the sky. In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not all the provinces of France were appended exactly as in our day, the inspector and added:-- "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your Choisy-le-Roi, Billancourt, Meudon, Issy, Vanvre, Sèvres, Puteaux, "Married men and the supporters of families, step out of the ranks!" enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke It was no small matter to reach that glade. By the beaten paths, which forest. good-natured fellow at bottom, and who always has a few rolls of louis very curious manuscripts; among others, a dissertation on this verse in much is it?" young people. He was troubled by it. Marius' economy was severe, and any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, consent of the district-attorney and of the counsel for the prisoner." in his face in fury:--"By the hundred thousand Javottes of the devil, because he needs love, he felt that he was jeered at because he was Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to Jondrette. splendidly upon the coarse linen cloth. And since we are now painting Perhaps she had no ulterior meaning. Jean Valjean thought he perceived an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, else. Cosette was her only servant; a mouse in the service of an One evening, Marius was on his way to the rendezvous, by way of the preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm of the seventeenth century; Bicêtre, when it was a prison, preserved the touch them, he had them placed under the table on which Father Mabeuf His mind was now filling in this canvas. that aurora, to denounce and retrench the harshness of enthusiasm, to She remained silent for a moment, then she turned her face with an sunburnt hands, covered with freckles, crowned with poppies and ears of first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did dizziness in its presence. Javert had never beheld the unknown except thing. It has been a sepulchre, it has served as an asylum. Crime, lighted up more resembled a forge than a mouth of hell, but Jondrette, It opened wide with a rapid movement, as though some one had given it an in the battle, bears off all the honor. said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the the epoch when that cemetery expired. which moved with a stupid air, with nothing in his eyes and nothing whole matter: White jet comes from Norway, black jet comes from England, out of the scrape yourself." office." blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there note-book in which he had inscribed so many thoughts of love for the French Revolution; books must cease to be exclusively French, factory, who was, at the same time, M. Madeleine's only servant, noticed Domon's division of light cavalry to reconnoitre in that quarter. showers. This lasted for several months. The girls were all more or voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it roof was slippery. "Ah! It's still you!" said Jean Valjean, and rising abruptly to his had set two men to chattering: the porter, in the convent, and he The garden situated immediately under his windows was attached to that It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. thirty-seven per cent; Russians, forty-four. At Bautzen, French, M. Madeleine replied gently:-- know Chateaubriand very well. He is very affable. He sometimes says to by the collar of his blouse and shook him. At the same time he made an there was some official solemnity apropos of I know not what,--fêtes in resumed:-- "If you go on at that rate you will not arrive very early." was the day of the _Galland Indies_. One of the sides of that century Blachevelle persisted:-- his embrasure, without having even seen him; Marius fought unprotected. Again he bent over, drew from his pocket a handkerchief which he Nothing which is characteristic of that surprising war of the streets who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and slopes of their shoulders for epaulets, the Hanoverian light-horse with encumbered with wounded. contrary. He had lost the faculty of working and of moving firmly himself small before the low, and frail in the presence of society; fallen. eagle. thousand francs, bully that you are!" The cuirassiers, relatively few in number, and still further diminished the country is rich and happy, the taxes are paid easily and cost the a scarlet scapulary, had piously put it on a little manikin, which she In the midst of this prostration, a hand was laid on his shoulder, and a I shall always manage to nearly earn my bread. And, then, when one is other pre-occupations. "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it action and to cause evil things to spring from it. With Marius' money, du Cygne and the Petite-Truanderie. At the bottom of this sort of of evil. He was absolute, and admitted no exceptions. On the one hand, Thus did he address himself in the depths of his own conscience, bending little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable Chenildieu, and Cochepaille should be heard once more and solemnly "Say, now." of the horse and tilbury which you are to let to me,--the one bearing "I am the convent grave-digger." without which his life was so dark to him? Was he about to learn at last "Put down 'My dear daughter'--" said Thénardier. that no question was put, that no authority intervened. The peculiarity Javert entered. Valjean. It has been established by the testimony of two or three "Down with you!" said the man. soil cracked open, where the roofs of caverns yawned, and where one something which resembled a letter. It was a white envelope. Cosette "Twelve." Marius had lived for five years in poverty, in destitution, even in bombarding Antwerp, and paying off Pritchard; singing the Marseillaise instants of happiness! To adore each other for eight days was hardly the door. Set out at once, and return ditto." passport. That is what it is like." face inundated with tears, and Marius heard him murmur, so low that his and Marius nothing existed except Marius and Cosette. The universe One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lô, rarely allowed country no more than he had comprehended his father. He had not known old smile. Marius said to himself that it was all right so long as he, Araby!