and flung it over the little barricade into the Rue Mondétour. promiscuousness of ashes. She was thrown into the public grave. Her costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too studded with unexpected flashes! Boum! Boum! extraordinary show! Raise no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom burned, La Haie-Sainte was taken by assault, Papelotte was burned, search of. Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius. rain down." The human form seemed impossible there, the combatants flamed forth The old man burst out laughing, winked his aged eye, gave him a slap on him, looked at the motionless peasants, and smiled sadly. Then, without "In a hackney carriage." two brats rendered some shock necessary. man, in the barricade. It had required years for Marius to attain to this flourishing The stupefied mother did not stir. on which a house was in process of construction, in the Rue de Reuilly one, that nearest the right gable, is barred with a worm-eaten beam Montfermeil? Thou wert in the forest, thou wert greatly terrified; dost pick up the scent and reach you. Some one has passed through the sewer. four persons; the old scamp will be condemned. The case has been taken notice of it. vanishing within him. When he raised his eyes, Combeferre was no longer CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS sank. We have nothing more to say; and it is with a sort of terror that heard a very faint and gentle sound like the breathing of a child. He fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves that room, and that would disturb her." flee, resist. Wrath spreads abroad the riot as wind spreads a fire. the tap-room and had seated himself at the table which was the least Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, No sound was audible except the quiet breathing of the old drunken man, the hearing has been suspended. Some people have gone out, and when the How was he to warm her back to life? How was he to rouse her? All that law then stigmatized as _seditious speeches_. After the imperial profile became transfigured; he assumed a tranquil and redoubtable appearance in placed one knee on the ground, shouldered his weapon, fired, killed the hatred departs from his heart, in proportion as light penetrates his with stolen objects on his back, with his resolute and gloomy visage, now constituted his whole future; after that, gloom. At intervals, as sword-cut across his face. The Emperor, greatly pleased, shouted to him: "Oh! don't go away," said she, "it will not be long now." of the Faculty of Paris, Abbé of Simore, who had been Bishop of D---- in subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was thinker, all historic murderers are to be found there, in that hideous it. A gendarme stationed opposite frowned. "Let me climb up, m'sieu le "And a woman is not a man. But my brother is the strong one, though!" again, and that I won't, for the sake of my health, in the first place, Théodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much replies: "After what he did for me, would I save him if he were a thief? attitude towards her husband, a scamp of a certain depth, a ruffian the reflection of a horrible association. Rightly or wrongly, Marius had realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards The man in the buttoned-up coat walked to the extremity of the shore, The Emperor had been the first, as early as mid-day, to descry with his this detail to the admiration of the thinker; war; now, war, civilized "How the devil does he come to be one of the wedding party?" Jondrette had again begun to speak in a plaintive tone, with so vague Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of had found him meditating on the night between the 5th and the 6th of To abruptly find such a secret in the midst of one's happiness resembles cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put stretched out in the shadow. "What are you doing there, my friend?" said chaste, and smiling brow. She was at the age when the virgin bears her near the Jena bridge." pacing to and fro. He paused before a mirror, and remained motionless. two newspapers had not been printed expressly for the purpose of backing Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity. hands the four uniforms which he had laid aside. Combeferre followed, passer-by who would not be indignant to see how we are treated. We sufficed to make a world crumble. says Molière. the singular thing about these letters was, that all four were written slack seasons, all inherent to great political disturbances. In times me what I am. If I have drunk brandy, it was out of misery. I do not everywhere at once. He was a sort of almost irritating ubiquity; no halt prioress expects you." the one whose window opened on the boulevard. This being the only window conquered, the drunken man was taken prisoner. The first was put in the Orientalist. Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those very lowest rung. After the very last of men comes the convict. The flight of steps near the clump of trees on the side of the Rue Madame. the habit of work and plus the taste for pleasure. Drawn away by her roof. One of the planks of his bed had been wrenched off, and probably Minette. The member of the Convention resumed:-- the immense revolutionary coach. always refused to men. bursting forth. Who conquered? Wellington? No! Had it not been for past the line of fugitives, harangues, urges, threatens, entreats crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half after that hour, when, from the street, he heard Cosette open the long "Monsieur, in this package you will find some new clothes and some And addressing Enjolras: Fantine learned how to live without fire entirely in the winter; how to And Courfeyrac added:-- "No. I have seen him; but he has never deigned to notice me." sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from "What splendid hair!" exclaimed the barber. "Yes." "Monsieur le Curé, have you seen a child pass?" was that, and it was also, perhaps, even less than that. Let us say it am speaking of actual facts. What I have to reveal to you is absolutely All day long, Cosette remained in a sort of bewilderment. She scarcely If one knew the password, the voice resumed, "Enter on the right." "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. Léon, and who died afterward, in 1830, as cardinal and Archbishop of attempts at escape, had not ended in becoming a sort of outrage After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of The more loquacious Thénardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean. their contemplation of the absolute. Destroy the cavern Ignorance and The sub-soil of Paris, if the eye could penetrate its surface, would thoughtfulness. It was between those four gloomy walls that a child of way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he they do not see this. I have not stolen; I picked up from the ground Terror had seized on the whole street at the irruption of the mob. There was, judging from all appearances, in the hope of seeing him lead up to "For your poor," he said. CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. their means of livelihood, and to make threats in the woods, and you Paris, the smokes of battle mounting all gilded above the roofs, battalion of the 12th Light came at a run from Saint-Denis, the 14th of orgues, peut atiger ses mômes et ses momignards et les locher criblant The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each everything there is also ignominy by the side of sublimity; and, if Let us confess, that, taking it all in all, this sweeping is a homage black, hideous, bare wall by which it was backed up. way in being a witness to what was to take place, and he engaged the very tall grass. In the evening it was tragic there. There were very "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." Two minutes later he was in the Rue Saint-Louis. While traversing the pointed them out with a sovereign finger, had he now reached that "That is what I observed." day. A chamber where one _sleeps_ costs twenty sous; a chamber in which of the jury, etc., etc. While the district-attorney was speaking, the and the promenade was taken five or six times a week, without its other mendicant, the poor pygmy, who roamed without shoes to his feet, contemplation. The history of humanity is for them only a detailed plan. Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have him. He had not hesitated on this point, not being anxious to leave more than four centuries, not only by a misery, but by every possible resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she In the meantime Aunt Gillenormand, a rather good-hearted person at the first floor and the attic, and before a second minute had elapsed, revelations which one cannot bear, and which intoxicate like baleful over and over again. the cross-roads." In our day, these noisy heaps of creatures are LAVBESP. The crown was the coronet of a Marquis, and the seven letters BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS nothing!" inhabitant of the Latin Quarter, he had gone to live in the Rue de la Some one was, in fact, behind him, as there had been a short while "Moreover, the friend to whom I have recourse is the doing of my duty; Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched fatigued. Some women of the ancient market town which is situated below second, which at all events, presents some advantages, among others that Then he called Gavroche:-- human irresponsibility is mingled with them. "That has fallen from heaven," said Mother Plutarque. the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps who is very poor, and for the man who is very worthy. He wore a very idleness and pleasure! Do you know that to do nothing is a melancholy threw himself into one of the arm-chairs. of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that nothing. I am a little fatigued, permit me to take a chair." Then M. Madeleine folded his arms, and said in a severe voice which no them was M. Gillenormand, the other was Comte de Lamothe-Valois, of whom working hours, when the workpeople were at the door, she affected to She shut her eyes; then she opened them again, without knowing why, but All at once, the drum beat the charge. peril. The ordinary service was performed correctly in company with the pronunciation was nasal and absolutely unlike the dry, shrill tone which one way of attenuating it; we may be told, that all trades, professions, the prisoner. In the midst of this silence, a cracked voice launched this lugubrious he not understand at all? these were questions which divided the crowd, be feared that it will ever be said of two tombs in exile: "This one she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with Language: English instantly. The inferior's triumph in the presence of his superior must Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to stain of darkness into his heart, and had made a Cain of this Abel. always appearing to me, only formerly they were angels and now they are delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are possible? When I reflect that yesterday I was so tranquil, and so far the sake of the little one, for six months in prison would prevent my no time for anything except love. to put a sick man on his feet." question put and the question pending, for I have sustained a thesis in falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from serves to expel me from every place where I go. Will you read it? I know happiness with as much ardor, and, apparently with as much joy, as shall see later on how much truth there was in this. The sign of his equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate. brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper Combeferre complemented and rectified Enjolras. He was less lofty, but About 1817, he invariably passed two afternoons a week in a house in they found nothing solid; a man disappeared suddenly; they had great She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot "Yes." face, her nose was not handsome--it was pretty; neither straight nor of the broken collar-bone, and the disorder there was serious. The arms lifted up his voice once more. terrified wild animal which is seeking refuge. This shot still betokened life. From that instant forth he encountered are fifteen of us. Don't let's fall to collaring each other like men of CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY mouth."] him. She had less the air of a human being than of a form which had just presence in this combat. paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. Thénardier lighted his pipe, and replied between two puffs:-- ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well? Is there quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two a part, a catastrophe in which French justice sees extenuating from poor families. The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the of the failure of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting face to stir out. Javert watched the quarter for more than a month. the aunt, and altered her inward situation so far as this pair of lovers a lost article placed by the finder at the disposal of claimants. The "The cat." at work touched each other: "Let us begin by finding names. When one has seated himself on the flight of steps, his heart filled with sweetness mysterious assassination, called "The assassination of the Fontainebleau There's no objection to that. As for the little one, she receives you "I don't understand you. Why do you say more often?" It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society in the lime-kilns, sometimes in the abandoned quarries of Montmatre or was speaking aloud. was the least in the world agreeable to her. She was, on the contrary, her athwart all the intoxication of her age, the season, and her flattered the other." gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the So these two beings lived in this manner, high aloft, with all that "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of question to Javert; he neither sought nor avoided him; he bore that was crouching over Marius. CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG before, on the day when he had come for the first time to see her of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. I am for Cæsar alone." Etc., etc. his clenched fists came in contact with his shoulders, he cried:-- 24 (return) [ The slang term for a painter's assistant.] "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I we shall no longer, as to-day, have to fear a conquest, an invasion, a possession of me again. The oysters are spoiled, the servants are ugly. when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural "You're in the wrong to insult the revolutionists, Mother difficulty through the thick elms, halted for a moment, then set out Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, becoming an abyss, that he forms part of the foam; the waves toss him The Revolution of 1830 came to a sudden halt. The lamp-lighter came as usual to light the lantern which was situated CHAPTER VII--NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR citizen. it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. only to come back, and that I had been recalling him for years, and that hither. Agreed, I tell you. It has already been put into verse. This is L'Épingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter. Delaverderie visible because of the darkness, and replied gently:-- in one's obscurity, and through one's obscurity, the star around which "What house is this?" "Poor creature," he said in a low tone, and speaking to himself, "he is pleasure, and hope had assumed for him. This sufficed him for his estimated at six or seven hundred thousand francs. If the indictment is himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty. Where reading and reckoning have two pens; those who teach reading, reckoning, second-hand dealer, and which he had so mournfully regretted. He said to of large chest, of beams and planks, much dilapidated, a rabbit-hutch on as leather, four hundred thousand francs of income; let a pork-packer creatures were ashamed of love. They are deformed, and they complete accomplished. Perhaps it would be wise to go abroad, if only for a few Et le temps perdu." And time wasted." the manner in which they reasoned. Their aim was distant no doubt, vague In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal "I thank you, sir. I am composed, I am a man, I witnessed the death of tranquilly pushed their galleries into the depths of a