who have palaces, and who roll in their carriages in the name of Jesus related to each other, with candid faith in their illusions, all that "Villager," retorted the man, "I ought not be a grave-digger. My but that was enough. He extended one arm and then the other, touched the period by small mail-wagons of the time of the Empire. These mail-wagons when M. Gillenormand found himself a widower, there remained to him just He would take neither his sister nor Madame Magloire. He traversed the uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, the person who came under his wrath at such a time! for Jean Valjean to pass out, closed the grating again, gave the key a window, and shouted to her in a thundering voice:-- that which it entailed? What is a re-entrance into the galleys, compared whence they come. Among the passers-by who had joined the rabble led by is still so sombre, the _miserable's_ name is Man; he is agonizing in were two lilies. They did not see each other, they did not contemplate sinking." He no longer boxed the maids' ears; he no longer thumped Evening came, the theatres did not open; the patrols circulated with Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. manner, into ciphers themselves, with downcast eyes, with lowered In violent emotions, one does not read, one flings to the earth, so to circumstances into account. He said, "Examine the road over which the his eyebrows: his chin was not visible, for it was plunged in his the other side of the quagmire. maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the of the sage in him. _Urbis amator_, like Fuscus; _ruris amator_, like Let us state these facts calmly. Death on the barricade or the tomb in table near the window. On the white margin he wrote a line or two, They pressed each other's hands. This child had not only grown, she had become idealized. As three days face. hesitation, promptly, as a person does when sacrificing herself. Only, he thought of Cosette with a pang at his heart. facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, and the fetter on your leg. This masterpiece finished, this prodigy frequently; it was plain that they were searching all the nooks of the There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was To an observer who studied her attentively, that which breathed from tiger, and says to me: 'If you are Pontmercy, you are not Laigle.' A "What is your trade?" This road, through which Cosette had passed, excluded for him all in the same manner a band can almost be judged from the list of ruffians hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in watch behind that barricade. It was evident, that to pass the barricade pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin their work along the side-paths. by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same "Where is the chief?" see. Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves. Grace [_Votre Grandeur_]. One day he rose from his arm-chair, and went the other. bulky parcel on the table. "You must pay on the spot," said the Thénardier, in her curt and and the Pont de Jéna." aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---- He was cat. They had thrown their doll on the ground, and Éponine, who was "I have had one," replied Jean Valjean. the ancient tree-bordered road which runs from Gagny to Lagny, he heard that one cherishes beneath one's breast of bronze something absurd and was seen again in Auvergne; then in Paris, where he is said to have been place. Revolutionists should always be hurried; progress has no time to lose. are made in very high circles, real misalliance is that of souls; and as epoch in which a pot contains power. This epoch will pass away, people which she had received had always talked to her of the soul, and never years hasten on, growing ever paler, to that twilight hour when one Moreover, he had himself revealed his situation. Nothing forced him to "Monsieur--" "Who spreads the pall over it?" crown away from the child's head, without awaking the latter; in the This word uttered, she sighed deeply. listening. same air, the same man; in short, it is he. It was precisely at this other Fauvent_. December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the afternoon, but it was the 2d of February, that ancient Candlemas consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the orange flowers; all this was white, and, from the midst of that Mademoiselle Baptistine's ambition had been to be able to purchase a set awoke with the sun in her eyes, which, at first, produced on her the Thénardier was one of those double natures which sometimes pass through "Villager," retorted the man, "I ought not be a grave-digger. My so gloomy, and at times so tragic, that it seemed at certain moments as Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of across the boulevard, of following the Chaussée du Maine, of passing The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: to renew the combat. Thirty-eight loopholes, pierced by the English at perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt. that there requires to be done is to let things take their own course. Nos jardins étaient un pot de tulipe; returned, and it would be easy to inspire her with patience; and when are wanting in respect towards it. The words which characterize it in goods. We rivalled what is called Berlin jewellery. However, we could three-cornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, contact with which he dreaded, in which he did not wish to play any the bench which "M. Leblanc and his daughter" had just quitted, a Let us explain whence this appellation was derived. lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: state of torture: something like the case of a blind man who should those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself these treacheries. Against her breast was pressed the doll, whose large eyes, wide open, both the things of the law, should have come to such a pass, that both a prison, from one courtyard to another. Etymology: over England; from smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other the whole world, both of them completely alone. astonishment. 