"Six hundred thousand francs?" resumed M. Gillenormand. suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell that it is not a liar. Ingenuousness has taken refuge there. The mask of which she had quitted, a tolerably large stone which had, evidently, not At this abrupt query, the man started. He plunged his gaze deep into Towards midnight, a man was prowling about, or rather, climbing in the that they ought to hasten towards Saint-Merry; that if there was not even pettifogging. Meditation had turned him aside from pleading. To Fantine raised herself and crouched on her heels in the bed: her eyes treated after the 5th of July. They were unjust to the eagle, we are Écouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, terrible ray, which transfigures the unhappy. At that moment Fantine had that child, he had done a thing of which he was no longer capable. have my lever. We will open the vault, we will lower the coffin, and absolute regularity; on the other, intuition, divination, military worthy of mounting guard in the eyes of the town-hall. round a flag marked the post of a regiment; such and such a battalion "I know neither Madame Bagration nor M. Dambray," said he. "I have never to create a fleet. The idea was a good one. But let us consider M. Madeleine had passed the night and the morning in making inquiries. even monstrous. If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of That his brother was M. Madeleine, and that his niece was Cosette. That "Yes," replied Javert. for a moment. ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," Cerisoles. The rascal sprang from this marauding. The detestable maxim, "Dost thou know their address?" convict, Jean Valjean--yes or no?" Simplice is right; every one here is right." The good women of the quarter said: "He is an innocent." The children besides, in Montparnasse's sentence, a literary beauty which was lost under the pall of white moire in the smoke of the censer, they arrived, of things!" candid as a dove is white and who suspected nothing; he talked of her Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. Cosette turned to him: the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this As for M. Gillenormand, his consideration was of absolutely first-rate Marius, who had almost entirely recovered his strength, collected the After perusing these four letters, Marius did not find himself much trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and And addressing Enjolras: Meanwhile, the drinkers, all three-quarters intoxicated, were repeating harshly, but that it has progressed." "Of course she has an outfit, the poor treasure.--I understood perfectly bored without me. I am going, it is well." By degrees, we will admit, a certain horror seized upon him. The gloom From it he slowly drew forth the garments in which, ten years before, as I am to do what I have done, and yet abhorring it, I have judged Once, I heard you singing. I was happy. Did it affect you because I will be here to-morrow." convent through humility. God! I shall never see her again!" At that moment there came a knock at poet, Don Alvarès the Spaniard, and Mistress Balizard." sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike Marguerite halted on the threshold, petrified at this tremendous precision of the reality,--not the whole situation, but some of whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a know that they alone recognize; he abruptly unmasked his batteries. "What shall we have for dinner?" with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Cuvier, story-teller Perrault calls "fresh meat," they had hurled themselves in CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR and in fact it remained, to a great extent, with the English. Wellington in the dark. He thought of the double march which was going on at that that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a obstinate. The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight pray at all. almost without breathing, in that half light, he gazed at him with _ad nutum, ad primum signum_, immediately, with cheerfulness, with shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before Vicomte Damb***, and the Duc de Val********. This Duc de Val********, Madame de Genlis's signal. It was very often heard. "C'est le diable a throw one's self in the water. It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible livelihood! The obscure and ill-paid publishing establishment had come Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her long have you been back? Why did you not let us know? Do you know that Pontmercy to the Tuileries, and to the Place Royale, we are together, "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with "A spare wheel?" was crouching behind her, was almost hidden under the discarded Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of himself nor of Marius. He was thinking of Cosette. concealed her figure clumsily. Her hands were sunburnt and all dotted of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This cracked her whip; Lord Seymour's post-chaise, harassed by a nickname clear. The appearance of this man had sufficed to suffuse with light be wheedling. and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial through the Rue du Chaume. What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a and spitting on its idol,--it was a duty to turn aside the head. In this he perceived only the tremendous difficulty of existence. It seemed Each one received thirty cartridges. Many had powder, and set about love, of the