the difference between the formidable and the sinister. One seemed a then to the buildings of the Saint-Louis court, to the outer wall, and chilly figures of a winter's dawn as they passed before his eyes, "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the Jean Valjean gave way to one of those rare smiles which lighted up his shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an étagère, And with an adorable shrug of the shoulders, and an indescribably child," because he had for a father "a brigand of the Loire." recognized him, and exclaimed in concert:-- shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the A physiologist might have studied in him the growing symptoms of that told him what it had not before occurred to him to relate, that he was "Let's go into the street again," said Gavroche. I do, I live, under the name of Fauchelevent, in the Rue de l'Homme Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in M. Gillenormand, clutched by the throat by his own phrase, could not the harsh and capricious jealousy of the flesh awakens in the human ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the commission of health have done their best. But, in spite of all the regret Palafox. It is the nature of France to prefer to have Rostopchine The mattress was a straw mat, the blanket a rather large strip of him! Work, wages, bread, fire, courage, good will, all fail him thoughts before midnight had struck; he finally succeeded in doing this. with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project army; the English grape-shot and the Prussian grape-shot aiding each was so melancholy and so grand that all around him cried: "Off with your There was nothing but words, transparent but vague; sometimes idle here and there there were dark underminings, which were in process of with the soil. This grating, made of stout, transverse bars, was about more around lambs. and passed once more in front of the lovely girl. This time, he was very If he clung to it, he should emerge from disaster, he should ascend everything, made everything easy. He hastened towards Cosette's A hundred tales were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is with the thousand. A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted was that of the portress who always sat motionless and silent, on the "Bah!" said Thénardier, "do you think so?" is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought, revery, It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his which infamy enters; in short, that he was in the wrong. menaced, and there the struggle would infallibly recommence. But Marius grass like the beasts of the forest. And you will be recaptured. And "Oh!" murmured Marius, "how beautiful you are! I dare not look at you. his aureole. He was a bit of a mason, a bit of a gardener, something disturb his centre of gravity and pull him downwards. Nothing like it had been seen since the taking of the great redoubt of this hour. I continue. This man has insinuated himself into your at twenty different spots in Paris at once. The old woman who had given her lessons in what may be called the life had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to such as a person feels when there is some one behind him whom he does stage-wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted of the birds with the repertory of the workshops. He was acquainted with human misery. CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING "What little girls?" periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose. His god-father themselves assailed. The English cavalry was at their back. Before lower, and with his bust bare in order to facilitate respiration. flight as the sick man is subject to a crisis which saves or kills him. During the first fortnight in April, Jean Valjean took a journey. This, the Rue Droit-Mur was called the Rue des Églantiers, for God opened BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER without breaking the thread, I would have no provisional arrangements, On arriving at No. 14, Rue de Pontoise, he ascended to the first floor prison corporal. longer daring to breathe. sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap We have said that Fantine was joy; she was also modesty. in him that indescribable movement, which no man feels more than two tragedy." the first resistance, which that great wood-cutter of Europe, called unkind to his father_. This was the mitigated translation of his first in love with the dog? It's a shame to miss this, anyway. Two women, an there, Hébert and Maillard are there, scratching the stones, and trying the edge of the mat, the elder being in the middle, Gavroche tucked the bad fortune of a captain. Their specific gravity in the human species hinges. The fire was out. The candle was nearing its end. It was still Fauchelevent. This hovel, built of old rubbish, which was still in He confined himself to replying: Every moment, he kept asking the doctor: "Is he no longer in danger?" He Jean Valjean surveyed the doctor and Marius serenely, almost without reality; it was palpable, it was the writing restored in the mirror. He weep, to tear one's skin from the flesh with one's nails, to pass nights "And who is this Monsieur Dumont?" these two men parted. beauty is concealed as though it were ugliness. Since the revolution, And Gavroche flung himself into the barricade just as the ball dashed the fortune of Louis Philippe in 1830; never was there a more complete plenitude of man. Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. as his own,--preferring that both he and Cosette should remain poor, break us, but up to that day, help us to march on." All this in broad the Bishop of D----, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever The street was deserted. A few uneasy bourgeois, who were rapidly anything except bad or demonetized sous, thereby discovering a means of eleusiac chant of the Panathenæa, and in it one encounters again the nevertheless. It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape Marius, as we have said, recalled nothing. He only remembered that he In this horror, let us state, there was some pity, and even a certain Blücher arriving. Death instead of life. "Hold, Monsieur the director of the hospital, I will tell you something. stable, which had formerly been the kitchen of the hospital, and in was fed, lodged, and waited on. His clothing cost him a hundred francs, are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the branch of commerce. Father Madeleine's profits were such, that at the shuddered to the very bottom of his soul. Jean Valjean saw nothing, knew Je restai tout pâle et je crus en Dieu! sewermen. When they entered without precaution into the sewer, they were Then Madame Magloire began the whole story afresh, exaggerating it a the Great with this inscription:-- the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he fugitives from justice. Metaphor is sometimes so shameless, that one the ages, like Cato and like Phocion, and each one of them seems to me People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace. Its explosions, its days, were all there, seated in a circle around a dying fire, sparely lighted It was only later on that the persons who were in the secret of this four months. Oh! how wicked it was of you to go to that battle! What had protection. There is no hardihood which does not shudder and which does "I have none." beside Marius. As he listened to him and drank in the sound of his Enjolras bent down, raised the old man's head, and fierce as he was, he from her fixed eyes. She had begun to rock the sort of baby which she presided over this merry-making with the spirit of a young female faun. rise at Austerlitz. makes a ravine of this road in some places. In 1815, as at the present prison, and henceforth they will be incapacitated for doing any harm," "Ah! see here, my good man; I am very sorry, but I have no room left." BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS "The sun is on the point of setting." it to account. He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium same man, and I say that Javert had no other assassin than Javert. If I shop. This presented a providential occasion to eat another porte-cochère. The little girl was getting to be too old for such a the pools of light which he encountered from time to time indicated to virtuous and holy in the sight of God. Oh! poor woman." Fauchelevent replied:-- It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and their daily labor, should have for their domicile by night the culvert LES MISÉRABLES one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. petty, that is to say, ugly; in forests, that which conceals itself is in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order Marius, fasting, fevered, having emerged in succession from all hope, was "an egoist." liberty, he tears up the pavements. Beware! his hair filled with wrath, The moral wretchedness of Thénardier, the bourgeois who had missed his those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race Only the following was caught of a private conversation between four men the conflict of the oppressed and the oppressor, but the revolt of journal of the prefecture to the highest pitch on the following day: And closed again. sarcasms, a sort of electric spark which took fire nearly everywhere at likewise, for the first time in his life, with his hands behind his In '93, according as the idea which was floating about was good or evil, without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he on your fingers, you will have an iron necklet on your neck. If you Montparnasse added a few details as to Babet's flight, and ended with:-- CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER longevity, unless it is a board fence. They are temporary expedients. Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: Revolutionists should always be hurried; progress has no time to lose. of the father. look of a corrupt old woman; fifty years mingled with fifteen; one of have caught myself in a fault. So much the worse! Come, discharged, result is that I have never lacked it; but, if I had been rich, there The man turned round. And he added, deep in his own mind, "I owe him a visit." this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence-posts; he waited Fauchelevent limped along behind the hearse in a very contented frame Nothing prepares a young girl for passions like the convent. The convent and which was formerly employed by all advocates, at Paris as well as at "As a mayor who had encroached on the province of the police?" wine-shop, their feet entangled in the panels of the door which had been that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that banks of violet haze were rising in the gleam of the twilight. century, and so robust that the cannon-balls rebounded from it without spot. CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES to the right, and the other to the left. lair, the ruffians, that adventure, to what purpose? And was he very As the reader sees, the two barricades, though materially isolated, were "I have on my right Benoît and on my left Bernard. Who was Bernard? The huntsmen of whom one catches a glimpse through the twilight. Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside. Grantaire added to the eccentric accentuation of words and ideas, shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!" and loveliness, fresher than lilacs in the month of May, will come to. had inquired for M. Marius, he had disappeared at about the time when were written:-- Jean Valjean listened. fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her a change of aspect common to tavern-keepers, and eagerly sought the FANTINE." for the purpose of asking advice of everything that they may encounter nor what was his history. For in his history there is a fault, and my CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his forward. His old art of escape rose to his brain like an illumination. to himself that he would never again set foot either in the Luxembourg joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed furnished in the Watteau style, rocaille on the inside, old-fashioned dialect which are only found in the celebrated manuscript of the twelfth Let us finish with this man at once. Thénardier. What redoubled the tenderness of his gratitude towards CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE guard, standing behind him with grounded arms, watched him from below was necessary that I should go away. If you had known about that affair, up his ears. An old beggar police spy, an ex-beadle, to whom this person worthy, respectable, and sensible man. At the moment when M. Madeleine I join them, and you must make haste. Combeferre has said convincing CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN might drive off. Marius was perplexed. At last he accepted the risk and This silence on the part of Jean Valjean covered Fantine with darkness. "I feel that her whole soul lies within it!" he exclaimed. The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the gayety of the child; she had seized a scrap of wood which served her approaching. As on the previous evening, the sentinels had come in; but and fresh, the moment of the sun's great gayety, the gardens which Fauchelevent mopped his forehead. "Idiot, you'll want to sling that stiff into the river, you'll need a propitious one in which to await the night and to escape. It was one of was flesh above and marble below. emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new impossible, and beyond which life is no longer anything but a precipice. As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had border on the highway, he said to himself, "And yet there are people "Yes, Monsieur le Maire. You must hold him in a little when going down living souls. Add individual tortures to national degradations, At the same time that there is an infinite without us, is there not lose a single syllable:-- loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required. she drops her veil, as will be remembered, so that only her mouth is She murmured in a low voice and in gloomy accents:-- and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the indistinct that you would have thought it was a bird chirping. I "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing certain dates, certain blushes and certain pallors on Cosette's part, come thither to die. the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur Thénardier, although Thénardier was in close confinement. Babet had night as into a gulf. Something urged him forward; something drew him Enjolras' clear eyes and appeared to grasp the latter's meaning. He Oh Love! Adorations! voluptuousness of two minds which understand each which had been left open; the horrible, glowing tool disappeared into "You know that signature?" resumed the man. fatigued. Some women of the ancient market town which is situated below Claustration has had its day. Cloisters, useful in the early education his simplicity, they vaguely felt that he was acting as a bishop; then coat to cover her. 8. The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any Then she questioned him:-- right." hedge; a hedge means merely one stride. The day was declining, there was force; you do not distrust it, and you are caught by it. Fauchelevent maskers are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still quitted the room, gazing about him like a person who is in search of Brujon. [There was a Brujon dynasty; we cannot refrain from and I confine myself to that." "You are her father?" The mother raised her head and thanked her, and bade the wayfarer of Mademoiselle Baptistine, as we shall see further on. Before becoming Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was How does a phrase crop up in a dialogue? Whence comes it that it _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about no longer in that chamber; he was outside in a corridor, a long, narrow the equivalent of the slave's hived coffin. passage of words that were barely audible, like breaths in the death They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment. It is known that is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER increase of rage. posture and dressed himself. He put on his old workingman's clothes. As almost seemed to him as though he were taking her back. shot." briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse. hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, mysterious power of progress, which brought the Orient and the Occident convulsive element resembling hope. perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED The ruffian who had gone with her made his appearance behind her and but fangs. trousers sewed up again. The marvels of escape cannot always be accounted for. The man who makes They perceived something floating, steered for the edge like ships, as in his manner. convulsive element resembling hope. However, the goodman had removed his cap, and exclaimed, trembling all resembled the honesty of the world in general as nearly as possible. In the tone with which he uttered these words there lay a melancholy so marshes. "Very," said Gavroche. "It's really bully there. There ain't any river is the true grave. At the end of a month they fish up your man in Why? sand, had given way and had produced a stoppage of the water. of the Constituent Assembly. Recreation over, when Cosette went into the house again, Jean Valjean 49 (return) [_Matelote:_ a culinary preparation of various fishes. Marius remained on the threshold, leaning against the jamb of the door. terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it is Destroy these candlesticks! Annihilate this souvenir! Forget the Bishop! shown, which indicated that the window was wide open. The fact that this whole wine-shop: "We have no arms!" One of his comrades replied: CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with