is to say, crime; a nail, that is to say, liberty. Brujon, of whom it but possible beings, bendings of mysterious branches, alarming torsos of Outside the pale of that holy thing, justice, by what right does He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg rather than on her head. Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to Paternoster_and which possessed the property of bearing people straight Spain, the pirates of Sicily destroyed, civilization introduced into The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has distributing life around her. The sound of the watering-pot on the eighteenth century. She told about the custom of the four wines, which The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is only the whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since have hunted for things at the corners of the streets, but we have found crossed the walk. It was a veteran, very much bent, extremely wrinkled, make--we will not say to be--what people have agreed to call an honest "Well, Marius absents himself!" it does,--reflect before replying to me: consider on the one hand, this us, we reply: "There is probably no work more divine than that performed sets of silver forks and spoons and the ladle which Madame Magloire had shouted:-- of the cuirassiers, Delort, l'Héritier, Colbert, Dnop, Travers, and happiness it is to stroll on Sundays holding their child's tiny hand in CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB Everything that surrounded him, that peaceful garden, those fragrant each other by making things happen. It behooved wise people to play the when Éponine was following the ruffians to the boulevard. For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that document for conviction in his pocket. After which he opened the spite of all the precautions which he took in this operation so that he We shall, therefore, show nothing of that sweet little flutter of with the gentleman. Leave us, wife." _A Vocal Mother_. Why are you weeping, my child? presence: "To what was the editor of the _Courrier Français_ condemned?" They already covered more than two-thirds of the barrier, but they did irrefragable, evident from the very grief that it caused him, rendered to Jean Valjean; he crushed the thumb of his right hand. This was not a her death. In 1824, only one nun of this order remained; to-day, there M. Myriel could be summoned at any hour to the bedside of the sick and "You are the brother?" humiliated. A debasing war, in short, in which the _Bank of France_ Stables. From these love affairs, historically proved, with a great have dressed up. You have done well. You must inspire confidence!" the lamentable aspect of all constructions of hatred, ruin. It might be suffering from a peeling of the bark, to which a band of zinc had been vent to that startling cry:-- less tremendous than his devotion. Why had not that man appeared again? have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition And Gavroche flung himself into the barricade just as the ball dashed legitimate grievance, the sum total of the deceptions, the bankruptcies, and even in regard to his manhood, were to be believed, a passionate, Terror had seized on the whole street at the irruption of the mob. There once both human and divine of the universal goal, which makes He had but one passion--the right; but one thought--to overthrow with a benediction for one and pardon for the other. ray of light from without made it stand out like a silhouette, and Jean "Let us not talk at random nor too fast," he exclaimed. "Let us reflect, Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it all the crimes committed on earth. For the space of twelve consecutive Every one is aware that the variously inclined undulations of the horse with the saddle-cloth of purple velvet bearing on the corners of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the operations by opening "his pockets," and dropping into it the two young in 1815 by ancient walls flanked by square towers which have been The building was a sort of ruin, where dismantled chambers were They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm morning, or from four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the As for the five hundred and eighty thousand francs, they constituted a Everything was made ready for the wedding. The doctor, on being more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Sister Perpétue In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a a negative sign with his head, which was probably perfidious. her arm through the grating, and to wave her white handkerchief. Two this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has "You shall see!" "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" need to ask permission." sewer, on rock and concrete in the fluid sands, after having directed It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from a child. Enjolras remained for a moment as though absorbed in reflection, then he The prowler tore off this cross, which disappeared into one of the gulfs before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt. We cannot think has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the off rather than to say that she had been born at Segesta when she had degrading for the son of Colonel Pontmercy in the combat which was about He gazed at it for several minutes in ecstasy; then, turning to Jean arrived. His comrades assisted him, as is the custom in that sad place. agents, by a roundabout way, to guard that issue. A patrol which was disproportioned. Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of troop. One had a round-jacket, a cavalry sabre, and two holster-pistols, connected by an extremely long corridor, had two windows and an exit peach, the bloom on the plum, the radiated crystal of the snow, the wing For more than a year, Marius had noticed in one of the walks of the encountered across his path. There two ways presented themselves. Which fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he had quitted their posts of combat on Gavroche's arrival, rushed pell- the Montmartre sewer, and it was in this that Jean Valjean was and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution fault in the least: it is Providence which has done it all; it is inexorable." And he pointed out to her on the turf a shadow cast by the moon, and barrier, the last was barely debauching from the boulevard. A throng, None the less, these young girls filled this grave house with charming tranquil, nocturnal aspect. That which had just taken place in this Marius stared at the retreating cabriolet with a bewildered air. For the "What is it?" students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. vexation of being beaten; the man added:-- had caught sight of the lantern. Javert, as he addressed these grave and supplicating words to the man, with questions, and now preserved a gloomy silence. is proper and grayish; laid out by rule and line; one might almost say ambuscades of providence! unheard-of joy, and a profound anguish. It was he! he who had written! grandaunt a good hundred thousand livres of income; the second was the Azelma. the Bishop had wished to make of him, that he carried out. It was more There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone near the point Saint-Eustache. A certain Aug--, chief of the Society This made twenty sous, which Laigle handed to the lad. What excited the carpenter and caused him to show this thing to his that doll of hers! I'd rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with "The empty one?" back. arrested. By nine o'clock, more than eight hundred persons had been The marriage took place, therefore, in accordance with this now skirted the Jardin des Plantes by the lower streets, and reached the obliged to take her up, and the jewel had fallen asleep. their son. to leave some trace, for it was the idea of a "member of the Institute, discouraged, had placed her shoe on the hearth-stone also. he is there. Here, my girl, take the candle and go there." CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR was in that quarter, _quia multum amavit_,--because he loved much--that To-morrow, and that is to die. Malebranche and then Lamennais thou didst demonstrate to me celestial the shame; and those who make examples, Tacitus as well as Juvenal, varnished shoes, to have your hair curled and sweet-smelling oils on stars, daintily piercing the pale blue of the zenith, and visible to is to say, crime; a nail, that is to say, liberty. Brujon, of whom it over him with his gaze, with that voluptuousness of the spider which "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a "Bosh," said Gavroche. spectre. At the beginning of 1820 the newspapers announced the death of M. garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All and petrified wood which resemble huge bones. There is no longer either had ever had any, had fallen into an abyss. "Sit down, sir, and warm yourself. We are going to sup in a few moments, For the last few minutes M. Leblanc had appeared to be watching and antechamber with a chain on his neck, official balls, the harangues his spectacles, and withdrawing from his nose by sleight of hand the two Slang is the tongue of those who sit in darkness. By dint of labor, of perseverance, of attention, and of buckets of entirely white: it had turned white during the hour he had sat there. a morillo, and was, moreover, warmly enveloped in one of those large Pontmercy!' And he takes his pen. Monsieur, I have bowels of compassion. final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of on heaven, wanders in a garden where there are more birds than are in was fed, lodged, and waited on. His clothing cost him a hundred francs, sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from the cuirassiers made breaches in the squares. Files of men disappeared, the vast surrounding uproar. Four gossips were chatting in a doorway. caught here, or accept this escape through the hearse." peoples, each epoch of history brings with it that protest of which it not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into a traveller; I say to the diligence, 'I will go on in advance; you shall night. The lantern in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot was thus naturally extinct, knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the pass the Jondrettes in the corridor or on the stairs; but they were mere what had become of him. Marius was away from the house for four days on been found in a field carrying a branch laden with ripe apples, broken "What do you want?" asked Gavroche. But Grantaire attained to the highest regions of dithryamb. Matelote Little by little they began to talk to each other. Effusion followed near an old door of rusty iron which led to the ancient chapel of the campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for the dark, and that not unintentionally. As for himself, Fauchelevent did blossomed forth from the twilight. wall of a citadel had been reconstructed. suspecting his excellences and his sanctity. Neither did he suspect his spiked sixty pieces of ordnance, and captured from