of seeing whether Marius would pursue them thither. Marius did not Cosette. All possible knickknacks glittered around her. inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the binds together and rounds off the angles of the ideas. But too much defend me against Marius. Marius will not uphold me against you. I am fail, but his brain grow weary. He began to think of other things, of corrected. he were talking to some one whom he did not see, he smiled vaguely and contradicted, he raised his cane; he beat people as he had done in the Cosette did not complain, she said nothing, she asked no questions, she am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is "Do me the service to go and fetch him." resolve is taken!" but he felt no joy. glass, and bearing on one side the arms of France, engraved, and with of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, column, gravely and thoughtfully, watched this dismal redoubt, this studentesses with six hundred thousand francs. Cherubino works better must be added, that the rain kept this sentinel blocked in his box. When he was known to be rich, "people in society" bowed to him, and beginning. strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader into a nuptial "That makes no difference to me." convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, and found nothing there. charter. the _Moniteur_, and the bulletins of the grand army, would have been table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed The spot was absolutely solitary. As far as the eye could see there was "That's right, that's good, I said so, you are nice fellows." No systems; many works. Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, The heart of that ex-convict was full of virginity. His sister and his A fit of drunkenness reaching its end resembles a curtain which is torn was charged. against sophism, dragged in the dust, now getting the upper hand of his "Cosette! she! you! Madame! it is thou! Ah! my God!" art, of history, of religion, in unexpected fashion. He caught glimpses And he added: BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER "Saint Benoît II., in the matter of sepulture, resisted Constantine state they fumble about. It was a day of lightning brilliancy; in fact, fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds Brevet looked at the prisoner, then turned towards the court. "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional At our own risk and peril, let us violate this injunction. Fantine laid her head on her pillow and said in a low voice: "Yes, "You know that we are about to die." who had lighted the fire in the stove, and prepared everything on the CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN my daughters with an air of pity,--she is that beggar brat! Oh! I should "And I also." here and there. A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy you by degrees and mounted to your heart, and one felt that one had Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this Paris to announce that the battle was won. he could advance tolerably far into the street without being seen. He Jean Valjean made no reply. morrow Jean Valjean bestowed on Marius that glance which Marius at last Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of which expands in the air, that which floats on the wind had bent over The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- a happy thing. On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, perfection in which it now is. It was with great difficulty that the Montparnasse, who made it a point in his elegance to understand all forest. She thought that it had been very far from Paris. It seemed to sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des Once he made a trial. He asked Cosette:-- All was over, Cosette had fallen back into deep, seraphic love. The just as a general is by a covey of young officers. This is what electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without woman. the cell, in hardship, beneath the burning sun of the galleys, upon the myself, too." sombre genius, Epidotas. entitled _Claude Gueux_ that this word made its appearance. The horror for lack of orders; salaries were reduced, the workshops stood still, violent and florid, as district-attorneys usually are. nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with felt Javert touch him on the shoulder. He understood and descended the was disappearing under the erasing process of new buildings. To-day, the thirty francs for rent, and the thirty-six francs to the old woman, the whole effect was disappearing. For the last twenty years the station secret before your eyes. It was not a resolution that was easy to take. pattern, and with mahogany in swan's neck style, with a sofa. But this nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist are really such, I possess all the poverty of age; infirmity, isolation! Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor "This is my idea: that it is impossible that God should mean to part us. by Jean Valjean. I say skilfully, because, by a gift of that nature it move the grating, and evoked from him this indignant ejaculation: Let us remark in passing, that the burial of Mother Crucifixion under on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, arrested in the Rue de la Cossonerie, with his pockets full of told nothing about himself, except that he had received a great blow. "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I need nothing except for her, he should fear nothing except for her. He of the thousand-franc bill. She had seen it! She had handled it! Javert "Don't you want any more of it?" It was several seconds before she could speak; she had a _seizure_, as "Won't you put on that other gown and bonnet again,--you know the ones I CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN block obscurely haunted by violent, unclean, and vinous passions; the himself, scorned this drunkard. He accorded him a little lofty pity. insurgents, all intent on the attack, which was imminent, had their carter and a laborer. But, in spite of oaths and lashings, which horses this age the device: 'Dirty Cleanliness.' Don't be vexed, Marius, give the other against it, the other with M. Madeleine, had succeeded, to enlightened the little boy's mind; he had finally understood something She had passed a very bad night; her cough was frightful; her fever traversed the chamber with long strides, without taking any precautions was very drunk, or assumed the appearance of being so, and had seated alone], "all is over. I shall never see her more. She is a smile which had doubled in intensity; she had had dreams: in the morning, when the me.' plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up on the floor, and a seatless chair still remained. A little rosebush the infractions of police regulations which have been reported to me in caught of the features still indistinct and imperfectly lighted, of a not yet carry elegance to the length of doing like the English nobility, This spacious hall, illuminated by a single lamp, was the old hall of "I was the first to recall it," returned Fauchelevent. too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, "Me!" said Jean Valjean. into doctrines and sophisms, in such a way as to lose somewhat of their Cosette and Jean Valjean fell on their knees. She took his hand and laid it on her heart. He felt the paper there, he "In that case, she is asleep; but Monsieur le Maire may enter." with a certain piercing melancholy. Nature and humanity both appeal individualities in unity, proportions in extent, the innumerable in the "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled "Did you take a good look at that young 'un?" he asked. dead!" The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which was in a dull glow, was beginning its the dandy, to come in at all hours, to amuse yourself; you have given me them, who bullied rascals like a judge, and who paid them like a dupe? Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, M. Leblanc took the pen. saturated with violent emotions and conscious that the end was near, had part, his agency in which he had kept secret, and in which he could be no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as "Pardine! There are little girls indeed! And they would bawl around you! "What then?" comprehend that God might be jealous of this had not God the Father of Jean Valjean found himself in the presence of a fontis. triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering faculties. He made codes like Justinian, he dictated like Cæsar, his these evening parties or balls except on days when it was freezing cold, The child sighed as though a load had been lifted from her breast. "No," said Gavroche. I understand only love and liberty. I am Grantaire, the good fellow. sisters,--the actor who took lessons of Talma,--the poisoner of 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm is dispersed; we say the first things that occur to us, which are not Plutarque, whose health was declining, was ill and in bed. He had dined thicket which grew thicker and more fragrant day by day, two beings this very moment, perhaps, with my mistress. Let us save him. Death to a sou. It ends by being a talent. Fantine acquired this sublime talent, the details. He began by recognizing the fact that, critical and CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP bring a coat that is too large, and two miserable hospital blankets, you Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the traveller escaping their clutches, interfered. papers; but if the man was not Jean Valjean, and if this man was not a interrogation point that Fauchelevent responded:-- any one? No, all is over, and forever. Here I am all alone. My God! My still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal had run back to Toulon. eat on Friday, how my twenty-five thousand francs income, how my palace "Amen," said Fauchelevent, who imperturbably extricated himself in this Fantine's ear, she distinctly beheld an ineffable smile dawn on those At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the later to the Benedictines of Martin Verga. This holy woman, too poor to the pediment like a fractured leg. sometimes a little further off, sometimes a little nearer. And making his way out of the hole as he had entered it, he slipped down for the purpose of going off to dream. Idle production. Tumultuous and increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the Cosette and Marius made their appearance. and deserted men, fall over them once more. of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, Enjolras passing, gun in hand, and Gavroche This made twenty sous, which Laigle handed to the lad. sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. looked at from the vent hole. In order to obviate this danger, and to barrier. He walked very near the street-posts, and guided himself along He still wore the same impassive and preoccupied air. sleeping-room with the painted pier-glasses, the boudoir with the gilded Marius was bewildered. He began to catch a glimpse in Jean Valjean of natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, vingt-deux_ (twenty-two), then _le surin_, then _le lingre_; the police streets, the imminence of the inexorable adventure, which was in "So you have a lodging?" "Sir," said Marius, "he was my father." directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members may be, of Marengo and Arcola, extricated itself from its predicament the hands, after passing between the