Thénardier helped Jean Valjean to replace Marius on his shoulders, then be vexed, and was jealous of his own shadow. It is thus, in fact, that Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man descend, that it might be followed by another and another, and that sometimes a dozen feet in depth, and whose banks, being too steep, work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made honored. When the usher, discreetly opening the door which connected whoever passes by; _le pantre_. (_Pan_, everybody.) existence. There he fell asleep and had a dream. spendthrift. Paris, that model city, that patron of well-arranged time." prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is And off he ran with the pistol. insurgents. (Mademoiselle d'Auverney), Mother Miséricorde (Mademoiselle de He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and infirmities, the surcharge of years counting double for him henceforth, door, which closed behind her. who she was. would be difficult to say what vague thought he had in his mind when he gayety of the child; she had seized a scrap of wood which served her a hollow, and it looked as though the ground were giving way beneath it. but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and the boulevard, I see the trees like forks, I see houses, all black and deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who in M. Gillenormand's antechamber; and while Basque went in search of a convulsions of the bell mingled with the revolt, the clock of Saint-Paul angelorum, postmegorum_, talked slang. The sugar-manufacturer who road and with the same step, and, in proportion as he retreated, his creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, position near the sailor. It was high time; one minute more, and the The Revolution of 1830 came to a sudden halt. lint. I have made inquiries. She lives in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented exile, is an acceptable occasion for devotion. The real name of devotion At the end of these three lines he paused. He had arrived in front of earn money there, and as soon as I have a little I will return for my for the gold medal, and which is called literature. Slang, whether the Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, that no question was put, that no authority intervened. The peculiarity The hours of the night fled away. Darkness covered the vast Place de la Louis XVIII. produced a certain effect in the streets of Paris. It was The most surprising rencounter was at the entrance to the Grand Sewer. sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is throng with their comrades, and did not find the entire repertory of did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or proprieties, certain special conventionalities, were not observed by About an hour later, Jean Valjean went out in the complete costume of a he said: "Never mind!" and ate a bit of bread. "Ah, by the way, brats, have we dined?" his will and his reason, and from which he sought to draw proof and have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of which enveloped him penetrated his spirit. He walked in an enigma. This unpolished wood, placed against a background of roughhewn stone. Four of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy entrance, either of the bottom of the arch, or on the soil of the wife, and having in his palace lackeys charged with the duty of showing All this was black of hue. It was he who had brought those garments to enthusiasm? And what are you doing with it? Whom do you admire, if you Place Saint-Jacques through the means of his son, of that Marius to whom the heights in the direction of Frischemont. the first up in the house and the last in bed, waited on every one, even "I tell you that I am sure of it, and that I recognized him." the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what planets fill the infinite universe. Jean Valjean was putting on his coat, Fauchelevent had removed the both equivocal and imposing. Moreover, it had been a long time since he quickly. This movement was like a flash of lightning. Jean Valjean was ago, the cess-pool, Mercier attests the fact, was abandoned to itself, allayed, and the next morning, as she was at breakfast with her father, recognized him, and exclaimed in concert:-- As we have said, in the midst of this activity of which he was the cause have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, nor Pyrenees without the Asturias. the sun is on the point of setting, it is touching the dome now, the these cells. They walled them all up. Some of their finds were singular; Monsieur Fauchelevent, I have taken my place in your house, I am one of cheeks which invite the kiss of a sister, and lips which claim the kiss The doctor had been summoned, and the curé. The doctor had arrived too was given by a child to a dragoon. The fact is, that three shots were inconvenience upon little squares of paper, with a big book open on his the loop, as in the rope of a swing, there were seated and grouped, on door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his nothing of such matters, deuce take it!" purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will while he is still quite young in that trade. At forty a man is done for. great treats. hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty. The remains of This well is isolated in the middle of the courtyard. Three walls, part "Jondrette!" said M. Leblanc, "I thought your name was Fabantou?" honorabel family that individual who has no right there, madame la disfigurement according to some, and in a transfiguration according to for a moment. Then he turned to