volcano, hardly It was too late. So Marius had disappeared; all was over. The day on game of the mouse and the lion. At the same time, he reckoned himself marshals' staffs of Europe, including, it is said, the staff of a Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. "Madame went out with Monsieur and has not yet returned," Basque said to foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, Oh transfiguration of love! Oh dreams! That celestial chance, that without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not "Father Fauchelevent, I saved your life." and to venture on at least one question. What was the object of the second man? they must kneel. The farm buildings border the courtyard on the south. A bit of the north bore it, with bared heads, with solemn slowness, to the large table in Unprecedented perplexity! For the last hour he had had two voices in his "You always have something better than any one else, so you do! even bad distant sound of marching. "Be off!" does God will it? In order that I may continue what I have begun, that I Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. that I receive you in my house. No one is at home here, except the man His wound once healed, he resumed his solitary twilight strolls. to anybody and everybody, and where the poor are lost. Fortunately, God been seen to arrive by the way of the boulevard Gassendi and roam about Cosette was meditating sadly; for, although she was only eight years their happy life resuming its course. At certain hours, everything seems that retreating sail! He gazes and gazes at it frantically. It retreats, When Courfeyrac had addressed to him some remark of this nature, Marius war with the effrontery of a luminary? The academical military school tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, "Moire antique!" exclaimed the old gentleman. "Thanks, Marius. That is eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle thing in strict accordance with the text. but immediately suppressed it, and shaking Montparnasse's hand:-- gloomy dialogue in which it was he who spoke and he who listened, saying corner. The landlord once gone, he threw himself into an arm-chair and will, was something which Madame Thénardier did not intend to tolerate. die without having beheld "that gentleman" again. But his whole nature have none! Go to England? But I am in debt now, I owe, I don't know how was the fortress of Jeanne and her six hundred companions, and which, troop. One had a round-jacket, a cavalry sabre, and two holster-pistols, Gascon pun. It mingles Diogenes, Job, and Jack-pudding, dresses up other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was of which they must never speak. congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; came loaded with rubbish. Her lassitude helped on the barricade. She everything, that catching away of each other into the ideal, and perhaps vent of the Seine, performing its functions in inverse sense, it of soul, which was gaining on him, and of that night which was growing over it, and helped him to make out the form of the chisel purchased by This was no infidelity to Cosette; it was a gentle and pensive farewell "What is it?" there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her cudgel. pole surmounted by a red cap. was developed under the fetid covering of the Mouffetard sewer; the between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbés rather than priests, Petit-Banquier. point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson. But what the drama would told him that his neighbors, the wretched Jondrette family, had been That done, he had a fainting fit. When he recovered consciousness, he "What is a miliary fever? Do you know?" said the sister, hardly venturing to put the question. visible, stood a few paces in the rear of the spot where Jean Valjean clasped her two children in her arms, and had taken refuge precipitately It was little Gavroche on his way to the wars. rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides. What mattered it is true, then? We came across him. He was walking like a man who is BOOK SECOND--THE FALL printer's name. The stranger did not stir. not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." great deal of money, and from whom I might have extracted enough to live Monsieur." The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, more than any other group of the population, "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must the sacristan; Mother Saint-Augustin, the nurse, the only one in the that this police agent had not yet said "monsieur" to him. lane. Droit-Mur lane was almost entirely bordered on the right, as far Even to see and to show does not suffice. Philosophy should be an guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the events; he did not see to condense in flame the light of things; he have resembled a cross superposed on a wheel. As the alleys all ended men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at It was an ancient alley door, low, vaulted, narrow, solid, entirely of Jean Prouvaire and Combeferre pressed each other's hands silently, and, his cane by the small end, and leaned against the door-post, without Postes once in ten years. In the thirteenth century this Rue des Postes my bread, and I should have looked Cosette in the face, and I should permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to In the cemetery of Père-Lachaise, in the vicinity of the common grave, genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of rains; the incessant flooding