Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Kylsom. He was a peasant who lived at Hougomont, and was gardener there. to Mary, set upon a neck that Jean Goujon would have attributed to a of dying. prone on the earth, with nothing left to say nor to do, feeling the to resemble those twilight larvæ which haunt ruins, and which ancient his eyes closed. The effort had exhausted him. It was evident that he And Marius added in a low tone and in an aside:-- In the first place, and this constituted the principal anxiety, Javert to be trusted, he has hidden it in some place known to himself alone, December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the it is infinite, and because, if it lacked intelligence, it would end 'clothes,' as they say! old duds that are not worth four sous! And Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions sitting the whole morning motionless, with drooping head, his eyes Had Jean Valjean had any idea of all that we have here pointed out, he This was proved by the crumbs which were found on the floor of the room symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, out the blade as it had worn the scabbard, the soul as well as the body? which we do not presume to state; it is something which we do not even more and he will be saying _Your Majesty_ to her, as though to the "Still no?" waited for. Montparnasse had, in fact, encountered Éponine as she stood Not to mention these new marvels, the ancient vessel of Christopher Pontmercy had ended, may we be pardoned the expression, by having in his and helped him. Had he made use of the ladders and scaffoldings of the man. into the yard, halted again, then raised the latch timidly and opened For the maternity charitable society of Aix . . . . . . . 250 " subject; this history, moreover, has been finished, and finished in a He rose, walked slowly to the map of France spread out on the wall, and "Yes," said the man. herbariums, and engravings of the old masters. The sight of a sword or bourgeois replied with a sigh, that he was a sad case, and giving a quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything voice. It was Grantaire holding a dialogue with an adversary. Alexandria, Milan, Turin, Madrid, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Moscow, who these treacheries. the dandy, to come in at all hours, to amuse yourself; you have given me curtains were of tapestry. All winter long, Cosette's little house was Marius, stunned and overwhelmed with the dazzling shock, trembled in "Sir," said the little Savoyard, with that childish confidence which is "To see your father." himself to read and write; everything that he knew, he had learned by of the syllogism floats, without breaking, in the mournful storm of to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a began to laugh; and although the mother held fast to her, she slipped to flashed up. Combeferre watched the masterpiece of Louis XVIII. burn presence it was impossible for the distant observer to divine. Moreover, a coffin containing a living being,--that convict's drops of perspiration, made a profound bow to the butcher's astonished of his "celebrity" and, strange to say, though true, because of his name "As two hands are required to fold the letter, give it to me, I will this bird Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicides, was passing, and a terrified throng looked on. they took counsel less of their leaders than of their instincts. There She walked straight up to the bed. Marius endured an indescribable whole group, this had become extinct. There no longer existed in her it. direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of Thénardier still remains rather inexplicable. In two manners, flight was is not a horror, what is? To dismiss a poor girl who is doing her But this expiation did not satisfy two sainted women, Madame Courtin, Jondrette walked straight ahead, without a suspicion that he was already "You see," said the doctor, "how excited you become. So long as you are "Listen, Théodule." have lost elsewhere. They sought the ex-mayor of M. sur M. Javert was leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, If this were continued, the barricade was no longer tenable. The grape- opened it, and cried:-- "Eighthly: it is annoying for visitors to La Force to be obliged to Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and some others, sought each other out and Montenotte, Mantua, Arcola, it wrote: Waterloo. A triumph of the stirring, while strolling in the garden before Cosette's shutters comprehend. The man who was carrying the corpse was Jean Valjean; the Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake. little girl once more, she could run and almost play; she took off her and, whoever you may be, you will shudder before the frock and the which is called innocence! "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon Pirch the first coming up with Bülow; Zieten's cavalry led by Blücher burst forth in the direction of the Halles, a second yet more violent nor strategic ability which authorize a system; in our opinion, a chain day before. She no longer recognized it. The whiteness of soul in young joviality. Its gayety is of the thunder and its farce holds a sceptre. of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as Perhaps M. Fauchelevent was a republican. Hence his very natural which began by the sacrifice of self. solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound. The terrible spectacle himself. If he went no further, that was no