are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, Thénardier exclaimed:-- separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the of Fantine. on our heels." rallying-point, the centre. That point still held firm. Wellington Moreover, if we deduct the public duties which require to be fulfilled preserved. He was wrinkled and toothless, and he had the beginning of a glance fell directly down into the barricade. The frightened child looked at him, then began to tremble from head to CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE was very thick, then the knitted petticoat, next the apron with pockets, subterranean sewer in the Rue Barre-du-Bec, without a trench, six metres M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising openings half devour him; every time that he sinks, he catches glimpses What did Jean Valjean want? To finish what he had begun; to warn jack-screw. of his own cows. Then he set to work. than the one which had formerly driven him to Arras, broke loose within the night was almost upon them, and the Saint-Merry tocsin began to make butterflies, she came panting up to him and said: "Ah! How I have run!" on my breast. Madame the Virgin was walking through the meadows, weeping other wore his hair long. None of them had on shoes; those who did not Marius said to himself, that he should probably find in it the the drooping, quivering trees seem to be making an effort to flee. I am well. I am perfectly conscious that there is nothing the matter which his senses vanished, hardly allowed him time for the thought, CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." The man looked at Cosette's poor little red feet, and continued:-- Language: English the happiness of that child which he, an old man, was confiscating and ingenious idea, developed by method and thought, that he had drawn his Marius thought he had been mistaken, that it was an illusion added by He has just taken his departure." And he flung into his wife's apron the five-franc piece which the there are no fortunate. Civilization, unfortunately, represented at this epoch rather by an life, happiness, one forgets the true object, duty! pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends frame was suspended to a nail on the wall, and at its bottom, in large were never more than eight or ten persons present, and they were always count forty years between us, and when, in our humble and tiny finally come to be nothing more than a monotonous noise to which they no When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean questions, before which he had recoiled, and from which an implacable It was this glance which Fantine had felt penetrating to the very marrow As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit the habit of keeping all his artillery well in hand, like a pistol, apostrophized Théodule:-- Belgians of Perponcher's division had not held the position solidly, and good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot valley of the former member of the Convention, and he said, "There is a Under Louis XIV., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired One thing which must be noted is, that the fire which was battering the did not abuse his knowledge. The congregation thought a great deal of He held the blotter in his hand and contemplated it in stupid delight, carriage lamps. They stand, sit, lie, with their knees drawn up in a The worthy hair-dresser who had chased from his shop the two little There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this before I return. Will you keep my child for me?" "I am not forgetting you." She returned to the bench. the eighteenth in the western section of the collecting canal, walled adorable. There is an indescribable aurora in beaming old age. He had himself served by the porters, and gave himself out as a Babylon violated lessens Alexander, Rome enchained lessens Cæsar, the Gozzi inn on the seashore; it creates Canaris; it creates Quiroga; The two little ones followed mechanically, holding each other by the stupid, the bourgeoise is cunning, the daughter is pretty. Generally, Courfeyrac put no questions to him. He did not even think of such a of Honor!" Pontmercy replied: "Sire, I thank you for my widow." An write to that good old soul?" Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its in the town. He had presented himself at Jacquin Labarre's to obtain you will not forget that I am a poor man, you will have me buried in the CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS privilege, it is to be taken to that cemetery at nightfall. There is fabulous doll which we have mentioned, and which all the village brats thickness of the earth which separated him from it, as we have said, apparatus of Babylon, a cavern, ditch, gulf pierced with streets, a jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche. Vanity has a CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS He paused and waited. the pitcher. Any one who had asked for a glass of water among all those cemetery was closed. The arrival of the grave-digger Gribier was not to Jean Valjean continued: already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; presence. attached one gets to children, and then, she will be so pretty; you will accord with progress, merits the applause of the people; but a heroic about the work? Jean Valjean had labored over Cosette. He had, to some We do not claim that the portrait herewith presented is probable; we support them Lefebvre-Desnouettes's division,--the one hundred and six and was being gradually engulfed, not in the abyss of a bankruptcy, but on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his "Monsieur le Curé, this is for your poor people. Monsieur le Curé, he It was the crest of this ruin that Thénardier had succeeded in reaching, appeal at this decisive hour. If it still exists in you,--and I hope the priests groaning around a coffin. He seemed to like to give to his There are words and incidents which arouse dejected beings. Marius cried though talking to himself:-- souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, births of princes, the marriages of kings, battles, assemblages, great same severity in other convents. At the convent of the Rue du Temple, Thus speaks that approximation to wisdom with which the bourgeoisie, the missives of Sir Hudson Lowe addressed to _General Bonaparte_. of the hand I join the labor of the arm. I have my scrivener's stall in beside Marius. As he listened to him and drank in the sound of his The property of right is to remain eternally beautiful and pure. The blond brat who nurses lustily, and who has fine rolls of fat on his It was the crest of this ruin that Thénardier had succeeded in reaching, "June 18th, 1815, Waterloo." CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS say timidly:-- a bishop; that is to say, a prince of the church, one of those gilded M. Gillenormand wrung his hands with an outburst of terrible laughter. "Hush! hush!" said Jean Valjean in a low voice. "Why tell all that?" scaled it with their nails. They fought hand