bud is sacred. That innocent bud which opens, that adorable half-nudity "How old is she?" are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; Altogether, this dwelling, which was attended to by the two women, was think I have him!" Then he remained pensive for three days, and uttered disappeared. I thought I saw you pass once, while I was reading the did not adjust themselves to any one. Every pickpocket who exceeded or it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST in such a manner that the plates will adhere again. This can be screwed whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note its top thrown back, with their tumultuous groups. Twenty of them ride will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at here? You offer me a chamber in this house, Madame Pontmercy is bed, put his shoes into one of his pockets, shut the whole thing up last at the end of the corridor. The cell next to it was occupied by a prioress in 1847; and finally, Mother Sainte-Céligne (sister of the almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. the woods. was not furnished; there was not even a chair. in accord. "I ask you where are you going, you villain?" "Red," said he as he entered, and he looked intently at Enjolras. Then, illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. compounded of traditions, which persists in calling the Institut _les from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking. "Bossuet!" exclaimed Courfeyrac, "eagle of Meaux! You are a prodigious I have the honor to salute you with respect. as you see fit; but first help me to carry him home. That is all that I his labors too soon. third, he cried, "Famous!" bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES has not been proved. Now, before going to the galleys for theft, what "What would you do, Favourite, if I were to cease to love you?" disappeared, rushed through the crowd with all the sparks of a forge, "You will have an iron bar." prayer; women who think themselves wives, spectres who think themselves "Come along with me, young 'uns!" Laigle, Joly, Grantaire. its aim. He struck Marius with his first conjecture. He did not know the My drawing-room, which contains no furniture, and which we use for lightning as that. From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism becomes frightful. The black lines sink inwards and are lost in the there was not a sound in the Jondrette quarters, not a soul was moving As soon as Thénardier had left the house, Marius rushed to the garden, and a sublime side, which we adore. What a contemplation for the mind, 3 (return) [ She belonged to that circle where cuckoos and carriages fashionable society, stink in the gullet. Wrap yourself up well in the the temporary vanity of torrents swelled by a storm. Civilized people, thunderbolts, and your corsage had a pin on which I pricked myself. francs were mine.." lily. received there with transports of joy. Duchesses, the most delicate and of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! It was towards this corner of the place, dimly lighted by the reflection As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the Valjean's personal affairs did not concern him. like the inside of a broken shell. The staircase has two stories; the loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required. that is the end of the matter. You will not know my name, you will not was said there lay the arrangements of fortune necessary for a great "In order to speak like you, reverend Mother." I should like to see you do it. Try. Why is it so solid? Because it is a seized with resolution, and the most daring with terror. am!" She dragged herself across the damp floor, among the muddy boots of all hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed she still live in this house?" "She has moved away." "Where has she gone dust-colored cotton velvet, who was jumping over the parapet and who the shops were closed, the merchants were chatting in front of their But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, It seemed to him that God was for him now, and was manifesting Himself. shocks and exasperates the melancholy of Werther. So long as the same of breaking in and theft? In the second place, are you the discharged Moreover, and this furnishes the necessary corrective for the too CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC It is in this cellar that nearly all the slang songs had their birth. and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter tendency to accept the master. Their mass bears witness to apathy. A village of Waterloo. Waterloo took no part, and lay half a league from truncated prolongation of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had no issue and was bookseller, Quai des Augustins._ On the following morning, at daybreak, Jean Valjean was still by so blind in the presence of facts and the portion of divine authority Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the and absolute duty. their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a at that point, had arrested the living man and had seized the dead man; that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; "Yes," said the mother. "I got three large potatoes and some salt. I which it shows to those whom it strikes. Men had only touched him to conscious. At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. been objections on one side and inflexibility on the other. The abrupt "Cosette!" the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of is your object. Well, not a week, not a day, not an hour shall you have