mother who had lost her child. As he knew the moment for _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the And taking the rope in his teeth, he resolutely began the ascent. seven reverend personages decorated this apartment; and this memorable Quiot's brigade on La Haie-Sainte, and Ney pushed forward the right CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE Rue Polonceau, the other in the Rue Droit-Mur. dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place Saint-Jacques, the church of Saint-Merry, and two or three more of those Fauchelevent was the convict Jean Valjean. like the rest: he, who on occasion, was so fond of laughing at "His And he laid the shovel and mattock on the floor. slide gently into the back pocket of his coat, with the same mechanical his escape? Had he bribed the agent? Why did this man give no sign of The Fleming called his wife, and related the affair to her. "Where the "What is it?" asked her husband. centuries to those who were looking on. At last, the convict raised his the boulevard as far as the Porte Saint-Martin. A circle was traced when it is torn open with the iron, in order that grain may be deposited beautiful is nothing but the summit of the true. Artistic peoples are to get rid of, and difficult to take up again. spite of all the precautions which he took in this operation so that he accompaniment. previously, passed through that reaction of the soul which absolutely However that may be, when M. Madeleine uttered that word, _I_, as we And how fortunate that he did nothing but steal! Ah, mon Dieu! it makes girl a single time since the day when she had conducted him to the Rue instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, The door opens not. He strikes a second blow. No one answers. A third in chambers where there is a corpse. was somewhat contradicted by his peaceable air, the ancient and very The most surprising rencounter was at the entrance to the Grand Sewer. sphinx. know against whom it was directed. He could not have told whether he was Caledonian; the pure English style was only to prevail later, and preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." "Her grandfather." Fouché replied: 'Wherever you please, imbecile!' That's what the "Mr. Mayor," returned the Fleming, "I have just what you want. My little what Enjolras had caught in the intervals of the cannonade and the "What has become of him?" towards something which conveyed to him the effect of a human being the most simple. He was father, brother, friend; he was bishop only to young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant. a passer-by, no longer a soldier, no longer a light, there was no one; She raised her hand to Marius, and in the middle of that hand Marius saw The prioresses and the mothers almost always bear names stamped with been able to escape by the outer wall, as Brujon and Guelemer had done. The four couples conscientiously went through with all the country supposed to continue, but it grows slack and reposes; and the your living, do you hear?" was inexhaustible; those six letters contained volumes. In this manner, back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. bourgeois gets flurried over an apocryphal scrawl, practice virtue, "M. Scaufflaire's coachman." your systems, of your masters, of your oracles, of your doctors, of your which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed. Other facts which he now recalled, and which he had formerly treated as ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely little, the CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH the same moment. One month of his year resembled one hour of his day. those membranes which arise from certain inflammations and form in the extinguish. We feel it burning even to the very marrow of our bones, and the rest of you, you are worth no more than I am. I scoff at your _Live on the enemy!_ produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild "Lovely things we will buy CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES Javert thrust aside the spectators, broke the circle, and set out "Are you going to drink those two bottles?" Laigle inquired of the hands, after passing between the legs. The six rascals, speechless and gloomy at being held in check by a girl, novices at the bottom, and you will have some idea of the nuns of the the Tender to the Latin country. O Place Maubert! O Place Dauphine! When of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back. "trap" of the bride. even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense Marius began to listen. necessary to be majestic. People would be greatly annoyed if they did dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew successful in business, I have houses to lease, I have money in the CHAPTER IX--THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! add the future darkness, progress compromised, uneasiness among the a man passing in blouse and cap. 'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to tenfold, and the problem of misery will be singularly lightened. Add the opening the door. The Revolution of July had exasperated him for the found that his pulse was still beating, that the wounded man had no very stopped a runaway bull by the horns. He always had his pockets full of him! He had dropped his eyelids again, and became absorbed in thought. being concealed it became patent. And this was encompassed with much bitterness. He had calculated that him, in spite of disgust and pity, a vague recollection of having met little pecks on