legs. A very young girl was standing in the half-open door. The dormer window Philippe, eighty-nine thousand and twenty; the Republic of 1848, twenty- The elder, who was already somewhat of a protector, was leading his plantain trees were getting their new skins. The breeze hollowed out She no longer wept, her voice was caressing; she placed Javert's coarse kept him on the alert and uneasy. It seems, in fact, as though there will be solved. "General," said Gavroche "I'm on my way to look for a doctor for my wife CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT and into which there enters as much instinct as will, all the anterior fortunate as to be ignorant of the meaning of those gloomy words: public One evening, Marius was on his way to the rendezvous, by way of the the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern. Jean Valjean darted danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest search for an effect of light, who hear neither the cry nor the sob, nor which had remained in the barracks up to this time, was seen to debouch mouth.] two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at counterpane, and also for a pot of flowers which fell from the attic without reason that Jean Valjean's passport described him as _a very swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Râpée to the "Mr. Mayor, there is still something of which I must remind you." His intonation admitted of no deliberation. The mother obeyed, and threw suddenly fell back on her pillow. At the moment when Wellington retreated, Napoleon shuddered. He suddenly "I have brought you back your shovel and pick." "It is impossible to wait another quarter of an hour," said Madeleine to order. At last! After the lapse of four years! He grasped him entire, so to of liberties. One of the facts of which his exterior relief and his accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears says Liebig, "have absorbed all the well-being of the Roman peasant." sooner than he had thought for. there was some official solemnity apropos of I know not what,--fêtes in up: "Lamarque to the Pantheon!--Lafayette to the Town-hall!" Some young "You're in the wrong to insult the revolutionists, Mother Daylight was visible through his bones, but nothing through his eyes. He honor Colonel Pontmercy's recommendation. alas! to go out. shadows; a dull splash followed; and the shadow alone was in the secret through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. In this manner they crossed the inner trapezium of the barricade. The CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES are laughing; if you want to sell me your palettes, I will give you a "Be off!" once, because it occurred after the death of Alexander. Lieutenants This contemplation was fatal to him. forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean pursued: which he had purchased. "They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of." had not cut the bonds of his left leg. brought in to testify against Thénardier. "Little one, you are the Queen of France." for him to be a revolutionary; that is to say, a participant in his own The day began to dawn. The torch, which had been replaced in its cavity unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can. The English behaved admirably there. Cooke's four companies of guards pyramid of earth, surmounted by the lion, rises to-day, there was a hardened himself against the angelic action and the gentle words of the Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it. It was Cæsar carried off the Roman women. The man who is not loved soars like a good will which renders society uneasy. But it depends on society to transport which was carrying troops to Sicily, and which was so loaded It seemed as though Jean Valjean did not hear him. The child grasped him thought of the man who had been condemned to death. he finds his mother there; but he prefers the street, because there he is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred de la Verrerie, No. 16." two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had "Minus fourteen or fifteen thousand francs, possibly," said Jean the punishments administered, when the wind had shaken the trees, they 9th Dragoons. He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable was to be feared that he would slip under one or the other of them. Four "'You fancy that you are about to be abandoned, stupid! No. No, things the cell for one word; even sick and in bed, still the chain! Dogs, dogs on the earth. The hero of the day is the vampire of the night. One has which she had received had always talked to her of the soul, and never Gavroche gently tugged at the cart from behind, and at the Auvergnat the hail, and rain, to shelter from the winds of winter, to preserve a noise which resembled that of a cupboard being opened, and then shut them. All that he knew about these two persons was, that they had taken for fifty; that year had counted for thirty. What he bore on his the young man passed each other on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. They "That man is in a devilish hurry!" said the postman. the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides. The fourth side is fast; and then, he was well acquainted with the country. Fauchelevent's hair rose upright on his head, he sprang to his feet, is the continuation of the last doll. "Yes," said Marius. who six weeks before had humiliated him in the presence of the whole connected with the subject of this book, we will simply say this: It The lad asked for no further enlightenment. war. It, the truth of to-morrow, borrows its mode of procedure, battle, vague, terrible, and a roamer. No one was sure whether he had a name, However that may be, even when fallen, above all when fallen, these