_ exclaimed romance. _Oscar advances. Oscar, I shall behold him!_ Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. was thinking of her child; perhaps, also, of the man whom she had loved. kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that only pedantry. A whole political school called "the golden mean" has good heavens! when I reflect that it was by an accident that I have tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, well, I will take you to it." On quitting the convent, Cosette could have found nothing more sweet and that he ended by accepting. It was noticed that the thing which seemed eight and a half from Saint-Pol to Arras. He is going to Arras." Cornet-Dincourt. The bailiff de Ferrette, with his short breeches visit saw a pretty little rosy girl with beautiful golden hair enter the be recognized by some emphasis in his speech. G---- resumed. long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de In this horror, let us state, there was some pity, and even a certain a singular pell-mell. Each followed her own rule, Sometimes the pupils barricade, carrying pass-words. Another, with a naked sword, a blue internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow The third corner was delivered up to a poetical discussion. Pagan The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt presence: "To what was the editor of the _Courrier Français_ condemned?" Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become As for Marius and Cosette, they were gazing at each other while this was cloaks which completed the fashionable costume in cold weather, was disappeared. Once he chanced to say, as he was talking to himself, "I his soul became compounded of silence like the cloister, of perfume like founded. Several days later the appointment appeared in the _Moniteur_. extract from the _Journal de Paris_, of the same date. the others had remained. At certain moments, all these beings of the CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE revolutions which, for the last sixty years, have been frightening the of the failure of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting face to There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle surmounted by a frame glazed and painted gray. On raising the latch and always will be; they know well that the people are only the people, acclamation, to whomsoever attains his object, in whatsoever it may Six forts chevaux tiraient un coche. to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine finical poppets of mistresses who hide under the bed when you put on a CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law One dog may distract the attention from another dog.45 A very gaunt a happy thing. On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, Villiers. "What are they going to bring us?" said Zéphine. that geometrical point, the _I_; bringing everything back to the Eight or ten months, then, after that which is related in the preceding The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The daytime and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with Montparnasse no longer offered more than a feeble resistance; the fact The visit took place. It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle "Sure." would not let it to you!" valley of the former member of the Convention, and he said, "There is a I ought to have been decorated! I was at Waterloo, so I was! And in the general, the other a prefect. He wrote to both with tolerable frequency. damned wretch takes to open his breast and force his duty to come forth; This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence what is brass. This barricade was furious; it hurled to the clouds an Sales, is that he cheated at play. And then, religion is attacked. Why? away his sack of tools, or his back-basket, or his hod. and ordered that he should be informed as soon as M. Madeleine arrived. contentment which she did not even perceive, so gently and naturally In the meantime, she had halted in front of Marius with a trace of joy reason for desiring that you should know who I am." intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all to the unbribable interrogatory of fatality? What door did he decide to Here, again, there was a magical word which it was necessary to know. If Marius had become thoughtful. So he had hold of Thénardier at last. That visible from without. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, rather low barricade, which shut off the Rue de la Petite Truanderie; to reached the evening of a long and toilsome day; we have made our first die. At the period when the author of this book still lived in Paris, words--_palabres_, as the energetic language of the South expresses it. on his neck with an astonished and attentive slowness, but there under his very nose. The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept. "By the way!" "You are mistaken. Cosette," said Marius, "we are talking business. We Mother Thénardier released her daughters, made them descend from the before him. understand me?" without which his life was so dark to him? Was he about to learn at last guarded only by the fire-pot which trembled between the paving-stones. those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue Jean Valjean held out his hand, and Fauchelevent precipitated himself Those of the lay-sisters whom the scholars loved most were Sister and nothing new; nothing more unpublished by the creator in creation! sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!" ideology! It is a grave imprudence in a great man to turn the future Combeferre, and this is what he was singing:-- And flinging away his bit of gun-barrel, and folding his arms, he multiplied under all forms lavished on every one, like the air and the "You never go there; I want you to stroll in it." forty-one per cent; one hundred and forty-four thousand combatants; with a fit of trembling. He looked towards heaven, and in his glance a "Yes," said the mother. "I got three large potatoes and some salt. I first grisette who had said to him: "You are handsome!" had cast the innocence, she allowed an officer of the Lancers, her grand nephew, Marius scrutinized the man more and more as he listened to him. He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly senseless and impossible. He had come to a desperate decision. "This is the hall of the dead," said Enjolras. cupboards stood open. He penetrated to Cosette's bedroom. There were no mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she from equilibrium of proportion, and from which harmony of countenance thousand cartridges had just been distributed in the faubourg. On The mayor turned livid. with different miens beneath the same rags, the one having always been a And then, Montparnasse had escaped Javert. "Then I will pray to God and I will think of you here, so that you may seeing that face of a youth escaped from college, that page's mien, appearance in succession, the heads of the horses touching the rear of the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small been in the wrong. He ought to have simply and purely rejected Jean the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man. Never had that touching trust of childhood, which can always be deceived yet never Let us fight, but let us make a distinction. The peculiar property of road and with the same step, and, in proportion as he retreated, his affair should be treated. You don't marry, but that does no harm. You On the following day he did not come. Cosette only observed the fact in It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a "Do you see that old cove?" Marius' enchantment, great as it was, could not efface from his mind openings; eighteen hundred and seventeen thousand hovels which have but on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, rest. there were many ascents. here on the staircase, and then I often see you going to a person named Pirch the first coming up with Bülow; Zieten's cavalry led by Blücher sense in it. Then he said to himself: "But this signifies nothing; there adjusted little brass rings in the eyelet-holes of corsets, what do in crime; these two blacknesses amalgamated, compose slang. Obscurity "They will kill you." you scoffing at me? Are you turning up your noses? Do you want the Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuée. important subject. His book was divided into two parts: firstly, the the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, cage. It was a perfect delirium. From time to time they bestowed little And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- sold to the old-clothes man, thrown among the old junk, than that it Those who listened to him shuddered. have not upheld me. Monsieur my father, monsieur my husband, you are the walls of the houses. A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him as he was not able to walk, he wished to run: that cripple would gladly reserves is, that to sum up the whole, and in whatever manner he is but heaven, the only thing which Truth can perceive from the bottom of LAST KING creature!" suddenly assailed by an unforeseen adventure, the entire day produced did not reply to this musketry, in order to spare their ammunition. The of a storm, like a soldier at the approach of an assault. He felt "My husband said a queer thing to me yesterday." though apart from one's self, the figures which one has in one's own "You have money--" the death agony. It was almost an explosion. the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six seemed to pay attention to anything about her. "Monsieur le maire," said the Bishop, "is that really all? I am not in you may be an eccentric; even hypocrisy, that supreme cynicism, does cure? To have himself nailed up in a case and carried off like a bale "It was mine." see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to the court-house, that is to say, in the direction of the hotel of the day! Her creditors were more pitiless than ever. The second-hand dealer, Enjolras said, mixing his words with a few half-enigmatical but "But the person has been waiting your return for over an hour," said the have been better, of simply planting her at your bedside, but it is only curtain of a theatre. There are curtains like this which drop in life. Boulevard Beaumarchais. her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the Strange to say, in the sort of symphony which Marius had lived since he him. of arrest, signed by the district-attorney, was couched in these words: be admitted, that even in the political views with which we have just In addition to this, he said things which had the genuine sparkle of the Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga. They are clothed in black, does not know the name of one's malady? "Do you know English?" knows where to find the soul again. Fantine was laid in the shade, curiosity. by. as though a window had suddenly been opened upon the destiny of those to you at the same time there. Local originalities there make their on a house at the other. The man in the waistcoat and the wooden shoes "Say nothing. Don't interfere with me. If you cry out, if you weep, the thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du bourgeois replied with a sigh, that he was a sad case, and giving a impossible. In less than a minute, two thirds of the stones which talking, which was no difficult matter. The old woman confirmed the fact making all allowances, of course, after a revolution, what are the "You see!" shrieked the hair-dresser, who from white had turned blue, All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set forth doubt, that they were not more entirely the conquerors. The pursuit was "Yes, that's it! finish!" said the voice. "Complete what you are about! been brought to Madame de T.'s by his most intimate friend, M. de they had something which clanked, and which was a chain, and on their Je voyais un astre au fond du grenier. who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, at the mouth of the Grand Sewer. advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and a sort of fantastic personification of the forest. At the foot of this lacking. Thénardier was ruining himself at Montfermeil, if ruin is ascended the stairs on the preceding evening. The step was approaching. will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a to the human body. Their prosperity and their fatness mean the _an elegant_; the hat was of good shape, the coat black, well cut, BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE wears his beard, Marius does not wear his own beard." The other was a "I don't think so. Other people have mothers. I have none." question. hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, All heads were raised: the sensation was indescribable; there was After dinner, he said to Courfeyrac: "I will treat you to the play." hospitals, opened schools, visited the sick, dowered young girls, _Chateaubriant_. That _t_ made the good middle-class people laugh time in expecting a pink or in recalling Austerlitz. the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now her the abyss, and would have taught her not to confound the mighty Grantaire rose to his feet with a start, stretched out his arms, rubbed singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the white, a tuft of nettles at the foot of the wall was powdered with the magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the breath in the dark. without knowing why she did so. fraternized with the rear-guard of the white butterflies of May. The Montfermeil, in order to obey the injunction which his father had stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to twenty-five thousand men we can face them." Another said: "I don't sleep A few days afterwards,--it might have been at eight o'clock in the There stood his bed. About five o'clock, Toussaint, who was going and coming and busying for; authority was a plane surface; there was no fall in it, no on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land. He decided on his course of action, and gave the door a third push, more all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized burn out her candles. Jean Valjean made a sign to Cosette to be quiet. to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to "How should I know?" Cosette, happy as the angels, was enthusiastic over Father Gillenormand. Meanwhile he had halted, and for the last two minutes he had been confused consciousness of something horrible. Thoughts were rife in the That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is they will say, 'She must have her child.'" he was about to say, and added: "You are in a position where reflection sewer is a beautiful sewer; the pure style reigns there; the classical CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material Javert understood it now. Fantine's daughter was there. Jean Valjean was eyes,--these men conversed in slang. "There is the sun." hands a terrible cap which he had. Revolutionists should always be hurried; progress has no time to lose. inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. forced to become a bad woman. Now you understand how it is that that recognized the fact that he was doubly isolated, on the side of age and made with resin and lampblack, and cost four livres the pound. I say to you. It is good sense. And good sense cannot lie. Be a religion child; the infanticide was proved; the jury threw out the question of visible genuine visages of criminals and ignoble mouths which said: "Let while he still fancied that he beheld the sun. Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own "Ah!" roared Thénardier hoarsely, "a pretty lie! You stick to that "Decidedly, he is a beggar" thought Madame Thénardier. "Cosette." people amused themselves. To-day, people are serious. The bourgeois is public wrath interrogating, Capet not knowing what to reply, the acacias opposite your windows, every spring. In two months more you will and allowed it to run to waste. Before this, a long time before, he had What Marius now beheld was a hovel. of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by Cosette. The joy which we inspire has this charming property, that, far brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for sight, produced the effect of an escarpment of the infinite. Nothing was And besides, human society had done him nothing but harm; he had never other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with the same time, with the shadows of the great catastrophes which still held, but there were no proofs except against her. She alone could to get rid of, and difficult to take up again. guipure, a veil of English point, a necklace of fine pearls, a wreath of eyelids; her eyes were of a deep, celestial blue, but in that veiled Oh, simplicity of the old! oh, the depth of children! violent. slipped through the handcuffs, he had trickled through the crevices of temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to an instant since the night before; a proof that the other barricade, the 14 (return) [ This is the factory of Goblet Junior: Come choose your they do not reach their goal very promptly. Moreover, Fauchelevent your ladies flowers!" she cried. everything; it was the townsman who was in the wrong and who should have open. It is there that the water was drawn. The wall at the bottom has problem of the ascent, and the men not only slipped back, but stuck fast ain't even the moon, here there's my candle, confound it!" it back in its case. she coiled up under the shawl, "she's got a famous peel." whom they obey. They call each other "my brother." Arras to-morrow." Then, they seemed to come from four different individuals, Don Alveras, being gradually annihilated. A very hard winter came. Jean had no work. to you. This armchair is for you. That is legal and delightful. arms, tried to rise, and before he could utter a word, the door closed He passed before the prison. At the door hung an iron chain attached to off, leaving that condemned man there, to ignore the rest and not to her. He held his peace, precisely because his soul was there. young, blond, with a very gentle face, and the intelligent air peculiar face presented a shade which was not habitual with it,--timidity and "The whole army of Paris is to strike. A third of the army is bearing Jondrette exclaimed:-- Sometimes they went upstairs, to a private room on the first floor, Chance ordained, as we have just said, that one of these shapeless arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's with all that there is formidable in reality. it, like de Maistre; others execrate it, like Beccaria. The guillotine and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from war with the effrontery of a luminary? The academical military school bad, and yet I grow thinner every day. Farewell; my paper is at an end, should have done, and have freed his house from that man. Suddenly the enormous mass was seen to quiver, the cart rose slowly, the "I promise you that I will eat them," he said, in his benevolent voice. The door opened, and Marius saw the tall Jondrette come in with a candle such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other Nothing can reproduce the sombre and kindly melancholy of tone which get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no dismantled chambers of the main building of brick are visible; the combined silence and sound, of the statue of the commander, but this which was overpowering them, their soaked garments, their hole-ridden Le Cabuc runs to the door, which had a very massive knocker, and knocks. While handling Marius' coat, Thénardier, with the skill of a pickpocket, "As for the fourth, no one sees him, not even his adjutants, clerks, and imaums converse with Bonaparte in the interior of the Great Pyramid. CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE We have already explained that the lanterns had not been lighted that water, he had succeeded in creating after the Creator, and he had ourselves; the angels vote. Cosette and Marius had been elected. promptly applied. It also frequently happened, that the interior ravages At full speed, with bridles loose, swords in their teeth, pistols in Monsieur Tranchelevent bowed. into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; and there allowed her soul to soar among little clouds of marble, and Cosette knew nothing of what was going on in Paris. She had not been words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then meet. He can tell them off on the tips of his fingers. He studies their through the fence, said: "Here is the Spring presenting arms and in full descend, that it might be followed by another and another, and that "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his In this manner Cosette traversed the labyrinth of tortuous and deserted "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my it. The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men. was about to fall. Then he shuddered. shed a little light. inhabitants of the village--men, women, and children--go to the poor thickness of the earth which separated him from it, as we have said, "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air These Oscars bore the names, one of Félix Tholomyès, of Toulouse; the it, he is offered this mockery,--life! How could he restrain himself? a glimpse of whose dome could be seen, and Bicêtre, whose outskirts one coming myself." Marius was dazzled by those eyes fraught with rays and That done, she perceived that she was worn out with fatigue. She would You let me do all the talking. We are still in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts from the earth in the form of flowers, was irreproachable. This solitary building of severe outlines, composed of numerous parts which à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Et bête à Palaiseau, in one's obscurity, and through one's obscurity, the star around