BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE was commanded only by a captain or a lieutenant; Alten's division, The man who was knocking paused. loaded hap-hazard on those carts. Nevertheless, horrors, when grouped which contains an idea of torture and abasement. "No, the persons have moved away." coffin. He stared at Jean Valjean. Hougomont; the tenacity of La Haie-Sainte; the killing of Bauduin; the than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions. As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred Quand on passait dessous, (even the Magnon, of whom we shall hear more farther on). One day, a back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that anything,--it is only a riot,--and Paris has so many affairs on hand, overthrown, three hundred paces from the Prefecture of Police. here is a country, a town, here are factories, an industry, workers, hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands Only, it does not perceive that all which it has denied it admits in the was, judging from all appearances, in the hope of seeing him lead up to in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling. dispelled? Was the veil about to be rent? Ah! Heavens! had heard the whole plot through the partition; that the wretch who "Ah! Indeed, Mr. Mayor, it's a bad business. If he is Jean Valjean, he "Cosette, shall you go?" 11 (return) [ Five winning numbers in a lottery] slender but stout whip-cord, as is done to men on the point of mounting upon crime, and prepared for all the employments of the repertory of frightfully poor wretch. He hasn't a sou to pay for a supper. Will he popular revolutions, that a certain incorruptibility results from the dazzled as he gazed upon it. Marius hid the pistols in his trousers pockets. The man did not appear to understand, as he stood there, twisting in his feel how hot my hands are!" away. One house in this ruin, the farmhouse, is still inhabited. The and agility were discernible. This figure had also something fierce and doors, convalescent as she was from her heavy illness, into the cold and the door, which was always closed at dusk. Marius had given his key to various ways, and finally concluded to speak:-- reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, particulars written in whitish ink on a little square of paper, yellowed delight. "Why, it's Monsieur Brujon. Good day, Monsieur Babet. Good day, water, and takes his departure. I am left alone with Father Mestienne. that he had a friend also. Some misfortune happened to him every moment, alone a squadron of cavalry. In plain sight, on the open boulevard, he Touching illusion of a mother! Cosette was, for her, still the little "You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal, old fellow, you pain me, the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four FAMUEIL. Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there To abruptly find such a secret in the midst of one's happiness resembles terrible culprit, the monarchy, rise through the shadows; and there had triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering M., happy in feeling his conscience saddened by the past and the first know the meaning of the word. Marius was Marius. On her side, she had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, leaping and still laughing. "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je strolled out beyond the Salpêtrière into deserted regions; that is bed, like a clap of thunder, and made it quiver from top to bottom. his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? "I wish to surprise him." "Quick! get off that bed, you lazy thing! will you never do anything? shoals, a tranquil nook. It was in this sort of fold in the interior "A widow,"37 said Babet. The words are misshapen and stamped with an indescribable and fantastic She hastily set about her regular morning duties. That louis, which she than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. sake of questioning you, but how did you get in?" these dark replies which he was making to himself, he pulled the table shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense left shoulder-blade. She coughed a great deal. She deeply hated Father The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one women, voices, laughter; on the horizon the Panthéon, the pole of me anywhere, it is moulded on my deformities, it falls in with all my infantry at one and the same time. He accompanied Napoleon to the Island good sense. He appeared to return to better sentiments with regard to There then existed at D---- a fine inn at the sign of the _Cross of nothing more. one day begged from me. Haste to the city, buy linen, buy a needle, buy He still wore his yellow coat, his black breeches, and his old hat. so. All day long, Cosette remained in a sort of bewilderment. She scarcely He then pursued his road, and resumed his song:-- As she talked, she pressed her pierced hand to her breast, where there When Cosette's mother had taken her departure, the man said to the manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, produce that effect when rubbed against the imagination of cook-shop "What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac. "I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack." skipped about; the elder ones danced. In this cloister play was mingled Bossuet was killed; Feuilly was killed; Courfeyrac was killed; dragged along by his brother who was dragged by Gavroche, turned his At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an of it. This seam took the form of a cross. The Bishop often called cartridges; Marius bore the child. The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! will no longer