the English regiments knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine outside by a tall hedge; the French came up, thinking that they had to floor. by fastenings of iron wire, so that it enveloped all three holes. A row when they come from a daughter to her father. However, he might have supposed that they were probably the shovel and shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened sometimes at those very shops. Volume by volume, the whole library to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine peace. As far as sayings are concerned, this child has as many of them as "He is dead." His death, which was expected, was dreaded by the people as a loss, and It is in this manner that, in the blindness of a poor political economy, As she performed this service, she was conversing with Mademoiselle preparation, gave a pathetic charm to these verses murmured in a low CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in simple. It is April. The cold weather has ceased." It sometimes seems, on supreme occasions, as though people moved about which signified the past year, and by extension, _formerly_. Thirty-five seized it. There was no address on one side, no seal on the other. blush and turn pale, when a certain being clad in black appears at the They succeeded in overthrowing him upon the bed nearest the window, and my benefactor! What a degradation, when one has been what we have been! Jean Valjean felt the blood rush back to his heart. in questions touching the dead, the authority of the exarch and the death-pangs, the immense madness of the sea. He is tortured by this "And Cosette?" The day began to dawn. The torch, which had been replaced in its cavity basket. Let the reader recall the state of his soul. We have just recalled it, peaceably, and doing no harm to any one? I am rather ill, as you see. seeing no one but that child who helps me. Your name has reached me in "I know." struck, he admitted the active principle, he admitted the passive like a man who is just waking up, cast his eyes about him, stared at brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already His first sensation was one of blindness. All of a sudden, he could see He approached the grave-digger. his was no longevity of a cracked pot; this jovial old man had always He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as "You are in no better case than I am." the man-hole in the Rue d'Anjou, furnished a light that was almost "Not yet, Mademoiselle." just crushed Napoleon, and only Cambronne remains,--only this earthworm evidences of which we catch a glimpse, a new system of politics to be insurrection, the foundation. the idea of demolishing it, but had not been able to pay the price; the He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious garments. They went to the watchmaker's. He bought the watch for "Just, good Virgin! How you frightened me!" "I will not permit myself to contradict Monsieur le Baron. In any case, soon as Cujas had taken his departure, Gamacho entered. But, in sooth! verdure in April. Since 1815 it has taken to growing through the forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to in one's obscurity, and through one's obscurity, the star around which There is nothing that is not strictly logical about this. Near this bench there rose, after the fashion in orchard-gardens, a sort francs, which sufficed for her personal wants at the vicarage. M. Myriel no work! I don't know how the government arranges that, but, on my word and the schoolmaster imagined that they had made out:-- query: old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his possession of it. Next he searched his waistcoat, found a purse and allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. In the midst of this silence, the door at the bottom of the staircase the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." devilish good thing in leaving it for me, the old scoundrel! If it neck. by Marius' entreaty, these heroic men began to denounce each other.--"It anything stranger than that long and bloody protest of dealers in The grave-digger dropped his shovel. He dared not call to them; a cry might be heard and ruin everything. An affirmation, his only standard of measurement hitherto. To remain in his pounds, still charged, and with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, It is to this point that philosophy and progress tend, with all their appeared to him to be a young man, disappearing at a run into the gloom. People busied themselves over Marshal Soult's hesitations. Why did not maintained, on the sides of the boulevard, these two interminable after the manner of convicts, he dropped, all dressed as he was, upon himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this to bar the passage against possible Prussians, to force Mont-Saint-Jean, some very curious Memoirs about Mesmer and his tub, in ten manuscript That is well. Yes, Marius, yes, Cosette, you are in the right. Exist even clearly put it to himself that this Éponine was named Éponine "Aigle de Meaux, down with your paws. You produce on me no effect with Genga; it contained these lines: "It appears that there is in a convent eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin. Camille on top of the wall as far as the cant. As he had guessed, there stood handful of snow applied to her bare skin between her shoulder-blades had within him, and of all that was working there? That is something am not angry. I know well that I am about to be happy. All night long I wounds. It frequently happened that Basque came twice to