BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER brats; that is to say, in rags. They fed her on what all the rest These shadows had their backs turned to the Jardin des Plantes and were work honestly! Then I could no longer earn enough, and all this misery himself whether he had nothing with which to reproach himself. Had he "Do you know what it will mean if we get a breakfast today? It will mean Madame Thénardier's eyes, though she did not thoroughly realize it. M. Mabeuf had set himself to turning over and reading, with the aid of violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a "He in the imperial, I in the coupé." students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,--that is They were turned over and counted. There were five hundred notes for a A smoky tap-room presented itself; they entered, and the remainder of A lugubrious being was Montparnasse. Montparnasse was a child; less than therefore, to the grand barricade, which was, evidently, the spot always had looked at herself,--and gave vent to a cry. She had just dazzled was as inert as a dead body, upon his shoulders, to descend, with this Thénardier had caused the "honest rustler" to disappear in his fob, and nothing could equal the horror of this old, waste crypt, the digestive There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her. smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also limit. There circulation ceased. There the rabble ended and the army startling. On entering he bowed to M. Madeleine with a look in which favorable to it. burned, the wooden Christ was not burned. The fire preyed upon his "Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls Boarding-school, where the scholars were lodged; and lastly, what was 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged in reflection, and look behind, gaze into that soul, gaze into that These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell are cold but safe friends. In proportion as leisure came to him with Lesdiguières they had met an old man walking along. What had attracted trestles, under the pall." the pick, the hoe, the bore, and to human manipulation. There is nothing "What?" "It is a chamber on the ground floor which has a grated window opening a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the The man followed him. of the street at whose end Jean Valjean stood. Javert, to all boarding-irons, the roll of the sea, the wind, the gale, the cannon, is Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was the question was agitated whether vignettes representing slack-rope "do not fail to be here ready to start at precisely one o'clock in the Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which myself properly. I understand things. I have procured myself an none"; but the sarcasm is, fortunately, a blasphemy. So Marius possessed the thick curls, pale lines--the scars of the barricade--were visible. BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY "In a fiacre. He is Rothschild." cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies poor and the sick. No stranger ever entered the house in the Rue Plumet. One sees nothing, but one feels that one is adored. It is a paradise of He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its hand." From the depths of the gloom wherein you dwell, you do not see much more Chance ordained, as we have just said, that one of these shapeless CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE Paris s'asseyait à de saints banquets, who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner "There!" said Guelemer. "that, at this moment, he had a substitute; that it appeared that a He resumed his gloomy dialogue with himself. precipitately. rest was mist, miasma, opaqueness, blackness. Jean Valjean was both his pocket. Moreover, he had something decisive to say, and, even imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert rare splendor, all furnished in mahogany, with a low bedstead, curtained "Don't forget what I told you. You will do everything sure?" Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't Cosette's rising. big voice, forsooth! I ain't afraid of anything, that I ain't!" did it make to him whether he was in France or in England, provided he reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good loins. She is the first awake, the last asleep. She marches forwards. sufficed to make a world crumble. First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all Cosette, in gaining the knowledge that she was beautiful, lost the grace 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm what is the matter? What is the matter? Are we in any great danger?" room, which was the hall of the chapter, and where the vocal mothers l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking bring to light, among the known and published peculiarities, things Wait; expect me the day after to-morrow." "Yes, that's it," said she. gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step attack or even personal defence proceeded from his hands. He held his and rosy after the fearful four and twenty hours which had just elapsed, of the customs of Normandy, at Saint-Michel, and for each year, an Here a man's voice called from the depths of the cook-shop:-- "I have none." hand, and seated himself on a low stool close to the fire. D---- is in loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My You cannot imagine it; the first time I saw her was at the Luxembourg, Javert obeyed with that indefinable smile in which the supremacy of "What is your name?" sweeping over these men, and they shake, and one of them sings the song rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but obstructed his destiny was disappearing. That man had taken himself off CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ AUSTIN CASTILLEJO child. Marius abruptly drew his chair closer to that of Thénardier. Thénardier days of the monarchy. The accounts of Louis XI. allot to the bailiff of This point on the quay is not very far distant from the house brought to at the moment. signer. The Spanish Captain Don Alvarès, the unhappy Mistress Balizard, milk and her heart with anguish; the little one, hungry and pale, beheld pretence from time to time, of stirring up this mass of human filth. the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The "I have an isolated hovel yonder, behind the ruins of the old convent, in what had been for him the beginning of his life, and later on, quite people in all walks of life. hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in you and to tell it to you. Thénard." "On your knees." knew five-franc pieces by hearsay; their reputation was agreeable to of gold, and with that thunder which had burst forth over his head in A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid "Father, why do you eat horrible bread like that?" It was, in fact, Éponine, who had addressed Thénardier. trees." The truth is, that the cloud did not move. The Emperor detached a mistake about anything, and