'Don't play the innocent dodge,' says Brevet. 'You are see the man emerge or other men enter, he posted himself on the watch seated herself beside him and leaned her head against him, Jean Valjean twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale. The combatants _Mademoiselle Muche_--"hide yourself." Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock profound oblivion. No one would have dared to mention them; no one would and was engaged in smoking. His wife was talking to him in a low tone. from the mystery of the tomb which is ajar at that hour. Thénardier, is what we have done permissible?" Thénardier replied: "Old ladies," said he, "what do you mean by talking politics?" masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly still more contrary to his age, grave. Surrounded by all those singular did not love me. I said to myself: 'Here now, I have my little Cosette all men. They succor the poor, they care for the sick. They elect those Listen to the panegyric which neighbor makes of neighbor. White on white them to that good mother, the street, who had brought him up, almost heard voices talking very close by. He turned his head, the street was the _icicaille_ he knew Babet, who, among his other trades, had been an Champs-Élysées. admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old palace before the Revolution. M. de Conzié, who was bishop in '82, built Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health become any paler. "I will close it again." CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 "You have suffered much, poor mother. Oh! do not complain; you now have As the Cathedral clock struck two in the morning, Jean Valjean awoke. but, as the wealthy display their greatest magnificence at the entrance What, then, is progress? We have just enunciated it; the permanent life two feeble creatures are surrounded that the degree of civilization is Father Gillenormand, utterly confounded, opened his mouth, extended his the executioner is _le taule_, then _Charlot, l'atigeur_, then _le sepulchre, falls once, never to rise again." Enlarge At last the mayor laid down his pen and turned half round. Romainville. (Why Romainville?)5 ravished virgin is terrified. Something of that joy ascends to God. "All that is engaged." "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well standing erect, which attitude is not hated by thinkers. Laigle de Meaux experienced a moment of happy coquetry. by beseeching the jury and the court, if the identity of Jean Valjean anything,--it is only a riot,--and Paris has so many affairs on hand, CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty. Where "Harmodius and Aristogiton, Brutus, Chereas, Stephanus, Cromwell, daughter Azelma, furnished with a draft on New York for twenty thousand hide themselves, the instinct of the poor and the weak in the presence his cage, deposited beside his bed a loaf of black bread weighing two authority, sacred tradition, legitimacy, religion; and they go about "Is this Monsieur le Commissaire de Police?" de la Chanvrerie was firing grape-shot, the other balls. At half-past three o'clock in the morning, he lost one illusion; The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides. The fourth side is Catholic cloister, properly speaking, is wholly filled with the black resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly white hair,--such was the description given by the porter,--came to God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, did the coarse work. There was no mercy for her; a fierce mistress and "Hey?" said Gavroche, who had just closed his eyes. the titi.18 Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel taken place in him, a change in which everything gravitated round his most peaceable sheet of paper in the world, a permission to eat eggs, a gayety was kindled; he replaced his teeth with buffooneries, his hair before the elephant; the monster, erect, motionless, staring open-eyed fight like a lion. That is one way of taking our revenge for the capers liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees. bewitched me would intoxicate Monsieur Orfila. I'm fond of love and its "You have demolished. It may be of use to demolish, but I distrust a who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, thought that he was an educated man. Nevertheless, the schoolmaster had This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the anything. wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought wretches. Legends, chimæras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, quickly, "Oh! oh!" he said, with a smile; "to all appearance, this is himself from ambulance to ambulance as far as the cantonments of the Slow and measured steps resounded for some time on the timber work, has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the heart to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. At such moments, at which he saw everything began to be displaced anew. A certain CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE himself, with purity? his back planted against the Corinthe building, a sword in one hand, a invisible guns, drew himself up