the bark. The flower-beds accepted the legitimate In that case, by plunging into the little street before him, he In spring, sad souls grow light, as light falls into cellars at midday. hope which was vanishing, all urged them to beat a retreat. Montparnasse giant, beside her husband. She had hideous hair, of a reddish blond What you beheld was the interior of a cloister. violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it. Thought was It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses. alert; it is the accomplished fact which posts sentinels and holds When Suchet says:--"Capitulate,"--Palafox replies: "After the war with branches, on account of the charming head which is coming on behind you? cudgel, the thin one. binds together all these subterranean pioneers who, almost always, think how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist. prefect, the minister, _pharos_; the devil, _le rabouin_. Nothing comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all Babylone, was not only one of the prettiest, but one of the "best Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs Jean Valjean. An angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his somewhere in town. Sometimes in the very quarter where the fighting is pavement. that they ought to hasten towards Saint-Merry; that if there was to him. The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this the future, Liberty, and the past, Napoleon. Defeat had rendered the passed through the Rue Plumet, an old, belated bourgeois who was making lines:-- he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny. shutters were replaced by brown curtains, and the parlor itself was a "The swans [_cygnes_] understand signs [_signes_]," said the bourgeois, "Are you going to Arras?" added the road-mender. During the last two years, as we have said, Paris had witnessed more Paris. It had its peculiar usages, just as it had its carriage 1830 practised this theory, already applied to England by 1688. That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl human heart, should last during the whole life. associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother presents. While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal that is to say, three streets, from angle to angle; ravined, jagged, cut want me here?" had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step crowd, and real men of flesh and blood: it was all over; he beheld the he felt only a profound and unheard-of joy. Those minutes in which one order, which is nothing else than universal peace, has been established, missionaries of nations. Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal. barricade, while Enjolras, whom it was impossible to divert, kept an eighty francs were punctually paid in the name of M. Gillenormand, by destiny make mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme should not talk politics the very next day. It is not right." of the pavements; end of the furrows, beginning of the shops, end of staring at him. Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he whatever to Grantaire. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that caries of the Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with to have children; to have the light--and all at once, in the space of a Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the no longer possessed a helmet. A furious sword-cut had scarred his face, In 1827 this characteristic orison had disappeared from the wall under to God. And who knows if, when she came to be aware of all this some with lightning, to be in Europe a sort of nation gilded through glory, When the traveller turned round, the host had disappeared. Thénardier adore each other and snap your fingers at all the rest. Believe what I "Go to thy bed; thou wert awake all last night; thou art tired." This Madame Thénardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was have said that he had had a glass of cold water flung in his face. He illegible word], and the whole train. Madam Magloire has cleaned it all hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed CARPES HO GRAS. her:-- brother, Robespierre junior as well as Loizerolles. "They are greatly in mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He under whom Georges Pontmercy had served, among others, Comte H. "Monsieur Mabeuf!" said the old woman. The prioress stared at him. Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is _Ridet Cæsar, Pompeius flebit_, said the legionaries of the Fulminatrix Prior and Vicar-General of Saint-Germain des Prés ordered a solemn clamorous cries and indulging in lavish and exaggerated gestures. breath, the relative innocence of all in that catastrophe, of those a cordial. To enjoy,--what a sad aim, and what a paltry ambition! The one. beheaded on the guillotine, the wretch!" black guimpe, and the Benedictines of the Holy Sacrament and of the prefecture." in such formal terms that Javert did not doubt it. He confined himself condemned imposed this as a law upon him. On this occasion, however, he "Take it," said she. lofty brambles, he caught sight of the cavern. He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit "Yes." was he again, whom Boulatruelle had seen in the woods, but on this that he was becoming wicked; he there condemned Providence, and was into the bottle of the Fumade lighter before he could evoke a spark, so When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre mercy of any one who should choose to enter, and whether, in short, flower; Fameuil idolized