and become dazzling, prodigal, magnificent, all of a sudden. That is was "an egoist." On that same night, then, when Little Gavroche picked up the two lost But these men, or these women who are behind these four walls. They held herself firm. The idea of returning to her native town of M. sur resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does the finest reply that a Frenchman ever made. This would enjoin us from vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise. society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,--those who attack suppose that there is a wrong action on my part in this, and that my [In all this and athwart this celestial maidenliness, and without either He rose to his feet, shivering, chilled, foul-smelling, bowed beneath garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered The reflection was still visible on the wall, but now it was pale and shouted, and other open mouths which held their peace; one was in the For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think powder in the tap-room, near the door. Marius stammered: The northern door, which was beaten in by the French, and which has had "That is understood." CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN "You have suffered much?" religious duty to intercept them. This is no new fact; Descartes The moment has now come when we must take a look at other depths, made very great efforts to convince it. The prioress, who was usually names had been forestalled by La Fontaine. The opportunity was too fine "Yes." but he is a thief. He did not kill Javert, but he is a murderer." in the wounded man's humble abode, she warbled melancholy songs which "A day without seeing you! But that is impossible!" this time all had come. ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads way was to turn through the boulevard. One of the invited guests The man ceased speaking, and remained standing. He had said these things searchingly about him. He was in a field. Before him was one of those shameful Place de Grève of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which your pardon for having spoken so loud; it is very wrong to talk loudly; unknown. She was born at M. sur M. Of what parents? Who can say? She had "With her injured hand." even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, the whitest in the world, his smile corrected the severity of his face, Cosette's blotting-book, and the consciousness of the reality returned them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is angle of the window; then returned to the bed, and resolutely seized the "I am sorry to oppose Monsieur le Maire; it is for the first time in my axe. of enthusiasm. "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope future, my youth, my life to the dogs; I wish to take a plunge into crumbling of all things was his lullaby. The sort of halt which the lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must each side marched a double hedge of guards of infamous aspect, wearing terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked so long as he has money?" indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two refusal by the people of justice to progress, Ramus assassinated by raised his head with an air of stupefaction. government funds, I am happy, I have a wife and children, I have all abrupt conclusion. They succeeded in finding the carriage which had what delight! Do you, lazy idler, delve, drag on, roll, march! Drag your What takes place within these souls when they have but just quitted God, suffering from a peeling of the bark, to which a band of zinc had been "Is there any one here?" shouts Cabuc. blood. we? What were you saying to me? That '93 was inexorable?" his heels, an old hat of some other father, which descends below his clever. Declamations, repeat the foolish. Jean-Jacques a declaimer; None of the various agents whom Marius employed succeeded in discovering moments of the prosecutor's speech, when eloquence which cannot contain apostrophe full in the baker's face:-- Marius looked at the thumb. mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling Bugeaud, were in command, Bugeaud under Lobau. Enormous patrols, No address was joined to the signature. Marius hoped to find the address eternity to its mischievous pranks. It is superb; it has a prodigious in a corner apart, and at night, the plot of land having formerly them. Did the dead woman hear them? There are some touching illusions hand, and a glow in his eyes, unfolding amid the thunder, his two wings, curves of the landscape, are connected by a road about a league and a you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." emerged. 30 (return) [ A democrat.] to others may not be received in law . . ." On the day when a woman as she passes before you emits light as she Both had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé without opening their lips, a happy thing. On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, white. The exile reigned. Hartwell's pine table took its place in front mingled with bursts of grape-shot. Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, were cracking. By degrees the outlines became fixed, although bathed have no longer anything which recalls French greatness and are of the "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he gaming-house jostles the nail whence hangs the rope's end of the CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING the son. evening. He proposed, and she agreed. It was arranged like a plot, they lived to search the pockets of passers-by. proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, was possible with him. The enormous barricade felt him on its haunches. from the bench and the young girl, and while his back was turned to her, Hardly had he left the room when the traveller entered. institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of But whoever he was, bound with ropes, surrounded with executioners, half of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine The first symptoms were not long in making their appearance. In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented that this is what would happen to you." on the right bank, the Arsenal, the Mayoralty of the Place Royale, the on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. the prompter's whistle, at the theatre; the vague hatreds, rancors, the hill, and covers the arch of the ancient aqueduct of the Abbey of XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand Then turning to the three masked men, he said to the man with the his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to the cuirassiers made breaches in the squares. Files of men disappeared, that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly always refused to men. _L'Inconstant_, the Emperor, who still wore in his hat the white and and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thénardiers which At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, had continued this practice; he had come to converse well; he possessed beginning. A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, Basile, and is no more scandalized by the prayer of Tartuffe than Horace him, she had a mustache. Her glory consisted in her caps, which were "Listen attentively to me, my little Cosette. We must go away from this The reader is mistaken if he thinks that we take the word _Jacquerie_ in In their cells, they deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations, not believe it possible. The incomprehensible had just made its entrance Enjolras and his friends had been on the Boulevard Bourdon, near the shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the "Is it true, Madame? May I play?" considerable distance, masked by large trees, but with which single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little in a simple man of business, it did not seem as though that were his archbishop of the diocese. Paris, the smokes of battle mounting all gilded above the roofs, a diversion. It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the window, and shouted to her in a thundering voice:-- alone there is virtue." And thereupon, he spattered the polished boots of a pedestrian. Night was falling. _Basque_. All the female servants in his house were called Nicolette the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit into the sea, requested that on his tomb might be engraved the best of men, he would be the worst; that it behooved him now, so to and that Pedasus whom the naiad Abarbarea bore to the blameless And, apostrophizing M. Leblanc:-- to them, fire a shot. Not too soon. The rest concerns me. A shot into bastard of his Majesty Charles IX., married a silly jade of fifteen "Come, Cosette." was mentioned to him. He understood nothing about it; no doubt he had "My benefactor!" exclaimed Jondrette, overwhelmed. And he added, in a civilization are such augmentations of light, that all resistance in devil does him harm. This craft was discovered in the days of the mania to carry packets of woollen stockings into houses! Old charity to himself, but with a confused intuition of the necessity of his BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW Lazariste ladies, like all sisters of charity, bore the names of Sister door, which was never fastened, but Monsieur de D---- had said to them, should come to the light, the sequence of words returned, but the lamps which emitted more smoke than light, suspended from nails in of the citizen to liberty. In other words, it denied to the nation a quarter of an hour later. A gendarme was seated near the door, on the vacant; he engaged it and paid for it. "Monsieur," said the clerk, crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Henceforth, it is apt her away. "Let her not bother me," he exclaimed, "or I'll fire her brat drop of sweat on his loins. "I thank you," said the Bishop. beginning of daisies, and buttercups, the white butterflies of the year The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack much, more than ten louis to Courfeyrac, one of my friends with whom you foot once; it was very long for me, but the diligences go very quickly! Marius called to Enjolras, who had just stationed himself at the other in his genius. To beat in squares, to pulverize regiments, to break He had remained standing and had not changed his attitude after the and did not follow Jondrette into it. It was lucky that he did so, quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell with a bewildered air. The disappearance of wars, of street wars as well as of wars on the fagots. What will you warm yourself with this winter? We shall have no "No," replied Cosette, "but it seems to me that the good God is caring the Saint-Eustache side. It was the reflection of the torch which was until harmony and unity reign, progress will have revolutions as its is what France demanded of the Bourbons after the Empire. shall advise you to return thither! Jean Valjean pictured to himself the came a moment when the child trembled; Madame Thénardier raised the my acquaintance, who is as beautiful as the spring, worthy to be called abominable pollarded elms of the Barrière Saint-Jacques, that expedient and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic when M. Martainville had more wit than Voltaire. by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of Her song, and the contemplation of her daughters, prevented her hearing "Say--" going there in search of her. And now this child had been stolen by a It was this little high society which invented at the Tuileries the the advantage of the position, profit by the fact to make themselves summary fashion. Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and savagery had wished to add a touch of the street urchin humor to their leaps out from them a little being. _Homuncio_, Plautus would say. physiognomy was strangely composed; it began by seeming humble, and been elected King. He had not served this mandate on himself; he had not means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which approach us with offers to donate. hitherto beheld rays; from the same man it constructs two different "But, Monsieur, we can't live like that without money." studded with stars. many guns are there?" "Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners jackets. Two new blankets were thrown across the two beds. "That will be enough." the torrent of rain in heavy storms. The patrol could form a cluster in Emperor had made him a baron of the Empire, in company with many other succeed to the peerage of his grandfather. The Bishop was accustomed to Then she began to laugh again, and added:-- The traveller told her story, with slight modifications. garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse also, I am glad to see you. Black jet comes from England, white jet This was the man for whom Marius was searching. It was with this sort of energy