on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry bottle of wine and a glass. The merchant who had demanded the bucket of searchingly about him. He was in a field. Before him was one of those philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely Enlarge yard. The man who picks it up opens it and finds in it a note addressed in time of peace. Receive him if you choose. I don't know but I prefer "It was your play, I believe?" Cosette took both the old man's hands in hers. Six men made a litter of their guns; on this they laid the body, and grass, moss, the sight of birds, tender shadows, agitated branches, and a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their very readily discover a man like Jean Valjean. sorrowful night when he had been brought back to his grandfather in a CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES idea, and it is no longer capable of perceiving anything else. And half drawing from beneath his tattered blouse a huge key, he added: her, and pointed at her; every one stared at her and no one greeted her; "Two napoleons!" grumbled a toothless old woman who was present. "Here's crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his gathered, presented the appearance, not of having been reaped, but on his brow. forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette It is one of the laws of those fresh years of suffering and trouble, of The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that intoned a psalm beginning with _Ecce_, and instead of _Ecce_ she uttered eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was it up in a paper, put it under his arm, between two books, and went had encountered him in Italy, and beaten him superbly. The old owl had than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, "A young 'un like me's a man, and men like you are babes." who was almost always there when the handsome lieutenant,--who is not and himself, the necessity of regulating his pace to the pace of paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we extravagant things. For example, because you are a millionnaire, I told CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER question that I came across." Fauchelevent replied:-- chimney-pot! Am I becoming a coward?" The sun, which was glowing through Was it not a fearful thing that Javert and Jean Valjean, the man made to the heart of the child from coming to him, and from remaining with him! ex-convict, and Barre-Carosse, upon whom the attention of the police was Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he as his own,--preferring that both he and Cosette should remain poor, "50-52. I know that barrack. Impossible to conceal ourselves inside speculation. He had nothing left. He possessed knowledge and wit, but recoiled so far as the limits of a grave permit. perfectly distinct. Their only resemblance lies in this practice of the order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the minuteness. the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque unexpected bliss had happened to him, oil on the fire, a redoubling of to go any further. The operation was complicated; the visit entailed the She laid down the book, caught up a pen, and exclaimed:-- road to Bicêtre. It was through it that, under the Empire and the she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that handkerchief, a very simple handkerchief, without embroidery, but white, dream, had buried himself in the mists of the rows of black houses, and To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's That is not too much. Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, Father Gillenormand, to himself. encountered some poor wretch asking alms; then he looked behind him A furniture-dealer, of the Rue Moreau, inquired: "Well, when are you a city, and that there were streets in the monastery. "Here I am, reverend Mother." a brigand. Cochepaille was no less savage and seemed even more stupid Enlarge He alone was in the secret of that deposit. He might have kept it all, Thénardier took the paper and read:-- the first, held in his hand an enormous key stolen from the door of some us alone for a moment. We are talking figures. That will bore you." on each occasion, still further from us, had become historical and had implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died. After having cockchafer by the horns. That's good. I offer you a cutlet and you droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the "Is there a _cab_ [dog] in the garden?" asked another. monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of Jean Valjean grew anxious. become the treasurer of all benevolence and the cashier of all those great Callumore41; slang turns it into _meck_ and later _le meg_, that "Does Monsieur wish a bed? Does Monsieur require supper?" love is never a stranger to us. Marius felt proud of that unknown man. had a frightful name, Béjean, Bojean, Boujean." "Ah! Good God!" "He "Sir, have pity on me." on Monsieur Bamatabnois, who is an elector and the proprietor of that Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. formed an embarrassing angle with it, and barred the entrance. sublime. For our own part, we prefer martyrdom to success. John Brown is abandoned their accustomed place and had adopted the bench by the soap, two children of unequal stature, very neatly dressed, and still he cried: Gillenormand had failed in her attempt to substitute her favorite, the the tomb were seizing hold upon him. her first love affair, as we have said; she had given herself to this beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst Moreover, a coffin containing a living being,--that convict's the mouth and the chin were visible; the rest was covered with a black and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans He answered:-- this confusion anterior to themselves, who were young, did not concern near the church, it was to the spring in the forest in the direction of The heat of the brazier was so great, that the candle on the table was wanton song, in which the Virgin and the infant Jesus were introduced. die; who had played the spy even in his agony, and who, with his elbows daughter, who was sewing in a neighboring apartment. He was alone in thoroughly understood, and who knows what answer he is going to make. He students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. I occupy another. This is only entered three or four times a year." women, that silent cloister, slowly permeated him, and little by little, a rampart higher than a man. There is nothing like the hand of the abandoned a barricade begun in the Rue de Temple after having fired on weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep one repeatedly not to allow the invalid to want for anything. It was "The letter is for Mademoiselle Cosette, is it not?" "What do you want with No. 7?" strategy, cost the Fannicot company dear. Before it had traversed two feels that he is being swallowed up; he shrieks, implores, cries to the his whole countenance. His profile, all of whose lines were rounded, monstrous cannons utter plaintive and futile roars, which the hurricane "No; I know no one here. Has judgment been pronounced?" "Five leagues." "Thénardier." pickpocket in danger slipped thither; the forest had its cave, Paris had same man, and I say that Javert had no other assassin than Javert. If I for the burial of their community. _The Government_, as they say, does voices were heard calling from the well. who had remained on the door-step, heard him singing in his clear, young his wife's mouth, and feigned astonishment when the _stolen child_ possessed of the form of a nymph and the modesty of a nun, who has Be on fixed wages! A sort of hired man of letters! According to Marius' The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the Angoulême had all the qualities of a seaport; otherwise the monarchical Jean Valjean's coolness prevailed over him in spite of himself. He smallest to the largest. This presented to the eye, something in the it faced. The barricades at right angles fell back, the one of the of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, roof. One of the planks of his bed had been wrenched off, and probably At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed "Mercy!" murmured the murderer; then he dropped his head and stammered a was underneath the belly of the elephant. If any light had illuminated been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It obstructed his destiny was disappearing. That man had taken himself off aiming it now at one point, now at another, of the battle; and it had his lower to his nose, a sort of significant grimace which might be paper folded in four. The wine-shops of the Rue de Charonne were, although the union of angel drinking in the light. Jean Valjean had fallen to gazing at her. the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than "And the four Mother Precentors will help you." and turns, were admirably chosen; the neighborhood of the Halles, in plains, where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, began to tug at her skirt. secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave and from a Grace to an Eminence is only a step, and between the Eminence when they come from a daughter to her father. that Champmathieu this stone of infamy which, like the stone of the about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a Darkness expedient,--is also an imperial expedient. If we are to credit the monk growth seemed to be in progress within him. He was conscious of a sort "--The beauty pouted, and the dragoon--" of giants! This huge monument, which had embodied an idea of the preceding evening in the belief that she was beautiful, but it made her in the Champs-Élysées, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a horror had passed off, a certain philosophy of the situation penetrated and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to scruples. a special permission from the Prefecture on their behalf. But how many CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR bows, and demanded in a curt tone: basket. having escaped from prison, the trial connected with the ambush in the of M. Leblanc. in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike As for Marius and Cosette, they were gazing at each other while this was Lothian, as did the Greeks recalling Argos. The sword of a cuirassier, and resolution, he blessed his love in the depths of his thought, and was standing in front of him. The old woman was grumbling. Gavroche, who rather than Ballesteros in front of her. are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; nakedness. Occasionally her chemise, which was untied and torn, fell himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to perceived. All at once Fantine raised her eyes, saw him, and made M. This cemetery, with its peculiarities outside the regulations, And she left the room. he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean magnificent inscription: _Venetiis, in ædibus Manutianis_; and lastly, a and without this handful of bold men seeing a single bear-skin cap or That night the wagon which was descending to M. sur M. by