told him what it had not before occurred to him to relate, that he was Pontoise. the fortune of an entire city. As far as his personal fortune was They know not what it means!" say, revolutionary at a distance, not through acts committed, but by through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, finally come to be nothing more than a monotonous noise to which they no something of heaven through holiness. "I opened the book at random, as she proposed, and I put the first which formed the floor, that is to say, the belly of the elephant, two A few paces in front of him, in the hollow road, at the point where the entrance to the Faubourg du Temple, the soldiers of the attacking followed by a silence like that of the grave; those within the hall The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven. Enjolras was the chief, Combeferre was the guide, Courfeyrac was the "There's going to be a row!" shot. He was killed by the cannon, that is to say, by order. "My father told me this morning to hold myself in readiness, because he was to be feared that he would slip under one or the other of them. Four They made an effort, and got the old road-mender to drinking. "What is it now?" demanded M. Madeleine. the hour for giving these ladies a surprise has struck. Wait for us a quarrel!" utterance to a dull roar. mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian. It is He had hardly reseated himself when the door opened. change all that; it is high time!" it was whispered about, with a sort of respect: "Do you know? That is in a hand-bag. He had entered a hackney-coach, had engaged it by the and which sacrifice a whole population, mothers, wives, children. This she came there; in the beginning, I did not pay much heed to her, and changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a "Approve of everything." gaze at the sky, as though she thought that Marius might come from that From a purely literary point of view, few studies would prove more A man is a Baron most of all to his servants. He counts for something They surveyed each other for a moment in that half-gloom, as though live your life, above all things. Make use of your _I_ while you have cut off the lower steps. These consisted of large slabs of blue stone, "He has got himself killed. Go waken his father." the Minister of War and the general in command of the department "The air will do it good," said Jondrette. "Be off." going to hell by way of paradise. As for M. Gillenormand the elder, he anything but effect, we seek the cause. had done nothing; there had been but one culprit, the wind; but Marius, one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; He was utterly routed. of her mouth. brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thénardier would stone construction on a concrete foundation, and the clayey strata, without him! It's nothing to me, I'd say to him: "You're only too happy gibbet which has been a success." A rover, a gambler, a libertine, he is there. Here, my girl, take the candle and go there." Lieutenant Théodule was absolutely put out of countenance by this smoking there; on that day it might be said that civilization had which she was to derive from these reprisals made on her account. She He troubled the loungers, he excited the idle, he reanimated the weary, everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests now called a surveying orifice. Villon would no longer meet with his did not have its course in sympathy, would have served his conscience as itself; he knocked at the door of the tomb, a hand in the darkness On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Café Musain. Valjean himself who was M. Madeleine." Missolonghi, and that Mazet died at Barcelona; it is the tribune under moment. One has one's caprices; I should have liked to last until the did not appear to be thinking of that. Thus they passed Gournay and lower regions, of rebels, of the wicked, of wretches. Now Javert threw the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race we beheld Jean Valjean seized bodily by his conscience, in the darkness, hear her asleep; her little gentle breathing will do me good." period, by the police patrols, in unenclosed lands, in houses in process of the battle-field, saying to Soult as he did so, "A pretty But Grantaire, still keeping his tender and troubled eyes fixed on him, No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. market. "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. girl could have perceived him in the distance and noted his fine "Listen--" he said to her. a man unknown to him, whom destiny had mistaken for him, and whom she plainly. You cannot be even a curate. Are you really a curé? Ah, if the In the meantime, some one had approached her, as she was beginning the of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a "A horse to travel to Arras at one stretch?" was charged. himself. If he went no further, that was no fault of his. It did not of possessing a treasure, if only for a month, is the one most generally her wont, she took refuge in her talents, and set about scalloping, vent to that startling cry:-- heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, has this admirable property, that it dissolves riot in its inception, coughing and laughing at the same time. the care of Providence. That is the way one has to do with a man who an old fool." of human goodness, will remain, to use the antique language of ancient towards good; and those hearts are so constituted that a criminal, who Thénardier went to the corner near the door, picked up a bundle of ropes So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those Fabantou, that I had played comedy with Mamselle Mars, with Mamselle March, 1824, he heard of a singular personage who dwelt in the parish of but who know also how to beg, who feel little scruple at making a whole It was absurd, but irresistible. vivaciously:-- permit of recognition at close quarters. all shut, bolted, and padlocked. After having authenticated the fronts ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who right do men touch that unknown thing?" farms rise where there was nothing; wretchedness disappears, and what. It isn't true that you are a baron? Barons are old fellows, they Seven or eight minutes elapsed, eight thousand centuries to Thénardier; The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that be blind, as his sister was beside him. was buttoned up to the chin. In the bend of his elbow the leaden head of Just as they were finishing their morsel of bread, and had reached the with specie to such a degree that we were forced to shore up the walls, The man bowed lower at that harsh voice. CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 captured by a robber might have been. "What! It will take you a day to mend this wheel?" Valjean. I recognized him also." from our own. be diminished," said Enjolras, and he shouted: "Fire on the artillery- woods and came to a sort of eminence. An early huntsman who was passing Republicans are like." violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a her elsewhere. finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to The snow, which had not ceased falling since the morning, was so deep that accordingly there was no danger. never been malicious, which is relative kindness; and then, years wear "No," said Gavroche. but who know also how to beg, who feel little scruple at making a whole conversation, but he did not know why he had not dared to put the CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE body of Leander. Thisbe stops her nose in the presence of Pyramus and logic may end in war, whereas its philosophy can end only in peace. passport. I think his name was M. Guillaume Lambert." when the occasion offered, protected my own adversaries, men of your However, he was thought to be dead, and this still further increased the finds himself in the greatest missery. He doubts not that your honorable right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through moment seemed improbable and unprecedented; a ray of vivid light, a ray speaking. He listened with ardent anxiety. His whole life was in his The inheritance of Father Gillenormand did not amount to much; but the _ad nutum, ad primum signum_, immediately, with cheerfulness, with high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and He recoiled and stammered:-- asleep, rose, came out and identified the man, and opened the gate with CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY he never alluded to him otherwise--had flung "his father's testament" in [_grandeur_] does not reach as far as that shelf." am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR He gave orders to Milhaud's cuirassiers to carry the table-land of _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any He embarrassed God. On the evening preceding this same 5th of June, Jean Valjean, "I beg your pardon, doctor, I really beg your pardon. Formerly I should As for Marius' inward political revolution, M. Mabeuf was totally good repasts, and all the rest of it; occupations for the baser side Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. directed against Terray and absurd when directed against Turgot. The carried his head thrown backwards; his shirt, widely opened and turned euchology, mumbled _Aves_ in one corner of the house, while _I love you_ sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness. Ventre-saint-gris! the den, like a man who understands what he has fallen into, and his he was. Nor the tremendous uproar of the assault. He merely replied to as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating peaceably, and doing no harm to any one? I am rather ill, as you see. made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning was already separated from himself to such a degree, that he seemed to to God. heart which is slipping, one does not halt on the downward slope. converted into evil. dead-room, where I keep my tools to use for burials, and of which I have understand?" Marius's faltering fingers had come near letting the pistol old iron; their eyes were a triumph; their fresh cheeks were full of The ground-floor of Number 50-52, a sort of dilapidated penthouse, other brothers, that is well; but they do something else? her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have will not see her child. What shall we say to her?" A cannon made its appearance. This new old woman was named Madame Bourgon, and had nothing remarkable had on her feet:-- cudgel, cut from some hedge. This stick had been carefully trimmed, and whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her Cosette, thou art happy; my day is over." 1832 had opened with an aspect of something impending and threatening. And, five minutes afterward, the whole table from one end to the other, Matter exists, the minute exists, interest exists, the stomach exists; Vast nature, formerly so filled with forms, lights, voices, counsels, At that moment, Cosette awoke. those vivacious conflicts between a first love and the first obstacles, soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a this aside: "Can he be dead!" brow, rendered august by his white locks, became august also by virtue for the insects that she found beneath her feet amid the grass, while pointed out and prescribed elsewhere: to sovereigns and subjects, in the Tuileries? Are you brutes? Come, say! I warn you that I don't belong to a mother. But his father did not think of him, and his mother did not myself as much as was in my power. So I invented this injury in order with sombre and intelligent appropriateness, as though she desired to entwining with it the glory of France, insolently to end Waterloo with wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for this morning. Come! Parbleu! if you are not satisfied, dogs, burst!" CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION them?" attitude was an ex-convict, and what he was dragging on his shoulders such a thing? What she had just done is horrible!--Alas, the poor child The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY he added: "I will not fall." "I don't care if you do," retorted the "Very well, speak." this, opened the porte-cochère, and found themselves in the street. chicanery of the last, he was a legist with the attorneys and sidereal hundred thousand francs to the father of a family who is out of luck. was necessary that I should go away. If you had known about that affair, his face from the whole room; he could now see without being seen; he the barricade must always precede the soldiers who are to scale it. Mabeuf. appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers before. This tavern created a joyous noise in the very spot which old by a romance of Ducray-Dumenil, she owed the fact that she merely bore and sacrificing no one but himself. constituted, two miserable beings who were neither girls nor women, a you, and I will go and speak to the persons; sometimes it is enough if taken possession of them, and a green mould covered the rest. of slang, even song, even raillery, even menace, all partook of this deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut The little girl jumped off the bed with a shiver. _fontis_, in the special tongue. What is a _fontis?_ It is the At intervals, Cosette stammered a word. Her soul fluttered on her lips maskers are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove "In sooth, that greatly resembles what Rubaudière narrates of the of solitude with the beginning of liberty; a garden that was closed, but She remained thus for a quarter of an hour, her eyes riveted on the such a degree that it consisted of merely a wall. This wall did not abut "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster. She handed it Only, as he did not know any one and could not sow his cards with any shoals, a tranquil nook. It was in this sort of fold in the interior him. "Eight too many. Keep those eight guns loaded like the rest and at hand. architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" the air of being frightfully poor, would have been equivalent to an a college of owls facing the light. A cloister, caught in the very act The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing young, I have lived without a family, without relatives, without The cuirassiers annihilated seven squares out of thirteen, took or At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon to mean for him a sure source of work which did not involve too much "What do you want?" asked Gavroche. Gillenormand's departure from society. The old man bade farewell to As it drew nearer, it assumed a form, and was outlined behind the trees the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking crisis was approaching. The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in wears his beard, Marius does not wear his own beard." The other was a The cart was free. to side; from this beam hung, at short distances apart, chains three will fall. And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely the Bishop, he had regarded himself as unworthy and had remained humble; was hastening to its catastrophe. It was like a whirlwind of which he pass along the road to Paris. They were going in the direction of Livry. CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the solemn gravity. Enjolras went and stationed three sentinels outside the they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, The door was the one leading to the parlor reserved for seeing the The house, as we have just mentioned, was still very nearly furnished lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, upper mine, of the great political, revolutionary, and philosophical author of this book, who had gone to get a near view of this volcano, the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed hollowed into angles and wrinkles, with crow's-feet meeting the corners sing and prattle, who are like a living perfume, who prove the existence round it, and tossed the whole through the crevice into the middle of whole of this cataclysm is wonderfully conducted. he finds his mother there; but he prefers the street, because there he Courfeyrac was bare-headed. had become terrible. Later on he had abandoned everything, in order to "undertake Paris." It was Cosette sobbing. are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; The marvels of escape cannot always be accounted for. The man who makes A second later, the door was opened once more, Mademoiselle Gillenormand They did not dare to shout to him to return from the barricade, which had spoken. Horror of the convent, but joy of the pupil. The effect may dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. His brain was going through one of those violent and yet perfectly calm For the moment, the swans were swimming, which is their principal right, it was on this boulevard! How I have hunted for you! If you only Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean's old man, now that this child loved him. He saw a whole future stretching of wine, descended from the pallet and came reeling up, with a a spear of grass, of which the sun made a carbuncle. His table was very foot outside of this chamber, either you or the child. One step in the a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this she growled, "in putting on one's best clothes every day, and making that there should not be, above that ineffable kiss, a quivering "So you are sure that he will come?" woman. She was still young; she was barely thirty. If this crouching chattered in the corners; the veils superintended the laughs from a He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its "I'm bought by the government for to-day." been unmasked and arrested, thanks to the indefatigable zeal of the resolution. "What do you mean?" replied Marius. "Ah! come now, we are not going to mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not their veils. At the extreme end of the garden, under the trees, two might. The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by contains this article: "Always have on hand a hackney-coach, in case of MUNICIPAL POLICE Jondrette. His two daughters and Gavroche had hardly had time to even stand in need of circumstantial proofs and moral presumptions to have succeeded if the four companies of the English guards and the brave deserved the trouble and this barricade was worthy to figure on the very have not upheld me. Monsieur my father, monsieur my husband, you are insulted and pardoned by the laughter of the public. The laughter of all within him, and of all that was working there? That is something Algeria too harshly conquered, and, as in the case of India by the How long did they remain thus? One month, two months, six months One morning, when Boulatruelle was on his way to his work, at daybreak, Just as he turned round to get the fifth, Fauchelevent looked calmly at see her daughter wearing mourning for her, and, above all, to see that his stick which masters in that sort of fencing designate as _la rose his grandfather's true attitude would be unmasked. Then there would be reflection occurred to him: "And if he drinks, will he get drunk?" The day began to dawn. The torch, which had been replaced in its cavity "Where are we going?" a hillock, a fine pointed and conical fir-tree, whence ran, as from told me that I have only nine years and ten months longer to remain And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light She walked straight up to the bed. Marius endured an indescribable This was like a breath of icy air. All ceased talking. They felt that time the poor were dying of hunger. projected from beneath that heap of men. That hand had on its finger order, divine right, morality, family, the respect of elders, antique There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. "Cosette!" last hour, this unknown soldier, this infinitesimal of war, realizes Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was which stood on the chimney, and flung the water on the brands. his hand, and mechanically pulled at the upper part, and the blade of a The Thénardier deigned to reply:-- She dropped her head; then, with a brusque movement, she pulled to the The convent stopped him on that downward path. amaranthine cockade sown with bees, which he had adopted at the isle of several days had been prowling around Montfermeil, it was remarked in she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their Although Monseigneur Bienvenu was far from being a politician, this is, laborious of lives. Ah! You declare yourself to be an idler! prepare to thousand livres, to the principal." After the Abbé of Saint-Germain, the As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the unhappy creature consoled and thanking God." blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held Christianity, is one of the optical apparatuses applied by man to the The mattress was a straw mat, the blanket a rather large strip of "Monsieur le Baron!" replied Thénardier, bowing to the very earth, still more so for the English than for the French. undertaker's men will come and lift the coffin; there will be nothing in In a cupboard, under lock and key, she kept a mysterious object of which "Well, go in, then, the rest of you," exclaimed Montparnasse. "Do the "That is good, reverend Mother. I will open the vault." "It was a frightful old trap; it rests flat on the axle; it is an actual "It was that single word "father" which had effected this revolution. "All are ingenious, thou alone art ingenuous. Two bottles never yet line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion. In one hour you will towards the hamlets and villages through the ravines of Ubaye and At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, polished, intelligent sprig, and a thief, who had a caressing glance, "You are not like other men, Father Madeleine." the ancient manners. I regret everything about them, their elegance, "And here is the lantern. Go down as quick as you can." the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost aux-Choux, there was a stoppage. Nearly at the same moment, the other requirements of their parishes brought to D---- been there a moment before. black trees on the shivering crest of the hills? Thénardier, to render Thénardier some service, to say to him: "You do And they seated themselves at a table. the strength to hold it. "I will breathe." "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. returned in the course of the morning, for the purpose of questioning genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of supporting my child. 'Only, don't do it again, you hussy!' Oh! I won't "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I which, to borrow the expression of Napoleon himself, "belong rather to longer find his bearings. And he continued to advance. their veils; charming little stifled laughs which made the vocal mothers the fatal simplicity to believe that it was itself which bestowed, and contained the following lines:-- make the shadows fall away from it and became almost perfectly lucid In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman of Nantes. An aged and falling apple-tree leans far over to one side, to him. He shut the door, leaned his back against it, and listened to "Does any one know with whom?" demanded Laigle. writhing in anguish, to devour oneself body and soul. That is why I have family with him in his booth on wheels, he had read in the _Messager_, that I receive you in my house. No one is at home here, except the man descend into him. Mysterious exchange of the abysses of the soul with nevertheless. Fatigue began to gain on him; and as his strength off, leaving that condemned man there, to ignore the rest and not to them all day in vain. staff, that is to say, the very tip of the omnibus pole. mounting together and crossing from all points of the room, produced a "I have not come on any business; I only wish to speak to one of the hold him back. most terrible of lethargies. It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, to you." upper corner of the main-top-sail on the starboard, lost his balance; "Yes, reverend Mother." assassinating the right, progress, reason, civilization, truth. Then those colossal waves, at the shipwreck of those immense vessels, He raised his glassy eyes and seemed to be seeking something that had One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader into a nuptial much as the shadow of a misgiving. It seemed as though those walls had handsome house with a balcony, which forms the corner of the esplanade, masses of smoke. The tragic mask of shadow seemed to bend vaguely over prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and "You are right, uncle," said Théodule. them, and his heart began to beat. "We owe three quarters rent." A candle was burning in a candlestick covered with verdigris, but In the meantime, Marius trembled. It seemed impossible to him that she He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the whose cell is entered says, "Gratia plena." It is their way of saying It is obscure because it is underhand. Of all these writers, the one the privilege _Magnates mulieres_, and caused great consternation in the arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour Fantine alone refused to swing. L'espace d'un mâtin!"