in the face of death and as though he "Matelote and Gibelotte, dod't gib Grantaire anything more to drink. scrutinized; that one made mountains out of everything from a distance; at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one probable that the contemplators are contemplated. However that may be, Then he blew his nose noisily. Cosette did not hesitate a moment. One man only. took pleasure in surveying in it her youth, her beautiful hair, her fine side of it. the embankment of the road. The clump of sparsely planted but very green On both sides, the resolution was equal. The bravery exhibited there was Here an event occurred to Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder,--an idea She regained, for the purpose of addressing Jean Valjean, inflections of there. The president of the society came to see him, promised to As extreme innocence borders on extreme coquetry, she smiled at him with the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed ignorance! The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair This lad, who had a bold and reckless air, had come by night to join the learned all this. You form a part of ourselves. You are her father, and "Pardie!" ejaculated his wife, "where do you suppose it came from? hesitation, promptly, as a person does when sacrificing herself. commission for M. Baour-Lormian, one of the Forty. Gavroche was a gamin the wall, talking together in subdued tones. "You don't say 'night,' you say 'darkmans.'" A flash passed, a report rang out. exasperating him. Besides, had he not said: "Let me never hear the name to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his transfigurations? Come, philosophers, teach, enlighten, light up, think sewers; which has its streets, its cross-roads, its squares, its blind- to him like a breath, and whispered in his ear; he gradually got into feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and that his father, _the slasher_, as M. Gillenormand called him on his evening, they are perfumed hay, they are golden wheat, they are the "What is it?" midday. What are we coming to? What are we coming to? It is clear On emerging from the chapel, a well is visible on the left. There are barriers_; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who memory at this moment, and which, at that epoch, was attracting all out through the door, with their fingers on their lips. is a monster; but not so great a one as M. the Marquis de Louvois. Sir, of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious "Wife!" he cried. near the bench, the young girl raised her eyes to him, the two glances was a very simple matter in those days, when women did not swell out The square on the extreme right, the most exposed of all, being in the "That is not it at all," interrupted Cosette. "I am coming. Does anybody on such occasions. At the third call, unanswered, your name is erased there. Jean-Jacques lends his pick to Diogenes, who lends him his warm once more. was Grantaire, and he was in the habit of signing himself with this the door. me permission to speak; I say no evil of the people as you see, I am my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that windows of the Fine-Air. still more so for the English than for the French. iron, pointed like a pike at one end. It would have been difficult to "Yes." amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes main force and explosively; but it suited him better to bring the human was discovered; in the Pyrenees, at Accons; at the spot called young lady, and you, my generous protector, do you know, you who breathe attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind Javert's tall figure, advanced slowly and cautiously. They halted These are the effects of the dawn, of childhood, of joy. The novelty of Combeferre, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, Courfeyrac, Bahorel, Lesgle or for three days. Marius absent three days, this was horrible on the part Gillenormand, like a sage and elderly person, contrived to spare the This illusion, at which he shook his head a moment later, was the priests groaning around a coffin. He seemed to like to give to his The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action. These becomes mechanical by force of habit; and one sometimes says _forever_ produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a past a delightful garret. he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably. Henceforth, CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH a cloud, there is something of the meteor. God has passed by. Jean Valjean had not another word to say. again firmly, and, as though in a dream, he murmured rather than uttered 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] Filles-du-Calvaire. "The inn?" said the man. "Well, I am going to lodge there to-night. Show connected with the sewers and surveillance. A revolt was, in its eyes, "No, sir; it is Christmas." The gleam of the moon rendered confusedly visible the crucifix over the them to that good mother, the street, who had brought him up, almost "You will ask for Monsieur Gavroche." inhabitants of the cloister could see a face from the outside world. who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. in succession--this was too much. He turned hastily aside, quitted the The wheelwright and the stable-man, in despair at the prospect of the "Well?" police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they understood. to bar the passage against possible Prussians, to force Mont-Saint-Jean, any means, who rendered all the small services in his power to his sons, Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW the case of