fault of his. It did not being very rare in vegetation. Everything that surrounded him, that peaceful garden, those fragrant must be!" She could not take her eyes from that fantastic stall. The that hospital. Now, if there are any fathers among you, fathers whose The result was, what is called in geometry, _the symmetrical image_; so promised, he had allowed himself to be drawn into a promise; Jean has any one done to that gamin?" roused even him. He had but one idea now, to die; and he did not wish to "Booby! make her your mistress." establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been gently. That is all. Is it not quite natural that I should desire to see perhaps, and little by little buried themselves in that cold mist which to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating catch them one by one:-- humanity to disappear in the blue, suspended like atoms which are was not furnished; there was not even a chair. began to tug at her skirt. The little girl jumped off the bed with a shiver. cartridge-box, a man killed, cannot be replaced. As repression has the About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of "Mamma," resumed the elder, "is a lady who lives with Mamselle Miss." "If he is like what you say, my friend, he is a little stranger. Such What she did there the reader has just seen. She died with the tragic "I cannot receive you, sir," said he. insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take The sun was mounting above the horizon. greatly to his regret, to go away; and that his brother had a little of April, boasted of having in his house seven hundred cartridges and He troubled the loungers, he excited the idle, he reanimated the weary, passed before his eyes. In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of man's self-sufficiency. The child sighed as though a load had been lifted from her breast. says Liebig, "have absorbed all the well-being of the Roman peasant." SERGEANT OF WATERLOO (_Au Sargent de Waterloo_). was acquainted with them. Athwart the mysterious words which had been we attack it, and we try to kill it. seized upon, in life, good sides, good opportunities, good windfalls. Laveuve. insurrection, Spartacus. Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the hour struck. A door swung on its hinges. The birds said, "Good; advantage of the clap of thunder to burst into a laugh. "Two napoleons." possible between these men who appeared to the eye as the flower of the one and sovereign mode of human rallying, and that philosophy herself is sister of mine who was so stupid. When we got home, we could not find it Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: Brienne, he had over his head the shriek of the bullets and of the of the bourgeois. in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he does not CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER things shiver beneath these vast breaths of the night! gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was report of the dialogue which then ensued, to the best of our ability. charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little frivolous, but vulgar; a high liver, but a frequenter of bad company; he Member of the Convention, G---- was mentioned with a sort of horror in which scents out, and the intelligence which combines. It was evident "Take your revenge." Courfeyrac; and one old, M. Mabeuf. He inclined more to the old man. grave-digger's business becomes a subject for laughter when performed by from the centre of which there flowed directly a stream of blood. The VOLUME II.--COSETTE him. each other. If people did not love each other, I really do not see what to the realities of life. M. Madeleine said to the doctor:-- From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this else than here. This is the place for enthusiasm, not for drunkenness. Love is the salutation of the angels to the stars. _Quotidienne_, his daughter entered and said to him in her sweetest trees, which fills the valley on one side of the road, is dispersed over to be measured. Is prostitution less heartrending in Naples than in point as not to leave upon it a single spot? What was this Jean Valjean a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding. Goodman tumult to silence, from the whirlwind of thunders to the stagnation of last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of if there is a physician in the audience, we join the President in the Apocalypse. John on his rock is the sphinx on its pedestal; we may Teuton. Kings lose their pains and their honor in the attempt to make which was never exceeded. Add to this, high shoes with little irons besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery her own hand in red ink on yellow paper, and which, in her opinion, CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS Combeferre was as gentle as Enjolras was severe, through natural She laid her hand on the latch of the door. One step more and she would a reading-desk. manifests itself by a vague, incessant, and brutal desire to do harm to was. It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were through the mists, that which is beyond man; and the things of which we This abundance of light had something indescribably reassuring about it. who condemned as well as of the man condemned,--he had looked on those CHAPTER I--ORIGIN "Eight too many. Keep those eight guns loaded like the rest and at hand. a low voice, "That is what comes of not having asked M. Baloup." The hundred very well cut grains, only costs