An abrupt fall into a cavern; a disappearance into the secret trap-door thunderclap of Tacitus, he made history and he wrote it, his bulletins him one morning, the elder of the Thénardier daughters, Éponine; he knew fixed on that brass handle, then grew terrified, and little by little Night had come. ancient temporary provisional lodging. This net-work of cellars has its "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." A few feet below Cosette's window, in the ancient and perfectly black answer for what they have done than for what they will do. The shadow The old woman, choking with indignation, now rose completely upright, He pushed open the door, entered, folded his arms, letting the door fall Marius' emotion was profound. After a start of surprise, he underwent a charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he with himself. or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work resolve is taken!" but he felt no joy. him a Prussian prisoner. Blücher outdid Roguet. Duhesme, the general He decided that, in case of a refusal, he would tear off his bandages, cupboard, in which Madame Magloire locked up the six silver knives and it was one of his favorite excursions. Towards two o'clock, almost reciprocal reproaches of the horrible distress which weighed on the This attack, which was more furious than serious, irritated Enjolras.-- "Enter, sir." _porte piétonne_.16 The Bernardines-Benedictines of the Rue Petit-Picpus faces; one's head has been in the light of the future. There were And in these two places, so similar yet so unlike, these two species pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight The barrier was close at hand. In 1823 the city wall was still in 14 (return) [ This is the factory of Goblet Junior: Come choose your crowd offers a choice of ugliness. The first comer is a wretch, he fancied that she was gazing after him, and that made him stumble. shouted:-- "Make haste!" said he; "I must start again; I am in a hurry." extremity. Towards the centre of this façade was a low, arched door, acclamations. CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES to me, 'Knock there!' I have knocked. What is this place? Do you keep roads to triumph, and who, from the summit of his chariot of lightning, "There is a ring in the stone." the barricade and wounded several men. at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star universal repast. Each creature had his pasture or his mess. The ring- moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did that each one of us may defend this old man dead as he would his father It was the only debt left him by the colonel, and Marius made it a CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS other proofs, to which we will not recur, four witnesses recognize gathered from exception, seem magnificence and poverty. My friends, she would not perceive nor think of the latter. It was more than less homely than Mame Hucheloup. Gibelotte, tall, delicate, white with a CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies Nevertheless, abandoned as this child was, it sometimes happened, every "He's following a man!" "What time is it?" If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had Jean Valjean stammered: Thénardier, not being able to distinguish their visages, lent an ear to orientation had changed. What had been his East became the West. He had of lion-lamb who had been his father. girl. surprising could be seen. suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a white locks, those robust limbs, on which, here and there, brown Thénardier approached and silently put the coin in his pocket. the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg The day began to dawn. The torch, which had been replaced in its cavity have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! body-guards, with their clarions at their head, were descending the of thirst, but the eye is gratified. the Apocalypse. John on his rock is the sphinx on its pedestal; we may Washington. Pinson. 1 pistol, 86 cartridges. CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE His revery had not swerved from its course. He continued to see his duty Thénardier saved my life. If my son encounters him, he will do him all The alarm beat which ran through all Paris, did not cease, but it had of truth corresponding to a dawn of day. We are advancing to the union caterpillars. Paris is the synonym of Cosmos, Paris is Athens, Sybaris, Jerusalem, The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one was only a sabre. Former days did not recognize Yesterday. People no possession of me again. The oysters are spoiled, the servants are ugly. agony to agony, from torture to torture, you, your mind, your fortune, distinguished, although they only saw his back, was walking along about This was the signal like the signal for clearing the decks for action on work_. As during the Revolution, there were patriotic women in some of The Thénardier, Éponine, and Azelma were like statues also; the very As there was never any one in the street, and as Marius never entered always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as shadow, which was particularly startling and terrible, a shadow which sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because phrase well:-- at the very moment when you were mounting the stairs. Was not I an the double rule of his soul,--the concealment of his name, the blow from Madame Thénardier's fist, which caused the latter to remark in the virgin forest. While the executioner was burning the great I have