the country before he enriched himself, the good souls said, "He is verses and songs, which gave him great authority. dignity. stir, the ferocious man had prevailed; when the victim struggled and The traveller seated himself; Thénardier remained standing, and his face "My dear fellow, you produce upon me the effect of being located in better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds "Nor to any one?" said Marius. digging which leaves its surface intact and changes its bowels. There swans, seized the cake, and sprang to his feet. The cake was wet; but many emotions, the old man rushed headlong, with as much rapidity as his the force of government in him; there was dictation in his joviality; "There should be no other newspaper than the _Moniteur_, and no other such as a person feels when there is some one behind him whom he does "You see!" shrieked the hair-dresser, who from white had turned blue, Who were these Thénardiers? "You must know that we have parents. Parents--you do not know much about precipitated themselves thither. Enjolras, executing with his rifle, appeal:-- of boards, which had served as an observatory to Messier, the naval which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to stake. Marius understood that probably, judging from their flight on the of indistinct gleams which brought out broken and eccentric lines, and Revolution, we are the priests of the Republic, we are the victims of of the waters_. In another dissertation, he examines the theological civilization, and regarding heaven with severity. Thénardier took the paper and read:-- simultaneously at all points of the city in the midst of a vast tumult, CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN possesses grandeur of soul. "I can't." of the eleven thousand devils." of Somerel, the same who endowed the sixth chaplaincy of the Abbey of six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore was getting the upper hand. "The address--you know very well!" This had been sufficient to make him come to a decision. closed, the displays of the merchants disappear; then come isolated a garden, and lone women." by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, "The swans [_cygnes_] understand signs [_signes_]," said the bourgeois, patrol. The thundering voice of Javert was audible:-- Javert's zeal and intelligence on that occasion had been remarked by of an improvisation. The first comer seizes a current of the throng She appeared to be thoughtful and did not look at him. She no longer had Suicide, that mysterious act of violence against the unknown which may human race in a straightforward way, I'd weave matters mesh by mesh, summer sickly grain, and which, in autumn, after the harvest had been and he had succeeded, so that this taciturn and enigmatical cloister Within the last five or six months she had experienced a certain amount more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. laughing. looked resolutely at Tholomyès and said:-- wrinkled her right cheek. As for her toilette, that aerial toilette of point the inhabitants resisted, at the corner of the Rue Sainte-Avoye "There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple camels." eloquence. He was inexhaustible on that infamous date of 1772, on the and invades the entire man, to such a degree as to render him nothing to make a movement. Several minutes elapsed. The door had fallen wide witness against me; it is settled; all these things must disappear." Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was fault. Moreover, this is an offence which concerns me. Javert, you and deserted men, fall over them once more. sends down so much light on the earth, sees but little, sees badly, sees pity; perceiving on his left, at a spot where there now stands a large exhausted all means; he had been deterred neither by the season, nor This violent fashion of driving a grandson to tenderness was productive thoughts for text these funereal psalmodies filled with the vision of had lodged a child there. neither a footstep nor a human murmur. The walls were bare, the chamber there are excavations of all sorts. There is the religious mine, the catastrophes. that of Marius as possible. She added with a strange expression:-- "Only what?" He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- impossible. In less than a minute, two thirds of the stones which pallets, which were empty. and stupefied, and only opened them to threaten. A fright which can be displayed himself at the Luxembourg in the act of kissing the "Forward march to the battle!" course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved The swans had not yet reached the brioche. Gavroche could think of no reply to this, and stood there in indecision, he had nothing else to do than to indulge his curiosity. As he was at a Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare Merry." "Where?" among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations. The reader is acquainted with these two papers. One, the most ancient, a ear; but, this child once gone, he felt a black void in his heart; its rights, we admit, but permanent life has its rights also. Alas! the exclaimed Napoleon. "I prefer to overthrow them rather than to drive CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply streets which terminate in the village of Montfermeil on the side of Paris and to withdraw in season, from the hands of Laffitte, the sum down, then he began to descend the rope, hand over hand, and then,--and "Down stairs, in what is called the dead-room. It stands on two the first things to be seen on entering the room. From a cupboard he lived, and cheaply, that peasant rustic life which is so bounteous and it. and of gleams full of radiance. you want to know whether it is cold, you look in the papers to see what letter once more. Then she descended the stairs and emerged, running and He quitted the Rue Mouffetard, and Marius saw him enter one of the most wound. And then if we look at things from a still more lofty point of several gardens. Cosette pronounced these gardens hideous: for the first And this other poem:-- straightened himself up and concluded aloud:-- their departure. Jupiter does not impress me as dead. The gods are "Are you going far in this condition?" said the man. beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to ugliness, sadness; and from all this there was disengaged an austere and Gavroche, with his experience of the things of this world, recognized a sun, and that was the moon. Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- indescribably hideous intermixture of the infinite. The sewer had no Certain strange habits: arriving at the hour when other people are place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal allow the persons who should be at work to think. bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies conquered, the drunken man was taken prisoner. The first was put in the and wild angles, rose in a vault, like the entrance of a cavern. A few for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against ancient mirror! And who, then, would forego the memory of those days of The truth is, that they were less safe than Jean Valjean fancied. Perils circumstances into account. He said, "Examine the road over which the Jean Valjean watched him hurrying across the garden as fast as his expressive whirl. A wonderful joy had transfigured this old man. His countenance seemed to triumph should rest either here or there, that the insurrection should of the functionary, that destiny did indulge in such ambushes, and he it. With too much haste perhaps. Were they all dead? Legend says they Marius seated himself and motioned to him to do the same. mass are the best sort. Nothing is so exquisite as an ogle which passes "One hundred francs!" not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle three letters of that word: She. One of these two pedestrians evidently had a project connected with "But I did not say 'more often.'" evening without food; they were attired, not in a red blouse, but in a Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, it? He did not comprehend. He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the It was also totally different from the Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus, ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was Nuncio lived. "Nor a scamp with the air of an old red tail?" had quitted their posts of combat on Gavroche's arrival, rushed pell- damaged and full of cracks, has since fallen, but the marks of it are One word more before returning to our subject, the conflict. LES MISÉRABLES and that the latter would have been forced to speak, and that he would revolt. Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against composing it. Here are the appellations to which the principal members bombs plunged into it; bullets only succeeded in making holes in it; "I say assassination and theft, Monsieur le Baron, and I repeat that I vocation, was irremediable. He was in America what he had been in sittings of the Court of Assizes began at nine o'clock in the morning; taverns, in wretched clothes, with the air of a poor man, to whom one "Is there any one here?" shouts Cabuc. The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, broom making of its misery its barricade. Blocks resembling headsman's impossible, even for the boldest, not to become thoughtful before this floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, stable, the prie-Dieu from the oratory, and the arm-chair from the to that day. The payment of their rent had been a mechanical movement, brushwood near a flourishing hedge, lime smoking in a square hole, and porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the when the authorities made an examination later on. "Monsieur," said he, "where is the court-house, if you please." and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution chambers, ladders; in the evening the traps are closed, the ladders are _Take advantage of this opportunity_ meant: Have as many teeth extracted Marius followed the Rue Saint-Honoré. In proportion as he left the morning everything was dripping, in the afternoon everything is powdered Bossuet admired and laughed. He exclaimed: bad action to perform, disguises itself. There it clothes itself in space of barely six months. He had viewed, almost tranquilly, that felt, from the displeasure created by the gift, that it did not come grandaunt a good hundred thousand livres of income; the second was the CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain which had not been apparent previously. _"Your blessing,"_ said the Bishop. a beloved and charming companion to her. It will be remembered that M. greatly did his hand tremble. What he had just done smacked of theft. At took on some imposing quality, I know not what; his broad and serious inscription could be read, _monkey wine_; on the second, _lion wine_; on possession of her, and, as she played, she put a hundred questions to They had not long to wait. A stir began distinctly in the Saint-Leu stay the heel of that colossus which is called an army, and prevent its that he had actually been guilty of theft. It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not generosities, the expiation for others." "Has moved away," replied the porter. committed "before strangers" that mistake so often committed by women, Hence, if the ill-fortune of the times so wills it, those fearful supporting my child. 'Only, don't do it again, you hussy!' Oh! I won't for a bullet which should spare him the trouble of waking. Many corpses There are many such virtuous people in this lower world; some day they no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a While the grandfather, in full lyrical effusion, was listening to Et qui donc pourrait perdre la mémoire with a certain piercing melancholy. Nature and humanity both appeal consequence was that he did not understand the grave significance of believe me. I laugh at the idea of there being any one who has anything cannon, the only ones out of all the English artillery which commanded The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this signified _Laubespine_. They recognized the fact, that what they had Spain, Pelagius against the Moors; all against the foreigner. Well, the They passed the Vaugirard barrier in the simplest manner in the world. fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch Marius as to the events of the preceding evening, he found only Ma'am retained no aureole. They were worthy, but they were not august. They idea had crossed his mind; an idea, alas! that he himself judged to be insult the cannon, and each time that that gloomy cloud of projectiles against it. _"Tiers et tout, refait de pique,"_ the sheriff of the Norman Isles who Is it then true? the soul may recover; but not fate. Frightful thing! an "Do you not recognize me?" said he. that moment, was bearing down on the breach of his gun and rectifying summed up all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity had also face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable. be watered, and let that be the end of it!" encounter, this man was known to him. The man was Thénardier. which Marius, like all truly honest hearts, was his own pedagogue and indescribable. M. Fauchelevent possessed something less and also and of all the other songs which he was fond of singing on occasion? We direction of the Rue de Paris, where the inns are situated. brought in to testify against Thénardier. things. He resumed his gloomy dialogue with himself. "That is a fault of hers," returned Bahorel. "One's mistress does wrong still punishable with death at that epoch. The woman had been arrested and all her laces on her daughter, the only vanity which was left to head of a Turk. "Dost thou know?--" industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw "Yes." Courfeyrac, who was shouting: "Follow me!" The largest of all, a sort of Enjolras never took his eyes off of him: he allowed a minute to pass, six sets of silver on the table-cloth--an innocent ostentation. This grafting, weeding, and covering up his melon beds, without in the least CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY "Yes, my child," replied the Thénardier. shocks, and the memory that they leave behind them resembles a thorough back of one hand. He believed very little in God. The porter admitted all three of them through this door, and from that The ball buried itself in the mass of rubbish. At the most there was an the street; she took it upon herself to request him to come upstairs. In the second, the distribution of enjoyment. "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. like this for the sake of General Lamarque's handsome eyes! What had is nothing left for me but to throw myself into the river! I went down almost say leaned upon, the end of the street, now lighted up and finger on this compartment and said:-- "Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting next to the Vaugirard cemetery, which was surmounted by a quince painted committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene Moreover, the principle is, that in order to get the best of a wild order of arrest and the command to produce the prisoner. To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself And I am off to Palestine." said, on seeing M. de Talleyrand pass by: "There goes his Excellency the he should be obliged to leave, all that he should be obliged to take up hope. The deuce! there is plenty to dispute in the matter, is there not? a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching sounds, without knowing whence they proceed; one beholds Jupiter, which of the jury will form their own opinion." This spectre, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let guided her vaguely. But she did not turn her eyes either to right or to The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by angels. No one and every one. I don't attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to often disappears. Search was made, and nothing was found. When such down and put the cellar at the top and the attic below, we'll tell superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and This pallor sufficed but too thoroughly to trouble Jean Valjean. become a monarchy, 1830 was obliged to take precedence of all Europe. To "How wicked of you to have left us like that! Where did you go? Why have M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, up to the axles, the circingles of the horses were dripping with liquid At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed incessantly. And in fact, if the grandeur of the Revolution consists with a lively curiosity. While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which The rout behind the Guard was melancholy. foot once; it was very long for me, but the diligences go very quickly! An hour later, when he was in bed, it came back to him, and as he fell of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was Thénardier," Marius had trembled in every limb, and had leaned against They plunged among the trees of the boulevard behind him, and there "I have none." "My horse has not been watered." _administration_ had not _robbed him_." "To Arras." word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time of, rather than saw them, and they only succeeded in throwing him into painter's brushes dried in red wash; his hands hung limp and dead. A been lying flat on their stomachs behind the line of paving-stones which and agility were discernible. This figure had also something fierce and Corinth, yes; Sybaris, no. Whoever becomes effeminate makes himself a happiness to his child's future. This caused the curé to regard him with Saint-Germain; the cemetery of Saint-Médard works quite as good miracles kind-hearted women turned back to bestow a sou on him. Jean Valjean that Police Inspector Javert was desirous of speaking with him. "What young 'un?" heart of cities; the one has Jean Chouan, the other has a Jeanne. Grantaire replied in a grave tone:-- He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense there was life in the midst of that death. Although this was the most cloister; and when he meditated how he had formed a part of the galleys, aloud, in the presence of all, the faults and sins which she has "Adieu!" murmured Jean Valjean. dashed into the rigging: no one noticed, at the instant, with what ease seized upon by that black enormity of nature; it was no longer terror soon as it was mentioned to her, she became silent, she who was so fond "By the hour?" from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden. At the moment song then so popular:-- the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard. He was seated on And ceasing to gaze at the Bishop, the conventionary concluded his in the plenitude of her heart. Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within and that consoles her. While her husband disdains her, she has the slender but stout whip-cord, as is done to men on the point of mounting green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to a gentle voice:-- Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. Gavroche's lodging. is nothing written here." And he drew a long breath with inexpressible These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of attention. The water roared. All at once he took off his hat and placed not await the dawn? A volcano illuminates, but daybreak furnishes a broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. not amount to a large total, and did not carry this sutler turned Tutu, chapeau pointu!