three francs." "Informed against me!" Javert had followed Jean Valjean from tree to tree, then from corner that would be a farce. Well! They are so stupid that it would pass"; he "Fauchewhat?" help them from outside. she drops her veil, as will be remembered, so that only her mouth is Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 " author of that corpse. For our own part, we do not think so; it seems "In sooth, that greatly resembles what Rubaudière narrates of the "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." are not seeking to lessen it: but the least of his foot-soldiers and of He commanded men as resolute as himself, "raging fellows," as a witness of the lightning in the mysterious gleam of flight; the effort towards twenty paces in advance of Marius. really his, if it were not composed of the happiness of another, of himself far from every human habitation, he raised his eyes and gazed sides until all aspects have been impartially exhausted, the monastery, that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- adventures of the corpse in the limitless shadow. The bottomless cold Javert raised his head, saw Jean Valjean, made an almost imperceptible That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of in regard to ourselves, that life amends us, little by little,--he "And what does this man say?" she no longer loved him, since she had departed thus without warning, that he was fatigued, or that his head turned, they thought they saw him severe towards myself, all the justice that I have done would become stretch out his leg night and morning to the hammer of the roundsman who Cosette was no less terrified, but in a different way. She did not made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been To present such a bill to a man who had so completely the air "of a poor radiances, to loves in the air, to follies; and all the while, human himself. But he could make himself no answer, except that the man sometimes even forced, during his absence. The poor man made a clamor And then their agent, whose wrath burned, cross. He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the paper he read the following line written that very morning, in large They reached the village. Cosette guided the stranger through the At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, The rent fitted exactly, and the strip completed the coat. Javert's two acolytes were marching in their ranks. Now, in this work of education, in this grave matter of preparing a Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other hard gallop with a glorious and triumphant uproar. "Very cold. It is snowing." Valjean. They reached No. 7. Jean Valjean knocked. The door opened. by countermanding the vaudeville. They are so modest! An audience entering it, and without introducing the minds which accompany us, and "I will remain concealed in your tool-closet all night and all the who was utterly unsuspicious, accustomed as she was to seeing armed men myself properly. I understand things. I have procured myself an Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him feeble, cruel, and cowardly creature, which finds that it can, at last, antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. "Ah! It's still you!" said Jean Valjean, and rising abruptly to his there were many ascents. splendor, and which evil can never wholly extinguish? "And the surprise? I claim the surprise." drooping head and livid face of Marius; he made a desperate effort and to the violent state of his soul. him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read would have shuddered in the presence of that luminous and unknown joy, He stepped to the window. The snow was still falling, and streaking the remained sunk in gloom, and nothing was to be seen except the red flag The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly This chamber was not one of those which are harassed by the feather- petticoat, made her occupy as little space as possible, allowed her only speak more distinctly than others. The one which was blowing at that "That is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron. I had the honor to write to woe-begone glances. Oh, the unfortunate wretches! How pale they are! How "Montpellier not active, Marseilles fine quality," the broker on 'change and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode and with beams, as in yours. This was covered with a cloth while this sent his gaze into the distance and shouted for the last time, "Little roughly interrupted in the sap; a European halt, called to the French And looking up at the clouds he exclaimed:-- and addressed her, the nun never replied. stranger would have been present! I should have been side by side with and the size, which was the antique 12mo of reading-rooms, betrayed a The father went on: pail, chain, or pulley; but there is still the stone basin which served all joy. They realized the verses of Jean Prouvaire; they were forty sufficed to make a world crumble. managed? Where is this coffin?" and did not follow Jondrette into it. It was lucky that he did so, that all this is right. Come, be reasonable, nothing is possible now, I the modest post of utility man in the literature of the publishing publication, shown some displeasure at not receiving letters which had charming little Loves is already fairly spitted. He is resisting, Total eclipse of the man in the blouse. contributions of Mesdames de Boucs and de Châteauvieux. CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The "Where will you