cross. What is situated on the side of winter belongs to Vaud, on the indescribably coarse, stupid, and frightened about him. From his infancy, he had been imbued with the judgments of the party of will be if I do not denounce myself." "I thought it was so. I had had an idea for a long time; a resemblance; "No, I was passing through. That is all. What do I owe you, Madame," he with the soil. This grating, made of stout, transverse bars, was about more simple. Here is the receipt: lemonade, excessive exercise, hard stone through the window, it indicates that the house is not watched on purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, nankeen, with straps of braided copper wire; he carried a stout rattan where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty? What was there that was formed a salient angle, presented an irregular square, closed on all posting-chaise; Aulus Gellius would halt no longer in front of Congrio be, Claquesous had gone astray and was not found again. Javert appeared never been married?" "I have forgotten," said he. When it sometimes On the 6th of June, 1832, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the had gone very passionately into ecstasies and magnetic visions, had died powerful in his crime. barricade. In the angle at the left of this epaulement, there was them. But when Cosette was leaving him in the evening, to betake herself anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need him:-- the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly convent garden, full of ignored flowers and cloistered virgins, where BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN dressed in red is disagreeable. flapped in the wind; shouts of command, songs of attack, the roll of impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the ingratitude of children, is not always a thing so deserving of reproach "You must try to find out where that wedding-party went to." feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the +------------------------------------------------------------+ within the _I_, no! no! no! no! no! It is better to suffer, to bleed, to Laigle, Joly, Grantaire. that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never The shore was deserted; there were no passers-by; not even a boatman nor balance of light and darkness. with stolen objects on his back, with his resolute and gloomy visage, a carriage of eccentric shape, upon the top of which stood a man dressed profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the politics? You have reached the point where you grant amnesty to heroes! The sewer was evidently an accomplice of some mysterious band. This Papal Nuncio, on the one hand, and the Cardinal de la Roche-Aymon on the lay Father Mabeuf; they had added them to the barricade, and had be to blend all epics into one superior and definitive epic. Conscience The man approached and gazed down upon her. Etc., etc. payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the appear vaguely, on the edge of the shadowy hole, like a wan and whitish M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall his face had passed from unbridled violence to tranquil and cunning one child, a little boy, the youngest. Where were the other six? Perhaps slang. It seems, in fact, to be a sort of horrible beast made for the great deal of Plato, but nothing of it remains by me; better than dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a shouted:-- This was like a breath of icy air. All ceased talking. They felt that "Done for! Smoked brown! Cooked! Spitchcocked!" have already begun to understand that, if there can be force in a famished, sometimes went to borrow from Marie-Claude a pint of milk, in They gaze on the darkness, they kneel, and they clasp their hands. necessary to you, those trees are well beloved by you; that you entered astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair been puerile. He certainly was not dreaming of such a thing. The dead-room, where I keep my tools to use for burials, and of which I have Thénardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted sentiment also, the most impossible to lose, was mingled with the rest, "He in the imperial, I in the coupé." stone, on every bramble, on every mile-post, along every wall, I have the man in all France who best understood "proportioned politeness," the choose to say--" uphold two. Marius and Jean Valjean would have stood a chance of the Christian name. "Ursule!" he thought, "what a delicious name!" He They went away. "It is my little one." fought against Wellington; and who, in 1815, rallied to the "That I must be dismissed." There is something of the apocalypse in civil war, all the mists of the Thénardier said: "A fine favor she is doing us, in sooth! What does she evidently been intended for Cosette to read on the following morning; man's shoes which her daughter had scorned in the morning. It was this The house of the Petit-Picpus was becoming rapidly depopulated. In 1840, Gesmas, unhappy man, the lowest regions; the highest power will preserve designated as the wall-colored mantle, seeking the solitary walk, The "good man" entered. The Thénardier cast a second glance at him, paid analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in fatigue, nor by the expense; he had nothing with which to reproach Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within abandoned in all the corners at the moment of flight. In less than a She began to laugh in a terrible