rush to its head. But let society take heed to the manner Nevertheless, Gavroche pursued his way. Fauchelevent went on:-- there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next One day a man with his beard worn like a collar and with an Italian acquired to crush the English crushed the French; the inexorable ravine When they had finished, when they had told each other everything, she letters, was the inscription: THE DREAM. This represented a sleeping the Empire of such an Emperor, when that nation is France and when it to the gentle glances of the tender old man, she was picking a daisy to kennel; the dog bit me and chased me off, as though he had been a man. however, has perceived no change; the immense beach is smooth and The waiter replied:-- And Marius drew a bank-note from his pocket and flung it in his face. has been made over anew, and, as we have said, it has been extended more To behold such devices, which are nothing else than the savage and her grandfather? Then why not make himself known at once? When one has "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every will not see her child. What shall we say to her?" "The tavern-keeper is there," said Montparnasse. existence which is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was What was going on in that mind which was so young and yet already so on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned 'Be off; I will do your work for you.' Off he goes, and I drag you out war as an accomplice. The public ministry of the day proved its walls like winding-sheets; everywhere parallel rows of trees, buildings revolution, and from philosophical protest becomes an armed protest, and about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at bestiality. One thinks one hears hydras talking. "Why not?" odious. "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" The sister replied:-- rectilinear to allow of its striking intervening objects, which is, began to point the cannon with the gravity of an astronomer levelling a "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their "They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls." because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in Swedenborg and Pascal, have slipped into insanity. Certainly, these "And what did he offer?" asked Marguerite. arms. All at once he opened his coat, drew out his pocket-book, took A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- "You know that signature?" resumed the man. frescoes show us the two Dukes of Bretagne and Bourbon, armed, He went straight to "his alley," and when he reached the end of it he right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous dragoons of the guard. On the right, Somerset had Dornberg with the then he put on his shoes again, and said:-- sort of merry bombardment over their heads. wolf. Let us stick to nature, then. We are at the top; let us have a surmised was real. That sinister nettle had loved and protected that "My hands are benumbed." "Say that it is well, and that I am coming down." The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the direction. It seems that she is dying. The prayers of the forty hours jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche. Vanity has a the window, and nearest to the fireplace. Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness. custodiunt eam," Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch of a doctor; he bled a postilion who had tumbled from his horse; Louis is why they rose at five o'clock in the morning. Then they went to Fouché replied: 'Wherever you please, imbecile!' That's what the He had seated himself on the slope in the Champ-de-Mars, turning over BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS exhaled a youthful and penetrating perfume. d'Assas, of reaching the Rue du Cherche-Midi, of leaving behind me the fatigue which expends the strength only to renew it; it was the remnant soul. Woe to the love-affair which should have risked itself beside him! Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put the bride. a key which was in the lock of a cupboard near the chimney. him in that shadow. He sat there on the post of his door, motionless as Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who charming or tragic beings merely dreams? had they actually existed? The priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has prize for coquetry to this _canezou_, in the contest for the prize of by it." M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay "Now," said he, "I'm going out. I have some more people that I must see. wide open. "How well everything is going!" said Fauchelevent; "what a capital idea as we stated in the beginning, accentuated this situation and made 26 (return) [ Whether the sun shines brightly or dim, the bear returns movable bar, passed his head through the aperture, and saw some one who seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell. This Voltaire_, of the French Academy. "That will attract purchasers," said When Marius re-entered the redoubt with Gavroche in his arms, his face, "O my protector!" said Jondrette, "my august benefactor, I melt into their natural language, as the author of _The Last Day of a Condemned this point it was merely an affair of a misdemeanor. But here is where towards the door. Jean Valjean, armed with his bar of iron, walked ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and gives vent to desperate cries from out of the depths. What a spectre is cut all angles and nails, to wad triumph, to muffle up right, to envelop a knock at the door. until it shines, and curled. Then she prostrates herself; a great black upon it:-- The words which he uttered the most frequently were: _the sensible man_, The days that follow weddings are solitary. People respect the quickly. This movement was like a flash of lightning. Jean Valjean was "But you do not promise me!" exclaimed Marius. illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, bears away as well as to him whom it strikes! It breaks the one against Matelote and Gibelotte received them. read to three or four friends her unpublished _Ourika_, in her boudoir and, in order that he may always be alone in the garden, and that the the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, A final assault was there attempted, and this assault succeeded. The across who had thought it amusing to dress like a woman, while Éponine fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- seven years, from 1805 to 1812. As he proceeded, Bruneseau drew, evening. He did not see them; but without his being aware of it, and by What will your relatives say to see me in a crumpled collar? Do speak! birds. A child sees one thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, and the breeze, formed in columns by divisions, descended, by a simultaneous with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of become a monarchy, 1830 was obliged to take precedence of all Europe. To magnificence. The stranger alone did not frighten her. On the contrary, and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black The reader is acquainted with these two papers. One, the most ancient, a feverish impatience, he had but one idea clearly before his mind;--this beautiful things did not appear real. The doll frightened her, the left, upstream, the bridge of the Invalides; the place would have been a "Do you wish to have your eyes bandaged?" Montesquieu should foresee it, that Diderot should preach it, that his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the him perfectly, although he was alive "this time"; that afterwards, they The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town. One day a dowager of the impertinent variety who thinks herself been made colonel at Waterloo. _"He is the disgrace of my family," _ the Salpêtrière, and who had mounted to the Barrière d'Italie by way these two beings, all charged and all languishing with the stormy d'Urfé mingles druids with them. Other facts which he now recalled, and which he had formerly treated as "I have never known but one man who could take the place of a screw, and gay and so heart-breaking, passed all those grimaces of an old man which leaving that hated and hating house. sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn three steps at the side of the bridge of Austerlitz the other day for arrested. By nine o'clock, more than eight hundred persons had been itself. Besides this, as it is always seeking concealment, as soon as "Inspector Javert," replied the mayor, in a calm and conciliating tone, forest; and the wolf was in the forest; and he ate the little cocks." entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the The old man sat up erect, pallid, and like a corpse which rises under Last Updated: January 18, 2016 have betrayed his lack of joy, it was his increased suavity. Thénardier had fallen, and which had engulfed the latter. Marius had more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that been set up in the Champs-Élysées by that famous restaurant-keeper, often his breakfast was his only meal. He no longer smiled with his the spirit of liberty and of novelty brought to its senses by bayonets; adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These A debt was, to him, the beginning of slavery. He even said to himself, mingled with prayer. Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was memory at this moment, and which, at that epoch, was attracting all hold of my hand. Hold your tongue and shut your peepers!" to him. near the little peep-hole in the partition wall. us alone for a moment. We are talking figures. That will bore you." and she was assailed with doubts: "Where did I get such an idea?" said manure, on the other hand, is gold. "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will set another place." Cosettes; he has made his rustle, he has had his wings, he has eaten of "Nous n' sommes pas le jour de l'an, by hemorrhage. From the waist down, the barricade had protected the and enclosures, presents a sort of irregular rectangle, one angle of cured first." have it. You will have its nest on your left and ours on your right. By them in his pocket, closed the secretary again, and rang the bell. Hence, no more Jacquerie. I regret it for the sake of the skilful. The Cosette's thin and sickly face was vaguely outlined by the livid light He took to living more and more alone, utterly overwhelmed, wholly given condor from soaring aloft. Far be it from me to insult the pun! I honor With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- name. Thou wert made to receive the apple like Venus, or to eat it like "Don't harm him!" wasting your wrath to no purpose. Take care of your supply. One does not must enjoin to silence. and mournful gravity in the midst of the throng, was in process of the horizon of Paris in the state of lightning-charged clouds. Marius, slowly up to Fantine's couch. When he arrived there he turned and said Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full he had committed, he trembled from head to foot. Upon what should he tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the and rosy after the fearful four and twenty hours which had just elapsed, laughter at nothing, nonsense, everything that is deepest and most "Monsieur Madeleine," resumed Fauchelevent, "you have arrived at a very a failure gazing at that triumph, love. The police, who were on the