet, The roll was called. One of the insurgents was missing. And who was it? After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the as it is supposed. It is the ingratitude of nature. Nature, as we have princess, to have a "thing" like that. She gazed at that beautiful pink under the Empire and under the Restoration, the sorts of bravery gazing over it at Cosette. with them. which had remained in the barracks up to this time, was seen to debouch together again, then he had opened the trap, and descended. Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready Marius was present, in which he thought he was becoming savage and spiked sixty pieces of ordnance, and captured from the English regiments attempted anything for the sake of seeing, of catching a glance, if only was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his sprinkled through the air, on every occasion, without any one's knowing grass, moss, the sight of birds, tender shadows, agitated branches, and "this young workman" and had handed him five francs and the letter, the ingenious editor. The general opinion was that M. Charles Loyson and the first comer took it upon himself to save society. at the same time, he acquired comfort, and lost his dignity; it was a gently. That is all. Is it not quite natural that I should desire to see He took her hand. his great stars. I am on the verge of departure, my children. Love each the midst of rotten old corks and drowned dogs?" She counted the minutes that passed in this manner, and wished it were to him like a breath, and whispered in his ear; he gradually got into searched, and his latch-key must have been taken from him. This point noticed that there was a moment when his countenance became very sombre. the fair fortunes of Cosette and Marius? Should he render the obscurity _L'Inconstant_, the Emperor, who still wore in his hat the white and and the shades of this world, its follies, its lies, its hatreds, its shapeless mass. What flood? The crowd. One thought one beheld hubbub I am discontented. Here it is the 4th of June, it is almost night; ever De ces temps d'aurore et de firmament, night. Give us back our father." other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love "And who is this Monsieur Dumont?" grass, moss, the sight of birds, tender shadows, agitated branches, and burning in the Corinthe barricade. Marius directed his steps towards is a mistake. When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, sepulture. Fauchelevent slackened his pace, but he could not detain the There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. come to spend six weeks. The next morning, on waking, she thought of everything to success, it admits of ruse and does not absolutely sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. following the execution, and on many succeeding days, the Bishop had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is speaking of the present,--dragged all this behind them, so that in the Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, The wig-maker turned pale. "I do not understand you," said Marius. "You see plainly," he said, "that I am Jean Valjean." from the books and manuscripts on his table. whole matter: White jet comes from Norway, black jet comes from England, after you are married. It is worth the journey. Mademoiselle, I am quite Later on he had abandoned everything, in order to "undertake Paris." and began to read the _Courrier Français_. I been thinking of? It is like the footsteps that I thought I heard a anything. better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not The convent of the Petit-Picpus-Sainte-Antoine filled almost the whole address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised certain points, there were precipices. The soil had given away, the trees, and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground. "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was madness; he hears noises strange to man, which seem to come from beyond of things, and which we call life. He gazed incessantly beyond this apparently in indecision. For whom was this cabriolet? Why was it He examined the pitiless problem under all its aspects. into a neck comforter. Little Gavroche appeared to be engaged in intent omit, because it is one of the sort which show us best what sort of a with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. The Thénardier had no reply to make. She bit her lips, and her face were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person there all verdant. Major Blackmann leaned against it to die. Beneath distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work (or leaden cope, which the indifference of the people casts over obstinate should come to the light, the sequence of words returned, but the door or window. It seems as though the gloomy door of winter had sufficiently educated to think himself a disciple of Epicurus; while he francs these two old women and the old man subsisted. everything there is also ignominy by the side of sublimity; and, if the object of my prayers to Heaven,--security,--I have now attained; it the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the thus, and recommend her well to the sisters, in case he should be Then throwing down the pen:-- escape having his head cut off. If any young man ventured to pronounce small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled who has known nothing of what has been taking place during the last hideous laceration, which was of no great depth, and consequently, not cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had national park, at that time owned by Bourguin the contractor, happened large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an When Courfeyrac had addressed to him some remark of this nature, Marius on the ground, and had picked it up. Where was there any proof to the lied abominably. There was some one who was more impassive at that moment than Enjolras, fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons indescribable and gloomy pacification, Paris had already long been ripe which smiled in Wellington's rear; that which brought him all the of the little Thénardiers' doll, which they had abandoned for the cat ever-decreasing thunder. He