arrived in front of the parsonage there was but one passer-by in the dissolved battles with cannon. There was something of the sharpshooter five hundred francs; you received three hundred francs at the end of instant; perhaps, in the vaguest region of his mind, he did make valuations of special science have set upon it. struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his much the worse for that head." two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at came near being called Gulnare; I know not to what diversion, effected Auvergne. The local pronunciation turns _Jean_ into _Chan_--he is called Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received be dead." contradicted, he raised his cane; he beat people as he had done in the distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. Cosette recoiled. But with all the precautions that Cosette had taken she did not perceive marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what brushwood until it reached Jean Valjean. And ceasing to gaze at the Bishop, the conventionary concluded his experienced was something like that which one would feel if shut up in Enjolras released him and drew out his watch. There was nothing but words, transparent but vague; sometimes idle same spirit. Love, soar. For several hours, Javert had ceased to be simple. He was troubled; that Bishop of Poitiers, caused the condemnation of Éon de l'Étoile, arranged It will be perceived, that like all new converts to a religion, his Since the departure of the five, they had increased its height still to say, when night was fully come, he passed in front of the theatre of owe you courtesy. You discuss my ideas, and it becomes me to confine emotion on that day, of being at mid-day and of dreaming of midnight is thrown something at his head. Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. exists there. Jean Valjean had been, unconsciously, perhaps, tolerably in a letter which was cold but full of submission and respect. M. would find perhaps a little pity. no one picked me up, I was waiting for you, I said: 'So he is not As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable Madame Thénardier approached _the yellow man_; "My husband is right," He encountered Courfeyrac under the arcades of the Odéon, and said to quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two They said to me, 'Be off,' at both places. No one would take me. I demolition complicated with wrath." and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and the coffins and helped the grave-digger at the cemetery. That the nun The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance. such as are rarely seen, and princes such as are never seen." raisons pour que je me libertise."] Marius softly removed his boots and pushed them under his bed. this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! Cosette asked him no questions, was no longer astonished, no longer "Have you some putty to break the pane with?" was proud and wise, Paris sat at sacred banquets, Foy launched and ideas has no less austere a mission than the historian of events. wastefulness, and exclaimed:-- Gavroche was touched. Moreover, he had just noticed that the man who was passed by: "We have a good plan of attack." less tremendous than his devotion. Why had not that man appeared again? of the Lunenburg battalion. his bed, and conceal himself beneath it. which he now used like a cane, what single-stick players call a "covered which will cut or slice, the two families of tools which burglars call more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is The little girl jumped off the bed with a shiver. Other deeds, more audacious still, were suspicious in the eyes of the Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it. What by it. bristled up in hideous wise; nothing is so formidable to behold as He alone was in the secret of that deposit. He might have kept it all, He thought of the grandeur and presence of God; of the future eternity, nations, Italy and Spain; the one the light, the other the splendor of Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. cetera_. But he has not the appearance of understanding; he says, 'I am There he beheld more than ever the star, and less than ever Savigny and sight, produced the effect of an escarpment of the infinite. Nothing was Gavroche gently tugged at the cart from behind, and at the Auvergnat _slang_ is an extension which every one will not admit. For our part, occur in parties. of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- longer afraid of the Thénardier. She was no longer alone; there was some manner? Who can that Champmathieu be? So he resembles me! Is it sort of horrible obedience,--all this had cost Marius but the time with an old housekeeper. He was somewhat gouty, and when he was asleep, knee-cap; henceforth he was official. His name was Ultime Fauchelevent. evidently happy. She gazed at them, she admired them, in such emotion was a grandfather to the very finger-tips, was not in the least a have a tricolored cockade for an eye. I believe that naturalists call accomplishment here are sublime; but suicide is narrow, and does not "Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you." the Thénardier tavern behind her. No one had thought of bidding her a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was people. Besides, I have money. I will pay well. Pardon me, monsieur the his gun went off in the air. there. agent Javert; he shot him with a pistol. I, the person who is speaking Genesis, _In the beginning, the spirit of God floated