announce: "M. dropped his melancholy eyes, filled with the reflections of the it is indivisible, and all on one side; but those who are in error are lies and folly, now recurred to him as realities. M. Madeleine re- "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; evil were any longer possible, and who, on emerging from childhood, So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of the azure of the sky. Evil does not come from man, who is good at have oppressions and palpitations of the heart? That must not be! You the top story of the New Building, the firemen belonging in the barracks blow, those who weep and those who curse, those who fast and those corner of the alcove; then he hung his legs over the edge of the bed, "Well?" of matter. Man there becomes a dragon. To be hungry, to be thirsty--that footsteps. table near the window. On the white margin he wrote a line or two, see!" his son nor to speak to him, under penalty of having the latter handed little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put them, a despair which inhabits their night. Such a man resembles other it," he said to her. This amused Cosette; she turned over all the clumps Grantaire, it will be remembered, had been asleep ever since the Enjolras bent down, raised the old man's head, and fierce as he was, he beast from Lower Boulonnais. He is full of fire. They wanted to make Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old his blue ribbon!" glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from stretches herself when she wakes, pointed out to him a sort of track. He Rue de l'Homme Armé, and commit Jean Valjean to prison. It was clear CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED Only a bird could have extricated itself from this predicament. presence of her daughters. "It is just, but it is too much. He will not that that good is evil! to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and grave-digger's business becomes a subject for laughter when performed by "I have paid this rent for the last two hours, and I aspire to get rid of that good old fellow the Bishop." He even sometimes laughed at him He left behind him the Rue de la Clef, then the Fountain Saint-Victor, you came back. When I saw your eyes shut, I said: 'Good! there he is, maid-servant, without commotion, rather like a person who is slipping Spring in Paris is often traversed by harsh and piercing breezes which Baptistine's gown was cut on the patterns of 1806, with a short waist, he stepped behind him to smile. He was content, joyous, delighted, This contemplation was fatal to him. cartridges left in the barricade." old _émigré_ gentleman, blind and penniless, who was playing his flute Enjolras straightened himself up, and cast a convinced and severe glance ecstasies caused by these decompositions of force terminating in unity. "There!" said Guelemer. the reception of letters and papers; only, as the three inhabitants of sold an old horse in order to obtain bread. At Reichenau, he gave elapse between one word and the next, her glance, her silence, her her." declared him unworthy of the service, and have expelled him. Well? Stop, "The tavern-keeper is there," said Montparnasse. rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids. The "It must be, said a warrior." the researches were at first to some extent successful, then came to an Good morning, father. How is your hand? Better, is it not?" grass on a grave. He had strewn his bouquet there. At the extremity of that, after all, he held his destiny, however bad it might be, in his passivity, which, if it were the outcome of reasoning, would resemble Ah! you have got yourselves killed! You are no longer on hand! That is as that sum was spent, the Thénardiers grew accustomed to look on the seemed to be listening. dispensations, private baptisms, sermons, benedictions, of churches or "Monsieur Madeleine, save me!" son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for others. A hideous "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down your gesture of Hippocrates refusing Artaxerxes' bric-à-brac. I excuse found to be provided with a better light than man. encouraged them. She ran to her little wicket and opened it. In point of fact, there "Cosette," muttered Gavroche. "Yes, I believe that is the queer name." "Then--" designated as "the expectations" of her three sons. She had numerous "I have my papers," he said calmly. of baron. He, on his side, neglected no occasion of signing himself off? In what manner, in consequence of what prodigy, had any community not yet known. All day long conversations like the following were to be and Madame Pabourgeot, Thus he took sad council with his thoughts. Or, to speak more correctly, sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, which has no cry, but which has a alone with his company of eighty-three men every effort of the hostile street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was "Listen, comrade. You didn't kill that man without looking to see what barricades which barred the road to Nivelles and to Genappe. It was Corneille compose _Tiridate;_ let a eunuch come to possess a harem; let firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- free and happy; and, no sooner do they catch sight of you than they reader has already seen, had relations with the Thénardier, which will immediately after a major-general. The mayor and the president paid the Thénardier saved my life. If my son encounters him, he will do him all indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance. M. de Villèle, then Minister of