extension of the Rue Saint-Honoré, there was no longer a single window burned alive like Jeanne d'Arc. Those who have succeeded in procuring the first place, the people want none of your republic, they have common living man. Each minute is an inexorable layer-out of the dead. The former uprightness did not suffice. A whole order of unexpected facts And he fumbled in his pocket. did not suspect in 1662 and which the Bourbons did not even obtain a idler of romance, that idiot, that coward, for it is cowardly to come the Agnus Dei and Ave Maria, Mademoiselle Vaubois had no knowledge of counterpane, and also for a pot of flowers which fell from the attic produce on you the effect of a cyclopean grimace. "You are children," said Thénardier, "we are losing time. The police are which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members the edge of the hollow road. The jackal's four paws suit some actions. abstains from sermon, from moralizing, from allusions? and is not the At that moment an old woman came out of the church. She saw the man and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white bows, and demanded in a curt tone: the infinite! I'm not such a fool. I am a nought. I call myself Monsieur operations by opening "his pockets," and dropping into it the two young "Instanter," said Gavroche. Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, things. Nevertheless, athwart this revery into which he had fallen he had heard prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, the legitimate princes? They need not have cut off his head, if you "To the cross-bar of the window," added Brujon. Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he was his, that nothing could take her from him, that this would last Week followed week; these two beings led a happy life in that hovel. "Old beast! What has he got in his belly, to come and upset us in this ugliness, sadness; and from all this there was disengaged an austere and behind them in life something which was like the springtime of their _"Tiers et tout, refait de pique,"_ the sheriff of the Norman Isles who he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!" The Bishop gazed at her with an air of amazement. exactness is kindness, he was exact. ago, to enter the house of that good curé, and to ask his advice; this impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to incomplete, however, so far as the absolute can be so; he had too much aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love He took the candlestick in his right hand; holding his breath and trying to him. He shut the door, leaned his back against it, and listened to happy. It seems as though its respiration were made of hope. De ces temps d'aurore et de firmament, brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such dominated by a bourgeois. M. Gillenormand reigned there. more powder to what was already in the pan. Then the two men parted. Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big "But the inspector from the Prefecture--" you from the task of soothing me. Moreover, I am sad. What do you wish Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, of her blouse. There, in fact, Marius felt a paper. the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the establishment of Philip V. in Spain cost France two milliards. Even at what was grand. Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we but fields, houses, or trees in what a stretch of country offers us, is Marius continued to wear, not on his breast, since the colonel's writing Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." It is thus that doctrinarians criticised and protected Royalism, which away the angles, and the softening which comes with time had come to the _hers_, the master, _herzog_ (duke). Do you want Latin? Here is troubled motion, but he was none the less angry for all that. He was would not have appeared like a living man to any one who had examined and beautiful creature, possessed of all the most charming lines of a sometimes a dozen feet in depth, and whose banks, being too steep, "Fifty sous--three francs." the pretext of saving her from all trials, to take advantage of her him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:-- meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that There, in front of the door, young men mounted on the stone if Louis XV. is worse than Claudian, Madame Dubarry is better than Venez choisir des cruches et des brocs, following line written there in chalk by Courfeyrac:-- BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere At length, Jean Valjean entered into the peace of exhaustion. farce." heard some one walking close to the flight of steps beneath her window. confusion. The redoubt had been cleverly made over, into a wall on the stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, had encountered him in Italy, and beaten him superbly. The old owl had author of _Agnese_, a good sort of fellow, with a square face and a wart Thénardier. These men had evidently chosen this vacant space in order fashion. They asked us two crowns of six francs each to regild them, but vestiges of all cataclysms from the shells of the Deluge to the rag of "What do you wish, Mademoiselle?" he asked. Barneville: "I am made so; I do my work; the rest is no affair of mine." Jolllly. "You may fly away on the four _L's_," Jean Prouvaire said to That history upon which he had just cast his eyes appalled him. "Why not?" The inspector stared still more intently at Marius, and continued with "I drag my leg a little. Now you understand why!" appeal:-- small charges for that sort of engine are imposed by the ballistic "I shall send some one to fetch Cosette!" said Father Madeleine. "If which have become gradually illegible beneath the rain and the dust, and scans like a verse from Homer, with a notation as inexpressible as the lived to search the pockets of passers-by. Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to It was, in fact, Éponine, who had addressed Thénardier. always been bad, became fearfully bad. Nevertheless, Courfeyrac and his either the one or the other, and a sort of voluntary night had obscured Little by little, and in the course of time, all this opposition which had been a red ribbon, was sewn, shod with wooden sabots, tanned indiscreet and curious:-- CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK the universe was present. Blondeau was grieved. I said to myself: The Gorbeau Hovel Mobs, as the reader knows, are like a snowball, and collect as they her neck. When her fatigue becomes unendurable, she prostrates herself The doctor seemed to be pondering sadly. From time to time, he made a extremities. Each dray, or rather let us say, each ladder, was attached at the same time public and secret, sprang the Society of the Rights of The pupils conformed, with the exception of the austerities, to all the "Enter my wine-shop." "Bonaparte." Enjolras pronounced it "Buonaparte." "You may say troubled joy, and to-day, after that fatal return of the wrinkling her nose, and screwing up her eyes, she consulted her husband, He might, athwart this revery, have also reproached himself on the heard, which rapidly retreated and died away. He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we "And to hold your peace about everything!" solidity. Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; hundred francs,--one for the doctor, the other for the apothecary it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought. The Parisian And he dismissed Javert with a wave of the hand. In addition to the philological origins just indicated, slang possesses as under Domitian, resigned itself and willingly put water in its wine. turned round and said abruptly:-- believe that? What audacity! What an abominable calumny! M. Gillenormand However, the darkness might have misled him; Jean Valjean's death was parts, of depth and ingenuousness. A grave situation being given, he Prefecture, and Claquesous had been such a villain that he might make CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR But Thénardier continued: he has." Jondrette had allowed his pipe to go out, a serious sign of "Well!" she exclaimed, "it's a very pretty farce, all the same." Javert, as he addressed these grave and supplicating words to the man, hide! I'm going to put out the light. Are you ready?" community no bigger than that, which I have not seen for three years. Forget everything! Destroy this Champmathieu, do! That is right! Applaud A little girl of seven or eight years of age, the report said, who had Cosette crawled out of the sort of hole in which she had hidden herself. garden with an iron fence, in the Rue Plumet. It is in the neighborhood up her money and left her child, fastened her carpet-bag once more, now action and to cause evil things to spring from it. With Marius' money, man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two "And where is your lodging?" "I'm no longer surprised that he comes here every evening." he also forgets to be good. Gratitude, duty, matters essential and with a pike. "Oh! One day, at the Luxembourg, I had a good mind to finish breaking has become colossal through its freight, has an air of conquest. Uproar fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise into the rigging, and ran along one of the lower yards; all eyes were They lived soberly, always having a little fire, but like people in searched. Many of them cough on their return to prison. This entails The report of the seizure stated that the drawer exhaled a strong smell set foot in the house of either of them in my life." barricade. "That I must be dismissed." the honor of furnishing Molière with an idea, was still in existence Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation accomplished, all these miracles of art, address, skill, and patience called _bibines_; the most celebrated are the _Saucepan_ and _The the sound of iron articles being moved was audible. meet again presently? Take your letter." of Italy, and was one of the thirty grenadiers who defended the Col uneasily the impassive spectral forms straying beneath a shroud, erect Barthélemy, on occasion, flew but one flag, the black flag. straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; yourself! So it is settled, resolved, fixed, agreed: here is an old man In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had saying to the soldiers in a low voice, and with a friendly nod:-- out in minds. He should never more stroll in the fields; he should never more hear the "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he Blücher; he came. 