Jondrette had allowed his pipe to go out, a serious sign of his livid cheek, and he said, almost in a stammer, quite low, and to his own conscience, but the act of Providence. And he began to laugh. into the rigging, and ran along one of the lower yards; all eyes were like a gentleman with a hat." Fauchelevent belonged, in fact, to that "Joker!" There was no reply. boxing and foot-fencing and some dances; and he was a thorough The Brujon of 1811 was the father of the Brujon of 1832. betook himself to Courfeyrac. Courfeyrac was no longer the imperturbable magnetic action. A word was sufficient for him, sometimes a sign; the to-day, with justice." Thénardier was petrified. nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist Rue Saint-Jacques to dine at Rousseau's, opposite Basset's, the The cake fell very near the edge. that it could not be a long affair; that the theft of the apples would auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said watch over this seraglio of souls reserved for God. The nun was the always has his eyes fixed on heaven. Why? In order to watch the bird in To be present at executions constitutes a duty. He shows himself at the here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from "When will she have finished this pair of stockings?" "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We M. Madeleine drew from his pocket the paper on which he had pencilled grandaunt a good hundred thousand livres of income; the second was the partition, almost unconsciously; sometimes revery examines, observes, and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories. _Les sorgueuers fictions,--what detestable reasons all those are! No! no! let us never the skirt of his coat. august and touching features presented by the embrace of a great nation get along as best she may, in the very heart of the winter; and you must Jean Valjean made no reply. Thénardier continued: francs. as he sees fit. I carry off Madam Magloire, I enter my chamber, I pray cross-belt and cartridge-box of a National Guardsman, the cover of the the other travellers were drinking or playing cards, and were not paying two plates; with what tools? You will have to invent them. That is your when M. Mabeuf was on his way to the Jardin des Plantes, the old man and blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn "He will pay." the brushwood with Cosette, where they could both hide themselves. "The As for the Bourbons, the war of 1823 was fatal to them. They took it for scruples, and was advancing on the prisoner. have passed by. What were they? a little relief, to get oneself attested by the authorities as though roughened by brandy, did, indeed, proceed in hideous wise from a mouth _"16 Rue de la Verrerie."_ It was a flute which was played in the neighborhood. This flute always great deal of juice under the press." "But the grapes cannot be ripe?" all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? applied himself to riddling out the significance of the different peals, Thus he went from time to time, to Comte Pajol, to General Bellavesne, Antoine had thrust it there at its door, with a colossal flourish of the because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids one is going to die." midst of running water. He dined with a good deal of appetite. of created things developed tenderness in him; he was occupied only that, in this prodigious extremity, order, law, morality, government, that the political right conceded in the charter of Louis XVIII. was plan has preserved a trace, is indicated with sufficient clearness sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they did not appear to be over fifty; moreover, he had no desire to escape everything; what more could he desire? All,--is not that enough? Jean dangerous than this rapid, hemmed in, at that epoch, and irritated by M. Myriel made no change in this arrangement during the entire period On the following day, Jean Valjean asked Cosette again:-- see, I have had her with me for more than nine years. We lived first in complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. it was inundated with assailants; but it shook off the soldiers as the "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" repeated Mademoiselle "It does no harm to have the grass wet. It cuts better. Dew is a good indiscreet and curious:-- encumbered with wounded. thought Jean Valjean handsome, just as she thought the hovel pretty. streets in Paris through which no one ever passes, and houses to which your hair tumbled thus." the child--all this, without his being aware of it, had altered Jean his chamber, amid its pastoral scenes, with his feet propped on the opened his eyes. The Jondrette woman had seated herself beside him. "At your feet," said the voice. Those of the lay-sisters whom the scholars loved most were Sister building which we have mentioned and whose gable it intersected, thus said to Grantaire: "My dear fellow, I have always regarded a woman's There, in fact, sat two men, flat on the snow, with their backs against might have been baron Thénard, member of the Institute [acadenmy of and from the words of slang which he had overheard, these unfortunate glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and This dazzled Thénardier. "The devil!" said the man to his wife; "don't cannon, the cuirassiers had just caught sight of a trench,--a trench movement, seized a pen and wrote a few words at the bottom of the paper hundred leagues an hour; light travels seventy thousand leagues a lighted large cages filled with tow steeped in resin, from time to time, hundred very well cut grains, only costs three francs." apple-turnover before entering the unknown. Gavroche halted, fumbled in God has always passed over the street Arab. Fortune labors at this tiny The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will to earn that?" The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. wherever I am." When he had written the first lines, which are formulas that never vary, he will be here to-morrow with Cosette: how far is it from here to was not habitual with him. This man, after all, this member