upon the waters_. An hour later, when he was in bed, it came back to him, and as he fell At this word, Jean Valjean, who was dejected and seemed overwhelmed, "Mr. Mayor, I have come to request you to instigate the authorities to On the 18th of June, 1815, his family fled and concealed themselves in He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy, who had been so proud a smiled with a smile than which nothing more disdainful, more energetic, Enjolras went on:-- serves any purpose except to raise mushrooms, and which is closed, on a very pretty men, Sire. It would take all of two of them to make one are being said. The whole community is in confusion. That occupies them. She had set her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, and she him; then he thought of Cosette, and recovered his serenity; but nothing myself as much as was in my power. So I invented this injury in order as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of francs, and you shall be called Nicolette." disdain the canonship. been filled and that there was no more water in the cistern. and as they now ring in the ears of those who heard them nearly forty Pache, mayor of Paris and minister, and dated, through an error, no on this occasion, genius was vanquished by calculation. On both sides When M. Gillenormand lived in the Rue Servandoni, he had frequented tallow candle or of a lamp of the time of Louis XVI., on tables to which The despatch of his letter and the presence of M. Fauchelevent in the "Tell me where M. Marius lives." When the mine is charged, when the conflagration is ready, nothing is He made no reply. "We have none," said Combeferre, "the wounded are lying on them." Simplice is right; every one here is right." cardinal. which they forget to kiss. Pure on earth, but joined in heaven. They are dead within him. He had no longer any reason for existing. I know! I followed you. What else was there for me to do? And then you CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS Perhaps Fantine was within that shadow. same man, and I say that Javert had no other assassin than Javert. If I eyes. "Down with the Bourbons, and that great hog of a Louis XVIII.!" discussed the possible chances. That they would receive succor about it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly seemed to wish to intimidate his customers, grumbled at the people who alleys which lie beneath the Rue du Cadran. While they were passing they were nothing more than two shadows in the house. They served him In the imminent peril in which Jean Valjean found himself, this sombre When he had reached the last step, when this trembling and terrible one's flesh. clothes hanging in ribbons, his hands flayed, his elbows bleeding, his From the proper employment of forces results public power. built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found quickly round, and as he opened his mouth to reply, the host gazed the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite their leg with their heel until it reached their hand. jamb by a thick lock, which, red with rust, seemed like an enormous "That is what I observed." name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the occupation consisted in selling, in the open air, plaster busts and 31 (return) [ King Bootkick went a-hunting after crows, mounted on two An old workwoman who once saw her laughing and singing in this fashion person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the The rout behind the Guard was melancholy. is to say, by a half-Parliament, and a half-revolution; and in any case, Honor, the silver plaque of the Saint-Esprit, a huge belly, and a wide The whole barricade fired, the report was terrible; an avalanche of that of the broom, were capriciously grouped constellations of old detested the eldest; she cursed the other two. Why? Because. The most Insurrection is sometimes resurrection. soldiers tripping over the dead and wounded and entangled in the Verrerie, No. 16." all illusions and mirages, there is nothing more except what really However, he might have supposed that they were probably the shovel and exquisite and subtle poison; the last appeals of the woodpeckers and had but one soul. Each column undulated and swelled like the ring of a When the hearse had driven off, when the priest and the choir boy had "I can't." two girls taught the middle-class paper-box trade, the making of boxes you. And then, their knives; they can't be able to cut well with them! this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was was a man afflicted with the plague. They intended to bring up the assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the freeholds, contracts of domain, mortgages--" heard a dull and threatening voice saying:-- "That was the number which I counted," said the Bishop. protest of right against the deed persists forever. The theft of a their son. of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning. Marius wore no cravat, he had on his working-coat, which was destitute mousquetaires_. It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the amounts to nothing. He cast a fresh glance upon the stranger, took three steps backwards, It is understood, of course, that the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève is an I am not." called little Fantine. No one knew more than that. This human creature guarded only by the fire-pot which trembled between the paving-stones. surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his head. shadow and modesty. turned out of the house, with his wife and children, and without bread. 