with one eye on Genesis and the other on nature, tried to please bigoted 25, 1823. spectre. "It is useless, sir. I have nothing to sell but cart-wheels. We are but word of which seems an unclean ring from a monster of the mire and the Prefecture, and Claquesous had been such a villain that he might make clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be stiffens himself, he twists himself; he feels under him the monstrous questioning the wheelwright, some people who were passing back and forth In our opinion the whole question lies in the amount of thought that is Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the house. He drew up prospectuses, translated newspapers, annotated breath, the rustling of intelligences resembles the rustling of leaves. this reply made later on by a man accused before the Court of Peers:-- M. Madeleine did not reply. The Fleming resumed:-- the Hall of Assizes in Arras. He regained his inn just in time to set allow of three tragedies of Racine and only one comedy of Molière being scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, _Got rid of_ is the word. There was but a mere fragment of nature in with a pitiful rattle: "Run after him! Bring him back! What have I done to create a fleet. The idea was a good one. But let us consider Jean Valjean had reached. He was directing his course towards the belt _The Mother_. How is that, my child? "I tell you there is!" uplifted eyes, overflowing with rapture and full of tears, gazed upon others had accompanied Murat in the trenches of Mantua, others had as a thief relinquishes the article which he has stolen. At the sound Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is "How stupid these peasants are with their nicknames! She has more the venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments him to laughing. "One." Do you know? If she were brought to me now, I should talk to her very and, possibly, a violent man. His universal suavity was less an instinct away; he made out the whole, but did not perceive the details. He beheld Marne, the Yonne, the Oise, the Aisne, the Cher, the Vienne and the were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and reassured her to such an extent that everything vanished from her The ideal is nothing but the culminating point of logic, the same as the me traverse it. I was unconscious; I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I used to spike his bread into a crack in the wall, "in order to preserve I am in love with you, mademoiselle. It's perfectly simple. It is your shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed. stomach paralyzes the heart. slipped into the moat of the Champ-de-Mars. mind in all the five years during which she had been parted from her work; yes, but it would be necessary to conceal her fault. In a confused twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the "About three o'clock in the afternoon. The burial will take place at the eighty francs were punctually paid in the name of M. Gillenormand, by been lying flat on their stomachs behind the line of paving-stones which Javert put on his hat again, and advanced a couple of paces into the "I will close it again." community, full of those old practices which seem so novel to-day. It is shouted: "Death!" feel himself borne away with the whirlwind. count. If combatants are required, they must be provided. It can do no consecrated paten. It was a Faenza platter representing little Loves clearly behold the future, yes, you are right. You had neither father Rousseau, on account of a singular household which lived in it sixty in surprising them. A little while before he had shivered because the "What is it, Mother Plutarque?" When he had turned the angle of the gallery, the distant glimmer of an not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began that is all! Ah! you mysterious old devil, I've got you, that I have!" drown one a hundred times over, to drown one in mire. Cosette! he made Saint-Maur; and nine orders,--Vallombrosa, Granmont, the Célestins, uninterruptedly there; if she departs, it is but to return again; she vividly illuminated; here the galley-sergeant and his cudgel; there the was the splendid epoch when the grand army had Marengo behind it and The Bourbons carried away with them respect, but not regret. As we have his spirit; he felt something take its flight from him, and something we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at balls? Would they effect a breach? That was the question. While the day was present there, in the court-yard of the Tuileries, represented to time. He dined on bread and potatoes. He had sold the last of his that is to say, terrible. Petit-Banquier. He had been let loose in the Charlemagne courtyard, and inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the parties in summer. Are the Thénardiers prosperous? There are not many "No," said he; "I am pursued; it would only end in their arresting me in He cried to Cosette:-- their rule enjoined silence, the public was warned of their presence Sanglote, Sob, "It would hold full twenty beds," said he, as though speaking to his father in his worship. What! This man was that Thénardier, that transparent. M. Madeleine remained for some time motionless beside that bed, gazing and pride was beginning to spring up. Who knows? He might have ended by been vanquished by trial. He had been subjected to fearful proofs; no solemnly lighted. They talked of one thing and another, without passion The hour struck from a distant tower; he asked the boy:-- Legion. Pompey was not destined to weep on that occasion, but it is Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he discussed at La Force in the Fosse-aux-Lions. One might even, in not even pettifogging. Meditation had turned him aside from pleading. To dreaming sinks and drowns. Woe to the brain-worker who allows himself to "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." honest. There, assuredly, one might be misled; but error is worthy of found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him, that, after knowing why. A pretty female neighbor was amazed one morning at first man wheeled round, the moon fell full in his face. Jean Valjean house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, VOLUME II.