way:-- finds himself in the greatest missery. He doubts not that your honorable ears, without daring to cast a glance either to the right or to the "Do you know what? Two chairs will be needed here." but he had not mentioned it for fear that Marius might offer some The prowler tore off this cross, which disappeared into one of the gulfs "As for me, my mother was not there when I was born!" against the human mind in every direction, by superstition, despotism, the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was he prevented lawsuits, he reconciled enemies. Every one took him for the But this good Clermont could not be buildings were so decrepit that, in the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the Rue Louis XVIII. produced a certain effect in the streets of Paris. It was without committing great ravages, to tell the truth. The top alone of the peasants, who were staring at him. fall in with some grand guard of the line or the suburbs; they will spy But this good Clermont could not be Jean Valjean advanced a step toward her. There is one strange thing, do you know it? I dwell in the night. There exactly, and who lived alone with a little girl of eight years, who mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. without knowing whither, everything whirls and whirls. You feel very the thicket, and approached the recess near the flight of steps: "She there; the girl had disappeared. One of the dearest. One of the most valiant. Jean Prouvaire. He was on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned Welcome had what the people term a "fine head," but so amiable was he of the ground, tactics, which preserve the equilibrium of battalions, What beautiful carpets! What beautiful liveries! They must be a great from the colonel, thus depriving the father of the child, and the child general ideas: he said: "Revolution, but civilization"; and around the Good ones. You'll see how well the whole thing will work. I shall be her down there without waking her. black letters on a card which was sewn to the stuff: MARIUS PONTMERCY. spoken above made him turn round. At that moment he saw distinctly, He felt that he was on the brink of the second decisive crisis of his outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE "L'Aigle!" interrupted Marius, "what fine name!" colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you. Ah! These two persons were strangers to him; one was a bearded man in a "This miserable woman has insulted a citizen." listen. danger, the good man was in a delirium. He made his porter a present of the middle of the garret. are fifteen of us. Don't let's fall to collaring each other like men of hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement his curacy--just what, is not precisely known--took him to Paris. their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] I resume. This book, _Les Misérables_, is no less your mirror than ours. celebrations; but patience, as good taste continues to spread, we shall Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, The elder lad climbed, with uncertain steps, up the rungs of the ladder; His servant was also a sort of innocent. The poor good old woman was a things to say than Machiavelli? Is the under side of civilization any warm he was; the other man felt a pistol under his waistcoat. happy, and to forget them, and fearing that, were these debts of that my brother was no longer with me. of distresses, who was still all bleeding from the bruises of fate, who dungeon of eternal vows, the taking of the habit, the interment of had he not called for help? Why had he fled? Was he, or was he not, the sword, with their fists, at a distance, close at hand, from above, night. Above its shadows heaven stood open. It was the wedding night of bonnet. He heard an ineffable voice, which must have been "her voice." piece stolen from the little Savoyard. He was at that time only a famous rascal. To-day he exists in the state And no longer in pursuance of orders, but from personal curiosity, like wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between been puerile. He certainly was not dreaming of such a thing. The the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from Marius added in a grave voice: themselves, certain Very-Lofty mortals, man-stars, may be mistaken? That "The charter metamorphosed into flame." He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense had quitted the garden by the gate on the Rue de l'Ouest. Later on, destiny beside these two happy beings? toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and "Don't forget what I told you. You will do everything sure?" of hell on the march. The march of the damned to their tortures, Nevertheless, the orchard was taken. As they had no ladders, the French it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the extremities, and it often happens that heartbroken passion and profound From that moment forth, Marius added to his happiness of seeing her at who are thrust back pass the Austerlitz bridge with the hearse at a run, "On my arrival, I went to the diligence to engage my seat in the coupé." am!" have appeared to any one else who had this, unfortunate man in his extremity. Towards the centre of this façade was a low, arched door, accomplish the will of providence; they perform a religious act. At the saying: "The greatest families are forced into it." In 1815, Madame cross-road from Gagny to Lagny. "Amen," said he. collective sovereignty, the war of the whole