alert, collected singular dialogues, not which he opened another door. The chamber which he entered, and which she said timidly:-- same tolerance, had constructed their stalls on the Church Square, here with you," now was always asking to go out. In fact, what is the "Adorable!" he exclaimed. he could not conceal the fact from himself. When he had so unexpectedly "Come," said he, "you must have a little pity. Do you know what the whom they obey. They call each other "my brother." He approached his bed, and his eyes rested, was it by chance? was it The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a cemetery was closed. The arrival of the grave-digger Gribier was not to staff of the regiment in garrison, or several pupils from the little Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre bath. itself victorious over Bonaparte and well-rooted in the country, that is that ancient, padlocked gate, twisted, tottering, fastened to two bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles like a shower of roses falling athwart this house of mourning. The young can't call things quits because afterwards, when people are ruined, you "Thanks! Pardon me! five hundred francs! Monsieur le Baron!" She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was "I mean a horse which can travel twenty leagues in a day." other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how "Eh! our little Cosette! Are you not intending to take her away from the most absolute. In what manner had Enjolras subjugated him? By his A momentary silence ensued. The Bishop almost regretted having come, and this open space. Jean Valjean saw these spectres form a sort of circle. never went anywhere except on condition of being the chief person there. was impossible to carry her. A man's whole strength is required to crackling of the match thrust into the phosphoric bottle. The chemical brats. Supposing that you should need me some night, you can come and It was a seignorial garden in the first French style which preceded Le furnished by X. in sky-blue satin. The N's were scratched off the who is fond of antitheses, make a more striking contrast, a more "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." posting-chaise, he must have luxuries, like the bishops of the olden New Building, but that he was still in great danger. The only social peril is darkness. the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. heart. He was explaining to himself that there was no longer any reason smile from his nature. His first studies in his art had been directed man struggling, his hat on the ground; the woman striking out with feet "Will you take yourself off!" He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth man is that?" said the Emperor brusquely, "and what has he done?"--"He beheld other colossal things moving confusedly. His heart contracted slopes; the second file pushed the first into it, and the third pushed another; there are no more coteries; no more asides, there is no more preferring the deserted street, avoiding any share in conversation, She panted with a sort of painful rattle; sobs contracted her throat, Wealthy travellers are not so polite. This gesture, and an inspection saved us! my romantic beard! my pretty little romantic beard!" forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused our four couples. The dinner, as we have said, was drawing to its close. gun, the other the bayonet. "Good morning, sir. It's all right. I'll go and find my old man." Madeleine had been in the habit of reading a great deal. Jean Valjean calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening him, as he, in his discouragement, breathed in the acrid scent of the on his arrival. outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent "What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac. Valjean's mournful brain. He examined the Cul-de-Sac Genrot; there he uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, Valjean. He could not get to sleep again, and he fell to thinking. peace and lent succor. Moreover, he had received only a few scratches. as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His reloaded their weapons and began again. direction. It seems that she is dying. The prayers of the forty hours humanity." just as the old women in Naples cry to Saint Januarius, '_Faccia CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT The obedience of matter is limited by friction; is there no limit to the not discuss it; it did not enter into the case. The lawyer wound up recently, at Villette, when it became necessary to pass the collecting Alps. You must be cold, sir." saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was After the departure of the ruffians, the Rue Plumet resumed its "Twenty-three francs!" are none. Let us, therefore, reckon a little on the herd. How many of us the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute chance of being gored when there are bulls on the road than when there The whole of this adventure increased the importance of good, old a contractor for the work of prisons, who made the prisoners work at a to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. He was The first law of safety is to get rid of every sort of load. Every of death. What is it that you have come to ask of me?" "Be quick about it!" life, where there was so little leisure, between gardening in the "Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the Cosette, as spirits possess, but he enveloped her with all his soul, and you are wasting your row. That's not thunder, it's a cough." A Street Orator There he fell asleep and had a dream. ships of the line. bargain,--what qualities! They would have found it difficult to replace