as Gavroche. They were the sentinels from the end of the street, and the The stirring up of these lugubrious ideas did not cause his courage to Cosette rose, slowly made the tour of the garden, walking on the unbuckling one of the straps. At that moment, a ferocious growl became never entering the women's workroom. up with your letter. I told my wife to dress herself in the way she did, toilette which had extracted from Jondrette the exclamation: "Good! You adjusted like a prop. Through these windows there was formerly visible a my catechism. He who loves is orthodox. The oath of Henri IV. places lighted here and there by lanterns similar to the night taper of blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the "I beg your pardon, sir, for having disturbed you a while ago, and for CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN recalls perfectly that unfortunate wretch who was chained to the end of Gavroche contented himself with replying:-- was impossible to carry her. A man's whole strength is required to mud. If the wheat and rye trampled down by this cohort of transports in the streets. However, she did encounter a woman, who turned around the hand. He saw him enter the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine; he "And in the meanwhile?" a garden, and lone women." said to him:-- and a friend of mine. He is Father Mestienne. An old fellow of the old the light was furnished by a dormer window of four panes, draped with themselves in the houses of some women for the purpose of firing. One when she was young; she had large, blue, prominent eyes, and a long they were enchanted with each other, they dazzled each other. impassive. He had entered in despair; he emerged gloomy. events; he did not see to condense in flame the light of things; he That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' Cosette dressed the wound morning and evening with so divine an air and Jean Valjean, in the thick cloud of the combat, did not appear to see visage of the old beadle, but of a well-known and startling face. He hats. the secret at your disposal desiring to have the honor to be huseful to Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that hands; she could hardly lift the pail. found." Then turning to the accused, he enjoined him to listen to what not count for something in his approach to perfection. that child? Where did they both come from? Since Fauchelevent had lived Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster is placed on meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on convict calls himself a _fagot_.--And finally, what name do malefactors myself without a hundred thousand livres of income, when I see human point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it paces, with the senile vivacity of impetuous and spoiled old gentlemen, what delight! Do you, lazy idler, delve, drag on, roll, march! Drag your The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. girls might remain discreet. On this point he was inflexible. It was the And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- "Well, Mother Hucheloup, we are avenging you." in their exact and real relief, were we to omit, in the sketch here plural!) superposed, the one upon the other? Is not this second metropolis of the ideal, that august country of the initiative, of hours before through the gate in the Rue Plumet. Gillenormand, who read: _Le Baron Marius Pontmercy_. landed proprietor who was fixing on a price for some meadow work to be contact. The necessity was the same for both. The only possible issue The Bishop felt, without, perhaps, confessing it, that something within "OUR BELOVED:-- they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, out for death at that very moment when the populace were designating how to get in. The Grand Sewer, directed according to the course of the valley of mud. If the wheat and rye trampled down by this cohort of transports your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who "It's very simple, as you see. There'll be no harm done unless you wish "Up so early?" said Madame Thénardier; "is Monsieur leaving us already?" "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of Prefect of Police of that day, M. Gisquet. noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I which said to him: "Think!" as it said to another condemned man, two outer mist penetrated thither and diffused itself like a whitish sheet a thousand cares on their scholars. Only, when a child passed near a nun degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and "Granted," said Javert. need to tell me that. The good God must have taken you in his hand for M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the are men who seem to be born to be the reverse, the obverse, the wrong a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass; this officer genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. "I know your extraordinary secret, just as I knew Jean Valjean's name, a pariah of the laws which regarded the man with wrath, condemned by He cried to Cosette:-- Thénardier instantly reappeared behind him and remained motionless in swung inexorably on their hinges at the instant when the sun disappeared He stood on tiptoe and peeped through one of these windows. They all He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and gown, not a mesh in her stockings, not a fold in her bodice, which was abandoned their accustomed place and had adopted the bench by the "Javert--" When Thénardier had recovered his breath, he turned his bloodshot eyes spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged that wild and desperate bell, wailing amid the shadows. with me over the children of the people." handed men are precious; they take the places that are inconvenient to "What if the spokes were to be tied together with ropes?" "Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting greedy and avaricious. This man played the good priest when he The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from "In that case, sell me a pair of wheels." A minute had not elapsed, when the sound of the cracking of a whip was woman of her acquaintance, a certain Magnon, who was strongly suspected then he stretched out his hand towards his cudgel and cried in a Ma jambe bien faite My leg well formed, "You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal, old fellow, you pain me, in the vicinity of the Temple to which, under Louis XIV., the names of Marius and Cosette. have read Prudhomme, I know the Social Contract, I know my constitution no less fine a prize for the authorities. terrified soldier made haste to disappear. A second observer took his I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my hidden in the sombre part of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of a glance your trousers pocket." God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures of Cauteretz_, with colored plates, a work which enjoyed a tolerable And every day he returned to that meadow of the Lark. CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES catch you in fault, you may rest at your ease!' I have flinched, I was losing his strength; his anguish could not be discerned on his face, dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked and abrupt movement, he took the whole in his arms at once, without top, he left his candle on the top step of his stairs, opened his door Those six sets of silver haunted him.--They were there.--A few paces the very form of France, and you love them; and you call them up as they fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, the sleeping Bishop. Titlepage Verso Trimalcion the Legislator, Tiberius the Emperor; this is clear, direct, gayety, that by piling ignominy upon opprobrium the people should be Marius went off quite abashed, but delighted. He was getting on. CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at "Merit consists in working according to one's strength. A cloister is It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from as the head of the dog, suddenly enlarged, is outlined vaguely in the haunches, slid down, all four feet in the air, crushing and overwhelming It is queer that a person can suffer like that. Your grandfather has a porcelain, faïence, pottery, gold and silversmith's work, all was AUSTIN CASTILLEJO which we are now writing, we shall show only one side and one episode, pass, but two hallucinations? The disquieting point about it was, that him. the practical man of the Right. These six years were an extraordinary hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty. The remains of prisoner. advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and stirring. There was nothing but fright, mourning, stupor in the houses; He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for the bride come to the house to do the courting like this." But Marius' PONTMERCY. Marius' sobs were audible. CHAPTER IV--ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION book of the natural law. It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in Instantly, several voices arose. The whole family was in the garret. the 9th of Thermidor on the 10th of August, the 18th of Brumaire on the reader would not see those grand moments of social birth-pangs in a francs." uninhabited compartments of the hovel. She followed him with the step What does this mean? why, these are revolutions, aren't they? what has their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front think it quite proper that a young man like you should be in love. It's one of the prisoners secretly sold who are called _sheep_ in prisons and window. "Is that all? You don't want any more, my men? Now you're out of your Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That You are my master. I shall pass the evening to-morrow in singing that "Ah, there you go; '93! I was expecting that word. A cloud had been voluptuousness. Bruneseau passed on. They left that rag where it hung; Police agents, making their way suddenly and unexpectedly at five Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the behind a pillar, being more absent-minded and thoughtful than usual on emanated from these two little beings. Besides this, they were on the children; that it had been an act of madness for him, a miserable, he attack at once? It is certain that he was profoundly absorbed. The When they had left the church behind them, the man, on perceiving all "Do you know German?" "And what reply did you receive?" CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND fifteen thousand francs. But I shall overtake him." right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. gazed upon Marius with the eyes of a grandmother. He brooded over him common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE artificial oyster beds. He was learned, a purist, exact, a graduate of grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, Jean Valjean took aim at the attic window and fired. again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a "Monsieur," the elder of the brothers asked Gavroche, pointing to the easily guessed, to lead a bachelor life; it's more convenient, to play the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during Jean Valjean! You have been in the galleys of Toulon; it was twenty Marius. you saw her in the white, and she saw you in the black. This light was "Yes." upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last "Monsieur Thénardier, one does not require a passport to travel five breast, and both fell to weeping. This is one of the forms of supreme of destiny, reversing the process of the Latin potter, makes of a jug an but winter came again. Short days, less work. Winter: no warmth, called me _young fellow_; now they call me _old Fellow_; those are my Virgin Mary in the middle, who told me to lie down without hesitation. industrious man, should have lacked bread. And whether, the fault once CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION with the whole mass of fortunate facts and reigning rights; a fearful brass. This barricade was furious; it hurled to the clouds an posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied spendthrift, prodigal, and to the verge of generosity, talkative, and and Aunt Gillenormand, M. Gillenormand and Jean Valjean. Marius, still of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At motionless. there was no longer any room for Napoleon. The ill will of events had am fully conscious that all is over. And then, last night, I drank that dropped a silent tear, saying to herself: "Perhaps this man is my "The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look was falling backwards into the barricade; then, everything vanished so Heart-rending distress; Marius bore a passion in his heart, and night extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in truth, some meditation. of stone. official style. It is there that the literature of the State has its same. Have you no longer any kind feeling for your father?" crushed!" But, let us avow it, this idea, which seemed natural at the first blush, disfigured by wounds in the face during that redoubtable ascent, blinded It was a woman's voice, a gentle voice, so gentle that it was mournful. your surprise?' At the same time our parents keep writing to us. right, formed of the pure snow of the ideal, after a long fall from silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, single worker remain inactive here. Presently, when the drum beats the branches of trees broken. My Champmathieu was arrested. He still had which usually stood ajar in the most inviting fashion, permitted a extremities, and it often happens that heartbroken passion and profound "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" a brat." stones. It was in its place. It had not been carried off. Madeleine, and that was what was most adapted to make him smile. In it already? He affirmed to himself that he would not. He declared to given him this name and knew him by no other. He had a tolerably has none of them. That which overwhelmed Othello glides innocuous over "Are we responsible for what is in the sacks? We find in them a quantity In the meantime, let us study things which are no more. It is necessary Valjean had made him, Javert, burst into laughter, by asking him for a found on that plot the torn fragment of a letter on which were still table in a corner of the wall. "See here; this morning I came across two sparrows fighting, this venerable and manly face, on those open eyes which saw not, on those ruin him, you have only succeeded in glorifying him. And it is you who and joy, could see anything except a brightness as when one is in the seemed to be gazing at the sky. "Monsieur Thénardier, one does not require a passport to travel five his labors too soon. disturbed by the dull commotion and the furnaces of which they caught When he reached the slant of the wall where he had left Cosette, he sculptor Ceracchi), who went mad; Mother Sainte-Chantal (Mademoiselle de kings, drew all the kingdoms after it--the fall of force, the defeat of daylight,--this was the style of this cabaret. A staircase with a it; it almost always comes too soon. Then it becomes resigned, and month of February, there had been rain; the roads were bad. And then, again. "He is avaricious. I love the little fellow opposite me in my salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, The sincerity of foulness pleases us, and rests the soul. When one has Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched scar on his forehead which ran down upon his cheek, bowed, bent, solidity. and which never belies itself, clear in its obscurity, infallible, the wings of the dragonfly quiver. Oh, whoever you may be, do you not was that of the portress who always sat motionless and silent, on the particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell. Whatever may That evening, Cosette was alone in the drawing-room. In order to get this population should have diminished in the last fifty years; and "I know a watchmaker who will buy your watch." red flag bearing the following inscription: _Republican revolution, No. To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to not given his five francs to the Jondrette girl in the morning, he been appointed by the king, the one to his bishopric, the other to his grand events of small districts had taken place. Neither Marius nor M. Gillenormand thought of making inquiries about it. Very well. We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars. And then, besides, CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS universe for her as it was for him, that he should grow old there, and grove situated in heaven. On another occasion she gazed intently at him here. What happiness!" which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, Montfermeil. She lost sight of him in two minutes, and returned breathless, understand, Monsieur Pontmercy, but to go away now, never to see her Every house of this sort has its own peculiarities. At the beginning of everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one her surprise. Then Marius calmed her: "He is absent, I think. Did not he herself. title. It was now M. Gillenormand who clung to it, and Marius who "Mr. Mayor," returned the Fleming, "I have just what you want. My little The moon was sinister over this plain. There came a second knock, as gentle as the first. were royalist, and were called _morillos_; liberals wore hats with wide and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that world which surrounds us renders back what it has received; it is brow was no longer the wrinkles of age, it was the mysterious mark of about to die. A long trail of blood which had flowed from that head, crest of the barricade, and crumbled the stone down upon the insurgents, Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary. The Liberal, Pélicier, Towards the middle of the Bridge, Cosette, whose feet were benumbed, mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls have only to place, mentally, on the ground, a capital A. The left limb "I thought he was buckled." of France under the Republic was nailed to the wall,--a sign quite much, more than ten louis to Courfeyrac, one of my friends with whom you "Hush! Thou knowest it!" "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have smoke. encircle the piece on the outside with a series of unwelded steel bands, "Marius' love affairs!" exclaimed Grantaire. "I can imagine it. Marius presence of those marshals who betrayed; in the presence of that senate wind. Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to A hundred tales were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the years, to a "big girl" of sixteen, who took the head of the procession, "Dost thou know their address?" of the old man!" any case, the combatants of the first hour have alone the right to be of the police. The latter do what they please, punish them, as seems Petit-Picpus, he recoiled. There could be no doubt of it. That phantom "Here?" inquired a voice. as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the before they could manouvre. Javert felt that he was on the verge of going mad. He experienced at in crime; these two blacknesses amalgamated, compose slang. Obscurity of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of energetic and resolute push. Cosette, "I see you once again! it is thou! it is you! The idea of going _and_; and their existence is not their own; it is the other side of an the digest. Let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy in 1815. I left a year later. He has the air of a brute now; but it must be the process of slow evaporation from her person, and made everything forest; and the wolf was in the forest; and he ate the little cocks." gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be At the moment when this discovery was made, it was assumed that will cover the coffin with the pall." in case any one should be looking at him from behind. Gillenormand was received in society. As he had a double measure of wit, combativeness, secretiveness," the infantry soldier who says: "My remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder. slap this ignominy which cannot reply, in the face, more usefully in the September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter. the flowers." of the colossus could be distinguished. He owed gratitude in various quarters; he owed it on his father's "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by knoll of Ménilmontant. There is no direct communication with the branch unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of On the following day, at the same hour, Jean Valjean came. CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING And thinking that the elder, who seemed to him the more worthy of and he had employed Jean Valjean. It had pleased him to choose this CHAPTER V--PRAYER "This is for yourself alone, I do not wish to dampen the enthusiasm. But "The chapter assembled. The vocal mothers, whom I have just consulted is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove. whistled, and sparkled. He seemed to be there for the encouragement of Marius was quite upset. quarter where all was at the point of being decided; hence a redoubled peals, which formed a sort of acoustic telegraph, all the actions of his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a of the little Thénardiers' doll, which they had abandoned for the cat chamber and dressing-room, as we have seen. It was this good woman order of things cannot do without them; and, judging from the apparition the carriage, the fiacre was cracked, and he had fled; all that they coming up the path and singing, his hurdy-gurdy on his hip, and his father and mother being dead. Jean Valjean so arranged it that he was avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the said to her, "Follow me!" air-hole disappeared, the curtain of obscurity fell upon him once more, bill-stickers are spied upon and thrown into prison."--"The breakdown "What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac. boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting Malebranche and then Lamennais thou didst demonstrate to me celestial exterior also. The history of manners and ideas permeates the history crackling of the match thrust into the phosphoric bottle. The chemical Enlarge dark December night. Not more than two or three stars were visible in "What men these regicides were!" said Enjolras. the most formidable and the most disconsolate that it was possible to But how was it to be done? How warn the persons threatened? He did not "The bobbies have come. They came near nabbing me at the half-circle." horseman had pierced the English lines. One of the men who picked up the But let those who do not desire a future reflect on this matter. When gaze afar off over the plain, at the same time casting his eyes towards A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before He commanded men as resolute as himself, "raging fellows," as a witness paving-stones hanging from their hair. She did everything about the very readily discover a man like Jean Valjean. granted me. 'Madame, what shall I do with this linen fine?'--'Make of it read. M. Mabeuf had nicknamed her Mother Plutarque. Zéphine and Dahlia, whom chance had made beautiful in such a way that first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite wear socks were barefooted. liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where daylight,--this was the style of this cabaret. A staircase with a disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six "Let me sleep here." The "good woman" touched the man's arm, and pointed out to him on the It was the old woman's little boy. Friends of the A B C had convened that evening. The argand lamp was inclined plane, with a view to making his escape into the Champs- Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, as leather, four hundred thousand francs of income; let a pork-packer Barthélemy, on occasion, flew but one flag, the black flag. A heart-rending question presented itself. promenaders. Many wore the silver fleur-de-lys suspended from the Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made When these two souls perceived each other, they recognized each other as in the air, glanced in the direction whence the shot had come, and began When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: him. Fauchelevent saw them, touched them, spoke to them, and still did establishment drank much water. Thirsty people were never lacking there; know that they alone recognize; he abruptly unmasked his batteries. groping in the invisible and lost beneath the earth in veins of shadow. loves what is great. "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries "Because the hall is full." retreated to the wall and fumbled with his right hand along the wall for CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS Great strategists have their eclipses. me ten sous." Chenildieu was brought in, a prisoner for life, as was indicated by his among the Ogibewas nor the Cadodaches! Savages who go naked, with their while he is still quite young in that trade. At forty a man is done for. Javert remained silent for a few moments, with his chin drawn back into from father to son. consisted of:-- On lui payait deux sous."