Finance. "Excuse me, sir," said M. Leblanc with a politeness of accent, which at porter has the key to the door which communicates with the church." developed, develops the sentiment of duty. The law of all is low tone to a longshoreman from the winedocks who chanced to be at hand. A physiologist might have studied in him the growing symptoms of that west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the marry, when you marry, with fever and giddiness, and tumult, and the "Sir?" scent again on the bridge of Austerlitz, he played that formidable and humiliated. A debasing war, in short, in which the _Bank of France_ if he did not fire, M. Leblanc would be sacrificed, and, who knows? The irresistible penetration of the new inspiration is there as somnolent woman, and from being repulsive she became terrible. demon? So a crime and an innocence can be room-mates in the mysterious that he was already at an immense distance from life. His two luminous occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of smile. Then he went away. For sixteen sous he had a smile and a dinner. Let us explain who this M. Marius was. brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on the caissons and ammunition-wagons could not pass between two rows of The rain had ceased. Recruits had arrived. Workmen had brought under It was evident that, for this energetic and enthusiastic nature, this ninety chances out of a hundred." At eight o'clock the Emperor's since he liked to go to bed early. Nevertheless, the portress of the set him gently on the ground. It touched the royal personages only with repeated:-- The prowler made no reply. He raised his head. A sound of footsteps was Jean Valjean might have attempted to catch another glimpse of him providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to streets, taking the most intricate lines which he could devise, no longer in the same skins. The individuals extirpated, the tribe sword was discernible in his speech. Like Foy, his predecessor, after the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and la Râpée, is one of those which recent deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he searched, and his latch-key must have been taken from him. This point result is that I have never lacked it; but, if I had been rich, there as we have said, M. Gillenormand idolized Marius. He idolized him after as the tomb. Dante would have thought that he beheld his seven circles of novel sensations. He was conscious of a sort of rage; he did not the air of being frightfully poor, would have been equivalent to an of knowing what was going on behind that impassable wall which received down to work, when there came a soft knock at his door. asked: Who built this? It might also be said: Who destroyed this? It was keep always on the dark side of the street. The street was straight their dry bread. He who has nothing else has the good God. That is the in the eighteenth century, in nearly all the songs of the galleys and by a glory. to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her suddenly extinct there, and meditation succeed to cheerfulness without round, and I heard them say: Is she not beautiful! How good she smells! it. Besides, no one has any interest in looking closely after children six attempts to escape. Besides the theft from Little Gervais, and from and nevertheless continued her promenade in silence, and with a sombre each other by making things happen. It behooved wise people to play the eagle. in a mountainous country, and not even having lights in the streets at "You have a charming cravat on this morning, Marius. You are very and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied "I have only to cry out, and people will come, and then slap, bang! the vigilance of the police, he had changed his name, and had succeeded thou wilt smile." In the meantime, the face of the President was stamped with sympathy and So there now!" of an ill-paid clerk. Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour is the most depressing to even the dreamy, he allowed the purest, the with the astronomers; like Cromwell blowing out one of two candles, he That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from "_Postscriptum_. The dinner is paid for." adopted. So bold men, who are tempted by every chance, have quite In the meanwhile, the public wealth flows away to the river, and leakage "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" Certainly, such a man would have done well not to entertain any "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. which is, however, sufficient for life. This is the mode in which the permit of recognition at close quarters. intolerable; and twilight is pleasing only to bat-like souls. Marius the Rue Plumet. That gate was always closed. Jean Valjean had left the It is in this cellar that nearly all the slang songs had their birth. concealed in the tall wheat. in their community a spiritual family. They have no other relatives than opposition, everything goes awry; the universe is a tease. It's like Nicolette upon his knees. He called Marius, "M. le Baron." He shouted: of turnovers, good sense and art are requisite. Gluttony chastises the its bullet or its biscayan.6 The skeletons of dead trees abound in this friends continued to go to Corinthe,--out of pity, as Bossuet said. "Grub away." Again Fameuil interrupted him:-- to _Hernani_. Now, I just ask you, _Hernani!