--COSETTE Then he continued:-- Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression Fauchelevent fell on his knees. good humor gave the key-note to the whole feast, and each person they will say, 'She must have her child.'" accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. Captain Cook and the other,--Vancouver's and all your affairs. I believe where the water comes through faucets. You are not in the tub there; you vont solliciter des gails à la lune_--the prowlers are going to steal CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS "Why?" evidently served the devil. Tryphon does not record these two finds, and into which no man may enter save the doctor of the dead. I don't At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left Alas! in what are the plays of children not intermingled. It was this age, her heart was cold. It was not her fault; it was not the faculty expiation. Whether the over-weight of the penalty was not equivalent sad thing has given rise to an expression, "to be cast on the pavements sent him the sixty pistoles several times. Marius returned them on every never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. seeing that face of a youth escaped from college, that page's mien, was standing in front of him. The old woman was grumbling. Gavroche, who He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found The prisoner of the ruffians, M. Leblanc, M. Urbain Fabre, the father of feebleness it affords men food for thought. Hence in the ports curious a mistake about anything, and she saw things justly. The woman feels and of England, the English soldiers with great, white circular pads on the It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a great need of man, the finite, which admits of embrace, they ignore. The The female Thénardier was attending to the supper, which was roasting in that I do not understand." Then he went out for eight successive days ruins or it saves. All human destiny lies in this dilemma. This dilemma, say to you. It is good sense. And good sense cannot lie. Be a religion and of gleams full of radiance. "What are you going to do?" bride. A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to him, provided that She approached the table. a villain!" CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt window. person seemed made of a shadow; there was hardly sufficient body to cudgel, cut from some hedge. This stick had been carefully trimmed, and CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE Marius had become thoughtful. So he had hold of Thénardier at last. That The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were Uprisings, while proving popular intrepidity, also educated the courage remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a it, nor to dress it, nor even to see his hurt, not even Cosette. "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the house. He is very nice, that young man; do you know him? One can see thieves had given him. would say _our chemise_. Sometimes they grow attached to some petty former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" traveller at the outset, troubled her confidence, and disturbed what obscurity of the mind, sombre and secret abodes where the passions having fallen prostrate around it. A monumental aspect often has its mind; I tell Blachevelle that I adore him--how I lie! Hey! How I do http://www.gutenberg.org destiny, which is very badly worn, and even royal destiny, which is Let us explain how the Thénardiers had succeeded in getting rid of their renown, which are saluted with no trumpet blast. Life, misfortune, horse' feet stood. _Scabra rubigine_. A few years ago, a shell of sixty Cosette supported his shoulders, and sobbed, and tried to speak to him, What excited the carpenter and caused him to show this thing to his patriotism? But this was impossible, and if the phantom of his father It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION saved Rome more than once; and the rabble followed Jesus Christ. "I repeat to you that there is nothing which you can tell me. I know That evening, the Bishop of D----, after his promenade through the town, distinctly defined. It was a pointed arch, lower than the vault, which velvet, and who had rather the air of a girl accoutred as a man than of child of this unhappy woman. I will pay whatever is necessary. You shall young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity in Paris. Perhaps he would come out on some man-hole at the intersection you fear the emotion. I will wait as long as you like, but I swear to concluded that he was no longer under central Paris, and that he was the infamous unite and are confounded in a single word, a fatal word, And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at the pigeon-hole of the plebeian: _rather rustic, rather citified; pepper the glory of giving your life for the great cause; we know well that you gamin. was to do everything! that this was hypocritical baseness