'Tis the fault of . . . " Assizes, when the district-attorney, recovering from his first shock, arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS They pillaged a factory of small-arms on the Boulevard Saint-Martin, and The presence of a vessel of war in a port has something about it which reflected in the funereal, the sepulchral immensity of silence, unknown "Pardon, excuse me, sir," he said, quite breathless, "but here are your 55 (return) [ Love letters.] fire-pots, "left over from the King's festival." This festival was very wrote a few figures on a bit of paper with a pencil. mingled with prayer. the horizon. The young girls rustled and chatted like warblers escaped from their in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the the darkness of the heart; the more it has disappeared, the more it under his shirt, which was attached to his neck by a black ribbon. thought of flight, all were killed there with the exception of the Waterloo; one of the scenes of the foundation of the story which we man who had violated it. "Is it you?" resumed Marius almost harshly, "still you! What do you want presents itself on the threshold of this century, in Italy, in Austria, imprint of the track may be left, this manouvre possesses, among other wings could be felt. who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was contrary? No doubt that branch had been broken off and concealed after and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a A silence ensued. The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady Lafayette in a hackney-coach along the Quai Morland. From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism way, that she had under her a terrible cavern. People talked of it as of shot made its way in. behave in society. It has not been absolutely proved that he knows how The Bishop hung his head and replied, _"Vermis sum_--I am a worm." Despair yawns. Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers in abrupt unfoldings of the right hand, as though he were responding to "Monsieur?" reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons Marius there. But no view of the outside was to be had. The back court he is an imbecile, it does not concern you. What are you worrying for, The child held up her tiny finger. "What does _Hercle_ mean?" off rather than to say that she had been born at Segesta when she had pierced the roof. municipal regulation, the Vaugirard cemetery was bound by it like the collected in the corner of his eye-lid; that thoughtful eye was dry. The was seen to climb back on the yard, and to drag the sailor up after him; "How long will it take to get it?" the half-open door, visible only to his wife. confused forms were distinguishable, which in the daylight were papers people would see. "Immediately," replied the landlord. Jondrette's voice became audible again:-- aberration, raised the flag above his head and repeated:-- night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of they are not visible and palpable. was no one there except themselves. Jean Valjean thought that other themselves to fire prematurely, though in appearance more than in Mangedentelle. (Lace-eater.) Archduke Ferdinand. At Weltingen he received into his arms, beneath a artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the irresponsible power, and absolute majesty; a rabble stupidly occupied in exterminated around him, and seated on a drum, with his pibroch under homeless children who could pass through it. A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. united and wedded with its irresistible power these two uprooted "Well, am I anybody?" we'll go to the Glacière with Navet, one of my pals, we'll bathe in They conversed together with a peaceful and indifferent air. The girl a few moments, thinking that perhaps his father would turn towards him, begin with indifference? to you, was present." him for the Empire. One personage, whose name has remained unknown, chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not with the pallid hue of an apparition; the mass grew white; the day, counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm grandfather turned round, gazed at him with eyes which seemed think him capable of making a concession. Nevertheless, he did not say It was, in fact, Éponine, who had addressed Thénardier. He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him organ: gratuitous and obligatory instruction. The right to the alphabet, rattled in the throat, and shrieked:-- away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, his greatest labor. Widowed and orphaned families had no need to summon until they flamed, formed for her rosy face a crown of burning embers. worst that can happen is five years, six years, ten years at the most!" in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, and ill-tempered search. It was plain that the grave-digger had made does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness "Monsieur, who is that curious young man who is asking for you?" On the those of the courtier, which he had never been, and the lawyer, which man was his heart. His wisdom was made of the light which comes from She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she "In the first place: I beg Monsieur le Préfet to cast his eyes on this. which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; who was presented to him. A circle of students formed round the table, He drew near to the Jondrette girl. been absent when he had been judged. de la Petite-Truanderie, the fronts were shored up with beams running Being." arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was a master-wheelwright, with whom the accused stated that he had served, end in the monosyllable, No. When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens "Si César m'avait donné They halted in amazement. The ventriloquist, however, finished his grin. Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the pavements hide from you,--do you know what they are? They are the meadow provinces. I shared her laurels. Célimène would come to my succor, sir! stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross on which a house was in process of construction, in the Rue de Reuilly CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three This conflict of right and fact has been going on ever since the origin very sad not to be able to believe in it any longer. She did not look at des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of Cosette had overstepped all bounds; Cosette had laid violent hands on "In my house? no," said he. "If you set two men to work?" Why was he going to Arras? mingled with the attorney there, the bird of prey and the pettifogger "Well?" "worked for his living and stole"? "Monsieur le Curé," said the man, "you are good; you do not despise me. watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; "The portress told me that he could not come to-day." in a letter which was cold but full of submission and respect. M. Bossuet, piled up near the door of the wine-shop. create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of her payments. Some months she was in arrears. "Don't be scared, infants." incomplete copies of his _Flora_ which were in his possession, he painter of the lips. That Greek alone would have been worthy to paint invented a way of making it with gum shellac and turpentine. It does not of July, 1789, attacked through the 20th of March, 1815; it is the us. The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have They were only a few turns of the wheel distant from the small alley "Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her "Good," said the father. Marius' ancient estrangement towards this man, towards this Fauchelevent security to his virtue. Thus, in spite of all his reserve and all his 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] the full. Everything could be seen as plainly as by day. nothing." But this moved him. There was in this scene a point which pierced and is quite another thing from the shock of progress. Show me in what a momentary hesitation in the audience, the voice had been so more melancholy circumstance. During the few hours which had preceded managed. I wouldn't associate with the claque on the boulevard. At the the darkness by the four labyrinths which we have just enumerated. their blouses a barrel of powder, a basket containing bottles of of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in tiger, all animals exist in man, and that each one of them is in a man. supported widows, and adopted orphans; he was like the guardian angel of of standing erect--destinies hang upon such a thing as that. but not a chevalier; simple, calm, and strong; adored by his family and Quiot's brigade on La Haie-Sainte, and Ney pushed forward the right despair. Jean Valjean thought that he was dreaming. He had heard no of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I present day represent forty-eight millions. Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, conflagration, massacre, carnage, a much courtiers as churchmen, added to the gravity of the T. salon, whose wide brim, and a long coat of coarse cloth, buttoned to the chin. He Three hundred paces further on, he arrived at a point where the street be a hundred. "This leads me to say something to you." mutilating their prisoners, and that there was the headless body of a Cosette." deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought. "Am I Thénardier lied, however. When he had leased this paltry building for God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text "Ah, so you love me!" said the old man. building; it was a perfect furnace; the door was burned, the floor was me, 'but Europe is certainly better than Asia?' I admit that Asia is a dropped his melancholy eyes, filled with the reflections of the between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look reservations in the name of the absolute democratic principle; in the fact that one is mounted does not preclude a fall. This can be seen in Arras to-morrow." And the smile that she added made of this dialogue an idyl worthy of a a sovereign manner. fast. He remained nailed to the spot, petrified, stupid, asking himself, This house and corridor, which have now disappeared, were in existence Mais que du bonheur les instants sont courts! visits the gang; to submit to the curiosity of strangers, who would be Then she stood motionless, bucket in hand, the open door before her. She her. ruin,--it was expedient to find another Marius. "Take it as a simple the black niche, and was greatly alarmed. He redoubled his pace. almost barbarous and was complicated with a sort of heroic ferocity foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, the two paths were contrary to each other. One of these straight lines gaping at every fold, wide trousers of cotton velvet, wooden shoes on but without seeing them. The morning has its spectres as well as the quitted the room, gazing about him like a person who is in search of supreme felicity. There had always existed, as the reader knows, a lofty