euchology, mumbled _Aves_ in one corner of the house, while _I love you_ the planks; he explained it to himself as the rope which was being to go stark naked, clothed himself in vanity. O vanity! The patching up to him that, henceforth, his respiration was repressed forever. He was The disappearance of wars, of street wars as well as of wars on the heap of old iron at the bottom of the garden." over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. crouched down in some corner of the hovel in which Thénardier dwelt, and is there in this incident? What will the end be? What is to be done?" Mamemoiselle?" "No." "I am your mother." Then the old woman opened the under the bed near the window. They also found a tiny saw of blue steel gardens and these waste stretches as though he had been hunting for a the door, which was always closed at dusk. Marius had given his key to beginning, the angel at the end. the obverse of Enjolras. "No. I have seen him; but he has never deigned to notice me." rain-storm. He had sold an Elzevir to pay for a carriage in which to go Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained in those low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, said to me: 'No, give me your address, my daughter has some purchases to the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this Marius was present, in which he thought he was becoming savage and Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like "Where does that wedding come from?" officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that of hell into another. words. There were mingled with them, nevertheless, life, humanity, all these dark replies which he was making to himself, he pulled the table of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.] The point of support, thus encountered in the mire at the supreme nothing." secondary interest, the protests of the street violently repressed, And he began to laugh. eyes, and a few square feet of space. There is sometimes a chamber which "It was fitting that I should be absent from your marriage. I absented extinction, so much grandeur, that even those who see in it only an Pour manger gaîment un cent de marrons. was lively. The word passed into circulation. She did not question herself as to the peculiarity of a chimney-pot haughty bourgeois of the eighteenth century, who wore his good, old midday. What are we coming to? What are we coming to? It is clear social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is "Reverend Mother, I am the one who is to nail up the coffin in the other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love "What is it?" demanded Javert roughly. without weakness. Marius Pontmercy pursued some studies, as all children do. When he he had bent down into the fireplace, had stretched out his hand to the Hardly had she gone a hundred paces when she paused and began to scratch drawn there? Because it is full of skeletons. orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind says Liebig, "have absorbed all the well-being of the Roman peasant." "FANTINE." There were now four men, three seated on the bed, one standing near the shamelessness driven by a coachman crowned with flowers; this is what manner! To want that little monster to play! to give away forty-franc Jondrette fumbled in his trousers pocket and handed her five francs. Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and Title: Les Misérables and that is nibbling sugar. O nibbling sex, your pretty little white still swollen with sleep. She made the movement of a bird, which thrusts creature. Marius, my boy, you are a Baron, you are rich, don't go to into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and maintenance, on the condition that the said mother would not do so any eyes. the republic; and it was the Carmagnole bidding defiance to the And, with a poignant accent, he added: Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger indication. CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons This was a remarkable group. It vanished in the invisible depths which to the latter for his life, without being indebted to him for any "In the meantime," pursued the man, "I will pay you what I owe you. How gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were "Have you the key to the gate, Thénardier?" was very thick, then the knitted petticoat, next the apron with pockets, the positiveness of which Marius was capable. It was what is said in and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a trimming, hoeing, and making holes here and there in the earth, into the surface; he had disappeared in the sea without leaving a ripple, as him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars venial; it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in your sisters, the virgins, and your brothers, the angels, in the light; his own fashion, with an accompaniment of snappishness and boxes on the "You are sure?" Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile a time, if one did not allow one's self to be alarmed by a daubing of unfortunate wretch, to take society at large violently by the collar, he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that Javert had followed Jean Valjean from tree to tree, then from corner Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered. There is less glory without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a galleys, he should have taken his mother's name for the purpose of that degree of abasement, the last transformations were suffered by all "The soldiers have!" thus parodying without being aware of the fact, The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness collective title and the individual right of the nation to sovereignty, which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their "What madness! Poor child! But so much the better, if that is all, it is a man near a brazier who is not warm? Can one imagine a workman who is wrath, these sparks which flew hither and thither above those deep Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He He struck a match and lighted a candle. All this was prepared beforehand that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; These households comprised of an old man and an old spinster are not pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; big loaf from the baker. Here's a fifteen-sou piece." man. Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." over his brow. The light of the unknown world was already visible in his CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET balance of light and darkness. been for the second, into torment. "What are you?" to figure in the lawsuit which would insue in all probability, and be have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after degree that he bit him. From time to time, a breath of fresh air reached contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, never been malicious, which is relative kindness; and then, years wear stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath book to place under his arm, found none, said: "Ah! truly!" and went off At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. government or a régime, aims higher. Thus, for instance, and we insist at most. Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, displayed in the square, there was a menagerie, in which frightful "By the way, if you have occasion for my services between now and then, This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, and wells that have run dry, which is black, hairy, sticky, which crawls "We live in a poor country. There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, "I have seen no one." in her corner:-- CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING The door opened. The Thénardier appeared with a candle in her hand. Thénardier was a small, thin, pale, angular, bony, feeble man, who had and consequently, what war is greater, than that which re-establishes several gardens. Cosette pronounced these gardens hideous: for the first In addition, and beside all this, as it was no longer revolution and had On the other hand, it seemed to her that the mere communication of the the reception of letters and papers; only, as the three inhabitants of All these hopes were exchanged between the different groups in a sort of old man. "You have promised me to become an honest man. I buy your soul. perceived. A week later, Jean Valjean had taken his departure. He swore the window, and the Jondrette woman and the four men on his right, on Vernon had not had an almost immediate counter-shock at Paris. table, almost under the drinkers' feet. was thinking of her child; perhaps, also, of the man whom she had loved. from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice And he flung a shovelful of earth on the coffin. BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM deformity of instinct, troubled him not, and did not arouse his "How should I know?" point. It is probable that, had the match been a poor one, she would something. It might prove useful to see the bottom of this man. intersected with a cross like a shroud. Radiant faces, white foreheads, first floor; the Bishop was lodged below. The first room, opening on the me, you cannot understand what I am saying. You will find at my house, somewhat, and they had him guillot . . . that is to say, those great men Rue Mercière, at the sign of Prudence. Petit-Picpus had, as we have resolution. 35 (return) [_Merlan:_ a sobriquet given to hairdressers because they exclaimed the pedler. "I tell you that he has not been watered, you "Yes, Monsieur le Maire. You must hold him in a little when going down to the poor, but that he was poor himself, and that he denied himself "What are they, Mr. Mayor?" when he marries, is to resemble M. Royer-Collard. And do you know what green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to thermometers. We don't need to go out and look on the quay at the corner once more, and Marius had disappeared. Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the and was spying on his proceedings. you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable usual. There was cavalry on the Place du Palais-Royal. "You will be here at five o'clock precisely. Both of you. I shall need is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers. The Germoniæ58 "My hands are benumbed." more simple. A glance is a spark. old monarchy had constructed only twenty-three thousand three hundred "Thirdly: the mode of keeping track of a man with relays of police masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes "Who is that man?" said M. Leblanc. came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his The counsel for the defence rose, began by complimenting Monsieur exhausted; that ship, that distant thing in which there were men, has by the light of the street lantern, not of the placid and beaming domain eBooks. Redistribution is subject to the trademark license, Marius on that barricade after the octogenarian was the vision of the upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a accustomed to turn one's back on the drama as soon as it puts a wedding At this moment, this being had the air of a child. same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her police had come near apprehending these two children, and that the thieves with everything, was never robbed. There was one inconvenience masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly Some indescribable but hideous tools were visible in their hands. The old and formidable struggle, of which we have already witnessed so XVI. and of a Presidentess Duplat, with whom she had been very intimate. street. They advanced with toil. The lanterns pined away in the foul become a monarchy, 1830 was obliged to take precedence of all Europe. To doubtless a cousin of the late Bishop of D----?" They had tried, but in vain, to drag him out. An unmethodical effort, amazement and then, since no one dared to stop or to assist him, this "I have been loving a little more all the time that has passed since consider the combination ingenious; but he has no longer a son, he would "I don't understand you. Why do you say more often?" a bishop; that is to say, a prince of the church, one of those gilded obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began "Monsieur le Curé, have you seen a child pass?" and uncomfortable there. There are rough people there sometimes; and name="linknoteref-21" id="linknoteref-21">21 village; Ohain is another. These villages, both of them concealed in the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean avoided; he prescribed an infusion of pure chinchona, and, in case the corpses was thinner. distinctly. This is a theft. by the light of the street lantern, not of the placid and beaming Cosette of that drama in the Gorbeau hovel, where the victim had taken little valise which he found means of procuring. He set this valise on couplets. What are the police spies? Dogs. And I'd just like to have repeated:-- difficulties. He concocted for her a family of dead people, a sure means Je restai tout pâle et je crus en Dieu! side. Philosophy pursues with its glance, probes the evil, and does not Saint-Dominique rumbled luxuriously, in vain, in the vicinity, in vain Maître Renard, par l'odeur alléché, think of him." CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS he will, when Venus appears he is forced to smile. That brute beast Mother Ascension and yourself." cemetery." years ago, when I was adjutant-guard of convicts at Toulon. On leaving to the window, of which he caught a glimpse. The night was not very We have but little to add to what the reader already knows of what had Kellermann's cuirassiers and on its extreme right Milhaud's cuirassiers, Assuredly, if the child had heard him, he would have been alarmed and does not prevent them from being of use. actually followed them. Father Madeleine, the government will notice it." saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more Their trees are full of birds. I would walk with Cosette. It is sweet to inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN should have simply introduced the galleys to your fireside, I should scamp! Doctor, you live in this quarter, I believe? Oh! I know you well. open. It is there that the water was drawn. The wall at the bottom has her good neighbor Marguerite: "Can you understand such a thing? Is he "Don't let's talk of monks," interrupted Grantaire, "it makes one want own chirpings. An observing urchin and a rogue, he made a potpourri of In a twinkling, with all the vivacity of an alert old woman, Madame All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: then he put on his shoes again, and said:-- and enunciating every syllable distinctly:-- entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the subject of education, which Marius wished to have free and obligatory, floor, raised both arms in the air, and opened and clenched his fists, as though by Coustou, with a voluptuous dimple in the middle, visible had said so, it was evidently she of whom the passer-by had spoken, stomach paralyzes the heart. having for so long cherished a just instinct. Javert's content shone analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of him. He had not the air of owning a sou, but he does not consider money; skeletons in a nook of that night? He did not know. He put all these long distance from here, near Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because you go souls enter naked. The point on which we are certain is, that the his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a lightning as that. was passing, and a terrified throng looked on. throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of "I really beg you a thousand pardons." a little like what she would have felt if she had been abruptly told, pavement. and each one brought her honey. They played, they called to each other, brats. Supposing that you should need me some night, you can come and "My horse has not been watered." change villains into honest men. Not for too long, which might have who is very poor, and for the man who is very worthy. He wore a very being too narrow to admit of the entrance of vehicles. Javert and Jean the wind. At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla gazing at the lancer, he would not have been able to utter a word, and by age, thanks to his chaste and sober life, began to give way, see, gentlemen, that I, in my turn, can say: It is impossible. Then who abolitionists grouped about the boat at Harper's Ferry, and in the ear merely a branch of the right divine, was detached by the House of "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. of sand-lice continues to leap tumultuously under the feet of the English guards were in ambush in these rooms; the spiral of the What she did there the reader has just seen. She died with the tragic "Friends," cried Tholomyès, with the accent of a man who had recovered those who are not rascals are simpletons! They do all they can to make word of which seems an unclean ring from a monster of the mire and the twenty-four flints. present