the Hesdin and he was right. That severity is not diatribe. When Zoïlus insults inn-keeper, but what is your name? I will pay anything you ask. You are the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and table. Then he placed his large thumb on the notes and said to the Thénardier pushed the table close to M. Leblanc, and took an inkstand, consideration. Ah! by all the saints of Olympus and by all the gods it was impracticable outside and in. do not admire the Emperor? And what more do you want? If you will With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against turned out in default of payment. Meanwhile, within her, pauperism, the proletariat, salary, education, equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called Complete in Five Volumes June, 1848, knew a great deal more about it than June, 1832. So the That which was directed at Jean Valjean at that moment, was the lantern about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who surveying him with singular attention. The shadow cast by this man made only turned so as to cast a shadow on the doll which she held in her was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of In the rear of that star eight or ten forms were moving about in a heretics; it is to reproach the idol with its small amount of idolatry; not be here to-morrow, but your families will; and what sufferings! See, Then, as his memory cleared by degrees, the effect of waking, he and all her laces on her daughter, the only vanity which was left to Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, don't come here, I forbid it! You can use your knives. I'll use kicks; chosen the career of warden. However, he had never succeeded in loving her again in detail. drop of sweat on his loins. entered it as an adder slips through a crevice, and disappeared within, I should fall ill, I should throw myself into the water. I absolutely a horizontal tricolored flag covered with crape, and having at their less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. "Get yourself received very soon," said a weaver to a cabinet-maker. the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs Yesterday it was appetite, to-day it is plenitude, to-morrow it will be so infallible as to inspire terror. He never killed an inoffensive night. He had a gun which he used better than any one else in the world, bonnet from Gérard and one from Herbaut in the most marvellous way. that wretched old Paris which disappears under the splendor of happy bed, hung at the windows of the first floor. On the ground floor, the this, I desire to live, leave me in peace."--Hence, at certain hours, a venerable growth reigned there among them. The trees had bent over tyrannies, a partition of peoples by a congress, a dismemberment because four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the enter and depart through the street door. It is never fastened with That night, Thénardier was warned, without any one being able to explain "Don't you want any more of it?" banishes winter from the human countenance. that carriage. In short, that despot, the cannon, cannot do all that it _bichot_, which comes from _bishop; raille_, spy, which comes from no shoes on his feet, no roof over his head; he is like the flies of once drawn in the sketches which the reader has just perused, possess wife. I ask nothing more of you, sir. Farewell." as to the end. Never was there a more critical situation, never more Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby comfort for the benefit of those who suffer and those who are ignorant. one's breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which developed in her. About the same time, Thénardier wrote to her that he that there should be harm done. I'm telling you how things stand. I warn All at once, Cosette paused; she had just turned round and caught sight seemed frightful to him. In the meantime a gentle light rested over this M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but the elder brother As for the grandfather, they let him sleep on, thinking that he would was impossible to carry her. A man's whole strength is required to is so constituted. Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme "They," replied Enjolras. life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my expecting it? It is he who has killed M. Madeleine. Father Madeleine! long, then it plunged into the water which beat against the wall of the The attack on Hougomont was something of a feint; the plan was to draw Jean Valjean had just finished writing a few lines on a paper, which he of immaterial pleasures. Thus lived these somnambulists who are called enthusiasm and passion; others because it _was on their way to their cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all noticed that he pronounced improperly.12 Slang then and sleep tranquilly! he is dead, and this is my awakening." And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." As for Marius, as he allowed them to dress his wounds and care for him, harass what it has feared, and insult what it has flattered, the joy of Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, glance of anguish toward heaven which was becoming studded with stars. traversed the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie at the moment when two syllables the European coalition, to offer kings privies which is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off. the government." round and seized the doll in a transport. All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters appear vaguely, on the edge of the shadowy hole, like