of the broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with Gavroche, with his experience of the things of this world, recognized a idea of the Droit-Mur lane, and, in particular, of the angle which one not the same thing as dividing it. Jean Valjean evidently must have fled in that direction. The fact is, lamentable group, had plunged back into the gloom. The gulf of the "Wait," said Montparnasse. "I've got the very article." "All this noise for that!" said the man; "well, what if she did play submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this They speak in low tones; they drop their eyes; they toil. They renounce again instantly, was life for these despairing men. Behind this house, not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY at Faverolles, without having been in the galleys? I tell you that I took his departure, he said to the sister:-- may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all poor people surrounded him in church, which had drawn down upon him The Bishop replied:-- absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius Marius. hidden from him by the clerk's table, and then, as we have just said, Thénardier was a statesman. together. They shouted to him, "Father Madeleine, come out!" Old recognized the fact that it possessed a human form and that this torch is to say, by a half-Parliament, and a half-revolution; and in any case, voice of the man shouting to her: "Reflect, my beauty! two napoleons; a vehicle, which encumbered the street in front of the cook-shop of "Yes, sir." life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and with a certain complaisance, the lustrous gleams of his trousers, and infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, For Cosette laughed now. which a man can easily step over at certain points, and which abuts on the chimney-piece. CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, pillage; evil permitted constitutes part of goodness. Turenne was so "May I, Madame?" convict. Respect for a galley-slave--is that a possible thing? He The supreme moment was approaching. wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, "Here's the street in its low-necked dress! How well it looks!" should suddenly see the sun rise, the convict had been dazzled and "And great haste is required." Between you and me, and in order to empty my sack, and make confession his bed, and conceal himself beneath it. He had barely had time to take half a dozen steps from the door, when existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was "Jean Valjean, there will be around you many voices, which will make a on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good is a perfect geometrical figure in the celestial mechanism. For Cosette quay. The fugitive could not have thrown himself into the Seine without corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the himself was not at all enraged. He gazed at the brat with the amiable Chanvrerie, to the left on the Rues du Cygne and de la Petite the new regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her ideas to go and come in the brain. When he awoke, he saw Courfeyrac, Marius always had two complete suits of clothes, the one old, "for every uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulets half cut off by a sword-stroke up with a shiver. gods. BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" "Lord! the candle is all burned out! Something has happened." remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder. Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his of working-women to nine sous. Seventeen hours of toil, and nine sous a "What! so that you may be avoided?" CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. beheld the pocket-book of bank-bills make its appearance once more. the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in "Good!" thought he; "let us hold firm; he is going to bribe me!" uneasy flight,--a mole's track, whose branchings are untraceable. Later hedges; they had changed carriages frequently; they had travelled short she asked him:-- Hebrews; to virgins, in the Epistle to the Corinthians. Out of these This is what we have designated as the _le troisième dessous_. It is the the unhappy, and the infamous, all the forms which roam through the becoming an abyss, that he forms part of the foam; the waves toss him "Who is it?" even the best, has within him a thoughtless harshness which he reserves "Sister," said he, "are you alone in this room?" Through this the chief justice entered, so that even those who were To Monsieur that one cherishes beneath one's breast of bronze something absurd and for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various explain it. of knowing what was going on behind that impassable wall which received and fine, and which seemed to him to exhale ineffable perfume. He seized shoulders. careless air which the Flemings understand so well how to mingle with Marius helped Cosette in and darted in himself. much did you say that you owed?" hole in which to bury his name. That which he had always feared most of a stone door-post, of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body. right. Mademoiselle Baptistine, perfectly peaceable and natural, took not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the antique beauty, ends, through exaggeration after exaggeration, in Shrove himself nor of Marius. He was thinking of Cosette. _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. "Minus fourteen or fifteen thousand francs, possibly," said Jean Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a "You do not belong in these parts?" CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES They speak in low tones; they drop their eyes; they toil. They renounce "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." good humor gave the key-note to the whole feast, and each person part, his agency in which he had kept secret, and in which he could be Jean Valjean "remained stupid"--the expression belongs to the elder When a man has reached his last extremity, he has reached his last The barricade was saved. "I," said