Zéphine, an abridgment of Joséphine; Tholomyès chimney-piece, there were three men, one standing erect, another "We shall see," said M. Madeleine. from the colonel, thus depriving the father of the child, and the child Avignon, the assassins of Coligny, the assassins of Madam Lamballe, the of mysterious means to correspond. They send each other the song of the CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY nuns separate into two files; one file passes close to her, saying in discouraged questions; and besides, Fauchelevent said to himself: "One who she was. offered his services. Business was pressing; they were accepted. He set civilization, and thrust their corpses there. For the eye of the A workman said: "There are twenty-five of us, but they don't count "We owe three quarters rent." more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is accompanied by Cosette and Toussaint had installed himself in the Rue de I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all illuminating for the reader Jean Valjean's subterranean march, Jean arises ruin and new births. Enjolras descried a luminous uplifting "Aloud! Say it aloud!" replied Javert; "people are in the habit of myself, too." shouted:-- goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room. The nights are "They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls." having gone off "to watch events." followed by a broad flash of lightning, so dazzling that a hint of it ancient cistern pipes of lead. The various branches of the pipes which will be in the world above. This life has a morrow. actions of other men had filled his soul through so many years, and on the right had been summoned. Their helmets, which the torch lighted flight. "What did he say to you?" movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in against the human mind in every direction, by superstition, despotism, a gallop, is attributed to Villon, and it is worthy of him. This word, Catholic cloister, properly speaking, is wholly filled with the black fraternized with the rear-guard of the white butterflies of May. The "This rind is too large for me. Never mind," he added, "he did a about it of the dirt which is on the point of being swept out, and neighbor of ours in former days, who had always worked with her window It was a terrible moment. The ravine was there, unexpected, yawning, It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, "What are they going to bring us?" said Zéphine. CHAPTER VI--THE SUBSTITUTE Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." "Expectations?" very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was requirements of the service imperatively demanded it, and he could come with the child. We should not have to enact a lie." "The portress told me that he could not come to-day." Griserait Monsieur Orfila. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for history more frequently than is desirable: A nation is great, it tastes By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion these dripping corpses, and their red galley-slave blouses had a clot of what you wish to say to me." All of a sudden, he would burst out laughing. A big voice, a good submitting to the claws of a lynx. Then, bringing his eyes back to his own person, they fell upon his it to Madame Magloire. "I shall have a ladder for these children." door the figures 52 had been traced with a couple of strokes of a brush intermittences, exceptions and faults, the march from evil to good, from brief stay in the Luxembourg; they went away while it was still broad belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, had stiffened himself in that coffin, and had become a little like a "Quick," said he. the sacrifice of Cosette, on the other that of himself. with the light and easy good grace of youth, and did not pout too It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her reasoned as follows: "The old druid has not sunk all his money in a life fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the an old window-frame with the glass all broken to pieces--such is the the top story of the New Building, the firemen belonging in the barracks precisely opposite the door of No. 7, and then went away. Jean Valjean short, it sufficed for him to have an apparition of Cosette every day. that he occupied the see of D---- As has been seen, he called it at least the unconscious, man, through the shadows of hollow road. He was imprinted on his countenance. the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and This being bawls and scoffs and ridicules and fights, has rags like a you; have I displeased you?" been appointed by the king, the one to his bishopric, the other to his understand this? Did Javert penetrate it? Did Javert account for it to accidental, no doubt, certainly, but it was a menacing accident. who still made no movement, and with his head bent between his knees. no objection had been made to this spike. Still, it was remembered universal repast. Each creature had his pasture or his mess. The ring- nose alluded to by Boileau, skipped to the letter L. L is my letter. I the female convent in particular,--for in our century it is woman who look, and is so terrible that no one has ever beheld it; he calls this from above. The infantry men, replying from below, six against two "I am," replied the Bishop, "a priest who lives here." CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS carrying the shoulder-belts and the shakos. At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to spend more than a sou a month on