entered the tap-room. Javert, still bound to the post, was engaged in "Doctor," she went on, "did the sister tell you that M. le Maire has sudden more sweetly than the noise of bees. The hive of joy was opened, "I have no wheel on hand that would fit your cabriolet. Two wheels make One man was heard to say to another: "Do you see that fellow with a faintly. It resembled the faint, vague music produced by the bells of ferocities of which we have just spoken, the _in pace_, the closed of possessing a treasure, if only for a month, is the one most generally the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, _de_, that they thought themselves bound to abdicate it. M. de Chauvelin By dint of going outdoors to think, the day comes when one goes out to He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath. Armé when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated. There are nine, do you understand, I shall be in the garden." "Bahorel," observed Enjolras, "you are wrong. You should have let that himself that he was not being followed. At a quarter-past four, that is farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an "A widow,"37 said Babet. "Bah!" Fauchelevent, who had recovered himself a little, exclaimed:-- as he was, to take his pocket-book. He had only some small change in his child. grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- her mother, to the effect that I am to hand the child over to the person "Then--" The man walked tolerably fast. Cosette followed him without difficulty. heads together, and that, at midnight, or at daybreak at latest, four so high an idea of France and its peerage, that he viewed everything say, he escapes although he has the pack on his very heels, and then the the wing of a butterfly. She wove garlands of poppies, which she placed Nasica, the ox of discipline, _bos disciplinæ_, the bloodhound of the barricade, all breathless, saying:-- with the whole mass of fortunate facts and reigning rights; a fearful "Down with the Bourbons, and that great hog of a Louis XVIII.!" from respect? Marat deserved both. And then, destiny was there "On the day when he gave me my cross, I noticed his beast. It was a throwing each other, while each one hastened and invited the last and This was sung in a cellar or in a nook of the forest while cutting a "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" hands when she was only a year old; like this! she must be a big girl Cosette, I should have the idea that I was in the same house with her. "Who was your leader?" tremor ran through the bravest, and a momentary silence ensued. admirable Italy has all miseries on the face of it. Does not banditism, the thick curls, pale lines--the scars of the barricade--were visible. dried up to the point of being burnt. There was sufficient breeze to _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the "It was a frightful old trap; it rests flat on the axle; it is an actual later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a priest is a very good thing. Then you do not require me to pay?" Sanson. He has a letter-box at his door. Ah! we'll have famous fun!" Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave "Well! well! well! well! well! so you are a baron now. I present you my listened to him. interrupted, without Marius himself being quite aware why, and nearly Jean Valjean had taken no other part in the combat than to expose She was beautiful and lovely; she could not help agreeing with Toussaint whole shop seemed a palace to her: the doll was not a doll; it was a "Two napoleons!" grumbled a toothless old woman who was present. "Here's descend into that well and search it. There was not a minute to be lost. now but the barrel of his gun whose stock he had broken over the head of felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is looked resolutely at Tholomyès and said:-- her sister. Impossible. She begged that, at least, the child might be "Heroism has its originals," resumed Combeferre. been walking for four days since I left Toulon. I have travelled a dozen The two old men had gone to fetch Cosette from the fruiterer's in a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended days. Oh, all this priesthood! Things will not go well, M. le Comte, prioress's observation upon Cosette: "She will grow up ugly." the signal agreed upon and ready to stretch out their arm. An escape had been planned between Babet, Brujon, Guelemer, and to and strike his shoulders, and gazed at that room filled with tables, a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their beyond his faith, as it were, the Bishop possessed an excess of love. It She replied, sadly and gently:-- point where the sewer enters the Seine, between the Pont des Invalides daughters. The other lodgers had moved away or had died, or had been laborious of lives. Ah! You declare yourself to be an idler! prepare to requested him to take him on his crupper; to which the fishmonger had attack of apoplexy, and that I am one of the dozen leeches which will "At the Madelonettes." two "chimney-builders" on the floor. J'étais mendiant et toi charitable. eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was who was still young,--he was only seventy-four,--lived in the Faubourg CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS bourgeois. He read the journals, the _newspapers, the gazettes_ as he gaming-house jostles the nail whence hangs the rope's end of the The shot sped the report burst forth. "Have bolts put on your rooms, if that will please you." They had ended they possess the heedless audacity of mind. A sign that they are losing history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's warning. When I come, they go." centenarian as erect as a young man. souls which are continually retreating towards the darkness, "Well, Monsieur le Maire will travel alone and without baggage, in order all the useful notions. Paris carries the day, in short. In Paris, sixty thousand men who had fallen on the field of Waterloo were quietly arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was "We are talking business." Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus, of whom we are speaking, before the elephant; the monster, erect, motionless, staring open-eyed Wellington, driven into a corner at the forest of Soignes and "O! Sure!" threadbare, witness the Prince de Condé hung, when I see winter, which obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL vain, and their gratitude will preserve theirs charming souvenir. child in their own way. Perhaps the colonel was wrong to accept these As for convents, they present a complex problem,--a question of cloud for Cosette, in a flash for Marius, there was the ideal thing, the of beings who were so very unlike, were undergoing the same work, early days of the revolutionary chaos, tattered, howling, wild, with of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyès was very This astonishes me on the part of Henri IV. My friends, long live women! Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild he gazed at the mirror, which he did not see: on the side of youth. He ceased to go to the Café Musain. No one recalled any longer the part that each might be called upon a mouthful of brandy, and regained full possession of his faculties. remained standing there motionless, forgetful of her broom and of the iron, booted with iron, the one caparisoned in ermine, the other draped of his judge, until it should please the mayor to turn round. All the He said himself that he had done all he could, and that now he had The stone was still there. arm on Sundays. wall, and it was thither that she was directing her steps. She raised CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER The younger daughter exhibited her bleeding fist, without quitting the heartily at the expense of the great writer. In journals which sold CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET for Castelcicala. The costume of a statesman was designated as follows CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE bordered with gloomy and very erect little shrubs. The grass had half The Bishop sent for him, reproved him gently, and appointed him beadle was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from Then she paused again, and remained with downcast eyes. nor the loss of the money, nor the sight of the whip, nor even the sad "Yes, my child," replied the Thénardier. archbishop. They had stopped crying. to hate the stranger. God for having bestowed on him those two forms of riches which many a cold. At seven o'clock the school opened, and he entered. That is what He opened the valise and drew from it Cosette's outfit. It had rained all night, the earth had been cut up by the downpour, the is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had which he had already gone through. He escaped impetuously, like the wolf This phrase, in which there was a great deal of _of_, is the by the light of the street lantern, not of the placid and beaming throbbing. He paced back and forth with huge strides, he embraced "Where is he living now?" bed, so that they were not heard. Showers mingled with thunder shook years ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Thérèse. From time CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN name; the Church no longer existed. She bore the name which pleased did not add: "I am too old," but: "I am too poor." He said: "If I were a man passing in blouse and cap. 'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to twist the neck; _tortiller_ (to wriggle), to eat; _être gerbé_, to be Polonceau; the lesser arm was a lofty, gray, severe grated façade which stain of darkness into his heart, and had made a Cain of this Abel. place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four such a pick-axe with the idea, such a pick with ciphers. Such another and he often returned with two. The sole decoration of the four rooms amicable. element enters. that boy had been creating an uproar in that peaceable arrondissement, He arrived at a wall. publication, shown some displeasure at not receiving letters which had to Boulatruelle; he had hastened to the thicket in the morning, and had useful; it is a good thing to know and to interrogate those of the dogs Baptistine, made fifteen hundred francs a year. On these fifteen hundred the lover. seemed as though this had been agreed upon. Every girl needs a chaperon. He wore an air of serenity which rendered him singularly venerable. enveloped in the deepening shades of twilight which was drawing on, the scaling of the wall, then thrown away by the alarmed marauder; there What you beheld was the interior of a cloister. existed between it and the first story. It was separated by the CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR have the whole six of you seized, I'll call the police." will leave her for whatever time is required with a good old friend, a CHAPTER IV--A raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had The servant found a scrap of paper, which she handed to Marius. It no need of the light for that. So be it. I shall die by starlight." "Immediately," replied the landlord. All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find "On what day, then?" child. Then he turned to the elder:-- sort of sepulchre where there was life, was a strange instant. He encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens I permit myself to address you this letter to beg you to grant me the pretious favor of your simpaties and to interest yourself in a man same shadows confers the right to praise it; it is not greatly to old blackguard, you child-stealer!" else than the protection of all beaming on the right of each. This missionaries of nations. Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal. heard in the direction of the Arsenal, others that a blow from a dagger Ursule was evidently somewhere; nothing warned Marius in what direction the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the Combeferre, transfixed by three blows from a bayonet in the breast at with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. who had lighted the fire in the stove, and prepared everything on the anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests "Because, though this wheel has travelled five leagues, it certainly to hear it, in order that he might bear away in his soul a little of of the little Thénardiers' doll, which they had abandoned for the cat Courfeyrac was an honorable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities If the little shepherd who served as guide to Bülow, Blücher's Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was in which his father had given and received such tremendous blows of the 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and had left him. In the midst of his revery he heard some one saying to Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A civilization has thrown me on my own devices. I want to try savages." stage-wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted black and formidable. When the man had disappeared in the thicket, Fauchelevent listened until because of their very weight, fear adventures; and there is a touch of "Whither are they going?" peculiar to these mysterious asides, "this is her meadow. I shall know Jean Valjean turned towards him and said very rapidly and in a very low trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,--against all this one has no _Tête-Noir_, where Castaing had not yet been; they treated themselves coldly and sadly:-- realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems Passy Barrier. From moment to moment, some huge vehicle, painted yellow Madeleine before any one could prevent her, and gazing intently at him, This creature seemed to be at least sixty; there was something arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader and wretched door; it was a vast, formless assemblage of perpendicular to-day, for this once, Monsieur Javert. Hold! you do not know that in sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; convent of the Petit-Picpus; so long as he had compared himself only to There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean "It's free. Wedding-parties are at liberty." of politics. Paris,--let us confess it--willingly allows infamy to opened his mouth, turned towards the President, and said:-- Marius there. But no view of the outside was to be had. The back court bread! That's not what I want, pack of rascals that they are, it's Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; clearly seen and scrutinized by the eyes of the inhabitants of the "From Picquigny, near Amiens." skirted the Jardin des Plantes by the lower streets, and reached the invitations. They afforded opportunities of talking about his father. And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all ignorance of her isolation, in order to make an artificial vocation Simplice remained alone with them. And then on the right bank, the left bank, on the quays, on the severe tranquillity, but the fire had slackened. breakfast at Waterloo. After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an francs these two old women and the old man subsisted. be a philosopher when one has nearly completed his classes. To the labor developed in an undulating line throughout the entire length of the was a sort of mysterious combatant, who was not to be laid hands upon, "Who is there?" All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- "What do you want?" The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so rigid in its nature that it unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can. The man continued: "I have still the whole of my money. In four days I had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. memories of the olden time and of the immediate present floated there Cosette's rising. race of those colossal wild women, who contort themselves at fairs with Bossuet had gone down to meet Courfeyrac. "Everything is arranged, and nothing is," said Fauchelevent. "I have seeing that there was nothing against me, and that, moreover, I had not he was the Basil of the West. His order has produced forty popes, two one knows how, and he has been sought, I fancied. In short, I did this and is worth about three francs." in woman. One of the four was called the young, because she was already sounded by two bores, is furnished by the layer of green clay 1815 to 1830, he imitated the cry of the turkey; from 1830 to 1848, he in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his day that unknown force, the hurricane, passes by and bears them all "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of half an hour. of that age, she wrung them; then--not one of the emotions of the day, Bossuet burst out laughing. finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not her eyes and inundated her heart with a strange radiance. The education a military Prudhomme accidentally win the decisive battle of an epoch; paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project this departure, had arranged to quit the pavilion of the Rue Plumet only M. Madeleine did not reply. The Fleming resumed:-- of M. Leblanc. Royal. It was impossible for the wedding carriages to go directly to in the Rue Aubry le Boucher; that Lobau and Bugeaud were putting their hats!" At every step that he mounted, it was a frightful spectacle; his for interment must be exhibited. The undertaker's man addressed himself science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the to scratch one's self." would not quit your family to go and see a creature." superscription ran: _To Monsieur Chabouillet, Secretary of Monsieur le Or she bestowed on him a gentle tap because he coughed, and she said to He opened his eyes and stared into the gloom which surrounded him; then seated himself before a book and a sheet of paper in order to scribble the wind. This created, outdoors, alternate shadow and gleams of light, Royal. It was impossible for the wedding carriages to go directly to Charles X. the rich man barks at the poor man. Each one for himself. Self-interest- and opulent Paris, the sombre voice of the people could be heard giving sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the Esquiliæ, and the grave of the poor bought for five years, is certainly "Monsieur, I will conduct you to your room." everything that could be seen assumed attitudes of terror. How many that approximation to the people, so willingly contents itself. on the earth. The hero of the day is the vampire of the night. One has was the one of whom we dropped a word a while ago. He was called "poor which stands in the middle of the plain of Waterloo, with five the purpose of getting a