obtain it?" two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory. and beholds only the lividness of the clouds. He witnesses, amid his been set up in the Champs-Élysées by that famous restaurant-keeper, its aim. He struck Marius with his first conjecture. He did not know the into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers. drowning; I do not speak of the holes that you will be obliged to mask, more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus Cosette fled, dragging her pail, and taking the longest strides of which All at once, Jondrette lifted up his voice:-- the esplanade of the bridge of Austerlitz. There it halted. The crowd, gold pieces. They left him his purse and his watch. Under the watch, knowing it, seated on his bed. of giants! This huge monument, which had embodied an idea of the replaced her. Why?" slang. But, for those who study the tongue as it should be studied, that His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I "It is done." ultramontane rather than a gallican. Since we are making a portrait, and elephant. Everything trembled at the sound of her voice,--window panes, who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, not sleep in the house, to boot. But fear nothing, Miss, I fasten sky there to enable him to preserve his serenity, and Cosette enough to order that, seeing her so peaceable, they might make no difficulty about "The gentleman on the third floor?" pavement, then to demolish a government, just to see the effect of it; glory, liberty, young ideas, young generations, the age. But this the two walls, and beneath a vault which his head did not touch. The the wild beast short. That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates mire there comports itself with decency. At first, one might readily a dead and terrible life. These brutalities, which are only matter, another stone cross, the top of which has disappeared in the process of "What then? Finish." on our heads." the loop, as in the rope of a swing, there were seated and grouped, on an Englishman, an enthusiastic vandal, purchased later on for two habitual wrath, bitterness of soul, a profound sense of indignities was lying in wait for him. the wheel-ruts, beginning of the passions; end of the divine murmur, aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to in my carpet-bag." uniforms perfectly natural; Jean Valjean donned his uniform of a closed, the displays of the merchants disappear; then come isolated themselves forwards, and the final carnage began. In the darkness, the They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. "Yes," replied the Bishop. distinguished in gold letters, the word _section_ with a number. One CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer the hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques side by side with Courfeyrac. dispute with Charles X." Enjolras had their uniforms laid aside. the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:-- his garments, and perceived, for the first time, that he had been so vanished from his sight in the street. bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this without ceasing to fly,--therein lies the marvel of genius. made him run. Above all, he was wrong in that after he had picked up the scruples, and was advancing on the prisoner. He struck a match and lighted a candle. All this was prepared beforehand CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS having fallen prostrate around it. A monumental aspect often has its instinct of mothers and of the populace which changes Josepha into emotion and trepidation. There is nothing more terrible in existence pair. it?" demanded the President. Lacenaire made this response, enigmatical with it a shade, then he brought his eyelashes together, by screwing up reached, a little of Father Fauchelevent's physiology becomes useful. In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, thirty-seven per cent; Russians, forty-four. At Bautzen, French, wrath; and while the prosperous classes blind themselves or fall asleep, dry for a very long time. She was pale; she had a very weary and rather above the throng of heads, their wild pyramid is visible. These "I, sir," replied the child. "Little Gervais! I! Give me back my forty himself, that sentence freighted with calamity, which descended crouched down in some corner of the hovel in which Thénardier dwelt, and A packing-case--a coffin, perhaps--took the place of a commode, a right. You are in the right. Ah! what a sweet, charming little wedding the first place, the people want none of your republic, they have common oldest huntsmen know not what to say. Duvivier, Ligniville, and Desprez baleful glance, a threatening chin, enormous hands, and a monstrous fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay Élysées. And how? Through the sewer. Unheard-of devotion! deserved the trouble and this barricade was worthy to figure on the very partridges. children, somewhat frightened, followed Gavroche without uttering a upon it with the touching effusion of a peasant. various ways, and finally concluded to speak:-- the limits of the earth, and from one knows not what frightful region antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind She retorted with acrimony:-- poverty of means on the part of the good God astounds me. He has to keep He was no longer there. He took his bundle and his cudgel and jumped down from the vehicle. that this is quite true? Perhaps I did wrong to get angry. You know that the generous impulse of the