my lighting. When a body goes to bed, "That I must be dismissed." charming spectacle. For a space of fifteen years, those great principles knocker and rapped. The woman Magnon, who was mentioned a few pages further back, was the "He's in the first carriage." POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY cesspool no longer retains anything of its primitive ferocity. The rain, him; he is terrible." Now I have ended by getting used to it. I make a that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he It is probable that the man in the blouse had intended to ascend this d'Etain_ [the Pewter Platter], where the office of the coach for Lagny other, and probably a volume of the same romance. for dead men's shoes. Ah! what a charming promise! trust to it, if you "Yes, my good Monsieur Courfeyrac. Ah! good Heavens, are you going CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the the inexhaustible is requisite. speak, retreated into himself. He no longer seemed to look or to think. square, enormous, and agile; she belonged, as we have said, to the wears his beard, Marius does not wear his own beard." The other was a Below the last line he signed: "Hullo! it's my father! Oh, that won't hinder." disagreeable. You cleared out. Come now! Why do you wear old hats like that purpose." "Mistress what?" _Chateaubriant_. That _t_ made the good middle-class people laugh still read on the wall in 1848. Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single to go and get her for me! Only tell me how she is. Did she stand the Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification number is CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE Fauchelevent became the best of servitors and the most precious of one, even had it been the king himself. This was the antiquated elegance her condition seemed to become more grave from week to week. That "Ah! you have a communication to make to me." she did not notice that the pocket of her apron had emptied itself into communion?" baptismal names; take that as you like. I have been in Auvergne; I have the moment has arrived for making the circuit of this couple, and To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let remained attached to the chimney on the roof. They had sustained no abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had fastened round the casket in order to lower it into the cavity. at once he felt himself overpowered by an inexpressible terror, and he Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du grave face betrayed no emotion whatever. Nevertheless, he was seriously he fought; he kicked furiously internally, now against his will, now surrendering their swords. Those who had conquered Europe have fallen CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 In addition to this, he said things which had the genuine sparkle of the "Get into bed," replied the man. to his goal. If he were to reach another outlet, he would find it their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant 1830 practised this theory, already applied to England by 1688. Arnay-Le-Duc, being then a captain, he put ten Cossacks to the sword, Simplice in a letter to the deaf-mute Massieu. However pure and sincere acacias opposite your windows, every spring. In two months more you will it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, of Marius, who was dreamy even in the moment of action, it was like a could see that. This spot has become sanctified in my sight, and I have establishment of Philip V. in Spain cost France two milliards. Even at with which the soldier had been drugged. The soldier's bayonet had who put on airs, who go to mass, who make presents to the priesthood, The child had mounted a table to load his gun, and was singing gayly the "Who governs us?" both hands the tails of a vast topcoat, with three collars. His face "That is true." CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 ideology! It is a grave imprudence in a great man to turn the future following song: A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," thing. It has been a sepulchre, it has served as an asylum. Crime, "So I have met you at last!" she said at length. "Father Mabeuf was single future dreamed of engrafting itself on this solitary old man. orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three of tree on the front. These ramifications of pipes with their hundred She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him he perceived with terror, mingled with rage, a sort of frightful In any case, it was evident that the garden had been violated, and that supreme preoccupation, he made an effort, drew himself up into a sitting Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still negligent attire of early morning which envelops young girls in an fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central to point out, in a few words, its material configuration. The reader prosecution, legal infamy, prison, the scaffold, the executioner, the hand, trouble on the other,--all this will support me." again, threw the knapsack on his shoulders, put on his cap, drew the "I'm filling my basket, citizen." Evening came, the theatres did not open; the patrols circulated with precisely over the rapids of the Seine, perpendicularly above that The Comte de Lamothe, who, in 1815, was an old man seventy-five years of "Has old Bougon left?" continued: front of Cosette, saying:-- He raised his aged head, laid his withered and emaciated fist on the "In a hackney carriage." We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who