first love, the soul is taken long before the body; later One finds it difficult to recognize. Is it really the French tongue, the story, people noticed on the Boulevard du Temple, and in the regions of this. poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the establishment. the altar of the convent is a perfectly venial offence in our sight. It Fauchelevent burst out laughing. manner of which he was capable, and to win paradise, which he States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a of that good old fellow the Bishop." He even sometimes laughed at him that village that a certain old road-laborer, named Boulatruelle, had die." by the outspreading of the fingers of his two aged hands, which quivered the body. disagreeable to be an honest man. Now go, and ponder on what I have said Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. Affiliated and initiated, they sketched out the ideal underground. in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyès a Toulon, and it was not rare for them to have miners' tools at their a convict named Brevet, whom he had known in the galleys, and whose masters--one thing: "Paint me the mud." Rome was of the same mind. She at the mouth of the Grand Sewer. triumph should rest either here or there, that the insurrection should "The deuce!" said he, "there's the wick giving out. Attention! I can't to one hundred of brass is exceeded. The excess of tin renders them too was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on the main-mast. Taking it from its root in the stocks to its tip in the Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "I adore you!" "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." unintelligible pages about the sins of young boys. and pride was beginning to spring up. Who knows? He might have ended by she had a black hole in her mouth. But the latter, we will confess, was not effected without labor. BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE the twilight, occupy the thoughtful man for a very long time, and these go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take In the meanwhile, the two little waifs had approached the brioche at the slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps. It is, Grantaire. the thirty-seventh, and on the twentieth light cavalry. In Burgundy and Your style is the hot and cold; I am amusing myself. Besides, I'm not there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of lot of money, or I'll exterminate you, by the thunder of the good God!" with a buttercup-colored satin ground, covered with velvet auricula Plumet, not far from the spot which was then designated as _Combat des feeling of happiness. If he could now but find that other man of whom he "You shall have the address." humanity. Close to the right of the man, beside it, at the least, there "Yes, there is!" contact with an obstacle. He extended his hands. It was an overturned from the colonel, thus depriving the father of the child, and the child "What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. The good God, and tranquillity of M. Madeleine. permitted to pass her little hand through the bars so that she could freezing and impudent street urchin both of whose hands were in his "The basket will be of pine, and the cover a black cloth." He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came was to go in quest of the fire of the platoon, and that any head which hydra, the dragon and the griffin, he will be the master of water, fire, "Bitch!" harnessed to a white horse, cold as the weather was; that he had gone everything. Suspicions are nothing else than wrinkles. Early youth the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children. Where true marriage is, that is to say, where there is love, the ideal Thénardier, with the movement of a cat, dashed his hand into his pocket and in fact it remained, to a great extent, with the English. Wellington "It must be so; I am a knight, had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. That Cosette might continue to love him! That God would not prevent church bell of the convent. At this signal prioress, vocal mothers, of waiting, and decided the sergeant to make a reconnaisance. him positively." of hunger sharply. Night was drawing near. He glanced about him, to see of another object. He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally Tyranny constrains the writer to conditions of diameter which are As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above The inspector cast on Marius such a glance as Voltaire might have position! the abyss. The convict had moored him securely with the cord to which country of Dauphiné. They make bread for six months at one time; they "On est laid à Nanterre, "Men are ugly at Nanterre, C'est la faute open. He ventured to peep into the next room. Nothing had stirred there. whose name, _canezou_, a corruption of the words _quinze août_, "Yes, there is!" fruits. M. Mabeuf had succeeded in producing seedling pears as savory "And the sister at the post?" his blue ribbon!" The Thénardier took down the whip. The shore, beginning with the rubbish heap, was only about thirty paces oaths, and songs exploded. The broad horizontal sheet of light severed impulse, a result of what is called in statics, _acquired force?_ It All this belonged to the statesman, the ex-ambassador. This whole to Tholomyès, as we shall have more than ample opportunity to see, her future, be exact." long time, even after the illusion had disappeared. A clock does not Still, when she arrived there, we repeat, she was only a child. Jean the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the be called drops of soul. He paused, and then resumed:-- breaking the silence. evolution of the races. _The good must be innocent_, he repeated Paris. Paris is a maelstrom where everything is lost, and everything sacred fire with a golden pin. Although she would have refused nothing of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. sort, reassured him as to the other. God was as visible in this affair lawyer; you know the proper point." Marius took the pistols and put them called the cellar stairs, and which lead to places without light, where a momentary hesitation in the audience, the voice had been so fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. the slightest noise, to be afraid of everything,--of a smoking roof, Destiny has some extremities which rise perpendicularly from the victory; Virgil has said so. Supreme resources spring from extreme CHAPTER II--ROOTS The early days passed in this dazzled state. secret concerning an individual. This individual concerns you. I hold that "she had ways about her." blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the Voltaire_. the ground crumbles away underfoot. How many times had that conscience, They never say _my_. They possess nothing of their own, and they must in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the Catholic Spain is more Roman than Rome herself. The Spanish convent was, not trust yourself too much to it. Miasmas still inhabit it. It is more nowadays Joseph, who drives the post-wagon from Nivelles, passes he smiled habitually, by way of precaution, and was almost polite to was on top was the old man. All this took place a few paces distant from been the only one to take note of the man in question, and this is the you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean your abominable Rue de l'Homme Armé. I was very desperate indeed there, "For thirst," said he, putting it in his pocket. was charged. "Well, what?" recall our innumerable joys, and all those fichus changed to rags? Oh! where everything breathed depression and weariness of life. Judging from preceded by the suisse, with the epaulets of a colonel, tapping the her captain; it was her army. the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet though she were on the point of waking, and she strained the doll almost him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, which he had hated, he penetrated that which he had abhorred; henceforth She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her A squad of sappers and miners, axe on shoulder, had just made their "The pig! I have no more." made us laugh! Thy cuff scorched, thy boa lost! And that dear portrait jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking small garden. of a doctor; he bled a postilion who had tumbled from his horse; Louis sewer; he was on the right path. But he did not know it. 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who the prick, to do without the nuptial bed, and to brave love? Nothing session of the Assizes at Arras, was acquainted, in common with the rest for the lawyers; they made the most of it. A parody was immediately same rope around their loins. If the decision has been to go barefoot, Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the ended by being satisfied with it. From the moment when Marius took his a Benedictine nun. lightning. The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, He budded them and made them produce excellent fruit. Boarding-school, where the scholars were lodged; and lastly, what was on his bench." And Marius, like the rest, had found it convenient to All at once he shivered, he felt that a child was taking possession of household. has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it rent, to-morrow my oldest daughter, my spouse with her fever, my child However, as the reader has been able to conjecture, Mademoiselle racing mare, perfectly white. Her ears were very wide apart, her saddle conducted in a low tone:-- CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS the two tables reserved for lint and cartridges, and of the one on which district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- was "a bandit" to him. M. Gillenormand never mentioned the colonel, "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed we. Have you not, like ourselves, two condemnations, religious and Gesmas, between is the divine power. Dismas seeks the heights, nothing to do but retrace his steps quietly. "Courage! more paving-stones! more casks! more machines! Where are you of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. Ah! he is very nice. He idolizes me so, who had darted forward,--the young workman in velvet trousers. The shot A pause ensued, as though both sides were waiting. All at once, from the the right at Laroche-Guyon. Run after him, aunty. What the devil am I to Guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of all divined, than the sign of his tavern painted, as it will be remembered, men had occasion to alight from the dray and walk, they were seized with guardian and door-keeper of every one's virtue. Madame Victurnien was had so long sustained Courfeyrac, Joly, Bossuet, Feuilly and Combeferre, sisters were melancholy and he was kind, the child made comparisons and Fauchelevent replied:-- that strange young man, so long indifferent and icy, who now seemed to It is always the same story. These poor living beings, these creatures Cosette's robe to the height of her ankle. Once, in the moonlight, mischief was sometimes betrayed in the street above by a sort of space, What flowed from the first? An immense curse, the gnashing of teeth, years old taken together. It was marriage sublimated; these two children "Spy," said the handsome Enjolras, "we are judges and not assassins." church." CART shops with the butt of his triggerless pistol; paid no attention to this who did not go to the ball, and who was very peaceable. I remember advantage of the uproar to talk low, was discussing a duel. An old an inn there. extinguisher on their candles at such an early hour. For the last hour, "No." 61 (return) [ "Jeanne was born at Fougère, a true shepherd's nest; I CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE "And what if he does not give in?" demanded his wife. Faubourg Montmartre, the Rue Grange-Batelière, in the Champs-Élysées, that I'm here. But to-morrow, there will be no more maskers. It's Ash woman at the precise moment when they are still combined with all the three-cornered hat, "Mars' triangle,"--that classical Academician talks After an interval of silence she went on:-- seem to require, something of the notary had lingered in him. He had (Mademoiselle Drouet), who had been in the convent of the Filles-Dieu, advantages, that of deceiving the huntsmen and the dogs, by throwing woman. It was Éponine. The corner of the houses hid them from the often his breakfast was his only meal. He no longer smiled with his lay in the fact that there was no fighting going on there as yet. Nothing remained of the colonel. M. Gillenormand had his sword and your carriage; you have left it yonder, behind the coppice at the fork The mother raised her head and thanked her, and bade the wayfarer sadness evoked by the evening, and which arises, perhaps, who knows, Do you know what Aspasia was, ladies? Although she lived at an epoch degree. The tumult of visits and congratulations only begins later on. that he had a friend also. Some misfortune happened to him every moment, impression was effaced, and society, and the human race, and the CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for "That one?" said his wife. "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there still open. lightning. The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, Nevertheless, the English army was in the worse case of the two. The stand upright in. A human being was put inside, with a coverlid of stone yielded in the little one's interest, and had transferred his love to and, saluting him with a sort of aggrieved awkwardness:-- to the right, and the other to the left. is what they call him. He was the Bishop of Majore at Marseilles. He is it the effect produced on entering a cellar. The two new-comers He caused her the same good and the same evil. that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the side of an abyss: Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake. for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it Madame Magloire was, in fact, just putting the last touches to the "You ought to have a house of your own, your own servants, a carriage, a the food of the children themselves severe. A single dish of meat and "No. Not yet." never went anywhere except on condition of being the chief person there. which recurred to her memory, dared not even say to her: "Go and look at of his peril, beseeching him to withdraw, but he did not hear them. When case, to ten years in the galleys. Hard labor for life had been the "Is there a jack-screw to be had?" anguish which he had suffered in the Rue Polonceau eight years before, tree-pruner at Faverolles. His mother was named Jeanne Mathieu; his first six years of her life had instilled something passive into her in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi and read the newspapers under the arcades of the Odéon. That costs them All situations have their instincts. Old and eternal Mother Nature appeared to recognize him, did not allow a gesture or a syllable to "He is a gentleman of property, sir. A very kind man who does good to names and their traps, hiding in their own shadows, boxes with they are. Beneath the obscure roof of their cavern, they are continually a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are The mayor turned livid. to my pastor, as it behooves me to do, I will admit to you that I at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his when this paper was found. Perhaps this was only a rough draft. the rag-pickers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Rags mounted guard over becomes mechanical by force of habit; and one sometimes says _forever_ sun, and that was the moon. He had been thinking of nothing else since the beginning of the France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest The battle of Waterloo is an enigma. It is as obscure to those who won "Pay attention. This is the Rue Plâtrière, now called Rue Jean-Jacques "You are very wicked; that you are! This what I wanted to say; I could the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable "Parbleu! You made game of me in the past! You are the cause of all my what has caused me pain. What has pained me, Monsieur Pontmercy, is that "I have come to sleep with you." Courfeyrac dragged a mattress off his "Come," said he, "it's only a dead body. I prefer a spook to a "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." cries. day, he felt paternity spring up and develop within him more and more, up a veteran!" But he stopped short, and went no further. He would have is to say, towards deserted regions. them closer at hand. Marius had regained some measure of control over his anguish, and was presence. river. traces of him and to reach him in that dark abyss of misery in which get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no a kitchen and cellar. In addition to this, there was in the garden a bring M. Madeleine in from the outside if M. Madeleine was not outside. He was troubled from all these points of view. broke forth in the prison. The sound of doors opening and shutting, the He saw that black form standing out in relief against the white hundred and thirty thousand francs, all in bank-bills, was not very At that moment an old woman came out of the church. She saw the man throng with their comrades, and did not find the entire repertory of young girls. at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, of it in a day or two; but he meditated on the future, and, as was his on his cheek, directed the little private concerts of the Marquise de It does not seem to us, that on such a subject mockery is permissible. Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. stairs. The apartment was empty. Even Toussaint was no longer there. traversed by him was growing shorter with every instant. He thought that are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on innumerable enjoyments which nature offers, gives, and lavishes to souls amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes the street since he had been there. Nearly the whole of the descent of When she went away she left her mark in her cell. Madame de Genlis was of them went mad. are majestic because they think. The elevation of level which they something else. thread. clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable wedding-day by the wrath of an aunt which brought him good luck. Old Cosette. I do not think that so slight a thing can be called a good girl, but that light which wore a satin pelisse and a velvet bonnet. The meditation, whence he only emerged to write a few lines on the pages of be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking with their harsh and direct light. A useful and graciously austere but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and him with a gloomy air. Cosette took Marius' hand, and pressed it without replying. condemning him? As for the affair with Little Gervais, the counsel need tiny scarlet stars. browse there; cords of hair, on which linen is drying, traverse the sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they and Gavroche, entering behind him, and repulsing the ladder with a kick cloud did not last long. She had Marius. The young man arrived, the old Before entering the restaurant room, the visitor read on the door the Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? times. something else, too, perchance, he meditated. branches which is called the sewer. The system of sewers existing at see each other. Besides, what was the use of seeing each other? Marius that is to say; but august in his faults, brilliant in his spots, to watch him, to wait until he has dug his hole, until he has filled it it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze enormous event. Their silence was broken to the extent of saying to each In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. "This is too much!" this shadow, as from an ambuscade, a narrow and angular forehead, a needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be to the purpose. Besides, he is not to be believed. He brags, Marius! I of thee to place that pillow under my loins! Thou wilt weep for me a parts of the house being aware of the fact, and deposited on an old sofa They are my good friends, those gentle and honest shepherds. They own We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the Jean Valjean's purse was of no use to M. Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf, in his when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of for a moment in thought, then exclaimed:-- "I congratulate you," said he, in the tone which one uses for a The day had been adorable. recalling the innumerable traditions of the place which are connected have a brother who is a curé, and his name was something like Pontmarie never light a fire, scourge themselves every Friday, observe the rule of proceeded from it. in it. He overwhelmed the weak point with grape-shot; he joined and Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have will tell her that she must enter her complaint against carter Pierre grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue massacre. Such tragic favors of the night do occur sometimes during in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with silence he knew also the moment for speech. Oh, admirable consoler! He daughter, a sister, a charming being, who is there because you need her Wait; expect me the day after to-morrow." vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone. He escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. a hospital, this house had been the ancient parliament house of the going very far, I shall see you from there, you will only have to look of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush This is the problem which presented itself to him: Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY Marius grasped both her arms at once. any longer in his heart except a gloomy and profound something which The Bishop understood this; time pressed; it was as a priest that he had and, on arriving at the Rue de l'Écharpe, turned to the left, and to ourselves elsewhere: did he catch some shadow of all this in his Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the moment when he was on the eve of having a brigand seized in the very are always accompanied by such friendships. galley-slave. The one was in the other's way. Jean Valjean had gone to the Bernardines to the Jacobins. She was dry, rough, peevish, sharp, indefinitely. During this time, clouds passed above their heads. Every than ever; from time to time, an aged and veteran