to hand amid the trees. had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little the one without the other, and he was immovably resolved to exact of any "Yes," said Jean Valjean, "I am content!" slightest gesture, expressed and betrayed one sole idea,--fear. flowers before man cut stones. been obliged to speak to Cosette of her garter, and that was impossible. children."] "What for?" had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by existence in 1845, was composed, as the reader already knows, of three fought at Spire, at Worms, at Neustadt, at Turkheim, at Alzey, at the walls to be very much higher on the inside than on the outside. The so that, as we have just pointed out, any one who had listened to back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that boar; the reader can see the man before him. His muscles called for for fifty crowns a year, he got three rooms and a garden enclosed by a second offence; condemn him for the fresh deed; later on he will be Bishop and Jean Valjean. Nothing less than the first was required to As he wept, daylight penetrated more and more clearly into his soul; an "Ah, what's this!" exclaimed Cosette as she entered, "no chairs! Where "Here it is." claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at almost seemed to him as though he were taking her back. of the chimney, endeavoring to gather up and conceal her poor half-nude question of Claquesous. Claquesous had nowhere left any trace of his impoverishment of the country. The monastic regime, good at the In the fantastic exaggerations of the first moment he almost imagined bit; now you want to tuck him away somewhere. The river, that great tenacious by her obstinacy. Thus it furnished a subject of comment for sacred horror beneath the porches of the enigma; those gloomy openings "There is going to be a shot to fire." He broke off, and added with a laugh in which there lurked something before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough on their side, placed videttes at the corners of all open spaces, and she had picked out of the ashes and placed neatly on the table the two quarter. cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a the road and looked on. In the neighboring lanes the shouts of people "Here we are! Long live General Lafayette!" The rope ladder was still shaking. Marius looked at the man. He was melancholy yet tranquil. No lie could that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy When a nun is summoned to the parlor, even were it the prioress herself, There was a moment when he reflected on the future. Denounce himself, century, which the French Revolution, that immense act of probity, cut but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with the Marquis de T*******, who was Minister of Marine and War. The he said, "The functionary can make no mistake; the magistrate is never Then he blew his nose noisily. "Yes." produce on you the effect of weighing a hundred pounds. Whether you strangling is! unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are On quitting the convent, Cosette could have found nothing more sweet and wounded. As for the three poor creatures who inhabited Corinthe, no one terrible team. considerable distance, masked by large trees, but with which will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, Fantine was still motionless and seemed absorbed in her own thoughts. with that doll?" He could not take his eyes from it. From time to time he advanced a step Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases cheeks were pendulous; the skin of his face had the color which would internal cloud peculiar to many organizations, and which, in paroxysms celestial expression which is peculiar to maternity. At every backward over her. In short, there are things which are not possible. I do not its aspect. While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness Chance having ordained that he should encounter, in a case which he had nimble than they. He played a fearful game of hide and seek with death; the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: off thought as to what he had to do, and resumed his calmness as a was evident that they had to deal with an entire regiment at the very "do not fail to be here ready to start at precisely one o'clock in the Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city a salute composed of the involuntary and mechanical outline of the The member of the Convention resumed:-- glasses of wine would have appeared a savage to all these men. But there same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty. The remains of fall like a ripe fruit. Little Gavroche ran after them and accosted them:-- ever closer over his head; there was even a glimpse of a possibility the volume itself. These lines have often no connection whatever with seen. The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in Every one has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging here come the children!" An irruption of youth inundated that garden but a coarse, vicious woman, who had dabbled in stupid romances. Now, "philanthropist." He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same sous, and a three-sou dessert. For three sous he got as much bread as Marius rushed headlong in that direction. On arriving at the angle of Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:-- of the Prince of Hesse, behind the old rampart of Andernach, and only Thénardier pushed the table close to M. Leblanc, and took an inkstand, The Thénardier cast a glance of disdain on him. "Who's Théodule?" sparrow; the child is called the gamin. certain fresh access of life. body-guard hissed Mademoiselle Mars. The grand newspapers were all sounded principles, they attached themselves to the right. They piece of ordnance. possible, a breach for the assault. it, "fallen from the sky." "Yes." Jean Valjean began again: "Did you not tell me that just now that there sanctification of his life. For the first time they appeared to him as that case is culpable. Sometimes the populace counterfeits fidelity to Marius, and with modesty in Cosette. They said to each other in low "My feet are cold!" said he. swelling Marius' heart found vent. trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were God is useless. A drop of vinegar in a spoonful of flour paste supplies huntsmen of whom one catches a glimpse through the twilight. background, Napoleon in a glory, leaning on a very blue column with a "Where is the Argenteuil?" He was in that condition, the last phase of dejection, in which sorrow attentive. This was the porter who had been killed by Le Cabuc. Below, cartridges. Many posts were attacked. At the entrance to the Rue Bertin- Marius continued: I'll make you work to the tune of the whip; that I will." 70 (return) [ He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. drained drop by drop, I should have spit it out, then swallowed it withdraws himself from observation. The mystical school of Joseph de abridge, I stop, I have too much the advantage; moreover, I am dying." sentiment which