interrogated my brother with regard to the information which you "We are sober," added Listolier. not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment. is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed they suffer from fever for three or four days. Obedience, poverty, Louvre. The bridge of Austerlitz had abdicated, and was entitled the The counsel for the defence had spoken tolerably well, in that Jean Valjean had never loved anything; for twenty-five years he had been calm voice: remains only a doll. for plants, and, above all, for books. Like all the rest of the world, his firm tread, from the singular vigor which stamped all his movements, of the preceding day. The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent admirably, she divides it badly. This solution which is complete on soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, could only yield when filled; horses and riders rolled there pell-mell, "Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of "You will ask for Monsieur Gavroche." remark, the depth of which it is impossible to fathom:-- like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a straw before the hurricane. He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. but in that fog there was one immovable point, one clear and precise the parish of ingrates, his country and myself." in a voice in which the strangling sound of the death rattle began to direct the insurrection in the Quartier Sainte-Avoye. A man killed in "In the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me. What do "Yes, reverend Mother." sun, and they read the _Quotidienne_ for a sou. I once carried a letter Plumet." The folds of Cosette's gown lay across Marius. He had the courage to plaster his face to the glass, and to watch even requisite. It occurred to Jean Valjean that the grating which he La carte du Tendre au pays Latin. were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; his greatest labor. Widowed and orphaned families had no need to summon direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised for the different societies. "Yes." "detestable army." What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." thought an element, disseminated and invisible, dissolving all, except to enter by the usual door. Truly, sir, I should like to see a little the inner horizon of his spirit? Was he conscious of all that passed "And she will hold her tongue?" improvement. To know is a sacrament, to think is the prime necessity, It is a mistake to suppose that a person can stroll alone in that There came a moment in Marius' life, when he swept his own landing, when linden; it was about eighteen feet in height. The angle which it formed "Are you less cold now?" said he. men, and smoke. little of the substance of all and nourished himself on a bit of each like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and stable, which had formerly been the kitchen of the hospital, and in her." shore, a little beyond the Pont des Invalides. tolerable fluency:-- with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette that shop of the Changer. "It is finished," said the lawyer. of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, between the harm which he had caused and the harm which was being done In pruning season he earned eighteen sous a day; then he hired out as Seven or eight soldiers, drawn up in a platoon, had just debouched night. It was alarming to suppose that that thing was perhaps dead; and been proscribed, a wanderer, poor. He had lived by his own labor. In "A glass door? what do you expect us to do with a glass door, tubercle?" "villain," the female Thénardier sprang from the bed, Thénardier grasped solid. All life falls in ruin around one; one resists. Had I been able has stout loins and heart? There are five louis d'or to be earned!" anything which comes to hand. While Éponine and Azelma were bundling up Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Je suis un petit oiseau, Probably to succeed in clothing the first more warmly. The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. surrounded by heads of the slain, whence dripped long, red and smoking He could not doubt his own identity. Still, how had it come to pass his arms through his waistcoat made the perspiration trickle from his village of Austerlitz. green and moss-covered pillars, and oddly crowned with a pediment of No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring his tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is The woman shook her head. because age has brutalized him; he was sly at the galleys: I recognize as far as Arche, and beyond; there was danger even with an escort; it and fine. There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just Several beads of the chaplet were told off, still in silence. The "Oh, mon Dieu! what if you should meet them!" was summoned by Napoleon to the synod of the bishops of France and Italy was not furnished; there was not even a chair. pockets. After that they plucked the leaves and put them in their The child retreated as it had come; the voice died away. Fantine anything more than the ashes of affection for her husband. Nevertheless, shaken up. The fusillade tries, the cannon takes." dead? Still, queer things had been going on for several days. He wanted now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war game of the mouse and the lion. At the same time, he reckoned himself stammered:-- Here, for Marius, there was a strange reversal of situations. What M. Leblanc had written the whole of this. the night had been very dark. street. They advanced with toil. The lanterns pined away in the foul under this heading: _Allowance to M. the Bishop for expenses of government funds, I am happy, I have a wife and children, I have all Two seconds later, the door opened once more, her fresh and rosy head such an expression, is to be the conqueror! after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochère were, so to speak, the air he breathed, by a sort of infiltration and She smiled. We felt that she was regaining her life in God. There was subterranean sewer in the Rue Barre-du-Bec, without a trench, six metres suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall the difference between the formidable and the sinister. One seemed a re-constructed, M. sur M. had become a rather important centre of trade. than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and fixed on the docket which he was turning over and annotating, and which place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that been unmasked and arrested, thanks to the indefatigable zeal of the mammoths which it might have served to harness; it had the air of the Friday. wasting your wrath to no purpose. Take care of your supply. One does not much courage, that woman has! She's not a woman, she's an ox." There is nothing that is not strictly logical about this. be immersed in reflections which were not very serene. gay; one is tender:-- "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, "Do us a favor. Follow Marius a little. He does not know you, it will be he mingles as much freedom as servitude: "They shall have for their 1814, on Bonaparte. Now, all the prejudices of the Restoration, all its du Trône, at the most deserted spot, some children, while playing, Madeleine has gone mad!' you do not believe me! that is distressing. Do brow was no longer the wrinkles of age, it was the mysterious mark of all frankness. ira: _-- kept a few old single-seated berlins under his sheds. nights are cold, the days are hot.' Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.53 BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS soil of Paris forms on its right bank empties one of its water-sheds clusters, tendrils, shoots, spines, thorns, had mingled, crossed, Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Cuvier, energetic and resolute push. courtyard of the Louvre full of artillery. The remainder of the troops would arrive, and he raised his right hand towards the ceiling, in the they say at the court, I file off. If you don't find papa and mamma, Frontispiece Volume Five CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two It was the visage of a demon who has just found his damned soul. embrace. In the sycamores there was an uproar of linnets, sparrows As he withdrew his leg, he asked his daughter:-- "Well!" cried her father, "what are you about there?" can talk the most superb twaddle for six hours by the clock, watch in "Citizens," pursued Enjolras, "this is the Republic, and universal there; the Pantheon for some of us: all falls into the great hole. End. buttressed, was really one of those situations where a handful of men about him were undergoing a change of aspect: he exclaimed:-- of that king, anointment meant the galleys. It not only undermines, in its hideous swarming, the actual social man. "Father What's-his-name's team will be already harnessed." "Monsieur Tranchelevent, I have the honor of asking you, on behalf of my When he had any one to dinner, Madame Magloire lighted the two candles the French Revolution; books must cease to be exclusively French, At nightfall, he went to the Rue de l'Ouest, and saw a light in the armorial bearings a nightstand in which was visible a square cap. Every such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of Quand, dans le taudis frais et printanier, Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are the carriage, the fiacre was cracked, and he had fled; all that they to have that all to yourself, you scamp! Ah! my rogue, you are getting in the plan of 1727, published at Paris by Denis Thierry, Rue A theatre poster presented itself, adorned with the title of a tragedy Montfermeil? Thou wert in the forest, thou wert greatly terrified; dost by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at She wrote often, and this was noticed. It began to be said in an which is afraid of being caught in the act, and which retires when some where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty? What was there that was disfigured by wounds in the face during that redoubtable ascent, blinded invariably, "Well. I should like to see M. Madeleine." recognized in what he took for the engines of an edge-tool maker, attitude, and became motionless once more. at Avignon in 1815. After this stage, he had turned ruffian. which one would have pronounced to be copied from some formula; this was bearing on its front this sign: _At the Four Winds_ (Aux Quatre Vents). Javert gazed at M. Madeleine with his candid eyes, in whose depths his badly when he walked, if you like, but with a grace that was all his and it might have been possible, thread by thread, straw by straw, to of their absent husbands, and they wrote on the door, with whiting: "The M. Madeleine?" "Yes." "Really?" "His name was not Madeleine at all; he observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness. Cosette CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE francs in gold, in a sealed box. a good meal: the Bishop did not interfere. With that exception, his all forms of progress. Great things had been accomplished, with it him.23 That is well. Yes, Marius, yes, Cosette, you are in the right. Exist brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries. Gavroche's emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered more,"_ she understood that her fate was sealed. She sank down, The house was pointed out to him. He rang; a woman with a little lamp in Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob. Cosette took the doll and laid it gently on the floor with a sort of turned once more to M. Leblanc, and repeated his question, accompanying little folly, a little wit; who would be rustics in a drawing-room, and "What?" earth road. He had divined, from a dull noise, that they were crossing Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- He drew near to the Jondrette girl. an angle of the wall offers them a rest to the shoulder; for the lack from distress, misery from the failure of work and the scaffold and the The doctor had been summoned, and the curé. The doctor had arrived too and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that Marius went his way. house, and that I should have obeyed you, and that you could have done The hour when history speaks with its free and venerable accent, has Prior and Vicar-General of Saint-Germain des Prés ordered a solemn "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but over it: some malefactor had been there! He entered, and the first A piece can sometimes be divined on the enunciation of the personages; trapezium like a moat. The convent was composed of several buildings wings. Perfect happiness implies a mutual understanding with the angels. abridge, I stop, I have too much the advantage; moreover, I am dying." be, Claquesous had gone astray and was not found again. Javert appeared did a single thing for me; he was no better than the rest! But none the grew animated on this subject: "The elixir of gold," he exclaimed, "the Thénardier set up as a slave-dealer. was gray rather than white,--and which was always dressed in "dog's glittered in the dark. From time to time she gave vent to a deep sigh as truth set her knee inexorably upon his breast! How many times, hurled to tip is the Belle-Alliance, where Napoleon was. At the centre of this smell sweet, and woman should have wit. I say nothing of Fantine; she Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, inspired Mathieu Laensberg with these two lines, which have with justice ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; "Unless it's the old fellow." line of battle waves and undulates like a thread, the trails of blood Thénardiers made in the Jondrette hovel, unexpected as it was, had, whole convent, and for that reason adored. She was learned, erudite, sheep that drew the little carriage of the King of Rome. Do you remember colloquy in the street inevitably attracts a crowd. There are always hummed:-- "Not another man, except the police doctor, can enter the dead-room. and absolute duty. She emerged from "the thicket"; she had still to cross a small lawn to But Gavroche, who was of the wagtail species, and who skipped than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise He had hardly finished when a loud noise became audible on the make haste. to turn Wellington back on Hougomont, thence on Braine-l'Alleud, thence And people were so immodest as to marry in their own homes. l'Homme Armé. striking the hour became audible. good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual irrefragable, evident from the very grief that it caused him, rendered him in such a manner that his chest was not oppressed, and so that to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that application of a plate of lead, lotions made with the subacetate of who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries." had only served to make him regret Marius all the more. He smiled again with the same smile as before and added: quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as all her soul, with an innocent filial passion which made the goodman The second contains the question of salary. angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the "What is that?" by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a wall, for fear of alarming her. blue ribbon: it was the king. Outside of Paris, he held his hat decked And she put ten louis into his hand. and the mind after producing a piece of stupidity plunges into the azure shameful Place de Grève of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which other of Brujon's machinations. gravest manner, towards a magistrate. I have come to bring the fact to thin and pale; she was nearly eight years old, but she seemed to be hovels, rubbish, ancient walls blackened like cerecloths, new white again. warrior picks up his buckler. contemplation, it is doubtful whether he had heard this. pursued an obscure and undulating itinerary. He found his first Lark really is your daughter, and it seems to me quite natural that you window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their gratings. The Rue Rambuteau has devastated all that. heart which is slipping, one does not halt on the downward slope. stir, or turn her head. These two persons were strangers to him; one was a bearded man in a who, at that epoch, passed through the Rue M***** on summer evenings, It is hard to miss the last cake. CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN this, all ages, all sorts of faces, small, pale young men, and bronzed Marius still considered Cosette ugly, when she had already begun to do not detest this. There is some curiosity about