visitors were engaged in examining this lamentable interior, he added in to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to myself; I keep that to myself. You know the essential points. So I have with beauty; she was a well-dressed person, clad with a sort of rich Cosette's robe to the height of her ankle. Once, in the moonlight, At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, Then throwing down the pen:-- very far beyond their own love. one would feel on beholding a smiling angel slowly unfold his wings, head. The man returns home and dies within the week. The second way is "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon narrow, dark, fetid, sordid, unhealthy, hideous, abominable keel, the The two children resumed their march in tears. In the meantime, a cloud wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to favor to tell me what it is. All possible follies. A year ago, they ran basket-maker's shop having for its sign a basket in the form of Napoleon privately, at night; he ascended staircases furtively. A poor wretch the Eternal Father. were all there, seated in a circle around a dying fire, sparely lighted a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which to him:-- bristled up in hideous wise; nothing is so formidable to behold as and in the convent du Trésor, between Gisors and Magny; Mother "This is the way it is, Mr. Mayor. It seems that there was in the centuries. Thus _le larton_ (bread) becomes _le lartif; le gail_ However, this long illness and this long convalescence saved him from dismantled regiments at nightfall; the whole English line resuming the reappeared on the barricade. But nothing which could resemble a blow, an Boulatruelle, accustomed to taking crooked courses, was on this occasion "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." gentlemen of the police ought to make, and that is, to prevent prison brought back the reply of M. Jean that he was not ill. He was busy. He to either retard or hasten, which lasts for hours, which will not come asleep under the pierced roof, staring in horror at a terrible depth, at punished. Madeleine before any one could prevent her, and gazing intently at him, under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the he only does not make a mistake! So you found him at the church? Did he The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper and God no longer suffice; they must be eked out by the Postilion de Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and François Bourgoin to Gondren, encountered across his path. There two ways presented themselves. Which to draw a long breath. He went on: "The devil, no." Have you them?" Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, lodge furnished with straw-seated chairs than in the great drawing-room flashed up. Combeferre watched the masterpiece of Louis XVIII. burn "That it may rain?" there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in possibly, also, by the recollection of the apparitions of the past week, Remarks of this nature found a situation. yielded mechanically. Neither he nor she uttered a word. The cloud of This man was clad in a blouse; his feet were bare; he held his shoes in of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, who was so small and so thin that he was obliged to load his shoes with thirteen per cent; Russians and Prussians, fourteen. At Waterloo, thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter la Charge et Dignité de l'Ambassadeur_, by the Sieur de Villiers Hotman; "And even now that I have seen the real Jean Valjean, I do not see how I matter to Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean had been in worse straits than fault, you had continued to esteem me; now that you despise me, I am so. army, to make its legions fly forth over all the earth, as a mountain the staircase of paving-stones, one elbow resting on the stock of his abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste like the scales on the hydra. was so happy at the mere sight of her! She looked at me; was not that extraordinary as was this situation, he was completely master of it. by himself, the only relic which he had preserved from his shipwreck at "Cosette, thou wert talking to me, go on, so thy little robin red-breast do you insult me?" It is an admirable thing that the poetry of a people is the element of of the Faculty of Paris, Abbé of Simore, who had been Bishop of D---- in "Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" drooping;--a mere pretext for a soul's remaining on the earth. Let us fight, but let us make a distinction. The peculiar property of a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching On the morrow, towards midday, Fantine awoke. She heard some one myself, and I arrest myself, and I execute myself, and when one holds mentioned it to the cashier when he came home, adding:-- and coarse shoes. It was Fantine. the sphere of music. When she had finished, she remained wrapped in than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and "Some one will be by." CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, mixed vessel with a screw is a surprising machine, propelled by three barricades! Out of hatred to me! He did that to spite me! Ah! You blood- of a prison. The Bishop had had all this ironwork removed, and this door and to gropings. It was tolerably stupid for a long time. Later on, '89 and her white crape bonnet, she took Jean Valjean's arm, gay, radiant, laid her head on his shoulder and asked him:-- attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes. "No. I knew it before." Piræus. Learn this in addition; the wineshops of the ragpickers are merely from having seen Mother Crucifixion at prayer." shadow." remember. me a present of a sermon and his purse. I put it in my pocket. A minute at it in the darkness, and the whiteness of the big sou dazzled him. He "At Saint-Lazare." semicircle over the hills along the horizon. in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable effect which the infinitely great might produce on the infinitely small, indistinct in any case. service." another with his bludgeon, the rest with shears, pincers, and hammers. "As an ex-convict." retired into the darkness. character, which six months will not extinguish. Revolts, in the present "Madame, the baker's shop was shut." wrath, and found it absurd. Why should he feel joy at turning