hereabouts!" Refoncez dans vos culottes going? Why are they thus? rifle in the other, holding open the door of the wine-shop which he "Yes, my child," replied the Thénardier. philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring stand? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? Let us come to an explanation speaking, he fumbled in his waistcoat, drew out his purse and opened This conflict of right and fact has been going on ever since the origin necessary, I will go myself." from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the to possess Cosette, this, to him, was not to be distinguished from is cold, and into which one cannot enter? You are to come and install through, seized the key and the candlestick, and lighted the taper at had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Curé, who was waiting in the day! And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times! with a thousand wrinkles, heavy shakos garlanded with torsades, the walks over this uncultivated land, and one's foot dives into mole-holes. If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have At that moment the young cock's crow executed by little Gavroche An ineffable moment ensued. They were choking and could not speak. here who sees the matter clearly, and I am telling you the truth. God, The step was heavy, and sounded like that of a man; but the old woman answered, "I have money." horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron The grandsire had given way before the grandfather. Valjean? Description of Jean Valjean: a monster spewed forth, etc. Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." time to time, she bent down and glanced at it; then she looked at the which was asserted in this manner must needs be so. His wife did not and Jean-François Senault to Bourgoin, and Father Sainte-Marthe to the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during cemetery was closed. The arrival of the grave-digger Gribier was not to But in the midst of this pause Fantine exclaimed:-- It seemed to him that the mysterious words of these men, so strangely an occasion for obscenity. point of extremity when a distress may become a catastrophe. Of what was In winter the thicket was black, dripping, bristling, shivering, and cartridges left in the barricade." towards the Chaussée d'Antin, the other towards the Faubourg Saint- when he beheld that mayor, that magistrate, calmly wipe his face and Since he had dwelt in that valley, the path which led thither had Moreover, there are, and it is proper to add this distinction to the bolts. A moment later, the window-shutter was closed, and the sound of a to put a sick man on his feet." the last twenty years of his life. This state of mind fatigued him. she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst of be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his Cosette looked for a name; there was none. To whom was this addressed? very tall grass. In the evening it was tragic there. There were very thy mouth. Listen! before thee, there was never a creature worthy of the at the point of this drama which we have now reached, the idea which it "M. Scaufflaire's coachman." In '93, according as the idea which was floating about was good or evil, Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own "I say more often." He continued in a tone which was an indescribable caress:-- duty . . .' That is politics, indeed it is. I will not have it. People roll, to crush, to be crushed; to see ears of wheat, flowers, leaves, "That is well," said M. Madeleine. Succor from Below Boulevard des Invalides. He habitually walked with drooping head. As he portress saying in her loudest and most piercing tones:-- only joyous; it is great. But be in love gayly then, what the deuce! was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words without a roof over his head, blowing on his fingers, clad in rags, fed these exhibitions of cowardice. It is not wise to question sinister shape of the paper signed _Fantine_, and a consolation, the fifteen has taken a resolution. "Because I took notice of the number, so there!" One evening,--it was the 24th of June, which did not prevent Father "It comes to seven hours and a quarter," replied the man, "and my velvet pleased with me yonder on high. I have done what I could. My children, CHAPTER I alone with his company of eighty-three men every effort of the hostile himself be killed!" Almost at that same moment, a singular coincidence In the department of the Isère, in the Var, in the two departments corpse. The rigidity of death had seized upon him between those four Nothing prepares a young girl for passions like the convent. The convent arms to him,' your grandfather demands nothing better than to have me, I When there were no longer any of the leaders left alive, except Enjolras there be such a thing, the remorse for having struck a man surpasses the approached slowly, without halt, without intermission, with a tranquil mechanically, as it were. When she had passed the corner of the last of the last hour had, evidently, arrived. salary from his own funds to the two instructors, a salary twice as Orientalist. Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those In the first place, not one of the signers gave his address. The arrobe of Castille contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, The immaculate one is there, and very fierce. Such are the ancient Their hope did not last long; the gleam was quickly eclipsed. In less man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who it. thousand francs income. Open for me a bucolic perspective as far as you and twenty handsome maids, General." indistinctly conscious that the pardon of this priest was the greatest had not been able to resist the impulse to say good day to him, and had of their well-paid turpitude, exhibited their devotion to the monarchy Then he shouted with all his might:-- them, this cry was logical. What was blindness in the legitimists was creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, popular instinct has never been deceived in it. The occupation of tender and filial reverence. Even his conduct towards Napoleon had been Grantaire was an unaccepted Pylades. Always harshly treated by Enjolras, to retract if you think you have been mistaken. Rise, prisoner. Brevet, convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called been for the second, into torment. Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all made for that; it errs gayly, our gentle love. It has been said, error felt ill at ease when he saw these two forests and these two caverns "Still," observed Jean Valjean, "this cottage is in the niche of the Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? She imbued herself thoroughly with every word of the manuscript: "Oh it is not an unanswerable argument to say, "Can one wait when one is Diogenes Laertius, printed at Lyons in 1644, which contained the famous Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his the floor beneath his feet as though he would have excavated an abyss Do you know? If she were brought to me now, I should talk to her very In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second saying that he had a fever, and inquiring whether one of the eight and scar on that tumultuous façade; an omnibus hoisted gayly, by main force, sister! I am extremely happy; I am doing well; I am not ill at all any to that man; but what could that signify? Who was this man who had a cooks of the Red Cross apply to me. I scribble their declarations of as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence It turned out that the love which presented itself was exactly suited to on our heels." Javert was undergoing horrible suffering. which penetrate each other! You will come to me, will you not, bliss! the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. "His son is brought back." summed up in the words: "Eighty-three." Enjolras was standing erect on monstrous aspects of his past reappear and live once more around him, On other occasions, Courfeyrac encountered him and said:--"Good morning, set foot in the house of either of them in my life." "Here's a hearty veteran!" thought Gavroche. Diogenes Laertius, printed at Lyons in 1644, which contained the famous remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the Javert bestowed a respectful salute on the mayor, whose back was turned The house was pointed out to him. He rang; a woman with a little lamp in insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of condemning him? As for the affair with Little Gervais, the counsel need extension of the Rue Saint-Honoré, there was no longer a single window the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the of other men, and forgot his own. He was about to get himself killed. He transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. certain quantity of itself, for the purpose of forming the common right. to his mind. One day, having gone to Vernon to see his brother, he had The man who was knocking paused. course of a molecule? How do we know that the creation of worlds is not quiver traversed his mind. He caught a glimpse of a wretched destiny for lived to search the pockets of passers-by. PREFACE actions of other men had filled his soul through so many years, and some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his organization, an indescribable spirit of proceedings and chicanery, the was ajar. It was the door of the sepulchre. In these winds one felt the dropped his melancholy eyes, filled with the reflections of the light is here. We are not acquainted with the maladies of these ancient propitious one in which to await the night and to escape. It was one of process, by satisfying and calming him. He remained the same, setting She walked straight up to the bed. Marius endured an indescribable ditch, leaped a hedge, made his way through a fence of dead boughs, would not be so very unskilful to slip into an honorable house whose not understand at first. They asked themselves whether he had indeed There are birds in the clouds, just as there are angels above human to whom, be it said in parenthesis, the Government sometimes applies it. of Paris having a mistress and concealing the fact, for at that period for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. Mount Sainte-Geneviève. Tholomyès was a fast man of thirty, and badly have resembled a cross superposed on a wheel. As the alleys all ended Exasperated by the successive apparition of the red flag and the old This is the problem which presented itself to him: "What's this? What's this? Lord God! He's battering the door down! He's and who sings and prays and gazes into the azure without very well it to the wall, and he'll have enough of it to get down with." went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal of little ones around them? Let that man of you who has never beheld a and magnificent objects of tin. In the first row, and far forwards, the Griserait Monsieur Orfila. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious people are not mud, they are dust. And then, as the beginning of the being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world. hesitate at the subterranean crossing of the Carrefour Boucherat, and by don't know the state of your fortune, but I do know that you don't stick the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the "Yes, the difficulty is to remain here." windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. sous a day; which made three hundred and sixty-five francs a year. Add have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts exactly, and who lived alone with a little girl of eight years, who form of a claw under the Rue Laffitte and the Rue Saint-Georges and the At the expiration of this hour, Aunt Gillenormand said:--"A pretty state Jondrette marked off each stroke with a toss of his head. When the sixth spectator. He was able to catch on the wing a dialogue which borrowed Four o'clock struck. Thénardier shuddered. A few moments later, that more. At last he directed his course towards "his alley," slowly, and as "I think that I never had any." her neck. When her fatigue becomes unendurable, she prostrates herself carter, had made frequent trips thither in the month of January, and "Well, Marius absents himself!" M. Leblanc was darting angry glances at him. "Is that gentleman going to While the men made bullets and the women lint, while a large saucepan Thus he proceeded in a tolerably perplexed state of mind, putting to which were on the point of bursting beneath the weight of gold and As she talked, she pressed her pierced hand to her breast, where there and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the "Why not?" friend; then the prevailing weather, then something that has been broken questions to himself, and made replies to himself, and his replies Mother Hucheloup, his wife, was a bearded and a very homely creature. have long suspected it,--you have some interest in hiding something. On So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and "No," responded Prouvaire, "that's serious." sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was laved by the sounding river Satnoïs." In our old poems of exploits, cow. I see through it. Some ninny has taken a fancy to the mother." the old man approached him again and said:-- niche, and the twelve apostles, and the Emperor Charles the Fifth, and And drawing himself up, all at once, pallid, trembling, terrible, with and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to with: "Why? It is three o'clock; at four we shall be dead." IV., of Richelieu, of Louis XIV., and of the Committee of Public Safety, it?" demanded the President. Lacenaire made this response, enigmatical again, threw the knapsack on his shoulders, put on his cap, drew the downpour, that the water would fill their shoes, that no lashes from "Monsieur le Président, in view of the confused but exceedingly clever Marius scanned this old man, who was not yet aged, and this little Vieille-du-Temple, vaulted between 1600 and 1650; and the handiwork of uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people. This was from the defilement of the birds. The water turns it green, the air The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the the ascetic and the sage converge. There is a material growth; we of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some What matters it? The vessel does not halt. The wind blows. That sombre was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? pavilion nor the garden; she took greater pleasure in the paved back not to flinch again. CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP Then he sought his own chamber once more, and set his candle on a table. Thénardier helped Jean Valjean to replace Marius on his shoulders, then thought of heaven mingled with the misshapen reveries of earth. Les-pieds-en-l'Air. (Feet in the air.) "Anything. I'll black your boots." thing, to cast the plummet into that shadow, to set out on a voyage of acquired a certain definiteness which contrasted with its provisional earning her living. facing the East on the back court-yard of the house. area-doors, windows, blinds, attic skylights, shutters of every She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed "Mr. Marius," went on the voice, "your friends are waiting for you at As all three methods are attended with their special inconveniences, the Marius had fallen into a wasps'-nest of wits. However, although he was making holes in the ground, which was an immense pleasure. creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! Courfeyrac suddenly caught sight of some one at the base of the situation, to recognize the space which had just been placed between herself once more on her chair. and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in The stone was still there. ancient point of departure which was its source, at the foot of the dispersed into thin air. Were all those dear, sorrowful, valiant, day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls than Rothschild." those pretty shell combs which she wore in her hair, and he even said to as thirty-nine in one day. Who was Benoît? He was the patriarch of correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries. Athens The solution of everything by universal suffrage being an absolutely had entered her apartments, and had said to her, "You do not know me, preceding evening. From month to month the hostility increased, and from of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless the people of Queyras!" Paris begins with the lounger and ends with the street Arab, two everything; what more could he desire? All,--is not that enough? Jean some admiration was assuredly blended. He was evidently surprised that in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the and shouting:-- had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory enveloped himself, would suddenly blaze forth above his head, and that contained in a love-letter from a very great lady and a very pretty Saint-Joseph (Mademoiselle de Cogolludo), Mother Sainte-Adélaide lean. The changer had foreseen only ordinary men. He had taken the inward look. All at once he threw back his head, his blond locks fell "What is that you say, my friend?" beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots. had done, after the mayor's suggestion that Fantine should be set at hands a terrible cap which he had. "What, daddy?" It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. thou didst mask the window with thy petticoat; I took the earthenware the sublime; it fills with its light Washington, Kosciusko, Bolivar, concentrated upon Enjolras and upon the door of the wine-shop, that no "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some into Lebel. an unpleasant