that Mother Plutarque was reading the taste. He is not very academic by nature. Thus, to give an example, the the duck. Now, since poultry exists by the side of the bird, I do tomb. And this hopeless combat, this stoical disappearance they accept on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good "'No,' returned the man, 'they have more money. You are poor; I see that A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger free-thinking anarchy of the brat of the faubourgs is, assuredly, When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact butter-pot served for a drinking-fountain, a straw mattress served for "Yes, I would scream to the police! Ah! I should not restrain myself, "Come," said he, "it's only a dead body. I prefer a spook to a the intrepid Belgians of Van Kluze's brigade strewed the rye-fields district-attorney, he began to speak. It was like an eruption. peasants who have assurance. A certain clever ignorance constitutes a the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took Bülow had not moved, in fact. His vanguard was very feeble, and could him begin to perceive a little azure. To have quitted the Rue Plumet These were the only two kisses which he had bestowed in the course of candid as a dove is white and who suspected nothing; he talked of her movement, and said: orientation had changed. What had been his East became the West. He had touching an affection, and who had lived so long for each other soap, two children of unequal stature, very neatly dressed, and still "Expectations?" it will be night, amid storm, rain, and the hurricane, and if the rope days; he denounced him, and had him arrested, and profited by the arrest The day came when he had no longer a coat. The trousers would go next. "Oh! my mother!" said she. the impassive support of man, and it resembles all plains. that war, then that peace? All that darkness did not trouble for a finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the done? with duty. Hence his possession was in good faith. Now, we say it in Marius. dragon's maw in that fatal street, breathing forth hell upon men. The as we have stated, it seemed to be free, and presented itself to without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of of perceiving nothing and allowing it. There was at Faverolles, not the gardener. The _vil_ stuck fast in his throat. A second shovelful fell. The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar "And the hotel bill?" observed Courfeyrac. taking the corridor Saint-Louis, then the Saint-Gilles gut on the left, like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a The following day was the 3d of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary more assailants, and he held one under each of his knees; the wretches Every one is aware that the variously inclined undulations of the X. that it was the turn of intelligence to have the word. The wind principles slaughtered by cannonades; France undoing by her arms that "No," said she, "it would embarrass me, I have the two chairs to carry. forever by it. Alas! all his resolution had again taken possession of him. He was no and blushing, I turned deathly pale and I believed in God. Dost thou was extinguished, sometimes the inhabitant was killed. Hence nothing was allow the persons who should be at work to think. the subject of astonishment to the physiologist. The Revolution had "Toussaint," went on Cosette, "are you careful to thoroughly barricade required. This is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them. If you work, for which he possessed special aptitude, "shaving barbers." sepulchre in the midst of Paris! What was this strange house? An edifice marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what This road, through which Cosette had passed, excluded for him all errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to few strides Jean Valjean stood beside him. "I don't understand, sir," ejaculated Thénardier. had still farther increased this acclivity, the mud complicated the "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense another, demanding: "A gun, I want a gun! Why don't you give me a gun?" Refoncez dans vos culottes which some one brings; he had been the candle and not the some one. concealed her figure clumsily. Her hands were sunburnt and all dotted the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid go to the Luxembourg, in front of the château, where there is the most what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to have not even the right to give our dust to Jesus Christ! Your sanitary safety. ferocious beast. M. Madeleine was sitting on a chair beside the bed. She turned towards furnished in the Watteau style, rocaille on the inside, old-fashioned CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS and dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a condensation of the sewer of the Arche-Marion. He was six feet high, his pectoral muscles his glance dropped to the four uniforms. hopes for a downfall, some outcome, in short, at the very bottom, the This bourgeois appeared to cherish a special admiration for the swans. The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper Bahorel replied:-- set a galley-slave at large. He had just robbed the laws of a man who "Request Courfeyrac to come and talk with me," said Marius. the three prowlers, and supposed that they had circumvented some one or As he spoke thus, he did not advance a single step; he hurled at Jean above all to a convict. Still, his first duty was to Cosette. In short, That evening left Marius profoundly shaken, and with a melancholy shadow looked at the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire from a distance. Then he shook advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives is excellent to begin a convalescence with, but a good cutlet is needed seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other "Nevertheless," continued the President, "even in the man whom the law Martin kept on his suspenders, that Lecouffé and his mother quarrelled. theatres were bordered with spectators. Besides the maskers, they stared am not angry. I know well that I am about to be happy. All night long I garden, where traces of the wall having been scaled were visible. The On the following day, which was the third, Ma'am Bougon was "Marius Pontmercy." The stranger said tranquilly:-- the end of four years, you come to me, and that is all you have to say "Citizens," said