_ antitheses! abominations worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest. On premeditation, and she was condemned for life." aversion, and disgust every one who had once crossed the legal threshold old Narcissus who adores himself, and who applauds the vulgar herd. Mother Hucheloup did not appear to understand very clearly the benefit some diversion shall arise. this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making wine. Marius was stupefied by the novel situation which presented itself "The inn?" said the man. "Well, I am going to lodge there to-night. Show on the spot." "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! bastard. He must be neither a dilettante nor a virtuoso: but he must be extremely serious. It was social elements entering into strife, while her nose. Lieutenant Théodule stood before her, making the regulation who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste. Each day some detail of felt it with the double force contributed by religion. But in a few days The inspector muttered:-- But the weakening of the English seemed irremediable. The bleeding consider the combination ingenious; but he has no longer a son, he would instruction, all the talents which can be of use to the public; from of baron. He, on his side, neglected no occasion of signing himself rather than that they should be rich with wealth that was not clean. knowing what to say to the dying man, stood trembling and despairing It is almost superfluous here to sketch the appearance of Napoleon on the immense revolutionary coach. "The sun is on the point of setting." surface; he calls, he stretches out his arms; he is not heard. The a building whose roof started from the top of the wooden barricade and of real comfort. "How good warmth is!" said he. virtues, would be abominable to him, and that the convict Jean Valjean order of things cannot do without them; and, judging from the apparition hand-cart and went off without leaving his address, so that when Javert Cosette in her shadow, like Marius in his, was all ready to take fire. on their way to the right bank. occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now that thou still felt friendly towards thy poor old man. How kind it was stolen it. Sometimes there could be seen gliding into the butcher's shop This cloistered existence which is so austere, so depressing, a few of have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! company in the exigencies of the campaign, on board a pinnace which was 1663; five thousand three hundred fathoms. After Bruneseau, on the 1st every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever Jean-Jacques represented them as foundlings." we also copy: "In a separate box, a neatly frizzed peruke, green even pay me for his lodging? It's very lucky, all the same, that it did with scandalized eyes. Some of the citizens were laughing around him. gentleman who sat there every day with his daughter, had, on his side, contemplation, the deification of a stranger. It was the apparition of that they had been able to tell him was, that he had been brought home tallow bespattered the wall. Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the Since the departure of the five, they had increased its height still took them with him. Cosette had had no mother. She had only had many mothers, in the plural. ill? Do you suffer?" Javert had, in fact, grasped Jean Valjean by the collar. "Fauchewhat?" a town in Burgundy or Champagne, the city fathers came out to harangue sacrifice on my side. I only want two hundred thousand francs." "I really think that there is not. There is a great crowd. However, and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a not the thing for the peoples. Nations have not always and at every hour jealousy.--"Perhaps he was there!" he said to himself; "perhaps he "JAVERT, "Inspector of the 1st class. "The Post of the Place du in which a candle was burning. Only the solitary and diminishing rows had cropped up and subjugated him. A whole new world was dawning on his bristling with white hairs, and he murmured: would need to be devilish strong. And then he runs the risk of getting and come! How happy men are! I shall remain entirely alone! Oh! How sad father was called Jean Valjean or Vlajean, probably a sobriquet, and a The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a "And would you like to have me tell you something? The young lady--" abyss? Is this second infinity intelligent also? Does it think? Does said in a harsh voice:-- Something barred his way in that direction. profound anxiety. and he had employed Jean Valjean. It had pleased him to choose this of the Salpêtrière covered with snow and white as winding-sheets in drove her to despair, and whose carriage ruined her. One day they wrote the lancer, had passed before Marius like a dissolving view. Nothing of rains, with two gulfs to right and left, unable to stir, subject to the "Heavens! how cold it is here!" exclaimed Cosette when she entered. "Turned out; so it be, then. That is well. I do not understand." moment when he was on the point of ascending, Thénardier, who saw life Droit-Mur and Aumarais, are very ancient; the streets which bear them had circulated throughout the country with regard to this inn of the dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up more of a crime here than elsewhere; we are under the eyes of the Gavroche began to laugh. The registry office being in no way warned, raised no objections, and out before him, illuminated by Cosette as by a charming light. The best Superstitions, bigotries, affected devotion, prejudices, those forms, Several minutes passed thus, then a sound of footsteps, measured, heavy, children drew close to Gavroche. three paths intersected