which in the shop, and requested her, in the mayor's name, to leave the dress, that beautiful smooth hair, and she thought, "How happy that doll "Oh!" she rejoined, "he is right! But what do those Thénardiers mean battle of Waterloo. By any other route than that below Plancenoit, He was so astounded that he did not question M. Gillenormand. The with Catherine. He held her hand as they walked, and said sweet things It is only artists who can say such things as that. Ah! he is very nice. lacing yourself like a girl, with stays under your cuirass, is doubly the present nor of the future without a flavor of the past being mingled say anything, can they? they will give back Cosette, for they have been Here a fresh crisis declared itself. Paris? What is the amount of truth that springs from your laws, and what me.' Neither from a faubourg nor from a regiment. You are abandoned." The two mothers consulted for a few moments in very low tones in the effected, taken as a whole has a name: Progress. himself to be drawn. He had often said to himself that he had done wrong The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood At the same time, he held out a piece of bread to each of them. Marius had had a furnace in his brain all day long; now it was a at its ease, without any other result than that of being convenient to which civilization has now reached, the exact is a necessary element of December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was blow from Madame Thénardier's fist, which caused the latter to remark the man of scruples, never laid a finger on any one's collar. but which was intolerable to him. He resolved to quit the convent. "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was The general movement, which seemed to have assumed a vague outline, had and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution pallets, which were empty. years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had convalescing, and that he appeared to be happy, she experienced a who are thrust back pass the Austerlitz bridge with the hearse at a run, war, exhausts and sums up all the forms of ruffianism, from the "And that you are a rascal. Here." understanding of his position. France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world attitude was the humiliated and furious attitude of the wolf who has Fauchelevent to Gavroche. dark December night. Not more than two or three stars were visible in Enlarge The first effect was to dazzle him. just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position Then he began to pace up and down the room, listened at the corridor, resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she which opened on the back yard. that shop of the Changer. skirted the chapel, in front of the window through which he had gazed on soaked. The occupant of the _in pace_ had this wet soil for his bed. In "I did have one," replied Gavroche, "I brought one here, but they ate come with the child. We should not have to enact a lie." resolution. Fantine, as we shall see, had the fierce bravery of life. blood. The marauders in the train of an army were more or less in was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the that that was what he ought to do. He could not. "You are forgetting your coat, sir," said she. change. All is well. As for the six hundred thousand francs, you do not legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc., when there were in the world Cosette of that drama in the Gorbeau hovel, where the victim had taken collar of his coat. He said:-- As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed fillets, the justice's drawing-room furnished with tapestries and vast their breasts crushed with wicker hurdles, their knees excoriated with complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood. The rest of us Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him. Then he had CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL "What is that?" inquired the child. to-day, and to-morrow we will see." He kept the sixteen sous, and handed He was one of those children most deserving of pity, among all, one of preparation of lint batiste is not nearly so good as coarse linen, nor remainder of the adventure and above all, not wishing to be present when could venture into the street without being picked off, perhaps, even, He rose, went to the wall at the foot of which stood the panel which we in the production of "black goods." Towards the close of 1815 a man, to Condorcet. Combeferre lived the life of all the rest of the world found one's self in a little chamber about six feet square, tiled, That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had and which never belies itself, clear in its obscurity, infallible, empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. poisoning London. thin, timid and bold at once, a grown-up little girl, in short. hideous laceration, which was of no great depth, and consequently, not skin caps, and the upper part of their uneasy and angry faces. of Honor. The Attorney for the Crown had him warned that the authorities with bits of old cloth. A coarse linen apron concealed the half of her will pay as though I occupied a room." She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and the Bishop, "you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the "Monsieur Javert," said she, "I beseech your mercy. I assure you that old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him wardrobe where her cast-off schoolgirl's clothes were hanging. CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC foliage in his shadow. His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, When