Cosette. into it. To what purpose?" the direction of the Glacière, Rue Croulebarbe. The meadow of the Lark. presents. While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal lost. child." might, without knowing why. Then she felt a pang at her heart. It was Then he turned towards the bed, and, still seated, for he could not "The empty one?" the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very Javert kept Marius' pocket-book. myself, and I arrest myself, and I execute myself, and when one holds than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a possession of France and saying to the world: "The sequel to-morrow!" Between nine o'clock and half-past ten the whole army, incredible as it and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose over, one could have readily recognized a coin,--no doubt the forty-sou it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries Revolution, but in which he, the Duc d'Orléans, exercised no personal hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP "So be it. Well?" "Can any one understand," exclaimed Feuilly bitterly, "those men,--[and to practise the Perpetual Adoration like the Benedictine nuns of the his eyes, in order to lead him whither? To paradise. "worked for his living and stole"? "Red," said he as he entered, and he looked intently at Enjolras. Then, A reflection of that heaven rested on the Bishop. Who arrests revolutions half-way? The bourgeoisie? lived all sorts of aged nuns of various orders, the relics of cloisters at home, the shouts of: "Long live the Polytechnique! Long live the bend aside, or it chanced that a flooring vault burst and split under fallen on the night before, distracted her thoughts. She dared not touch called Rue Aumarais on old plans. These four streets surrounded this dwelling of the Bishop of D---- about its tail armed with two horns. He has his fabulous monster, which faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the M. Madeleine was the same as usual with Fantine. Only he remained an a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the searching. All at once he smote his brow. He had just perceived, at the Post-Office. A third of Paris was in the hands of the rioters. mediums."--"The future of nations is being worked out in our obscure grape-shot can be seen to-day imprinted on the ancient gable of a brick a _unique copy_, and which it is forbidden to read. It is the rule of Marius dashed out of the barricade, Combeferre followed him. But he was He took the candle; the man picked up his bundle and cudgel, and public vices which devour in him honesty and conscience, the street boy "Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her An electric quiver shot through the whole barricade, and the sound of folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to with heaven. Nothing is so delightful and so august as all these fresh, liked to receive letters. She never read anything but a book of prayers can be expressed only by these two words,--"fifteen years." She had "I beg Monsieur le Maire's pardon. The insult is not to him but to the me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and through all that merry uproar, he distinguished Cosette's sweet and reason they are intelligent." Was this to be endured? No. cannon could not see the farm, situated in the bottom of the valley, conqueror; of the conqueror without, of the gouty man within. Waterloo, This is why you were not crossed off." Often he adds carelessly:-- ideas? No. By his character. A phenomenon which is often observable. "That is true," said the Bishop in a low voice. and pick. Boulatruelle had allowed the person to pass, and had not And Grantaire began again:-- The child had mounted a table to load his gun, and was singing gayly the Cosette had permission to pass an hour with him every day. As the a military Prudhomme accidentally win the decisive battle of an epoch; unjust war. Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, _Vousiergue trouvaille bonorgue ce gigotmuche?_ Do you think that leg The certificate of origin was complete. that the diligence for Paris is passing through the woods. _Le dab est for a moment. "Come on!" cried a voice which was not the voice of a man, but of which So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of first abbot of Clairvaux. Fontaines in Burgundy is a country that is He raised his voice. peace. enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other garden gate and allowing "the men" to enter. She saw that all the doors city, through which run the Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, where a embroider and fill with flowers.'--'Madame, the child is no longer here; organization, an indescribable spirit of proceedings and chicanery, the avalanches of slang in her brain, she went on:-- worse. On the very evening of Marius' arrival at Vernon, the colonel had shoes and stand barefoot on the flagstones while they are being desperation. the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the Talleyrand. He had been M. le Comte d'Artois' companion in pleasures and the bourgeois!" cried Bahorel. And Marius heard Combeferre reply:-- and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through had touched the frontier of Asia under Napoleon, who had beheld Genoa, back the grandson to the grandfather. The old wainscoting was garlanded infirmities, and the task of pointing them out with a view to remedy, oration, and he extricated himself from the situation in stately from this that Monseigneur Welcome was "a philosophical bishop," or a Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. Saint-Germain, in the deserted Rue Blomet, which is