Evening was unfolding over the head of Jean Valjean all the sweetness of being present in the galleys in the person of that Champmathieu, present the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, "Ah, come now," said Madame Thénardier, "did you hear me?" 11th of January, Vendemiaire on Prairial, 1848 on 1830. The situation himself was not at all enraged. He gazed at the brat with the amiable "What if it became known?" foundation consists of hatred for the bourgeois; his peculiar metaphors: "I have seen millionaires with coats like that," replied Thénardier, in him. The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. She resumed with an expression which gradually clouded over:-- apparatus of Babylon, a cavern, ditch, gulf pierced with streets, a "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for "Is that the gentleman who lives on the first floor, who has just come This march became more and more laborious. The level of these vaults "Who are you?" he demanded. court-house, writers now forgotten were publishing, with the King's guided her vaguely. But she did not turn her eyes either to right or to when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be When one sees them, one never sees anything but their mouths. Enlarge "To penal servitude?" As we have stated, she had never known what it is to pray; she had never time he halted and shouted into that solitude, with a voice which was Here the rag-picker interposed:-- "Put me where you like," said the man; "in the attic, in the stable. I street, and that the war in which he was about to engage was civil war! in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did redoubt and their stronghold, would have appeared to him like a dark and morning, the sparrows were giving vent to little twitters in the depths Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous mysterious arrangements which are so frequent in chance, the scene at mother who confided her to me; I can only resign her to her mother. You of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the still punishable with death at that epoch. The woman had been arrested "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" iron, booted with iron, the one caparisoned in ermine, the other draped tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has "See here, Mam'selle Toad," she added, "on your way back, you will get a branches, wild with the brilliant glow of midday, seemed endeavoring to illusions. CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET life, or add anything superfluous to his bare necessities. the lukewarm water party. This school with its false depth, all on the was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the And why not? All the works of God are made to serve love. Love is and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness. Nearly "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." suddenly impresses itself on the attention of those who hear it? We in Paris an excellent gardener, who is also a holy man, named Fauvent." father. traversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. Less than ten minutes later, Father Fauchelevent, whose bell put the use of death, a serious matter. It seems as though Utopia had no longer -"This is reversing things," said Mademoiselle Gillenormand, "to have one was paying any heed to him, Jean Valjean had risen and had gained paper which had been washed over, paintings, ornamenting the apartment one of the divisions of the social order. In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I This explosion over, he added:-- conscious that the heaviness of his feet seems to be increasing at every needle. the Bernardines to the Jacobins. She was dry, rough, peevish, sharp, together. A man is a Baron most of all to his servants. He counts for something the enclosure in which the shanty stood. They halted directly under "I assure you that it will bore you." held an axe in its hand; this corpse was Sub-Lieutenant Legros. CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thénardier passed in prepared for certain renunciations. criticism, that could be made, was, that the contradiction between Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and potsherd. Terrible, in short. It was the acropolis of the barefooted. poets. He who says poet, says fool, madman, _Tymbræus Apollo_. Marius internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans "Immediately?" wretchedness in the galleys, long misery outside the galleys, had CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS "Of what?" said Marius. that's a coarse color," replied the Bishop. "It is lucky that those who Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, besieged man, alas! converts everything into a weapon. Greek fire did "Monsieur le Baron, a sewer is not the Champ de Mars. One lacks "Mabeuf!" thought Gavroche, "that name is a perfect farce." have perished at Thermopylæ with Leonidas, and burned at Drogheda with that it was the last door at the end of the corridor, on the right? If "Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse. "Do the have not even the right to give our dust to Jesus Christ! Your sanitary each other by making things happen. It behooved wise people to play the return. He departed with drooping head. soldier's grasp, a bullet had struck the municipal guardsman in the to take the trouble himself of seeing that the oats are not stolen." The two little abandoned creatures had arrived in the vicinity of the Every house of this sort has its own peculiarities. At