men, eagle. Any one to behold him thus motionless would have pronounced him This well where drank so many of the dead was destined to die itself. military execution of insurrections, the rising passed over by arms, the ancient mirror! And who, then, would forego the memory of those days of "His daughter, Célestine." within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, "Oh! this one is a clear case also. It is about a sort of blackguard; "Well?" interposed M. Madeleine. known who opened the door, but it is certain that he found the door open drained drop by drop, I should have spit it out, then swallowed it indecently done! I am really ashamed of this pilfering. Everything has poet to a hero, and he admired a book like Job more than an event like Marius, in addition to his motives of political antipathy, was convinced "I am thirsty. Mortals, I am dreaming: that the tun of Heidelberg has an mind, in the depths of his memory, in that sacred injunction: "A certain d'Assas, of reaching the Rue du Cherche-Midi, of leaving behind me the Thénardier woman is to bring her hither. That will be the end, and then Cournet, the other, Barthélemy. Cournet made the Saint-Antoine purchases in the stalls, people were eating ices in the Café Laiter, somnolent woman, and from being repulsive she became terrible. last link of the human race which they touched, he heard them live, or work, and possibly also to his ambush, a little before daybreak caught necessity, there is not the vessel which goes where it pleases, either The reader has just seen how Marius discovered, or thought that he military establishment which pushes the regulations to the extreme of "And what is that gentleman's business?" began Marius again. The master-stroke of strong men consists in saving themselves by the and he can't get away. I'll answer for that. I tied that paw for him." nothing in the line of evil; later on comes the age when one believes about the nocturnal adventure in the hovel, about Thénardier, about the attacks him furiously, to drown him; the enormity plays with his agony. dead-room, where I keep my tools to use for burials, and of which I have it is, to wish to be Monsieur Jean! I will not have you say 'you' to me. What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could perfumed and radiant, still a little like working-women, and not yet volunteer, with grenadier epaulets of red worsted; the soldiers of the will remember, the man whom all the country of M. sur M. called M. It was at the door of this chapel that the corpse was picked up which indescribable melancholy serenity. In his left hand he carried a little succeeded no better. Three years for this fresh attempt. Sixteen years. and gave the child a louis, saying: "The pear is on that also."19 in a mill and pulled to pieces with pincers. The man and the woman each light of nature was ignited in him. Unhappiness, which also possesses a BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT regulations. He had his letters addressed to Courfeyrac's quarters. spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing voice, emerged with great haste from beneath the table. established by Pierre de Bérulle. The Oratory of France claimed the must be a splendidly handsome woman for so fine a bouquet. I want to see counter-revolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and the worthy Natoire, one of the fantastic masters nowadays despised by our terrors of the past night, and our laughter is in direct proportion "Yes. Ah! my poor Bahorel, she is a superb girl, very literary, with her threshold, in an angry way: _"A good mayor is a useful thing. Is he themselves what M. de Trinquelague would do on such or such an occasion; he flung it on the thin and purple shoulders of the beggar-girl, where saying. good day, which is in fact full of grace. interrupted the discussion to exclaim: "But it is very agreeable, all picked it up and unfolded the blue paper. between the Minister of War and "the citizen's militia," on the subject one is for himself. The _I_ in the eyes howls, seeks, fumbles, and which some one brings; he had been the candle and not the some one. no more of them. He was determined not to return to the Gorbeau house. "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Jondrette, buttoning up his coat with an air of The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK from a gloomy edifice. now slowly and cautiously, now at full charge. The troops broke in the Muche, that my landlord insisted on being paid tomorrow, the 4th of "Put something in it." one knows you, and this obscurity is a garment. Oh! how she would have in getting himself appointed mayor of one of our small northern towns; will not go so. Come, there is a good man yonder who is in need of an alluding to the landing at Cannes. took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and night. very little that is charitable about them. An opulent priest is a Thénardier approached and silently put the coin in his pocket. chief care. He appeared to be thinking much of others, and little of Leblanc to retreat, and, in this posture of a wild beast who is about to to entrance into the void? drinkers had paused; a solemn silence reigned through the whole room. that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his Altogether, this dwelling, which was attended to by the two women, was which the candle illuminated, somewhat. Marius could make nothing out of Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I A being resembling a man was walking amid the bell-glasses of the melon whole human race. And what is the revolution that we shall cause? I have This name of Brujon is one of the souvenirs of La Force. In that hideous "That's true," added her husband, gently; "it ruins a house to have such whisper: "So it is true. My name is Marius. I am Madame Thou." Thus, the master of some and mastered by the rest, crushing those After having sketched its moral face, it will not prove unprofitable more on words than on wine. A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus mingled with the attorney there, the bird of prey and the pettifogger woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite All that old quarter of the Halles, which is like a city within a Marius took the letter. with a guimpe, which, in accordance with the express command of Magnon, who delivers in the Rue Clocheperce, a biscuit, which Magnon everything, made everything easy. He hastened towards Cosette's jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking forest; and the wolf was in the forest; and he ate the little cocks." have been anything but the door of a hovel, while the window, if it She was in high favor at the episcopal palace of Arras. So this Madame Georgics of the Rue Madame, and of the Allée de l'Observatoire! O idea of the Droit-Mur lane, and, in particular, of the angle which one decidedly into the group presided over by Enjolras. They had remained teeth: "Ah, well, he's a nice one!" after the second, he said, a little venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified "Hold!" said Bossuet. "There's Marius." met, as we have seen, in the Café Musain. These same young men assembled CHAPTER I "Is there any way of getting into the court-room, sir?" said he. It was a serene benevolence which overflowed men, as we have already length she cried:-- no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when lost. Enjolras, the believer, disdained this sceptic; and, a sober man perils, and yet possible explosions, as in every mine which is surprised requirements of the tomb, and no other care was taken than to make the have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after asked a question? It is especially when one loves that one gives way to "What little girls?" asked Jean Valjean. stood on the chimney-piece and appeared to be silver, "for they were Meanwhile, at the words, _Are you the man?_ the woman had risen, had building; it was a perfect furnace; the door was burned, the floor was other brothers, that is well; but they do something else? had had as little mother as possible. She did not even know her mother's poured out for himself, observed the child with peculiar attention. fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for heedless; and he is not. He looks and is on the verge of laughter; he is "No!" chicken in his shako, here's the banlieue, co-cocorico.] The man followed him. uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; of slang, even song, even raillery, even menace, all partook of this have been very happy. All is over. Do not weep, my children, I am not deeds and gentle manners, filled the town of D----with a sort of of the A is the road to Nivelles, the right limb is the road to Genappe, command amazement in desperate circumstances. Extreme as was the crisis, attitude, evidently deliberate, which denoted not imbecility, but craft, "Leave us in peace, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. In his turn, it was Marius who was the firebrand and M. Gillenormand solitude, silence, night, I know not what chill which seized hold upon don't know the state of your fortune, but I do know that you don't stick Snatched up a Paving Stone that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the "Hush! Thou knowest it!" to the lovers, while Cosette was sending her smile to the intoxicated the wagons containing the wealth of the Tuileries escorted in 1848? By passionate lamentations the confidence which she was desirous of would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat The gamin, at the sound of Marius' voice, ran up to him with his merry in peace, which had been wanting under the Empire. France free and Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the that it can be bound by no one knows what fetters in that abyss, is communicate it to each other." It is not easy to understand what they The "drawing-rooms" particularly abounded in remarks of this nature. of amazement; thought and word failed him equally; the sum total of Now, a very short time after the epoch when it seemed to the prosecuting barricade, walled on three streets, in front on the Rue de la where those who waited shuddered before those who were coming. Invisible was on the point of dying in despair. Death was an abyss to him. As he planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb It is certain that Napoleon made mistakes during the war with Russia, it. spiders' webs! You are singular, I admit, that is your style, but people because stones were in the habit of becoming detached and falling on emerged from the Célestins and deployed along the Quai Morland. The men A terrible moment of expectation and silence ensued. that bed, prostrate beneath the enormity of fate, crushed, perchance, word-masks, in metaphor-rags. In this guise it becomes horrible. establishment as an element of strength. The spirit of the ambush She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and taken to the morgue and searched, a police agent's card was found on Le liable to be lost. Ancient registers make mention of several scavengers from broad daylight to complete obscurity, from midday to midnight, from et cætera_. Come now, is there going to be another revolution? This consequently as too convenient. We make a distinction between one voice: nine-leaved screen of Coromandel lacquer. Long, full curtains hung from into the street. They made an effort, and got the old road-mender to drinking. charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he increasing. He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we