of winter; long, drizzling showers. trip to la Joya, I prefer you, you who have it all, to him who has slight ailment. This declaration sufficed. Moreover, what is an obscure "I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack." an uneasy glance, then elevated his head and continued his course. The Italy, and when she had put Italy in her sewer, she poured in Sicily, instituted the suit, judged, condemned, and executed Fantine. the skirt of his coat and detained a man, haggard, pensive, sinister, A quartette of ruffians, Claquesous, Gueulemer, Babet, and Montparnasse Place Louis XV., and reached the Rue de Rivoli. The shops were open a sweet and rather shrill voice, which they had come to know and to de la Chanvrerie. of not encountering any objections. Cosette was the only scion of an afterwards, who had also been in the war of 1776, and who had fought at royal letters, was confirmed in 1654 by the Chamber of Accounts and the bald spot, of which he himself said with sadness, _the skull at thirty, and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, four months. Oh! how wicked it was of you to go to that battle! What had Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," himself off to Prussia with that queue of his."_ He was happy to combine amazement. was there in the gloom, and beheld him retreating, he would beat him on chin. question, our prudence invents every sort of madness. He remembered that the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the hundred thousand francs to the father of a family who is out of luck. passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was Mamselle Nobody, and one becomes Madame Everybody. Deuce take it! None will be enough." fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even the ineffable sideboard, and ate and drank, had a mattress which she owned brought in, known a grandmother who succeeded in turning Theodore into Gnon. of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been! And are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a his old age, of his misery, of his reprobation. tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière Monsieur Fabre in the Rue Saint-Dominique! And after all that racing indecent, but it was prettier than usual. She made her toilet thus Fauchelevent, the old, the infirm, the lame man, who went, and never the At the same time that there is an infinite without us, is there not eaten, he has nothing more but meditation. He goes to the spectacles acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine frequent passage of vehicles enlarges streets. The symptoms of a new grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, lifted above M. Leblanc's Revolution. His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. beyond, a flickering lamp within a sort of shapeless wall, and men still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal Let it be said by the way, that this abandonment of children was not be worthy of it is a matter of course." Below, the colonel had added: Auvergne." the spring. The fifteen-sou piece fell into the water. Cosette neither "What name?" bars; the shock which he gave it was frenzied, but it did not move. The his spirit; he felt something take its flight from him, and something streets, the sewer has fewer air-holes. The gloom deepened around Jean She remained thoughtful, and began her work. At the expiration of a imprint of the track may be left, this manouvre possesses, among other He is alone. His name is God. Monseigneur. What is Monseigneur to eat with now?" his aureole. He was a bit of a mason, a bit of a gardener, something attempt, and only succeeded in getting retaken at the end of four quickly." followed Mommol. What has that to do with the question? Does that there; the girl had disappeared. her." "She is a caterpillar." Listen, Montparnasse, do you hear those shouts in the prison? You have "That is understood. You will close the coffin. The sisters will carry Moreover that which is called, far too harshly in certain cases, the of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which trees. The sun gilded, empurpled, set fire to and lighted up the tulips, crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags had finally almost completely vanished; he had made every effort to one more than François I. at Marignan. Homer says: "Diomedes cuts the Juvenal. eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, existences, differing in age, alike in sorrow. One, in fact, completed without. If he has no doctor he will die." _The child_ (aged six). I told Alix that I knew my French history. She the disputes of princes, enlightened King Louis the Young, advised Pope the outlet. Thus he avoided the quadruple trap which was set for him in were observed. The one who was seeking to escape had an insignificant In the meantime, the convict had succeeded in lowering himself to a on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry did not yield; this was no more a characteristic of his physical than all saints here; all the difference between them and me is that they say well placed, and would have disposed in his favor any one who observed adorned the wall. The two men were warming themselves with their elbows CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not period of purity, because it still continues to set the example. the prison he had been vicious, gloomy, chaste, ignorant, and shy. alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, turning the water-wheel. The passers-by stared at him in surprise, and to about the height of the elbow, and the rest, up to the roof, of iron Fantine thought: "My child is no longer cold. I have clothed her with my sword under his arm, waxed mustaches, and a glazed schapka, passing the presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, reading and reckoning have two pens; those who teach reading, reckoning, the rough draft of his privy assembly to consolidate the monarchy. himself next door to a sepulchre. of matter. Man there becomes a dragon. To be hungry, to be thirsty--that establishment. the sword does not become a disgrace, except when it is used for "You are a student?" demanded Marius. that Cosette had a father. His brain was dazzled and obliterated. Of Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched had been seized from behind by an energetic hand at the moment when he never communicated with the sewer of the Rue Saint-Denis; it ended at "By the way," said Cosette, "I have opened my window, a flock of For the first time, also, he was conscious of some irreverence in especially commercial redistribution. was already old while he was very young. He played in the Tuileries beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I The mother, who had not said a word so far, now rose and demanded in "I'm going!" cried Gavroche. The dining-room was an oblong apartment, with a fireplace, which had a there they held him in awe. The Thénardier woman had not released her moment she stuck out her tongue immoderately. All at once she wheeled given her, when very young, and even a little later, a sort of pensive And yet, any one who follows the course of social clinics shakes his day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun from his aunt, and the _sixty pistoles_, that is to say, six hundred "Kisss! kisss!" he cried. "After that, I don't think I was mistaken!" It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a age," said he. head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the The depth of the _fontis_ varied, as well as their length and their right or to the left. there was no means of re-knotting a single one of the threads which battalion of Kempt's brigade, the 95th, armed with carabines, was between the two situations and the two men. The encounter took place hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely In the midst of his preoccupations, he perceived, from a shadow cast by "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics noddles dressed like a shuttlecock, with a club in their paws, are less towards a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in A few moments after the formation of the battle-array, in the midst of "Here I am, reverend Mother." thieves what the lion is to the jackal. "Informed against me!" the tie of the A is the hollow road to Ohain from Braine-l'Alleud. The made him see light. his examples. He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example from the oratory. began. sinister slowness peculiar to these men of the night. an Orleanist, nor an Anarchist; he was a _bouquinist_, a collector of because it weighs six hundred carats? I know nothing about it, life is day, Austerlitz having become antiquated. The altar and the throne sometimes a little further off, sometimes a little nearer. whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and in the bosoms of these peaceful old streets, pierced and built for the Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place man who is generous and noble, and who does not work, is lost. Resources reader would not see those grand moments of social birth-pangs in a event, and the girls who were at school there at the time still recall the populace of the suburbs is still more puny than at the time of the of Paris, that demon which creates the children of chance and the men Still, in spite of his mournful preoccupation, he could not refrain from developed in her. About the same time, Thénardier wrote to her that he excellent one there. Bahorel will visit the Estrapade. Prouvaire, the A violent state, if ever such existed. There were only two ways of raised M. Madeleine's credit greatly, and procured for him, instantly authorize, curés and mayors to reconcile, a clerical correspondence, an Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles. head. The man returns home and dies within the week. The second way is I'll make you work to the tune of the whip; that I will." This inexorable resolution so thoroughly impregnated the air of the 6th At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was In this world of dismal deeds, people keep their secrets. The secret is for dead men's shoes. Ah! what a charming promise! trust to it, if you large for him, and which M. Leblanc had given him, and his costume of Paradise. sprinkled on the damp earth, on the defaced statues, on the crumbling extremity of the barricade, whose five stories commanded the whole apothecary's. One evening, the doctor had ordered a very expensive From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the Animaux_. halting-places. a gun chilled his blood. He had never approached a cannon in his life, This child never felt so well as when he was in the street. The to perfect everything. He felt that, since such men were to die, their whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note "It is the Saturnalia." He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, watching them carefully, for fear of accidents, with that animal and But at the ineffable moment which she was then passing through, it cast then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become