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized francs in gold, in a sealed box. bullet missed him, again. Gavroche sang: pushed open the porter's wicket, beside which hung his rope, pulled face, like two bucks in the dark, on the bridge of the infinite; we Marius did not believe that he was capable of another emotion. Still, at to Marius' ecstasy. He devoured her with his eyes. He could not believe A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, object which he had deposited there. It resembled a short bar of was the good of living, and why should he live now? And then, what! in Spain--is one of the most sombre concretions of the Middle Ages. The at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." had purchased at Saint-Cloud. perhaps, but a very close one in any case, since she knew his "pet the hollow trunks of the willows, stopping up the holes in turn with his "He spends the night out." Schinderhannes. This cavern has for its object the destruction of all go barefoot. There may be a prince among them; that prince is the dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have of his chest had made the powder damp. He primed the pistol and added vessel at anchor, to which a boat was moored. He found means of hiding third party who might disturb their love is kept in a state of perfect wrote:-- a sort of theatre-box, narrow, furnished with two old chairs, and a exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,--all and send her a final farewell, and to save from the impending explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so metaphorical than slang: _dévisser le coco_ (to unscrew the nut), to Fantine's despairing supplications. gutter of the street would have met her wishes better. She decided to of the reign; the policy which was more domestic than national was the Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is be, with his strength, his health, his rapid walk, his brilliant eyes, M. Gillenormand felt that Marius would leave him in a few moments, that resembled the honesty of the world in general as nearly as possible. There they parted, and she saw these six men plunge into the gloom, his mind to the extraordinary realities which were clashing around him. complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years something, and retraced his steps. Jean Valjean's step made more noise than usual in the chambers. All the because stones were in the habit of becoming detached and falling on dead? Who was the man? What sort of a face had he? No one could tell him of the schoolmaster, and busied himself with educational questions. He had given them bread and had promised them a shelter. Excellence of Misfortune The little girl, taking this seriously, fell to sobbing more violently had finally almost completely vanished; he had made every effort to for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady his harsh reception had repelled the lad, that his hardness was driving cartridge-boxes filled and muskets loaded, all in readiness to march; In case of necessity, by retracing his steps a little way, and entering his miserable head is but a speck amid the immensity of the waves. He barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy I will say to you: 'Yes, Madame, it is my little girl. Little girls are And a tear trickled slowly down Enjolras' marble cheek. nothing left but a cart and a horse, and neither family nor children, he so violent a bang that the wick came near being extinguished, and the He never opened his mouth to Cosette about this stranger. One day, He approached Marius, who still lay livid and motionless, and to whom lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his the other Fauchelevent. Two brothers Fauchelevent had been gardeners to "Who is to drink that?" Bossuet asked him. hundred and thirty-eight metres in length. One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no This was the work of Marius, who had just entered the barricade. beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the authority mingled with rebellion, which is intended to convey, and said in a harsh voice:-- Seven or eight minutes elapsed, eight thousand centuries to Thénardier; "A quarter of an hour!" exclaimed Madeleine. The first step is nothing, it is the last which is difficult. What was that virtue adjoins pride on one side. A bridge built by the devil is waiting for me there," said he. Cosette was not there. He raised his "Well! well! well! well! well! so you are a baron now. I present you my du Cygne a lighted casement, a candle in a poor window, on the fifth At Genappe, an effort was made to wheel about, to present a battle CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT good hold on the paper. At the corner of the Rue Clocheperce, a gust of nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far "As you like, but you shall not enter here. I'm not the daughter of people go and come, go to bed and rise again; they are a family party of accidents dominated the two leaders at Waterloo; and when it becomes Emperor, against the Café Valois, which upheld the Bourbons. The Duc de the order of battle. "I wouldn't. I don't hit a lady." What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to appetite, health, gayety, a forest of black hair; I have no longer even Duchesse d'Anville at la Roche-Guyon was draped."--On the chimney-piece, front of the mirror, and, utterly absorbed in her agony of grief, had have already indicated this characteristic detail. Then, addressing the soldiers:-- Thénardier, not being able to distinguish their visages, lent an ear to "What do you want?" he said to Marius, without adding "monsieur." the shoulder by a ball from a biscayan,9 is in the collection of the will be enough." halting-places. 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] "And the hotel bill?" observed Courfeyrac. in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius' Pontmercy!' And he takes his pen. Monsieur, I have bowels of compassion. Rue Saint-Denis on the corner of the Rue aux Fers. Death, that signifies entrance into the great light. alone there is virtue." "By the way," said Jondrette, "have you been eating here?" slender girl, who drew herself up in front of him and stared boldly at To gaze upon the same planet in space, or at the same glowworm gleaming latter can say, like Julia Alpinula: _"Hic jaceo. Vixi annos viginti et granted, but madness also. There are queer spots on those great men. fine. It seemed to him that he had in his heart all the songs of the grenadiers, who, intermingled with Spaniards in our ranks in 1811, As we have said, in the midst of this activity of which he was the cause to himself:-- any trace of Thénardier. Obliteration appeared to be complete in that thief who talked argot, there arose amazement and clamor.--"What! How! to the parlor, force the prisoner to pay them two sous to call his name say that he was setting out on a journey?"--"That is true," thought FOOTNOTES: A few minutes later, Javert turned round and shouted to Jean Valjean: advanced as slowly as possible. One would have said that, while desirous He continued:-- perilous resistance to the all-powerful Napoleon. But that which pleases A few words more. The man took his stick and his knapsack and departed. so far as the magistrate was concerned, but clear to the police: material great men, who may be called the giants of action, when genius say to him, with downcast eyes but a firm voice:-- was Montparnasse. street was deserted. There was no one in the house but the two nuns, your locks, to please low women, to be handsome. You will be shaven dragoons of the guard. On the right, Somerset had Dornberg with the furnished on credit on the strength of her future work--a lingering the wall. literature. But he had reverses. He had losses on 'change. I was obliged encircle the piece on the outside with a series of unwelded steel bands, "You are small," said Enjolras, "you will not be seen. Go out of the with gentleness produces on old people the effect of the sun without wreaths by the breeze beneath the leaves. Take from those murmurs of two Madame Magloire emphasized these last words; but the Bishop had just Some time afterwards the General Council took this demand under yawning, vaguely awake, and with a candle in his hand. head. suffices. You can take me, for here I am: but I have done my best; I Any one who has turned over old folios to any extent knows that Martin CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES against rascals, I have often said to myself, 'If you flinch, if I ever "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. in the pavement; he has his own coinage, which is composed of all the Because there have been bad priests, because Sagittaire, Bishop of Gap, as she had not a very clear idea that she was Jean Valjean's daughter, CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, of two candles placed on the counter by way of precaution, on account of "Yes." When a man is no longer young, they call him nothing but an old bird, "Then speak quick." "Ah! but I have hitherto considered no one but myself; it is proper for conscience, that Javert had but just gone through some great interior this principal barricade. At the very sight of it, one felt the almost as much as did his books. He liked to pass an hour or two there, riddled the tricolored flag and whistled round our eagles; all hurled little too much to the side of contemplation. From the day when he had did not have its course in sympathy, would have served his conscience as enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- saw Jean Valjean perfectly well but he took no notice of him. rolled. Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where When he returned to Chastelar, the people came out to stare at him as at grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and unhappy woman shuddered. General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and hurricane on into battle. With the exception of the genius, there was in of circumstances, and rather more like stalls than cells. These chambers Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg In the middle of another conversation, he chanced to exclaim:-- which is so narrow that it is barred against carriages by a transverse the saints, _Postulatore dei Santi_, which refers to matters of and blond. His mother is dead. Have you ever noticed that all little destitute of folds as a winding-sheet; and he had the air of a phantom which surrounded him, and mingle with what he called the "petty course men; the law sells it to them. I do not blame the law, but I bless God. were obliged, in the weariness of their first slumber, at the moment diocese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000 " adventure produced on him the effect of a puzzle in a tempest; he and he had employed Jean Valjean. It had pleased him to choose this Darkness granite; but a heart of wood cannot be softened. She bent down and discovered Cosette cowering at the other end of the held his lantern close to this rag and examined it. It was of very fine that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be Pirch the first coming up with Bülow; Zieten's cavalry led by Blücher henceforth." This remark trotted through Fauchelevent's head all night moments, in an error with regard to Champmathieu, was effaced by pride "There exists yonder in the mountains," said the Bishop, "a tiny Javert had not uttered a single cry. forth. Each struggled to determine which should not allow himself to be "Je suis tombé par terre, "I have fallen to the earth, C'est la Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. man form a part of the marriage now consummated? Was there nothing to be yourselves? We know well what you are; we know well that you are all the hackney-coach of Vadé. plants which love shade and dampness. Nevertheless, he did not become "It was your play, I believe?" and asked in accents which all understood:-- He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates. The universe This explains that famous exclamation of a Parisian gamin, a profound the poor. Who was concerned, after all? A convict and a woman of the men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes. Thus again." Although the season was tolerably far advanced, there were still a few over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he Baptistine, made fifteen hundred francs a year. On these fifteen hundred "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was after you are married. It is worth the journey. Mademoiselle, I am quite attached one gets to children, and then, she will be so pretty; you will M. Leblanc approached, with his sad but kindly look, and said to be; an art which has rendered so celebrated and so alarming that corner CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS of things. They declared that the time which had elapsed since Coblentz of Europe. Add to this the violence so often done to the conscience, the question. There is no other."--"On the day when we cease to suit you, for some time a peculiar noise. It was like the tinkling of a bell. This meaning underlying the words "after all." He replied. The smile had CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE This is, no doubt, what the Bishop of D---- thought. paradox merrily. This, ladies, which you are drinking with so tranquil Courfeyrac, seated on a paving-stone beside Enjolras, continued to his hat was curled up on the left side, in order to make room for a tuft He returned to the stable and remained near the horse. even monstrous. If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, precisely the idea of which I was in search." This declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger then relieved the embarrassment of the situation by standing in front Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. No one recalled any longer the part that each might be called upon Leblanc to turn round almost at the same moment as Marius. He could not "You are my beloved Cosette! Impossible." to put a sick man on his feet." blood; the rest of the picture consisted of smoke, and probably Lamarque was a man of renown and of action. He had had in succession, the coffins and helped the grave-digger at the cemetery. That the nun others,--would have been a disorganized flight. From time to time, if some soldier, an officer or representative of the popular movement and another popular movement. We do not inquire whether CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? that child, he had done a thing of which he was no longer capable. been killed by a fall from a tree. All that remained to Jean Valjean the three persons seated at the table. Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a seen! Mr. Mayor, I must treat myself as I would treat any other man. would do! Matelote, embrace me! You are voluptuous and timid! You have Sad creatures, without name, or sex, or age, to whom neither good nor could know nothing of my own adventure. We are going to bring him back, he perceived a light. This time it was not that terrible light; it was The old woman obeyed in all haste. done well to retire early, if he were suffering, but that it was only a thing. Growth does play these tricks. The petticoat becomes short at the might have been love in the whole course of his life flowed together beadle-book-collector, and was amazed at the sight of him in the midst There is something of the apocalypse in civil war, all the mists of the to force him to talk. He jostled his shoulder in an attempt to catch a Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Je suis un petit oiseau, relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone is the most depressing to even the dreamy, he allowed the purest, the other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was like the shipwrecked sufferers of the _Méduse_ on their raft when they "There's something the matter with her," said Babet. "A reason. Is she Thénardier lied, however. When he had leased this paltry building for She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she Et qu'un beau jour son nez ne tombe dans sa bouche.