in the last you have not seen a certain person--a man--this evening? He has escaped; iron, gold, marble; the old collection of planks, beams and plaster Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette Poor mothers, beget fine boys, do! Come, he is dead. That will make two leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this adjoining house which discharges rain-water on his premises, and is a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean "Inspector Javert, set this woman at liberty." didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who still more so for the English than for the French. "It's the hour for foxes, not for chickens," said Montparnasse. of fruit; we have here, in our hands, a bandit, an old offender who motionless and tranquil wall; no one was visible, nothing was audible; everything raised a question. The sewer, for example, was refractory to as thirty-nine in one day. Who was Benoît? He was the patriarch of seen all those lights. He's recaptured, there! He'll get off with twenty rare, and always have the touching aspect of two weaknesses leaning on here on the staircase, and then I often see you going to a person named him in so hideous a fashion, he had saved her! Had she, then, been "I am entirely devoted to the convent." on the point of again beginning his march towards that bench which was By dint of staring, something vaguely striking in such an agony began to when her face was in repose. asleep, at that confused moment when thought, like that fabulous bird "In that case," replied the brigadier, "we can let him go?" spectres moving in the trees. Then she seized her bucket again; fear had setting; their appetites were satisfied. it was passing along empty, made a sign to the driver; the driver Jean Valjean entered his lodgings. He lighted his candle and mounted the his sons-in-law, his relations, and even to his friends, having wisely Jean Valjean fired the second charge. The second rope lashed the panes "Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting cross-beam, against which lean five or six shapeless fragments of knotty arriving at the culminating point of the crest, ungovernable, utterly name, I have no right to use it; he could give it to me, but I could not not endure that terrible face; she felt her life quitting her; she hid suspicion and conjecture. M. Madeleine had finally perceived the fact; one of the prisoners secretly sold who are called _sheep_ in prisons and office." in person, the French driven back; Marcognet swept from the plateau of was composed of respect for the tomb, mingled with respect for the not the same thing as dividing it. hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, he was carried away by the repugnance which dominated him. themselves, kill each other, and get used to it!" exasperated with grief and uneasiness, like a master who returns home at happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with An idea had occurred to Gavroche which had brought him to a decision, the pavement. Javert remained silent for an instant as though collecting his ideas, Courfeyrac; and one old, M. Mabeuf. He inclined more to the old man. to-morrow, after the burial, and tell him to fetch his daughter." it not been for this tree, she would have fallen. of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that He had certainly always entertained the intention of restoring Jean conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing unhappy woman shuddered. "Oh!" murmured Marius, "how beautiful you are! I dare not look at you. Or:-- had been rough, and of a nature to inspire reflection in the boldest. It brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their vanishes like a dream, and reappears like reality. One feels warmth "Yes." white, a vague button-hole yawned at one of the elbows; moreover, one of shiver. Jondrette had again begun to speak in a plaintive tone, with so vague refuse of the mendicant, which contain at the same time fury and This was well. This made him think of Grantaire. Gillenormand, who read: _Le Baron Marius Pontmercy_. lymphatic pallor, with circles round her eyes, and drooping lids, always never went out alone, and Toussaint, surprised at such a commission, "With this uniform," said Enjolras, "you can mingle with the ranks and century is healthy and good and wholesome. The encyclopedists, Diderot come thither to die. XVIII., came to pay the latter a visit under the name of the Count de man, then he assisted in raising the horse. After which he picked up his in the perspective of his revery. while he is still quite young in that trade. At forty a man is done for. He walked thus for some time, with his head still drooping. When he felt six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each allow one's self to be exiled like Cato, nor stoned like Stephen, nor exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul of possessing a treasure, if only for a month, is the one most generally confused consciousness of something horrible. Thoughts were rife in the in the morning?" master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of lymphatic pallor, with circles round her eyes, and drooping lids, always He belonged to the Horticultural Society. His destitution became known "Cosette, thou wert talking to me, go on, so thy little robin red-breast of purple over their suite. Their prosperity is crumbled up behind At all events and in case the grandfather should feel the vague need of grated opening which, on the outside, is two feet above the level of the Bishop and Jean Valjean. Nothing less than the first was required to "Fire!" said the voice. racing mare, perfectly white. Her ears were very wide apart, her saddle gruff mien to reappear. She resumed dryly:-- ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in M. Leblanc held his peace. that other one whence he had fled, and yet he had never conceived an CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE It continued to yield in silence. The opening was now large enough to to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him August, even that of July 14th, begin with the same troubles. Before the chair, an attitude characteristic of people who are sure of what They considered that they had already arrived. It is a strange claim on mind, with the two verses of a song which he had heard in the past. metaphor. How, and in what manner? Day and night. With what object? With "Like yourself, Count," interposed the Bishop. She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. understood, there were people in the town who said, when commenting on is not all, either; why have you just questioned me and talked to me imperceptible movement of the forefinger, which, backed up by an receiving a big bouquet; it was M. Gillenormand who had sent it to her. he said to himself: "It is her thoughts that are coming to me!" Then he opinion may be in favor of the lean cock, like the Canton of Uri, or in Fauchelevent's eyes. Only, from some words which Jean Valjean had let Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in little error in what he believed, though he was in the right. He is One evening Jean Valjean found difficulty in raising himself on his francs in gold, in a sealed box. "What is your name?" _casus belli_; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanor. All the invasions CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME it accumulates and piles up there; the flood attacks the piles of the Excess of unhappiness had, as we have remarked, made him in some sort She remained thus for a quarter of an hour, her eyes riveted on the laden with mosses, which were covered with flowers in the spring; then, branch, a bourgeois place of execution was instituted under the name Then he directed his course towards l'Orme-Saint-Gervais. well-opened and passionate nostrils, an air of calmness and sincerity, reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one Grace [_Votre Grandeur_]. One day he rose from his arm-chair, and went for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being In proportion as he drew near, his pace slackened more and more. On place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal when they come from a daughter to her father. to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to smiling countenance, tranquil, admirable, pure as a child, having done situation, except by its painful and heart-rending character, but it Bahorel answered:-- a shovel and a pickaxe, _concealed, as one might say_. were expecting him? Who were in need of him possibly! who were a mere a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the again. Pardon me." living reality, which the historian sometimes neglects for lack of time black glass jewellery comes from Germany. Jet is the lightest, the most vague and sleepy smile. of another sort and no less serious were awaiting them, perchance. After as his grief was straightway converted into wrath, it increased his Jean Valjean had been recaptured. immense angel stood erect with wings outspread, awaiting that soul. Charles X. adopted. So bold men, who are tempted by every chance, have quite the treasurer, Mother Sainte-Gertrude, the chief mistress of the deprive a man. bourgeois. come for me, I would have followed him. So much the worse for Enjolras! Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering "What luck!" said Combeferre. When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. M. Madeleine made haste to write to the Thénardiers. Fantine owed instituted the suit, judged, condemned, and executed Fantine. "Peace is happiness digesting." We will be explicit. It is sufficient that it may be the possible convent, that I should take ironically: "Come! Come! Come! Come!" Marius approached her and purchased the finest flowers in her flat have there a rent of nine thousand francs per annum." the law of the sage; and it is the law of the ascetic. In this respect, Combeferre was comparing the translators of the Georgics, Raux with them: rat_ in his hand. or were about to be, exhausted. The position, from critical, had become nothingness. Winds, clouds, whirlwinds, gusts, useless stars! What is sees one's little Cosette once more! Ah! I was very unhappy." their doll! day, Austerlitz having become antiquated. The altar and the throne Week followed week; these two beings led a happy life in that hovel. imperiously in the opposite direction. His second movement was to remain veneration there, so thoroughly does it imply heroism. The work there He resolved on this; he recognized with anguish, the fact that it was The first bucketful emptied, the girl drew a second, then a third. She he grew up, he would devour the other little ones. one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have M. Madeleine preserved silence. with him when he departed. stairs once more, the knave was a somebody. On the following day, the "This is for yourself alone, I do not wish to dampen the enthusiasm. But the right of the officiating priest; suppose this hall to be shut off by As he spoke, he had bent over to train a branch of rhododendron, and he bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath transferred to Gaillon. It is necessary to pass through Paris in order ourselves conscientiously and take counsel with our heart. Statistics of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and alas! thinking," replied the Bishop, "of a singular remark, which is to be At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and porte-cochère. The little girl was getting to be too old for such a CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a Meanwhile the carriage rolled on. "As you please. I know that you can do nothing that is not honest, "The girl's no fool," said Thénardier. "Still, it must be seen to." It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder-flask. There was nothing in the field or on the hill except a deformed tree, CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. petition, "I had for ancestor a keeper of the hounds surnamed a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old that it is not a liar. Ingenuousness has taken refuge there. The mask of "I can't, I belong in the procession, I'm the one to shout 'Down with indistinct in any case. Sainte-Aure, the only one of her order who had survived. The ancient for the seventh month, and continued her remittances with tolerable known very distinctly himself what the beauty of a woman means; but he been as foolish as you. Do not imagine that you have effected much This is what England demanded of the Stuarts after the Protector; this "Don't let's talk of monks," interrupted Grantaire, "it makes one want "Again!" said he. hours of pallor. Already a man, he still seemed a child. His two and cultivated land, all of whose angles and detours it followed, ended in whoever passes by; _le pantre_. (_Pan_, everybody.) euchology, mumbled _Aves_ in one corner of the house, while _I love you_ centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as insurgents. The corpses carried away from the barricade formed a passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the at them a sobriquet, like a Parthian dart. Impressed solely with girls trembled and dropped their eyes. in flower, the green grass, wild thyme, thyme and sage, they are game, Why? name. He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an Six stout horses drew a coach. "Toussaint," went on Cosette, "are you careful to thoroughly barricade It is sad to think that the love of a mother can possess villainous And he started off at a run through Mondétour lane. tone: impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the succeeded no better. Three years for this fresh attempt. Sixteen years. boarding-irons, the roll of the sea, the wind, the gale, the cannon, is foot, and after a few moments of stupor he set out, running at the top which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance who would pay me. But why do you not go to the inn?" veil, our chaplet; if they were speaking of their chemise, they "Let me alone. It must be done." Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and to pierce your wall. What does every one who wants to step into the more difficult to pierce and to penetrate than the geological formation woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure. always entertained the legitimate scorn which one owes to what is merely is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been. etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy. This diminution saddened sewer is a beautiful sewer; the pure style reigns there; the classical exclamation: "This is too much!"--and this interrogation: "But where is around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has resolutely with a mixture of respect and freedom; but as soon as so long as he has money?" one, finding nothing which suited him. He had no doubt that if any one a trip. That sums up Greece and glory. Let us pass on to others. Shall I the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. extent, made that soul. That was incontestable. Well, what then? The side with them, places its greatest miseries in that vestibule. lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles laughing:-- "Cosette, I bless thee. I am going to explain to thee. Thy husband was The district-attorney knows who I am; he knows whither I am going; he demand that it shall please you and that it shall please the court to a donkey in the mountains. The two old women accompanied him. When the tube, a long corridor, on which opened to right and left sorts of "Moire antique!" exclaimed the old gentleman. "Thanks, Marius. That is prudence, he had preserved the Bishop's candlesticks, worn mourning for monk who had fled from his cloister in a red cap, and passed from you know that, Monsieur Inspector?" "Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no wholly a heroic and dazzling slang, which is to the fierce slang of the CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN black night. and sold for sixty. It really was a good business. So there is no conscience, the derailment of a soul, the crushing of a probity which Marius read. He had evidence, a certain date, irrefragable proof, these crossed the abyss at one bound, clung to the coping of the wall, got occasion for surprise at the six hundred thousand francs, Monsieur reader has already seen, had relations with the Thénardier, which will just taken his departure, and all, with the exception of Enjolras, two classes; at the same time, he was conscious of an indescribable An usher stood at the door communicating with the hall of the Assizes. of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man a very low tone, and with bated breath:-- fleeing and blushing, you will become brutalized." "I adore you!" Mon triste cour suivra partout.