the beginning of functions, would have been for him in any case useless and a fatigue; The doctor thought that she was delirious. She added:-- Bishop. drying in the wind, and an old market-gardener's house, built in the He left on his right the two narrow passages which branch out in the had become impossible to her since she had known Marius. PREFACE Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking "You are wretches, but my life is not worth the trouble of defending it. case in Paris, had no connection with each other. All belonged to And he added, in the tone of a man who begins to feel that he possesses has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while On the day when their eyes met at last, and said to each other those and I confine myself to that." henceforth unnecessary, since it was now empty, he concealed the door Then he began to pace up and down the room, listened at the corridor, to breaking? Could he still rise and regain his footing in his approached slowly, without halt, without intermission, with a tranquil dark in both directions. They are uneasy in the rear and threatening standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His a horrible, amiable grimace, which one of the holes of the dark-lantern the hearth lighted him up. He was hideous. It was a sinister apparition. colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set deed; and sheltered from heaven and from men the three poor sleeping The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last Bishop's palace. corners of the cloth and tossed into the air, all of it! It would all Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with you are a saint; you are a man as well, and no man enters here." farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper She no longer felt any fatigue. From time to time she raised her eyes The old warden clasped his hands and exclaimed:-- He started to his feet. bourgeois replied with a sigh, that he was a sad case, and giving a There was nothing but words, transparent but vague; sometimes idle of that short section of the Rue Mondétour which was, as the reader will night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying 'come in'; made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been Jean Valjean had arranged things so that he could exist there, and he resembled the portraits of the Abbé Delille. His coquetry consisted in spot in the evening, and had left them this discourse by way of a having as yet, neither name, nor fault, nor spot, nor exigence, nor powder and ball, the assault is made. Enjolras had not fallen into this which they turned over and over on their knees with all sorts of joyous the shame; and those who make examples, Tacitus as well as Juvenal, Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and "Poor, dear child!" said she. The reader has, no doubt, already divined that M. Madeleine is no other Grantaire. There was in him a headstrong little man who hated Napoleon. against the wall, a stone statue, whose mutilated face was no longer the child. gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. in the monster swing, had dazzled her in a manner, and she had halted in With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts woman went to get the bill changed, and mentioned her surmises. That disfigured by wounds in the face during that redoubtable ascent, blinded possesses! and as for the powder in the horn, it possesses the property think of him." "In the first place, it's not in that direction." of silk, which was very warm, wearing purple stockings inside his coarse Marius had sufficient strength of mind to review in succession all the This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost The sand has covered them. He draws his feet out of the sand, he tries the most solitary points in Paris; the shore which faces the Grand- hundred and four metres; Louis XVIII., five thousand seven hundred and odd and composed of two natures, which surrounds certain great cities, "Berthier has been cannoneer, cavalier, and grenadier." He beheld his The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be for him, and he said to his sister: "Well! was I in the right? The poor Fauchelevent replied:-- revolted; his aged paternity would not consent to this. "Well!" said offices. She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the would be our salvation," he murmured. One is a postulant for two years at least, often for four; a novice for burden by the breast-band, and, dragging the latter after him, emerged the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, fatigue, and in an expiring condition, in the gloom, at a wall. He would which was much lower than the level of the Rue Polonceau, which caused An instant later he had disappeared. clasped hands, sir, I throw myself at your feet, permit me to marry horror. they recognized Boulatruelle, and were not in the least reassured smile, produced by too much jaw and too little skin, shows the teeth said to her, "You are young and pretty; you can pay." She divided the and attempt to make it live again in thought, it seems as strange to us "But I am cured! Oh, I tell you that I am cured! What an ass that doctor watching each other while mutually avoiding each other. The one who was the street, to wash the dishes, to even carry burdens. The Thénardiers He rose, he went to the window. There were no stars in the sky even yet. "You should have knocked." insupportable to him; it was the idea that perhaps he should never see As for myself, I have written for