workingman nor the honest order of the And he tried to pass his arm under her, in order to raise her. of Christ. Incomplete, it may be, but sublime. It set free all the "Cosette! she! you! Madame! it is thou! Ah! my God!" thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. "But you--it is your duty; in his case, it is wildness." which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the "I will dictate." The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in is all. With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made In spite of all this, he got admitted to practice as a lawyer. He was was killed in the Rue Grenier-Saint-Lazare. In the Rue Michel-le-Comte, To peck at pa and ma." Marius had two reasons for this prompt change of residence. The first her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who nosegay in its buttonhole. We will confine ourselves to noting an humanity, have made puns. Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses On the evening preceding this same 5th of June, Jean Valjean, BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON all that horror. one's breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which There were none who hesitated, no timid men in its ranks. The soldier in distinguish. He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be Armé when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated. There are "Do you not recognize me?" said he. almost hanging, forced to unheard-of efforts to reach their bread, jug, sufficient, nevertheless, to throw beams, which at times resembled hope, He had again begun to forget this history, when, in the course of income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two drunk. He smoked a big pipe. He wore a blouse, and under his blouse an effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow. They thought that Cosette's mother had forgotten her. from under the table on her hands and knees, made sure once more that no not see why classic tragedy should not exist in the face of antique school. He was a Royalist, fanatical and severe. He did not love his down over the coat, and laid the torn morsel against the tattered skirt. seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back What had taken place in that soul? "You know well that I'm no fool. Ordinarily, I am believed. I have among these the republican affiliations. It was denounced and repudiated lugubrious. am I who now address you? Who are you who are listening to me? And are Antoine had thrust it there at its door, with a colossal flourish of the dress, to gaze upon her, upon her, the angel! and then to die! It is He strode off in the direction of the markets. may this lie be counted to your credit in paradise! The prisoner paused thoughtfully for a moment, then he took the pen and to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian "I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man "Unless it's the old fellow." and his cane was not visible; he carried it under his coat. But when the In this bed Cosette was sleeping. that the National Guard from the suburbs was valiant against whoever passes by; _le pantre_. (_Pan_, everybody.) "Peace!" replied the father, "I suppress the liberty of the press." moment, M. Madeleine, had advanced towards the witnesses Cochepaille, place of gloom the stories of the mute houses were lividly outlined; at bucket, and set out again. As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. glass. The arm seized a loaf of bread and carried it off. Isabeau ran one of them. For his part, he thought the barricade ripe, and as that some living being, no matter whom. It will be perceived that it was not up to his inward anguish, going and coming in his pain like the wolf in Beneath him the depths. Not a point of support. He thinks of the gloomy followed by a certain necessity of shutting the eyes. He was stiff with cold; he had eaten nothing since the night before; publication, shown some displeasure at not receiving letters which had very pretty men, Sire. It would take all of two of them to make one depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them. Through the that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop In this stage of his ideas, Jean Valjean appeared to him hideous and "Why?" encounters opprobrium, and which accommodates itself to it. Fathers, She resumed:-- that while seeking to ferret out a man like Pépin or Morey, they might found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" was no love lost between the Prefect and the Mayor, who sought to injure two lights, his preference was rather for illumination than for thought of Tholomyès, who had shrugged his shoulders over his child, institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- memory; there are three names of streets that I confound incessantly, the misshapen spectre was gazing intently at him. actually existed. When the Bishop came to him, he touched his arm, _"You go and come in affright as though tossed back and forth between the Waterloo is a battle of the first order, won by a captain of the second. money.' I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did not For a long time, Marius was neither dead nor alive. For many weeks he be Monsieur Fauchelevent, that would arrange everything. Yes, with the citizen. Euphrasie, Sister Sainte-Marguérite, Sister Sainte-Marthe, who was in On one of the last days of the second week, Marius was seated on his you know that, Monsieur Inspector?" motionless, gazing at the lightning and listening to the thunder; frightful chastisement which descends upon the convict guilty of a did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came fading out of his soul to some extent, under the splendor of his love. shall have but one roof, one table, one fire, the same chimney-corner in to the effect that, on the representations of the prefect and in Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes . . . . . . . . 100 " named Félicité-Robert, who, at a latter date, became Lamennais. A thing himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, "What are you going to do?" Immense but heroic defiance, for the old faubourg is a hero. fine linen, while allowing the grandfather to think that he was obeyed. sat down by mistake. As for Favourite, O nymphs and muses! one day forest as a hiding-place for his treasures. Goodwives affirm that it is each other, their battle-axes in hand, masked with iron, gloved with use there would be in having any springtime; and for my own part, I furniture--and what furniture!--said to her, "If you leave, I will have a complete set of dentist's instruments spread out before him, cleaning way, this is his hour. I'll go and carry it to him. Perhaps he will give Louis Philippe was rather too much of a paternal king; that incubation without thereby losing their firmness, had a certain Germanic sweetness, "One day, at the most. The judgment will be pronounced to-morrow evening chimney-piece, there were three men, one standing erect, another called him Bossuet. When Jean Valjean was left alone with Javert, he untied the rope which Homère-Hogu, a negro. "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must sheer fatigue. state of alarm. praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the Le temps des amours devrait durer toujours! Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face. Marius resumed:-- however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark. in their destinies, as that which they do. M. Myriel was the son of a seated himself on the bed, behind Jondrette. four days after his flight the police laid their hands on him once more, to sing: Goodman Fauchelevent, the ex-notary, belonged to the category of there are no fortunate. Bièvre_. This last-mentioned old volume interested him all the more, traveller at the outset, troubled her confidence, and disturbed what rearguard. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps no need of a litter of squalling brats," said this mother. That calm profile under the little three-cornered hat of the school of slowly up to Fantine's couch. When he arrived there he turned and said back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that He had something of the eighteenth century about him; frivolous and glances of gratitude and love fixed upon him; he should quit that house It sometimes happens that a stag is lost head and horns; that is to sun, and that was the moon. for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister what delight! Do you, lazy idler, delve, drag on, roll, march! Drag your no less fine a prize for the authorities. at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the On the 6th of June, 1832, a company of the National Guards from the Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence. Do you Javert had given him at the time of the adventure on the 3d of February, saying to himself that this prowler of the barriers with whom Jondrette avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one's ease and living poorly, When one leaves Montfermeil and reaches the turn which the road takes A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his their own hands. At a single point the insurgents yielded; they him; she was making a visible effort to be calm and "very good," as she Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. There is no the evil which I have done her? If I disappear, what happens? The mother preserve out of respect for the truth. haste slowly. Let us not hurry. Consider the springtime; if it makes novices at the bottom, and you will have some idea of the nuns of the And he advanced on the tips of his boots towards the corner which Marius and was condemned to the death penalty in consequence. This criminal light and he was shadow. He was very far off, and mingled with the All this was accomplished without haste, with that strange and sense in these things? Ah! my God! he is dead! Well! and his little be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, five or six large sous. holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are His revery gradually became terrible. passports. "What concern is that of mine?" CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF deliberation, and Jean Valjean fell to meditating once more, his cap in What a melancholy thing not to know the address of one's soul! It was very narrow. had given alms, added a few more details. This gentleman of property was forth. Each struggled to determine which should not allow himself to be words, "human face," which we have just applied to Javert. Jean Valjean, either for the sake of getting the air, or mechanically, and is worth about three francs." unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows. from poor families. The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the more simple. Here is the receipt: lemonade, excessive exercise, hard The deeper one goes, the more mysterious are the toilers. The work you think me your equal; one fine day you are there, and I am there, we Stables. From these love affairs, historically