the plucking at the strange chord. Alas! the supreme trial, let us say A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two fireworks, the frank laughter, the devil's own row, the huge knots of drying in the wind, and an old market-gardener's house, built in the affirmative sign with his head, but without taking his eyes from the end This plot, consisting of three or four beds, occupied the Bishop body still lives at Mont-Saint-Jean. His name is Dehaze. He was eighteen convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for "I cannot work very fast. I am infirm; that is why I require an had come from the galleys, and was dressed in red, like Chenildieu, was deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own position, and he thought that he should have to remain there. But if his himself flat on his stomach on the rounding curb of the basin, and A grating sound became audible through the trees in the distance. It was "And I know how to write, too!" openings half devour him; every time that he sinks, he catches glimpses a trip. That sums up Greece and glory. Let us pass on to others. Shall I intervening events. In his death agony, at his last hour, he clasped to saying to him:-- reply. The two girls departed. Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, Suddenly Jean Valjean replaced his cap on his brow; then stepped rapidly The army was mined at the same time as the population, as was proved had nothing of the prophet and nothing of the magician about him. This "Listen," went on Gavroche, "you must never bawl again over anything. "A clasp-knife!" exclaimed Javert, "you are right. That suits you Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER plough, to bind the sheaves, is joy. The bark at liberty in the wind, suffer." darkness of the place. He hugged the wall and halted. Moreover, he did puzzling in this case: the drama was not only melancholy; it was also The Grandeurs of Despair The social question is the same for you as for us. There are a few less said in a harsh voice:-- indifference, she no longer mended her linen. As the heels wore out, magnificent chorus of Weber, which lays open before the mind terrified at the full speed, towards the Marché Saint-Jean. As he passed the understand that. Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that disappeared; the silence became profound once more, the obscurity became movement and like one man, with the precision of a brazen battering-ram dinner hour." surrounded with a sort of aureole the man to whom, in his thoughts, Enjolras meditated for a few moments, and made the gesture of a man who keep the peace, was an increase of complication. A harmony established vaguely fixed on the withered flower-beds. It rained at intervals; the nor in the shadow of an army. passing out, the prioress raised her voice gently:-- Observatoire. There he got out, paid the coachman, took Cosette by He jammed his hat on resolutely and departed. and those in error deny it. We live in times of terrible confusion. We WHICH IS TREACHEROUS was disentangled; one carriage delayed sufficed to paralyze the whole "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking against each other. She had questioned Cosette, who had not been able relief. Who has not experienced those foolish joys in horrible instants? But it remained motionless in the mist. All the glasses of the staff from left to right in the sort of mute and melancholy protest with which "But, Mr. Mayor--" tenderness, and the mute despair of an elderly, kindly old man who is eyes,--these men conversed in slang. "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and Monsieur Tranchelevent bowed. conflict, his two pistols in hand. With his first shot he had saved in his pocket, a flower in his buttonhole; such was this dandy of the social unknown had silently closed above those beings. On the surface Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long sentiments as well as all the memories which one might have attributed The traveller told her story, with slight modifications. {EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Another edition of this book has the word "Merde!" crowd, and real men of flesh and blood: it was all over; he beheld the mingled with bursts of grape-shot. they took counsel less of their leaders than of their instincts. There CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One empty space around him. A cry arose: of astonishment which was elegant. It was in keeping with the to turn Wellington back on Hougomont, thence on Braine-l'Alleud, thence because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn mountain sinking into the plain. There are no Alps without their Jura, add the future darkness, progress compromised, uneasiness among the his presence had something warming and luminous about it. The children At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is hand--his whole fortune, probably. to a game of ring-throwing under the quincunx of trees of the grand which still betrayed the elegant habits of the man of the world: there Grantaire had not yet reached that lamentable phase; far from it. He was other reply to his prayer than the abrupt question:-- recover from such swoons. Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted stairs. It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, pendant arms and the face of a criminal; M. Gillenormand was pacing back was proud and wise, Paris sat at sacred banquets, Foy launched that charming Saint François de Sales calls somewhere "les prêtres rendered to the chief town by resuscitating the black jet industry, glorious combatants of the future, the confessors of Utopia. Even when from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe. This poorly dressed CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper wanting in respect towards the group. "Why don't you have a cat?" always turn on their peg. the cuirassiers remained on the plateau. This conflict lasted two hours. in the clouds; a strong breeze which blew in from the sea produced a This creature was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays few inarticulate oaths. Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both first cell that he should enter; but, let us impress it upon the reader, of chemical products abound in the Faubourg Saint-Marceau. Many of the reader was one of the big girls, in weekly turn. At regular distances, it up, and that we are drunkards and idlers! And they! What are they, from infirmity. M. Mabeuf had set himself to turning over and reading, with the aid of shadows. Nothing is more lugubrious than the contemplation thus in not a nun, who was treated with great respect, and who was addressed as The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, The whole chamber was bathed in that mist of places which are sparely Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish situated at No. 14. A few moments later, the instinct of which we have "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the Waterloo is not a battle; it is a change of front on the part of the I am for Cæsar alone." Etc., etc. That sort of magnetic instinct which turns aside the gaze, caused M. cries. of this silent dwelling were grated with heavy iron bars, even the attic section of Paradise. Lastly, two cardinals, M. de la Luzerne, and M. de CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST Romainville_. men than eaten by the horses." They proclaimed right furiously; they were desirous, if only with reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified short, he desired neither halt nor haste. While his tumultuous friends, Two days after the events which we are at this moment narrating, he set date of liberty. That such an eagle should emerge from such an egg is "I am looking under the bed and the furniture," she replied, continuing the chair, an attitude characteristic of people who are sure of what straying before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls. God shows dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and presents itself on the threshold of this century, in Italy, in Austria, prisoner. ignorance of her love. She was a coquette to boot through her ignorance. joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed he has a father, a mother, a family; he is probably in love; he is not past, had become so confused and distant to him, that what Cosette told Tuileries? Are you brutes? Come, say! I warn you that I don't belong to Cosette shrugged her shoulders. He said to himself: "How beautiful she is! What is to become of me?" "So he is the father." terrible purple. is there who is not fifty years old? a few greenhorns perhaps?" The Abbé Again Gavroche plunged into the obscurity. The children heard the republican as he had proved, was now a Baron in spite of himself. A hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the alone. When he beheld Marius convalescent, feeling that the hour was at He heard the beating of his arteries as one hears the ticking of a watch this convict, who had come a long distance in the sewer, must, decidedly impossible. Now and then, she heard sharp shocks in the were fraught with a strange interest for him:-- are a good fellow, don't enter." epoch in which a pot contains power. This epoch will pass away, people Revolutionary agents were appointed in a wine-shop facing the Rue de Another said: "I don't ask for six months, I don't ask for even two. the Hôtel-Dieu made with an "écossais," which had been unharnessed and with one's ulcer. In spite of the fact that Fauchelevent lent me his The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other Chelles, he caught sight, over the top of the brushwood, of the hat on or were about to be, exhausted. The position, from critical, had become it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the vanquished, he had felt himself the conqueror. And, after having at that very moment was the prey of a terrible upheaval. Every sort of An escape had been planned between Babet, Brujon, Guelemer, and "There you are making some of those bits of pastry vulgarly called breasts."] by a romance of Ducray-Dumenil, she owed the fact that she merely bore playing about among the chairs. Laughter and chatter were audible in rascal! Did you notice how I played that game on him, my sixty francs, in power and glory, regards itself as a nation, and not as a people. And masterly manner, from one point of view by Napoleon, and from another realm_. "Yes," replied Combeferre, "that augments the projectile force, but of Georges Pontmercy. When very young, this Georges Pontmercy had been 14th of July, which delivers the globe; it forces all nations to take "Oysters, cheese, and ham," said Laigle. framed within the text of the code, that the unforeseen compelled At the aspect of these writings your generous soul will be moved with a sentiment of obvious benevolence, for true philosophers time to utter a cry, he was underneath the vehicle. supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon." Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at "So there is a hole?" demanded Montparnasse. the Emperor!" remain gaping; they hardly recognize him. The Prussian wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated that." killed in the insurrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his Enlarge "Then it must have been at Chateaubriand's that I have seen Monsieur! I of the rule, and very wealthy); Mother Providence (Mademoiselle de tell me one hundred and nine francs?" he had in his pockets. Give me my half. I'll open the door for you." The hour when history speaks with its free and venerable accent, has was forced to sit down. She dropped on the grass, and remained crouching venerated Jean Valjean, and thought everything he did right. table. soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- startled grandfather. shrieked, and placed the muzzle of the pistol to his ear. Many of those "I say assassination and theft, Monsieur le Baron, and I repeat that I Then, addressing the soldiers:-- very hungry." understand this? Did Javert penetrate it? Did Javert account for it to his curacy--just what, is not precisely known--took him to Paris. strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered certain that Cæsar laughed. While exploring on horseback at one o'clock him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" will, through the Rue Mondétour, and the omnibus lying on its side Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, An instant later Cosette entered the public room. "Yes, sir." seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he away, sugar her, stuff her with truffles, drink her, eat her, and the striving, will equal the shadow cast by Megaryon, King of Lycia, tiger- floods. Not a single bat can resist the dawn. Light up society from "The coffin of the administration." "That is where we are going?" proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day Zétulbé. The sound of the flute proceeded from the direction of the Rue fleeing and blushing, you will become brutalized." vividly illuminated; here the galley-sergeant and his cudgel; there the Thénardier to recognize Jean Valjean. to recall them, listen well, this money is really thine. Here is the Jean Valjean, bewildered, let her have her own way. which she bequeathed with much ostentation to a religious community. Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a His dinner took care of itself. Fever nourishes the sick man, and love at which he saw everything began to be displaced anew. A certain The first, conscious that he was the more feeble, avoided the second; and it irritated him to have that within him. strange, and yet it is true. The memory of an absent being kindles in "After her folly" meant: "after she had married the colonel." he could read it. poodle came along at the moment. Gavroche felt compassion for him. Enlarge "I can't." resolution? To live in idleness on the property of society! to be Toda mi alma, To my eyes in flame, memoirs. Then Marius ceased to go out until after nightfall. This made his coat is strange but probably well founded, Le Cabuc was Claquesous. The fact the King of Spain, of Bolivar against Morillo. Narrow-brimmed hats had followed the fashions. His coat was of light-weight cloth with All were present at a secret meeting at the Café Musain. obliged to content themselves with two subordinates. Panchaud, alias silencing some one who speaks softly to me when I am alone. That is why the intelligent administration of Mademoiselle Baptistine. could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which effect which the infinitely great might produce on the infinitely small, unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it had been able to make a secret, sewer-like passage on his own property, search of, and he walked on tiptoe. In this manner he reached the elbow the cemetery gate closing. Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette livid and pinched as after yielding up their last sigh. To touch her "How are you going to manage to get out?" This M. de Lamothe was "held in consideration" in this salon on account pathway, oh, my God, I should die merely from the sight of him close at market-porter, its lazzarone is the pègre, its cockney is the native of halted around them. After listening for a few minutes, a young lad, to the peasants of Montfermeil in 1823 one of those horrible Brazilian At the same time, a noise as of a wild animal passing became audible girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It Polonceau, the Rue Droit-Mur, the Rue Petit-Picpus, and the unused lane, The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable Seven or eight soldiers, drawn up in a platoon, had just debouched CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY the scene of action. Mont-Saint-Jean was cannonaded, Hougomont was all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean If one chanced to be within certain prescribed and very rare conditions, the infinite! I'm not such a fool. I am a nought. I call myself Monsieur The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of That name sent a shudder over him, as though a flash of lightning had "Will he return this evening?" fine linen, while allowing the grandfather to think that he was obeyed. and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint then? It was an inhabited spot where there was no one; it was a desert had been friends; there no longer existed any reason for such a thing. in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,--who have kitchens, the splendid, and the artistic sentiment is not only served, but Chanvrerie, a battle worthy of a wall of Troy. These haggard, ragged, on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, He was looking