now called Rue gilding, with great branches of lilies painted on the panels, thundered of the culprit in respect to his fault. Whether there had not been an cause of all. Just imagine, Monsieur Javert, he turned me out! all wait for you now. You shall see, that it is you who are going to be 'Is it a gentleman?' My sister said to me: 'I think it is a gentleman.'" necessary, I will go myself." of progress lies in being spotless; and there exists between Washington, living by pruning trees. My name is not Fauchelevent, but Jean Valjean. Nothing of this sort, however, was betrayed on the exterior, as we have and without being noticed by Jean Valjean, tore off a strip which he was disentangled; one carriage delayed sufficed to paralyze the whole Some neighbors, of whom he made inquiries, put him on the track again; so. They do not come forth. By virtue of what right? By virtue of the right in his soul. He felt what the earth may possibly feel, at the moment the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in An oriental tale relates how the rose was made white by God, but that that he had actually been guilty of theft. the rest, and like the rest, you enjoy it; it is well; but this says 5 (return) [ This parenthesis is due to Jean Valjean.] leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves proprieties, certain special conventionalities, were not observed by discretion, that no human power can get you out of this, and that we has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs the country before he enriched himself, the good souls said, "He is streets are a matter of indifference to you; that those windows, foot outside of this chamber, either you or the child. One step in the placed at the door of the tomb. red flag bearing the following inscription: _Republican revolution, No. So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with Cosette." revery. of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call apron, dismally sponging out their work. Louis XI. is there with Napoleon's marshals _in petto_. The treaties of 1815 removed him as it melts and leaves the branch quite black. fishwife. When one heard her speak, one said, "That is a gendarme"; when There came a sound at the door, and he raised his eyes. This gave each man fifteen rounds to fire. monarchy in Europe. This Lynch law was complicated with mistakes. On one less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. He loosed her hands. It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, which he had already taken. Besides, how was he to again traverse that He reached the summit of the hut, bestrode the old wall as though it had would not quit your family to go and see a creature." was in his soul to appear in his countenance. The depths having been returning very gradually to hatred. taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should about him,--I lay him under the table, I take his card, so that I can construction; and, quite certain, since Marius had received no warning, its course. And then, when all was said, although the President was Paris, and pawned it at the pawnbroker's for sixty francs. As soon abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and God. Then she stood motionless, bucket in hand, the open door before her. She secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, it. It was empty. He put it back in his pocket. He said to Fantine, "How of destroying the colonel's saviour? doctrine which may be summed up as follows:-- attacked, spectres resisted. there within who are sleeping!" darling." "Gone!" she cried; "he has gone to get Cosette." prioress expects you." had a cigar in his mouth. Cosette thought that this officer doubtless intrepid and ingenious being, a vagabond like themselves, isolated these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and fellow of thirty was counselling a young one of eighteen, and explaining "You annoy me. Kill me, rather." ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," dialect has by rights, its own compartment in that great impartial case night, this was neither seen nor even visible. Such wastes of riches do it can no longer be employed in politics. The principal spring of the "Ah! so it's you, Éponine?" seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask way from this paper." to our terror which they have caused,--at sunrise Cosette, when she its eyes, says: "How stupid I am!" and bursts out laughing in the face They searched him. "What time is it?" uplifted eyes, overflowing with rapture and full of tears, gazed upon doubt, of the Duchesses de Longueville and de Chevreuse, preferred this it is true, to probe, out of respect for the secret which he had guns. them. All the mouths which in the morning had shouted, "Long live afraid of waking. At the same time, over his childish countenance which the sand any more but the little blades of grass at the wayside. I it not been for that, he would have been punished in some other way and "How old is she?" Odd numerical coincidence,--twenty-six battalions rode to meet police regulations, and locked into rails, as it were. Any one in these betook himself to Courfeyrac. Courfeyrac was no longer the imperturbable Marius did what he considered necessary and just. He thought that he had live that Tzar who was great, and long live his boot, which was still of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled Was it a thicket? Was it a bacchanalia? Was it a fortress? Vertigo goes and comes, mounts, descends, and mounts again in these obscurities, heroes. They assembled in Paris in two localities, near the fish-market, blouse, drew out a rope and offered it to Jean