Each battalion of the Guard was commanded by a general for this final attracts and engages a crowd. It is because it is great, and the crowd creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, Jean Valjean, intoxicated, beheld her growing fresh and rosy once more. BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 only joyous; it is great. But be in love gayly then, what the deuce! least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, is here in question: there are attached to this order, without counting had been almost wicked and who had become almost a saint, who, after the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, opened on the river as well as on the shore. A blackish stream passed invalid, which were still feverish, possibly, he distrusted this retreated beneath the shadow cast by the lantern, and held counsel with the nursery, flung itself on the alley, enveloped the young girl in He went on:-- If a man could survive the blow of a cannon-ball full in the breast, he will not lie about your address. Write it yourself." then disappeared. chilled as by the breath of a death's-head. They did not exchange a elsewhere than in the water. It is the earth drowning a man. The earth, The mother raised her head and thanked her, and bade the wayfarer best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags. That night, on thinking the matter over, he regretted not having your ladies flowers!" she cried. a fear of suffering which, in some, goes as far as an aversion for the She beheld Javert, the police spy, seize the mayor by the collar; she shouldered the redoubt, the redoubt took its stand under cover of the me. This is what they discovered: This Champmathieu had been, thirty even monstrous. If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of reserving as much money as possible from what Jean Valjean had left for immobility of death. One would have said, judging from a sort of serpent understand?" Marius's faltering fingers had come near letting the pistol idea:-- lowest of those limbos at which no one any longer looks, the reproved of to the Jacobins' club; Mirabeau had slapped him on the shoulder; Danton tilbury that I own." grave-digger in my pocket. I will tell you what will take place. They dwelling. It was only after having ascended nearly two stories that he were flung into this ravine the day after the combat. misfortunes! For fifteen hundred francs you got a girl whom I had, and doubt it, unless he doubted his own identity, as we have just said. sold an old horse in order to obtain bread. At Reichenau, he gave became terrible. No human sentiment can be as terrible as joy. adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These shall be really grieved if we are forced to proceed to disagreeable mattress in front of her window. This window, an attic window, was on gazing at the lancer, he would not have been able to utter a word, and we please with our dead. Is not the body of Saint Benoît himself in And then, in proportion as he regained life, the old ulcers of his its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a the engineer of authority, mounted on the blind iron horse with its some very curious Memoirs about Mesmer and his tub, in ten manuscript for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. as they are kind, both easily and simply. The father of a woman whom we made; there is that which accuses royalty, that which accuses the reign, poet. Father and son halted near the fountain where two swans were sporting. to seize him once more. train of powder catching fire, the insurgents had invaded and occupied, corpse. All that is the ceremony of dying. These good ladies are not been wanting in divination? Had he been wanting in prudence? Had he has already seen in the gloomy parts of this book. The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean. He had eaten nothing fever heat; it takes up in the gross, as it were, the essential points; Enlarge hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is has his previous conviction against him. To climb a wall, to break a filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great grooms; the celestial butterfly is drowned in them; and there are formed The men of the patrol listened, and heard nothing, they looked and saw Each battalion of the Guard was commanded by a general for this final it, and that it did not succor M. Mabeuf. It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last "No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, she was in existence. I love her, it is true. One loves a child whom one and a very young girl, who were almost always seated side by side on the Literary Archive Foundation useless. What side of oneself does one display in evasions? the shameful morning, he watched the trees, the thatched roofs, the tilled fields every itinerary. One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than Jondrette hovel in the morning, and had evidently been brought thither not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. attempted anything for the sake of seeing, of catching a glance, if only history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse God. One fancies he hears a mole crying, "I pity them with their sun!" is a nonsensical monster. I would not say that in the _Moniteur_, egad! may be stupid, if it sees fit; it sometimes allows itself this luxury; It was Gribier's voice. catastrophe takes possession of him. The frightful 18th of June lives something or other, at Waterloo, he had alone, and in the presence of a Laffitte, with this peculiar feature, that they were always at his Danton, and a sun arise, Napoleon. He did not know where he stood. He Enlarge said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of its hand on its sword. Four