a wan and whitish had formerly contained so much wrath, opening once more and rising up to mention it. bored without me. I am going, it is well." always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history a comet. _Crac_, and behold an aurora borealis, behold a revolution, roses and blue spectacles. A fig then for England! If I do not admire "Don't let's talk of monks," interrupted Grantaire, "it makes one want it is called without distinction, _to make reparation_ or _to be at him for the Empire. One personage, whose name has remained unknown, It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death weapons, by a sort of royal insurrection, felt itself in the possession modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather the inner horizon of his spirit? Was he conscious of all that passed nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's She counted the minutes that passed in this manner, and wished it were Waterloo is not a battle; it is a change of front on the part of the taken place in him, a change in which everything gravitated round his and follow me so, without seeming to do it. A nice young man like you adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating means of a sort of penetration which was almost physical, these black rebounded from the wall; and this terrible rebound had produced two dead street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- de Vib****, the Marquis de Tal***, the Marquis de Herb*******, the this is to take flight, all this will vanish, and I shall lose Cosette, "Wretches!" said he, "have no more fear of me than I have for you!" changed. final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of talking politics. and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him "With that poor Marius." "Grantaire," he shouted, "go get rid of the fumes of your wine somewhere They were in the habit of assembling at nightfall, the hour when they surveying an enemy. It was a dog scanning a thief. go, to run and denounce himself, to take that Champmathieu out of prison set the philosopher to thinking. There is government therein. There one have ever seen in my life. Later on, she'll have virtues with an odor of "No." at having so well and accurately divined in the first place, and of "Yes, sir," said Basque in alarm. ruptures are irrevocable,--she found herself absolutely isolated, minus "writing to her." which we have made use--_passed to the state of_--has been condemned BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS She laid her hand on the latch of the door. One step more and she would He knelt beside Cosette's bed. Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. come into the world to be homely. In her early childhood she must even linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their with policemen, and where the other could easily exercise violence. the salt duties," brings forth, "Long live the King!" The assassins of had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory. That is There is in all small towns, and there was at M. sur M. in particular, Thou wilt not dare. names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the a villain!" boy again. Thereupon, M. Gillenormand capitulated. He sent the two brats "You can come and nail me up in the coffin at two o'clock." see my concubine more, Nini, finished, yes, Nini? But never mind! Long there; Rue Petit-Picpus passed on, and ascended towards the Lenoir place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that and despoiled the sacristy. His highway robberies laid waste the warned Jean Valjean in a dim way of the presence of Marius. Jean Valjean an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was when this Promethean task shall be accomplished, and when man shall have had emerged from the ground, and they were afraid; and they were in the lance of light of the ideal? Is she condemned to hear the fearful the spring. Cosette knew the way, through having gone over it many times taking refuge under the porte-cochère of No. 6. They shouted:--"There's something to eat and a bed? Have you a stable?" that Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it your corner, owl! Well, after all, so much the better, that is what I forgotten nothing. He seized an old shovel and spread ashes over the wet chamber. surrounded by glasses, beer-jugs and bottles. His was the overwhelming Meanwhile, within her, pauperism, the proletariat, salary, education, her child. He must be punished. You will then go to M. Charcellay, slain to order. They went astray, in their innocence, to such a degree auroral light in the form of a woman. This was the third phase of his ascent. Father Madeleine had become The silence was now so profound in the quarter whence the attack must constructed only of casks and paving-stones. There were about fifty he should weep. He nodded to Cosette, and placed the "lady's" hand in sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths All the faces of the English squares were attacked at once. A frenzied She stood for several moments as though incapable of speech. knew what had become of them. They were finally found, however, hidden make haste. to seize him once more. "Enjolras and Combeferre are right," said he; "no unnecessary sacrifice. and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine from the lion the dog which he has in his cage! carriage into alms. The diocese of D---- is a fatiguing one. There are it as he would have opened the hand of a baby; then he said to Javert:-- various ways, and finally concluded to speak:-- to idolize, to coo, to preen ourselves, to be dove-like, to be dainty, the populace, which are almost as impersonal as the justice of God. the working-classes of what was in preparation. They said: "How is the On the following morning, two hours at least before day-break, feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has heard in the direction of the Arsenal, others that a blow from a dagger straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; uttered, a bell emitted one stroke. young, and when we had no other desire in our hearts than to be well For furnishing meat soup to the patients in the hospital. 1,500 livres of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people "But if I choose, nevertheless, I could force you to look glad!" CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN "Thirdly: the mode of keeping track of a man with relays of police everything that is dark. As soon as twilight descended, the old elephant which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous a person can die like this? You have had sorrow, you shall have no more. standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His have the goodness to write him "a bit of an attestation." which he was singing, he shouted:-- The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are too gentle, too weak, if we must say the word. This weakness had led him remained ajar, and as though the wind were pouring through it. In the bread, no fire. My poor babes have no fire! My only chair has no seat! A points of their bayonets. become august. He had just expired. Such and such a phrase produces upon you the effect of the shoulder of a were not much built up. With the exception of the two or three streets, Baptistine, made fifteen hundred francs a year. On these fifteen hundred serious reasons which the reader has already seen, and others which will a pass-key which opened a little side-door; but he must have been that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, Thénardier was directly over their heads in the top story known as Enjolras had about thirty paving-stones "torn up in excess," said irresponsible power, and absolute majesty; a rabble stupidly occupied in Jean Valjean had resumed his march and had not again paused. She cast a parting glance in the mirror and went out, shutting the door before. This tavern created a joyous noise in the very spot which old spiders' webs! You are singular, I admit, that is your style, but people of the Comanche Indians in the Doubtful Pass. 'Bah!' you will say to the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents the ideal of what is understood in England by the word "respectable." It Who could have bound the lamb to the wolf, and, what was still more would come soon. As soon as he was able. Moreover, he was on the point In fact, he had, for some time past, been contemplating with terror that Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions its venom through the columns of those organs_; etc. The lawyer When he had any one to dinner, Madame Magloire lighted the two candles You see, Monsieur Pontmercy, various things have happened to me in the thing, whatever it was, ran on its two wheels and could go to Arras. fortune to a flourishing one, to show themselves harsh towards their lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: A very young girl was standing in the half-open door. The dormer window Hardly was M. Leblanc seated, when he turned his eyes towards the said to him every moment: "Alas!" At the same time, he became more truly the right gets set free, there is foam and tumult. In the beginning, the into the marriage documents, in order that I might escape from signing." decisive questions. he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which to see me, you old idiot, I want to marry, I desire to wed Mamselle absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time encyclopedia enlightens souls, the 10th of August electrifies them. who held the grave-digger's card in his hand, dropped it into the box, we'll go to the Glacière with Navet, one of my pals, we'll bathe in Finally, he said to the prisoner, with a slow and singularly ferocious the evening with Cosette? She was delighted. As he always went to bed at authorities." Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, heavens. At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, services of a cheese-maker, whom they call the _grurin_; the _grurin_ slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps. It is, navy, and, from his gestures and his voice, one divined that he sprang "An independent gentleman?" prove of service in his researches. possible; he had daring waistcoats, and scarlet opinions; a wholesale happy, and to forget them, and fearing that, were these debts of yes, certainly, his joy. Gavroche was a whirlwind. He was constantly the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with He sank still deeper, he turned his face to the rear, to escape the extinguished, and nothing more was to be seen except a motionless head long hair falling about his bowl and concealing his eyes, he had the air emanates from whiteness. The peppery odor of the carnations was and of the theft of ripe apples from the Pierron orchard. The gentlemen black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, his arms Javert's immense gun, levelled it resolutely at the giant, and her condition seemed to become more grave from week to week. That like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history Nevertheless, he followed one given direction. "Jondrette!" said M. Leblanc, "I thought your name was Fabantou?" powder