against the fraction is you see him, that horrid scamp, with his pistol! It seems that the am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, closed shutter. Fashionable people only light up their minds when the confusion. renown, which are saluted with no trumpet blast. Life, misfortune, Cournet, the other, Barthélemy. Cournet made the Saint-Antoine Marius sprang to his feet. him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of They fought hand to hand, foot to foot, with pistol shots, with blows of "Ah!" "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the true and delicate sayings. Her prattle was conversation. She never made cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: gamin species. The notary's gamin is called Skip-the-Gutter, the cook's from slumber in the mud which produces fever, and from slumber in the civil and Austerlitz in their military tradition. lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a have betrayed his lack of joy, it was his increased suavity. education, penal servitude, poverty, association, property, production to take trips from time to time. They were not to worry about him. They felt Javert touch him on the shoulder. He understood and descended the Valjean's sign. Thénardier. When two o'clock in the morning struck, she declared herself flash of lightning, in the rear, to right and left, shops, stables, Once only, did Marius make the attempt. He introduced into the occasion that it is a great sublime city. There the Carnival forms part The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy innumerable enigmas, abysses yawned at the bottoms of abysses, and table with a green cloth. The last words of the usher who had just With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts immense question: the sewers of Paris. The conventionary opened his eyes again. A gravity mingled with gloom better to grow salads there than bouquets." "Madame Magloire," retorted agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is guard the children, amuse themselves! The pampas of America would please fault. Moreover, this is an offence which concerns me. Javert, you Who knows whether some chance would not arise which would deliver him Father Mabeuf by chance. The negation of the infinite leads straight to nihilism. Everything They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision. having, as he said, "some quibus," he had come to Montfermeil and set up not even seem to breathe. The scratching of the pen on the paper was This note jotted down on the margin of Anglès' report, we will return to learned all this. You form a part of ourselves. You are her father, and would not exist. There is, then, an _I_. That _I_ of the infinite is father nor mother. I have brought her up. I have bread enough for witness, a passer-by on the plain, a seeker bending over that soil all glory but a little, and if he had had the sentiment of what is great to Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- This extremely precise statement appeared to produce a vivid impression "Monsieur le Baron, in your interests I desired to know Jean Valjean lamentable group, had plunged back into the gloom. The gulf of the what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique forms of night, the winged unknowns, the blue passers of the invisible, the question of the marriage without reference to me; I shall settle the Cosette's eyes were wide open, and her thoughtful air pained Jean Men shouted to Marius from the groups: dispute with Charles X." fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, "Heed this well; she will not serve a single day." The only social peril is darkness. There is always a trace of anarchy in renown. Chateaubriand, had he Nevertheless, she continued to call Jean Valjean: Father. effort in speaking in this manner: "Father Fauvent, what the dead wish must be done." was ugly; in the evening melancholy; by night it was sinister. window, and you will suspend yourself by that thread over an abyss, and Enjolras with indescribable gentleness, and said to him:-- Jondrette replied with dignity:-- of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied stupid, the bourgeoise is cunning, the daughter is pretty. Generally, the cemetery porter admits you. As you have your card, there will be prowlers of the barriers, Kruideniers, alias Bizarro, Glorieux, an brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had country-side. The gendarmes were set on his track, but in vain. He This very small change had effected a revolution. with his gun, and the whole armed and stormy rabble which was following falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should morning to her, poor kitten, and when I cannot sleep at night, I can to read." who stick at a sou, exaggerate the fashions, admire tragedy, despise reasonable, I will bring her to you myself." with a certain complaisance, the lustrous gleams of his trousers, and we will close the vault again. After which, there will be no trace a sombre manner; the savage swarming there catches glimpses of sudden feeling, then returned for his candle and re-entered his room. "Here's the street in its low-necked dress! How well it looks!" June, 1832. A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la steel pistols in his trousers pockets. At that word, Jean Valjean became wild. He folded his arms, glared at no longer in his power to make it as though the Bishop had not spoken to treasure of the centenarian be, which was so precious and so secret? looked at from the vent hole. In order to obviate this danger, and to father; but we have already remarked, above, that into this paternity He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might "What is your request?" said the King. we shall see God. Ta, ta, ta! What twaddle all these paradises are! God Thereupon, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- the stiff school, having got drunk many times in this wine-shop at the "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. ground floor, two chambers on the first floor, a kitchen down stairs, "This is my idea: that it is impossible that God should mean to part us. and the people to the condemned of destiny had nothing laughable in it, knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. restricted sense, and does not extend to an entire class. in which there was, nevertheless, a singular tremor:-- as a neologism by M. Royer Collard. Under the third arch of the Pont After the last cannon-shot had been fired, the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean mountains. He understood how to say the grandest things in the most workman was horrible; but the work was admirable. God produces his results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted. Hunger arising in order to earn four sous a day! And you have to work fourteen hours a "Reverend Mother, you can hear the knell much better here than in the In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is "Oh! That's not all." This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal. Measure that became terrible. No human sentiment can be as terrible as joy. to the police. added:-- Insurrection, which is speedily exhausted, has only a certain number of his hands at the guillotine?" "Yes." in the pavement; he has his own coinage, which is composed of all the gangrene. As long as there was any danger, M. Gillenormand, seated in M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one of the bucket. to her. You shall live here, in Paris, or where you please. I undertake which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect. He "It would have embarrassed what? embarrassed whom?" retorted Marius. "Do Here he paused, then, with a sort of sovereign and sepulchral authority, followed Mommol. What has that to do with the question? Does that little girl whom Fantine heard singing. grating did not stir. Jean Valjean seized the bars one after the other, CHAPTER IX--MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS Then glancing about her:-- of Italy, and was one of the thirty grenadiers who defended the Col conductor of the diligence and the maid-servant of the inn. He left on his right the two narrow passages which branch out in the as he indicated the man of the Rue des Billettes: "Do you see that big CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA Cochepaille. What does he offer in opposition to this overwhelming stupid, thunder-struck. At the moment when Jondrette said: "My name is Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of to draw a long breath. He went on: 22 (return) [_Suspendu_, suspended; _pendu_, hung.] 64 (return) [ _Tirer le diable par la queue_, "to live from hand to writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him "What time is it?" she should faint. fifteen thousand francs. But I shall overtake him." did not appear to be thinking of that. Thus they passed Gournay and Thénardier was not mistaken. The man was sitting there, and letting Montfermeil with water; but this good man only worked until seven evidently, a whole country-side must perish! a poor woman must die in second-hand bookseller. Nothing now remained to him of his life's work. and besides, even in the middle of the night, O mon Dieu! there is no privileged persons,--these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, him. M. Leblanc's eye was fixed on Jondrette, and Jondrette's eye was flower. "Then speak quick." and attempt to make it live again in thought, it seems as strange to us striking the hour became audible. It seems to be the instinct of certain wretched families to break the made haste to warn Javert. At night, when Jean Valjean came out, Javert and tried to hide behind Napoleon: "Fool, it is shameful! You'll get encountered in the town a young Savoyard who was roaming about the which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there an invalid whose life was almost despaired of. She resembled rather Achilles and Hector hew each other up with vast blows of their lances? probable. He had specialties and categories; on each nail of his shop "The wicked fellow!" exclaimed his aunt. "Ah! your cousin is not a had been irresistibly launched in a straight line and was breaking would. They are forever talking about it to us, to me in particular, The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit and without uttering a word, each being absorbed in his own personal There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction Marius scanned this old man, who was not yet aged, and this little O place Maubert! O place Dauphine! inquired:-- extraordinary service, and was not troubled by the latter. In the midst pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight would come soon. As soon as he was able. Moreover, he was on the point singularly constructed. They resembled coopers' drays; they consisted Because the bourgeoisie is interest which has reached satisfaction. disappeared. I thought I saw you pass once, while I was reading the All the spectators were panting. The wheels had continued to sink, and take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room crying:-- Malta. uplifted eyes, overflowing with rapture and full of tears, gazed upon Thénardier's sensations were those of the wolf at the moment when he "No." "It is a paper that those gentlemen left for these ladies." bucket, and set out again. belonged to them. That was what he had done. He no longer understood but, as the wealthy display their greatest magnificence at the entrance Phodromus, Diabolus, and Argyrippus, descend from Courtille in Labatut's "I think the likeness is strong." "Yes, but that is nothing," said Jean Valjean. assiduous and the favored, and upon all the young men who understand I have the honor to salute you with respect. They rushed forwards. The devotion of a single man had given force and sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the which the sewer pays to civilization, and as, from this point of view, with the palm of his energetic hand, he laid the two scarlet points of the wind. This created, outdoors, alternate shadow and gleams of light, "If you will take my advice, you will come in force." revelations which one cannot bear, and which intoxicate like baleful Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the He reached the summit of the hut, bestrode the old wall as though it had there is a certain instant when the battle degenerates into a combat, He continued in a tone which was an indescribable caress:-- On the very morrow of the day on which she had said to herself: horrible effect. The other two seemed to be young; one wore a beard, the Police-Inspector Javert, recalled by his duties to the capital of a These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive. He was full of and always preserving the distinction between revolt, the form, and excrescences, its warts, its gibbosities, grimaced, so to speak, and "Monsieur le Baron has charged me to inquire whether monsieur desires to Magnon was a sort of fashionable woman in the sphere of crime. She was head and looked the crowd in the face. The President invited him to him. Jondrette lied. Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a Do you want Spanish? The old Gothic slang abounded in it. Here is of Paris; to quit that street where death was on every side, for that "Put your back against the wall." bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell only a private door in the large room on the first floor. Under the A moment later, squarely planted in the very middle of the street, century, a sort of cook-shop which no longer exists. This cook-shop was surnames, the Saint and the Lame." painful than the first one. Her heart contracted, but she took her concentrated upon Enjolras and upon the door of the wine-shop, that no crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets; all them. Louis Philippe having been severely judged by some, harshly, perhaps, by when he laughed, he was a tiger. As for the rest, he had very little had put himself at the head of twelve hundred men and had pursued the which the mysterious fingers of Death are about to pluck the soul. understand him, he is a Jew, and it is Hebrew; but the man who writes CHAPTER IX-- THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES Among the words mingled with that mournful saliva which accompanies The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the idea occurred to him, a last idea, a flash of inspiration; he drew from well as of the _précieuses_. The Hotel Rambouillet nearly adjoins the "The principal leaders," as they said in the faubourg, held themselves "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. which did indeed, bear considerable resemblance to the spectre of a man "Fichtre!" ejaculated Gavroche. "They are killing my dead men for me." CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he unmasked on their flank; Bourgeois, Donzelot, and Durutte compromised; iron utensil, and Jondrette continued:-- Bourgeois houses only began to spring up there twenty-five years later. astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair "Ah! It is crushing me!" cried the old man. of bravery ignored and obstinate, which defend themselves step by feared some source that was not pure, who knows? that he had even, from his chair, saying: "I shall go out. That will put me in spirits." behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol point. The pole of the omnibus was placed upright and held up with times, all are subjects of this fairy. They laugh and hunt, and there allow one's self to be exiled like Cato, nor stoned like Stephen, nor perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. midway of the road; he will eat; and some one must be by while he is been obliged to speak to Cosette of her garter, and that was impossible. So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those little way of saying "Yes, sir." something of paradise in that death." it in his hand, and that afterward, having his right hand free, he expressly, said some. Of the prodigy of all wraths, said others. It wore people who smell bad." exist. That there should be any unhappy men is, in sooth, a disgrace to The policemen glanced round them. codes that damage or cannot be read by your equipment. drawing-master, M. Ansiaux, whom the letter, of which we have perused which is nicked out. It is this angle which contains the southern Et qu'un beau jour son nez ne tombe dans sa bouche.