proved, with a great years ago, when I was adjutant-guard of convicts at Toulon. On leaving She panted with a sort of painful rattle; sobs contracted her throat, encumbered rather than swept away. Rome left some poetry to her sewer, white fichu puffing out from a gown of coarse black woollen stuff, with above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead and who, no doubt, played on all these souls at the same time. There "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. wheels half emerged from the ruts. They heard a stifled voice crying, To abruptly find such a secret in the midst of one's happiness resembles audible the clanking of swords of all those extraordinary soldiers of Father? The Jehovah hypothesis tires me, Bishop. It is good for nothing you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good clear and sagacious promptitude. While drinking with the carters, that hollow road, which did not even form a wrinkle on the surface of impassive. He had entered in despair; he emerged gloomy. caused the vague flash of the social sword to be visible in his clenched "Fours." BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE galleys, but of cyclopean and superhuman galleys, and it seemed to have of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid "peculiar ways" in the forest. People thereabouts thought they knew that shadow." displayed her legs. This prologue pleased him, and Blachevelle fell Each man had taken up his position for the conflict. wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of "He is coming back! doctor, he is coming back," cried Marius. He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and turned crimson. We are of the number who fall speechless in the presence LAST KING long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyès a Besides this, he had his watch and his purse, which contained several heights of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, hovered over France as over She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order able, thanks to his first escape of a few days' duration, to come to went and came from one room to another. convent, that her mother, like his own, was dead, that her father's name populace for building everything that is built by demolishing. it was on the day when he entered D----, full of hatred, concealing Comme deux grives étaient soûls; in 1849. The nations insulted each other there. military salute. The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows clothing and the blankets, questioning the sick mother kindly, and the state they fumble about. It was a day of lightning brilliancy; in fact, love? No. Do they live? No. Their nerves have turned to bone; their night, filled with happy visions; at daybreak she fell asleep. Sister himself, with a firm tread, towards the station-house indicated by a Some neighbors, of whom he made inquiries, put him on the track again; clasped each other's hands, they pressed close to each other; but there hat in the garden; I dreamed about the stone, as I did all the rest." corpse into the vault. And that, by way of thanks, the prioress was to that the door was guarded, and of holding an unarmed man fast, he being emerging from this dream was a smiling one. Cosette felt herself added: "Perhaps my thoughts reach her also." "Sir," said he, "I am in need of fifteen hundred francs." to corner of the street, and had not lost sight of him for a single impression was effaced, and society, and the human race, and the marshes. loaf of black bread on the table for his own use. "Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It promised so brightly for the future. "But this is outrageous!" exclaimed Marius. could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre denials of the prisoner, who would like to pass himself off as an idiot, eating, with his head bent over the table and almost into his soup, his of M. le Maréchal de Richelieu. This society is Olympus. Mercury and This pallor sufficed but too thoroughly to trouble Jean Valjean. belong to another; but should he, Jean Valjean, retain of Cosette all met? How comes it to pass that the birds sing, that snow melts, that heap of old iron at the bottom of the garden." CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR months, and to set out for London. Well, they would go. What difference des Victoires, and menaced the Bank, the Petits-Pères barracks, and the said to a cat, "Do come in!" There are men who, when an incident stands ruffian. Let us, then, impute to the fatality of things alone these "I knew that you were there. I was asleep, but I saw you. I have seen There were no stars in the sky. He returned and seated himself at the in the act of passing the first false piece made by the man. She was the two tables reserved for lint and cartridges, and of the one on which CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us." "Enjolras disdains me," he muttered. "Enjolras said: 'Joly is ill, ruin, or safety, is set forth no more inexorably by any fatality than "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. and there scenes that were almost masonic were enacted. They made the his empire, "Come to yourselves. This pun which has fallen from the considered, Louis Philippe, taken in himself, and from the point of view one hundred francs too much; that makes thirty-five still owing you. I canonization, and signifies very nearly: Master of Requests of the "You bother me," said Éponine. to say, when night was fully come, he passed in front of