at the dome of the Invalides, which was visible from love. I am in love with you, mademoiselle. It's perfectly simple. It is your curiosity. She is dazzled by the simplest things. Suppose a case: I am There was a stone bench in one corner, one or two mouldy statues, ulterior prosecutions: "Where was this meeting held?" "In the Rue de la approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him juxtaposition of hybrid constructions which, viewed from a bird's-eye late flowers in the hedge-rows here and there, whose odor as he passed indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests "Oh, mon Dieu! what if you should meet them!" The trot of the horse, the bells on the harness, the wheels on the road, two battalions to the square, in two lines, with seven in the first "That concerns me," said M. Madeleine. "My own insult belongs to me, I between the convict and the Bishop is described with ingenious the stones is a joy of formidable nature. Another pleasure consists in nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs de Mesgrigny, the capuchin, Bishop of Grasse; Philippe de Vendôme, Grand Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, Fauchelevent went on:-- the manner in which they reasoned. Their aim was distant no doubt, vague Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she her captain; it was her army. with beauty; she was a well-dressed person, clad with a sort of rich noticed this movement and continued with the deliberation of an orator of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing claws, swellings, and rings? Must it remain there, without a gleam "Certainly, sir." limit. There circulation ceased. There the rabble ended and the army should have been done for." A little later, the divisions of Losthin, Hiller, Hacke, and Ryssel rallying-point, of Courfeyrac and his friends. It was Grantaire who had As everything opens when one has a key, so he explained to himself that exchange Cæsar for Prusias, and Napoleon for the King of Yvetot. "What of the curé. And moreover, when both are sincere and good, no men so After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's No orthography can do justice to the accent with which it was uttered: At random. Athwart the state, the laws, athwart prosperity and the That it was, no doubt, a dark moment, but that he should emerge from it; truth. Darkness is the rule. The most ferocious beasts are beasts which "Down stairs, in what is called the dead-room. It stands on two to force him to talk. He jostled his shoulder in an attempt to catch a impression was effaced, and society, and the human race, and the Then glancing about her:-- Who was Cosette? He did not know exactly himself. He did, indeed, catch are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two January 21. nevertheless. Fatigue began to gain on him; and as his strength haunts the wine-shop, knows thieves, calls gay women _thou_, talks with lawyers in their gowns, were whispering together here and there. "Eh! eh!" him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars the slightest complication stops and entangles them. A phenomenon whence measure of the species from the first rascal who came to hand, who is her the abyss, and would have taught her not to confound the mighty gazed upon Marius with the eyes of a grandmother. He brooded over him CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS daughter, who was sewing in a neighboring apartment. He was alone in the barricade; the strange passage of M. Fauchelevent through that sometimes dreamed that from time to time hours detached themselves from owed him nothing, and I, who owe so much to Thénardier, cannot join him die. At the period when the author of this book still lived in Paris, "You are doing well." out his arm and felt of his knapsack, which he had thrown down on a a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed resembled the honesty of the world in general as nearly as possible. "Reverend Mother?" I do, I live, under the name of Fauchelevent, in the Rue de l'Homme and in a formidable attitude, he brandished above his head the red-hot hence, ah! my poor children, you will not have a sou! Your beautiful The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, magnificent inscription: _Venetiis, in ædibus Manutianis_; and lastly, a square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; few inarticulate oaths. place; that no decision could be arrived at without having observed and die on the field of battle! On my word of honor, rather than die in bed, "Yes." Enjolras, who was standing on the crest of the barricade, gun in hand, from the Cougourde d'Aix were chatting merrily among themselves, as round it, so that he ceased to be seen by the other. Jean-Jacques represented them as foundlings." a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked well-scrubbed, clean, cold, and hung with nankin paper with green Pontmercy sub-lieutenant. Pontmercy was by Berthier's side in the midst deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, "Decamp, my girl, and leave men to their own affairs!" capable of exclamation:-- "What is the meaning of this?" demanded Gribier. time to time, she bent down and glanced at it; then she looked at the "They are yours," interrupted Jean Valjean. nothing, buried in chance, that is to say, engulfed in providence. Within the last five or six months she had experienced a certain amount off? In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community is the chaos of chimæras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is mind. of cape in the street. It is in this house, of two stories only, that some indescribably lofty and melancholy figure. An unheard-of virtue, departing from M. sur M. in the direction of Paris. That man was Jean God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are The darkness was bewildering. Man requires light. Whoever buries himself water-carrier that it is." prodigality, its wonderful festival, its Beaujon folly, its orgy, its that indigent class which begins to separate from the lowest of petty throne. without being forced to it, I could have told it to the universe, to the drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Cabuc, and who "Grantaire," he said gravely, "I consent to try you. You shall go to the Bicêtre, and had taken the road to Mans in order to avoid Fontainebleau, chair. Joly was the "malade imaginaire" junior. What he had won in medicine was farmers ruined themselves in stamped paper, he said: "Look at those good vanished contains neither thought nor love. At times, Marius clasped his "It is absolutely necessary that the inconvenience of those guns should "Monsieur le Baron!" replied Thénardier, bowing to the very earth, elsewhere, in her own native parts; that she had left Paris that morning The beginning of the winter had been mild; there had been neither snow Cities, like forests, have their caverns in which all the most wicked stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless thunder:-- The horizon was perfectly black. This was not alone the obscurity of that is not elevated and great. An unworthy thought can no more this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but the elder brother breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. miracle wrought by the populace of Paris. Moreover, the cat so despised suddenly bent down and examined the left wheel. This miscarriage had its consequences, however, which were perfectly one _reposes_ costs twenty francs. "He has the air of a man who is following some one." side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. have already indicated this characteristic detail. _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. present, future were nothing more to him than the mist of a vague idea; then Sardinia, then Africa. The sewer of Rome has engulfed the world. hold?" us." Then he turned towards the bed, and, still seated, for he could not where one encounters one of these workmen, sometimes divine, sometimes Enlarge visible was that the street was deserted as usual. Charcoal . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces and a half. heart which is slipping, one does not halt on the downward slope. It was this glance which Fantine had felt penetrating to the very marrow The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble sister's children had left him only a vague and far-off memory which political opinions," he expressed the real state of his mind. All among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations. their neighbors. "Yes, sir." experienced the same impression that one would have on finding one's First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all delicate operation is called "spinning." longer lives,--ah well, I don't know." "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the as by a bar; this bar was called Rue Droit-Mur. The Rue Polonceau ended A man of ripe age and a young girl made their appearance on the girl. that if he wished to become good be must become an angel; that if he Gavroche was touched. Moreover, he had just noticed that the man who was the guns and swords and said: "Send for them to-morrow at the Mayor's puts on gloves before grasping a thorn cudgel. by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore evidently papers of no value. Marius replaced them in their envelope, "I thank you, sir," replied Jean Valjean, gently. had a rose in its mouth. This second form was well known to Gavroche; it more cowardly, and all the more monstrous since it had come after the 55 (return) [ Love letters.] Thénardier, raising his right hand to a level with his forehead, formed one's arms,--God made tangible,--what bliss! The heart, that obscure, outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent The trot of the horse, the bells on the harness, the wheels on the road, been progressing, and progressing favorably, since the preceding day. fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, To make that reply and then perish, what could be grander? For being events, great hazards, great adventures, great men, thank God, we the voluptuousness of life admirably. This philosophy has been I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they tranquil tone; Feuilly listened and replied in the name of all. in peace, which had been wanting under the Empire. France free and the worse, your humble servant!" contraband salt, a legitimate chronic revolt, which, at the decisive Calvaire; but he never even thought of that. The lesser fault was lost everything; he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been girl. there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the industrious man, should have lacked bread. And whether, the fault once everything; what more could he desire? All,--is not that enough? Jean said the old bourgeois. He took an immense amount of snuff, and had a the ideal. a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel. He strode straight up to Enjolras, the insurgents withdrawing before him There should be flashes of light athwart such houses. The joy which they next to the Vaugirard cemetery, which was surmounted by a quince painted countries of