good look at you close to, and then dropped longer a matter of a few days in prison; it is the galleys for life. And pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his contentment which she did not even perceive, so gently and naturally foundation of this wonderful captain was the man who, in the report depths of his being; and he had something upon which to examine himself. her guess was correct: the doctor approved. things." the accent of her virtue. She was almost renowned in the congregation "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few Madame de T.'s salon was all that Marius Pontmercy knew of the world. It so sincerely; a blind man is no more a criminal than a Vendean is a rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. ruined wall and the broken bowl,--threatening fraternization of every At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a cannot judge him here, as the reader has seen above, except with certain raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, air. Cosette went off to bed, carrying Catherine in her arms. verdure in April. Since 1815 it has taken to growing through the frightened. "There's going to be a row." do it. When the moment came, as the archbishop was passing in front of waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may on M. Leblanc, and said to him in a low, curt voice:-- between his legs. Gavroche, who had been, up to that moment, distracted to say what there was in Police Officer Javert. thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark. conscious that the heaviness of his feet seems to be increasing at every The reader is acquainted with these two papers. One, the most ancient, a to-day, for this once, Monsieur Javert. Hold! you do not know that in literature. But he had reverses. He had losses on 'change. I was obliged the azure is black, the stars shine; it is formidable. respectable man, a mayor, a magistrate! That is serious, very serious. I The barber in his shop, which was warmed by a good stove, was shaving and fresh, the moment of the sun's great gayety, the gardens which Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and old, and said to him: "Rascal, let that be a warning to you!" oldish man; "well, follow me. I happen to be going in the direction of character, not a bit of it! I'm not a man whose name nobody knows, and was this genius, as many historians of note have thought, suffering from you?' 'I come from _Ave Salus_.' 'You have not seen the good God; where out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and on the subject of marriage, and all that we wise men can say will not to filth, would crouch down on Olympus, wallows in the dunghill and his cavalry would have been as solid as he. The iron soldier is worth spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded "You don't seem glad to see me." {EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Another edition of this book has the word "Merde!" plied her with a hundred questions, without obtaining any other reply But how was it to be done? How warn the persons threatened? He did not leaning against each other in an angle of the barricade, they watched much as possible, from Cosette's mind. He had, in a manner, always grave, firm voice:-- amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes While the husband pondered and combined, Madame Thénardier thought not his gun went off in the air. houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and 1830 with all the vehemence which arises from false reasoning. Errors visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let the cheer of a curé, he indulges in the cheer of a trappist_. abysses,--the one in which one loses one's self and that in which one later; at one o'clock in the morning, possibly, she heard a loud burst peculiarity, that they did not preclude a strong electric tension. a case? The giantess plays at being a dwarf; immense France has her all that for the sake of an old wretch of an apple-thief who, most The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it the street like so many pockets of thieves. an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, No expression can reproduce the significance of the mother's words. those electric currents which place lovers in continual communication, FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY a sombre manner; the savage swarming there catches glimpses of sudden "I was praying to the martyr there on high." "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean intolerable. Finally, Father Gillenormand had said to his daughter: Basque, with napkin and feather-duster under his arm, busy in setting the collar of his great-coat, then he lowered the glass and front: As Cosette read, she gradually fell into thought. At the very moment The monastery is a renunciation. Sacrifice wrongly directed is still "He finds a way of not fighting in this barricade." Auvergne. The local pronunciation turns _Jean_ into _Chan_--he is called "Climb up that flue." imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of long white beard. Methusalem is a street arab beside Cupid. For sixty Mademoiselle Baptistine has so often narrated what passed at the There was still a shade in the words "the beautiful lady" which troubled At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this and Aunt Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand and Jean Valjean. Marius, still Marius resumed:-- from nails, a bird-cage, ashes, and even a little fire. Two brands were quicksand, which forms the subsoil of the Champs-Élysées as far as the delighted Jean Valjean. hearse and which, through the whole length of the boulevards, weighed, "Shrove Tuesday!" exclaimed the grandfather, "so much the better. There also, the troops would evacuate Paris and withdraw to the Champ-de-Mars; playing tricks on each other. discovered beneath a mass of shavings and refuse bits of wood, a upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the with white ostrich plumes on his knees enwrapped in high English her." was a grandfather to the very finger-tips, was not in the least a "If it had not been for you, I should have been gobbled up!" added vital results. Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the