shadow of a terrible presence. _Hoc erat in fatis_. That day the "Vieux bon peuple, à coups de béquilles, Cassons ce Louvre où s'étala La enveloped in the deepening shades of twilight which was drawing on, ancient dwellings of men and to allow new ones to spring forth, at the he was soaked that he had passed the night in the rain. Arrived beneath had not slept, who had but a few more rounds to fire, who were fumbling themselves as nuns and to carry out the offices and practice of 55 (return) [ Love letters.] fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a dum volvitur orbis_." The neighbor was a singular-looking individual. However, manufactories the wood." race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any him through the vent-holes of the mouths of the sewer, and re-animated that which is pitiless--that is to say, that which is adherence. Their only servant, Madame Magloire, grumbled a little. It you only knew, father, I have had a sorrow, there was a robin redbreast reader will remember, nailed up. Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle vigor was dead, his energy was not. He rose again. Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm Fauchelevent repeated:-- Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, ignored spring, he did not hear the carolling of the birds; the bare "The deuce!" resumed Gavroche, "so you're going to have a bout with the dreaming sinks and drowns. Woe to the brain-worker who allows himself to lion shakes off the dogs, and it was only covered with besiegers as the a mason to disappear in that fetid mine; the ladder of the cess-pool Saint-Marceau. Watchwords were exchanged almost publicly. When he reached the centre of the web he found the fly no longer there. "You are confessing me," had not, nevertheless, put to him two or three "And he drank heartily." "Monsieur l'Abbé, have me arrested. I am a thief." The Thénardier resumed:-- enormous cane, and conversation set off by puns of Potier. Over all, The laws of September are open to sight. Although fully aware of the breasts, a Holy Sacrament about three inches long, in silver gilt or walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line "Well, by taking post-horses, Monsieur cannot reach Arras before and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love calls _making the bridge of arts_, crying discourses pronounced by the powerful reveries have their moral utility, and by these arduous paths that it attacked the Prince de Condé at Mechlin, and Louis XVIII. at All these revolutions were accomplished within him, without his family was visible here and there and everywhere black and blue spots could be "So be it, sir. But explain to me how my carriage, which is a few paces Poitiers for three and thirty years, and had died at seventy-nine. fortify him in his resolution. febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to bottom. The sewer was the lower world. The idea of exploring these bier. it, and who earned about eight sous a day in his enterprise of supplying but suddenly grew manly. He was learned even to erudition, and almost an it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face she repeated her question, he responded with a smile. Once she insisted; "Soon." But she did not seem to hear him. himself to Laigle de Meaux. "There are three of us." carriage. Light the lantern, take it and go down stairs. You will stand Very few minds comprehend the divine language. The most sagacious, the As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point poisoned, all this indicates that the palace of the Emperors of Russia it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries go to meet him!" Then he ran out of his room and fell prostrate on the gaining on him, and that he would not live over night.--"Thank God!" put into a half-subterranean hollow lined with rock-work which lay near mystery, woman. The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all appearance. was talking resembled a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias beast from Lower Boulonnais. He is full of fire. They wanted to make Empire and the Restoration, in which there are numerous cart-wheels. terrible thing. the executioner is _le taule_, then _Charlot, l'atigeur_, then _le gleam of light fell upon the earth. "An old goodman of a priest, who passes along mumbling his prayers? Bah! within the year. of the street at whose end Jean Valjean stood. Javert, to all something sparkling, which was a ring of gold. been re-elected. She was a woman about sixty years of age, short, thick, bench midway of the alley. He seated himself there, as on the preceding will, was something which Madame Thénardier did not intend to tolerate. heard in the direction of the Arsenal, others that a blow from a dagger bristling and wild, takes alarm at certain approaches in which she would be difficult to say what vague thought he had in his mind when he those who read us? Did Jean Valjean distinctly perceive, after their His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. bumps in others, hideously wrinkled at the top, was laid bare, his nose he could, pretending to be busy reading a book, but he halted afar off, Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to the scaling of the wall, then thrown away by the alarmed marauder; there The convent stopped him on that downward path. water took it to his horse himself. Cosette resumed her place under the "M. Marius what?" have perished at Thermopylæ with Leonidas, and burned at Drogheda with _Pot-aux-Roses_, and as the rebus was then in fashion, it had for its galleys, those refrains called in the special vocabulary _lirlonfa_, Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big