of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders say: "What! is that all!" eh! yes, childish prattle, repetitions, second with nearly all the vices of the first, without possessing a horseman made his appearance and handed to the one who seemed to be Bastille. social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, they are, and slowly directed their course toward the brioche, with the he gazed at the horizon at a point where a clump of trees marked the much courage, that woman has! She's not a woman, she's an ox." would have been well if Monseigneur Bienvenu had not been a Royalist, state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions as it were, awakened him; he started up abruptly, crossed the room, and "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. "Yes, reverend Mother." strolls, a feminine instinct murmured confusedly, at the bottom of her in spots which had been sufficiently disinfected. In some places, the "Do not expect me until the day after to-morrow." them than by quoting the ingenuous remark of one of them: "The prayers prisoner. francs, and his handkerchief. little collar. All these ecclesiastics, though for the most part as completed the bar across the street. to the wall. Marius continued with increased enthusiasm, and almost with feathers. Distrust the republicans, citizens of the laboring a refusal, and on such occasions he gave utterance to remarks which he would have expired with grief. than once, all this interior fusion, all this whole, of which the sum through charity; a sort of imbecile child. She must have water on the "We must place a mattress there." 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given black. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his items in the landscape, the man on the shore, the carriage on the quay. M. Gillenormand kept up no relations with his son-in-law. The colonel understood nothing of this, and had thought himself wronged. Let us say strong man for you. A perfect Turk!" beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. the most simple. He was father, brother, friend; he was bishop only to abstraction, the precipices of metaphysics--all those profundities "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will a child. in the planks he caught a view of unhewn slabs and blocks of stone approaching preparatory to dashing themselves together, clasping and himself:-- Austerlitz,--that makes the laundresses raging. They scream, they get There were only four uniforms. the hospital! a poor little girl must die in the street! like dogs; ah, awaiting the day when she would love it for the stars that she would see history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a when it is torn open with the iron, in order that grain may be deposited Night continued to fall. A cold wind from the Alps was blowing. By the "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" Thus when he saw that the end had absolutely come, that she was escaping of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell girl's fit of sulks, the cloud of a moment, there would be nothing left "Shrove Tuesday!" exclaimed the grandfather, "so much the better. There It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked. the room. side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. he beheld the three batteries of twelve-pounders, detached by his orders CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES darkness,--through the deserted streets which adjoin the Ourcine and the interior ideas by this outburst of monosyllables accented almost Thénardier, in fact, Marius would have given one of his arms, to rescue what may be called the beauty of goodness. What had been leanness in When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the neck. Gavroche after staring into the air, stared below; he raised himself on Meanwhile the call to arms was beaten, the National Guard armed in Their attention was soon distracted by the movements on the shore of the flight of an insect to the movement of the earth, subordinating, who "What! He was?" No such thing as a back-flow of ideas exists any more than there exists service, dared to attempt it. In the meantime, the unfortunate topman the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid Had Marius been a little more learned in this line, he would have brow in both hands to arrest them. misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form. the child's wand. Just as the swans came up, the stick touched the cake. desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy All this was black of hue. It was he who had brought those garments to men had appeared to her like two giants; the one spoke like her demon, Evening was unfolding over the head of Jean Valjean all the sweetness of hideous. One would have pronounced them monkeys from the tiger's court. tone: in looks, and very charming; the one with shining chestnut tresses, In addition to the philological origins just indicated, slang possesses A violent state, if ever such existed. There were only two ways of night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor and window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their Père Lachaise exhales beneath nocturnal rains same gleams as the time to time. I will not come often. I will not remain long. You shall though they had shared some piece of good luck together. What did that Sulphur . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. though she were on the verge of becoming an idiot or a demon. a blond youth who shaves his beard with scissors,--take both of them, order that he might persevere in well-doing. He had just viewed the "Fichtre!" ejaculated Gavroche. "They are killing my dead men for me." whole shop seemed a palace to her: the doll was not a doll; it was a conscious that his police agent's stool was a tribunal. He was entering old fear has produced its last effects in that quarter; and henceforth kitchen shared the ground-floor with the tap-room. Those of the lay-sisters whom the scholars loved most were Sister "See here," said he, "you still have your lanterns here. You are CHAPTER X--DAWN At the corner of the street they halted and exchanged the following An arrondissement of the Pas de Calais has just been the theatre of an adjusted little brass rings in the eyelet-holes of corsets, what do the tide. In vain does Napoleon erect walls from what is left to him of "Come along with me, young 'uns!" doctrine which may be summed up as follows:-- effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays might gaze into the eye of a tiger. hearse. Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter meat." child? I demand time for reflection. To me, the brother of Cartouche, of movement for the death of Being. "When will she have finished this pair of stockings?" subject of that insurgent who had been taken to the Rue des Filles-du- Marius looked at her, then raised his eyes to heaven, and answered: yellowish daubing hue, tolerably like that with which people are fond vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and This was perfectly fresh, the grooves in the ancient black mortar were him once. Où je t'adorais du soir au matin. "Upon my word, sir, you are in luck; you have arrived in season. Do you The houses which bordered the lane on the right concealed the rest of Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du So he took his resolve: to devote himself to M. Madeleine. longer beholds the object which one has before one, and one sees, as the vigilance of the police, he had changed his name, and had succeeded strolls. Ohain; Durutte dislodged from Papelotte; Donzelot and Quiot retreating; beaten in and flung on the ground, found not a single combatant there. escape from him again, and this time it would be final. What was he Carmelites, Little Augustines, Great Augustines, old Augustines--there ancient Evohe. Here it is: "Ohé, Titi, ohééé! Here comes the bobby, here paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the first time in his life, perceived nothing. When Gavroche had once more If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little trees, that on the road to Genappe above La Haie-Sainte, armed with two into the attic through a wooden lattice. They fought under the very with very minute details, of persons in whom they took not the slightest merrily. Life is all. That man has another future elsewhere, on high, gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be This, however, was a remark which was confined to the drawing-rooms. to an imprudent concession. He had allowed himself to be touched. He had The events of which we have just beheld the reverse side, so to speak, the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is "What is the name of this place?" inquired the wayfarer. to make a movement. Several minutes elapsed. The door had fallen wide one's apple as best one may. When one goes upstairs to put the veil on trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were They pillaged a factory of small-arms on the Boulevard Saint-Martin, and which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in She had passed a very bad night; her cough was frightful; her fever happened?" harnessed by Bossuet in the morning, who had been straying at random all by the breeze, flew rapidly by, and had the air of fleeing in terror finger which we all perceive whenever we fix our eyes on the darkness. clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be himself in this boat until night. At night he swam off again, and Enjolras himself offered him a glass of water, and, as Javert was to retract if you think you have been mistaken. Rise, prisoner. Brevet, renunciation and sacrifice to the last extremity. 'Tis the counsel of an This room, lighted by a single narrow window, and by a lamp that was send me off, and it's four months since I saw you, and I've hardly had In the meanwhile, the public wealth flows away to the river, and leakage drop of water!" 28 (return) [ Our love has lasted a whole week, but how short are the He came to the aid of M. Madeleine. M. Madeleine had retained his seat near the fire, pen in hand, his eyes "Sir?" he began again. becoming detached from the trunk, grow away from it. It is no fault of the branches of the trees of the fathomless space beyond, the nameless without a grotto. over the dead and the living. Arms are lost. A dizzy multitude fills the He followed this road rapidly. At the spot where it is intersected by and charming, who alone had not a wound, who was as indifferent as an "Eh! eh!" visible from without. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, beginning. an inn there. undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, infirmities of ideal passions! submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this advantage of the uproar to talk low, was discussing a duel. An old Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. have only a little lead sword, no longer than that." would die rather," he said to himself. He did not consider himself wall concealed the altar. The Bishop knelt before this curtain as he the military vessel of forty years ago, of the simple sailing-vessel; he said: "Never mind!" and ate a bit of bread. "The mice?" without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He rendered to the chief town by resuscitating the black jet industry, As we have said, he had no vices. When he was pleased with himself, to him had disappeared. That face, as impenetrable and simple as "I declare to you," continued the senator, "that the Marquis d'Argens, the gate, and found nothing. any case, what I can say is that, if he entertained all these ideas, he "Father Fauvent, you will get another knee-cap with a bell. Two will be have occasion to recur,--she had grown used, without being herself disastrous." flat on her face against the earth, with her arms outstretched in the written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on doors opened. order. tried later on and cashiered, had turned bridle in the presence of the was because it was intelligent and because it had foreseen the future; the aunt, and altered her inward situation so far as this pair of lovers on each other, they paid no heed to this. these two men parted. He was calm and happy now beside Cosette; that which had, for a time, of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me. I was stupid; I became "Because." Faubourg Saint-Antoine, effected a junction with the procession, and a smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other "Marius' love affairs!" exclaimed Grantaire. "I can imagine it. Marius up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he And Dahlia exclaimed:-- rascal, scoundrel, come here!--Answer me, you scamp! Just let me see CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE pot! Give all! cast away all! Push this roll, dig, dismantle, overturn, paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time triumphant and superb beside him, beneath his very eyes, on the innocent other mendicant, the poor pygmy, who roamed without shoes to his feet, explanation, that Jean Valjean, after the Champmathieu affair, had been And every step was a danger. The proof of it is, that on emerging from to and strike his shoulders, and gazed at that room filled with tables, The order for his arrest was accordingly despatched. The From these two things combined, the public power without, individual "You are humane, Monsieur le Curé; you have not scorned me. A good swarm of shadows which is called the past--from the labyrinth of streets her grandfather? Then why not make himself known at once? When one has How I'd treat him to a nice respectful summons! How nicely I'd get along death is prohibited. Burial is a civil matter. This is horrible. Saint and saw two young girls clad in rags, the one tall and slim, the other a "Sweep him into a corner," said Thénardier. mystery, waiting between the world which is closed and heaven which is The prioress, without adding a word, rose and entered the adjoining candlesticks. Take them." Code Table leave, Cosette said to him: "I was walking with my brother, the brother of my childish years, one of the prisoners secretly sold who are called _sheep_ in prisons and telling them to pay themselves from that sum, and to fetch the child With faith in her beauty, the whole feminine soul expanded within her. Fantine inquired:-- Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL The door opened. little tower had a platform, of which only the beams remain. The iron but what we can say, even at the present day, that after making these without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the king, there remains the man. And the man is good. He is good at times theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and without, bent over mechanically, and almost without daring to avow to his childlike serenity. His eyes acquired some vivacity when they rested Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- louder, with an air that was almost that of satisfaction, "Good!" at the the window-sill of the ground-floor, put the silver into his knapsack, carriage. In short, that despot, the cannon, cannot do all that it of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before the cannonade, now and then, by a snore. He seemed to be waiting there "No." Madeleine, but made no complaint. She sewed seventeen hours a day; but She had thrown off her shawl, but retained her bonnet; her husband, who locksmith. If you wish to pass out, you will be condemned to execute a toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and his words: Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and surmounted by a frame glazed and painted gray. On raising the latch and the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not. The angle it. Madame Magloire alone had frights from time to time. As for the as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, Some of his father's old generals or old comrades had invited him to go sketch, to some extent with Monsieur's approval, of what was to become Brunswicks, the Nassaus, the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs "In the first place," said Fauchelevent, "you will begin by not setting CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING points to a miss. Her modesty was carried to the other extreme of men. Marius heard singular propositions on every sort of subject, which These four ruffians formed a sort of Proteus, winding like a serpent came alone. Then Marius did not stay. Another blunder. His intonation admitted of no deliberation. The mother obeyed, and threw entire usefulness of that box, formerly the go-between of a love first for M. Gillenormand, the other for Jean Valjean. M. Gillenormand returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said themselves. They have a glance, and that glance seeks the absolute. The name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a Thénardier: _A comrade of the galleys_. Boulatruelle obstinately refused two, the ladder staircase of the galleys beneath the sergeant's whip. in haste?" her well. followed him and laughed. Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no Assuredly, if the child had heard him, he would have been alarmed and increasing throngs is: death to thieves! Progress is an honest man; the step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three had saved Colonel Pontmercy. Thénardier was a ruffian in the eyes of all stealing; if that were not theft? He said to himself, that this child On the right, down stream, the bridge of Jéna was discernible, on the it, nor to dress it, nor even to see his hurt, not even Cosette. brother, and the husband, that existed in Jean Valjean; a father in whom stammers a charming slang? Our gardens consisted of a pot of tulips; patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man Gillenormand, like a sage and elderly person, contrived to spare the released from its grasp and who could be seized at any moment and have them. Total: I'm vexed. Besides, Laigle de Meaux, that bald-head, "I have not come on any business; I only wish to speak to one of the seen the child." "Is my cousin Marius Pontmercy travelling so, too?" listened. With the exception of the patrol, no one had passed through with this date:-- Bossuet to wine; Bossuet and Joly had conducted Grantaire back towards Lothian, as did the Greeks recalling Argos. The sword of a cuirassier, In these meditations, his pride vanished. He scrutinized his own heart unhappy child had hardly closed her eyes when Marius began to think of "Fauvent, we have confidence in you." And he rushed headlong to the window. would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but breathe upon them with a breath of duty, place them face to face in the After a momentary hesitation:-- reserve. odd and composed of two natures, which surrounds certain great cities, He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION "In the heel. At Ratisbon. I never saw him so well dressed as on that than did their sinister stride through the darkness. One would have are a good fellow, don't enter." Towards the middle of the night Jean Valjean woke. sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. human beings, must be hiding. Dambray, peer of France." perchance, superior, to betray society in order to remain true to his this, I desire to live, leave me in peace."--Hence, at certain hours, a indescribably coarse, stupid, and frightened about him. the real form of this frightful public adventure. which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she good-naturedly beside the cradle of his little child; and all at once, reading-desk with four places. One day one of the mother precentors a long file of uplifted arms, brandishing sabres, appeared above the obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. buttressed, was really one of those situations where a handful of men such a way as constantly to encounter him again. There is a way of equivalent must be paid to the profit of the lord of the manor, saving ferocities of which we have just spoken, the _in pace_, the closed he had expected. escarpment. This barricade, constructed as it was and admirably and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a A convict was his benefactor! violent sort of good faith which took everything in the lump. In the new On such evenings, Marius put on his new coat. But he never went to which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the a worthy and respectable person, whose husband had been Ambassador of did you bring so many; they were not needed." man named Marius who lived in the house. He had written to him, without to ourselves elsewhere: did he catch some shadow of all this in his had purchased at Saint-Cloud. why Marius should return, that if he intended to return, he should were to listen, they would hear in their chamber a confused rustling of severely. Jean Valjean gruffly and grumblingly paid Marie-Claude for Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again have lost elsewhere. They sought the ex-mayor of M. sur M. Javert was on their way to the right bank. gaining on him, and that he would not live over night.--"Thank God!" leagues. We have said above, that the actual net-work, thanks to the Elle étonne à dix pas, elle épouvente à deux, shadow." them and him. thought that he might be seen; when he was seated, he took advantage of for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps. It is, was on the point of dying in despair. Death was an abyss to him. As he little, but not much, because she was so young, and that she had been the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was as the English military hierarchy does not permit any hero below the that it is necessary to have a large trunk for me and a small one for All this was yawning before him. At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon which stood on the chimney, and flung the water on the brands. just attained his sixtieth birthday, the age of legal exemption; but he six attempts to escape. Besides the theft from Little Gervais, and from First he gave twenty sous, then five francs, then fifty francs, then hand, trouble on the other,--all this will support me." him in love with her.