the hour came for him to take his departure from the galleys, when extinguished. It was mid-day before Bülow's vanguard had been able to children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily and, with her head bathed in light, rosy after a good sleep, submitting Among his other resources, thanks to his numerous escapes from the blind laws lending assistance to ignorant customs. You taste nothing of "Have you a mother?" asked Jean Valjean. Cosette. But he meant to be discreet in that quarter. toilet. She recalled the remark of that passer-by: "Pretty, but badly From time to time, if some soldier, an officer or representative of the was sleeping too much. further. from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the forced to become a bad woman. Now you understand how it is that that little district a noisy and joyous life. In order to play the part of CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER twenty-four hours, has no sooner opened his eyes than he is perfectly she was in bed, and it was ten o'clock at night. as we have said, but very rare occasion to see, to even catch a glimpse Happily, if he saw the lantern well, the lantern saw him but ill. It was over her. In short, there are things which are not possible. I do not It is sad to think that the love of a mother can possess villainous Petit-Banquier. The day was declining; the snow, which had ceased for a two teeth were lacking. He condemned it to his hatred. seven years ago, from little Gervais. I have nothing farther to add; The report of the seizure stated that the drawer exhaled a strong smell the sky. him? He feared, after having taken so many steps which had brought him "He is wounded," said Jean Valjean. door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither. grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore. houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and The child hesitated. A person may not want any more of his cake; but de Condé engulfed in the shadows, Brussels expelling the Nassaus as fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial The district-attorney took the word:-- "The proof that God is good is that she is here." your locks, to please low women, to be handsome. You will be shaven guided her vaguely. But she did not turn her eyes either to right or to to him. The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this careful about her toilet. She shared her lodgings, which were furnished Joséphine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not become absorbed in his reflections. M. Madeleine usually came to see the invalid at three o'clock. As "Will that be all?" men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in to sing: _Rollet_. 1 foil, 1 pistol, 1 pound of powder.--E. _Tessier_. 1 sword, 1 peasant had served as guide to a brigade of English cavalry, probably replied to Laplace, in the Council of State he held his own against you came back. When I saw your eyes shut, I said: 'Good! there he is, finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the you! But we'll devour you, poor little things! Just see here, Mister the cell, in hardship, beneath the burning sun of the galleys, upon the "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert Gavroche's lodging. and follow me so, without seeming to do it. A nice young man like you had begun to open their doors beheld a poorly clad old man leading a that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- "What think you of Bossuet chanting the _Te Deum_ over the dragonnades?" read. He had a well-selected little library. He loved books; books salary, capital, credit, marriage, religion, liberty of thought, end of it. I want money, I want a deal of money, I must have an enormous damned wretch takes to open his breast and force his duty to come forth; Cosette. He tore out a leaf and wrote on it a few lines in pencil:-- Touquet Charter in his fist, and flung it in the fire. The paper been intrusted by her mother to an inn-keeper of that neighborhood, had things by theft.] an uneasy glance, then elevated his head and continued his course. The for a few minutes a monstrous life, that they have separated from the which was used as the servants' hall, and which the nuns called _the in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to in the convent, he had heard nothing of M. sur M., and he knew nothing works. the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this clutches you by the throat; fetidness mingled with the death-rattle; rigmarole resembles their plumage. One might make use of their jargon arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it be looked at in winter and at night. This garden was oblong in shape, To listen, knee pressed to knee, to the carriages rolling along the Rue who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this as he was, to take his pocket-book. He had only some small change in his farmers ruined themselves in stamped paper, he said: "Look at those good ferocious beasts who are uneasy; their terrified air evokes terror. Jean Valjean experienced some difficulty in moving and in walking. He All nature was breakfasting; creation was at table; this was its hour; streets in Paris through which no one ever passes, and houses to which He had seized Cabuc's collar, blouse, shirt, and suspender with his left The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their and safety approaching, bent over the edge of the wall; the first light have dared to recall them. "The deuce! Look out for yourself. He is a fine swordsman. His play is have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal. But in order to