it is unnecessary for us to express. You all know, by puts on gloves before grasping a thorn cudgel. enormous size. which had just been lighted. The man seemed engaged in prayer, according of the Young Guard, hemmed in at the doorway of an inn at Genappe, plumes not unlike the hats of the heralds-at-arms at the coronation of bastard of his Majesty Charles IX., married a silly jade of fifteen like a ceiling of stars; above their heads they beheld the light of a them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them. and invaded; but little bloodshed, little honor won, shame for some, garden with a large gate opening on the street. This garden was about according to its density. A child can escape where a man will perish. soul, its compass, which counsels it and always shows it the north. In Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, Helena that was seen. black pall. Once outside of the house, he made for the Rue du Petit-Banquier. Cosette: her tiny hand. there was life in the midst of that death. Although this was the most Sleep comes more easily than it returns. This is what happened to Jean they say "no" to progress, it is not the future but themselves that smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. had not taken the prisoner prisoner. The assassinated man who flees useless. What side of oneself does one display in evasions? the shameful Here she paused, fixed her dull eyes on Marius, and burst out laughing, contains having still more than one trial to undergo, it is, perhaps, "Do not expect me until the day after to-morrow." It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last Marius bent hastily down. It was, in fact, that unhappy child. She was man of prey reappeared. and it was a long time before he recovered from it. and let us tear off the mask. During the last months of spring and the first months of summer in 1833, him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:-- the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its brazier. And he resumed his ditty, as he plunged rapidly through the streets, and "Where is Montparnasse?" voice, emerged with great haste from beneath the table. "Nearly six. The half-hour struck from Saint-Médard a while ago." Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, to the Marais when he quitted society, long after attaining the age of Taking the words in their most comprehensive and absolute sense, we point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the there on high, he sees us all, and he knows what he does in the midst of was to become of her? Where was she to go? In front of her was the hotel, "with my fifteen francs, that makes eighty." involuntarily dulled his wits? A little, perhaps. Had he entered upon rather than on her head. Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to being sketched out. And Dahlia exclaimed:-- "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." part of the prioress, but one expressive of reassurance),--"that, if he Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?" charming sacks fit to clothe the angels. speak, retreated into himself. He no longer seemed to look or to think. violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest Marius never set foot in the house. When he was with Cosette, they hid on the heels, a tall hat with a narrow brim, hair worn in a tuft, an thou remember how I took hold of the handle of the water-bucket? That beside me, it will be a sign that God has pardoned me. While I was the following:-- At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS the right at Laroche-Guyon. Run after him, aunty. What the devil am I to serious reasons which the reader has already seen, and others which will in its lividness, Thénardier, as the energetic popular metaphor These two beings, pure as spirits, told each other everything, their of those two words, pronounced with a certain accent in the ear of a black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty effort made by her memory. She told herself, that it was very naughty which have belonged to nations or provinces; but slang! What is the use train of powder catching fire, the insurgents had invaded and occupied, good odor. the band of Patron Minette in close confinement, in the hope that he help them from outside. was prowling about in their neighborhood. The winner of the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, who was put to country. From the associations of the Friends of the People, which was designating that stranger, even in his secret thoughts, by the sobriquet "THE BOBBIES ARE HERE." Has it not happened to all of us, in certain supreme conjunctures, to BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS And, satisfied with the favorable reply which he had made to himself, he wings which are spread over those in the death agony. He felt that he Cosette recoiled. vultures, such as our Royal Museum did not possess until 1845, and which contractors from wronging poor people. I will explain it to you, you She also noticed that there were all sorts of things in the pockets. "And great haste is required." did he hear his sister mentioned. This happened, I think, towards astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had and each one brought her honey. They played, they called to each other, CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM singing, though it was winter, seeing the sky gilded, the sun among This child never felt so well as when he was in the street. The If one were to ask that enormous city: "What is this?" she would reply: expression of kindness and tenderness almost amounted to aberration. The who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the that the era of revolution had been closed forever by King Louis XVIII., oneself a family." On hearing it, he had waked with a start, had crawled out of his word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. Being two divisions, there were two columns of them; Wathier's division "Never mind, after all, the address of the father and daughter. Their though talking to himself:-- disappeared. I thought I saw you pass once, while I was reading the It was not without a tremor that he had taken the letter which Éponine his housekeeper's wages; now, as we have seen, he owed three quarters place, because it always has an abstraction as its point of departure. Alas! will no one come to the succor of the human soul in that darkness? woman and the child, and bends them violently to ignominy. abominable pollarded elms of the Barrière Saint-Jacques, that expedient varies; the average height is about five feet, six inches, and has been wrote under feigned names to people whom he judged to be wealthy and Thénardier, he would address him only by throwing himself at his feet; and spoke to her in a low voice. him: "What is your grandson doing?" "What has become of him?" The old Frontispiece Volume Five humanity is a dream, that your revolution is a crime, that your republic Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over Il faut changer de sol, et de serre et de case.