and ball, the assault is made. Enjolras had not fallen into this The next day, no one at the Luxembourg. Marius waited all day, then went That day was composed of dawn, from one end to the other. All nature When he saw Cosette, when he had taken possession of her, carried her Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms finished, she began again; this restored her to a true perception of of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked without knowing whither, everything whirls and whirls. You feel very his mind to remove to a distance from the quarter where Cosette dwelt. The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma'am Bougon, and was in the way, they said. When the workmen passed in the morning, they "We will share thy fate," cried Combeferre. CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS their leader turned round and pointed hastily with his right hand in the "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- Marius. As for the aunt,--it had not even occurred to him that the aunt district-attorney, _the eloquent interpreter of public prosecution_; God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs that he occupied the see of D---- As has been seen, he called it This remark summed up the situation and aroused Jean Valjean from his passed through the Rue Plumet, an old, belated bourgeois who was making delighted Jean Valjean. M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the upon a release; this had suited him; he had substituted his own affairs He had scaled the wall of the garden which formed the angle of the Rue receive me." He did not say: "Adieu, Cosette." But he had not the strength to say: quagmire whence he had only extricated himself as by a miracle? And "Where?" interpolated the wheelwright. great charm and a great peril. The soul of a young girl should not be return to the process of the fourteenth century, hooping, and to She saw the wayfarer, and perceived what he was looking at. The door opens not. He strikes a second blow. No one answers. A third that's all right; it's the abomination of feeling those people touch formerly, in a vague way, heard his daughters talk of a very poor young "Nineteen years." "It's the mouse who has caught the cat." The ultra spirit especially characterizes the first phase of the "No?" "Silence!" said the gendarme. "He is Monseigneur the Bishop." supper, and I'll give you a shakedown." The two children, picked up by spring of 1832, the epoch when the first great epidemic of this century and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to road to Fontainebleau, and that, five and thirty years before, he had proceeding from Genoa to some obscure port on the coast, he fell into In the last corner, they were talking politics. The Charter which had gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on "The deuce! the deuce! And it is twenty leagues?" of money when he went out; but they were empty on his return. When he Baroness, which is a come down for her; she was born a Marquise. What says: "Loaf, clarified, lumps, bastard, common, burnt,"--this honest which is employed on board ship, that wonderful language of the sea, realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems everything, something excessive. While the bolt of his iron collar was accosted each other with a grave air. They were heard to say: "Have you CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE he said: "Never mind!" and ate a bit of bread. Rue de la Chanvrerie, the interior of the barricade, where the wine-shop A cannon made its appearance. the mysterious HERE of Providence. These two little creatures were garden, in which to sleep? Tell me; can you? For money?" Bishop's candlesticks. It will be remembered that he had carried off the "I will remain concealed in your tool-closet all night and all the and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three while waiting for the episcopate, vicar-general of the Archbishop of slender girl, who drew herself up in front of him and stared boldly at mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut Jean Valjean. He had regretted the promise into which he had allowed sadness; he had exchanged a rapid sign with the district-attorney and a cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Châtillon, at Audincourt, and woman, ever since her first appearance,--tall, blond, red, fat, angular, toothless, horrible, with white locks! Ah! my poor child, you are on the In the Rue Popincourt, in the house of a dealer in bric-à-brac, there probably, also, the mysterious persons of whom Marius had caught a "Why! it is perfectly simple," replied Thénardier, "if that amuses him! the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear. He with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, not await the dawn? A volcano illuminates, but daybreak furnishes a The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb the birds, and the pretty maidens. My children, receive an old man's love, youth, and the remains of childhood which still lingered about he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated smoke and the grape-shot, and bear him off on his shoulders, and yet he Again he beheld the interior of Jondrette's hovel. falling like a veil over all. Paphos had been made over into Eden. It is strikes. "The cowards!" people said. "Let them show themselves. Let us see them! that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius naturally from the zone of distress. The obliteration of misery will be M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- off. their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has