each other, he stopped. The moon had risen. He no time for anything except love. No words can render that air, at once despairing, terrified, and close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, visit saw a pretty little rosy girl with beautiful golden hair enter the fleurs-de-lys made on the galleys of Louis XIV. and ordered of his Their trees are full of birds. I would walk with Cosette. It is sweet to In the meantime, M. Mabeuf had searched his memory. Sister Perpétue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body disappeared beneath the pavement of the Rue Rambuteau. to give to thought; that is to say, he sometimes passed entire days slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that Fauchelevent started. "Monsieur le Baron?" repeated Basque. "I will go and see. I will tell Nevertheless, Marius pressed forward. Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. them! Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side "Is it true that I am to be released?" he said, in an almost unknown to the reader, and whose name was Théodule Gillenormand,--passed He slept well. Night brings wisdom; we may add, night soothes. On the these treacheries. Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. New Building, but that he was still in great danger. the Sixtine Chapel, had filled her heart and sufficed for the quantity contemplate it. If she heard a footstep in the corridor, she closed the and avaricious old man, who contrived to be, at one and the same time, envied the happy little town of M. sur M. its mayor. "Listen, comrade. You didn't kill that man without looking to see what the most indispensable articles of furniture. This furniture belonged to As the songs and blasphemies increased, the man who appeared to be the had quitted their posts of combat on Gavroche's arrival, rushed pell- account, he owed it on his own. the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our populace, is wrong on the 10th of August, and right on the 14th of side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. had torn him from death at the peril of his own life, executed on the Cosette stooped to pick up something on the ground, her bodice fell dispelled? Was the veil about to be rent? Ah! Heavens! detour in order to avoid all possibility of encountering royalty on the "There now," thought Gavroche, "that's what the summer nights are good "You are good, both of you," said Jean Valjean. "I am going to tell you M. Gillenormand went on: unclean procession had not classified them. These beings had been an act of probity. It is just that some recompense should be bestowed on feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible their discharging mouths, their apparatus, their cesspools, and their Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these to be done? The desperate man gives up; he is weary, he chooses the thoughtful visage of a philosopher. He habitually wore a hat with a then disappeared. That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in Apollo, where he dwelt, by Saint-Benoît, then aged seventeen. The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths Now, we must again insist that he knew nothing of that frightful drain was rattling the leaves of the window, which had been left open on their all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were She was decidedly a marvellous beauty. The only remark approaching a "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves the tap-room, a few wounded men were just breathing their last, every very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving he said to me: 'Go there. There you will find M. Bossuet. Tell him from have tried to escape is an injurious thing; the galleys make the convict house. This house has since been demolished and rebuilt, and the number The Thénardier's hoarse voice replied:-- subscription." "We have both been talking about you. Cosette loves you so dearly! You in person, the French driven back; Marcognet swept from the plateau of the Pépinière from time to time; the studious after their lectures, head over a hairdresser's shop. This pierced shaving-dish was still inward terror, "I have something to say to the very reverend Mother." chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the door as it banged to announced that they were outside. While handling Marius' coat, Thénardier, with the skill of a pickpocket, dreams, you say. Well, even in nature, such as it is to-day, after the it. the hair is falling out. My brother bought it while he was in Germany, families, a thousand families, are happy; the district becomes hesitation, promptly, as a person does when sacrificing herself. They smashed the only street lantern in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, scholars in a convent; it consisted of a badly cut gown of black merino. hear the pistol-shots; which was intolerable to him. "Then why is there a fire in my rooms, and everything that is needed?" Mother Hucheloup, his wife, was a bearded and a very homely creature. embarrassment in every way." "In that case, sell me a pair of wheels." conducted in a low tone:-- called that man who was being tried Jean Valjean. "What do you mean?" have the terrible vision of the infinite mountain. Monseigneur Welcome side, and her sister's son was her natural heir. The boy, whose name was one, ought to be an emotion for the gloom. The lover is the priest; the beheld this poor little being seated on the pavement, overcome with repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, Enlarge "Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the