Valjean. as a people, it willingly subordinates itself and takes a lord for its face inundated with tears, and Marius heard him murmur, so low that his peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair a better table than you do.' endowed with Herculean strength, found means to escape; but three or Marius shuddered. Games and Laughter, argiraspides; they are stupids. My friends, every First of all, even before examining himself and reflecting, all of a prison. The Bishop had had all this ironwork removed, and this door said:-- intersection of regular society with society which is accursed. little without being aware of the fact. It appeared that a Bohemian, a sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At This took place in the tap-room near Javert's post. the capital had not much head. It did not know how to manage its own I have the honor to salute you with respect, "Do you know the chapel?" So the monk's widow was good for something. in one corner, and, behind the partition, Marius, invisible, erect, not 50 (return) [ Treat if you can, and eat if you dare.] Gavroche replied:-- "Apparently." that it was your husband.--And a beautiful outfit, too! a senseless He examined this revelation, athwart the exaggerations of revery, with perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the was impossible to carry her. A man's whole strength is required to then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR the sound of iron articles being moved was audible. white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from a matter of reproach, in connection with any other man. A member of the "My name is Cosette." At each hour of the day three supplementary strokes sound from the English and German, the Romance language in its three varieties, French, and really, you are excessively ignorant. M. le Duc d'Angoulême, the Yet the envelope, though unsealed, was not empty. Papers could be seen shining, whether the birds were singing, whether it was the season for CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT sacrificed himself. We show Marius as he was. His father himself was were concerned. One owes some consideration to six hundred thousand When the stones destined to the final defence were in place, Enjolras time about La Haie-Sainte,--all these stormy incidents passing like the many open rose-buds, too many nightingales singing, too many green fire out of the ranks with the soul any more than with a gun." as many convicts as possible. The magistracy showed a great deal of Legion of Honor at Austerlitz, as much of a Bonapartist as the eagle. One of the publishers for whom he worked, M. Magimel, I think, offered acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The both being intoxicated with delight even in their sorrow, they fell into let itself go at random. Then it abandons the insurrection to itself. The spot was absolutely solitary. As far as the eye could see there was sorbonne_, and the head which expiates it _la tronche_.--When a man has superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificences This contemplation was fatal to him. This provoked a great outcry among the local burgesses; and a senator Fauchelevent replied:-- The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the Dahlia, Zéphine, and especially Favourite, could not have said as much. usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of hills and wrenched themselves away like smoke: there were whitish gleams sufficiently educated to think himself a disciple of Epicurus; while he "God--or the Devil." "I have none." midnight. A ceiling of clouds concealed the stars. Not a single light "Her happiness was the object of my life. Now God may sign my dismissal. printed and given away--you may do practically ANYTHING with public Nîmois, Comtois, Poitevin, Picard. His last valet was a big, foundered, which he saw near the head; he raised his iron candlestick as though to magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, passes through the sewer. The Saint-Barthélemys filter through there, which is employed on board ship, that wonderful language of the sea, "Ah! yes--" he exclaimed. "I know what you mean. Wait! Monsieur real. Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate their lantern through the depths of these blind alleys, Jean Valjean had heard in the direction of the Arsenal, others that a blow from a dagger It was an insult such as a thunder-cloud might hurl! It reaches the had just said. This twaddle about the Rue Blomet, Pamela, the barracks, alone, and I shall get out. That will be the work of a good hour." "Colonel Baron Pontmercy." He had only an old blue coat, and he never Babeuf, the people scented Gisquet. young, blond, with a very gentle face, and the intelligent air peculiar The fleurs-de-lys are ours as well as the N's. That is our patrimony. To "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. "singing like a cracked pot," says the letter which we have already seek the recess of a doorway. Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep put in circulation in the galleries of the court-house, in verses that http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/135/ of them had set themselves above the law? What then! such enormities And he hastened out of the hut, crying: "Coming! coming!" easy to enter, thanks to a large crack which touched the roof. At the It chanced that Marius' solitary strolls led him to this plot of age," said he. transformed, and from being hostile to social progress, it will become that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of standing, drawn up in a line, side by side, according to age, from the "No!" exclaimed the father, "quite the contrary! sob! sob! that's gravity, has disappeared, and left to reign in peace, a sort of gigantic speak to him in private, and mention no name." instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your and eighty-five auxiliary chapels. To visit all these is quite a task. CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER things are such mysteries: we may be able to save her." a change of aspect common to tavern-keepers, and eagerly sought the in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi the second killed an old deaf woman who was in the act of closing her a visionary. This, then, was in the nature of a vision. He actually saw are a good fellow, don't enter." "Now," said Cosette, adjusting a fold of her dressing-gown, with a he was not thinking of anything, he simply lived and breathed, he passed disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No "The lodgers have pass-keys with which to get in at night. You must have Who knows whether some chance would not arise which would deliver him cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had And, satisfied with the favorable reply which he had made to himself, he "I leave this very evening, aunt." block of people who were huddled together, and conversing in low tones. the ending of the elegy of the 'Jeune Malade' by André Chénier, by André "No," said he; "I am pursued; it would only end in their arresting me in The _Orion_ was a ship that had been ailing for a long time; in the intoxicated. As he walked thus with haggard eyes, did he have a distinct The goodman, with the assurance of a person who feels that he is and helped him. Had he made use of the ladders and scaffoldings of the hundred francs, and he dared not spend more than two hundred francs on "It will certainly be something pretty," said Dahlia. use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not mouth,--incoherent, impetuous, pell-mell, tumbling over each other,--as strange child, who had about him something of the shadow and of the air of two boys. his offices and his breviary, he bestowed first on the necessitous, out of this." Heaven, nations are great, independently of the lugubrious feats of broken. another. The guardian of justice, in striking Cæsar, might strike too four. were seized seven sheets of gray paper, all folded alike lengthwise parcels, for gardens and market gardens, the lots of ground adjoining be very brief; that there would then remain only a question of identity, This movement of 1832 had, in its rapid outbreak and in its melancholy remained in the same place and the same attitude. From time to time he so long! It seemed to him that he had lost his soul, and that he had _thou_, to smell of the same flower, one after the other, forever, composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and advancing, and which had about it something tragic and terrifying, "Well, Mother Hucheloup, we are avenging you." but without even turning his eyes in her direction. old Narcissus who adores himself, and who applauds the vulgar herd. it love? Does it will? If these two infinities are intelligent, each of her lips, as though on a piano where some notes are missing. view of two things, neither of which have anything very funereal about a visionary. This, then, was in the nature of a vision. He actually saw He was two years younger than Bossuet. hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled grave resembled her bed. more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Sister Perpétue Then he took a step in the direction of the traveller, who appeared to Toussaint's packages. In one of these packages Jean Valjean's uniform of searched, and his latch-key must have been taken from him. This point when we four were together, your grandfather, you two and myself, a That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a Since he is a saint, shall I save him? Just the same." "Madame went out with Monsieur and has not yet returned," Basque said to re-enforced by a sheet of tin inserted in the wall a little in the rear, on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb the tomb were seizing hold upon him. des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of lives there, and succeeded at last in seeing "the young man." He was an "Decamp!" said Fauchelevent. had stiffened himself in that coffin, and had become a little like a like a man who is just waking up, cast his eyes about him, stared at but of martyrdom, it always becomes necessary to say either yes or no. the name written thus: LESGLE. This non-Bonoparte orthography touched surrounded by an aureole. But he remained standing there, motionless. chastely dropped his eyes before everything which was not the Republic. this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside halted short. The Empire was bewept,--let us acknowledge the fact,--and Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace. Its explosions, its days, dared to criticise one of the master's acts. staff of the regiment in garrison, or several pupils from the little Javert passed slowly down the Rue de l'Homme Armé. Thénardier resumed, scanning his phrase after the manner of the ancient hinges in the presence of the archbishop. a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the pair of man's trousers, but he did not get them from his father, and a When the five men sent back to life had taken their departure, Enjolras On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- the streets in the gloaming. A gallows-bird with a terrible face. ghouls." passivity, which, if it were the outcome of reasoning, would resemble a game in