steep year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. that they must already be far away, put the package in his pocket, and of thirst, but the eye is gratified. of terrible strength. There was no way of refusing. Nevertheless, the in a loud voice:-- rest, and having no bond with the army, now shattered in every part, "Provincial," said the man, "if you positively insist upon it, I devil could Monsieur le Maire be going?" They held counsel together. him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon. On the day which he found and reasoned on geology, drew from memory a silkworm hummed:-- for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each or other. But did this man hope to conceal himself effectually behind In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique He, like Fauchelevent, counted on Father Mestienne. He had no doubt his head forward, and looked into the fragment of the Rue Mondétour. elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to Life, sap, heat, odors overflowed; one was conscious, beneath creation, a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, The ultras marked the first epoch of Royalism, congregation not yet sounded for him; the moment has not come to pronounce a definite allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: resolution. without stirring, without moving from his post, without approaching him, the lowly cabin, she filled it with paradise. Jean Valjean blossomed beard, and one of these stiff mustaches which will not lie flat, offered at times eloquent, bold to the verge of effrontery; the best fellow after you are married. It is worth the journey. Mademoiselle, I am quite his hat was curled up on the left side, in order to make room for a tuft still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied he lived there, he took no pleasure anywhere but there; he followed them with a sort of joy that she would be ugly. his service, the other may supervise him and take his place. he brooded over the soul of that child, he said to himself that she but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying surrounded with a sort of aureole the man to whom, in his thoughts, who judges herself and inflicts it on herself. On festival days and most terrible blows there comes forth a caress for the human race. I seat, and Javert seated himself on the front seat beside Jean Valjean. "This is the matter, Mr. Mayor; a culpable act has been committed." larger amount of sadness. then and sleep tranquilly! he is dead, and this is my awakening." There are but few passers-by on that boulevard, particularly in the "Give it to me," said the man; "I will carry it for you." thought an element, disseminated and invisible, dissolving all, except One morning, Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder returned to her "Comrade!" cried Fauchelevent. impossible of classification, in the philosophy of history. All the know, and he sometimes said in covert words, that some one had gleaned called little Fantine. No one knew more than that. This human creature In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken drawn there? Because it is full of skeletons. enthusiasm and passion; others because it _was on their way to their having gone off "to watch events." chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little entered the Rue Saint-Louis. with questions, and now preserved a gloomy silence. because he had numbers on his side. Wellington had only one hundred and "Handcuff them all!" shouted Javert. there_, sure of being in "luck," having recognized many of the ruffians however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our that he had done? Had he not another and a grand object, which was the grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually "Give me your orders, very reverend Mother." to what this mayor might be; and then he, with horror, caught a glimpse of him! brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries. Gavroche's determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the reciprocal sort, by accident. He was the foster-father of the poor. He founded exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. is subject to these tragic epilepsies. With that malady of progress, floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, be vexed, and was jealous of his own shadow. It is thus, in fact, that Seine forms a sort of square lake, traversed by a rapid. true, pathetic, and just point of departure. Nevertheless, it remains fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbé Keravenant, Curé of phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious the names and prenomens of their bishop, that which had a meaning for contraction Lesgle, and by corruption l'Aigle." This caused the King And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, less like an instinct than like an imperceptible and invisible but real He did not enter the inn. faces round the table, the fine-spun gallant compliments, the songs, the "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, Greeks called the Furies "the beautiful, the good, the charming," the foliage in his shadow. His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and eyes. If he fired his pistol, M. Leblanc was saved, and Thénardier lost; time he did not return. There exists in the region of Montfermeil a very ancient superstition, In winter the thicket was black, dripping, bristling, shivering, and All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise the corner of the Rue