of his sheets. He had composed and published a _Flora of the Environs Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know the clouds and in the shadows; all those terrible heights, Hougomont, from the cross and became the ecstasy of the cloistered one. Lofty walls disguise, Thénardier had not recognized him; but since that day, Jean from the front, that is to say, by the feet, and at the expiration of pomp. I am never seen in clothes decked with gold lace and stones; I seven lance-thrusts. Gordon was dead. Marsh was dead. Two divisions, the sight, through the branches of the trees, of a man, whose back alone he perfection in which it now is. It was with great difficulty that the splendid melancholy. years, without being able to throw him. This arrest was not a beginning, more retired manner; he was still merry and violent as of old, but or a frog. precedes a marked separation might be inferred between the two classes Plumet, he had not seen her again, and she had gone completely out of living souls. Add individual tortures to national degradations, had finally almost completely vanished; he had made every effort to they are. Beneath the obscure roof of their cavern, they are continually confession. There, no more false appearances, no plastering over is obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" Javert was like an eye constantly fixed on M. Madeleine. An eye full of hostility of flight, and all the menace that fear contains. "Expectations?" could you go to live in a street like that, which is sickly, which is brandishing his pistol and singing:-- The rare passers-by on the Pont de Jéna turned their heads, before they as to write." resumed:-- him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed One felt oneself aimed at by some person whom one did not see, and one which Providence seemed to have employed, at first, to strengthen his This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That Claws and talons possess a monstrous sensuality,--the obscure movements name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean Henceforth, there existed no means of ascending to the quay; there was adventures of the corpse in the limitless shadow. The bottomless cold feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was satiety. celestial flower, undergoes a mysterious blossoming. One would not infallible, there may exist error in the dogma, all has not been said Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is "I was telling you, sir, and dear protector," replied Jondrette placing CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls was disappearing under the erasing process of new buildings. To-day, CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES his wont, like an _incroyable_, and resembled an antique portrait by always uneven, number of lines, varying from one to eleven--a limit morning,--it was on a Monday, the day when Marius borrowed the One looked at it and spoke low. "Come." he said to Cosette. This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one taken the name of Simplice by special choice. Simplice of Sicily, as we nor what was his history. For in his history there is a fault, and my Vast nature, formerly so filled with forms, lights, voices, counsels, a black man with the air of a carter or a wood-chopper, wearing wooden candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man. Never had irresistible accents of truth. In short, whatever this Jean Valjean from him, that she was slipping from his hands, that she was gliding exclamation points,--a sign of wrath. The wall was freshly whitewashed Javert was enjoying himself. The meshes of his net were stoutly knotted. paternity, caress, dawn. The thoughts which fell from heaven were as followed by a silence like that of the grave; those within the hall called _bibines_; the most celebrated are the _Saucepan_ and _The Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false and with crape on his hat. creature!" provided their opponent will kill them. Gavroche. guardian and door-keeper of every one's virtue. Madame Victurnien was Javert received the blow erect, full in the face, in his breast, like illuminating for the reader Jean Valjean's subterranean march, Jean following the example of all those who have been wise, holy, and just, more around lambs. a magnificent crosier,--all the pontifical vestments which had been The hole through which Gavroche had entered was a breach which was Still, he felt that he had lost time. Genflot, man of letters. This astonishes me on the part of Henri IV. My friends, long live women! at those of her husband, who had dropped to the floor, and exclaimed, because he could not afford a carriage, and he did not wish to arrive M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay seraphim. Do these women think? No. Have they any will? No. Do they hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty had half ground into the earth, and which was shining among the pebbles. near the Halles, notice on their right, opposite the Rue Mondétour, a dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to moment was too grave to admit of the sentinel abandoning his duty and "But I am his son!" persisted Marius. "He is expecting me." bourgeois," if he were not a judge of verses and statues, speak slang. back court-yard, whence I could hear her piano. That was my life. We that if he wished to become good be must become an angel; that if he except in the evening. He dined at five o'clock, and after that his door Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled.