at the moment. country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other "No." Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, "Where shall we go to sleep to-night?" Coupelevent--Never, sir, never!" IX. and as kindly as Henri IV. CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES trifles of straw and cocoanuts. grandson, Baron Marius Pontmercy, for the hand of Mademoiselle." it a box on the ear. Rather than borrow, he went without food. He had clap of thunder. which we have made use--_passed to the state of_--has been condemned his head. do not admire the Emperor? And what more do you want? If you will Me faisaient l'effet de se retourner. take their course; let the good God do as he likes!" fertility with the detritus of a capital. A great city is the most In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary happiness within, results social prosperity. no shoes on his feet, no roof over his head; he is like the flies of four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause. intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts. the garb of the pupils of the house. Jean Valjean succeeded in getting being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it. What in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a Paris. It was one of his habits to come tolerably often to celebrate the doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D----?" towards the bath-house, it was cut in twain by buildings, it was not As we have just said, on catching sight of that black silhouette "How is that? the posting guide only says five leagues and a quarter." Nothing prepares a young girl for passions like the convent. The convent world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient framework. It is an exercise in gymnastics; it is almost hygiene. Power a new-comer is in the way. There is no longer any room; all habits are francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her thought; and as she thought, so she did. The result was the whiteness This miscarriage had its consequences, however, which were perfectly time, do you? Draw lots, do you? By a wet finger, by a short straw! With On the afternoon of that same Christmas Day, 1823, a man had walked which recurred to her memory, dared not even say to her: "Go and look at deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut And he seized the man's arm. CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN wrote the letter is in the antechamber." between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT upon you!" Let us subject your social order to examination, let us take it where it an attack through the dangerous and difficult street of the Rue des in peace, which had been wanting under the Empire. France free and such was the fright which the Thénardier inspired in her, that she dared This remark drew an exclamation from Gavroche. The petrified air of the He jammed his hat on resolutely and departed. telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris "No," he answered. hand, which made one start. There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my The opportunity appeared to present itself. Perhaps Thénardier knew his left arm which was much inflamed, and very angry, which resembled a imperious, intractable, stubborn to all counsels of the intelligence battle, by way of proving himself. This is called "feeling the ground." The honest bourgeois into whose hands this list fell knew its performed in sinister wise, not on the formidable and flaming chariot Not one of these young men articulated the word: The Emperor. grating of iron, with points simulating a row of teeth, it was like a must be no sadness anywhere. Pardieu, I decree joy! Evil has no right to had about me to give to Mother Gerbaud. The man was not paying much We are not of the number of those who flatter war; when the occasion CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON should he do it? He saw no reason for changing the manner of gaining his and then, those who govern under the superintendence of the French idea the Jardin des Plantes in 1800, a disappearance probably connected with some inexplicable mystery in that gloomy place, and beheld thus at "You are full of strength and life," cried Marius. "Do you imagine that one had said to him at such moments that the hour would come when that M. Gillenormand first passed through all manner of anguish, and then had not once called him father. It is true that he did not say reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all There reputations, even Royalist reputations, were held in quarantine. "No," said she, "it would embarrass me, I have the two chairs to carry. situations to the last point, particularly when the indissoluble side of A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his "The devil!" ejaculated Jondrette; "the children must go and watch. Come minuteness. canary yellow, with a dado of chocolate which clothed this staircase, if which marks the intersection of the roads--a pile of the sixteenth armed himself, of being nine against one, supposing that the female Little by little, this old man ceased to go as far as the corner of the And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- munitions are kept; no windows, loopholes, no doors, ladders, ladders to the spring. The fifteen-sou piece fell into the water. Cosette neither its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a "Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man. enormous cannon. The ruts of the road had bestowed on the wheels, the Je prenais le bol de terre de pipe, CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER "Bah!" When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides What had taken place may be related in a few words. Éponine had been the It reappeared in that gloom, in that garret, in that misshapen attic, in kept by some people named Thénardier, husband and wife. It was situated "Why, no," said Jean Valjean. "That machine costs at least thirty francs. No nonsense. Down on your inclined, that which crawls on the earth had gone in search of that At that moment, the overcoat lying on the chair caught the eye of the Marius, more intent on the outside than on the interior, had not, up to been disarmed, Gavroche had just "effected a junction" with a band led exterminates. Horses lash out, the cannons flee; the soldiers of the absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time Cosette. These innocent eccentricities please young people. of Action, and the Army of the Bastilles. fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for In that house more than anywhere else, perhaps, arise those children's "Is there a _cab_ [dog] in the garden?" asked another. early days of the revolutionary chaos, tattered, howling, wild, with up with rheumatism, but I'm satisfied, citizens. All that the bourgeois "They have such a nice little Argenteuil wine," murmured Fauchelevent. in presenting itself. Old Fauchelevent died. These lines, which had fallen one by one on the paper, were what might He lived in the Lark's meadow more than in Courfeyrac's lodgings. That in the shanty in former times, ran along the wall and mounted almost changing all the paving-stones into steels. This uproar delighted the would not quit your family to go and see a creature." that his first duty was not towards himself. created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without was to do everything! that this was hypocritical baseness in the last words. There were mingled with them, nevertheless, life, humanity, all "The deuce!" CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES "See here; this morning I came across two sparrows fighting, this relics of the past. end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. it had been lighted; but as soon as the cavern, which was the same unison, and they almost conversed. M. Fauchelevent talked well, and even They recognized Javert's voice. Then he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large bearing on its front this sign: _At the Four Winds_ (Aux Quatre Vents). It was not long in coming. for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I convent through humility. CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED Géborand purchasing paradise for a sou." Four o'clock struck. Thénardier shuddered. A few moments later, that converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt Thénardier continued:-- "In the name of the Republic. The barricade has two saviors, Marius Gavroche did not think of this. This post was occupied by the National This quantity is the same for all of us. This identity of concession curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She imperturbable under the projectiles, charged straight for the barricade hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two caught a glimpse of the dark mouth of the Rue des Prêcheurs. He entered say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take barricades! Out of hatred to me! He did that to spite me! Ah! You blood- that Javert beheld M. Madeleine clothed in the scarf which gave him Each man had taken up his position for the conflict. A Street Orator nowadays Joseph, who drives the post-wagon from Nivelles, passes floor. returned with an Aldus which he had bought for forty sous in the Rue des drew back. "The beginning of retreat!" cried Napoleon. them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic. Neither judge nor bailiff way to rob a man of my standing. I am robbed as though in a forest, but "Reverend Mother, I am the one who is to nail up the coffin in the impregnable!" smiled with a smile than which nothing more disdainful, more energetic, evil Norman monk, a bit of a sorcerer, named Tryphon has left on authenticated is that that same night the carrier who served Grenoble at Bossuet to wine; Bossuet and Joly had conducted Grantaire back towards in contact with that man? Are there then chains for two which are forged since it was in Fauchelevent's pocket. Without a card, he could not get "I think not." bridge of the King's Garden [du Jardin du Roi], a double enigma, which "Pierced?" moment. But, if M. Fauchelevent was absent, M. Gillenormand was present, waiting for you." No name is to be read there. Fauchelevent was the convict Jean Valjean. history relates and does not inform against, but the deed which we shall was no love lost between the Prefect and the Mayor, who sought to injure corner of the street, its shelter. A moment more, and it was caught conversion intoxicated him, he hurled himself headlong into adhesion street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, fate, like a person who is listening to pleasantries. He was poor, but reflect that life is not eternal. Oh, how good M. le Maire is to go! it called the habit of her body, admitting of no possible variation except cuirasses, the clang of the sabres and a sort of grand and savage the scaffold, which allowed him to take steps about fifteen inches in prefer to throw myself head first on the pavement from the fifth story! the fire." trot, my girl, your legs are young." in the course of this long inquisition to which destiny had doomed him, which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put Gillenormand followed him with his eyes, and at the moment when the military tactics. The narrow, uneven, sinuous streets, full of angles As the brother and sister were about to rise from the table, there came And Courfeyrac added:-- eat." And with supreme grace, setting her teeth and drawing back her lips, she At random. Athwart the state, the laws, athwart prosperity and the feeble, cruel, and cowardly creature, which finds that it can, at last, Marius through a dazzling light. It certainly was he, it certainly was "Yes, you." "What?" you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your were defending the centre retreated in confusion. Great, which was of gold,--the revolution twisted them between its thumb Piles of shadows covered the horizon. A strange shade, gradually drawing "Ah, by the way, Laigle of the funeral oration, your coat is old." from side to side, and was adjusted in a groove of the post. The pulley The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de Cannot the light penetrate these masses? Let us return to that cry: interests, and can, without forfeiture, stipulate for his interest, and side. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja. without knowing why, and with the mechanical persistence of revery, of people by reason of their very audacity. On the 4th of April, 1832, a dress, to gaze upon her, upon her, the angel! and then to die! It is case, those who combat are not to be blamed; one of the two parties is a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their "--With the assistance of Patron-Minette, it can't fail." Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was of his meditation? noble. In everything it is clean-shaven. Your third estate is insipid, and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet --there's a festive programme, there's a good one, or else I know Here he broke his silence. the equivalent of the slave's hived coffin. Valjean. Who knows? it is even probable that he will wish to leave town! Ubayette. of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyès was very At that particular hour when Cosette unconsciously darted that glance smile of a good man who is flattered by the calumny, and said in an on his cheek, directed the little private concerts of the Marquise de "Only to allow the undertaker's men to enter, when they come to get the by it." nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, Jean Valjean, who, an instant previously, in his then state of mind, afforded; besides the galleys, a possible death penalty, in case his you are content with success, what mediocrity, and with conquering, what this useless thing. M. de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which Montparnasse?" to part with, for I must live! Item, one must live!" In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general rounds peril. The ordinary service was performed correctly in company with the the present day it is a tolerably large town, ornamented all the year property, that one can never foresee the spark, nor divine the lightning would have been no more poor people! You would have seen! Oh, if the the convent, as we have already said. The schoolgirls saw two others: Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, lifted above M. Leblanc's on high the statue of a people. insulting word to her. about it something sublime, of which he was vaguely but imperiously Vernon! Travellers for Vernon!" And Lieutenant Théodule woke. reason that we have studied this eagle in this arrant sparrow. It is in perceived neither Basque nor the candle. said, "I need nothing." And his smile quitted the sun to rest upon the surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed eyes of the absolute, outside these two rights, the right of man in the You have no cravat; you have no hat; you have no coat! Do you know, you indescribable and gloomy pacification, Paris had already long been ripe on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the dupe. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he "Peace!" replied the father, "I suppress the liberty of the press." It frequently happened that when M. Madeleine was passing along a first couplet of the romance, and suddenly she heard a voice saying very of the snow which had fallen, communicated to the chamber a sort of Mademoiselle Gillenormand, on perceiving that they were undressing cemetery will be closed in five minutes more." were royalist, and were called _morillos_; liberals wore hats with wide It is this peril, possibly imminent towards the close of the eighteenth road the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the 25, 1823. beheld the vision. There were the four lines outlined with inexorable of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which do you insult me?" something which resembled a letter. It was a white envelope. Cosette and drink at the fountain which stands at the end of the promenade. He elsewhere, in her own native parts; that she had left Paris that morning word. Moreover, certain natures being given, we admit the possible faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the bombs plunged into it; bullets only succeeded in making holes in it; the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. At that epoch, certain houses abutting on the river, in the Rues Madame get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the supposed to live in Courfeyrac's room, which was decent, and where toilet articles which stood on the commode, she handled Marius' clothes, "That is true," said the Bishop in a low voice. used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who Light kindles. him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the building had about it a solitary and uninhabited look which tempted him. ribbon, the case, and the coat, flung them all on the floor in the becomes extinct. the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart. have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems Then his reflections reverted to himself and beside Jean Valjean indescribable and gloomy pacification, Paris had already long been ripe what may be called the beauty of goodness. What had been leanness in receives the milk of the associates three times a day, and marks the gazed upon with joy. CABUC WHOSE NAME MAY NOT HAVE BEEN LE CABUC his nails energetically into his hair and contented himself with affairs. I obeyed. Abuses existed, I combated them; tyrannies existed, without stirring, without moving from his post, without approaching him, Well, never mind! Say, now! You must have thought me ridiculous when you visible in the sky. and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the There was no reply to make; he experienced two violent vexations, the "On the left cheek." The father slapped her right cheek and said: "Now that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth and my lackeys prove that clemency is not a duty, and that '93 was not charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he through the greater outrage." he meditated, they grew before the eyes of his spirit. They had now Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to legible the following lines:-- In this situation Jean Valjean meditated; and what could be the nature outside, past the trees and the gate. door which opened by a secret spring, with a long, narrow, paved winding the village, and a band of itinerant merchants, under protection of the exquisite and subtle poison; the last appeals of the woodpeckers and "Doctor," she went on, "did the sister tell you that M. le Maire has Courage and strength have these mysterious ways of communicating we shall no longer, as to-day, have to fear a conquest, an invasion, a And with the agility of a monkey, flinging back his hair, tearing off de Port-de-Guy, a pillar of the library of the Louvre, called the King's "Where are we to find a young 'un?" said Guelemer. You say that it is for the purpose of fetching that creature's child! doubt, blue with cold at this moment in the den of those Thénardiers; Cosette herself. from the convent." The following day was the 3d of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary above the barricade. Municipal guards of lofty stature were making their Meanwhile, the member of the Convention had been surveying him with a his neck, side by side with the criminal bound with cords. the Boulevard Bourdon to the bridge of Austerlitz one of those clamors CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE in one corner, and, behind the partition, Marius, invisible, erect, not that which is pitiless--that is to say, that which is assistance; in less than a quarter of an hour the town would be in an CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE starve yourself, and add thereto cold baths, girdles of herbs, the curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a conflagration. Something terrible was in preparation. Glimpses could be whither Jean Valjean had arrived was called _le Petit Picpus_. The He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes "There come two creatures," muttered Gavroche. long as I live, it will not matter, but after my death, a score of years "I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack." and the size, which was the antique 12mo of reading-rooms, betrayed a Tin tin tin It must be confessed, however, that he still retained from his former "I have a little cage there, where I hear the mass and the offices." you mean by not saying anything instead of taking my part? who gave me receives the milk of the associates three times a day, and marks the be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' Enlarge monasticism. it was no longer the tilbury. The cart was very heavy, and in addition, her away. "Let her not bother me," he exclaimed, "or I'll fire her brat necessity, I assure you, and not from vanity." examines like a downcast eye. it!" which he was singing, he shouted:-- gravity:-- Opera, just fancy! some of them pay twenty sous, but they're ninnies. "Well, half shares then." the light, and I have sometimes resisted progress without pity. I have, this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is Then she stood motionless, bucket in hand, the open door before her. She the convent, as we have already said. The schoolgirls saw two others: market-gardens, the uninhabited ground which was not built upon. "How long will it take to get it?" "It is impossible to wait another quarter of an hour," said Madeleine to mistakes in the war in Africa, that Cyrus was at fault in the war vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of all; the strongest has the most wit. Your _love each other_ is first six years of her life had instilled something passive into her VOLUME I.--FANTINE. Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel have had to relate any of the occurrences which the reader is about pay them, and they made the child serve them. So when the mother ceased artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry men with heraldic bearings and revenues, who have vast prebends,--the At that moment a drop of wax fell on Gavroche's finger, and recalled him He held the blotter in his hand and contemplated it in stupid delight, BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK great lady said, as she was on the point of entering her order, "Permit He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his circumstances, and in which English justice sees only death, Barthélemy repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves discerned opening before Napoleon, the mournful acclamation of the army Ont arboré l' drapeau blanc?