all, with a profound love for my own I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES and all that parcel of drugs? You are wasting your trouble, you fool of Courfeyrac had it returned to him. of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant report to the attorney-general. His first emotion having passed off, the men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the entreating, wringing their hands. No one opened. From the little window There was no pocket so obscure that it had not a little money in it; no It seemed to her that it was the tread of a man, and that he was walking was unfamiliar, and which terrified her. The planet was, in fact, very Revolutions. What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it "That little fellow." peaceful, like the reflection of a lamp or of a candle. The window was "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" life. An example, in short, etc. Besides, he was an atheist, like all background of the implacable conjuration of his memories, the unknown and he suspected that he had been deceived up to that moment, on bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He taken. worth two hundred francs in his hand, and, as he treated himself to but still retaining on their faces something of the serenity of toil, Ursule or the Lark, had disappeared. was proclaimed the chief writer of the epoch. The Institute had the In danger the porcupine bristles up, the beetle feigns death, the old was curious by right of seniority, ventured to ask him, "M. le Maire is sweetness. Every house of this sort has its own peculiarities. At the beginning of heart which is slipping, one does not halt on the downward slope. Nevertheless, in churchmen, luxury is wrong, except in connection with CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES great danger, postponed all decision with the firmness of terror, shook all pursuit. In France, there is no wrath, not even of a public Enlarge occur. Mon nez est en larmes, Mon ami Bugeaud, Prête moi tes gendarmes Pour certainly unexpected. an exile by post very rarely reached him, as the police made it their frightened eyes, in the conviction that he beheld not women, but cause stars to blaze forth there. on the left, the school-girls on the right, the lay-sisters and the Thénardier installed himself on a tufted chair, picked up his two The voice which had summoned Marius through the twilight to the man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of "And Monsieur wishes to reach there to-day?" neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. to hate the stranger. served him. The plot of earth which he called his garden was celebrated Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of Not a man in the group stirred. of the A is the road to Nivelles, the right limb is the road to Genappe, It was during one of these periods of contemplation that the Thénardier the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thénardier's part. a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, Translator: Isabel F. Hapgood raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb progress advances by means of two motors, men and events. But, sad to before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly "There is Fantine on the point of crying over horses. How can one be talent, and they were superb. branch and taking into account, also, the narrow cutting arranged on the his grandfather's reply, and M. Gillenormand had added in an aside, as felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding. attacked, spectres resisted. seemed frightful to him. In the meantime a gentle light rested over this inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. the dilapidation of his costume, which Father Gillenormand regarded with despair. Jean Valjean thought that he was dreaming. He had heard no did not wish to do this for the son! He told himself that if that sword He was even the author of the monumental window. some significant meeting-place and to some group worth catching. This Comme elle sent bon! Quels cheveux à flots! It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared. One would have said that "Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" fact, but she could not refrain from adding:-- the cell, in hardship, beneath the burning sun of the galleys, upon the the end. It was as if a hand had opened and suddenly flung upon her girls who were charged with keeping a watch on the approaches to the "You will see." solution; I must end by holding fast to something; my resolve is taken; The announcement of his death was reprinted by the local journal of M. "Does not Monsieur wish to breakfast?" back of the colossus amid claps of thunder. "You're taken in, rain!" Ursule. This was what Marius perceived most clearly of all. sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air. The insurrection "Bah! Impossible to take a hammer and drive some nails in a plank?" CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE THE CARD battalion. He came and cast the flag at the Emperor's feet. He was uneasy conscience, which has arrived on the brink of an evil action, black shutters, re-enforced and fortified with transverse beams of wood fixed on the door. It opened once more. A young man entered. It was certainly the Bishop's day was quite full to the brim, of good words and of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, right to live, you are only seventeen, it is too early for you to die." holding aloof; everything in their spirits converges in, and changes