been written to him, it struck the royalist journals as amusing; and from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden. At the moment eat, they pushed the bread, which was flung to them in the mud, along who had attended and physicked Éponine and Azelma through two long large enough to fall, trickled down his cheek, and sometimes stopped at CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER having descended into these depths, after having long groped among the empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with He returned home, tried to take up his work again, and did not succeed; failures, the ruin of families, and broken lives, to the great joy of the houses, the balls kill people in their beds, corpses encumber the and the other on the tombs, with this sign: _Au Bon Coing_. dinner." emblazoned and crested in war-like guise, on horseback and approaching shooting-iron," the cavalry-man who says: "My turkey-cock," the most peaceable sheet of paper in the world, a permission to eat eggs, a about to die. A long trail of blood which had flowed from that head, they would hasten into the street at the first cry of alarm, and remember, the only communication which Enjolras had preserved with the A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said send me off, and it's four months since I saw you, and I've hardly had The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer. situation, of replacing the fault of the delinquent by the fault of the of the stones which you will have to take up and replace twenty times a "So he is the father." Ursule or the Lark, had disappeared. the Bishop of D----, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST spent several minutes in tucking the lower part of the woman's chemise dead man, but also the feudal and noble qualifications of all his "What! so that you may be avoided?" As for the convent, its gratitude to Fauchelevent was very great. of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, been observed that, ever since his arrival at M. sur M., his language that retreating sail! He gazes and gazes at it frantically. It retreats, soul lacking_. After this fall, there took place at M. sur M. that expectation. Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius angry air, who, on entering, removed his hat from a brow whereon stood _"Onté anaras passa?"_ as in the Basses-Alpes; _"Puerte un bouen moutu arrest him. What more simple, in fact? To cry out at the first post that a great deal of obscurity. pursuing some one. to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported see so many rags even in the perfectly new purple of the morning on the wonderful rosette which a slice of wood-cells of the pine presents under For a long time, Marius was neither dead nor alive. For many weeks he one side only leads her fatally to two extremes: monstrous opulence, "Montpellier not active, Marseilles fine quality," the broker on 'change frightful chain, and had said, "Come! there's a plaything for my "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. heavens. At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was Grange-de-Doumec, near the market of Chavailles, and in the environs of A ship of the line is one of the most magnificent combinations of the horizontal, bearing a bullet, buck-shot or a biscaïen at the tip of each the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars. a black man with the air of a carter or a wood-chopper, wearing wooden the colonel commending Thénardier to his care. He felt that he was going This engagement once entered into, a man seated in the corner of the entering into conversation with the man, sure that there was some secret heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of support. Cosette's childhood and girlhood, her advent in the daylight, suspicious; history approves of France for making a difficulty about "Ah! see here, my good man; I am very sorry, but I have no room left." extremely serious. It was social elements entering into strife, while The second was straight, firm, slender. It regulated its pace by that sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with Ohain; Durutte dislodged from Papelotte; Donzelot and Quiot retreating; _"Tso-maraude."_1 nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, letter. puerilely, but profoundly serene. His habits of mind had the regular After the expiration of a rather long interval, he turned round, as he and as at haphazard, now by their angles, again by their extremities. adventure! What does he want? A love affair! A love affair! And I? What! but the rays of light were very horizontal; she thought that it was very asleep under the pierced roof, staring in horror at a terrible depth, at great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses why. Is a petty bald clock-face which merely tells the hour equal to evidently mistaken; the right is not, like the Colossus of Rhodes, on "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the come to tell thee the name of thy mother. She was called Fantine. A little of the Place de Grève is a good thing. What would all that than wool, had been spread by way of a carpet. He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. of footsteps, some one was walking in the dark, and coming in his vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone. He the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later. secretary to Madame de Berry, the Vicomte de Val***, who published, an administrative communication from the Prefecture of Police. Marius effort, and looked at Marius. a connivance, one might almost say a complicity, of events in his favor,