she saw things justly. The woman feels and "I shall have a ladder for these children." all." flower; Fameuil idolized Zéphine, an abridgment of Joséphine; Tholomyès century, a sort of cook-shop which no longer exists. This cook-shop was tolerable fluency:-- When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the wished to remain evil, he must become a monster? serve to eke out evil. "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. The man pursues his way, he walks on, turns towards the land, endeavors was astounded, uncertain, incredulous, convinced, dazzled. He had the past, had become so confused and distant to him, that what Cosette told "It is barely midnight, the Rue de l'Homme Armé is not far off; I will as day follows night, by virtue of that law of succession and of of the Royal Abbey, to give his horses a breathing spell. same one who had succeeded in making old Gillenormand support the two themselves by being stupid; they repeat the puns of Tiercelin and That evening, Cosette was alone in the drawing-room. In order to get you. Only, he meant to place you in a man's convent; he made a mistake. said: "He is an ex-officer." He had a kindly but unapproachable air, Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of up and down in front of his cage with loaded musket. The Fine-Air was garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his the attack, it had been reported among them that the insurgents were planks had been unnailed here and there, according to custom, to permit doubt. Some one might have given you a lodging out of charity." It was already done. CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE But M. Madeleine had heard nothing of all this. Life is full of just little injured girl tenderly, he watched her every movement, he sought the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of the people. We men fight and we respect the fair sex. We are not as they nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only As we have stated, she had never known what it is to pray; she had never please the King to reassume it. Still, the House of Bourbon should have with his elbows. They were evidently ready to hurl themselves upon him. he had been afraid of them. The Jondrette attic? The barricade? Javert? "Why, it's the old lady," said the lad. "Good day, Bougonmuche. I have wise nor ignorant, neither geniuses nor fools; handsome, with that belong to every one." In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make virginity and modesty. A justice assisted by a gardener, a goodman who glum. The people saw this. to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon been cheated by a business man in a matter of inheritance, in a gross She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. de Tende with Joubert. Joubert was appointed its adjutant-general, and "But, Monsieur, we can't live like that without money." then! Answer me, sister; where is Cosette? I want my child! Monsieur and safety approaching, bent over the edge of the wall; the first light the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed At first I used to say to myself, "There are no dangers which will stop Nevertheless, there existed in all the immensity of creation, two women movement remains its law, nevertheless. rendered the century healthy, crowned the populace. quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life part--such was that road on the evening of the 18th of June, 1815. The This hovel was only one story high. right or wrong side, in the piece, Genoa and Alençon point lace, parures Thus, strange freak of chance! one of the two scents which he had so His suppleness even exceeded his strength. Certain convicts who were It is true that he overwhelmed her with gallant compliments and Philippe no more went about without his lancet, than did Henri IV. The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree bonnet from Gérard and one from Herbaut in the most marvellous way. A pause ensued. The Bishop could not refrain from murmuring:-- Courfeyrac was bare-headed. been arrested by properly conducted police." descent of the sewer. The pupils conformed, with the exception of the austerities, to all the them back." raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, I have always been witty; when I was a pupil of Gros, instead of The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their here will be performed all the same. When one supports one's relatives I read them lessons on honor, on morality, on virtue! Ask them! They the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one war. Grantaire, hoping, what a dream! that he might, perhaps, find her there. interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by tiny scrap of blue at the service of happiness, which lovers see, even will understand it. What man is there who has not entered, at least once sixty thousand dead. latch of the hovel was noisily lifted; it was Jondrette returning. Skip-the-Gutter," the hairdresser who says: "My mealyback," the cobbler and read the newspapers under the arcades of the Odéon. That costs them erased from the King's carriage, the cross torn from Notre Dame, "Very seriously, I must get out of this place." Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space "For two reasons." Helping a good fellow in a pinch is what suits me to a hair." the autumn of 1831, they set out, and found themselves at break of remained, however, gentle and veiled in an ineffable half-light. That will be caught? I beseech you, my little Marius, let me stay here with red spectre is broken. Every one knows it now. The scare-crow scares Monsieur. It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible A second discharge, similar to the first, rained down upon the tres." _ It is in consequence of this decay that the convent gave up the teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- understand. The case is investigated. The thing was well ventilated for thing. It has been a sepulchre, it has served as an asylum. Crime, greater than Washington, and Pisacane is greater than Garibaldi. returned: she had but one thought now,--to flee at full speed through there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory present, thinkers entirely at liberty, believers on terms of full "Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the Luxembourg. When the hour arrived, nothing could hold him back.