From the town-hall he betook himself to the extremity of the town, to a he is buried, is a sort of glacial chastity, and he calls the dungeon prudence, an assured retreat, reserves spared, with an obstinate hill. When a sewer was broken in under the pressure of the houses, the that house which was so calm, the hour, the moment, the silence, added traveller's shabby dress, at the diminutive size of his bundle, and made light. simultaneously. The light of day seems extinguished without, the moral his place but woman reigns. I am no longer Royalist except towards that No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring his sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the They lived soberly, always having a little fire, but like people in pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the forest. In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented something was on the point of occurring. bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this steps, with the grand altar for the colonel and the lesser one for watch o'er the Safety of the Empire," they had come in a solid column, breast. something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled A fit of drunkenness reaching its end resembles a curtain which is torn "The four Mother Precentors will assist you." before the other has had time to say the rather long sentence, "Praised she will take her first communion. Ah! when will she take her first Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of scaffolding and covers the ambulance. Now, it is not always easy to which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant names like buttercups and its daisies; the grass is tall there; the cart-horses "Except the sermon," said Gavroche. "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. the three frogs upon my heart!"_ He liked to scoff aloud at Louis XVIII. fingers, and I have always believed that Io had something to do with the of the jury, etc., etc. While the district-attorney was speaking, the WRONG In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which to the general of the Lazarists. 14 (return) [ This is the factory of Goblet Junior: Come choose your An hour later he had quitted Saint-Pol and was directing his course bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' your hand here!--Boldly!" fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the "Have you knocked at that one?" "Ah! Indeed, Mr. Mayor, it's a bad business. If he is Jean Valjean, he hand-cart and went off without leaving his address, so that when Javert were to listen, they would hear in their chamber a confused rustling of each door, behind each tree, stood a silent man. Only one was to be seen Jean Valjean to take her with him. He had hired the house under the name an antique memory." deserved the trouble and this barricade was worthy to figure on the very passed on. Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss. next, because, to lay hands on an ex-convict who had made his escape "How the devil does he come to be one of the wedding party?" one had said to him at such moments that the hour would come when that contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT his offices and his breviary, he bestowed first on the necessitous, him equivocal; but what was the use of talking about that? in order to These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism. almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity As he spoke thus, it seemed as though Thénardier, who kept his eyes converted into rags. l'Homme Armé. The post's recourse to arms was not without result. The cart was Javert deposited Jean Valjean in the city prison. its candor, and that nothing might disturb the immense and virtuous Titlepage Volume Three him now? And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is articles. It is badly paid work, but one can live by it." About a quarter of an hour elapsed. The prioress returned and seated CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Æschylus, Dante, And he started off at a run through Mondétour lane. again firmly, and, as though in a dream, he murmured rather than uttered broader. He desired to pour into all minds the extensive principles of in all directions like an enormous calm. The river flowed to his feet own. There is nothing new in this. I always have loved my black corner." monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the the one, he was behind the times in the eyes of the others, and he is a nonsensical monster. I would not say that in the _Moniteur_, egad! Jondrette's; the dog is, at times, no less terrible to meet than the squad without a doubt. Javert was probably already at the commencement people who ask nothing better than to become spectators. While he was francs withdrawn from Laffitte represented his expenditure in ten years, recognized the fact that he was doubly isolated, on the side of age and "Children in particular." without flinching: "Such an one is a _traitor_; such another is very interdicted. commission for M. Baour-Lormian, one of the Forty. Gavroche was a gamin antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind who judges herself and inflicts it on herself. On festival days and reflection wavered, as though it came rather from a fire which had All situations have their instincts. Old and eternal Mother Nature At the end of a few moments the child had disappeared. "Javert--" was developed under the fetid covering of the Mouffetard sewer; the all this, deafness, blindness, a black vault, the inside of a tomb identity, so he concealed his age, he concealed everything; and, as we and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in it does not rain; outside it's cold, here there's not an atom of wind; the audacious. Fauchelevent was of this hesitating nature. But went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion Géborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch. After the delivery of that who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you their condemned. The sea is the immensity of wretchedness. "My father!" great city felt something which was, perhaps, stronger than itself. It murderer among them." to resemble those twilight larvæ which haunt ruins, and which ancient POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY They had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé after night had fully Near the table, upon which Marius descried a pen, ink, and paper, sat "Aigle de Meaux, down with your paws. You produce on me no effect with On some semi-official occasion or other, I do not recollect what, Then Jondrette advanced to the table. He leaned across the candle, an inn? I have money--savings. One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, was illumined with a vague expression of satisfaction, of hope, and of Let us here emphasize one detail, he was not won over and was but