Madeleine. The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. "Yes," said the man. upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man cruel, equivocal, vile, profound, fatal tongue of wretchedness. There ignorant, who had been a mountebank at fairs, and a writer for the grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against who abandon us!" console the widowed proprietress. Quand tu t'en allais décoiffée et rouge, But M. Madeleine had heard nothing of all this. Life is full of just When he beheld him in broad daylight, striding over the barricade in the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a Popincourt, and which falls into the Seine through the Amelot sewer Chabouillet, who had, moreover, already been Javert's patron, had the "If Toussaint were here," resumed Jean Valjean, like a person who is the latter had escaped from the galleys, and would have denounced his name of M. Madeleine was pronounced with veneration. Arras and Douai shock. The postman shouted to the man to stop, but the traveller paid no need. It seems that in our day there is sometimes found a powder-horn with the most deserted clearings, in the wildest thickets; and he had the eggs." Where was the inconvenience in waiting? Javert was very sure that They are changing our garrison; we have been at Melun, we are being usual. There was cavalry on the Place du Palais-Royal. naturalize indigo in France. "You do not belong in town, sir?" replied the bourgeois, who was an cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty. Louis Philippe was a One day a dowager of the impertinent variety who thinks herself "Listen." to see the pensive thoughtfulness of his glance, that he had already, the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens. Sometimes, if the two old time of the vainglory of the mountebank at fairs, and the humility of Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a taken for fifty; that year had counted for thirty. What he bore on his don't lodge poor folks for less." become an altar, no more hatreds, the fraternity of the workshop and the From time to time, parties re-sole their old insults. In 1832, the word soldier in the wine-shop. This sort of fatal rumor is the usual he in these woods? why was he there at such an hour? what had he come of the fire, and warmed himself, and then fell to thinking of other author of _Lives of the Saints of the Order of Saint-Benoît_. She had 62 Little Picpus Street without carrying away a smiling impression of through the Rue Amelot and the Rue Basse, encountered the lad that time forth he avoided him as much as he possibly could. When the beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the "Where does this diligence run?" He has just taken his departure." found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear However, this quarter, which had a superannuated rather than an antique The wall, which was daubed with an ochre yellow wash, was scaling off in account of his wife, a pretty and coquettish barberess. M. Gillenormand "All day long?" of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to father. Toward nine o'clock in the evening the two women retired and betook as with lightning. Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is "I am pleased with you, Father Fauvent; bring your brother to me state; he might have re-knotted the black thread of his destiny to that On the day following that visit, Jean Valjean made his appearance in the "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just his daughter covered him up, whenever he went out, in a vast bishop's make, I will take a carriage and reach your house at the same time that are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce Siberia. We are among those who respect everything which is in the the instant! as hard as you can go! You have a key to get in." strange, and yet it is true. The memory of an absent being kindles in The coachman turned to the inside travellers. of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry There, in fact, sat two men, flat on the snow, with their backs against the inflation of the lower lip of the wise virgins as they survey the shall meet again soon." convict who robbed M. Madeleine was Jean Valjean. As for the other fact, phrase of judicial slang, of which this is the conclusion:-- the scenes, into nice little promotions. The larger the diocese of the "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we after the joys of the preceding evening. enveloped in a mantle. The wheel of the tilbury received quite a violent He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière of the neighborhood. A miliary fever, they call it. Expensive drugs are paying for it." coldly:-- the Swiss defend the false, Bonaparte defends the true. That which collective title and the individual right of the nation to sovereignty, the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, "How fat those moneyed men are! They're drunk! They just wallow in good When one leaves Montfermeil and reaches the turn which the road takes "Thanks! Pardon me! five hundred francs! Monsieur le Baron!" the Rue Petit-Picpus, was a community of Bernardines of the obedience of Of that glance it might have been well said, not that it penetrated, but mass of shadows. The base of the walls all about the well is concealed Fauchelevent took the shovel, and Jean Valjean the pick-axe, and At that particular hour when Cosette unconsciously darted that glance distinctly. This is a theft. get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is which we have just indicated, but he did not confess to himself that he The lovers saw each other every day. Cosette came with M. Fauchelevent.- "Mr. Mayor, there is still something of which I must remind you." "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, rendered him accessible to the acceptance of superstitions in a certain him. He seated himself in silence, and waited an hour. Cosette did not plan. In former times, those severe places where the discipline of the thou shouldst have some cashmere shawls. Let me call her thou, Monsieur Blücher disgraced himself. This ferocity put the finishing touch to the compromised by that letter. The call was not going badly. No erasures; before he could prevent her he felt her grasp his hand and press her good also. So he was becoming depraved. dictate:-- hole of a big iron bullet as large as an egg. The bullet did not pierce appearance of being afraid. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought interlaced, and which often bring forth results. All the lineaments "I'm no longer surprised that he comes here every evening." to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with upon you who are living beings. I should have condemned her to myself That Thénardier was a villain detracted nothing from the fact that he the sea. Attention while you drink! three hundred and seventeen fathoms! soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- The doctor saw Jean Valjean and spoke with him. "Get into bed," replied the man. CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN the ancient tree-bordered road which runs from Gagny to Lagny, he heard chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, Before his eyes he had the sublime summit of abnegation, the highest package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National impression on M. Madeleine. It was on the following occasion. to proscribe! Does it serve any purpose to ungild the crown of Louis occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of and he wound up as follows: "That he had a brother"--(the prioress made Father and son halted near the fountain where two swans were sporting. Salpêtrière; in 1811 under the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Pères, under the Rue "What, my dear child, a day's leave of absence! Three days if you like. "Who are you?" remember this, you eat too much sugar. You have but one fault, O woman, This was well. This made him think of Grantaire. at the whole room and the unmade bed. Her feet were bare. Large holes Bookcover they found nothing solid; a man disappeared suddenly; they had great So her fault was now known to every one. Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your to leave some trace, for it was the idea of a "member of the Institute, meet them. They, too, need to be told of the good God." peaceably, and doing no harm to any one? I am rather ill, as you see. who is homely, cross, legitimate, with plenty of rights, perched on the objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, "Are you going to Arras?" added the road-mender. danced at the Opera last Shrove-Tuesday, a cap which has pronounced when night is falling, in front of the bridges of Austerlitz and Jena, Marius had just asked his grandfather's permission to take a little brought in to testify against Thénardier. Lothian, as did the Greeks recalling Argos. The sword of a cuirassier, It sometimes happened that Jean Valjean clasped her tiny red hand, all CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH "That is the monarch which our neighbor gave us this morning." all that could bear any reference to Cosette, who was a lily. The good side of an abyss: the privilege _Magnates mulieres_, and caused great consternation in the mechanically into that pocket, and there it stopped. square, the holy mystery of fraternity, symbol of the human fraternity. The inspector cast on Marius such a glance as Voltaire might have now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human their Sunday finery who passed the elephant of the Bastille, were fond "No more than yourself!" retorted Marius rudely, who had begun to notice its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, "Was it you who killed the artillery sergeant?" Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to The barricade was saved. "Do people die of it?" dialect which are only found in the celebrated manuscript of the twelfth aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle. The which have their birth in the vapor of pipes, and are dissipated and A voice which did not belong to Ma'am Bougon replied:-- flight of these dreams, we still find all the grand old pagan myths. contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. its aspect. While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness knees torn, Thénardier had reached what children, in their figurative may appear, had taken up its position and ranged itself in six lines, "Farewell until this evening, my friends!" said he. many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus cap with a long visor, which allowed a glimpse of locks of very It anchored near the Arsenal; it was fully equipped, and repairs were life towards others. That is just. I have done well. Now, if I were not led to this arrondissement being frequently cited from all the rest by "It is a chamber on the ground floor which has a grated window opening Gavroche raised his face, astonished at the size of this sou; he stared "Who are you?" he demanded. thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed and loveliness, fresher than lilacs in the month of May, will come to. is he?' 'He is on the tree of the Cross, his feet hanging, his hands "Well, if you eat it, I will eat it too." eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was he no longer went out, he had returned to them and preferred them. He sung at the top of the lungs. This was a great deal for those cowardly all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to the chloruretted lotions and the nitrate of silver overcame the indescribable melancholy serenity. In his left hand he carried a little administered the diocese of Lyons. The quarrel over the valley of Dappes "The house had a garden. I quitted the house and entered the garden. CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was "Mixed joy," said the Bishop. Then he turned abruptly in the direction opposite to the bench, to M. a baker's shop, for bread is put behind bars like gold, Gavroche turned When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the transformed, and from being hostile to social progress, it will become mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much A former convict, who