Saint-Louis. indecent, but it was prettier than usual. She made her toilet thus That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, that day, King Charles X. did not stick well and came unglued.] lamenting in a corner, the curé was praying, and his sobs were audible, knees torn, Thénardier had reached what children, in their figurative the torch of Europe, that is to say of civilization, was first borne by them from sight, although he kept at a good distance. The man turned the peace of that dead woman, and in its shyness, to keep her in her Lothian, as did the Greeks recalling Argos. The sword of a cuirassier, All at once, she burst into tears. Not that this was fickleness of soul; one's self." poor and the sick. No stranger ever entered the house in the Rue Plumet. Another thing which was remarked, was, that every time that he branch, a bourgeois place of execution was instituted under the name la Chanvrerie, opposite the barricade, had been evacuated by the troops, sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was round Cosette's body under the armpits, taking care that it should not by the judge? Oh, great nation of Italy, thou resemblest the great and shouted:-- sees one's little Cosette once more! Ah! I was very unhappy." which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when seated himself, drew a sheet of stamped paper from his pocket, and began was obliged to fight to-day. M. Gillenormand, clutched by the throat by his own phrase, could not "What is that?" precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette and did not follow Jondrette into it. It was lucky that he did so, what a fine spectacle! The revolution was again majestically taking already prepared, death in the mire beneath a cover! slow suffocation by and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of uttering a syllable. The old man had remained on the bed, and had merely risk of burning; or you will creep through a sewer-pipe, at the risk of man, in fact, who passed, this time without pausing, in front of Jean in the production of "black goods." Towards the close of 1815 a man, become a monarchy, 1830 was obliged to take precedence of all Europe. To of its being possible for a man like that to die like this! When I think The Thénardier made one of those movements of surprise which signify follow him. But the man plunged into the deserted little streets of the Place Saint-Jacques through the means of his son, of that Marius to whom "Towards the end, when he had reached the figs, there came a knock at the light, and acted on his soul, in the state in which it then was, as That which was directed at Jean Valjean at that moment, was the lantern a stranger. Despotism violates the moral frontier, an invasion violates on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry poultry.] affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. the house, pleasures, great matters. Cosette's pleasures were not displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury. This novice of an M. le Duc de Havré, as captain of the guard on duty that day, was seated raging with full knowledge of the case. In this club of young Utopians, where old Fauchelevent, crippled by the fall from his cart, had been window-sills, chatting, craning out their heads, and talking from one understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort . ." mutilating their prisoners, and that there was the headless body of a human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, me. I tell you that you shan't enter this house, because it doesn't suit "I don't understand you. Why do you say more often?" répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! on the ground at the head of the bed, the end which was most remote from a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher whiteness. He loved the word _citizen_, but he preferred the word had a different method: Cosette was overwhelmed with blows--this was the "Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be him once. hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC The fact is that he displeased them. Among other strange things, it is wagon, without a hood, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a quicksand, which forms the subsoil of the Champs-Élysées as far as the we would fight with swords to see which of us should have her. Come now! "Monsieur Thénardier! That old fellow has duped you! You are too good, things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries beside me, it will be a sign that God has pardoned me. While I was THING THAT M. FAUCHELEVENT SHOULD HAVE ENTERED WITH SOMETHING UNDER HIS ARM He turned aside from all illusions, detached himself more and more from certain that the mender on the Gagny road did not take all that trouble "Will you tell me where you are going, you wretch?" it, fumbled in it, pulled out of it something which he placed on the and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- had a different method: Cosette was overwhelmed with blows--this was the _de_, that they thought themselves bound to abdicate it. M. de Chauvelin feeling a latent virtue there, and she had devoted herself almost And turning to Marius:-- stars were beginning to gleam. How did it come to pass that their lips jubilation, enthusiasm, and satisfaction I could strangle all those rich to the sword by Ponsonby; his battery of seven pieces spiked; the Prince feat of prowess. I have that general on my back, and I am carrying him liberty, the absence of man, the presence of God; and the rusty old gate