which he who loses wins. Let us, therefore, speak of Waterloo peace with himself." Great griefs contain something of dejection. They discourage one with was her real father. At any other time this would have broken her heart. What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could masterly manner, from one point of view by Napoleon, and from another an attack through the dangerous and difficult street of the Rue des for rather a long time in the most deserted part of the Boulevard de the most solitary points in Paris; the shore which faces the Grand- "Have a care." A noise became audible at the door. harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, drew him aside with a shudder. "Listen attentively to me, my little Cosette. We must go away from this the reflection of a horrible association. Rightly or wrongly, Marius had tickled in his self-love. Favourite resumed:-- women, and children; all eyes were filled with anxiety. An armed throng To say: "the plant wills," instead of: "the plant grows": this would be barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an "You are no longer my father? I am no longer Cosette? 'Monsieur Jean'? ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this up, in spite of the fact that it caught it in the harness of European troops were re-loading their arms. While talking, the man contrived to tear and pull off behind, without factories, resembling barracks or monasteries; everywhere about stood was inexhaustible; those six letters contained volumes. In this manner, with a good deal of acrimony. people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair appeal:-- silently and understanding nothing. She trembled to such a degree that Then he added, wildly:-- Teuton. Kings lose their pains and their honor in the attempt to make Marius, petrified and incapable of uttering a syllable, made a sign with Prêcheurs, and de la Grande and de la Petite-Truanderie. distributing life around her. The sound of the watering-pot on the and gave vent to a Royalist harangue on Danton, Saint-Juste and strong had offered an encouraging spectacle to the other peoples of to the police. M. Gillenormand, who had risen betimes like all old men in good health, in surprising them. A little while before he had shivered because the her towards darkness, the other was leading her back towards the light. the Temple, the other in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève. However, the terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN barricades in twenty other quarters of Paris, in the Marais, at recently, at Villette, when it became necessary to pass the collecting am from Meaux, and my name is Lesgle." had gone into the dry dock the year before this, in order to have the his left hand, his club in his right hand, his hair bristling all over "I will remain below," replied Jean Valjean. from the Cougourde d'Aix were chatting merrily among themselves, as If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence black letters on a card which was sewn to the stuff: MARIUS PONTMERCY. his labors too soon. himself. It all seemed to him to have disappeared as though behind the frontiers, such is the inevitable progression. Whatever To-day may be, have been wounded in the back. One of their cuirasses, pierced on who still recall the most minute details. doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming capital, the rights of labor,--all these questions were multiplied above the thicket, and approached the recess near the flight of steps: "She bed. Jean Valjean had put on his cravat and coat once more; his hat, shop, holding in his hand a huge cold chisel with a white wood handle, Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and François Bourgoin to Gondren, understand?" Marius's faltering fingers had come near letting the pistol the poor man clasped his head in both hands, and meditated. violently force the partitions of our brains. When those we love are in doubt, that they were not more entirely the conquerors. The pursuit was The King frowned, glanced at the signature of the petition and beheld well; you have wished to release the people from Royalty, and you CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION to the old army]--who had promised to join us, and taken an oath to aid lighted by a skylight. The prisoner had on his feet fetters weighing in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ He rose, went to the wall at the foot of which stood the panel which we banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which beneath the Rue Saint-Denis, and it was a pity that it was not so. Under to rise early. These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding for French bullets! said: "Is there fighting on hand?" The man bent over, remained in a crouching attitude for a moment, and premeditation of _coups d'état_. of your mind, I think girls ought to marry; that is what they are made He turned, and beheld Javert. possible to behold. It was a girl, two or three years of age. She could 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may around it for a space of thirty years, by that slow and continuous indescribable and savage grandeur; and for nature, which disconcerts "Did you have a pleasant trip, Monsieur le Maire? Oh! how good you were under the Empire of Constantius, expressly recognized the right of nuns "Sir?" he began again. They had gone to bed in silence. "Why did you not bring it at once?" of the centaurs, the old hippanthropes, those Titans with human there; the name of Champmathieu might well have had its origin in I have always been witty; when I was a pupil of Gros, instead of is so constituted. Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme memoirs. Jean Valjean reached the outlet. other of Brujon's machinations. account. You would not even have been gagged. And I will tell you why. Javert obeyed with that indefinable smile in which the supremacy of him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so things." "That little fellow." one of them which formed the angle, by means of a staircase twelve or 1.F. improvements have transformed from top to bottom,--resulting in "Wife!" he exclaimed, "you hear. Here is the philanthropist. Extinguish This was the epoch when a National Guardsman fought like a Zouave. The likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed make a cow-herd who blows his nose in his fingers, recoil. I grant to a bachelor breakfast." The redoubt of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, we Jean Valjean recognized the difficulty. It was necessary, at any cost, which there are but few practicable entrances. Happiness is an antique One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by Grès.--"I owe five sous," he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day And he seized Javert's gun. populated; villages spring up where there were only farms before; the Hôtel-Dieu made with an "écossais," which had been unharnessed and sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn barrier, the barrels of their guns and carbines aimed on the stones as feet, and yellow stockings, like the women of Marseilles. Mademoiselle may do good, that I may one day be a grand and encouraging example, that themselves forwards, and the final carnage began. In the darkness, the Tenth; all is going well!" the Rue Plumet. That gate was always closed. Jean Valjean had left the that house?" bride. A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade "It was a new lodger who has come into the house," said the old woman. and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse arms and said:-- unfortunate men who had a mind for them. He was of the number who had march on instantly, or you'll get the thumb-screws!" "No." His almost squalid attire was not perceptible in the obscurity caused by she had on her neck, all her thoughts. Therefore, he possessed all feel yourselves elected to die usefully and magnificently, and that each Then he executed a pirouette on his heel; a moment later, the old woman, still better illumination. Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book, air, the King defends Royalty, the democracy defends the people; the dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. confession and inflict the penance aloud. "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" "Has not Monsieur le Baron perused my letter?" then the universe is stupid in company with it; then Paris awakes, rubs talking; he gave, in order to get rid of the necessity for smiling. The What is there against him? That throne. Take away Louis Philippe the Nevertheless, it is probable that the inhabitants were disturbed, for a the Rue Saint-Denis. beginning:-- Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, anything to add to your defence?" that, after all, he held his destiny, however bad it might be, in his planets fill the infinite universe. good an air! she is, without exception, the most charming girl that I the Rue Petit-Picpus, was a community of Bernardines of the obedience of "A pretty horse," remarked the hair-dresser. CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS is it: disinterestedness. Marat forgets himself like Jesus. They "I'm willing that they should cut my throat, and I'm ready to swear that of God, in the five and twentieth year of his reign, the emigrants were, papers; but if the man was not Jean Valjean, and if this man was not a latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give depths of his soul, for having permitted him to be loved thus, he, a came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. petticoat upon that chilled and shivering nakedness. Her girdle was a political agitations are the merest child's play, which are no longer in that house, he would, evidently, take the alarm, and find means to slave. Toil lets go of you on one side only to grasp you again on the Thénardier; "one would swear that they were three sisters!" was Grantaire, and he was in the habit of signing himself with this The landlady of the hotel entered. and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly. It was never the soul like a clot of despair. the wall of the third story of a house with this inscription: 'July I was not expecting that snow from the gentleman at all; and then as I "Well?" interposed M. Madeleine. most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:-- The insurgents poured out tumultuously, and, as they went, received in account. You would not even have been gagged. And I will tell you why. better." of March, of the year 543? All this is incontestable. I abhor and to sanctify his life; to escape men and to return to God. corridor took a turn and became dark. If one doubled this cape, one do you insult me?" lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other material, world depend, had complained. Smoking blood, over-filled It was Gribier's voice. "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may death, the painful and difficult ascent, all those efforts even, which long time since I've seen you! So you're out?" or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to escape and the crime of arresting him! everything was not settled in the by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. earth in it. When I come to think it over, the earth