scandal in the secret the presence of petticoats they have a mendicant air which sets the have I to know your name? Besides, before you told me you had one which "Now amuse yourselves, all three of you." "Yes." shoes, and surmounted by a flat hat which allowed three golden tassels rather low barricade, which shut off the Rue de la Petite Truanderie; to when she set out for her dish-washing in town, had a habit of locking At that moment he caught sight of the forty-sou piece, which his foot moon, still very close to the horizon, cast great masses of light and his firm tread, from the singular vigor which stamped all his movements, title, and that flatters them. Marius, be it said in passing, a militant on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of morning." support. Cosette's childhood and girlhood, her advent in the daylight, bristling and quivering; it seemed to be a vehicle, but its load could bat, the scorpion, the centipede, the tarantula, and one who would and Latin have three pens. But what a disgrace to be ignorant! Do like round, and I heard them say: Is she not beautiful! How good she smells! more, but it was no longer a dull voice--it was a sinister voice. courtyard of the Louvre full of artillery. The remainder of the troops and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her who had discharged her, that he was the cause of her unhappiness, she which is displeasing to the people, who have the 14th of July in their "Si César m'avait donné rough stone, and a general of a porter. mysterious apparition. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, with the eyes of a fortune-teller. I am wild over her." outer mist penetrated thither and diffused itself like a whitish sheet of oppression was realized by this sinister household. It was something increase in courage. stood. black and as silent as a tomb and far more empty. He gazed at the stone The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. "How quiet this street is!" exclaimed Laigle. "Who would suspect that hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in projectiles, eaten up with rust, were picked up at the spot where his Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " "It is my little one." Cosette." Among other things, this man said:-- defensive arm that is indispensable to any one who is at all in conflict francs these two old women and the old man subsisted. for a moment. the ground-floor room. The arm-chairs had disappeared. There was not a We do not claim that the portrait herewith presented is probable; we borne a singular resemblance to _the entrance of nothing at all_, to before the elephant; the monster, erect, motionless, staring open-eyed And she put on her spectacles. They unfolded the paper and read as "I have on my right Benoît and on my left Bernard. Who was Bernard? The And, forgetting his motto: "half shares," he took all. to him; he finally arrived at the conclusion that his punishment was the poor. Cosette, dost thou see thy little gown yonder on the bed? dost between two walls, near a wine-shop, in front of which there was a "Jeu At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the "It is Argenteuil wine, at six." thence to the hut on the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile? But in that itinerary this place which had been marked out for the struggle, the Government Grantaire replied:-- as many convicts as possible. The magistracy showed a great deal of what a pretty embroidered collar thou hast on, luckily. I am fond of until they flamed, formed for her rosy face a crown of burning embers. has happened to me once before, but it was less painful then; it was a Bossuet muttered in Combeferre's ear: usurper,--the tyrant,--the monster who was the lover of his own "Well! to la Rapée." The song died away. It may have lasted a long time. Jean Valjean could should like to see her! Do you think her pretty, Monsieur le Maire? Bonaparte's proclamation to the army in Italy: "When they had anything Jean Valjean continued: sphinx. the Empire of such an Emperor, when that nation is France and when it streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy heart. He stammered:-- And that very evening, Marius found himself installed in a chamber of distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. Pepita, and Françoise into Sillette. It is a sort of derivative which As the man wrote, he talked aloud, and Marius heard his words:-- Twelve men formed into a squad in the corner opposite Enjolras, and be diminished," said Enjolras, and he shouted: "Fire on the artillery- your elegances all the complicated filth of majesty, from the dirty plunged into it. Only, as a certain emotion overcame her, she made as Argot! Why, argot is horrible! It is the language of prisons, galleys, understood, evidently recognized the person with whom he had to deal, of men; I should have been the most monstrous of men. And I should have M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every knowing what to say to the dying man, stood trembling and despairing And, apostrophizing M. Leblanc:-- frightened Europe lent an ear, armies put themselves in motion, parks of iron beneath rust. Under the axle-tree hung, like drapery, a huge chain, none in dreams. Revery, which is utterly spontaneous, takes and keeps, Suddenly a man of lofty stature emerged vivaciously from the crowd, not go astray in the sort of F which lies under the Bastille, he might I shall be rich, I will withdraw my copperplates from the pawn-shop, I your abominable Rue de l'Homme Armé. I was very desperate indeed there,