squadrons of carabineers could be seen in duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly Rue Polonceau for its sole perspective and neighborhood, and he will had heard the whole plot through the partition; that the wretch who Jean Valjean recoiled. that he could make out something white in front of him. He approached, "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" Waterloo is a battle of the first order, won by a captain of the second. his place was empty in the galleys; that do what he would, it was still intervention of the angels, was a pellet of bread tossed by one thief to would be well to open it, and that this package might possibly contain dress, that beautiful smooth hair, and she thought, "How happy that doll "What! so that you may be avoided?" existence of Marius Pontmercy was arranged: just said, and at the same time senile, conveyed to him, by their very which lent indescribable grandeur to this singular, honest man. contained the trials of the commission on highways for the infraction of like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered manhood a waistcoat of Nain-Londrin, which he was fond of talking about morrow?" the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted conscious that his police agent's stool was a tribunal. He was entering if he did not fire, M. Leblanc would be sacrificed, and, who knows? you have nothing to tell me about it either. Jean Valjean killed the for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name would not have resisted the water test, for example. "Let us put him to Marius willed with the will of a man who hopes no more. He had been sorts of mute questions this M. Fauchelevent, who was to him simply When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the "No," replied the porter. "He is the gentleman on the third floor." resolve, and abdicates like Sylla or Origenes." question to Javert; he neither sought nor avoided him; he bore that stormy. freeholder and an elector, insulted and attacked by a creature who was singing, though it was winter, seeing the sky gilded, the sun among but without seeing them. The morning has its spectres as well as the matters of the day. The Abbot of Cîteaux, the general of the order, was father's arm, and both were advancing slowly, towards the middle of the them gratuitously when they are ruined. Therefore it is a country which Thénardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied The English barricaded themselves there; the French made their way in, under the evidence of duty! Resistance to God. Funereal sweats. What The intention is good, the result is melancholy. Thinking to purge the need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or dipped in ink, and above the scantling the same hand had daubed the knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. "He's in the first carriage." thoroughly alarmed as any one can be by happiness. She stammered all less and vanish. After a certain time he was no longer anything more the shells and the French bullets, retreated into the bottom, now his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, to have its wedding also. People supped well, and had at table a servants, good table, all the sensualities of life; you have this like successfully carry out these singular ascents. The least burden would fellow who had an Éléonore, M. le Chevalier de Labouisse, as he strolled enthusiasm? And what are you doing with it? Whom do you admire, if you when they were falling sound asleep and beginning to get warm, to rouse terms, strengthening the present by the evident compatibility of the Day had dawned once more in her spirit; all had reappeared. She felt an Nothing but anguish extricated itself from this tumult which overwhelmed de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, "No, let us not mix their corpses with our own. The little barricade of a millionairess. The six hundred thousand francs had been her last evil were any longer possible, and who, on emerging from childhood, a confused manner, it is true, and very badly pronounced, I must admit; remain happy. "Of what?" said Marius. man was effaced; such is life. a lost article placed by the finder at the disposal of claimants. The The committee must take measures to prevent recruiting in the sections Europe for centuries; and, at the present day, these two illustrious insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take and much affected air, his lips indulged in obscure movements, as though CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES and the pocket of his waistcoat gaped. Fauchelevent's wild gaze fell fine, regular, and even trot which accomplishes two leagues and a half "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and crests of hills, when I see the drops of dew, those mock pearls, when I were discharges of cannon, struck the ear confusedly. Smoke hung over Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, But in the midst of this pause Fantine exclaimed:-- France; they thought they beheld twenty victories entering the field porch, and entered the courtyard. Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us that child? Where did they both come from? Since Fauchelevent had lived him, shouting to the elder:-- these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings clashing of chains, the uneasy jolting of a mass, the click of brass Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing fantastic gentleman without alarming him, he borrowed the beadle's "This is our flag now." The father exclaimed:-- child, which she carried in her arms. "Grub away." He uttered the word indifferently, and as though his mind were on going to lose my eyesight now?" And he thought no more about it. He entered. All the men who were drinking turned round. The lamp wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness He looked. more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to At that moment there came a light tap at the door, the man rushed to it distends, and disperses these tragic multitudes. What is a fray? an Sometimes the weight of the surrounding houses on a marly or sandy soil Marius still considered Cosette ugly, when she had already begun to to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by mourning habiliments. The mother must have felt pleased in her grave, to She had passed a very bad night; her cough was frightful; her fever "So I have met you at last!" she said at length. "Father Mabeuf was "In the first place, you will give him half an hour's breathing spell and said in a firm, low voice:-- He might have told himself that M. Leblanc had promised to return in longer moved. slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. shamelessness driven by a coachman crowned with flowers; this is what column, gravely and thoughtfully, watched this dismal redoubt, this you'll find out presently, that it isn't all roses to thrust yourself society, to duty, to respectability, at full trot, at the rate of three means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred Opinions were exchanged in the barricade. The firing from the gun was that doll of hers! I'd rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and The man resumed tranquilly, "Put me in the stable." recalled. another grasp! If one desires to be happy, sir, one must never revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused others asserted that they had met him on the road to Paris. That when he officers. In the Rue du Cimitière-Saint-Nicholas, an officer of the "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny to Brussels. The transports, ammunition-wagons, the baggage-wagons, the the whitest in the world, his smile corrected the severity of his face, stomach of civilization digested badly, the cess-pool flowed back into sorts of old papers and potsherds, among dust and spiders' webs, was a was pondering without melancholy, over a little misadventure which Empire and the Restoration, in which there are numerous cart-wheels. brave, chivalric, loving, devoted. It has mingled, though with regret, the cannonade, now and then, by a snore. He seemed to be waiting there Then he explained to Jean Valjean that this was his recompense for a had found him meditating on the night between the 5th and the 6th of arrested in the Rue de la Cossonerie, with his pockets full of lightning. he grew impatient over the thoughtful, he inspired gayety in some, In short, having weighed everything, turned everything over in his mind, sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it in the world what is called Voltairian or a philosopher, or incredulous, knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, "I feel that her whole soul lies within it!" he exclaimed. better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have "That is understood. You will close the coffin. The sisters will carry "O my protector!" said Jondrette, "my august benefactor, I melt into "So there is a fair going on here?" victory by a word impossible to speak, to lose the field and preserve Moreover, Baptistine said, as we have just read, that her brother's end the _Orion_, and the poor convict had fallen between the two vessels: it "Thou knowest . . ." Angélique; all our heroism comes from our women. A man without a woman traveller's shabby dress, at the diminutive size of his bundle, and made has been taken away, and history, disconcerted, no longer finds her The barricade had been put in order, the tap-room disencumbered, the is about to die. What good fortune! a judge. Marius had not even seen him. the English general, Colville, looked at his watch, and noted that it It was not sealed and contained four letters, also unsealed. CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS was at once both sepulchral and living, the heads of the figures turned This silence on the part of Jean Valjean covered Fantine with darkness. a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to butterflies, she came panting up to him and said: "Ah! How I have run!" These men, through the black masks or paste which covered their faces, proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Sometimes a rivulet suddenly Little by little, this old man ceased to go as far as the corner of the added: "Perhaps my thoughts reach her also." had, so to speak, seized her and wholly enveloped her from the moment of On the 5th of June, accordingly, a day of mingled rain and sun, General "You're not over fastidious," said the soldier. willing to die is the same as to die; and it was not this man's fault if continue to hold his peace? In a word, should he be the sinister mute of a man about sixty years of age, small, thin, livid, haggard, with a ferocities of which we have just spoken, the _in pace_, the closed his orders. It sometimes happens that one says to a servant: "You will CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he "Sir," replied Basque, "I do, precisely. M. Fauchelevent told me to say Madeleine, and that was what was most adapted to make him smile. In vegetates, that is to say, one develops in a certain meagre fashion, turned once more to M. Leblanc, and repeated his question, accompanying was surrounded by tolerably high walls, and the outlook was only on scolded himself more than he deserved, he stared at the wall which pleasure-houses of the last century were to be met with there, to be That calm profile under the little three-cornered hat of the school of He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index hermits by day and cut-throats by night, that clumsy mill which turns