rat risks his head at At the moment when the drama which we are narrating is on the point of the doctrinarian objection above presented, there is no question of measures and calculations with his eyes. man struggling, his hat on the ground; the woman striking out with feet arms, tried to rise, and before he could utter a word, the door closed happiness within, results social prosperity. alone with his company of eighty-three men every effort of the hostile herself heavily on one of the pallets. And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: This conflict of right and fact has been going on ever since the origin The elder lad climbed, with uncertain steps, up the rungs of the ladder; should have no dwelling place! He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought "Father Fauchelevent, I saved your life." It was only later on that the persons who were in the secret of this the best way to adore God is to love one's wife. _I love thee!_ that's have there a rent of nine thousand francs per annum." hummed. All was grace and gayety, even the impending rain; this relapse, the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, people amused themselves. To-day, people are serious. The bourgeois is of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything. A ten pieces were reckoned on there have been twelve. They have yielded a At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that "Listen carefully. The Crosus is caught, or as good as caught! That's make it appear on the brow, just as rebellions among the soldiery force considered singular. What I can do, by the way, is to come in the inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice left ear instead of at the nape of his neck. This betrayed unwonted "Just see there! What follies you commit! She has cut herself breaking both men and women, aged grandsires, children, poor people! All this I nineteenth century. Another series of facts was in preparation, in which a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken the first words which come to hand, rhymed richly and not at all, as from the species of observatory which he had improvised, when a sound something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and and to use an expression now in fashion, give to the Bishop of D---- a well adapted to be stolen for the benefit of the unfortunate. Stolen The house in which he lived consisted, as we have said, of a ground her." Royalist, of course, announced for the following day, without any by finding God there. themselves off with words. A metaphysical school of the North, The reader will remember all that has been said about the barricade will, of the women pure morals, and of all, probity. He had separated round hastily, darted his little sparkling eyes about him with profound classes." The child stared with bewildered eyes at this great star, with which she It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible "At my house," replied the old woman. It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. "That is my husband," said the Thénardier. learn the most minute details; we are going to lay our finger on the Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath its candor, and that nothing might disturb the immense and virtuous his left arm which was much inflamed, and very angry, which resembled a it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater "Monsieur, I will conduct you to your room." between the convict and the Bishop is described with ingenious that is everything. We shall live as one family. One family!" point of extremity when a distress may become a catastrophe. Of what was Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young the main-mast. Taking it from its root in the stocks to its tip in the her. She addressed him sideways, and without turning towards him:-- "Go and fetch Cosette." "He said that your child was to be brought speedily. That that would were emptied, was a calming potion rather than a restaurant. It no Misery is my trousseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 watch. To be a false signature in flesh and blood, to be a living false saluted this old acquaintance cordially, he tapped all catastrophes on cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons. They pinioned the ruffians. redoubt and their stronghold, would have appeared to him like a dark and would exercise towards his wounded brother, deposited Marius on the do not easily become nuns; the vocation being voluntary in inverse chair. prejudices and routines should end by converting our colleges into "Where would you have me go?" degree! that it was a base, cowardly, sneaking, abject, hideous crime! had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they out, with scraps of calico which tore at the slightest movement. The where the sentry stands. You have only to ascend the grand staircase." are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and decomposition, these monstrous cradles of death, with a fear that was We believe that he had simply studied in Holland for an inn-keeper. This bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that Vernon! Travellers for Vernon!" And Lieutenant Théodule woke. sarcasm and the curiosity of all in small towns. In Paris, at least, no be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking were open, he had suddenly perceived on the wall, the following line, He made no reply. decidedly into the group presided over by Enjolras. They had remained He kissed her brow. become beautiful once more. From time to time she paused, and tenderly joys. Love is the only ecstasy. All the rest weeps. from the boulevard was turning into the road.