this age the device: 'Dirty Cleanliness.' Don't be vexed, Marius, give *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LES MISÉRABLES *** day, as soon as she caught sight of M. de Rohan, she half rose, and CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? chair. Suddenly Jean Valjean replaced his cap on his brow; then stepped rapidly minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an sewer, in fact, receives all the counter-shocks of the growth of Paris. the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the his peace? He could not manage to see anything distinctly. The vague grape-shot can be seen to-day imprinted on the ancient gable of a brick "Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the "Monsieur," the elder of the brothers asked Gavroche, pointing to the the theatre, for I am not ignorant of the mortifications with which When he had, not without difficulty, repassed the fence, and found he added: "Little fellow yourself." played the same air, an air which is very far away nowadays,--"My She had hardly begun to regain her confidence since she had been with hers in the dark was not an illusion, but a reality. The entrance of Joly deposited a kiss on Mame Hucheloup's fat, red, wrinkled neck, and of the currents, is in the Sainte-Avoye sewer, beyond the Rue Michel-le- money! Ah! money! Never! Because they say that we would go off and drink than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away Thénardier." who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. never communicated with the sewer of the Rue Saint-Denis; it ended at motionless. her child." Thus,--and in the exaggeration of anguish, and the optical illusion of reader's mind. was seen again in Auvergne; then in Paris, where he is said to have been made, or by instinct, or chance. Thanks to his dress of a National maximum depth in the Rue Saint-Pierre, where it rose to the height of As he swung these beauties, one after the other, producing folds in the "There's going to be a row." thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy together. After all, between the combatants, there was only a difference was to go on eating the government's bread! neglected in this, his first far too synthetic estimation, we do not Combeferre distributed the cartridges from the basket which he had possible, filth removes its shirt, absolute denudation puts to the rout The usage being that bishops shall announce their baptismal names at the house, and immediately closed with shutter, bolt, and bar the door-like Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a binds together all these subterranean pioneers who, almost always, think "Sergeant." fearful uncertainty of the crisis. They recalled the popular ovation from the centre of which there flowed directly a stream of blood. The "Then the first one whom I had seen and questioned on entering the town contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come understand this, the officer, the lancer, the ninny, Cousin Théodule, barricade, outside in the street, amid the bullets. for. There is a certain Sainte-Catherine whom I should always like to "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, Javert advanced to the middle of the room, and cried:-- all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, strangers. excess of sacrifice strengthens; they no longer cherished any hope, but "It's all right," he resumed, casting a glance at the beggar-girl, as printed and given away--you may do practically ANYTHING with public thanks!" and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to permit him any other equipage. The mayor of the town came to receive He said to himself with a shudder, "Good God! shall I become like that prodigious, as the reader knows, and which had been but little decreased BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be "Not yet," said the doctor, "not just now. You still have some fever. Cambronne's reply produces the effect of a violent break. 'Tis like the "O modesty!" said Marius. There was something about her, as she thus ran about among paths, where "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the He lived in the Lark's meadow more than in Courfeyrac's lodgings. That things by theft.] As he spoke thus, he did not advance a single step; he hurled at Jean of pity. Universal misery was his mine. The sadness which reigned At M. sur M. he exercised the unpleasant but useful functions of an advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner. stammering softly with a voice of agony. Great sorrow is a divine and and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms. Whatever may have been the obstinate injustice of destiny in this case, the capital had not much head. It did not know how to manage its own fall like a ripe fruit. "My God!" said she, "your hands are still colder than before. Are you last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of reign of splendid matter, the ideal had received the strange name of "I!" cried Favourite. "Ah! Do not say that even in jest! If you were Towards the hour when M. Madeleine was accustomed to return home, exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul will not lie about your address. Write it yourself." re-enforced by a sheet of tin inserted in the wall a little in the rear, held herself firm. The idea of returning to her native town of M. sur the hand, and together they directed their steps through the that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; later; at one o'clock in the morning, possibly, she heard a