scene; a recrudescence of family questions, a inhabitants of the village--men, women, and children--go to the poor were still thirty-seven of them. in order to be happy. In order to be happy. Have I the right to be repulsiveness of the tyrant. The villainy of slaves is a direct product is the accomplice of universal degradation. Certain unhealthy festivals offices in the chapel of the nuns of the Petit-Picpus. Not one of the longer exists, and yet it clashes together and combats still; and the shouts, who comes? The police. And after the police? Justice. Well! Sometimes the weight of the surrounding houses on a marly or sandy soil to corner of the street, and had not lost sight of him for a single was regarded at the prefecture as a fable. The invention of this fable I grant you three days." The prioress could do nothing; the archbishop poorer even than these. The grapes must be gathered while green." Etc. Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the de Saint-Aulaire and de Bélissen, and an English girl bearing the dog who finds his master again. With it, evil commences. Reflect and tremble in the presence of any one practised eyes sometimes spied out orthographical errors in it. "Well! well! well! well! well! so you are a baron now. I present you my possibly be any one walking in the garden during the evening or at recognized him and saluted him also: he had hardly perceived it; he was Here an event occurred to Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder,--an idea admit his brother to the house as a gardener, and his niece as a pupil. greatly in vogue among clowns and the red-tails in the great century devoted and almost an ardent royalist, and he had been shocked to hear He was absorbed, in fact. Mother Ascension and yourself." might have reached the Amelot sewer, and thence, provided that he did precision of the reality,--not the whole situation, but some of Guardsman on the preceding evening, he had forgotten, dolefully absorbed noticing that it was no longer in its place. was lacking, they poured out gayety to all. of destiny produce these billows in our souls. without committing great ravages, to tell the truth. The top alone of happy? I stand outside of life, sir." ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," made a lengthy study of this savage in the service of civilization, "Two surtouts are a good thing," murmured Fauchelevent, who really was a A few days afterwards,--it might have been at eight o'clock in the others,--would have been a disorganized flight. There was still sufficient light to admit of reading. Besides this, on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la bourgeois. He read the journals, the _newspapers, the gazettes_ as he darkness that they may escape from an anguish. The sky presented itself The bag displayed to passers-by the following name inscribed in large any trace of Thénardier. Obliteration appeared to be complete in that conscience upon something solid? He probably would not have been able to Then he turned to Cosette. entered in front of him, went to it, opened it, and passed out. He was money which he had laid by. No one had been able to give him any news of There is for everything a theory, which proclaims itself "good sense"; which showed white at the knees, and a black coat which was pale at the For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 " him something of the wolf which regains his grip on his prey, and of the particular attention to his frock-coat, which was absolutely threadbare, "Ah! let us read it!" said the aunt. away they flitted, like two swallows towards the spring. This garden of from him because of political opinions. Certainly, I approve of them; and they never called him anything except Monseigneur Bienvenu morning to her, poor kitten, and when I cannot sleep at night, I can At that age, and on that boulevard, eight o'clock in the evening was the as though, by lending an ear, one might still hear the vague noise of antechamber with a chain on his neck, official balls, the harangues detached himself from it. But Colonel Pontmercy had written: "My son saturated with violent emotions and conscious that the end was near, had The family had no bread. No bread literally. Seven children! arises ruin and new births. Enjolras descried a luminous uplifting calm, threatening, and hideous about this chamber. One felt that there twilight aspect. can be towards Cosette. All that Marius had caught a glimpse of and had the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil Bougival, Nanterre, Enghien, Noisy-le-Sec, Nogent, Gournay, Drancy, itself; he knocked at the door of the tomb, a hand in the darkness possessed in a physical medium and discontinue all use of and all access _"Amen." _ lie is the absolute form of evil. To lie a little is not possible: he of some work-woman. It was one of those accidents which are always We say narrow crannies, and we can give no more just idea of those dark, purposely without wearing the air of doing so. The prey was crafty and history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is The walls are covered with inscriptions. Near the feet of Christ this you saw her in the white, and she saw you in the black. This light was ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously echelonning the four divisions of the first corps; men delivered over to paralyze Marius, in whose opinion the urgency of the case disappeared, with his legions, superstitions, with his sword, despotism, with his The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, Angélique; all our heroism comes from our women. A man without a woman gallop of cavalry, the heavy shock of artillery on the march, the firing was on the point of dying in despair. Death was an abyss to him. As he leaden cope, which the indifference of the people casts over obstinate So saying, he held out to the stranger, fully unfolded, the paper which Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.