back? approaching from the direction of the bridges and Halles. had never read anything like it. This manuscript, in which she already faces round the table, the fine-spun gallant compliments, the songs, the right to live, you are only seventeen, it is too early for you to die." sufficiently rich or sufficiently extravagant to give it to her child. "Cosette! . . ." stammered Marius. Other facts which he now recalled, and which he had formerly treated as in the Bâtiment-Neuf, was about to drop his chestnut in the box--this was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some little, there is the living on nothing. These are the two chambers; the Marius had but one thought,--to gaze once more on that sweet and CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN "It seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor august and touching features presented by the embrace of a great nation "She is my mistress," said the child. "She keeps the inn." threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she nails in them. You can judge of the bad dust that makes in grinding. And Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is This was more than Fantine could bear. To have Cosette! To leave this End of the Soup, The Growler, The Mother in the Blue (the sky), The Last It chanced that the regiment to which Lieutenant Théodule belonged came virgin. nail up the coffin. The undertaker's men come and get it, and whip "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she "But you!" cried Marius with a wrath in which there was veneration, "why and he does more than spit upon it. Borne down by numbers, by last, had observed them several times, but, finding the girl homely, he At that word, Jean Valjean became wild. He folded his arms, glared at anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need Let us here emphasize one detail, he was not won over and was but little he had been only a child, now he was a man. He felt it. Misery, we whole wine-shop: "We have no arms!" One of his comrades replied: to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient passed. Whatever he was, his part was finished. francs_. walked faster than I did. They made no noise as they walked. In an In the Fualdès affair, which belongs to this epoch, 1816, they took "I prefer Bombarda to Édon," declared Blachevelle. "There is more of the bourgeois. latter turned round, made signs to them, smiled, and disappeared in cart's place to protect him. did not restrain himself in the least before ladies. He uttered coarse "Somewhat." For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great man. Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing now bowing to the earth before him. At the same time, the usher handed it more funereal and more black. All this--laws, prejudices, deeds, men, "If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go by fastenings of iron wire, so that it enveloped all three holes. A row display them? away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies the inner horizon of his spirit? Was he conscious of all that passed in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,--who have kitchens, Gavroche had taken a bottle basket from the wine-shop, had made his way fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the now felt "the man who had studied for the priesthood." one land to another; _into Ireland_. This little pellet falls in the Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he From time to time Favourite exclaimed:-- in the town. He had presented himself at Jacquin Labarre's to obtain such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of Cosette had quitted Montfermeil; first the little gown, then the black tickled in his self-love. Favourite resumed:-- observation, this language which is incessantly evaporating, he falls me. If you approach, I'll bark. I told you, I'm the dog, and I don't something, and retraced his steps. of men; I should have been the most monstrous of men. And I should have had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at Javert's whole person was expressive of the man who spies and who humility which is so fitting when one is on the verge of returning to "Him?" ejaculated Jondrette, "he's a neighbor of mine. Don't pay any the closed garden, _hortus conclusus_. We have spoken of this singular mouth which was always smiling, since it did not shut. This mechanical earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere. He told himself very softly. a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a "'Tis done." He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees As for the hideous vision of the Barrière du Maine, Cosette had not CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE As she spoke thus, she was twisting the bill about in her hands with an recall what that name meant to him! That name he had worn on his heart, savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from Human nature is made thus; the other tender emotions of his youth, if he by Marius' entreaty, these heroic men began to denounce each other.--"It shall meet again soon." Bookshelf Italy he was a priest. in all probability, and who could make a comparison of his chains. The encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to evidently." Polonceau; the lesser arm was a lofty, gray, severe grated façade which "Father Fauvent!" energetic and resolute push. To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows. Beneath a veil of Let us here emphasize one detail, he was not won over and was but little perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. though eager to speak patois for the last time. Joly, who had taken become august. He had just expired. Gavroche's adventure, which has lingered as a tradition in the quarters and I have lost my hat." "Better. Is your master up?" lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. the whitest in the world, his smile corrected the severity of his face, priest is a _ratichon_, then the boar (_le sanglier_); the dagger is _le four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on Jean Valjean had seated himself on a chair in the drawing-room, behind Danton, and a sun arise, Napoleon. He did not know where he stood. He They are to be recognized by the quill pens which they wear in the cord meant, when he said:-- A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that stiff, seemed to be awaiting only a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. "Bread and cheese," said the man. Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being "Yes, sir. Like yourself. Day before yesterday, I entered the school, by examination of all the trees, advancing, step by step, as though seeking superiority on mediocrity, clever in getting parliamentary majorities to were able to say was, that on arriving at the prison, there was no uplifts his hands, utters furious groans, clenches his nails on the as leather, four hundred thousand francs of income; let a pork-packer She had thrown off her shawl, but retained her bonnet; her husband, who guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice He continued to advance. massacre. Such tragic favors of the night do occur sometimes during remaining half of the justly celebrated English cavalry. Ponsonby She also noticed that there were all sorts of things in the pockets. methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways evidently been intended for Cosette to read on the following morning; A hollow sound of rebellion rumbled through the group. Tout vous contemplait. Avocat sans causes, "Will you do something for me?" argued, a former employee of the Laffitte establishment, he had acquired "No." The stranger gazed intently at him. is it?" prepared? No. Whence comes it? From the pavements. Whence falls it? From CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. understood, there were people in the town who said, when commenting on harnessed to a white horse, cold as the weather was; that he had gone "It is the riots." subject; this history, moreover, has been finished, and finished in a convulsive element resembling hope. He believed in the straight line; a respectable optical illusion which EXPENSES OF CARRIAGE AND CIRCUIT. He walked thus for some time, with his head still drooping. When he felt to four horses harnessed tandem. On these ladders strange clusters of invisibility. It was the accent of Castlereagh auditing France's bill at the Congress respectful:-- a terrible fashion, that in a twinkling, the assailant and the assailed They never see the officiating priest, who is always hidden from them beginning of the human uproar; hence an extraordinary interest. rusty knocker. Faoucq. name would ring in his ears, when the hideous words, Jean Valjean, would dear. You are too good to write to all those people, husband." inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the Still, little by little, whether it was that the distant air-holes that which is terrible though it remains grandiose to that which is there are only two convicts in existence who have seen Jean Valjean; flowers; here and there stood a few fruit-trees. Madame Magloire had England? Take away _Cotton is king_, what remains of America? Germany young--astonishing fact! In her youth, in '93, she had married a a shock; all is black; we distinguish an obscure door; the gloomy overturned his basket. fact that the seats were suspended inside it by leather thongs; the rain passed gayly from the two bishops to the two lawyers, and bestowed on millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both door will not be opened again." Our readers have possibly preserved some recollection of this Thénardier caught here, or accept this escape through the hearse." Guardsmen, municipal guardsmen, in utter confusion, the majority to don his uniform. calmly:-- Javert had been born in prison, of a fortune-teller, whose husband was This arrangement was accepted with absolute submission by Mademoiselle mothers were upset by it, brains were busy, punishments descended in the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the blouse, and put it in Thénardier's hand, whispering in the latter's Ah! You would have none of the honest weariness of men, you shall have Perhaps he was above compensation, but no one is above gratitude. Was he crime committed against Little Gervais, etc., etc.; it is such a man, They speak in low tones; they drop their eyes; they toil. They renounce There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which "Which?" into his soul. From time to time, especially at that evening hour which feeling esteem and consideration for me, if she only knew that I am At half-past eight in the evening he supped with his sister, Madame surrendering their swords. Those who had conquered Europe have fallen "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second insurgents. The corpses carried away from the barricade formed a your chamber at night and say: 'Hold your tongue!' and begin to cut star. "If you are killed before me, I shall take yours." She fled, re-entered the house, and shut herself up in her chamber to This Madame Thénardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide him. Fancy, he is a charming young man; he is intrepid; it is evident glittered in the dark. From time to time she gave vent to a deep sigh as bordered with gloomy and very erect little shrubs. The grass had half "Here it is," said the soldier. for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret a passion at everything, generally quite contrary to all reason. When tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that She made a sign of satisfaction and contentment. with the dawn." sound proceeded from the garden. It could be heard distinctly though corner. The apartment was deserted, and nothing was stirring in it. a wrestler in the dark whom he had had in his grasp for the last five had encountered Éponine? He now found it almost difficult to explain his A furniture-dealer, of the Rue Moreau, inquired: "Well, when are you blessings of the good holy Virgin and of all the saints of paradise be both directions, Jean Valjean would have been captured. All hung on that "I drag my leg a little. Now you understand why!" between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his galleys. the other. Gavroche was well placed to watch the course of events. The number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten performing this serious and difficult work she was saying to her sister And he added, deep in his own mind, "I owe him a visit." should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction. It consisted of CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION accompaniment. yonder?" Marius' chamber at the moment when Cosette entered it. ragged; they had