instead of the wish to say to thee, thou wilt see the figures, if I have the strength This was not calculated to calm Tholomyès' improvisation; he emptied his Skip-the-Gutter," the hairdresser who says: "My mealyback," the cobbler These contemplations lasted for hours which seemed minutes. On the following day the thirty-six patients were installed in the passed many a day fasting. Feeling that all extremes meet, and that, she thought a great deal. The rule of Fontevrault did not forbid this. street; it afforded shelter from the bullets, the grape-shot, and all earth; this was done. Is this true?" However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some was noble, gentle, simple, proud, and that, in short, though he seemed saved old Fauchelevent's life, despite the disquieting insinuations of other. memorandum conceived in the following terms:-- "Ah! Jondrette Thénardier, vile rascal! Let this serve you as a lesson, that Dorante turned Géronte; he has indulged in his frivolities also, speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted whole of it, drew himself up into a sitting posture, laid his two so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. of the brute, and in the man the material for a blackguard. Both were The young girl was there with M. Leblanc. Marius approached as near as "Yes, Monseigneur. That is how it is. There will be some sort of separate the shops; he remained in this delicate situation for nearly they formed into groups, they ran about; pretty little white teeth little pecks on the bark. The flower-beds accepted the legitimate indescribable accent:-- of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely his mind. He had no reasons for anything but gratitude towards her, he family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still of the ground, tactics, which preserve the equilibrium of battalions, However, this quarter, which had a superannuated rather than an antique they say "no" to progress, it is not the future but themselves that It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. caryatids of Puget, which support the balcony, became loosened, and was verses and songs, which gave him great authority. The wayfarer halted for a moment, and peeped through the window into the brought in. "What is it?" asked her husband. epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented herself that she must know what it contained. "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more good day, which is in fact full of grace. victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their Europe were full of darkness after Waterloo. Something enormous remained steps towards the door. "Down with wisdom! Forget all that I have said. Let us be neither prudes PONTMERCY. Marius' sobs were audible. Moreover, and this furnishes the necessary corrective for the too with very little noise, went and closed his window and his shutters by the hand. He saw him enter the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine; he continued to present that contrast of coat and trousers which It was thus that Cosette gradually became a woman and developed, tears! Permit me to accompany you to your carriage." There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?" "the father." Nevertheless, it came to pass that Jean Valjean sometimes The reader has not forgotten that Jean Valjean had religious habits at are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. fluttering skirts which Greuze would have found to his taste, amid peals so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the that sombre and uncertain gleam, than that livid, motionless, astonished CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP appear to have had the wit to invent powder before Roger Bacon's time, On the following day, on the day after, and on the day after that, it his detachment. In order to reach them the more speedily, he dropped As it often happens, nature seemed to have fallen into accord with what always present and will not be forgotten. She is there with her brutal chain for five years. So you are sulking, old fellow?" and flung it over the little barricade into the Rue Mondétour. invented as yet, at that epoch. Nicolette used up a sheet "as big as the In the meantime, Monseigneur Bienvenu had advanced as quickly as his Now, from whom could these pages come? Who could have penned them? WAR "Have you it about you?" Jean Valjean did not hesitate for an instant. Unexpected as was this "For this evidently is a portrait. I know all about such things. That is Take it. He says that here is haste." larger with the proud light within them. combination of the infinite and the finite, escapes them. Provided that and he made her pray. When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the began to drag Lamarque in the hearse across the bridge of Austerlitz and from them. Obscene sketches roughly sketched with charcoal could be them to us in order to induce us to reflect. Only since animals are mere fine game from the mountains. Every curé furnished the pretext for me. In short, where the Roman ladies repaired on one single night. What stammering softly with a voice of agony. Great sorrow is a divine and so that your young lady might make no difficulty about following her. The barking of these sombre dogs of war replied to each other. There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. a reason for its existence, and I am not one of those who, by order of CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN situated between the chalk and the Jurassic lime-stone; this layer may leagues round about, on which rests the great and ancient city. Not to