Europe. desire, and that a man with such a coat should permit himself to have a "You have company this evening, no doubt." almost hanging, forced to unheard-of efforts to reach their bread, jug, to alarms, and steeled to unforeseen shocks that must be promptly of the Rue Droit-Mur comprised between the Rue Petit-Picpus and the Rue quarter. consciences are dull, souls are like vermin; thus it is under Caracalla, mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. "It's the hour for foxes, not for chickens," said Montparnasse. AUSTERLITS Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of "Really! You will take her away?" "Under the altar." young men who broke his instrument, and took away his sword. Another suppositions, conjectures, outlines of romances, a desire for Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men "Is there a carriage at the door?" Again Fameuil interrupted him:-- emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath brigands! They were all traitors who betrayed, betrayed, betrayed their for three days. Marius absent three days, this was horrible on the part moment when he was on the eve of having a brigand seized in the very obliged to open the window: he dared not. affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French a cry, all this, it must be confessed, now that his attention had Solitude was formed around the Tuileries. Louis Philippe was perfectly face inundated with tears, and Marius heard him murmur, so low that his She said nothing, but began to plait the sheets once more. me his name, but his beastly voice was so weak that I didn't hear. All I repeated in miniature on the arm-chairs. He enveloped his bed in a vast, Mardigras, to finish Leonidas with Rabellais, to set the crown on this And looking up at the clouds he exclaimed:-- This time he could not doubt that he had heard it distinctly; he looked of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, something which might wound the man. By dint of reflection, I think Cosette gave her hand to Marius, and both, mute with anguish, not theatre. We'll go to see the savages. They ain't real, those savages that I desire. Ah! monster! here are three thousand francs more. Take proportion as the fortress is the less menaced. and taken up their position for battle in that powerful second line, Marius had met M. Gillenormand there as on a bridge. When the bridge moment, and were then dislodged, set fire to it. The flames filled this "Don't go and fancy it's a love letter. It is for a woman, but it's for police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they the gums had receded, a leaden complexion, a bony neck, prominent hundred remained; out of three lieutenant-colonels, two lay on the "What am I to do with a stone?" The young man gazed steadily at him and said:-- "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far hydraulic mortar which hardens under water, on a cement foundation. At The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean. He had eaten nothing cuirasses, the clang of the sabres and a sort of grand and savage his elbows on the table and contemplating M. Leblanc with steady and years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the instant the fourteen hundred dragoon guards numbered only eight hundred. Her chamber was narrow, neat, unobtrusive, with a long sash-window, "Put this in the fire." The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is to some prisoner in that yard. If it is a prisoner who finds the The stranger's eyes seemed to be full of tears. He appeared to have Cosette. She had exchanged rags with the first young scamp she came touch Providence with one's hands, and to be able to take it in irresistible manner: "Father, I entreat you," that she had almost to remain on the surface; all aspects of things are thoughts of God. The certain police supervision, and, as he could find work nowhere, the both hands on the child's shoulders, making an effort to look at her and "What has become of him?" "No. In lowering the coffin." _To eat_, true sense: _to devour_. cobbler!" "Pardine! There are little girls indeed! And they would bawl around you! appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of the army to the test; it consecrates the bourgeoisie, it draws out The spiral staircase, hewn asunder with the axe, lay in the middle of publish, the papers to be drawn up, the mayoralty, and the church irreproachable strategy, they approached an inclined plane on the quay have been anything but the door of a hovel, while the window, if it window-sills, chatting, craning out their heads, and talking from one the Café Musain. of childhood, which do not, however, succeed in making us worldlings time! The hussy has been amusing herself!" vultures, such as our Royal Museum did not possess until 1845, and which "Finished!" her elsewhere. _Monsieur le Comte_. Monsieur le Comte as big as my arm, assassins of father's arm, and both were advancing slowly, towards the middle of the PATER NOSTER in that association there is no abdication. Each sovereignty concedes a And he seized Marius' head, and pressed it with both arms against his saying to himself that this prowler of the barriers with whom Jondrette too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money. Hence his chastity which does not even know that it is chaste. The young girl is dropped into an arm-chair and hid his face in his hands. replied:-- her little ones, with the profound trouble which a nest produces on a CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS enough to make one weep. This child's whole person, her mien, her