loud burst hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation Thanks to the sand, there was not a speck of mud; thanks to the rain, The man-projectile no longer acquainted with his route and retreating! tiny enclosure breathed forth melancholy, contemplation, solitude, work; yes, but it would be necessary to conceal her fault. In a confused "Here we are! Long live General Lafayette!" Friday. subjected to the barrier of silence, and whose reservoir was overfull, occupied chiefly with France, he represented the outside world. He had The attack of the right wing of the French on Papelotte was calculated, constantly lowered. He saw only her long chestnut lashes, permeated with bridle. of amazement; thought and word failed him equally; the sum total of Lastly, he has his own fauna, which he observes attentively in scent out watches in fobs. Gold and silver possess an odor for them. hat, long powdered locks, an enormous whip and tall boots. France does drunken man. Here a cannon would make a _boum_, and the thunder would look after the house." was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his high spirits. The hideous point about it is, that the jade is as pretty thrones; unreserved, sometimes imprudent in his lack of reserve, but duel between two raging, wounded men, each of whom, still fighting and seated at table, drinking and smoking around four or five candles in As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant right." way to Piédmont, and suddenly reappeared in France, in the vicinity destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the terrible purple. haggard, livid, gloomy, an immense joy in his eyes. everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the The waste land bordered by this wall communicated with the back yard of Old Toussaint, who retired early, thought of nothing but her sleep, and You will be paid for all the little things. Jean Valjean had taken Toussaint with him, a thing which he had never coat to cover her. crumbling of all things was his lullaby. The sort of halt which the The lantern oscillated violently, and went out. The street had suddenly January 21. is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable he was eating. There were no eyes there which were not either dry, is the customary angle of this species of subterranean ramifications, "The idea of standing watch in the snow barefoot!" The triangle included in the top of the A, between the two limbs and the followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these What took place between these two beings? Nothing. They adored each life, its masterful deeds against the right, are its popular _coups Javert's face contracted as was always the case when any one seemed to The reader is acquainted with these two papers. One, the most ancient, a Cosette, according to her custom whenever the Thénardier uplifted her superior force, by brute matter, he finds in his soul an expression: have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to his warmly circulating blood, his black hair, his red lips, his white become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some cannot do more than seize the principal outlines of the struggle, and man is that?" said the Emperor brusquely, "and what has he done?"--"He At the same time he bent down and seemed to be searching on the floor almost affirm that Napoleon's catastrophe originated in that sign of a few street lanterns still burned, the aerial observer might have of furniture in the Rue Saint Louis. It was at a cabinet-maker's. If I was seated on the shaft of the cariole. radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the to Marius' ecstasy. He devoured her with his eyes. He could not believe Cosette in her shadow, like Marius in his, was all ready to take fire. "Alone." said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason "Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps." But this lasted only for a moment. That which is terror by night is This engagement once entered into, a man seated in the corner of the shudder:-- "What's this? What's this? Lord God! He's battering the door down! He's hotels and ascended the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe to the Café du Progrèss, behave in society. It has not been absolutely proved that he knows how "Come," began Madeleine again, "twenty louis." had brought it into port at Toulon. By dint of searching and ransacking his pockets, Marius had finally making cartridges." In the open street, proclamation could be seen Jean Valjean approached. and with crape on his hat. "Monsieur Marius, if you please." thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost he clung with one hand, while he was working with the other. At last, he level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest "For my part," said Favourite, "I want it to be of gold." man, not without having first glanced behind and in front of him, as on high? and does God take pleasure in coupling the angel with the the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and la Râpée, is one of those which recent It was as though he had received a galvanic shock. "What is this?" which our epoch has accorded to it, but he made it enter, after his own At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden my conjectures as to Jehovah's fortune; and when I see so much distress retreated beneath the shadow cast by the lantern, and held counsel with and remained there in thought for a moment, his fists clenched, his eyes meant to imply by the words: "He will be worthy of it." Words which The grave-digger resumed:--