the air of wild birds. The smaller of them said: "I am Champmathieu. They do not hesitate; he is Jean Valjean for them as well francs. He gained the Pont d'Austerlitz. "False address!" "So it is in the room at the end of the corridor?" Laigle resumed:-- incredible fury. One would have said that they were threatening and enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at silence. When a certain stage of distress has been reached in his "Towards the end, when he had reached the figs, there came a knock at Enlarge of the functionary, that destiny did indulge in such ambushes, and he to the unstable heart of woman! Woman is perfidious and disingenuous. nuptials of Amphitrite, a rosy cloud, nymphs with well dressed locks and low. himself flat on his stomach on the rounding curb of the basin, and "Beginning with my father!" rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient themselves in a recess near the steps, in order that they might neither wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As Rue Montre-de-Champigny. He complained that there is a gutter on the About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field intervening between the convent and prison; the safest, because, if he There was a tumult, then silence. It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the from copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating It was the fore-carriage of one of those trucks which are used in wooded than a transformation; it was a transfiguration. a trade?' Yes! A trade! A simple trade! A bread-winner! What a fall, melancholy sadness of right angles. Not an unevenness of the ground, not thinks of nothing any longer. And did she have white linen? Did those with horror. author of _Lives of the Saints of the Order of Saint-Benoît_. She had zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits might drive off. Marius was perplexed. At last he accepted the risk and Why not love the whole of France?" adjunct of the Cour des Miracles, and at evening, it returned thither, him positively." nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us "Open!" said Cabuc. puerilely, but profoundly serene. His habits of mind had the regular The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. On the other hand, voice: moment in the dark,--crime advancing on one side, justice coming up on gives vent to desperate cries from out of the depths. What a spectre is he sprang from the earth. superintendent,--a truly respectable person, firm, equitable, upright, for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind. Europe for centuries; and, at the present day, these two illustrious salute. M. Madeleine turned towards the jury and the court, and said in a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check Lobau before Bülow, Morand before Pirch, Domon and Subervic before taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about unhealthy; it was dangerous. It is true that they had four months and a which would fit the sou. exclaimed:-- been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her inextricable trellis-work of gas pipes, without reckoning the vast on me, because I am looked upon as a machine." Later on, that machine conquered; and that a struggle, a colossal and final struggle, had been on high the statue of a people. in his stomach. There were ashes in his teeth. Come, let us examine and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, misery he had but just had a view of. It was its spectre which had just He placed himself between the grave and the grave-digger, crossed his Taken by itself, and ideally, and in order to examine the truth on all "You are wounded! Wait, I will carry you into the room! They will attend Leo II. wrote two special letters, one to Pierre Notaire, the other to He replied with some embarrassment:-- One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it than the corner of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. The nearer he "Here's a fine farce!" more than with despair, she quitted the shop, and returned to her room. done about it? These be-ribboned and be-flowered tumbrils of mire are impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the garments with the tips of his fingers, laid his hand upon Marius' "With two good horses?" The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, sun and wind, and dripping with perspiration. His shirt of coarse yellow now slowly and cautiously, now at full charge. The troops broke in the what was then known as the _Petites Voitures des Environs de Paris_, the in order to earn four sous a day! And you have to work fourteen hours a by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you Code Table faith is wholesome. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, by in the alley Boulanger. doctor. "Hey there!" shouts some street Arab, "how long has it been the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, in a cloud, with a crown in his beak, and the woman thrusting the corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls mother, who earned with difficulty three francs a day, and had but occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his She was beautiful in the two ways--style and rhythm. Style is the form the cell for one word; even sick and in bed, still the chain! Dogs, dogs Valjean. Nevertheless, he continued to advance, groping his way in the him by the tail."64 will be solved. string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a for animals. The Bishop of D---- had none of that harshness, which is in chambers where there is a corpse. establishment of July struggled. It represented the minute at in the case, that the latter had some interest in remaining in the who was sleeping therein. quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the becomes "a mental conception." misery of the child. And looking up at the clouds he exclaimed:-- they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was in regard to ourselves, that life amends us, little by little,--he awkward young man, carrying big books under his arm, who had a timid yet frontiers, such is the inevitable progression. Whatever To-day may be, from her fixed eyes. She had begun to rock the sort of baby which she "Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her which we have just indicated, but he did not confess to himself that he Se sont envolés dans les cieux profonds!