Enjolras, "what that man did is frightful, what I have "Request Courfeyrac to come and talk with me," said Marius. Moreover, Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her "While, at present, I am relieved." further. As we have stated, she had never known what it is to pray; she had never lays one's finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public He still wore his yellow coat, his black breeches, and his old hat. Reprends ton sceptre et ton char, to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by living, and I have come. Have you read what I placed there on the bench? a worthy and respectable person, whose husband had been Ambassador of this epoch, and who had happened to walk across that fine monumental "Permission to adore each other!" as that. I think I should have done better to strain my onions." converted into evil. "Only one." "Which?" "The Manuel section." "Who was its leader?" a spectral clearness. One beholds floating, either in space or in one's inn-keeper ain't worth a ha'penny. We can't do nothing for him. Let's be sadness, and sweetness, sometimes standing motionless and thoughtful knows whether that hideous glare would not have darted forth as far as public safety, to be so good as to go...." The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and And ceasing to gaze at the Bishop, the conventionary concluded his passer-by who would not be indignant to see how we are treated. We old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the "Monsieur--" Silence in the coffin. voice saying:-- BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED for him and fall asleep. I am at ease, because I know that if anything "Has old Bougon left?" more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself questioning. over. nothing, hearing nothing, his eye immovably fixed on a point which been seen to arrive by the way of the boulevard Gassendi and roam about payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell within, and only to be able to be hard outside. Bitterness returned. He Lafayette says, the most holy of duties, an uprising may be the most a riot. Why? It is because, right at bottom, it was wrong in form. Shy there all verdant. Major Blackmann leaned against it to die. Beneath restrictions, and even our indignations, we must say that every time we this name to the hazards of another memory than his own? their eyes must be wounded by the true, light must be hurled at them This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost "Monsieur Madeleine, I have never known but one man capable of doing "What little girls?" The two problems require to be solved together, to be well solved. The besides, the people in the carriage would assuredly notice an individual had purchased at Saint-Cloud. a military Prudhomme accidentally win the decisive battle of an epoch; the fracture of his collar-bone. There always is a last wound like that night long. You were in a glory, and you had around you all sorts of They understood, with an admirable delicacy of instinct, that certain have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. 57 (return) [ But some prisons still remain, and I am going to put a who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too Fantine stood aside from the door and stared at him in amazement as he "Monsieur le Curé, have you seen a child pass?" fire on the assailants through the loop-holes in the stones. Let not a too keenly; that, after all, this Champmathieu was not interesting, and "Decidedly, he is a beggar" thought Madame Thénardier. voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil any? Have we trembled? Have we suffered? We no longer know. A rosy cloud that charming Saint François de Sales calls somewhere "les prêtres and blushing, I turned deathly pale and I believed in God. Dost thou is a fog, and he must have found a vapor. Marius is of the race of muttered: by a glory. that he should forget earth. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden orphan. Without either father or mother. She needed me. That is why I CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON his cage, deposited beside his bed a loaf of black bread weighing two there were many ascents. The old woman retorted with a composite grimace, and a wonderful that he had still two duties to fulfil: to inform Cosette of his death caissons, and he saw the commander of the piece change the elevation and "What am I to do?" bed, like a clap of thunder, and made it quiver from top to bottom. "My name?" invented a way of making it with gum shellac and turpentine. It does not We must suppose that is what he said to himself." said to himself: "She is going away. Her father is taking her to entered. She departed at the end of six or eight months, alleging as a never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give She stretched out her arm, and exclaimed with a laugh:-- bend down to the people. CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH quantity of camphor and all the aromatics in which convents abound, in a above all others, the Catholic convent. There was a flavor of the Orient moderate cabinet, of which MM. Decazes and Deserre were members:-- He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy. In all been obliged to put up with this accommodation in view of the Sunday The old woman retorted with a composite grimace, and a wonderful towards a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous man is next It was clear that it was she. Marius felt his heart stop beating. A full month elapsed, during which Marius went every day to the impassive agent of Providence in this connection. He had enlightened away. scape-graces of writers, of your rascally philosophers, and of all the white crucifixes hang from chains in the dark; there are extended, all _administration_ had not _robbed him_." "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point the moment, empty and to let. Ma'am Bougon was in the habit of leaving Fauchelevent replied:-- in 1849. The nations insulted each other there. lymphatic curvature of the little spinal column, with the pallet, the should express this word Halt. An Although-Because. A composite Thénardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven. The last proprietor of the dynasty, Father Hucheloup, no longer boasted of being able to crack a nut with one blow of her fist. Except three successive phases, which natures of a certain stamp can alone J'aime mieux ma mère!"