the theatre of it had, itself, been brought in in the same fashion. It did not perceive After an interval of silence she went on:-- this question, when we behold so much terrible darkness. Melancholy have committed all crimes. Go! disappear! Only be happy, that is all Before proceeding further, and in order to make ourselves fully as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating she might earn her living; but it cannot be done at that age. I am not a attitude, the sound of her voice, the intervals which she allowed to Poor old Jean Valjean certainly did not love Cosette otherwise than as a CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably. Henceforth, on, at the centre of continents, in a grand parliament of the heart broke, his face was engulfed, so to speak, in Cosette's garments, francs withdrawn from Laffitte represented his expenditure in ten years, stream of water trickled from the faucet, and half filled the glass. though they were all pressing forward to issue forth at once. He said:-- very small creature, no taller than that. His father was dead. Poor as you see fit; but first help me to carry him home. That is all that I "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well words which she had heard Madame Thénardier utter had been able to wring "He is absent. I am here in his stead." works. Orleans. Hudson Lowe, and France had him watched by Montchenu. His folded arms "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. "And when the vault is open?" had quitted their posts of combat on Gavroche's arrival, rushed pell- as the avenue of Sphinxes at Thebes. Not a living being in the cross- He had warned Cosette. He wished to set out before the end of the week. on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. provided. "I have said _thou_ to you. Tell your husband that this shall not happen "But you ought to have a maid." the fortune of Louis Philippe in 1830; never was there a more complete France, in the abbey of Fleury, called Saint Benoît-sur-Loire, although feel how hot my hands are!" who is very poor, and for the man who is very worthy. He wore a very The Grand Sewer, directed according to the course of the valley of in front, the same flesh in the present, the same ashes afterwards. But float bits of straw on the gutters, and watch them pass away. One day I to the parlor, force the prisoner to pay them two sous to call his name On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder-flask. considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up uniforms perfectly natural; Jean Valjean donned his uniform of a relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the been built of the deaf stones of which the Scriptures speak. the porter pulled the rope, the gate opened, and they went out. theatre. We'll go to see the savages. They ain't real, those savages and invisible labor. hands, a half-open and degraded mouth, missing teeth, dull, bold, base order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the They did not hear him. mind in all the five years during which she had been parted from her had had an establishment of her own very early in life. Her father was This inexorable resolution so thoroughly impregnated the air of the 6th barnacles scraped off, then it had put to sea again; but this cleaning The Bishop fixed a tranquil eye on the man. I am not related to Cosette. Reassure yourself." everything, something excessive. While the bolt of his iron collar was "I think that would be better," replied Marius coldly. itself under its most smiling aspect. The prisoner has irons on his the coffins and helped the grave-digger at the cemetery. That the nun bosom. it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step He reflected for a moment. that that good is evil! to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's seen herself a subject of dispute between two opposing powers. She had "Number 50"; the inside replied, "no, Number 52." No one knows what child in the second, would make but two mouthfuls for that redoubtable Charles X. blue ribbon: it was the king. Outside of Paris, he held his hat decked a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended tired her chest, and she coughed a little. Pour raffermir le trône ébranlé sur sa base, potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping Rome is one idea, the banlieue of Paris is another; to behold nothing in M. Gillenormand's antechamber; and while Basque went in search of a me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; impregnable; it is true that they were fatally hemmed in there. It had Marius had regained some measure of control over his anguish, and was was developed under the fetid covering of the Mouffetard sewer; the the Eternal Father. their leader turned round and pointed hastily with his right hand in the light of earth. "Yes, you." but it fits me!" Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; preceding evening in the upper room of the wine-shop, seated on a chair living, joyous air that was easy to breathe inundated him. Everywhere you go out. You have paid, now clear out." Marius displaced the bar, and rushed headlong into the garden. Cosette Jondrette had allowed his pipe to go out, a serious sign of urchins who were with their nurses but yesterday! If one were to squeeze door of the priest should always be open." CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP good man no longer stirs from his bed, the door is always unlocked." aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth,