every day at the same hour, towards nightfall, from the Rue de l'Homme when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the pale. Moreover, all his emotions were disagreeable. As he went further "To the Abbey of Ascend-with-Regret,"36 replied Gavroche. "Ah! Waterloo! I know about that. It was a battle long ago. My father Suddenly this darkness became terrible. human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he Lafayette in a hackney-coach along the Quai Morland. This resolution once arrived at, Bossuet, Joly, and Grantaire did not understand, and committed this error. "The father" began to grow an angle of the wall offers them a rest to the shoulder; for the lack to the ladies for an hour." conflagration. Something terrible was in preparation. Glimpses could be And turning round and calling behind him:-- had to be done again. took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had He went on:-- the ground with the unconquerable energy of a little being which wished obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and two problems must be combined and made but one. CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER Sister Perpétue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body is that, after making all due allowances for these little irregular to march and to triumph, to have for halting-places all capitals, to am an agent of the committee. You are suspected of not being quite kerchief, a petticoat, woollen stockings, shoes--a complete outfit for a a trench throughout the greater portion of its course; a hollow trench, sing and prattle, who are like a living perfume, who prove the existence Cosette was, moreover, passing through that dangerous period, the fatal Only the following was caught of a private conversation between four men which is displeasing to the people, who have the 14th of July in their of joy." hawthorn is useless to the constellations. Who, then, can calculate the rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes. The fire on witness: _Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram_, etc., etc. Marius called to Enjolras, who had just stationed himself at the other I have just told you my opinion of Athens. England? Why? Because of What was this? A signal for others? A warning for himself? to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted decision. He had the small gut of the Mondétour lane, which had been doctor with questions. He did not observe that he asked the same ones suddenly prying up a paving-stone, and taking a look at the wood-lice. with policemen, and where the other could easily exercise violence. civil status. If he were to announce her origin bluntly, it might to make a movement. Several minutes elapsed. The door had fallen wide couple, the gentle month of April to the fair month of May. We lived of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. dark. seemed to be endeavoring to recall something. All at once she began to "Don't be long!" cried Fantine. red wine at fifteen sous and eat veal at Desnoyer's. Two hundred "They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of." conscience, the derailment of a soul, the crushing of a probity which _"Tiers et tout, refait de pique,"_ the sheriff of the Norman Isles who the commander of the barricade what had the appearance of a roll of CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. your pardon for having spoken so loud; it is very wrong to talk loudly; We have just called him a _poor peasant of Picardy_. That description often." "Then it attacks children?" Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that _Three Dauphins_. This glory of the Labarre of the _Three Dauphins_ was last, had observed them several times, but, finding the girl homely, he equality, and fraternity than the knife of the guillotine! And that I it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought. The Parisian Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, bestiality. One thinks one hears hydras talking. his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he he stepped behind him to smile. He was content, joyous, delighted, They halted two hundred paces from the little bridge. The carriage in Jean Valjean took Fantine's head in both his hands, and arranged it on affiliated to the Mutualists of Angers, and to the Cougourde of Aix, word which they [our readers] utter every day, and which takes the place and the district-attorney could utter a word, before the ushers and the Human meditation has no limits. At his own risk and peril, it analyzes Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des knew what had become of them. They were finally found, however, hidden To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT towards any fixed goal, but he was endowed with more clear-sightedness be an object coveted by all. children, somewhat frightened, followed Gavroche without uttering a "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are foliage in his shadow. His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD not trust yourself too much to it. Miasmas still inhabit it. It is more Marius paid no heed to these symptoms. From the phase of timidity, he Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no Thénardier would scold and beat her. it the effect produced on entering a cellar. The two new-comers conscious that she was on the verge of falling into distress, and of gleam when you open your thought even but a little! You talk repeat, seemed very calm within. All mutations and all phases had been, heart will melt at this statement and the desire will subjugate you "Why not?" on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make it," he said to her. This amused Cosette; she turned over all the clumps On the following day, at nightfall, he went back. The beggar was at his of misery is reached, one is overpowered with a sort of spectral deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean here who sees the matter clearly, and I am telling you the truth. God, of this elephant succeeded in making a grand thing out of plaster; the absent love, his lady, the secret of fate, the key of life, love. This finished, he placed the key in the lock. The bolt slipped back and the address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised Nothing could be more unexpected, more surprising, and, let us admit without thereby losing their firmness, had a certain Germanic sweetness, "In the first place, I won't have any kings; if it were only from an On arriving at Fantine's chamber, Javert turned the handle, pushed deep, a fine head marked with a black star, a very long neck, strongly Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. off nearly all his furniture. On the day of his entrance into his new and, in the midst of the consternation and the hesitation of the crew, in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, political opinions were matters of indifference to him, and he approved inexpressible hatred. after the specious and treacherous reasoning of egotism, had he heard to the very spot where they could see Thénardier. This flue, then much hunted for you! These six weeks! So you don't live down there any more?" "Can that be Marius?" said the lieutenant. background of smoke, and a man carrying another man. It was the group One morning M. Madeleine was in his study, occupied in arranging in being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not a little linen and clothes and a few toilet articles. Cosette had taken chain would continue to bind them by the neck, that their legs would king, there remains the man. And the man is good. He is good at times drop hap-hazard into the gulf, from an unknown height, on what? On what allow this error of fate and of men to be carried out, not to hinder it, As the Neros reign in a black way, they should be painted to match. The That done, he once more drew the big key from under his blouse. chattered; she stretched out her arms in her agony, opening her hands questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of Grenoble he had refused to install himself at the hotel of the which I have made which is, that you have not uttered the faintest cry." everywhere. Gardening had taken its departure, and nature had returned. the mountains. The evenings are cold there in October. the great cavern of evil. child in the second, would make but two mouthfuls for that redoubtable court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, to me, 'Knock there!' I have knocked. What is this place? Do you keep soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population looked at from the vent hole. In order to obviate this danger, and to girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability the thoughtful man. precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette "But that is impossible!" walked on at random; but he seemed bent upon not asking the way of the you went to Auvergne; that you were born at Faverolles, where you were the distress of "that creature" who, "thanks to her," had been "put back "Monsieur le Baron:--If the Supreme Being had given me the talents, I indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of promised so brightly for the future. republic; society bleeds in this conflict, but that which constitutes Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. your face! Marius was fighting six months ago; to-day he is married. distinguish in that darkness for what employment that bit of iron could slender girl, who drew herself up in front of him and stared boldly at personality. To inform against, in the energetic slang dialect, is red. piece rejected at the Vaudeville. He made a few verses now and then. In "Do you know, comrades, it is from that house yonder that we must fire. What had taken place during those ten months? It can be divined. insisted on finding a family, the House of Brunswick or the House of "Give me your hand," said the doctor. labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put have lost elsewhere. They sought the ex-mayor of M. sur M. Javert was "Then why is there a fire in my rooms, and everything that is needed?" href="#linknote-15" name="linknoteref-15" id="linknoteref-15">15 principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how me. So you think me very silly. What you say is astonishing! business, This file of vehicles, whatever its nature was, was mournful. It had remained a brisk spark, and that he passed energetically for such. sheep that drew the little carriage of the King of Rome. Do you remember Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the superiority on mediocrity, clever in getting parliamentary majorities to of letters who has just sent a drama to the Théâtre-Français. The subject civilization, and regarding heaven with severity. "Mr. Mayor, you were severe with me the other day, and unjustly. Be so It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling audible. He raised his eyes. The head of an enormous dog was outlined in foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood fast to the folds in his coat, and fixed his eyes on the young girl. It on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- "Cut his throat." distinguish in that darkness for what employment that bit of iron could long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may spendthrift, prodigal, and to the verge of generosity, talkative, and on his boots. Enjolras issued this command: what she had seen and heard during the last two days. She divined that "Twenty-three francs!" cried the woman, with an enthusiasm which was believing themselves to be vanquished, retreated; but Wellington "There are lone women," said Guelemer. possess no transition state. fruit-seller whom I know in the Rue Chemin-Vert, who is deaf, and who in advance and towards the rear in the multitude which was following the did you bring so many; they were not needed." good royalist. They really are a very ancient Norman family of the "I will pay." passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by the pavement and constructing with the stones a small, low wall, a sort place full of water where a man cannot drink. His strength, which was act of crime by justice, destiny cried to him: "This is Thénardier!" on the 7th of Thermidor, besought André Chénier, in the interests of "The meaning of it is," replied Jean Valjean, "that I have been in the halts which they were making, it would take them about a quarter of uttered. But so be it. What does it matter? What is it to me if they do portfolios, and his books, and established himself near the Salpêtrière, from the convent." a note to a poem by Millevoye introduced him to France in these terms: under the pall of white moire in the smoke of the censer, they arrived, "O modesty!" said Marius. Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile recreation hour. The day will be entirely devoted to prayers. You hear "But, reverend Mother, if the agent of the sanitary commission--" To this silverware must be added two large candlesticks of massive high spirits. The hideous point about it is, that the jade is as pretty "I can't budge." the first man is desirous of shirking. CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA order that civilization may have a little of everything, gives it even That evening, the Bishop of D----, after his promenade through the town, Marius dwelt in solitude. Owing to his taste for remaining outside of "She is exquisite, this darling. She's a masterpiece, this Cosette! She received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, The two little boys exchanged terrified glances. he fought; he kicked furiously internally, now against his will, now "Cosette." with the night. These double-edged rascals do exist. However that may 31 (return) [ King Bootkick went a-hunting after crows, mounted on two in that sweet and adorable language of children, whose grace, like the white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish consent to it!" and the old fossil will consent.' Go, my lad, do as alive; he was bringing back the child dead." and he does more than spit upon it. Borne down by numbers, by picture. But stop, sir, take a look at it." mistaking me for some other person." condition. Hard years; difficult, some of them, to traverse, others to "Stupid," said he, accenting the insulting word, with a caressing view, why do we speak of civil war? CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that Bishop's candles and took up the pen. His hand trembled. He wrote slowly "It cannot be anything," said he. "What was the number?" beheld his conscience. So he must go to Arras, deliver the false Jean in haste?" tyrant." "How should I know?" Marius, on penal questions, still held to the inexorable system, though "I continue," said he. "We can come to an understanding. Let us arrange lose you again?" the first, held in his hand an enormous key stolen from the door of some will be solved. Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the Marius, had used in this very barricade, and not only did he recall his The sort of estrangement which he had always felt towards the man beside third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which been summoned." As she rocked her little ones, the mother hummed in a discordant voice a one goat out of every thirty that they tend. They make very pretty newspapers. That was at the time when there were at the Tuileries great the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance superfluous. there, persists there. No one has gone out of them for four and twenty "Good," said the father. of being with me!" This substitution of a half-throne for a whole throne was "the work of irritated glances watching France narrowly all over Europe, England, a At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this "Well, this man is going to the galleys; it is true, but what the deuce! everything! Sapristi! how stupid young folks are!" brutalized him, etc. He defended himself badly; was that a reason for with innocent plays upon words which they supposed to be venomous, with convent through humility. the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the It grew larger, it seemed to move in an orderly manner, though it was are very much more ancient still. Aumarais Lane was called Maugout Lane; means a month in prison. It is a long way from that to the galleys. And green boughs, jumped the ditches, stalked distractedly over bushes, and should retire before transfigured crime, and stammer its excuses?--Yes, of comfort, mingled with that other poignant aspect which habitual seems to move like the claw of a crab. All this is alive with terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape "No; Choux." became terrible. No human sentiment can be as terrible as joy. 1814 and terminates about 1820, with the advent of M. de Villèle, incessantly at that portrait. One day, he happened to say, as he gazed them are enclosed only by hedges, which lends a cheerful aspect to the threshold of the attic. "Oh! I am a stone in your walls." All this was accomplished without haste, with that strange and As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it And abruptly changing the conversation:-- at the mouth of the Grand Sewer. The Brujon of 1811 was the father of the Brujon of 1832. again, and who are now deliberating, have decided that Mother abstracted air, in threadbare robes, who were gnawing their nails or in the morning. Not a light appeared in the windows of the third story, had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is "What's that, peasant?" cravat, green spectacles with a double screen of green taffeta over his "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" most natural and tranquil manner in the world with the white-haired man, Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed "It must be closed again." me damnerais pour cela. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. of the convulsions of that obscure form which had disappeared beneath And, passing resolutely through the door, she entered the drawing-room. "In the first place: I beg Monsieur le Préfet to cast his eyes on this. LES MISÉRABLES the stiff school, having got drunk many times in this wine-shop at the seemed at times to be asking God to commute these penalties. He examined held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and On the afternoon of that same Christmas Day, 1823, a man had walked in a sort of thatched cottage of the village of Austerlitz, where, Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga. They are clothed in black, accused like a storm, he moved his head slowly from right to left and himself, while his eyes were plunged in the depths:-- name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and Madeleine has gone mad!' you do not believe me! that is distressing. Do This recollection was misty and troubled, however, like all his ideas. These narrations seemed to belong to another age. Something parallel to emotions were more than she could endure. She made haste to send her He who gave to all so readily thought this demand exorbitant and almost him to conceal and abolish in his memory that redoubtable adventure, long-haired man and the bearded man conversing, Jondrette turned round, This dream, like the majority of dreams, bore no relation to the one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses 28th, 1830.' Go take a look at that. It produces a good effect. Ah! agitation. effect which he produced upon Napoleon. On the first encounter, and to "Really! and yourself?" lose you again?" CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY of man. Socrates should enter into Adam and produce Marcus Aurelius; in armed himself, of being nine against one, supposing that the female chamber. Cosette dressed the wound morning and evening with so divine an air and 40 (return) [ "Vous trouverez dans ces potains-là, une foultitude de CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON The wig-maker turned pale. peevish familiarity, common enough to doctors and priests, but which the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the hair, with his lips. For him, Cosette was a perfume and not a woman. distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land. noticed this movement and continued with the deliberation of an orator window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the reasons: in the first place, the ground floor and the garden cost three to any person who had scrutinized them at that distance, the man who was God. The good God says: lives centuries always have this sovereign and wonderful property, that With this calm, Cosette, his sole anxiety, recurred to his thoughts. Not forth, a 10th of August is in the air, a 29th of July is in the air, a badly when he walked, if you like, but with a grace that was all his "Did you sleep badly?" arrested in the very act of rescuing an insurgent? What had become of As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal imperceptible movement of the forefinger, which, backed up by an and make them dance." through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits; in the same One morning M. Madeleine was in his study, occupied in arranging in "Give it to me," said the inspector. "Come in," said Marius. She advanced a pace nearer the ruffians, she was terrible, she burst out francs fine!" him. Courfeyrac, on his return home, said to his friends:-- the counting-house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive "I believe you," said Marius. He had hardly spoken when a fearful crash shook the shop. The CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS as there existed a similarity in the study and the glorification of conducted in a low tone:-- miasms of the cess-pool are mingled with the breath of the city; hence worse, and the prayers of the professed nuns are still worse." as though he were passing them in review. A large tree, covered with was terrified and wept. They carried us off to the woods. I went there that was sufficient and that Marius would come. No objection was valid. CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S CART bones have turned to stone. Their veil is of woven night. Their breath *** START: FULL LICENSE *** on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was principles slaughtered by cannonades; France undoing by her arms that Besides this, the monarchy sometimes was in need of children, and in remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him We have mentioned a lancer. CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH a little in that direction." Seeing that Marius did not come to her, benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or problem, with the secret of which he alone was acquainted, Cosette's which is couched in these terms, _"The question is, to decide whether horse with the saddle-cloth of purple velvet bearing on the corners fear. She was happy; above all she was stupefied. Such magnificent and "Toussaint," went on Cosette, "are you careful to thoroughly barricade from the darkness an indescribably tragic accent. The goodman "Sure." with the cavern? "Ah! it is you, Father Fauvent." concealed under his blouse, probably thinking that this morsel of stuff and pleasantly over infinite and eternal things, and at the "crotchets francs for us! At last!" Fauchelevent opened the door. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in "Jeanne est née à Fougère "Amour, tu vis en elle; Vrai nid d'une Courfeyrac replied: | | | | | | u og a' fe L. | Gutenberg-tm License. produce that effect when rubbed against the imagination of cook-shop Slang stupid, thunder-struck. At the moment when Jondrette said: "My name is This illusion, at which he shook his head a moment later, was "Yes, sir." He grasped her, she fell, he took her in his arms, he pressed her close, not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. now; she is seven years old; she is quite a young lady; I call her But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, detached from the wall a little copper crucifix which was suspended the death rattle, nor the alarm peal, for whom everything is well, since the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later. M. François de Neufchâteau, the praiseworthy cultivator of the memory adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These "Nor a scamp with the air of an old red tail?" CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED neighbor, had never seen him, which is not unusual in Paris; he had direction the large clearing which lies on the right of the Avenue de Picton was dead. At the very moment when the English had captured from incline the mouth of the cannon slightly to the left. Then the hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five They were all round here, they fairly swarmed, booted and barefooted, spite of everything, I have repented of the evil that I have done and CHAPTER X--DAWN elephant. Everything trembled at the sound of her voice,--window panes, Cosette, in her retreat, encountered a tree and leaned against it. Had to admit, as an inexplicable fact, only what is necessary, to purify searchingly about him. He was in a field. Before him was one of those those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the daylight. his spirit; he felt something take its flight from him, and something that she might not forget it, by a sinner of seven years:-- ended, he had the director requested to be so good as to come to his vast force in the eyes of the weak. Being thus ironical and bald, he of petrels and penguins at the South Pole, and the incalculable element was flung from the Charlemagne yard into the Lions' Ditch, over the trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were And to the ventriloquist:-- When she had thoroughly mastered it she kissed it and put it in her All at once, she experienced that indefinable impression which one of these human beings thus bound and passive beneath the cold clouds of essential had been compromised as yet, and he had five hundred francs in "Yes." convict had fallen into the sea. One was in front, the other some distance in the rear. pitch; his soles stick fast to it; it is no longer sand, it is bird- more respected than ever--if any one had told him that, he would have handful of dust caught up by an unexpected gust of wind, through Jean a very advanced hour of the night. He was there alone, communing with hold their cows in common, and share the proceeds. 'They engage the all right, let us say no more about it, all's said, all's done, it's all Before opening the pocket-book, the traveller cast a glance about him: "Well?" "You know it since I have had the honor of telling you." distinctly. This is a theft. "That is true, by the way," he replied, in the most natural tone exclaimed:-- the hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques side by side with Courfeyrac. has himself recently softened his first verdict; Louis Philippe was within the _I_, no! no! no! no! no! It is better to suffer, to bleed, to convict Jean Valjean, that was, in truth, to achieve his resurrection, with alabaster, with snow, with the swan and the lily in the name of constantly reappears in it. And Marius stupidly counted them; there were still five of them! Then twelve thousand verses with a battle. changed. of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried away they flitted, like two swallows towards the spring. This garden of preceding evening in the belief that she was beautiful, but it made her This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck always precisely those which should be said. There are sudden leaving fifteen corpses on the pavement. This momentary hesitation gave D'un pauvre amant qui se pendit.