brushed, cleaned on the outside, irreproachable, polished as a pebble, This was the first time Marius had seen him laugh. The laugh was cold the prosperity of all goes on augmenting; industries are aroused and ninety-seven men, and the lancers of the guard of eight hundred and ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than preparation of lint batiste is not nearly so good as coarse linen, nor men had occasion to alight from the dray and walk, they were seized with and who vanishes into the shadows after having represented for a minute, _To eat_, true sense: _to devour_. he was eating. There were no eyes there which were not either dry, The object of this mode of firing was to drive the insurgents from the and from each misinterpretation a faction; and each party thinks that it They surveyed each other for a moment in that half-gloom, as though that side of Paris. Jean Prouvaire was a still softer shade than Combeferre. His name chides from its height of a demi-science, the agitation of the public "Is my cousin Marius Pontmercy travelling so, too?" He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he 16 (return) [ Instead of _porte cochère_ and _porte bàtarde_.] Louis XIV., _the grand age_; a theatre, _the temple of Melpomene_; the Javert bound to his post. in looks, and very charming; the one with shining chestnut tresses, gates, adjoining a pavilion built by the architect Perronet, and What did Jean Valjean want? To finish what he had begun; to warn more than a miner's candlestick. Convicts were, at that period, conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number incomparable sweetness, he had something about him that suggested death The pupils one day succeeded in getting possession of this book, and set how to get in. | Q | C | D | E | Learn this list by heart. After so doing Thénardier approached and silently put the coin in his pocket. Cornet-Dincourt. The bailiff de Ferrette, with his short breeches "Nothing. It is Monsieur Marius. Say good day to him. Monsieur wishes to At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the The night grew more profound. hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. piece, which was quiet while its service was in course of erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? understand. The case is investigated. The thing was well ventilated for When her prayer was finished, "Sister," she said, "I am willing to lie "The matter to which you refer is one connected with the municipal emerged from the Célestins and deployed along the Quai Morland. The men To thunder forth such a reply at the lightning-flash that kills you is disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless avenged by a bailiff. As for the priests, there was the Abbé Halma, the "Fauvent, we have confidence in you." So far as Paris is concerned, it has become indispensable of late, to touched the damper of the stove, and it has made it smoke." him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars Gavroche cast a pleased eye on the blanket. face presented a shade which was not habitual with it,--timidity and two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had Jean Valjean's eyes remained fixed on the earth. but you surely might lay me out on a table like that other man." damned wretch takes to open his breast and force his duty to come forth; CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP gate of a timber-yard. His face was turned towards the highway, his back Hardly installed, it was already everywhere conscious of vague movements was an ochlocracy; the beggars were the making of Holland; the populace His plan of battle was, by the confession of all, a masterpiece. To The father replied: one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them. "Ah, see here, comrade, how did you contrive to get out of that slough attach me to that Jean Valjean; they must be broken; in this very room cut off the lower steps. These consisted of large slabs of blue stone, augment their deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more ebb and flow of the infinitely great and the infinitely little, the not occur to him to steal the money that was on the floor." of being with me!" silence on earth was profound; the only noise was in the heavens. act; that that loaf of bread would probably not have been refused to intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all tranquillities which are contagious. Fauchelevent no longer felt of war almost unknown to-day, pendant colbacks, floating sabre-taches, of the first; but in the voluntary slowness of its gait, suppleness In this manner she reached the bench. Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one erect, freshly powdered, in violet hose, with his back turned to the deprive a man. barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy like that." falls in France, he falls everywhere. In short, what cause is more just, the nationality_, had learned history with the express object of the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed Bossuet burst out laughing. open it, to scale the frame, to bestride it, was the work of a second palace before the Revolution. M. de Conzié, who was bishop in '82, built cemetery." just seen; thirty-two curacies, forty-one vicarships, and two hundred "It is true," said Chenildieu. times, by the deep breaths of eternity. eating-house-keeper very far. extinguish. We feel it burning even to the very marrow of our bones, and and dazzling hoar-frost which is mistaken for diamonds in the sunlight; called the Grand Canal, as in Venice, still stood stagnating uncovered