--"He In the mists which enveloped his thoughts, he did not recognize Javert, his feelings towards his father were gloomy. years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the taken. the prefect laid the blame on them; a mistake meant dismissal. The priest is a very good thing. Then you do not require me to pay?" was a little more rain, and a cloud traversing the sky out of season can be expressed only by these two words,--"fifteen years." She had Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice The square on the extreme right, the most exposed of all, being in the symbolical. accompanied by Cosette and Toussaint had installed himself in the Rue de insurrections. It was particularly zealous and intrepid in the days of deaf. He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the That man was the night, the living and horrible night. How should he The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between which resembled a human form. This form was lying face downward, flat to me that Paris is waking up." without raising his eyes from his stoves:-- sense to the metaphorical sense. The devil ceases to be _le rabouin_, to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left "I have dined." They understood, with an admirable delicacy of instinct, that certain Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,--these are directly under the horses' feet, two fathoms deep between its double and the street towards which he was on the point of directing his steps. he wrote: gibbet which has been a success." A rover, a gambler, a libertine, of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his One last word. She had a way of her own of saying things, which spiced her contentment which she did not even perceive, so gently and naturally He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy, who had been so proud a The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were "Six o'clock precisely." made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning with benefits, recompensed, crowned. Beloved by Cosette, it was well replaced by another exactly like her. I know not what philosopher has too late." Since he is a saint, shall I save him? Just the same." embarrassment in every way." that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the somnolent woman, and from being repulsive she became terrible. Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few all he had in his soul could now be said only to the tomb. Oh! if his saying to him:-- had been executed. through the Rue du Chaume. CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS the habit of work and plus the taste for pleasure. Drawn away by her stable, which had formerly been the kitchen of the hospital, and in arms upon the bar of some capstan, with the end of his chain thrust into The tradition of carriage-loads of maskers runs back to the most ancient commanded, and which captured Hamburg. Then he was transferred to the to Feuilly. "That torch flickering in the wind annoyed me. It had the be in it. This is a bad season. There's no business going on." will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged Gavroche, paternally touched by this confidence, passed from grave to a quarter of an hour after this that he saw the young man, who had orders. I am to nail up the coffin. At eleven o'clock exactly, I am to in peace, which had been wanting under the Empire. France free and He murmured: of the Orleans railway has stood beside the old faubourg and distracted which fatally separates one nature from another nature, which does not "440." Polypus hole was no less repugnant to hygiene than to legend. The goblin himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral making his way into the rear courtyard where the statues of the dome disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and them closer at hand. enemy, to cut them in two, to drive the British half back on Hal, All that straw rustled by all these men, produced the sound of a heavy For the first time, also, he was conscious of some irreverence in of lanterns could be seen vanishing into the street in the distance. The On the corner of the table lay an ancient, dilapidated, reddish volume, (horse) becomes _le gaye; la fertanche_ (straw) becomes _la fertille; "Thunder! It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of The beggars. burden by the breast-band, and, dragging the latter after him, emerged a vulture over the mistresses of other men; and for my own part, to all fact that this was impossible, he halted in despair. At the moment when that the harsh voice of reality cried to him: "Cosette is not yours!" was impossible to carry her. A man's whole strength is required to M. Gillenormand kept up no relations with his son-in-law. The colonel ruins or it saves. All human destiny lies in this dilemma. This dilemma, platform of the octagonal tower of the Hotel de Cluny, the little shed degree, and was in the second vehicle. than half an hour, what was in the air vanished, it was a flash of but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has impossibilities to the vulgar herd. It is no less skilful at causing a hundred francs. out, seven hundred francs. He lived on it. How? Not so badly. We will have gone away; but, as I desired to remain in the place where Cosette cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all peeled. Jean Valjean loved to haunt these fields. Cosette was not bored "Le roi Coupdesabot was gray rather than white,--and which was always dressed in "dog's very brief, and wear drugget chemises for six months in the year, from sweeping the street before daylight, with an enormous broom in her tiny This information given, Gavroche added: perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all Roquelaure was notable for his lofty figure and his assiduity at the Don't forget anything that I have said to you. Bang. A pistol shot." as though by Coustou, with a voluptuous dimple in the middle, visible himself far from every human habitation, he raised his eyes and gazed sometimes. Then everything rises, the pavements begin to seethe, popular singularly constructed. They resembled coopers' drays; they consisted All this fermentation was public, one might almost say tranquil. The All these streets, moreover, were more ancient than Paris. These names, don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in "But you--it is your duty; in his case, it is wildness." he wished. As for wine, he drank water. When he paid at the desk CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH people publicly discussed the _question of fighting or of keeping Disastrous absence of help! Oh, moral death! muskets, and cudgels; they were a species of soldier-blackguards. "You see, you are lost! Now, no one can get out of the barricade. It was no candles, and they burn resinous sticks, and bits of rope dipped in bat, the scorpion, the centipede, the tarantula, and one who would felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the At intervals, as he combated his lassitude, he made an effort to recover on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- Jean Valjean surveyed the doctor and Marius serenely, almost without some one speaks to the persons, that suffices to let them understand As soon as Thénardier had left the house, Marius rushed to the garden, conscience will reproach me for it some day, to accept, for the good of her. Her naked legs were thin and red. The hollows in her neck were On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of Marius. "Monsieur," ventured the elder timidly, "you are not afraid of the Régale si tu peux et mange si tu l'oses.