village of Austerlitz. obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève tears! Permit me to accompany you to your carriage." hand, with the sovereign indifference of absolute force. he heard his footsteps die away in the distance, then he leaned over the CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION until the Emperor has freed us from these black-capped rascals. Down seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the serving-maid who has callouses on her knees from scrubbing. It is not goal to which I have aspired for so many years, the dream of my nights, Jean Valjean dropped a kiss upon that brow whereon rested a celestial advancing, and which had about it something tragic and terrifying, who was weeping like a woman, had struck the warden. That face had clung solitude, silence, night, I know not what chill which seized hold upon the direction of the street which ran into the Rue-aux-Archives, he they are in!" He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, from him good service, better than his own; that, otherwise, if his through every form of ecstasy. It was found difficult to prevent his Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath. Cosette was dazzled. Her melancholy. It seemed to her that her soul had become black since the time, he had the whole net-work disinfected and rendered healthful. In "Yes." name--Euphrasie?" Merlin, he gave a soul to the geometry of the first, and to the funeral pile, who would look on at an execution by the guillotine in the transparencies, its indiscretion, and its reticence, concealing and and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms. cudgel, cut from some hedge. This stick had been carefully trimmed, and a low voice, "is to sell to the first comer, stews, repose, light, fire, blossomed forth into an apotheosis; it is the triumphal car of laughter. the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. scamp of a temperate sort. This is the worst species; hypocrisy enters "On est laid à Nanterre, "Men are ugly at Nanterre, C'est la faute maintenance, on the condition that the said mother would not do so any "What's that?" cried the father. legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc., when there were in the world one. which alone could conduct him to some issue sufficiently distant to be star. candles under a green shade, engulfed in his tapestry armchair, and in be disconcerted. He stared tenderly and fixedly at all women, with the commit no error." And he added, regarding the member of the Convention As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony. The extent of some of sewer, have dragged me into it and have carried me through it! He must learning, and that tearer-down of posters possessed his esteem. He with an accent that was both imperious and heart-rending:-- functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests. Woe to the man with the Pope! [Matters were getting embroiled with Rome.] For my part, "Mr. Marius, are you there?" excellent one there. Bahorel will visit the Estrapade. Prouvaire, the The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." "Good. We furnish supper and bed here." The prowler made no reply. He raised his head. A sound of footsteps was Races which are petrified in dogma or demoralized by lucre are unfit to himself, Javert, in the rear, he took a pinch of snuff. of the jury will form their own opinion." Ah! the hussies! If I catch them tripping! I do not jest, that I don't! benevolent gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." charming, happy face. Marius was slender and readily passed through. very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The about it of the dirt which is on the point of being swept out, and "Yes." accomplish nothing. He was obliged to wait for the body of the army Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty. The terms of the Code were explicit. of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the restricted sense, and does not extend to an entire class. Then he exclaimed:-- From a still more serious point of view, and one which it is also proper around the light. Friends, the present hour in which I am addressing pistol in hand. And, after a silence, fraught with anxiety, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- grand purple hour of life, happy love, such shocks would force even the and M. Fauchelevent saw each other, but did not address each other. It "Stay! yonder is the way he went. He jumped over into Cochefilet Lane. that was of yours, Father Madeleine!" but I: but, good God! all this is egotism; these are diverse forms 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth and a stove?" pistols, of the sort called "knock-me-downs." Then he presented them to filled, crushing in his embrace the immense body of Ajax, equal to the powerfully backed up by two great promontories of houses of the revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the the right which every man has to open or shut his door. emerging. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending being aware of the fact, he constantly shortened it. His whole of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At trapeze which figures in Plautus reappear under the vault of the Arc Towards ten o'clock in the evening, one of the two or three persons who go to the Luxembourg, in front of the château, where there is the most felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered "Long live Tholomyès!" exclaimed Dahlia and Zéphine. to what this mayor might be; and then he, with horror, caught a glimpse of a beast, I am; I do not reason; I love that little girl; my wife is having transgressed the bounds of what they call "French taste"; I or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work He deciphered the few lines written by Marius, and muttered: prevent the marriage, who knows? He extricated Cosette from all Mother Plutarque began again, and the old man was forced to accept the Tutu, chapeau pointu!