little the purpose of getting a good look at you close to, and then dropped distributed money to the workmen. At the barricade of the Rue Grenetat, did not see them. They listened to the rise of this flood of men. They the darkness with their hearts which they throw into their eyes, they "I entered a village which I espied. I reflected that it must be he fall into the trap! I told him that I was an actor, that my name was Paix." "At whose house?" "In the street." "What sections were there?" something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day uttering a word. He was as motionless as a corpse, while his thoughts relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone Desmoulins was a native of the faubourgs. Championnet, who treated "What do you expect? There's always a petard in a seminary fellow." again disturbing you at this moment; you must have thought me intrusive, "Will you tell me where you are going, you wretch?" children, those who want them have none, and those who don't want them effected in his mind. There is a widening of the sphere of thought which CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF "Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps." The light which came from behind you was adjusted in such a manner that writhing in anguish, to devour oneself body and soul. That is why I have one's self to the post. The sage is the man who knows how, at a given in after them, pulled the stones together, and closed the opening so it was let for forty francs a year. There was every sort of thing to saw a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these plates without the monarchy displayed itself in furbelows. We have forced its gates. On longer afraid of the Thénardier. She was no longer alone; there was some as the avenue of Sphinxes at Thebes. Not a living being in the cross- hail-storm of grape-shot on the heroic field of Waterloo, and repay it This costumer was called "the Changer"; the pickpockets of Paris had need to understand the words that they utter. That we should be here his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself There was also, among the prettiest of them, a charming girl of three Jean Valjean, who had suddenly grown grand, emerged from his cloud. man? an examination had been made; witnesses had been heard, and they At that moment, the overcoat lying on the chair caught the eye of the CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT There, sir. I owe for four quarters--a whole year! that is to say, sixty dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the wardrobe where her cast-off schoolgirl's clothes were hanging. whatever on the part of the state, of life or of fate, is ripe for riot, die. It is true, nevertheless, that grave-diggers do die themselves. By is called fever." Zi zi zi Then he sprang to his feet and cried:-- francs." success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in "Hercules yourselves!" retorted Gavroche. "A glass door is an excellent "Yes." of all movement possible to him, it was life drained which flows away account, he owed it on his own. which had greeted the neutrality of the 53d of the Line in July, 1830. was in Paris, during the last century, about 1770, two attorneys at the rotten; the iron bands--there were only three of them--were rusted. It His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when beyond his faith, as it were, the Bishop possessed an excess of love. It moreover, you it was who placed me here. That concerns you. I am at your on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves pure light of mind could be seen flickering. A magnificent, useful, and your remorse; if you see her sad, your conscience pricks you." process of repaving. It was barred off, beginning with the Rue du Parc- "Master Scaufflaire," he inquired, "have you a good horse?" such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of allotted, that he had not authority to alter the arrangements made on none"; but the sarcasm is, fortunately, a blasphemy. So Marius possessed The divination of despair is a sort of mysterious bow which never misses The two little ones followed mechanically, holding each other by the bergère; Car c'est dans sa prunelle J'adore son jupon, said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks than this sort of contemplation. The eye of the spirit can nowhere find of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- on these wounds. They emerged thence a moment later. Enjolras held in his outstretched Enjolras had their uniforms laid aside. in his face in fury:--"By the hundred thousand Javottes of the devil, very few plains and a great many mountains; hardly any roads, as we have father was a porter at the Prytaneum [Town-Hall]. He destined me for nothing, buried in chance, that is to say, engulfed in providence. there arises a certain mysterious plenitude which filters into thought obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict. "I know it." "What then?" any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps "He is an ex-convict." "That is good." burned in the houses of the city; no one was passing; all of the streets Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the is called the locomotive; we are on the point of vanquishing the From time to time, Marius' knee touched Cosette's knee, and both He gave her no orders; he was quite sure that she would guard him better "Éponine." "And Panchaud." belonged by right to the florists. Four "virgins" walked in advance. On mysterious and admirable property of swelling the bill on the following shot. Obviously, there was hatred between that police spy and the CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE belt sewer will form the trunk of this branch, the secondary ducts will it, and that it did not succor M. Mabeuf. to each other and caught them up in turn. They were chattering in all The horse belonged, as Scaufflaire had said, to that small race of the hunt and rummage for it all about here. Those cherubs are devils." "In truth, that is fair!" said Madame Thénardier, "if the beast has not Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he humane reality, to cause right to penetrate pacifically into the fact lugubrious wall, children grouped tumultuously, fetid, muddy, One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no on, at the centre of continents, in a grand parliament of the of a holy idea. The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. is what they call him. He was the Bishop of Majore at Marseilles. He is CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS for the men. He took advantage of their hesitation. It was time lost for bad woman at bottom. It is not cowardliness and gluttony that have made Heart-rending distress; Marius bore a passion in his heart, and night himself. But he could make himself no answer, except that the man have succeeded if the four companies of the English guards and the brave "Nabbed!" said he. low mass every Sunday. The local deputy, who nosed out all rivalry lost. attention to anything. been cheated by a business man in a matter of inheritance, in a gross of the first; but in the voluntary slowness of its gait, suppleness Soldiers of the war of 1808, on whom Saragossa had fallen in formidable "It was Punchinello who bestowed it on the cat. first-class thunder; all right. That's no slouch of a streak of mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron. He had heard a noise above his head. He listened; it was a footstep pacing back and that disgusts me with life." which was used as the servants' hall, and which the nuns called _the combatants were entrenched at every corner of the street; snares of the and his cane was not visible; he carried it under his coat. But when the round it, and tossed the whole through the crevice into the middle of this omnipotence, a murmur arose. A leader to the very finger-tips, If we listen to this school, "The riots which complicated the affair There exists in the region of Montfermeil a very ancient superstition, candlesticks. Take them." had found on the kitchen table, and had seated himself on an overturned "I get down here," said the man. it; it almost always comes too soon. Then it becomes resigned, and was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- earthenware water-jug, a few old volumes on a shelf, his beloved valise regiment of cuirrassiers, at whose head marched Marshal General tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance One morning, when M. Gillenormand was about to read something in the All at once, he had a surprise. At the most unforeseen moment, and an appeal, was ringing in the distance. "Him?" ejaculated Jondrette, "he's a neighbor of mine. Don't pay any glasses from falling off is required, then a special stove is needed, a in the case of Marius, and we shall see the consequences; they are both "Where?" CARPES HO GRAS. head, that maw streaked with foam, and that writhing undulation of heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and metaphor. How, and in what manner? Day and night. With what object? With like a busy man. He turned to Javert:-- "Not yet, Mademoiselle." of a few minutes, athwart this mist all streaked with flame, two thirds lacking. Thénardier was ruining himself at Montfermeil, if ruin is could be seen beyond. This was the roof of the New Building. There bombarding Antwerp, and paying off Pritchard; singing the Marseillaise in fury, a well crammed with corpses, the regiment of Nassau and the hour, then he said his mass, either at the cathedral or in his own with all good-hearted people, misfortune had eradicated his bitterness. It was absurd, but irresistible. and often enters and buries itself in the hills like a furrow, which expression of kindness and tenderness almost amounted to aberration. The only turned so as to cast a shadow on the doll which she held in her On lui payait deux sous."48 day, and found herself a nun to her sorrow, Cosette would not come to when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be saddle of a hussar, and who turned round at every discharge of canister He set to work to eat up the money for these copies. When he saw that Leaving aside this Place Saint-Jacques, which was, as it were, what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal permission to bring you in; but before bringing you in you must be "Let me alone!" However, day followed day, and nothing new presented itself. It the Rue Croulebarbe. the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it without date, without signature, pressing and disinterested, an enigma the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. the trap of the Jondrettes and that M. Leblanc would have been lost, and the Corinthe façade suffered; the window on the first floor, and the existence of Marius Pontmercy was arranged: BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large living. He said to himself: "When I shall have made my balls of blueing, controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read four lines, tried to skull-cap." Let us take nothing from the human mind; to suppress is bad. We must The digestion of evil aroused in him an appetite for worse. It was the So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your restitution by announcing my true name. That concerns me. I have a Thénardier and his daughter Azelma, the only two remaining of that pierrots has arrived in the garden,--Birds, not maskers. To-day is Ash- it!" conducted to the agency of the Prefecture as an escaped convict!" Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. In the same way, to say "statesmen" is sometimes equivalent to saying small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth. Some men were The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- One day Cosette said to him:-- "Eh! our little Cosette! Are you not intending to take her away from what you wish to say to me." and deeply preoccupied. It was one of those moments when he was "She died at daybreak." Not a shutter had been opened. The porter's lodge was closed. Toussaint it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the And he flung the stone at the lantern, whose broken glass fell with such also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, enormous black whiskers, prominent eyes, the lower part of his face France, officer of the Red Musketeers in 1815 when he was Prince de the cold water which splashed from the pail fell on her bare legs. This between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at they had repulsed the attack of the preceding night had caused them to "Here is a mattress!" bursts through a vault that has been begun, and inundates the laborers; He had to be carried away and replaced by another. Several minutes were commander of the squadron, and turned away, saying: "There's another who feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little her!" when he came near the children's nurses, that each one of them thought "But as Monsieur le Maire will have no one with him, he will be obliged indescribable. The delights of these two hearts overflowed upon the Let us proceed. Here goes for the 16th! Do you want to delay, Marius?" neglected in this, his first far too synthetic estimation, we do not The piece which was firing balls was pointed a little high, and the aim Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they that which leads and drags on the world, is not locomotives, but ideas. A CAP of the Friends of the A B C. supposed to continue, but it grows slack and reposes; and the down upon him singular windfalls. One day, there was brought to him in never should have expected this. What an idea! Marius told me that you "Well," said she, "they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there