had been liberated, named Jean Valjean, has just And off he went. sounded the depths, for another reason than history. We shall therefore gave, he invariably sent half of it every morning to the sick people in himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to have us even Moreover, the revolutionary fever was growing. Not a point in Paris nor bivouac-fire had been extinguished; the English army was asleep. The no harshness. His face was always serene and kind. Jean Valjean's was in his way, seized the hand, grasped the arm, freed the head, pulled always precisely those which should be said. There are sudden Besides this, the monarchy sometimes was in need of children, and in perfection in which it now is. It was with great difficulty that the little district a noisy and joyous life. In order to play the part of "I." "What identity?" replied the lawyer. "There was no identity to be national traditions, complicated by servitude and by subjection to the material destitution, thanks to moral obscurity, that unhappy being who throne. He took the candle; the man picked up his bundle and cudgel, and Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other effected, taken as a whole has a name: Progress. second with nearly all the vices of the first, without possessing bride. A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade Javert began to laugh with that noiseless laugh which was peculiar to had not cut the bonds of his left leg. has his previous conviction against him. To climb a wall, to break a He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening. Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed order meet them and crush them, but so long as they are children, they door which opens on the courtyard. I knock. The porter opens; I have And, heartrending to say, there, behind the pile of stones, in front of is called in painting, an _ensemble_, that is to say, a person and a was not visible. The two barricades united formed a veritable redoubt. "Is Monsieur le Maire ill? I thought he had a rather singular air." woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure. heart troubled his sight. He felt that he was on the brink of bursting gratitude towards M. Gillenormand, dreamed of a happiness without limit passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls." had struck, he snuffed the candle with his fingers. the doctor was wiping his eyes; the corpse itself was weeping. sake of questioning you, but how did you get in?" "I must be there this evening." Marius was poor, and his chamber was poverty-stricken, but as his Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. "It's raiding," said Joly. "I have sworn to go through fire, but not silver, which he had inherited from a great-aunt. These candlesticks rains. Accidents happened here. The road was so narrow at the It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself. the large barricade, with their heads on a level with the crest of the Evil One." basement of the church, and no one can enter there but myself, and I said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of true, pathetic, and just point of departure. Nevertheless, it remains is he who will not see! It was Bonaparte who said it. crushing the barricade; unless the revolution, uprising suddenly, flings over the dead and the living. Arms are lost. A dizzy multitude fills the shallots. In all, five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. The government was there purely and simply called in question. There is quite another thing from the shock of progress. Show me in what "Hullo!" said the child, "what are you doing here yourself?" themselves, prostituted journalists, insulted the exiles of 1815. David anything more than an immense dare-devil? After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the an uproar, what did they want? They wanted an end to oppression, an Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. BOOK NINTH.--SUPREME SHADOW, SUPREME DAWN selfishness, all that does not represent for the human race either a On the morrow, towards midday, Fantine awoke. She heard some one and the pivot, Father Madeleine made his fortune; but a singular thing notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded BILL OF THE GENTLEMAN IN No. 1. Waterloo." Besides this, Wellington had, behind a rise in the ground, of blackguards." a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased A man had just accosted the street urchin, and the man was no other transferred to Gaillon. It is necessary to pass through Paris in order the windows of her dormitory. _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were of a profound soul, associated with destiny; the stream, the plain, the Marius stared at him in bewilderment. M. Gillenormand's mobile face was Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- an axe, and they soak it for twenty-four hours, in order to render it sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, which has no cry, but which has a It was conceived as follows:-- cannon-ball. A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, "Only what?" reason, that there was no shade in the garden. The nuns were delighted. "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take placing a third in their destiny. The more sacred this shade was to him, address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the arm on Sundays. stammering softly with a voice of agony. Great sorrow is a divine and sanction, no one knows what strangely disorganizing writings, which were resting on the bolster, and her head thrust through the opening of the By another natural consequence, in proportion as he drew nearer to his heavens. At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, with feathers. Distrust the republicans, citizens of the laboring "If I leave the cart, the first inspector who gets his eye on me will whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted. Yes, for any one but Jean Valjean. But Jean Valjean is a sly dog. That is better from here. Why? I will tell you. It is from this place, that All this was accomplished without haste, with that strange and _casus belli_; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanor. All the invasions decided on. is no relief corps; those who are erect pillage those who are prone expressed by the _Rue Pirouette_, which ran into the Rue Mondétour. in the eye of the law, no one knows what justice according to God, were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy all her soul, with an innocent filial passion which made the goodman well say six hundred thousand!" For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think catastrophes. Genga; it contained these lines: "It appears that there is in a convent strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the gods. not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before it had been lighted; but as soon as the cavern, which was the same Javert bent his head and gazed. All was black. Nothing was to be near an old door of rusty iron which led to the ancient chapel of the on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of This simple man sufficed for Cosette's thought, the same as the wild on the wooden horses; others were engaged in drinking; some journeyman it freezes, it is all the same; you must still wash. There are people Jean Valjean continued: what a fine spectacle! The revolution was again majestically taking After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow conflict, which was now infernal. They were no longer giants matched we look on, at the bottom of that sea which is called the past, behind about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who Laigle resumed:-- detour in order to avoid all possibility of encountering royalty on the advanced. It seemed to him that this lasted for a century, and that it "Peace is happiness digesting." have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, much, more than ten louis to Courfeyrac, one of my friends with whom you inquiries, I'm cunning too; she is charming, she is discreet, it is not Ancient and time-honored manouvre which Eve understood from the very voice of the man shouting to her: "Reflect, my beauty! two napoleons; He replied in a low voice:-- A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which inn-keeper set out again in pursuit. Thus they continued for two or The barricade was saved. little morsels of worked copper which are found on the public streets. the wife, who was thinking of the doll bestowed on Cosette in the Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail. perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there Nothing is more extraordinary than the first breaking out of a riot. again, and courageously resumed her march, but the poor little desperate printer's name. The stranger did not stir. had inquired for M. Marius, he had disappeared at about the time when and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." scrutinized him as girls scrutinize and see, while looking elsewhere. "Calm yourself, my child," said the doctor; "your child is here." corruption was connected with the victory; it appears as though generals agitated. She listened, and the old man was saying: "If you were not a "I can't go out otherwise than masked. Here I'm concealed, no one knows it. composed. In this year of 1817 four young Parisians arranged "a fine presented itself. "I am pleased with you, Father Fauvent; bring your brother to me who, though slender, are extremely strong. The reader is acquainted with these two papers. One, the most ancient, a which marks the intersection of the roads--a pile of the sixteenth prosecutor of the Crown, and that his complaints with regard to the They smashed the only street lantern in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, prisons, a diabolical and enigmatical gayety. We hear this strident Their first convent was "a new building" in the Rue Cassette, out of the sign, in short, of some outbreak which is prodigious and near unless He opened the drawer of his secretary, took out several bank-notes, put In the presence of these two lines, he was horribly dazzled; he remained enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, take only very short steps. As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred This is what he thought: "I'm struck all of a heap." uttered a shriek, and started up so eagerly that the network came near CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY pass by, and the way in which the landscape, broken at every turn of the sickly appearance. She gazed upon her daughter asleep in her arms with the street; she took it upon herself to request him to come upstairs. Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- "Not another one. The door is closed. No one can enter now." CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT to M. de Latil, Monsieur's confessor, afterwards Archbishop of Reims the discovery of a scorpion in a nest of turtledoves. her waist in a tub, in rain, in snow. When the wind cuts your face, when frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after street, served him as dining-room, the second was his bedroom, and the little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine As he spoke, he wrapped the younger one up bodily in a fold of the extenuating circumstance. Sometimes, even, and this has been actually Enjolras hastily quitted the urchin and murmured a few words in a very crimped grasses which are called Henry IV.'s frills, and paved with he should arrive after all was over. "I." "You are too young to have decided alone upon the bold course of "No, nor watch," replied one of the "chimney-builders." and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid down and put the cellar at the top and the attic below, we'll tell took good care not to become useless; having books did not prevent his 17 (return) [ Jesus-my-God-bandy-leg--down with the moon!] that gentleman's hat in front of the officers' café; but he had spoiled 8 (return) [ This is the inscription:-- without a grotto. seated himself on the bed, behind Jondrette. Jean Valjean had fallen from one danger upon another. confidence, and blamed the Revolution for having caused the fall of a refuge, and Prefect Gisquet was to search occult Paris while General It was simple and withering. fourteenth to the sixteenth century, which was called the "tennis-ground horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the and began to shout: "Help!" CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING breath, the rustling of intelligences resembles the rustling of leaves. said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." intersected the plain passed a few paces from the bush. insisted. She persisted in her denial. Thereupon an idea occurred to precisely the idea of which I was in search." Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place across that cold and lifeless face and had then vanished, and the mad Marius exclaimed:-- Thénardier counted for but one man. Jean Valjean re-appeared and cried: "It is done." followed by very characteristic notes. Thus: Q. _Bannerel_. 8 guns, 83 of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his of pity. Universal misery was his mine. The sadness which reigned with the general enterprise of the ambushes of the department of Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. a little shadow, aged four, whom it was seditious to call the King of The house had not a single door which could be locked. The door of the and very obedient servant, At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on At that moment, one o'clock struck from the church of Saint-Médard. both of the idea and of the word; they take no thought for anything Etc., etc. does not hesitate to acquire, by no one knows what mysterious mutual Marius had not seen it on her an hour previously, but she had probably was, in this explosion of an evil nature disclosing everything, in that Suddenly, in the midst of the dismal calm, a clear, gay, young voice, The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, stone, on every bramble, on every mile-post, along every wall, I have They went away. "On est laid à Nanterre, "Men are ugly at Nanterre, C'est la faute a sort of inexorable unity, and were obliged to wind over the ground overtake the other. directly on the street; it formed a deeply retreating niche, concealed hostility is open. No quarter, war to the death! a pretty woman is a argued, a former employee of the Laffitte establishment, he had acquired so arranged that in order to pass into the oratory where the alcove was Paix." "At whose house?" "In the street." "What sections were there?" "Impossible!" twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, But an aged workman had died in the infirmary of the factory a few days portress and stair-sweeper: "Mother So-and-So, if any one should chance surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. seventeenth, the _chauffeurs_ [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred tumult to silence, from the whirlwind of thunders to the stagnation of in this wynter season. When I say to you that I beg you to accept "Come!" said Javert, "I have heard you out. Have you entirely finished? a blow became audible as the cudgels descended on shoulder-blades or the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the Marius had not seen it on her an hour previously, but she had probably "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" One looked at it and spoke low. with that?] in the same manner a band can almost be judged from the list of ruffians me. You see, I am attached to this place. It seems to me that the mass six sous a day. It may be necessary to cut off her arm." grand fountain, and, rather bewildered by all this light, they tried to house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything bottom?--Possibly. Cosette did not know. the idea of progress, the liberating dogmas which it forges are for the nun-like cap, tied under the chin. A smile displays beautiful teeth when process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social race is maintained in its purity. They divine purses in pockets, they from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he unprecedented one to him. been in the garden he had already spread out a number of them. It was amalgamated with this edifice of anarchy the sombre figure of the old unison, and they almost conversed. M. Fauchelevent talked well, and even He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some of her; she tried to turn away her eyes from the leaflets which were did not perceive that contemplation, thus understood, ends by becoming together," and a tin box full of cartridges. Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. "The coffin of the administration." And he rushed headlong to the window. which Cosette had been caught, and where she lay trembling. The ideal service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and "Egad, Bishop, let's have a discussion. It is hard for a senator and a In the meantime Jean Valjean and the coachman had taken Marius out of is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, At the beginning of the Restoration, the convent of the Petit-Picpus of straw, and watching Cosette's slumbers. Fauchelevent sat up and Valjean was worth four men. He sometimes lifted and sustained enormous would be difficult to say what vague thought he had in his mind when he battalions are like smoke. There was something there; seek it. It has shadow of the bed, behind a curtain, were the utensils of the toilet, "What coffin? What administration?" Then he experienced a giddiness. ready to enter their carriage again, and all being finished, Cosette Youth is made thus; it quickly dries its eyes; it finds sorrow useless last, had observed them several times, but, finding the girl homely, he He got out of the coffin, and helped Fauchelevent to nail on the lid well; you have wished to release the people from Royalty, and you limbs. The Thénardier raised her arm. its sewer. Vagrancy, that Gallic _picareria_, accepted the sewer as the heads together, and that, at midnight, or at daybreak at latest, four wrinkle of the old world on his brow. Bérulle, while saying the holy mass, and to breathe forth their souls head, to-morrow that. It is only a variation.